New Jersey § 58:26-3

§ 58:26-3.

As used in this act: a. “ Contracting unit ” means a county, district water supply commission, municipality, municipal or county

utilities authority, municipal water district, joint meeting or any other political

subdivision of the State authorized pursuant to law to operate or maintain a public

water supply system or to construct, rehabilitate, operate, or maintain water supply

facilities or otherwise provide water for human consumption; b. “ Department ” means the Department of Environmental Protection; c. “ Division ” means the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs; d. “ Vendor ” means any person financially, technically, and administratively capable of financing,

planning, designing, constructing, operating, or maintaining, or any combination thereof,

a water filtration system, water supply facilities, or of providing water supply services

to a local government unit under the terms of a contract awarded pursuant to the provisions

of this act; e. “Water filtration system” means any equipment, plants, structures, machinery, apparatus,

or land, or any combination thereof, acquired, used, constructed, rehabilitated, or

operated for the collection, impoundment, storage, improvement, filtration, or other

treatment of drinking water for the purposes of purifying and enhancing water quality

and insuring its potability prior to the distribution of the drinking water in the

general public for human consumption, including plants and works, and other personal

property and appurtenances necessary for their use or operation; f. “Water supply facilities” means and refers to the real property and the plants,

structures, interconnections between existing water supply facilities, machinery and

equipment and other property, real, personal and mixed, acquired, constructed or operated,

or to be acquired, constructed or operated, in whole or in part by or on behalf of

a political subdivision of the State or any agency thereof, for the purpose of augmenting

the natural water resources of the State and making available an increased supply

of water for all uses, or of conserving existing water resources, and any and all

appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient for the collecting, impounding, storing,

improving, treating, filtering, conserving or transmitting of water, and for the preservation

and protection of these resources and facilities and providing for the conservation

and development of future water supply resources; g. “ Water supply services ” means services provided by a water supply facility.