52:32-33. Definitions

As used in this act:

a. "Business concern" means any person engaged in a trade or business, including private nonprofit entities operating as independent contractors, providing goods or services directly to a using agency or to a designated third party and operating pursuant to a State contract which requires either a single payment or multiple payments, but shall not include any "public utility" as that term is defined under section 1 of P.L.1946, c.219 (C.48:2-13);

b. "Using agency" means the appropriate agency of the State, including the Office of Legislative Services and the legislative branch of State government, which receives or uses the goods or services provided under the contract between the State and a business concern or which contracts on behalf of the State with a business concern for goods or services to be provided to designated third parties;

c. "Director" means the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury;

d. "Division" means the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury;

e. "Properly executed State invoice" means a State invoice which contains all the information which the director may require by regulation;

f. "State" means the State of New Jersey and any office, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or agency of the State, the Office of Legislative Services, and the legislative branch of State government, but shall not include any entity which is statutorily authorized to sue and be sued.

L.1987,c.184,s.2; amended 1991,c.64,s.1.