New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 123 - SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES › Subchapter 3 - PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE › Section 10:123-3.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
				  shall have the following meanings.
"Boarding house" means any building, together with any
				  related structure, accessory building, any land appurtenant thereto, and any
				  part thereof, which contains two or more units of dwelling space arranged or
				  intended for single-room occupancy, exclusive of any such unit occupied by an
				  owner or operator, and wherein personal or financial services are provided to
				  the residents, including any residential hotel or congregate living
				  arrangement, but excluding any hotel, motel, or established guest house wherein
				  a minimum of 85 percent of the units of dwelling space are offered for limited
				  tenure only, any foster home as defined in Section 1 of
				  30:4C-26.1, and community
				  residence for the developmentally disabled as defined in
				  30:11B-2, any dormitory owned or
				  operated on behalf of any nonprofit institution of primary, secondary, or
				  higher education for the use of its students, any building arranged for
				  single-room occupancy wherein the units of dwelling space are occupied
				  exclusively by students enrolled in a full-time course of study at any
				  institution of higher education approved by the Commission on Higher Education,
				  and any facility or living arrangement operated by, or under contract with any
				  State department or agency upon the written authorization of the Commissioner
				  of the Department of Community Affairs.
"Eligible resident" means a resident of a boarding house or
				  residential health care facility who receives Supplemental Security Income or
				  General Assistance, and as otherwise defined in the Rooming and Boarding House
				  Act of 1979, N.J.S.A. 30:1A and 11A.
"Limited tenure" means residence at a rooming or boarding
				  house on a temporary basis for a period lasting no more than 90 days, when a
				  resident either maintains a primary residence at a location other than the
				  rooming or boarding house or intends to establish a primary residence at such a
				  location and does so within 90 days after taking up original residence at the
				  rooming or boarding house.
"Operator" means any individual who is responsible for the
				  daily operation of any residential health care facility or boarding
				  house.
"Owner" means any person who owns, purports to own, or
				  exercises control of any residential health care facility or boarding
				  house.
"Personal needs allowance" means a monthly amount of money
				  intended to meet those personal and incidental expenses or needs of
				  Supplemental Security Income recipients in residential health care facilities
				  or boarding houses which are not included among those services provided by the
				  facility in accord with the respective licensure standards.
"Residential health care facility" means facility, whether in
				  single or multiple dwellings, whether public or private, whether incorporated
				  or unincorporated, whether for profit or nonprofit, operated at the direction
				  of or under the management of an individual or individuals, corporation,
				  partnership, society, or association which furnishes food and shelter to four
				  or more persons 18 years of age or older who are unrelated to the proprietor,
				  and which provides dietary services, recreational activities, supervision of
				  self-administration of medications, supervision of and assistance in activities
				  of daily living and assistance in obtaining health services to any one or more
				  of such persons, excluding, however, any community residence for the
				  developmentally disabled as defined in
N.J.S.A.
				  30:11B-2
, any facility of living
				  arrangement operated by or under contract with any State department or agency,
				  upon the written authorization of the Commissioner of the Department of Health
				  , and any privately operated establishment licensed under N.J.S.A.
				  30:11A.
"Single-room occupancy" means an arrangement of dwelling
				  space which does not provide a private, secure dwelling space arranged for
				  independent living, which contains both the sanitary and cooking facilities
				  required in dwelling spaces pursuant to the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law,
				  55:13A-1 et seq. and which is not
				  used for limited tenure occupancy in a hotel, motel, or established guest
				  house, regardless of the number of individuals occupying any room or
				  rooms.
"Units of dwelling space" means any room, rooms, suite, or
				  portion thereof, whether furnished or unfurnished, which is occupied or
				  intended, arranged, or designed to be occupied, for sleeping or dwelling
				  purposes by one or more persons.
"Work First New Jersey/General Assistance" means assistance
				  rendered to needy persons not otherwise provided for under the laws of this
				  State, where such persons are willing to work but are unable to secure
				  employment due either to physical or mental disabilities or inability to find
				  employment, and includes what is commonly called relief or emergency relief
				  (see 44:8-107 et seq. and N.J.A.C.
				  10:90).