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
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.
