26:2H-32 Definitions.

1. The following words or phrases, as used in P.L.1977, c.237 (C.26:2H-32 et seq.), shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:

a. "Nursing home" means a facility providing therein nursing care to persons who are sick, invalid, convalescing, or who have disabilities, in addition to providing lodging and board or health-related service, or any combination of the foregoing and in addition thereto, providing nursing care and health-related service, or either of them, to persons who are not occupants of the facility.

b. "Affiliate" means (1) with respect to a partnership, each partner thereof; (2) with respect to a corporation, each officer, director, principal stockholder, or controlling person thereof; (3) with respect to a natural person, (a) each member of said person's immediate family, (b) each partnership and each partner thereof of which said person or any affiliate of said person is a partner, and (c) each corporation in which said person or any affiliate of said person is an officer, director, principal stockholder, or controlling person.

c. "Controlling person" of any corporation, partnership, or other entity means any person who has the ability, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of said corporation, partnership, or other entity.

d. "Immediate family" of any person includes each parent, child, spouse, brother, sister, first cousin, aunt and uncle of such person, whether such relationship arises by birth, marriage or adoption, as well as the person's domestic partner or partner in civil union of that person as defined in section 3 of P.L.2003, c.246 (C.26:8A-3) or section 2 of P.L.2006, c.103, (C.37:1-29) and the partner's parent and adult child.

e. "Principal stockholder" of a corporation means any person who beneficially owns, holds or has the power to vote, 10% or more of any class of securities issued by said corporation.

L.1977, c.237, s.1; amended 2003, c.246, s.27; 2017, c.131, s.97.