New Jersey Administrative Code|Section 9A:13-1.2 - Definitions

                                                
 § 9A:13-1.2. Definitions 
 
 The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
 
"Act" means the Higher Education Technology Infrastructure Act, P.L. 1997, c. 238, as amended by P.L. 2012, c. 42.
 
"Authority" means the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority or any board, body, commission, department, or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers conferred upon the Authority shall be given by law.
 
"Bond" or "bonds" means bonds or notes of the Authority issued pursuant to the authority granted by the Amending Act.
 
"Cost-effectiveness" means the degree to which a project produces a positive economic analysis when considering the construction expenses, operating, and maintenance expenses, compared to the project's resultant facilities and/or equipment, the life span of the facilities and/or equipment, facility usage and capacity, user productivity and, where appropriate, such attributes as aesthetics, historic preservation, security, and safety.
 
"Grant" means a grant of moneys from the Higher Education Technology Infrastructure Fund approved by the Secretary.
 
"Infrastructure fund" means the Higher Education Technology Infrastructure Fund as created by chapter 238, P.L. 1997.
 
"Institution" means a public or private institution of higher education that is eligible to receive State aid.
 
"Interinstitutional" means between two or more institutions.
 
"Intrainstitutional" means within an institution's campus or between campuses of a multicampus institution.
 
"Matching funds" means funds equal to or greater than a grant from the infrastructure fund, which are allocated by the institution for the specific project for which the grant funds are used, and which are generated from institutional sources, other grants, borrowing through the Authority, or other sources as permitted in the grant approval process. Notwithstanding anything in this definition to the contrary, grants from State government sources may not be used to satisfy the matching requirement in 9A:13-1.3(a)6.
 
"Presidents' Council" means a body established in accordance with 18A:3B-7 which consists of the presidents of the 45 public and independent institutions of higher education that receive State aid and four presidents who represent the 10 degree-granting religious and proprietary institutions in New Jersey.
 
"Project" means a project funded by an infrastructure fund grant and matching funds to develop technology infrastructure within or among institutions of higher education or between such institutions and libraries or elementary/secondary schools.
 
"Secretary" means the Secretary of Higher Education.
 
"Technology infrastructure" means video, voice, and data telecommunications equipment and linkages, including transport services and network interconnections, as well as future developments in multimedia equipment and linkages. Only computer software that is part of the operating or data base management systems is considered part of technology infrastructure for the purpose of the Amending Act; application software, for purposes such as word processing, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, and e-mail, does not qualify as technology infrastructure.
 (Amended by R.2013 d.072, effective May 6, 2013. 
 See: 45 N.J.R. 92(a), 45 N.J.R. 1132(a). 
 Rewrote definition "Act"; deleted definitions "Amending Act", "Commission" and "Executive Director"; added definitions "Cost-effectiveness" and "Secretary"; in definition "Grant", substituted "a grant of moneys" for "funds requiring approval by the Commission for a project pursuant to the Amending Act" and inserted "approved by the Secretary"; and in definition "Matching funds", inserted "as permitted in the grant approval process" at the end of the first sentence and inserted the last sentence.)