New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 44 - LOCAL HOUSING AUTHORITY AND MUNICIPAL REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TRAINING PROGRAM AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REVIEW › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 5:44-1.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. All
				  definitions found in the Redevelopment and Housing Law, P.L. 1992, c.79
				  (40A:12A-1 et seq.), shall be
				  applicable to this chapter.
"Certificate of completion" means written documentation provided
				  to executive directors and commissioners of local housing authorities and municipal
				  redevelopment agencies evidencing successful completion of the required course of
				  study for the LHA/MRA Training Program.
"Commissioner" means an appointed member of the governing board of
				  a local housing authority or a municipal redevelopment agency, which board is
				  responsible for overseeing operations, including developing policy and establishing
				  monitoring controls.
"Commissioner of the Department," or "DCA Commissioner," means the
				  Commissioner of Community Affairs.
"Course curriculum" means the mandatory and elective courses that
				  executive directors and commissioners of local housing authorities and municipal
				  redevelopment agencies must complete to satisfy the training requirements more fully
				  described in N.J.A.C. 5:44-3.
"DCA Commissioner" (See "Commissioner of the Department.")
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Community
				  Affairs.
"Executive director" means an individual employed as the chief
				  officer and secretary to the board of a local housing authority or municipal
				  redevelopment agency and responsible for the daily management of the entity.
"Hardship" means any physical, mental or social privation,
				  suffering or adversity that may hinder or preclude an individual from satisfactorily
				  completing the requirements of the LHA/MRA Training Program. The New Jersey
				  Department of Community Affairs will, within reason, provide appropriate
				  accommodations to assist all LHA/MRA Training Program participants to complete both
				  the course curriculum and evaluation components.
"Holdover" means an individual who continues to occupy a seat as a
				  member of a board after resignation or upon expiration of the term associated with
				  that seat, and who has no right to the office.
"Housing Authority and Redevelopment Agency Training Advisory
				  Committee" means the committee, comprised of staff of the Department of Community
				  Affairs, representatives of the New Jersey National Association of Housing and
				  Redevelopment Officials (NJNAHRO), the New Jersey Association of Housing and
				  Redevelopment Authorities (NJAHRA) and the United States Department of Housing and
				  Urban Development, executive directors and commissioners of housing authorities,
				  representatives of Rutgers, The State University, and two nationally recognized
				  training organizations, that has responsibility for guiding the course of study for
				  the Training Program.
"Local government agency," as defined by
				  40A:9-22.3, means any agency, board,
				  governing body, including the chief executive officer, bureau, division, office,
				  commission or other instrumentality within a county or municipality, and any
				  independent local authority, including any entity created by more than one county or
				  municipality, which performs functions other than of a purely advisory nature, but
				  shall not include a school board.
"Local government officer" as defined by
				  40A:9-22.3 means any person whether
				  compensated or not: "(1) elected to any office of a local government agency; (2)
				  serving on a local government agency which has the authority to enact ordinances,
				  approve development applications or grant zoning variances; (3) who is a member of
				  an independent municipal, county or regional authority; or (4) who is a managerial
				  executive or confidential employee of a local government agency, as defined in
				  section 3 of the 'New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act' "but shall not mean
				  any employee of a school district or member of a school board.
"Local housing authority" means a housing authority created or
				  continued pursuant to the "Redevelopment and Housing Law," P.L. 1992, c.79
				  (40A:12A-1 et seq.).
"Management company" means a private firm or corporation that has
				  entered into a contract or agreement with the housing authority or redevelopment
				  agency to provide specified services related to the ongoing management and operation
				  of the entity.
"Member" means an individual serving as a member or commissioner
				  of a local housing authority or a municipal redevelopment agency.
"Municipal employee" as defined by
				  40A:9-22.3 means "any person, whether
				  compensated or not, employed by or serving on a local government agency who is not a
				  local government officer."
"Municipal redevelopment agency" means a redevelopment agency
				  created or continued pursuant to the "Redevelopment and Housing Law," P.L. 1992,
				  c.79 (40A:12A-11 ).
"Post-session evaluation" means the written or oral performance
				  assessment administered by LHA/MRA Training Program instructors at the end of the
				  course to assess the participant's understanding of and to reinforce key concepts
				  and significant issues covered during the training session.
"Program participant" means an individual attending approved
				  LHA/MRA Training Program courses.
"Recognized educational agency" means an educational, business,
				  military or professional organization which offers credit or non-credit educational
				  courses which, upon prior approval of the Department, may be judged equivalent to
				  the required LHA/MRA Training Program courses.
"Satisfactory" when used in reference to evaluations, means
				  providing correct responses to no less than 70 percent of the questions.
"State-approved course" means a course offered by an organization
				  or entity other than the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Rutgers or
				  other training facilitator that satisfies the requirements of the LHA/MRA Training
				  Program and for which executive directors and commissioners shall receive
				  credit.
"Training facilitator" means an entity recognized and approved by
				  the Department of Community Affairs to develop and offer the LHA/MRA Training
				  Program curriculum.
"Vacancy" means an appointed position or board seat that is
				  occupied by a holdover or that remains unfilled at the expiration of a term or upon
				  the resignation, death or removal of an appointee of an unexpired term.