1. a. The corporation shall designate an employee within the New Jersey Transit Police Department to serve as a liaison between the corporation and the New Jersey Transit Police Department and a person injured, or any member of the person's immediate family if the person was killed, as a result of an incident involving a motorbus or rail or light rail vehicle operated by or under contract with the corporation. The designated employee shall:
(1) provide in an appropriate and sensitive manner any information, to the extent permitted by law, to the person injured or, for a person killed, a member of the person's immediate family, and promptly respond to any reasonable inquiry by the person injured or, for a person killed, a member of the person's immediate family; and
(2) upon the conclusion of an investigation related to a person injured or killed, return in an appropriate and sensitive manner all personal belongings in the possession of the corporation to the person injured or, for a person killed, a member of the person's immediate family.
b. As used in P.L.2018, c.113 (C.27:25-5.22), "member of the person's immediate family" means a spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, or next of kin.