§ 5:10A-84 — Definitions relative to the "New Jersey Meadowlands Tax Relief Act."

New Jersey § 5:10A-84

• Jurisdiction: New Jersey
• Title 5: AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS AND MEETINGS

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84. As used in sections 82 through 85 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C.5:10A-82 et seq.): "Commission" means the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which may be referred to as the "Meadowlands Regional Commission," as established by section 6 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C.5:10A-6). "Constituent municipality" means any of the following municipalities: Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Little Ferry, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, North Arlington, Ridgefield, Rutherford, South Hackensack, and Teterboro in Bergen county; and Jersey City, Kearny, North Bergen, and Secaucus in Hudson county. "Meadowlands district" means the Hackensack Meadowlands District, the area delineated within section 5 of P.L.2015, c.19 (C.5:10A-5). "Obtained through a transient space marketplace" means that payment for the accommodation is made through a means provided by the marketplace or travel agency, either directly or indirectly, regardless of which person or entity receives the payment, and where the contracting for the accommodation is made through the marketplace or travel agency. "Professionally managed unit" means a room, group of rooms, or other living or sleeping space for the lodging of occupants in the State, that is offered for rent as a rental unit that does not share any living or sleeping space with any other rental unit, and that is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a person offering for rent two or more other units during the calendar year. "Public venue" means any place located within the Meadowlands district, whether publicly or privately owned, where any facilities for entertainment, amusement, or sports are provided, but shall not include a movie theater. "Public event" means any spectator sporting event, trade show, exposition, concert, amusement, or other event open to the public that takes place at a public venue, but shall not include a major league football game. "Residence" means a house, condominium, or other residential dwelling unit in a building or structure or part of a building or structure that is designed, constructed, leased, rented, let or hired out, or otherwise made available for use as a residence. "Transient accommodation" means a room, group of rooms, or other living or sleeping space for the lodging of occupants, including but not limited to residences or buildings used as residences, that is obtained through a transient space marketplace or is a professionally managed unit. "Transient accommodation" does not include: a hotel or hotel room; a room, group of rooms, or other living or sleeping space used as a place of assembly; a dormitory or other similar residential facility of an elementary or secondary school or a college or university; a hospital, nursing home, or other similar residential facility of a provider of services for the care, support and treatment of individuals that is licensed by the State; a campsite, cabin, lean-to, or other similar residential facility of a campground or an adult or youth camp; a furnished or unfurnished private residential property, including but not limited to condominiums, bungalows, single-family homes and similar living units, where no maid service, room service, linen changing service or other common hotel services are made available by the lessor and where the keys to the furnished or unfurnished private residential property, whether a physical key, access to a keyless locking mechanism, or other means of physical ingress to the furnished or unfurnished private residential property, are provided to the lessee at the location of an offsite real estate broker licensed by the New Jersey Real Estate Commission pursuant to R.S.45:15-1 et seq.; or leases of real property with a term of at least 90 consecutive days. "Transient space marketplace" means a marketplace or travel agency through which a person may offer transient accommodations to customers and through which customers may arrange for occupancies of transient accommodations. "Transient space marketplace" does not include a marketplace or travel agency that exclusively offers transient accommodations in the State owned by the owner of the marketplace or travel agency. L.2015, c.19, s.84; amended 2015, c.72, s.27; 2018, c.49, s.1; 2018, c.52, s.1; 2018, c.132, s.4; 2019, c.235, s.1.