New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 47C - GENERAL COMMODITIES; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL COMMODITIES; DEFINITIONS › Section 13:47C-1.2 - 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.
"Advertising media or means" means any attempt directly or indirectly by publication, dissemination, solicitation, endorsement or circulation or in any other way to induce directly or indirectly any person to enter or not enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in any building materials as defined by this regulation.
"Building materials" means lumber, wood, and wood product materials used in connection with the construction, fabrication, and erection of residential, utility or business premises.
"Consumer" means any person who purchases building materials for incorporation into any type of structure.
"Cut-up poultry" means all dressed poultry from which the entire viscera (entrails) have been removed and the carcass of which has been cut into portions or dismembered.
"Dry tare" means the unused dry tare and used dry tare methods of net weight inspection.
"Equipped dealer" means any person who is regularly engaged in the business of selling or selling and delivering building materials to consumers in the State of New Jersey and who maintains unloading or loading, storage, transportation, communication, sales, services or other facilities therefor, with an office accessible to the public with a competent person on duty, commensurate with the nature and other requirements of the business.
"Grade" and "species" means those grades and species for building materials that are authorized by N.J.S.A. 51:4-27.
"Meat" means and includes beef, veal, pork, mutton, lamb, domestic rabbits and products of all kinds in which meat of the prescribed classes forms the basic ingredient.
"Offer for sale" or "expose for sale" shall be construed t
"Page" means one side of a sheet of paper used for writing purposes.
"Persons" means and includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships, joint stock companies and governmental entities as well as individuals.
"Poultry" means and includes chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas and all products the basic ingredient of which is poultry of prescribed classes; provided, however, that squabs shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter.
"Precious metals" means gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and alloys thereof.
"Sheet" means the separate, individual piece of tissue or paper. In the case of writing materials, "sheet" shall not be construed to mean "page."
"State Superintendent" means the State Superintendent of the Office of Weights and Measures in the Division of Consumer Affairs, New Jersey State Department of Law and Public Safety.
"Transient buyer" means a buyer of precious metals as provided for in N.J.S.A. 51:6A-1et seq. who has not been in the retail business continuously for at least six months at the address in the municipality where he is required to register or who intends to close out or discontinue all retail business in the municipality within six months.
"Unequipped dealer" means any person who is regularly engaged in the business of selling building materials at retail in the State of New Jersey to consumers in this State who does not maintain loading, unloading or storage facilities.
"Unused dry tare" means all unused packaging materials, including such materials as glue, labels, and ties, that contain or enclose a product and includes prizes, gifts, coupons, or decorations that are not part of the product.
"Usable unit" means an individual sheet or unit or any combination of sheets or units that can be removed or dispensed from any type of roll, container, or other package form in a single operation.
"Used dry tare" or "dried used tare" means used packaging material that has been air dried or dried in some manner to simulate the unused tare weight, including all packaging materials that can be separated from the packaged product either readily or by washing, scraping, ambient air drying, or other techniques involving more than normal household recovery procedures, but not including laboratory procedures like oven drying.