New Jersey § 52:18a-234

§ 52:18a-234.

As used in this act: “ Agency ” means any of the principal departments of the Executive Branch, including the Department

of the Treasury, and any division, office, board, bureau, commission, authority or

entity therein or allocated thereto to comply with the provisions of Article V, Section IV, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution . “ Data ” means final versions of statistical or factual information in alphanumeric form,

in as granular form as possible, and reflected in a list, table, graph, chart, map,

or other non-narrative form that can be digitally transmitted or processed, and regularly

created or maintained by or on behalf of and owned by a State department or agency

that records a measurement, transaction, or determination related to the mission of

that State department or agency. “ Dataset ” means a named collection of related, digitally-stored data with the collection containing

individual data units organized or formatted in a specific and prescribed way, often

in tabular form, and accessed by a specific access method that is based on the dataset

organization, but not including any data that is protected from disclosure under applicable

federal or State law. “ Open data ” means data that is collected by an agency that is not prohibited from being made

available to the public or another State agency by applicable laws, rules, regulations,

policies, or other restrictions, requirements or rights associated with such data,

including, but not limited to, contractual or other legal orders, restrictions or

requirements. “ Open data website ” means either the unique, dedicated open data website implemented by the Chief Data

Officer or an agency's website upon which open datasets are hosted.