Reports required from division.

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34:1A-53.1 Reports required from division.

8. In addition to the powers and duties of the division as provided in section 9 of P.L.1977, c.225 (C.34:1A-53), the division shall submit a report no later than January 31 and July 31 of every year on the tourism marketing campaigns of the division and the expenditure of funds appropriated to the division for tourism promotion to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, the Senate Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation Committee and the Assembly Tourism and Gaming Committee, or their successors. The report shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:

a. A description of the efforts of the division to promote New Jersey tourism in the six-month period ending on December 31 and June 30 preceding the respective dates on which the report is due. The report shall list: (1) the type of each promotion made, including but not limited to, promotions in the form of print, radio, Internet or television advertisements, tourism information or reference guides, tourism event calendars or the attendance by employees of the division at conferences relevant to tourism promotion, (2) the content of each such advertisement, guide, calendar or other promotional aid made, or conference attended, (3) the dates and locations where tourism advertisements were shown, when such guides, calendars or other promotional aids were made available, or when such conferences took place, and (4) the aggregate amount of money expended on each advertisement, guide, calendar, promotional aid or conference listed;

b. A list of entities that received, in the six-month period ending on December 31 and June 30 preceding the respective dates on which the report is due, State matching funds under the division's Travel and Tourism Cooperative Marketing Campaign Program and the division's Advertising and Promotion Program, the amount of funds each entity received from either program, and the amount of each of the recipient entity's expenditures made from the funds of either program; and

c. A general description of the potential tourism promotion efforts the division is considering for the six-month period beginning on January 1 and July 1 preceding the respective dates on which the report is due. Such description shall be distributed to the members of the council. A member of the public may receive a copy of such description upon request.

The report shall identify whether or not each of the efforts to promote tourism listed in the report is consistent with the provisions of the 10-year master plan developed pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1977, c.225 (C.34:1A-52), identify the relevant provisions of the master plan with which the effort to promote tourism is consistent or inconsistent, and provide an explanation of the consistency or inconsistency.

L.2005, c.378, s.8; amended 2007, c.253, s.7.


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