New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 45A - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES OF THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Subchapter 17A - HOME ELEVATION CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
Section 13:45A-17A.2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Advertise" means to communicate to the public by means of any print, electronic, or any other media, including, but not limited to, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, journals, circulars, flyers, business cards, signs, radio, telephone, facsimile machine, television, computer, or the Internet. "Advertise" includes having a person's name in a classified advertisement or directory in this State under any classification of home improvement or home elevation as defined in this section, but does not include simple residential alphabetical listings in standard or Internet telephone directories.

"Badge declaration" means the electronic form that a registered entity must complete, as set forth in N.J.A.C. 13:45A-17A.14(b), which identifies individuals performing, engaging, or attempting to engage in the sale of home elevations or home improvements

"Director" means the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs.

"Division" means the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.

"Employee" means an employee as defined in 18:35-7.1 .

"Entity" means the business registered or to be registered as a home elevation contractor.

"Home elevation" means a home improvement consisting of lifting a home off a slab or existing foundation system and setting it back down on a new foundation or piers, posts, columns, or pilings.

"Home elevation contract" means a home improvement contract for a home elevation.

"Home elevation contractor" means a person engaged in the business of making or selling home elevations and includes corporations, partnerships, associations, and any other form of business organization or entity, and their officers, representatives, agents, and employees.

"Home improvement" means the remodeling, altering, painting, repairing, renovating, restoring, moving, demolishing, or modernizing of residential or non-commercial property or the making of additions thereto, and includes, but is not limited to, the construction, installation, replacement, improvement, or repair of driveways, sidewalks, swimming pools, terraces, patios, landscaping, fences, porches, windows, doors, cabinets, kitchens, bathrooms, garages, basements and basement waterproofing, water softeners, heaters, and purifiers, solar heating or water systems, insulation installation, home elevation, siding, wall-to-wall carpeting or attached or inlaid floor coverings, and other changes, repairs, or improvements made in or on, attached to or forming a part of the residential or non-commercial property, but does not include the construction of a new residence. The term extends to the conversion of existing commercial structures into residential or non-commercial property and includes any of the above activities performed under emergency conditions. The term does not apply to any work required to be performed by a licensed master plumber, licensed master heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration contractor, or licensed electrical contractor.

"Home improvement contract" means an oral or written agreement for the performance of a home improvement between a contractor and an owner of residential or non-commercial property, or a contractor and a tenant or lessee of residential or non-commercial property, if the tenant or lessee is to be obligated for the payment of home improvements made in, to, or upon such property, and includes all agreements under which the contractor is to perform labor or render services for home improvements, or furnish materials in connection therewith.

"Home improvement contractor" means a person engaged in the business of making or selling home improvements and includes corporations, partnerships, associations, and any other form of business organization or entity, and their officers, representatives, agents, and employees.

"Residential or non-commercial property" means a structure used, in whole or in substantial part, as a home or place of residence by any natural person, whether or not a single or multi-unit structure, and that part of the lot or site on which it is situated and which is devoted to the residential use of the structure, and includes all appurtenant structures.

"Sale of home improvements" means any action taken by or on behalf of an entity with the goal of entering into a contract with a consumer for the performance of a home improvement, including a home elevation, which includes, but is not limited to: initial contact with the consumer; taking measurements; presenting estimates for the cost of a home elevation or other home improvement; and entering into the contract with the consumer for the completion of the home improvement or home elevation or both.

"Staff" means an employee or an individual who is engaged pursuant to a written agreement to provide consulting services to the home elevation contractor.

"State-authorized vendor or vendors" means the business or businesses with which the State has contracted to act on behalf of the Director for the issuance and management of home improvement and home elevation contractor identification badges.