Rutgers Law

New Jersey Statutes, Title: 40A, MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

    Chapter 3:

      Section: 40A:3-3: Definitions.

          
2. For the purposes of P.L.1976, c.38, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:

a. "Business Personal Property Tax Replacement Revenues" means the funds distributed to municipalities pursuant to P.L.1966, c.135 (C.54:11D-1 et seq.) or pursuant to any other law hereafter enacted providing for funds to municipalities in lieu of or in substitution for or supplementing the funds presently provided pursuant to P.L.1966, c.135 (C.54:11D-1 et seq.);

b. "Debt service" means and includes payments of principal and interest upon qualified bonds issued pursuant to the terms of P.L.1976, c.38 or amounts required in order to satisfy sinking fund payment requirements and any other amounts, including fees and charges due under the applicable documents, with respect to such bonds;

c. "Director" means Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, established pursuant to P.L.1974, c.35 (C.52:27D-18.1);

d. "Local Finance Board" means the Local Finance Board in the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, established pursuant to P.L.1974, c.35 (C.52:27D-18.1);

e. "Paying agent" means any bank, trust company or national banking association having the power to accept and administer trusts, named or designated in any qualified bond of a municipality as the agent for the payment of the principal of and interest thereon and shall include the holder of any sinking fund established for the payment of such bonds;

f. "Qualified bonds" means those bonds of a municipality authorized and issued in conformity with the provisions of P.L.1976, c.38;

g. "State urban aid" means the funds made available to municipalities pursuant to P.L.1971, c.64 and all acts supplementing that act or pursuant to any other law hereafter enacted providing for funds to municipalities in lieu of or in substitution for the funds presently provided pursuant to acts supplementing P.L.1971, c.64;

h. "State revenue sharing" means the funds made available to municipalities pursuant to P.L.1976, c.73 (C.54A:10-1 et seq.) or pursuant to any other law hereafter enacted providing for funds to municipalities in lieu of or in substitution for the funds presently provided pursuant to P.L.1976, c.73;

i. "Gross receipts tax revenues" means funds collected pursuant to P.L.1940, c.4 (C.54:30A-16 et seq.) and P.L.1940, c.5 (C.54:30A-49 et seq.), and apportioned and paid to municipalities pursuant to those acts; and

j. "Municipal Purposes Tax Assistance Fund distributions" means the moneys distributed to municipalities from the "Municipal Purposes Tax Assistance Fund" pursuant to the "Municipal Purposes Tax Assistance Act of 1980," P.L.1980, c.12 (C.54:1-46 et seq.), or pursuant to any other law hereafter enacted for the distribution of moneys to municipalities in lieu of or in substitution for the monies distributed pursuant to the "Municipal Purposes Tax Assistance Act of 1980," P.L.1980, c.12 (C.54:1-46 et seq.).

L.1976, c.38, s.2; amended 1978, c.35, s.2; 1991, c.180, s.2; 2015, c.95, s.36.

This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2015-08-28 09:20:42.

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