N.J. Admin. Code § 19:25-19.2
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
"Candidate" means:
1. An individual seeking election to the office of Governor, office of Lieutenant Governor, Senate, or General Assembly;
2. An individual who has received funds or other benefits or has made payments solely for the purpose of determining whether the individual should become a candidate for the office of Governor, Senate, or General Assembly; and
3. An individual appointed to fill a vacancy, which vacancy occurs in the nomination of a candidate by primary election, or by direct petition for the office of Governor, Senate, or General Assembly, or in the office of Lieutenant Governor.
"Gift" means any money or thing of value received other than as income, and for which a consideration of equal or greater value is not received, but does not include any political contribution reported as otherwise required by law, any loan made in the ordinary course of business, or any devise, bequest, intestate estate distribution or principal distribution of a trust or gift received from a member of a person(s) household or from a relative within the third degree of consanguinity of the person or his spouse, or from the spouse of that relative.
"Income" means any money or thing of value received, or to be received, as a claim on future services, whether in the form of a fee, expense, allowance, forbearance, forgiveness, interest, dividend, royalty, rent, capital gain, or any other form of recompense, or any combination thereof.
"Member of household" means the spouse of a candidate for the office of Governor, the spouse of a candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor, or the spouse of a candidate for the Senate or General Assembly residing in the same domicile, and any dependent children.
"Relative" shall mean a son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, greatgrandfather, greatgrandmother, brother, sister, nephew, niece, uncle, or aunt. Relatives by adoption, half-blood, marriage, or re-marriage shall be treated as relatives of the whole kinship.
N.J. Admin. Code § 19:25-19.2
See: 32 N.J.R. 1291(a), 32 N.J.R. 2930(a).
Inserted "Candidate".
Amended by R.2012 d.172, effective 10/15/2012.
See: 44 N.J.R. 1593(a), 44 N.J.R. 2380(a).
In paragraph 1 of definition "Candidate", inserted "office of Lieutenant Governor,"; in paragraph 3 of definition "Candidate", inserted ", or in the office of Lieutenant Governor"; and rewrote definition "Member of household".