10:6-1.2 Definitions
The following terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings set forth below, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Agency head" means the person or body authorized by law to render final decisions in contested cases. At the division level the agency head is, depending on the division's organizational structure, either the Assistant Commissioner or the Division Director; otherwise the agency head is the Commissioner.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services.
"Contested case" means an adversary proceeding, including any licensing proceeding, in which the legal rights, duties, obligations, privileges, benefits or other legal relations of specific parties are required by constitutional right or by statute to be determined by an agency by decisions, determinations, or orders, addressed to them or disposing of their interests, after opportunity for any agency hearing.
"Department" means the Department of Human Services or any of its organizational components.
"Division" means one of the Department's units designated by statute as a division, including the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CBVI).
"Uncontested case" or "noncontested case" means any hearing offered by an agency for reasons not requiring a contested case proceeding under the statutory definition of contest case at N.J.S.A. 52:14B-2.
Amended by R. 2005 d. 116, effective April 18, 2005. See: 36 N.J.R. 5639(b), 37 N.J.R. 1185(b). Rewrote "Division". Amended by R. 2011 d. 002, effective January 3, 2011. See: 42 N.J.R. 1127(a), 43 N.J.R. 42(a). In definition "Agency head", inserted "depending on the division's organizational structure, either the Assistant Commissioner or"; and in definition "Division", deleted "and the Office of Education (OOE)" from the end.