52:16A-30. Definitions

For the purposes of this act, except as the context may otherwise clearly require:

a. "Public building" means any permanent structure, wholly or partially enclosed, which is intended to provide offices, courtrooms, hearing rooms, auditoriums, meeting rooms, classrooms and other educational facilities, eating or sleeping facilities, medical or dental facilities, transportation terminals, libraries, museums and the like, which are intended for the use or accommodation of the general public or for any category or classification thereof in connection with the furtherance of public law or policy necessarily or incidentally requiring the provision of such accommodations or facilities, together with all its grounds and appurtenant structures and facilities.

b. "Fine arts" means sculpture, murals, mosaics, bas reliefs, frescoes, tapestries, monuments, fountains and other ornamentations or displays which are intended to complement the artistic quality and esthetic effect of any buildings or structures in which they are contained or to which they are applied or with which they are connected, even if spacially separated, by their integration into a total architectural design. The term does not include the incidental ornamental detail of functional structural elements or of hardware and other functional accessories unless such ornamental detail is not generally available from the manufacturers or purveyors of such materials and must be specially designed and produced for use in a particular building or related group of buildings.

c. "State" means the Government of the State of New Jersey and all departments, bureaus, boards, commissions, agencies and instrumentalities thereof, except political subdivisions (as the same are defined in the "Local Government Supervision Act (1947)" (P.L.1947, c. 151; C. 52:27BB-1 et seq.) and their agencies and instrumentalities.

d. "Contracting officer" means the public officer or body responsible for securing the preparation of plans and specifications of a public building for the purpose of negotiating or advertising for bids for the construction of such building.

e. "Principal user" means that public officer or employee who will have principal administrative responsibility for the actual utilization of a proposed public building; or, if such officer or employee has not been duly designated, then the public officer, employee, board, commission or other agency or instrumentality which is authorized to make such designation, or a representative thereof authorized or designated thereby to perform the duties and functions provided in this act to be performed by the principal user.

f. "Architect" means any architect, engineer or other person licensed or otherwise authorized by or pursuant to law to prepare plans and specifications for a public building.

g. "Council" means the New Jersey State Council on the Arts established pursuant to P.L.1966, c. 214 (C. 52:16A-25 et seq.), or any committee or officer thereof as may be from time to time authorized and delegated by the council to perform for it and in its name any of the functions provided for in this act.

L.1978, c. 117, s. 2.