N.J. Admin. Code § 19:61-6.2
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Allowable entertainment expenses" means the costs for a guest speaker, incidental music and other ancillary entertainment at any meal at an event, provided they are moderate and not elaborate or excessive, but does not include the costs of personal recreation, such as being a spectator at or engaging in a sporting or athletic activity which may occur as part of that event.
"Approval" means, for the purposes of 19:61-6.4 and 6.5, written permission from the department head to attend and/or participate in an event and/or to accept direct or indirect benefits in connection with attendance.
"Department head" means the administrative or executive head of the State official's agency or his or her designee.
"Direct benefit" means acceptance by a State official from the event sponsor or any other person of travel, meals, accommodation, waiver of conference or event fee or any other costs associated with attending the event for which no payment is made by the State but is not intended to mean nominal refreshments such as nonalcoholic beverages and snacks (doughnuts, pastries and cookies).
"Event" means a meeting, conference, seminar, speaking engagement, symposium, training course, ground-breaking, ribbon-cutting, meal, open house, cocktail party, fundraiser, holiday party, social function, or similar event that takes place away from the State official's work location, is sponsored or co-sponsored by a supplier or a non-State government source and the invitation for which is extended to the State official because of his or her official position. Meetings that are part of an employee's job responsibilities at which no direct or indirect benefits are offered are not "events" for purposes of this subchapter.
"Indirect benefit" means acceptance by a State official from the event sponsor or any other person of reimbursement for costs of travel, meals, accommodation, event fees, or any other costs associated with attending the event for which no reimbursement is made by the State but is not intended to mean nominal refreshments such as nonalcoholic beverages and snacks (doughnuts, pastries and cookies).
"Interested party" means:
1. Any person, or employee, representative or agent thereof, who is or may reasonably be anticipated to be subject to the regulatory, licensing or supervisory authority of the State official's agency;
2. Any grantee or grantor of the State official's agency, or employee, representative or agent thereof;
3. Any supplier, or employee, representative or agent thereof;
4. Any organization that advocates or represents the positions of its members to the State official's agency; or
5. Any organization a majority of whose members are as described in paragraphs 1 through 3 above.
"Personal funds" means funds of a State official. It does not include funds that are loaned, advanced, promised or reimbursed to a State official for any purpose by an interested party.
"Published work" means any tangible medium of expression, including, but not limited to, literary, pictorial, graphic and sculptural matter; sound recordings; and software.
"Reasonable expenditures for travel or subsistence" means commercial travel rates directly to and from an event and food and lodging expenses which are moderate and neither elaborate nor excessive.
"Scholarly capacity" means any pedagogical, academic, artistic, educational or scholarly activity performed by a State official for the institution of higher education that employs or has appointed such State official.
"Supplier" means any person that is providing or is seeking to provide or may reasonably be expected to provide goods and/or services to the State official's agency, including, but not limited to, consultants, vendors and lessors.
"Thing of value" includes, but is not limited to, compensation; money; a stock, bond, note or other investment in an entity; employment, offer of employment; gift; reward; honorarium; favor; goods, service; loan; forgiveness of indebtedness; gratuity; property or real property; labor; fee; commission; contribution; rebate or discount in the price of any thing of value; an automobile or other means of personal transportation; entertainment; meal; or any other thing of value offered to or solicited or accepted by a State official in connection with his or her official position.
N.J. Admin. Code § 19:61-6.2
See: 36 N.J.R. 2316(a), 36 N.J.R. 4842(a).
Added "Allowable entertainment expenses", "Reasonable expenditures for travel or subsistence", and "Thing of value".
Amended by R.2006 d.292, effective 8/21/2006.
See: 38 N.J.R. 1804(a), 38 N.J.R. 3318(a).
Deleted definitions "Commission", "Person" and "State official"; in definition "Approval", deleted "; to accept an honorarium or fee;"; in definition "Event", inserted "a supplier or"; and in definition "Supplier", deleted "private sector" following "means any".
Amended by R.2007 d.357, effective 11/19/2007.
See: 39 N.J.R. 3286(a), 39 N.J.R. 4951(a).
In definition "Interested party", added new paragraph 2 and recodified former paragraphs 2 through 4 as paragraphs 3 through 5; and added definition "Scholarly capacity".
Amended by R.2012 d.045, effective 2/21/2012.
See: 43 N.J.R. 1515(a), 44 N.J.R. 519(a).
In definition "Direct benefit", substituted "event sponsor" for "sponsor of an event"; and in definition "Event", inserted the last sentence.