52:27EE-12 Definitions.

12. Definitions.

As used in sections 27, 32, 33, 48, 50, 51 and 64 of P.L.2005, c.155 (C.52:27EE-27, C.52:27EE-32, C.52:27EE-33, C.52:27EE-48, C.52:27EE-50, C.52:27EE-51 and C.52:27EE-64):

"consumer insurance rate increases" means prior approval rate increases for: personal lines property casualty coverages; Medicare supplemental coverages; or a rating system change pursuant to section 14 of P.L.1997, c.151 (C.17:29A-46.1 et seq.);

"correctional facility" means a jail, prison, lockup, penitentiary, reformatory, training school, or other similar facility within the State of New Jersey;

"elderly" means a person age 60 years or older;

"facility" whenever referred to in section 64 of P.L.2005, c.155 (C.52:27EE-64), means any facility or institution, whether public or private, offering health or health related services for the institutionalized elderly, and which is subject to regulation, visitation, inspection, or supervision by any government agency. Facilities include, but are not limited to, nursing homes, skilled nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, extended care facilities, convalescent homes, rehabilitation centers, residential health care facilities, special hospitals, veterans' hospitals, chronic disease hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, mental hospitals, developmental centers or facilities, day care facilities for the elderly, and medical day care centers;

"indigent mental hospital admittee" means a person who has been admitted to and is a patient in a mental hospital, an institution for the care and treatment of persons with mental illness, or a similar facility, whether public or private, State, county or local, or who is the subject of an action for admission as provided by P.L.1987, c.116 (C.30:4-27.1 et seq.) and who does not have the financial ability to secure competent representation and to provide all other necessary expenses of representation;

"institutionalized elderly" means any person 60 years of age or older, who is a patient, resident or client of any facility, as described herein;

"public interest" means an interest or right arising from the Constitution, decisions of court, common law or other laws of the United States or of this State inhering in the citizens of this State or in a broad class of such citizens.

L.2005, c.155, s.12; amended 2010, c.34, s.20; 2010, c.50, s.78.