52:27D-307.4. Reports of communications in furtherance of projects

4. a. Any officer or employee of the department, including any member, officer or employee of the agency or the council, who receives from any person any solicitation, application, proposal or communication of any kind, whether oral or in writing, aimed at furthering the assistance of any project shall promptly report the same to the commissioner. The report shall identify the person or persons making such communication. If any such person is not identified in the register in accordance with the requirements of subsection b. of section 2 of this act, the report shall state the person's relationship to the sponsor or developer of the project and the capacity in which the person represents himself or herself to be acting on behalf of the sponsor or developer; or if the person fails or refuses to supply that information, the report shall so state.

b. The commissioner shall develop a procedure or procedures by which reports required under subsection a. of this section shall be made either to the commissioner directly or through such administrative channels as the commissioner shall devise and direct. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection i. of section 4 of P.L.1983, c.530 (C.55:14K-4) and subsection a. of section 5 of P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-305), the regulations adopted by the commissioner in fulfillment of this subsection shall be of full force and application on and within the agency and the council; and all members, officers and employees of the agency and council shall give full compliance with and obedience to the rules and orders of the commissioner made in pursuance of his duties and responsibilities under this act.

c. Reports made to the commissioner shall be promptly forwarded by him, not later than 10 days after their receipt, to the Governor and to the presiding officers of the Houses of the Legislature, who shall cause all members of their respective Houses to be notified of the receipt of those reports and shall make adequate provision for the inspection of the commissioner's reports by members and committees of either House, and for the dissemination of those reports to the public. The reports forwarded by the commissioner shall in each instance indicate the priority rating that has been assigned in the register to the project to which the report relates.

L.1991,c.479,s.4.