52:27D-184. Definitions

As used in this act:

a. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs or his designee;

b. "Congregate housing facility" means that part of a residential housing facility which incorporates subsidized senior citizen housing consisting of individualized apartment units and supportive services needed by project residents who are functionally or socially impaired to enable them to maintain or to return to a semi-independent lifestyle and to avoid premature institutionalization;

c. "Department" means the Department of Community Affairs;

d. "Disabled person" means a person having an impairment which is expected to be of long-continued and indefinite duration and substantially impedes the person's ability to live independently unless the person receives supportive services;

e. "Eligible participant" refers to a project resident who is of low income or suffering economic hardship because of medical or personal reasons and is in need of supportive services but cannot afford the total cost of such services;

f. "Low income" shall be determined by the commissioner pursuant to regulations promulgated under this act, except that the commissioner shall take into account the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development standards for low income for the various communities within this State;

g. "Project resident" means a disabled person or a person 62 years of age and over who resides in a congregate housing facility;

h. "Qualified housing agency" means any nonprofit or limited dividend housing sponsor, owner, entity, or individual, or any municipality, county or public authority constructing, maintaining or operating a congregate housing facility under a federal low or moderate income housing program, under a New Jersey Housing Finance Agency program or under other programs for low and moderate income occupancy;

i. "Service subsidy" means the sum necessary to provide supportive services to an eligible participant in excess of that individual's ability to pay for services as determined by regulations promulgated by the commissioner;

j. "Supportive services" includes a meal program which shall include at least one hot meal a day providing at least one-third of the Recommended Daily Dietary Allowance as determined by the Nutrient Standard Method of menu planning, housekeeping assistance, personal care assistance, and other services conducive to the maintenance of independent living.

L.1981, c. 553, s. 3.