52:18-45 Notification to State Treasurer of contract, designation of lead public agency.
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4. If any State governmental entity enters into a contract or contracts with a business to which the provisions of section 2 of this act apply, the State governmental entity shall notify the State Treasurer of such contract and shall include the name of the project, the nature of the project-related activity for which the financial assistance is to be given, and any other information necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this act. The State Treasurer shall monitor the notifications received pursuant to the provisions of this section with respect to each project and, when the aggregate amount of financial assistance disbursed to a business with respect to a project shall equal or exceed $50 million or at any other time the State Treasurer deems it necessary, shall designate the public entity that, as of the date of such designation, shall have disbursed the greatest amount of financial assistance to the business with respect to the project under those contracts, as the lead public agency to serve as the sole point of contact between the business and every State governmental entity having any manner or degree of oversight of or involvement in the project to which that contract or contracts relates.
The lead public agency shall document all State governmental entity activities associated with the project.
The lead public agency shall, upon designation, perform or cause to be performed an assessment of the degree of risk that the business will be financially unable to complete the project and, based upon the results of that assessment, require that, before further disbursements of funds from a public entity under any such contract in connection with the project, the business shall make an investment of its own funds in the project, which investment shall not be less than 10 percent of total project costs.
L.2009, c.136, s.4.