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NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-40 - Definitions.

34:16-40 Definitions.  2. As used in P.L.1971, c.272 (C.34:16-39 et seq.): a. "Sheltered workshop" means an occupation oriented facility operated by a nonprofit agency, public or private, which except for its staff, employs only persons with disabilities; b. "Division" means the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; c. "Commission" means the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired in the Department of Human Services; d. "Extended employee" means a person with a severe disability who meets the following requirements: (1) shall have completed a prescribed workshop program; (2) shall have been found, due to the nature and severity of the person's disability to be incapable of competing in the open or customary labor market; and (3) shall have been certified as being an extended employee by the staff of the division or the commission; or (4) shall have been certified by the division or the commission as an extended employee qualified to perform industrial homework under the supervision of a sheltered workshop; e. "Extended employment program" means a program designed for those persons with disabilities whose disabilities make sheltered employment in a sheltered workshop or in performance of industrial homework under the supervision of a sheltered workshop, after completion of a certified program of vocational evaluation and training the only suitable form of employment, or for those persons with severe disabilities who were not eligible for vocational rehabilitation services under laws and regulations in effect at the date of enactment of this act and who could benefit from the provisions of this act. L.1971, c.272, s.2; amended 1973, c.45, s.1; 1979, c.335, s.1; 2017, c.131, s.135.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-41 - Programs of vocational rehabilitation or extended employment

34:16-41. Programs of vocational rehabilitation or extended employment  The division shall administer a program of vocational rehabilitation to an extended employee and shall plan, institute, support, and administer a program of extended employment in, or under the supervision of a sheltered workshop provided for in this act. L.1971, c. 272, s. 3. Amended by L.1973, c. 45, s. 2, eff. Feb. 27, 1973; L.1979, c. 335, s. 2, eff. Jan. 21, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-42 - Contracts with approved sheltered workshops; amount payable.

34:16-42 Contracts with approved sheltered workshops; amount payable.  4. The division is hereby authorized to contract with an approved sheltered workshop for the furnishing of extended employment programs to persons with severe disabilities when it shall appear to the satisfaction of the division, or upon certification to the division by the commission, that a person with a severe disability could reasonably be expected to benefit from, or reasonably requires, extended rehabilitation services. The division is authorized to contract for the payment of a sum for each person with a severe disability not exceeding the amount appropriated for the purposes of P.L.1971, c.272 (C.34:16-39 et seq.) toward the cost of providing an extended employment program pursuant to this act. L.1971, c.272, s.4; amended 1979, c.335, s.3; 2017, c.131, s.136.  34:16-43. Authority of division and commission. 5. The division and the commission are hereby vested with the authority: a. to determine the eligibility of persons with severe disabilities for the extended employment program in consultation with the shaltered workshops providing the program; b. to establish standards of staffing, physical plant and services required for the operation of facilities of sheltered workshops furnishing services under P.L.1971, c.272 (C.34:16-39 e seq.) by contract with the State; and c. to require an appropriate progress report on each individual participating in the extended employment program.  L.1971, c. 272, s. 5. Amended by L.1979, c. 335; 2017, c.131, s.137.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-43 - Determination of eligibility for extended employment program; standards for operation of sheltered workshop; progress reports

34:16-43. Determination of eligibility for extended employment program; standards for operation of sheltered workshop; progress reports  The division and the commission are hereby vested with the authority: a. to determine the eligibility of severely handicapped persons for the extended employment program in consultation with the sheltered workshops providing the program; b. to establish standards of staffing, physical plant and services required for the operation of facilities of sheltered workshops furnishing services under this act by contract with the State; and c. to require an appropriate progress report on each individual participating in the extended employment program. L.1971, c. 272, s. 5. Amended by L.1979, c. 335, s. 4, eff. Jan. 21, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-44 - Inapplicability of requirement for employer's permit relating to ratio of employees in home work to those in factory for extended employment program of sheltered workshop

34:16-44. Inapplicability of requirement for employer's permit relating to ratio of employees in home work to those in factory for extended employment program of sheltered workshop  The provisions of P.L.1941, c. 308 (C. 34:6-136.1 et seq.) relating to the ratio of employees engaged in home work to those employed in a factory and the requirement for an employer's permit shall not apply to an extended employment program of a sheltered workshop. L.1973, c. 45, s. 3, eff. Feb. 27, 1973.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-45 - State policy relative to persons with disabilities.

34:16-45 State policy relative to persons with disabilities.  1. It is the policy of the State to assist persons with disabilities and organizations established to aid persons with disabilities in the sale of goods or articles which are the product of the labor of persons with disabilities by providing a means of authenticating the source of such goods and articles and by preventing misrepresentation as to items offered for sale as the product of persons with disabilities. L.1975, c.350, s.1; amended 2017, c.131, s.138.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-46 - Definitions.

34:16-46 Definitions.  2. As used in this act: a. "Person with a disability" means any individual who is unable to engage in any substantial gainful employment by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which is of a long-continued or indefinite duration or which can be expected to result in death. b. "Direct labor" means all work required for the preparation, processing, and assembling of goods or articles including the packaging and packing thereof, but not including time spent in the supervision, administration, inspection, and shipping of such operations, or in the production of component materials by other than persons with disabilities. L.1975, c.350, s.2; amended 2017, c.131, s.139.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-47 - Registration, authorization to identify goods, articles made by persons with disabilities.

34:16-47 Registration, authorization to identify goods, articles made by persons with disabilities.  3. To facilitate ready and authoritative identification of goods or articles made by persons with disabilities, any person with a disability and any public or private institution or agency, firm, association, or corporation engaged in the manufacture or distribution of goods or articles made by persons with disabilities shall apply to the division for registration and authorization to use an official imprint, stamp, symbol, or label, designed or approved by the division, to identify goods and articles as made by persons with disabilities. Nothing in P.L.1975, c.350 (C.34:16-45 et seq.) shall authorize the identification of goods or articles as made by persons with disabilities when the direct labor performed by persons with disabilities in connection therewith shall consist solely of the packaging or packing thereof as distinguished from the preparation, processing, or assembling of such goods or articles. The division shall investigate each application, under rules and regulations it shall adopt for the administration of P.L.1975, c.350 (C.34:16-45 et seq.), to assure that such person or organization is actually engaged in the manufacture or distribution of goods or articles made by persons with disabilities. The division may register without investigation nonresident individuals and out-of-state agencies, firms, associations, or corporations upon proof that they are recognized and approved by the state of their residence or organized pursuant to a law of such state imposing requirements substantially similar to those prescribed pursuant to P.L.1975, c.350 (C.34:16-45 et seq.). No fee shall be charged for registration of an individual person with a disability who manufactures and sells products of the person's own labor. A fee of $25 shall be charged and collected for registration of any other person, firm, or corporation. All registrations shall be valid for one year from date of issue. L.1975, c.350, s.3; amended 1979, c.335, s.5; 2017, c.131, s.140.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-48 - Sale of goods by persons with disabilities; identification.

34:16-48 Sale of goods by persons with disabilities; identification.  4. No goods or articles made in this or any other state may be displayed, advertised, solicited for sale by telephone, mail or otherwise, offered for sale, or sold in this State upon a representation that such goods or articles are made by persons with disabilities unless they are identified as such by label, imprint, stamp, or symbol and no such goods or articles may be so identified unless at least 75 percent of the total hours of direct labor of producing such goods or articles shall have been performed by one or more persons with a disability. L.1975, c.350, s.4; amended 2017, c.131, s.141.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-49 - Labels or stamps; contents.

34:16-49 Labels or stamps; contents.  5. Any worker with a disability, or any public or private institution or agency, corporation, firm, or association, registered with the division pursuant to P.L.1975, c.350 (C.34:16-45 et seq.), engaged in the manufacture or distribution of articles of merchandise, made or manufactured by a person or persons with a disability, shall imprint or stamp upon such articles of merchandise or affix thereto labels containing the words, "made by a worker with a disability," to which shall be added the name of the manufacturer, the place of manufacture, and such other information as the division may prescribe. L.1975, c.350, s.5; amended 1979, c.335, s.6; 2017, c.131, s.142.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-50 - Violations.

34:16-50 Violations.  6. Any person, firm, corporation, institution, or association who (a) shall use or employ an imprint, stamp, or symbol or label issued or approved by the division or an imitation thereof without having registered with the division, or (b) who shall directly or indirectly by any means indicate or tend to indicate or represent that the goods or articles were made by a person or persons with a disability when in fact such goods or articles were not so made, or (c) who shall directly or indirectly by any means indicate or tend to indicate or represent that the goods or articles were sold by or for the benefit of persons with disabilities when in fact such sale was not by or of substantial benefit to a person or persons with a disability is a disorderly person. L.1975, c.350, s.6; amended 1979, c.335, s.7; 2017, c.131, s.143.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-51 - Findings, declarations

34:16-51. Findings, declarations  The Legislature finds and declares that many handicapped citizens enrolled in sheltered (extended) employment programs at sheltered workshops earn subminimum wages in a noncompetitive working environment and therefore require financial assistance so that they may meet their transportation costs. The Legislature further finds and declares that the Department of Labor through its Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, in conjunction with the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services and the sheltered workshops of this State, should play a major role in defraying the costs of public transportation and paratransit expenses of handicapped citizens enrolled in sheltered (extended) employment programs at sheltered workshops.  L. 1987, c. 455, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-52 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-52 - Definitions.

34:16-52 Definitions.  2. As used in this act:  a. "Division" means the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.  b. "Citizen with a disability" means any individual who, by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital condition, or other permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, is unable without special facilities or special planning or design to utilize mass transportation facilities and services as effectively as persons who are not so affected.  c. "Paratransit" means and includes any service, other than motorbus regular route service and charter services, including, but not limited to, dial-a-ride, nonregular route, jitney or community minibus, and shared-ride services such as vanpools, limousines, or taxicabs which are regularly available to the public. Paratransit shall not include limousine or taxicab service reserved for the private and exclusive use of individual passengers.  d. "Public transportation" means all rail passenger service operated by the New Jersey Transit Corporation, and all motorbus regular route service operated pursuant to P.L.1979, c.150 (C.27:25-1 et seq.) or operated pursuant to R.S.48:4-3.  e. "Sheltered (extended) employment programs" means those programs established pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1955, c.64 (C.34:16-27).  f. "Sheltered workshop" means a facility possessing a valid certificate to vend services to the division issued by the director thereof, in compliance with the rules and regulations governing vocational rehabilitation facilities. L.1987, c.455, s.2; amended 2017, c.131, s.144.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-53 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-53 - Transportation expense program.

34:16-53 Transportation expense program.  3. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development is directed to establish and implement within 120 days of the effective date of this act a program to be administered by the division to defray the public transportation or paratransit expenses of citizens with disabilities enrolled in sheltered (extended) employment programs at sheltered workshops. The program may provide for the defraying of these expenses by the purchase of bus cards or other appropriate methods as prescribed by the commissioner.  L.1987, c.455, s.3; amended 2017, c.131, s.145.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-54 - Annual survey

34:16-54. Annual survey  The division shall annually conduct a survey to assess the transportation needs of these sheltered workshops.  L. 1987, c. 455, s. 4.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:16-55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:16-55 - Rules, regulations

34:16-55. Rules, regulations  The Commissioner of Labor shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the purposes of this act.  L. 1987, c. 455, s. 5.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-1 - Purposes

34:17-1. Purposes  Any seven or more persons, residents in this state, may associate themselves into a society for the purpose of carrying on any lawful mechanical, mining, manufacturing or trading business, or of trading and dealing in goods, wares and merchandise or chattels, or of buying, selling, mortgaging, settling, owning, leasing and improving real estate and erecting buildings thereon, within this state, upon making and filing a certificate of association in writing, in the manner hereinafter provided.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-2 - Certificate of association; contents

34:17-2. Certificate of association; contents  The certificate of association shall set forth: a. The name assumed to designate such society and to be used in its business and dealings, which name shall have the word "co-operative" as a distinguishing part thereof, but shall in no respect be similar to that of any other society organized under this chapter; b. The place or places in this state where the business of the society is to be conducted; and the location of its principal office; c. The objects for which the society is formed; d. The total amount of capital stock of the society, the number of shares into which the same is divided, the par value of each share, the manner in which the installments on the shares shall be paid, the number of shares subscribed, and the amount actually paid in cash on account of the same; e. The terms of admission of members; f. The mode of application of profits; and g. The mode of altering and amending the certificate of association and the by-laws of the society.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-3 - Certificate; signing; acknowledging; recording and filing

34:17-3. Certificate; signing; acknowledging; recording and filing  Such certificate shall be signed by the persons originally associating themselves together, shall be proved or acknowledged by at least seven of them before an officer qualified to take acknowledgments of deeds of real estate, and after being approved by the commissioner of labor, shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where the principal office or place of business of the society shall be located and a copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of labor. Thereupon the persons so associating shall be deemed to be a body corporate with all the powers incident thereto.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-4 - First meeting

34:17-4. First meeting  The first meeting of such society shall be called by a notice signed by a majority of the persons named in the certificate of association, designating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, and shall be personally served on all persons signing the certificate, or by advertisement in a newspaper published in the county where the society shall have been incorporated, if such personal service cannot be made. At such meeting or at any adjourned meeting thereof, a majority of the persons so signing shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and may elect the directors and other officers as hereafter provided, and may adopt by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the society.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-5 - Board of directors; officers and agents

34:17-5. Board of directors; officers and agents  The business of every such society shall be managed and conducted by a board of not less than five directors, who shall be members in the society, and shall be annually elected at such time and place as shall be provided in the by-laws thereof. One of the directors shall be chosen president and one treasurer, and such directors and officers shall hold their respective offices until their successors are duly qualified. The society shall also have a secretary and such other officers, agents and factors as may be necessary to carry on its business, and shall choose them in the manner prescribed in the by-laws thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-6 - By-laws

34:17-6. By-laws  The by-laws of such society shall provide: a. For an annual meeting of the members thereof and such other regular and special meetings as may be deemed desirable, the number of members necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the right of voting thereat; b. For the election of directors and other officers, agents and factors, and their respective powers and duties; c. For the limitation of the amount of such real and personal estate as the purposes of the society shall require; d. Whether the shares, or any number of them, shall be transferable, and if it is determined that they shall be transferable, provision for their transfer and registration, and the consent of the board of directors to the same, and if it is determined that the shares shall not be transferable, provision for paying to members the balance due to them on withdrawal, or of paying nominees in cases hereinafter mentioned; e. How members may withdraw from the society; f. Whether and by what authority any part of the capital may be invested in or on security of another society through which its products are disposed of or its supplies secured; g. Whether and to what extent credit in its business transactions may be given or taken; h. In what sum and with what sureties the treasurer and other fiduciary officers and agents shall give bonds for the faithful performance of their respective duties; i. For the audit of accounts; j. For the distribution of the net profits; and k. For the custody, use and device of the seal, which shall bear the corporate name of the society.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-7 - Name affixed on outside of place of business

34:17-7. Name affixed on outside of place of business  Every such society shall paint or affix, and shall keep painted or affixed, its name on the outside of every office or place in which the business of the association is carried on, in a conspicuous position in letters easily legible.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-8 - Registered office; change

34:17-8. Registered office; change  Every such society shall have a registered office to which all communications and notices may be addressed. Notices in writing of the location of such office, and of any change therein, shall be filed with the commissioner of labor, and in the office of the clerk of the county where the office of the society is located.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:17-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:17-9 - Capital stock

34:17-9. Capital stock  The capital stock of such society shall be divided into shares the par value of which shall not be more than fifty dollars, and no share shall be issued for less than its par value. No certificate of shares shall be issued to any member until his shares are fully paid up.