52:9S-1 - Definitions
52:9S-1. Definitions
As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent:
a. "Capital project" means any undertaking which is to be financed or funded or is proposed to be financed or funded by the issuance of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the State or any public authority thereof; or any undertaking which is to be financed or funded or is requested to be financed or funded by an appropriation in the annual budget, where the expenditure therefor is, by statute, or under standards as they may be prescribed from time to time by the Department of the Treasury, a capital expenditure.
b. "Commission" means the New Jersey Commission on Capital Budgeting and Planning created by section 2 of this act;
c. "Plan" means the State Capital Improvement Plan provided for by subsection a. of section 3. of this act.
d. "State agency" means an executive or administrative department, office, public authority or other instrumentality of State Government.
L.1975, c. 208, s. 1, eff. Sept. 23, 1975.
52:9S-2.New Jersey Commission on Capital Budgeting and Planning
2. There is hereby created a New Jersey Commission on Capital Budgeting and Planning. The commission shall consist of 12 members selected as follows: the State Treasurer and any three other members of the Executive Branch designated by the Governor to so serve at his pleasure, two members of the General Assembly, two members of the Senate and four public members from the State at large.
The members from the General Assembly shall be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly. The members of the Senate shall be appointed by the President of the Senate. No more than one of the members appointed by the Speaker or President shall be from the same political party. Legislative members shall serve while members of their respective houses for the term for which they have been elected.
Of the four public members two shall be appointed by the Governor with advice and consent of the Senate, no more than one of whom shall be of the same political party, and two by the Legislature, one each by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly, for a term of six years and until their successors are qualified, provided that the members serving on the effective date of this 1995 amendatory act shall continue to serve until the expiration of their appointments. The President of the Senate shall make the first appointment of a public member upon the expiration of the term of the public member first occurring after the effective date of this 1995 amendatory act, and the Speaker of the General Assembly shall make the second appointment of a public member upon the expiration of the term of the public member next occurring after the effective date of this act. The public members shall be chosen based upon their experience and expertise in public finance and the capital improvement process. Any vacancy among the public members shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment, but for the unexpired term only. A member shall be eligible for reappointment.
A chairman of the commission shall be selected annually by the membership of the commission from among the public members.
Members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but public members shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
L.1975,c.208,s.2; amended 1995,c.398,s.1.