New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › Chapter 71 - ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM › Subchapter 2 - DEFINITIONS › Section 3A:71-2.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"ACP" means Address Confidentiality Program.
"Address" means a residential street address, school address, or
				  work address of a person.
"Application assistant" means an employee of a State or local
				  government agency, private entity, or a nonprofit program who meets the minimum
				  training requirements of 40 hours of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual violence
				  training, or is designated by the Director to assist individuals in the completion
				  of program participation applications.
"Authorized personnel" means an employee of a State or local
				  government agency designated by the Chief Executive Officer of the agency, to
				  process and have access to applications and records, pertaining to program
				  participants.
"Department" means the Department of Children and Families.
"Director" means the Director of the Division on Women in the
				  Department of Children and Families, or the Director's designee.
"Domestic violence" means an act defined under
				  N.J.S.A.
				  2C:25-19, which has been reported to a law
				  enforcement agency or court.
"Program manager" means the agency employee designated by the
				  Director with responsibility for developing and administering the Address
				  Confidentiality Program in accordance with the provisions at
				  N.J.S.A.
				  47:4-1 et seq.
"Program participant" means a qualified person certified by the
				  Director as eligible to participate in the Address Confidentiality Program
				  established by this chapter.
"Public agency" means an office, department, division, bureau,
				  board, commission, or other statutory unit of State or local government or any
				  functional subdivision of that agency, which a program participant may request the
				  use of the alternate address designated by the Director as the program participant's
				  address pursuant to
				  N.J.S.A.
				  47:4-6 et seq.
"Public record" means any paper, written or printed book, document
				  or drawing, map or plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed document,
				  sound-recording or similar device, of any copy thereof which has been made or is
				  required by law to be received for filing, indexing or reproducing by any officer,
				  commission, agency, or authority of the State or of any political subdivision
				  thereof including subordinate boards thereof, or that has been received by any such
				  officer, commission, agency or authority of the State or of any political
				  subdivision thereof, including subordinate boards thereof, in connection with the
				  transaction of public business and has been retained by such recipient of successor
				  as evidence of its activities or because of the information contained
				  therein.
"Qualified person" means a reproductive health service patient or
				  provider, a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or a person
				  who has applied for an order pursuant to
				  N.J.S.A.
				  2C:14-13 et seq., or a family member.
"Reproductive health service provider" means a physician,
				  employee, volunteer, or contractor of the provider, hospital, clinic, physician's
				  office, or facility that provides reproductive health services.
"Reproductive health services" means medical, surgical,
				  counseling, or referral services relating to the human reproductive system,
				  including services relating to pregnancy or the termination of pregnancy.
"Sexual assault" means an act of sexual assault as defined at
				  N.J.S.A.
				  2C:14-2, if the act has been reported to a law
				  enforcement agency or court.
"Stalking" means an act defined in section 1 at P.L. 1992, c. 209
				  (N.J.S.A.
				  2C:12-10), if the act has been reported to a law
				  enforcement agency or court.
"Substitute mailing address" means a mailing address designated by
				  the Director, which is not the program participant's residential address as
				  documented on the participant's application but is an alternative address to which
				  mail is to be mailed.