New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 99 - REHABILITATION FACILITIES SET-ASIDE ACT RULES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 10:99-1.3 - 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:
"Blind or legally blind" means central visual acuity that
				  does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with best correction or field of
				  vision that are so limited that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an
				  angle no greater than 20 degrees.
"Central Nonprofit Agency (CNA)" means an organization
				  incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, operated in the interest of the
				  blind and visually impaired or other persons with severe disabilities and
				  designated by the Commissioner to facilitate the distribution (by direct
				  allocation, or other means) of orders of the State and local government for
				  commodities and services on the procurement list among qualified CRPs serving
				  the blind and visually impaired or other persons with severe
				  disabilities.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of
				  Human Services.
"Commodities and Services Council (CSC)" means the
				  Commodities and Services Council for the Blind, Visually Impaired and other
				  persons with severe disabilities as constituted in P.L. 1981, c.488, §
				  3.
"Community rehabilitation program (CRP)" means a
				  rehabilitation program located in this State which qualifies as a charitable
				  organization or institution under the provisions of section 501(c)(3) of the
				  Internal Revenue Code and is conducted on a nonprofit basis for the purpose of
				  carrying out a recognized program of rehabilitation for individuals whose
				  earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental deficiency, illness
				  or injury and of providing these individuals with remunerative employment or
				  other occupational rehabilitative activity of an educational or therapeutic
				  nature as defined in section 525.1 et seq. of the regulations adopted pursuant
				  to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,
				  29
				  U.S.C. §
										201 et seq. and related codes,
				  and which is engaged in the production of commodities or the provision of
				  services in connection with which not less than 75 percent of the total amount
				  of direct labor is performed in the preparation of the commodity for sale or in
				  the execution of the services rendered by blind or other persons with severe
				  disabilities excluding any hours of supervision, administration, inspection or
				  shipping.
"Fiscal year" means the 12 month period beginning on July 1
				  of each year.
"Other persons with severe disabilities" means persons, other
				  than those who are blind and visually impaired, who have a mental or physical
				  impairment that has severely impeded their ability to seek, enter or maintain
				  gainful employment. Some specific categories of persons with severe
				  disabilities as defined above, include, but are not limited to, those disabled
				  by the following conditions:
1. Spinal cord injury;
2. Hearing impaired;
3. Muscular dystrophy;
4. Multiple sclerosis;
5. Developmental disabilities or other neurological
				  disorders;
6. Severe orthopedic handicaps;
7. Multiple disabilities;
8. Severe personality or behavioral disorders, including
				  psychosis and neurosis;
9. Severe pulmonary disease; and
10. Severe cardiac disorders.
"Program" means the CNA, regulated by the New Jersey CSC in
				  accordance with this chapter.
"Purchasing agency" means any State agency or municipality,
				  school district, county, quasi-State agency, county and State college,
				  volunteer fire department, volunteer first aid and rescue squad, public
				  authority, commission, and independent institutions of higher learning as cited
				  in the Cooperative Purchase Program statute (52:25-16.1 and
				  40A:11-12 ) that places orders
				  for the procurement of any commodity or service on the procurement list.