New Jersey Statutes 9:24-4. Definitions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 9:24-4
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- municipal corporation: include cities, towns, townships, villages and boroughs, and any municipality governed by a board of commissioners or an improvement commission. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
(a) The term “act” shall mean this act, any amendments or supplements thereto, and any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.
(b) The term “commissioner” shall mean the Commissioner of Community Affairs.
(c) The term “community service project” shall mean any public or private, nonprofit agency, organization, corporation or association, including, without limitation, a municipal corporation, a major part of the activities of which are devoted to the advancement of the public health, education and welfare.
(d) The term “community work program sponsor” shall mean any county, municipality, school district, community action agency organized and operating pursuant to Subchapter II of Public Law 88-452 (the “Economic Opportunity Act of 1964” ) or public or private nonprofit agency, organization, corporation or association.
(e) The term “disadvantaged youth” shall mean those persons between 14 and 21 years of age from lower income families. Preference will be given to youths who are regularly enrolled in a full-time course of public instruction. Lower-income families are those families with annual incomes that do not exceed 1.75 times the poverty-level income standard defined by the United States Department of Labor as adjusted for family size.
L.1968, c. 125, s. 4, eff. June 26, 1968. Amended by L.1977, c. 280, s. 1, eff. Nov. 2, 1977.