N.J. Admin. Code § 17:33-1.2
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Amendment" means a UCC filing that purports to amend the information in a financing statement. Amendments include assignments, continuations, and terminations.
"Assignment" is an amendment that purports to reflect an assignment of all or a part of a secured party's power to authorize an amendment to a financing statement.
"Continuation" means an amendment that purports to continue the effectiveness of a financing statement.
"Correction statement" means a written statement that purports to indicate that a financing statement is inaccurate or wrongfully filed.
"Decipher" means being able to read and index information presented on a UCC filing or work order with sufficient clarity to effect either a filing or search request within the meaning of the Uniform Commercial Code system.
"Document" means any document associated with a filed financing statement, correction statement, or amendment.
"DORES" means the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, within the Department of the Treasury.
"Filing Office" means the Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services.
"Filing Officer" means the Treasurer of the State of New Jersey.
"Filing number" or "File number" means the unique identifying information assigned to an initial financing statement by DORES for the purpose of identifying the financing statement and UCC filings relating to the financing statement in DORES' information management system. The filing number bears no relation to the time of filing and is not an indicator of priority.
"Financing statement" means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record(s) relating to the initial financing statement.
"Individual" means a human being, or a decedent, in the case of a debtor that is such decedent's estate.
"Initial financing statement" means a UCC document that does not identify itself as an amendment or identify an initial financing statement to which it relates, as required at N.J.S.A. 12A:9-512, 514, or 518.
"Organization" means a legal person who is not an individual pursuant to this subchapter.
"Remitter" means a person who tenders a UCC filing to DORES for filing, whether the person is a filer or an agent of a filer responsible for tendering the filing. "Remitter" does not include a person responsible merely for the delivery of the document to DORES, such as the postal service or a courier service, but does include a service provider who acts as a filer's representative in the filing process.
"Secured party of record" means, with respect to a financing statement, a person whose name is provided as the name of a secured party or a representative of the secured party in an initial financing statement that has been filed. If an initial financing statement is filed pursuant to N.J.S.A. 12A:9-514.a, the assignee named in the initial financing statement is the secured party of record with respect to the financing statement. If an amendment of a financing statement which provides the name of a person as a secured party or a representative of a secured party is filed, the person named in the amendment is a secured party of record. If an amendment is filed pursuant to N.J.S.A. 12A:9-514.b, the assignee named in the amendment is a secured party of record. A person remains a secured party of record until the filing of an amendment of the financing statement, which deletes the person.
"Termination" means an amendment intended to indicate that the related financing statement has ceased to be effective with respect to the secured party authorizing the termination.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in this State at N.J.S.A. 12A:9-1et seq.
"UCC filing" means an initial financing statement, an amendment, an assignment, a continuation, a termination, or a correction statement. The word "filing" shall not be deemed to refer exclusively to paper or paper-based writings. UCC filings may be expressed or transmitted electronically or through media other than such writings.
N.J. Admin. Code § 17:33-1.2