40:48-8.45 - Definitions - New Jersey Statutes

40:48-8.45.    Definitions 
   1.     As used in this act:

  a.     "Convention center operating authority" means, in the case of any eligible municipality, the public authority or other governmental entity empowered to operate convention hall and the convention center facilities in the eligible municipality. 

  b.     "Director" means the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury. 

  c.     "Eligible municipality" means any municipality in which any portion of the proceeds of a retail sales tax levied by ordinance adopted by the municipality pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1947, c.71 (C.40:48-8.15) is applied as authorized by law to the payment of costs of convention center facilities located in the municipality. 

  d.     "Hotel" means a building or a portion of a building which is regularly used and kept open for the lodging of guests and includes a hotel, motel, inn, and rooming or boarding house, whether or not meals are served. 

  e.     "Occupied room" means a room or rooms of any kind in any part of a hotel, other than a place of assembly, which is used or possessed by a guest or guests, whether or not for consideration. 

  L.1991,c.376,s.1.