Section 17B:29-2 - Definitionsa. "Credit life insurance" means insurance on the life of a debtor pursuant to or in connection with a specific loan or other credit transaction;b. "Credit health insurance" means insurance on a debtor to provide indemnity for payments becoming due on a specific loan or other credit transaction while the debtor is disabled as defined in the policy;c. "Creditor" means the lender of money or vendor or lessor of goods, services, property, rights or privileges, for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction, or any successor to the right, title or interest of any such lender, vendor, or lessor, and an affiliate, associate or subsidiary of any of them or any director, officer or employee of any of them or any other person in any way associated with any of them;d. "Debtor" means a borrower of money or a purchaser or lessee of goods, services, property, rights of privileges for which payment is arranged through a credit transaction, and includes each partner who is jointly and severally liable for a partnership indebtedness. An officer of a corporation is not a debtor in connection with a corporate indebtedness, unless he is personally liable for such indebtedness as a codebtor. When more than one person is jointly obligated in connection with an indebtedness, credit insurance may be written either on an individual basis or, at the option of the insureds, on a joint basis, provided that the credit insurance has been approved by the Department of Insurance to be written on a joint basis in this State;e. "Indebtedness" means the total amount payable by a debtor to a creditor in connection with a loan or other credit transaction.L.1971, c.144, s.17B:29-2. amended by L.1977, c.296, s.1, eff. 12/15/1977; L.1982, c.184, s.2, eff. 11/24/1982.