“Adjustment year” means the year in which the respective obligations of the intermunicipal account and the constituent municipalities of the district are due and payable.

“Apportionment rate” means a rate determined as follows:

(1) The total property taxes levied for local, school, and veterans’ and senior citizens’ purposes by a constituent municipality, as certified pursuant to R.S.54:4-52, in the comparison year after the meadowlands adjustment payment made in that comparison year has been subtracted or added, as the case may be, divided by

(2) The aggregate true value of all taxable real property, exclusive of Class II railroad property, located in the municipality, both within and without the district, in the comparison year, as determined by the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury on October 1 of the comparison year, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1954, c.86 (C. 54:1-35.2), or as modified by the tax court. If a tax appeal is resolved after calculations are finalized for an adjustment year, the next year’s calculations must show a retroactive correction for the applicable preceding two years.

“Area in need” means an area whose redevelopment is necessary to effectuate the public purposes described herein, as determined by the commission. An area designated as “in need” may contain lands, buildings, or improvements which, of themselves, are not detrimental to the public health, safety, or welfare, but nevertheless must be included in the area designated as “in need,” with or without change in condition, for the effective redevelopment of the area of which they are a part. An area designated by the commission as a “redevelopment area” pursuant to the “Redevelopment Area Bond Financing Law,” P.L.2001, c.310 (C. 40A:12A-64 et seq.) shall also be deemed to constitute an area in need for purposes of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-1 et al.) and shall also be deemed to constitute an “area in need of redevelopment” for purposes of the “Local Redevelopment and Housing Law,” P.L.1992, c.79 (C. 40A:12A-1 et al.).

“Base year” means 1970.

“Bonds” means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, or other obligations, issued by the commission pursuant to sections 1 through 68 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-1 et seq.).

“Commission” means the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which may be referred to as the “Meadowlands Regional Commission,” as established by P.L.1971, c.137 (C. 5:10-1 et seq.), P.L.1968, c.404 (C. 13:17-1 et seq.), and section 6 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-6).

“Committee” means the Hackensack Meadowlands Municipal Committee established pursuant to the “Hackensack Meadowlands Redevelopment Act,” P.L.1968, c.404 (C. 13:17-1 et seq.).

“Comparison year” means the second calendar year preceding the adjustment year.

“Constituent municipalities” means the municipalities of Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Little Ferry, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, North Arlington, Ridgefield, Rutherford, South Hackensack, and Teterboro in Bergen county; and Jersey City, Kearny, North Bergen, and Secaucus in Hudson county.

“District” means the Hackensack Meadowlands District, the area delineated within section 5 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-5).

“Hackensack meadowlands” means the Hackensack Meadowlands District as established by section 5 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-5).

“Hotel” means a building or portion of it, which is regularly used for the lodging of guests and is subject to taxation pursuant to the “Hotel Occupancy Tax Act,” P.L.1981, c.77 (C. 40:48E-1 et seq.).

“Improvement” means (1) the laying out, opening, construction, widening, straightening, enlargement, extension, alteration, changing of location, grading, paving, or otherwise improving, a street, alley, or public highway; (2) curbing or guttering of a sidewalk along a street, alley, or highway; (3) construction and improvement of bridges and viaducts; (4) construction, enlargement, or extension of a sewer or drain or of a sewerage or drainage system including, but not limited to, such systems under streets, alleys, or public highways, or works for the sanitary disposal of sewerage or drainage; (5) the installation of service connections to water and other utility works, including the laying, construction, or placing of mains, conduits, or cables under or along a street, alley, or highway; (6) the construction, enlargement, or extension of water mains or water distribution works; (7) extension of landfills or other facilities for the disposal of solid wastes; (8) the installation of lighting standards, appliances, and appurtenances required for the illumination of streets; (9) the widening, deepening, or improvement of, the removal of obstructions in, and the construction, enlargement, and extension of any waterway, or of enclosing walls, or of a pipe or conduit along a water course; (10) the development and improvement of parks, recreational facilities, and flood control structures; (11) environmental enhancements and remediation; and (12) the construction of buildings and other structures.

“Intermunicipal account” means the device established and administered by the commission to record all of the transactions made for the purpose of calculating the meadowlands adjustment payment for each constituent municipality, and to act as the clearinghouse for the transfer of the meadowlands adjustment payments among the constituent municipalities as required by section 59 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-59).

“Master plan” means the comprehensive plan for the district prepared and adopted by the commission.

“Meadowlands adjustment payment” means the amount that is payable by each constituent municipality to the intermunicipal account, or the amount that is payable by the intermunicipal account to each municipality, as the commission shall determine the case to be.

“Owner” means all persons having any title or interest in any property, rights, easements, and interests authorized to be acquired, assessed, or regulated by sections 1 through 68 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-1 et seq.).

“Person” means all individuals, partnerships, associations, private or municipal corporations, and all political subdivisions of the State.

“Project” means any application for development, plan, work, or undertaking by the commission, constituent municipality, or redeveloper, pursuant to the master plan or a redevelopment plan.

“Project area” means all or a portion of a redevelopment area.

“Redeveloper” means any person, firm, corporation, or public or private agency that engages in development, redevelopment, or improvement of an area or any part thereof under the provisions of P.L.1971, c.137 (C. 5:10-1 et seq.), P.L.1968, c.404 (C. 13:17-1 et seq.), and sections 1 through 68 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-1 et seq.), or in the construction of any project pursuant to the master plan or redevelopment plan.

“Redevelopment” means planning, development, and redevelopment; the rehabilitation of any improvements; conservation or rehabilitation work; the construction and provision for construction of projects; or the grant or dedication of spaces as may be appropriate or necessary in the interest of the general welfare for such projects or other public purposes incidental or appurtenant thereto, in accordance with the master plan or any part thereof, or a redevelopment plan.

“Redevelopment plan” means a plan adopted by the commission, applicable to an area in need, for a redevelopment project or projects, which shall conform to the master plan and which, with respect to the sports complex, shall include and incorporate its master plans and which shall be deemed to grant the commission control over the lands, projects and properties that are subject to the redevelopment plan. A redevelopment plan adopted pursuant to P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-1 et al.) shall also be deemed to constitute a redevelopment plan for purposes of the “Local Redevelopment and Housing Law,” P.L.1992, c.79 (C. 40A:12A-1 et al.).

“Resident enrollment” means the number of full-time pupils who are residents of the school district and who are enrolled in day schools on the last day of September during the school year in which calculation of aid is made and are attending the public schools of the school district or a school district or State teachers’ college demonstration school in which the school district of residence pays tuition; school district may count in its enrollment any pupil regularly attending, on a full-time basis, a county vocational school in the same county, for which the school district pays tuition.

“Site plan” means a plan for an existing lot or plot or a subdivided lot on which is shown topography, location of all existing or proposed buildings, structures, drainage facilities, roads, rights-of-way, easements, parking areas, together with any other information, and at such a scale as may be required by a commission site plan review and approval resolution.

“Solid waste” means garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from domestic and community activities, and all other waste materials, including liquids, except for source separated recyclable materials or source separated food waste collected by livestock producers approved by the State Department of Agriculture to collect, prepare, and feed such wastes to livestock on their own farms.

“Solid waste and recycling facilities” means the plants, structures, and other real and personal property acquired, constructed, or operated, or to be acquired, constructed, or operated by the commission, as hereinafter provided, including landfills or other plants or facilities for the treatment of recycling materials and disposal of solid waste.

“Sports complex” means the 750 acre sports and exposition site located in the Borough of East Rutherford under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority as of the effective date of P.L.2015, c.19 (C. 5:10A-1 et al.) and such additional property that is owned and controlled by the sports authority as may be designated by the commission from time to time as a part of the sports complex. The sports complex shall be considered a “qualified incentive area” for the purposes of P.L.2011, c.149 (C. 34:1B-242 et seq.) and a “qualifying economic redevelopment and growth grant incentive area” for the purposes of P.L.2009, c.90 (C. 52:27D-489a et al.).

“Special assessment” means an assessment for benefits accruing from the construction of improvements by or at the direction of the commission.

“Subdivision” means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development except that the following divisions shall not be considered subdivisions; provided, however, that no new streets or roads are involved; divisions of land for agricultural purposes where the resulting parcels are three acres or larger in size, divisions of property by testamentary or intestate provisions, or divisions of property pursuant to court order.

L.2015, c.19, s.3; amended 2015, c.72, s.2.