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13:8A-37.  Definitions
    Except as the context may otherwise require:

    a.   "Commissioner"  means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection or his designated representative;

    b.   "Cost,"  as used with respect to cost of acquisition or cost of development, shall include, in addition to the usual connotations thereof, the cost of all things deemed necessary or useful and convenient in connection with  the acquisition and development of lands by or with the assistance of the  State, for recreation and conservation purposes, including expenditures by the  State for the cost of issuance of bonds, the cost of engineering, inspection,  relocation services, legal, financial, geological, hydrological and other  professional services, the cost of organizational, administrative and other  work and services of the State, including salaries, supplies, equipment and  materials necessary to administer this act, and the cost of reimbursement of  any fund or account from which moneys shall have been advanced to the State  Recreation and Conservation Land Acquisition and Development Fund;

    c.   "Development"  means any improvement to land or water areas designed to  expand and enhance their utilization for outdoor recreation and conservation  purposes, including but not limited to engineering and architectural fees, site  preparation, construction of recreation facilities, and equipment necessary to  make a facility initially operable. Development may also include, but not be  limited to, the following types of ancillary support facilities:  roadways,  parking, landscaping, fencing, lighting, utilities, and buildings in support of  outdoor recreation;

    d.   "Land"  or  "lands"  means real property, including improvements thereof or thereon, rights-of-way, water, riparian and other rights, easements,  privileges and all other rights or interest of any kind or description in,  relating to or connected with real property;

    e.   "Local unit"  means a municipality, county or other political subdivision of this State, or any agency thereof authorized to administer, protect, develop and maintain lands for recreation and conservation purposes;

    f.   "Recreation and conservation purposes"  means use of lands for parks, natural areas, historic areas, forests, camping, fishing, water reserves, wildlife, reservoirs, hunting, boating, winter sports and similar uses for either public outdoor recreation or conservation of natural resources, or both.

     L.1975, c. 155, s. 3, eff. July 15, 1975.