New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT › Chapter 41 - PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 12:41-1.3 - 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.
"Certificate of approval" means the document that provides evidence of the school's registration and permit to operate issued by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development as prescribed in 18A:69-2.
"Certificate of authority" means the document issued by the Secretary of State that provides evidence of permission to conduct business in New Jersey.
"Chapter 531 provider" means a private business, nonprofit agency, private organization or community-based organization that provides occupational workplace readiness training approved by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
"Commissioner" means the New Jersey Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development.
"Course" means an organization of subject matter and related learning experiences designed to meet an occupational objective offered for the instruction of students on a systematic basis.
"Customized training" means training designed to meet the needs of an individual or a company's workforce.
"Customized training provider" means a college or university governed by a board of trustees, a public school governed by a school board, a private vocational school approved by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, a private training vendor approved by the legally designated authority or nonprofit agency, a community-based organization or any other provider of training approved by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development in accordance with the process established under 44:12-2, P.L. 1981, c.531.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
"Instructional hour" means a minimum of 50 minutes of class lecture or recitation, faculty-supervised laboratory, shop training, or internship in a 60-minute period. It also means 60 minutes of preparation in a correspondence course as defined by Section 600.2, Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended; 20 U.S.C. §§
										124- 129; and 26 U.S.C. § 501C.
"Private training provider" means a private vocational school, correspondence school, private training vendor, nonprofit agency, community based organization or any other provider of training whose educational programs are supported with public funds or through tuition charges to the general public.
"Private vocational school" means a business enterprise operated for either profit or nonprofit which does business in New Jersey and which recruits adult students from the general public; charges tuition and/or other fees; offers instruction to a group or groups of four or more adult students at one time; and offers preparatory instruction for entry-level employment or for upgrading in a specific occupational field.
"Program" means the planned sequence of courses, services, or activities designed to meet an employment objective.
"Resident private vocational school director" means the person responsible for the total operation of the individual school site.
"Workforce readiness system" means all education, employment, and training programs and services designed to meet the needs of New Jersey's workforce comprised of entering, unemployed, employed, and/or displaced workers.
"Workforce readiness training" means occupational education experiences that lead to employment.