New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 39 - Motor Vehicles And Traffic Regulation

• Section 39:1-1 - Words And Phrases Defined.
  39:1-1. As used in this subtitle, unless other meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intention...
• Section 39:2-1 - Department Continued
  The department of motor vehicles, created and established by an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act defining motor vehicles and...
• Section 39:2-2 - Director Of Division Of Motor Vehicles; Appointment; Term; Salary; Bond; Oath
  The division shall be administered by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles. The director shall be appointed by the Governor with the...
• Section 39:2-3 - Powers, Duties Of Commission.
  39:2-3. The commission shall: a.Have all the powers and perform all the duties conferred or imposed upon it by this Title; b.Have charge and...
• Section 39:2-3.2 - Cooperation By Division Of Motor Vehicles To Register Voters
  24. a. The Secretary of State, with the assistance and concurrence of the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, shall formulate a means...
• Section 39:2-3.3 - Definitions Relative To Privacy Of Motor Vehicle Records.
  1. As used in this act: "Director" means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation. "Division" means the...
• Section 39:2-3.4 - Disclosure Of Personal Information Connected With Motor Vehicle Record.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) or any other law to the contrary, except as provided in this act,...
• Section 39:2-3.5 - Violation, Fourth Degree Crime.
  3. A person who knowingly obtains or discloses personal information from a motor vehicle record for any use not permitted under section 2 of...
• Section 39:2-3.6 - Liability For Civil Action.
  4. a. A person who knowingly obtains, discloses or uses personal information from a motor vehicle record for a purpose not permitted under this...
• Section 39:2-3.7 - Construction Of Act.
  5. Nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing the division to obtain personal information, except as provided in subsection b. of section...
• Section 39:2-3.8 - Electronic, Digital Processing Of Motor Vehicle Transactions.
  1. a. Whenever any law, rule or regulation requires or permits documents or information to be prepared by or submitted to the Division of...
• Section 39:2-4 - Deputy Director; Powers; Bonds; Oath
  The director shall appoint a deputy director for a term to correspond with his term of office. He shall assist the director in the...
• Section 39:2-9.1 - Abolishment Of Positions Of Chief Inspector, Deputy Chief Inspector, Inspector And Special Inspector
  The positions in the Division of Motor Vehicles designated chief inspector, deputy chief inspector, inspector and special inspector are abolished. L.1983, c. 403, s....
• Section 39:2-9.2 - Reemployment Rights
  A person employed in a position designated as chief inspector, deputy chief inspector, inspector, special inspector or equivalent Civil Service classifications shall have the...
• Section 39:2-9.3 - Appointment To State Police
  a. An appointment to the State Police under this act shall be in accordance with R.S. 53:1-8, except that upon satisfactory conclusion of the...
• Section 39:2-9.4 - Qualifications Of Appointee
  Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 53:1-9, the Superintendent of the Division of State Police may establish the qualifications of a person appointed to the...
• Section 39:2-9.5 - Transfer Of Pension Contributions And Reserves
  The Boards of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System and the Public Employees' Retirement System shall cause to be made any transfer...
• Section 39:2-9.6 - Construction Of Act To Preserve Rights Of Tenure, Civil Service, Pension Or Retirements
  Except as otherwise provided in this act, nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive a person of tenure rights or of a...
• Section 39:2-9.7 - State Agency Transfer Act; Application To Act
  All of the provisions of this act, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be carried out in accordance with the "State Agency Transfer Act,"...
• Section 39:2-9.8 - Construction Of Act Concerning Graduated Driver Licensing And Driving Schools.
  12.The provisions of this act are not intended, nor shall they be construed or used, as a basis to privatize existing services or programs,...
• Section 39:2-10 - Records And Seal; Authentication Of Documents
  The director shall keep a record of all his official acts, shall preserve copies of all decisions, rules and orders made by him and...
• Section 39:2-11 - Office Facilities And Supplies
  The state house commission shall provide suitable quarters for the department and shall furnish all necessary supplies and equipment for the proper enforcement of...
• Section 39:2-13 - Medical Advisory Panel
  There is hereby created in the Division of Motor Vehicles a special study and advisory panel to be known as the medical Advisory Panel...
• Section 39:2-14 - Appointments; Term; Reimbursement For Expenses
  The members of the panel shall be appointed by the Governor upon recommendations by the director and shall be in such number as the...
• Section 39:2-15 - Duties; Recommendations; Adoption By Division
  The Medical Advisory Panel shall study and review all medical criteria and vision standards applicable to the licensing of motor vehicle drivers by the...
• Section 39:2-16 - Nonliability For Civil Damages As A Result Of Providing Reports, Records, Etc.
  No member of the Medical Advisory Panel, the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles or his employees, or any physician or optometrist licensed...
• Section 39:2a-1 - Short Title.
  1.Sections 1 through 30, 32 through 35, 40, 41, 105, 109, 110 and 120 through 123 of this act shall be known and may...
• Section 39:2a-2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The Division of Motor Vehicle Services (DMV) is one of the State's principal customer service agencies with regular...
• Section 39:2a-3 - Definitions Relative To New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
  3.As used in this act: "Agency" or "motor vehicle agency" means that enterprise run by an agent designated by the commission to be the...
• Section 39:2a-4 - "New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission" Established; Division Abolished.
  4. a. There is hereby established a body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as the "New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission."...
• Section 39:2a-5 - Transfer Of Employees; Retirement System, Health Benefits.
  5. a. Upon the abolishment of the division, all career service employees serving in the division on that date shall be employees of the...
• Section 39:2a-6 - Employee Seniority, Benefits Transferred, Continued.
  6. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes and rules promulgated thereunder to the contrary, employees of a private...
• Section 39:2a-7 - Probationary Period For Certain Employees.
  7.Notwithstanding the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes and the rules promulgated thereunder to the contrary, all employees entering or returning...
• Section 39:2a-8 - Determination Of Employee Salaries.
  8.Notwithstanding the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes and the rules promulgated thereunder to the contrary, the employees entering or returning...
• Section 39:2a-9 - Testing Of Provisional Employees.
  9. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes and the rules promulgated thereunder to the contrary, employees entering State...
• Section 39:2a-10 - Powers Of Deputy Chief Administrator.
  10. The Deputy Chief Administrator shall assist the chief administrator in the day-to-day administration of the commission and shall have all of the powers...
• Section 39:2a-11 - Administrator Considered "Appointing Authority."
  11.Except as otherwise provided by law, the administrator shall be considered the "appointing authority" for the commission within the contemplation of the civil service...
• Section 39:2a-12 - Board; Membership; Appointment; Terms, Vacancies.
  12. a. Except as otherwise provided by law, the commission shall be governed by a board which shall consist of the following eight members:...
• Section 39:2a-13 - Powers, Duties Of Board.
  13. a. In addition to any powers and duties conferred upon it elsewhere in this act, the board shall be authorized to: (1)Make, amend...
• Section 39:2a-14 - Election Of Vice-chair.
  14.The board shall elect annually, by a majority of the full membership of the board, one of its members, other than the Chair, to...
• Section 39:2a-15 - Member Compensation.
  15.Members other than those serving ex officio shall serve without compensation, but the board shall reimburse board members for actual expenses necessarily incurred in...
• Section 39:2a-16 - Meetings Of Board.
  16. a. The board shall meet every other month or at more frequent times at the discretion of the Chair or as a majority...
• Section 39:2a-17 - Minutes Delivered To Governor, Effect Of Veto.
  17.A true copy of the minutes of every meeting of the board shall be delivered by and under the certification of the secretary of...
• Section 39:2a-18 - Members Subject To Conflicts Of Interest Law.
  18.Members of the board shall be subject to the provisions of the "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law," P.L.1971, c.182 (C.52:13D-12 et seq.). L.2003,...
• Section 39:2a-19 - Removal Of Member.
  19.Each appointed member of the board may be removed from office by the Governor for cause, after a public hearing and may be suspended...
• Section 39:2a-20 - Authorization Of Payment Methods Including Electronic.
  20.The commission may, in acceptance of payment of any fees, fines, penalties, surcharges, service charges or other charges, authorize the use of a credit...
• Section 39:2a-21 - Rules, Regulations.
  21.The board shall adopt all rules and regulations in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) for the proper functioning...
• Section 39:2a-22 - Annual Report To Governor, Legislature.
  22. a. On or before January 31 of each year, the commission shall file with the Governor, the presiding officer of each House of...
• Section 39:2a-23 - Immunity From Liability.
  23.Members of the board and officers and employees of the commission shall not be liable in an action for damages to any person for...
• Section 39:2a-24 - Absolute, Qualified Immunities.
  24.As the commission is a State agency, all absolute and qualified immunities and defenses provided to public entities and public employees by the "New...
• Section 39:2a-25 - Legal Representation.
  25.The Attorney General shall provide legal representation to the commission and its employees to the same extent as representation is provided to other State...
• Section 39:2a-26 - Advisory Council.
  26. There is created within the commission one advisory council, which shall provide the board with advice, technical expertise, information, guidance, and recommendations in...
• Section 39:2a-27 - Study On Location, Adequacy Of Agency Facilities.
  27.The administrator is directed to immediately commence a study on the location and adequacy of agency facilities. Special attention shall be paid to siting...
• Section 39:2a-28 - Powers, Duties Of Administrator.
  28.In addition to any powers and duties otherwise imposed by this act, the administrator shall have general responsibility for the implementation of this act,...
• Section 39:2a-29 - Goals Of Administrator, Deputy Administrator.
  29.The administrator, and the deputy administrator under the direction of the administrator, shall have as their immediate goal the improvement of the safety and...
• Section 39:2a-31 - Exercise Of Powers By Commission For People; Tax Exemption.
  32.The exercise of the powers granted by this act will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the State, for...
• Section 39:2a-32 - Fingerprinting, Criminal History Checks Of Employees; Use.
  33. a. The commission shall require the fingerprinting of all prospective employees, employees of the commission, and employees of the agents of the commission,...
• Section 39:2a-33 - Contracts For Ancillary Services; Use Of Revenues; Rules, Regulations.
  35. a. The commission may contract for ancillary services at facilities used by the commission, including but not limited to food and beverage concessions,...
• Section 39:2a-34 - Reorganization Plans Superseded.
  40.To the extent that Reorganization Plans Nos. 002-1995 and 005-1998 are inconsistent with any provisions of this act, they are superseded to the extent...
• Section 39:2a-35 - Transfer Of Commercial Bus Unit.
  41.The Commercial Bus Unit in the Department of Transportation, together with all of its functions, powers and duties is transferred to and vested in...
• Section 39:2a-36 - Revenues To Be Remitted To Commission, General Fund.
  105. a. The first $200,000,000 of fees and surcharges thereon collected pursuant to the following statutes shall be considered service charges which are revenues...
• Section 39:2a-36.1 - Increase In Fees, Surcharges.
  16. a. On and after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.335 (C.39:2A-36.1 et al.), the board may, by regulation adopted pursuant to the "Administrative...
• Section 39:2a-37 - Fees Concerning Licenses, Effective Date, Revenue Of The Commission, Certain.
  109.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees established pursuant to P.L.2001, c. 391 shall take effect on the enactment of P.L.2003, c.13 (C.39:2A-1...
• Section 39:2a-38 - Additional Fees As Security Surcharge; Commission Revenue.
  110. In addition to the vehicle registration fees imposed pursuant to the provisions of chapters 3, 4, and 8 of Title 39 of the...
• Section 39:2a-39 - Monies Considered Revenues Of Commission.
  120. All monies paid to the commission pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1952, c.176 (C.39:6-58) are revenues of the commission and shall not be...
• Section 39:2a-40 - Prior Law Superseded.
  122. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are superseded to the extent of such inconsistencies.
• Section 39:2a-41 - Severability; Liberal Construction.
  123. The provisions of this act shall be deemed to be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this act is...
• Section 39:2a-42 - Promotional Payment Incentives.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, no later than six months from the date of enactment of this...
• Section 39:2a-43 - "Mainland Memoriam Act."
  1. a. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Mainland Memoriam Act." b.As used in this section: "Dealer" means any...
• Section 39:3-1 - Certain Vehicles Excepted From Chapter
  Automobile fire engines and such self-propelling vehicles as are used neither for the conveyance of persons for hire, pleasure or business, nor for the...
• Section 39:3-2 - Motor Vehicles Used On Rural Mail Routes Not Commercial Cars
  Motor vehicles not of the commercial type may be used in the delivery of mail on rural free delivery routes and shall not be...
• Section 39:3-3 - Motor Vehicle Agents, Appointment, Duties; Background Checks.
  39:3-3. A Motor Vehicle Agent (hereinafter "agent") shall administer and ensure the efficient operations of a local commission office. The board shall designate at...
• Section 39:3-4 - Registration Of Automobiles And Motorcycles, Application, Registration Certificates; Expiration; Issuance; Violations; Notification.
  39:3-4. Except as hereinafter provided, every resident of this State and every nonresident whose automobile or motorcycle shall be driven in this State shall,...
• Section 39:3-4a - Temporary Registration Of Motor Vehicle In Another State By Resident Of New Jersey
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Revised Statutes 39:3-4 every resident of this State who acquires and temporarily registers a motor vehicle in another State may...
• Section 39:3-4b - Temporary Registration
  Any nonresident purchasing an automobile in the State while enroute to another State or Federal district from a licensed dealer may register the same...
• Section 39:3-4c - Rules, Regulations Relative To Issuance Of Temporary Registration Certificates, Plates.
  2. The chief administrator may prescribe rules and regulations governing the issuance of temporary registration certificates and temporary plates by motor vehicle dealers, motorized...
• Section 39:3-4d - "Geographical District" Defined
  "Geographical district" shall be defined as within a 5 mile radius of a motor vehicle agency or agent designated pursuant to section 39:3-3 of...
• Section 39:3-4e - Rules And Regulations; Information By Insurers
  The director, after consultation with the Commissioner of Insurance, is hereby empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate, rescind and enforce rules and regulations requiring insurers...
• Section 39:3-4f - Vehicles Registered In Foreign Country, Operation By Owner Permitted Temporarily
  A resident owner of any motor vehicle which has been registered in accordance with the laws respecting the registration of motor vehicles in a...
• Section 39:3-4.1 - Licensing Motor Vehicles For Transportation Of Passengers For Hire
  As used in this section the term "motor vehicle" is hereby defined as meaning any motor vehicle propelled otherwise than by muscular power (except...
• Section 39:3-5 - Denial Of Registration, Reciprocity
  39:3-5. The director may refuse registration in the case of any automobile, commercial motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, tractor or omnibus that shall not comply...
• Section 39:3-5.1 - Federal Tax Payment Required
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall refuse registration of a vehicle which is subject to the federal heavy vehicle use tax...
• Section 39:3-6.1 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act unless other meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intention...
• Section 39:3-6.2 - Authority Of Director To Make Arrangements, Agreements Or Declarations
  The director shall have the authority to execute or make arrangements, agreements or declarations to carry out the provisions of this act. The director...
• Section 39:3-6.3 - Registration In Another Jurisdiction Of Vehicles Located Or Operated From Base In Such Jurisdiction
  An agreement or arrangement entered into, or a declaration issued under the authority of this act may contain provisions authorizing the registration or licensing...
• Section 39:3-6.5 - Exemptions, Benefits And Privileges; Examination Of Laws And Requirements Of Other Jurisdictions
  In the absence of an agreement or arrangement with another jurisdiction, the director may examine the laws and requirements of such jurisdiction and declare...
• Section 39:3-6.6 - Leased Vehicles
  An agreement or arrangement entered into, or a declaration issued under the authority of this act, may contain provisions under which a leased vehicle...
• Section 39:3-6.7 - Vehicles Registered In Jurisdiction Where No Agreement, Arrangement Or Declaration Is In Effect; Commercial Vehicles
  After July 1, 1969 if no agreement, arrangement or declaration is in effect with respect to another jurisdiction as authorized by this act, any...
• Section 39:3-6.9 - Written Agreements, Arrangements Or Declarations Required; Filing
  All agreements, arrangements or declarations, or amendments thereto, shall be in writing and shall be filed in the office of the director. A copy...
• Section 39:3-6.10 - Suspension Or Cancellation Of Exemptions, Benefits, Or Privileges
  Agreements, arrangements or declarations made under the authority of this act may include provisions authorizing the director to suspend or cancel the exemptions, benefits,...
• Section 39:3-6.11 - Definitions Relative To Apportioned Vehicles
  21. As used in this act: "Apportioned vehicle" means any vehicle used or intended for use in two or more member jurisdictions that register...
• Section 39:3-6.12 - Membership In International Registration Plan
  22 a. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, on behalf of the State of New Jersey, may enter into and become a...
• Section 39:3-6.13 - Registration Of Apportioned Vehicles
  23. a. The Division of Motor Vehicles or its designee shall register all apportioned vehicles within its jurisdiction upon application and payment of registration...
• Section 39:3-6.14 - Registration, Administrative Fees.
  24. a. The registration fee for an apportioned vehicle shall be determined by the number of in-jurisdiction miles an apportioned vehicle drives in the...
• Section 39:3-6.15 - Preservation Of Operational Records
  25. a. A registrant whose application for apportioned registration has been accepted shall preserve its operational records for a period of three years after...
• Section 39:3-6.16 - Temporary Registration
  26. a. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may issue temporary registration credentials for any vehicle or combination of vehicles that could...
• Section 39:3-6.17 - Violation, Fines
  27. A person who violates any provision of sections 21 through 26 of this act shall be subject to a fine of $500 for...
• Section 39:3-6.18 - Motor Carrier Audits Of Operational Records
  28. The Division of Motor Vehicles or its designee shall perform motor carrier audits of the operational records of carrier accounts registered in New...
• Section 39:3-6.19 - Supersedure; Nonapplicability
  29. a. Registration of apportioned vehicles under this act and the State's participation in the International Registration Plan supersedes all other statutes, acts, and...
• Section 39:3-6.20 - "Proportional Registration Distributive Fund"
  30. a. The Division of Motor Vehicles shall distribute the registration fees collected for participating jurisdictions in accordance with the International Registration Program Agreement....
• Section 39:3-6.21 - Reciprocity
  31. After July 1, 1995, if no agreement, arrangement or declaration is in effect with respect to another jurisdiction as authorized by this act,...
• Section 39:3-7 - Power Of Attorney Given By Nonresident; Service Of Process
  Each owner, required by this subtitle to register his motor vehicle or motor cycle, who has a residence outside of the state shall file...
• Section 39:3-8 - Registration Fee For Passenger Automobile; Other Vehicles.
  39:3-8. The applicant for registration for any passenger automobile manufactured in any model year prior to the 1971 model year shall pay to the...
• Section 39:3-8.1 - Licensing Of Noncommercial Trucks.
  2.The director may license noncommercial trucks at the same weight fees set forth in Revised Statutes 39:3-20; provided, however, applicants for registration who have...
• Section 39:3-8.2 - Additional Fees.
  1. a. In addition to the motor vehicle registration fees imposed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 3 of Title 39 of the Revised...
• Section 39:3-8.3 - Definitions Relative To Certificate Of Ownership For Certain Motor Vehicles.
  1.As used in this act: "Environmental Protection Administration average fuel efficiency rating" means the fuel efficiency rating for a particular motor vehicle calculated by...
• Section 39:3-8.4 - Additional Fee For Certificate Of Ownership For Certain Motor Vehicles; Rules, Regulations.
  2. a. In addition to the motor vehicle registration fees imposed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 3 of Title 39 of the Revised...
• Section 39:3-9a - Legal Name Of Licensee; Endorsement.
  2.Each driver's license issued pursuant to R.S.39:3-10 shall have the legal name of the licensee endorsed thereon in his own handwriting. For purposes of...
• Section 39:3-9b - Street Address On Driver's License; Exception.
  2. Each application for a driver's license, or a renewal thereof, required by R.S.39:3-10 shall contain the street address of the place of residence...
• Section 39:3-9c - Rules, Regulations On Use Of Drivers' Addresses.
  3. Pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the director, in consultation with the Attorney General, may...
• Section 39:3-10 - Licensing Of Drivers; Classifications.
  39:3-10. No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a public highway in this State unless the person is under supervision while participating in...
• Section 39:3-10a - Fee For Restoration Of Suspended Or Revoked Licenses, Vehicle Registrations.
  23.The chief administrator shall charge a fee of $100 for the restoration of any license which has been suspended or revoked by reason of...
• Section 39:3-10b - Applications For Motorcycle License.
  1.An applicant for a motorcycle license, but not for a motorcycle endorsement to a basic license, who previously has never been licensed to drive...
• Section 39:3-10c - Vision Screening
  The division shall require every licensed driver to take and successfully pass a screening of his vision at least once every 10 years as...
• Section 39:3-10d - Implementation Of Vision Reexamination
  To implement the reexamination program provided for by this act and to establish it on a current basis, the division shall reexamine approximately 10%...
• Section 39:3-10e - Involvement In Two Or More Accidents Within 6 Months With Assessment Of Points; Reexamination
  The holder of any motor vehicle driver's license who is involved, within any 6-month period, in two or more motor vehicle accidents resulting in...
• Section 39:3-10f - Initial License, Renewal, Digitized Color Picture Of Licensee Required; Exceptions.
  1.In addition to the requirements for the form and content of a motor vehicle driver's license under R.S.39:3-10 and a probationary license issued under...
• Section 39:3-10f1 - Construction Of Act Concerning Local Law Enforcement Costs.
  15.Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring any county or municipal law enforcement agency to acquire or use any electronic reader or...
• Section 39:3-10f2 - Release, Disclosure Of Licensee's Picture Prohibited; Exceptions.
  16.Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) or any other law to the contrary, a licensee's picture shall not be released or...
• Section 39:3-10f3 - Rules, Regulations.
  17.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), may...
• Section 39:3-10f4 - Fee For Digitized Picture.
  4.The fee for a digitized picture shall be $6 for each license, renewal or duplicate thereof, and shall be in addition to the fee...
• Section 39:3-10f5 - Use Of Revenues From Fees.
  15. a. Revenues from the fees collected for the digitized picture provided for in this act shall be revenues of the commission upon enactment...
• Section 39:3-10f6 - Display Of Veteran Status On Driver's Licenses, Identification Cards.
  1. a. In addition to the requirements for the form and content of a motor vehicle driver's license under R.S.39:3-10 and a probationary license...
• Section 39:3-10h - Process To Prevent Forgery, Alteration.
  3.The director shall provide for the use of a process or processes in the issuance of licenses with digitized color pictures that prevent, to...
• Section 39:3-10j - Findings, Declaration Concerning Commercial Driver's Licenses.
  1.The Legislature finds that: a. On September 20, 1988, the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation granted the states of this nation...
• Section 39:3-10k - Exemption For Operators Of Certain Emergency, Other Equipment Or Vehicles.
  2.Unless otherwise required by federal law or regulation, and subject to any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this act, no...
• Section 39:3-10k1 - Office Of Emergency Management Members, Certain, Exemption From Federal Commercial Driver's Licensing Requirements.
  1. a. A member of the State Office of Emergency Management or a county or municipal Office of Emergency Management shall not be subject...
• Section 39:3-10l - Rules, Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure...
• Section 39:3-10m - Applicants For License; Opportunity To Register To Vote
  23. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, each applicant for a State motor vehicle driver's license application, including any application for...
• Section 39:3-10n - Issuance Of Temporary Driver's License.
  5.Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the chief administrator may, at the chief administrator's discretion, issue a temporary driver's license that...
• Section 39:3-10.1 - Licensing Of Bus Drivers, Exemptions.
  39:3-10.1. No person shall drive any motor vehicle or trackless trolley with a capacity of more than six passengers used for the transportation of...
• Section 39:3-10.1a - School Bus Drivers; Examination For Presence Of Controlled Dangerous Substance
  All drivers of buses or other vehicles used by a board of education or by a private school for the transportation of pupils to...
• Section 39:3-10.4 - Report To Director By Physicians Of Persons Subject To Epileptiform Seizures
  Each physician treating any person 16 years of age or older for recurrent convulsive seizures or for recurrent periods of unconsciousness or for impairment...
• Section 39:3-10.5 - Report By Drivers' License Applicants Subject To Epileptiform Seizures
  Each person subject to recurrent convulsive seizures or recurrent periods of unconsciousness or impairment or loss of motor coordination due to conditions such as,...
• Section 39:3-10.6 - Procedure For Evaluation And Screening Of Persons Subject To Epileptiform Seizures
  In order to be assured that no person is unwarrantedly denied the privilege of operating a motor vehicle in this State because of reports...
• Section 39:3-10.7 - Confidentiality Of Reports Of Persons Subject To Epileptiform Seizures
  Reports submitted pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be for the information of the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in...
• Section 39:3-10.8 - Violations Of Provisions Requiring Reports Of Persons Subject To Epileptiform Seizures
  Any person who is guilty of a violation of section 1 of this act shall be subject to a fine of $50.00 for each...
• Section 39:3-10.8a - Person With Diabetes Permitted To Voluntarily Make Notation On License, Identification Card.
  1. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall permit a license or identification card holder to voluntarily indicate that...
• Section 39:3-10.9 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Commercial Driver License Act." L.1990,c.103,s.1.
• Section 39:3-10.10 - Purpose
  The purpose of this act is to reduce or prevent commercial motor vehicle accidents, fatalities, and injuries by strengthening licensing and testing standards for...
• Section 39:3-10.11 - Definitions Relative To Commercial Driver Licenses.
  3.For purposes of this act, a term shall have the meaning set forth in R.S.39:1-1 unless another meaning for the term is set forth...
• Section 39:3-10.11a - Certain Requirements For Drivers Of Vehicles In Connection With Funeral Services.
  3.Notwithstanding the exemption of motor vehicles which are owned directly by businesses engaged in the practice of mortuary science from the provisions of P.L.1990,...
• Section 39:3-10.12 - Tests For Commercial Driver License.
  4. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the chief administrator shall adopt and administer a classified licensing system and a...
• Section 39:3-10.13 - Alcohol, Controlled Substance Use Prohibited
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a person shall not operate a commercial motor vehicle in this State with an alcohol...
• Section 39:3-10.14 - Request For And Provision Of Driving Record And License Information.
  6. a. Before issuing a commercial driver license to an applicant, the chief administrator shall notify the Commercial Driver License Information System of the...
• Section 39:3-10.15 - Notification Of Moving Violations, Disqualification Or Suspension.
  7.Within 10 days after receiving a report of the conviction of a holder of a commercial driver license for any violation of state law...
• Section 39:3-10.16 - Refusal To Grant, Suspension, Revocation Of License
  The director, in his discretion, may refuse to grant a commercial driver license to a person who is, in his estimation, not a proper...
• Section 39:3-10.17 - Issuance, Transfer Of Commercial Driver License
  The director shall issue a commercial driver license only to a person who operates or will operate a commercial motor vehicle and is domiciled...
• Section 39:3-10.17a - Fingerprinting, Criminal History Records Check For Applicants For Certain Commercial Driver's Licenses.
  34. a. The commission shall require the fingerprinting of all applicants for commercial driver's licenses with a hazardous material endorsement, a tank vehicle endorsement...
• Section 39:3-10.17b - Definitions Relative To Certain Commercial Driver Licenses; Issuance.
  1. a. As used in this act: "Commercial motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used or designed to transport...
• Section 39:3-10.18 - Possession Of Valid Commercial Driver License Mandatory.
  10. a. (1) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2005, c.147). (2)On and after April 1, 1992, and except when operating under a valid commercial driver examination...
• Section 39:3-10.18a - Valid License Required To Operate Autobus; Violations, Fines.
  1.The owner of an autobus shall not knowingly allow, require, permit, or authorize an operator of an autobus to operate the vehicle without a...
• Section 39:3-10.19 - Operation Of Commercial Motor Vehicle In This State
  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a person may operate a commercial motor vehicle in this State if the person has received a...
• Section 39:3-10.20 - Suspension Of Commercial Motor Vehicle Driving Privilege.
  12. a. In addition to the imposition of any other penalty provided by law, the chief administrator shall suspend for not less than one...
• Section 39:3-10.21 - Regulation Of Third Party Testing
  The director may, by contract, by appointment as a motor vehicle agent, or by licensing, authorize any necessary persons, including but not limited to...
• Section 39:3-10.22 - Waiver Of Skills Test.
  14. The chief administrator shall waive the skills test for a commercial driver license applicant who demonstrates that he meets the requirements for a...
• Section 39:3-10.23 - Provisions For Efficient Processing
  a. The director may take such steps as are necessary to provide for the efficient, timely and orderly processing of persons required to obtain...
• Section 39:3-10.24 - Taking Of Breath Samples
  a. A person who operates a commercial motor vehicle on a public road, street, or highway, or quasi-public area in this State, shall be...
• Section 39:3-10.24a - Blood Sample From Operator Under Certain Circumstances.
  2.A police officer shall obtain a blood sample from an operator of an autobus involved in an accident resulting in the death or serious...
• Section 39:3-10.25 - Methods And Techniques Of Chemical Analyses Forms
  Chemical analyses of an arrested person's breath, to be considered valid under the provisions of this act, shall have been performed according to methods...
• Section 39:3-10.26 - Limit Of One License
  A person who operates a commercial motor vehicle shall not have more than one driver license. A person convicted of a violation of this...
• Section 39:3-10.27 - Rules, Regulations
  The director may adopt any rules and regulations, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary...
• Section 39:3-10.28 - Power Of Director To Make Agreements, Arrangements, Declarations
  The director may enter into or make agreements, arrangements, or declarations to carry out the provisions of this act. The director may also enter...
• Section 39:3-10.29 - Waiver By Director
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the director may waive, in whole or in part, after notice and an opportunity for...
• Section 39:3-10.30 - Fees; Duration Of Commercial Driver License.
  22. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.39:3-14 or any other sections of law which permit or require the issuance of a driver's license without charge,...
• Section 39:3-10.31 - Motorcycle Road Test, Waiver.
  6.The Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission may waive the written law and knowledge and road test portion of the examinations required for...
• Section 39:3-10.32 - Additional Penalties.
  6.In addition to any other penalty provided by law, a school bus driver who violates section 5 of P.L.1990, c.103 (C.39:3-10.13) or section 16...
• Section 39:3-10.33 - Medical Review, Retesting Of Certain Motor Vehicle Operators; Notice, Confirmation To Family, Certain.
  1. a. Whenever a person contacts the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission requesting that a family member be given a medical review or be...
• Section 39:3-11 - Drivers License With Restrictions Or Conditions; Violations; Punishment
  Whenever, in the interest of public safety, the director determines that good cause appears therefor he may, in issuing any driver's license, impose thereon:...
• Section 39:3-11a - Hearing Impaired Persons; Special Driver's License; Fee
  Upon application by any person with a hearing loss of a pure tone average of 41 dB or greater, verified by an otorhinolaryngologist (ENT)...
• Section 39:3-11b - Rules And Regulations
  Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall promulgate...
• Section 39:3-11.1 - License To Person 16 Years Of Age To Drive Motor Vehicles In Agricultural Pursuits.
  1.Any person, under seventeen years of age and not under sixteen years of age, may be licensed to drive motor vehicles in agricultural pursuits...
• Section 39:3-11.2 - Discretion As To Granting License; Consent Of Parent Or Guardian
  The commissioner, in his discretion, may refuse to grant such a license to a person who is, in his estimation, not a proper person...
• Section 39:3-11.3 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner may make rules and regulations to effectuate the purpose of this act. L.1942, c. 324, p. 1163, s. 3.
• Section 39:3-11.5 - Persons In Military Or Naval Service Or Discharged Or Released Therefrom; "In Time Of Emergency" Defined
  Any person, who is the holder of a valid license to drive a motor vehicle at the time he or she enters the active...
• Section 39:3-11.5a - Renewal Of Certain Documents By Deployed Military Personnel, Families.
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, any active duty member of any branch of the Armed Forces of the...
• Section 39:3-12 - Illegal Securing Of Driver's License; Punishment
  No applicant for a driver's license shall employ or procure the employment of another person to take the license examination for him, and no...
• Section 39:3-12.1 - Application For Renewal Of Registration Or License
  Any owner of a passenger automobile or motor cycle, or licensed driver may, if he so desires, apply directly to any agent of the...
• Section 39:3-12.2 - License To Include Designation As Organ, Tissue Donor, Education Program, Access To Information.
  1. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall provide with every new license, renewal license, identification card or renewal...
• Section 39:3-12.3 - Promotion Of Organ, Tissue Donation By Njmvc, Donate Life Nj Registry Established.
  7. a. (1) Within nine months after the effective date of P.L.2008, c.48 (C.26:6-66 et al.), the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor...
• Section 39:3-12.4 - Issuance, Renewal Of Driver's License, Identification Card, Issue Of Organ, Tissue Donation Addressed.
  8. a. Beginning five years after the effective date of P.L.2008, c.48 (C.26:6-66 et al.), no driver's license or personal identification card shall be...
• Section 39:3-12.5 - Collaboration Between Njmvc, Departments, And Organ Procurement Organizations.
  9. a. For purposes of the development and implementation of the Donate Life NJ Registry, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall collaborate with...
• Section 39:3-13 - Examination Permits.
  39:3-13. The chief administrator may, in the chief administrator's discretion, issue to a person over 17 years of age an examination permit, under the...
• Section 39:3-13a - Written Examination Administered In High School; Student With Cognitive Difficulty; Grading
  Whenever the director authorizes a written examination to be administered in a high school as part of a driver education program and accepts the...
• Section 39:3-13b - Provision Of Minor's Motor Vehicle Record To Parent, Guardian.
  1.Upon request, the Motor Vehicle Commission shall provide the parent or guardian of a special learner's permit holder, an examination permit holder, or a...
• Section 39:3-13.1 - Issuance Of Special Learner's Permit.
  1.The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may issue to a person over 16 years of age a special learner's permit,...
• Section 39:3-13.2 - Scope And Effect Of Special Learner's Permit
  The special permit shall be sufficient license for the person to operate a dual pedal controlled motor vehicle in this State during the period...
• Section 39:3-13.2a - Special Learner's Permit; Use, Hours.
  6. a. Any person to whom a special learner's permit has been issued pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1950, c.127 (C.39:3-13.1), upon successful completion...
• Section 39:3-13.3 - Written Application For Special Permit.
  3.No special permit shall be issued unless the person applying therefor shall present a written application for the same, bearing a certification by the...
• Section 39:3-13.4 - Probationary Driver's License.
  4. a. The holder of a special learner's permit shall be entitled to a probationary driver's license (1) upon attaining the age of 17...
• Section 39:3-13.6 - Evaluation Of Graduated License Program; Report To Governor, Legislature.
  11. The Division of Motor Vehicles shall monitor the performance of new drivers of passenger automobiles and, in conjunction with the Office of Highway...
• Section 39:3-13.7 - Rules, Regulations.
  12. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Director of the Office of Highway Traffic Safety shall adopt, pursuant to the...
• Section 39:3-13.8 - Fine For Violations Of Special Learner's Permit, Examination Permit, Or Probationary Driver's License.
  11.A fine of $100 shall be imposed for violating the following conditions of a special learner's permit, an examination permit or a probationary driver's...
• Section 39:3-13.9 - Public Education Campaign.
  11. The Division of Highway Traffic Safety in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall develop and undertake a public education campaign to...
• Section 39:3-14 - Official Drivers Licensed Free; Special Certificate; Termination And Surrender
  Every driver operating a state, county or city owned motor vehicle or motor cycle exclusively for the use of the state, county or city...
• Section 39:3-15 - Operation Of Motor Vehicle By Nonresident; Touring Privileges; Seasonal Permits; Violations; Fines
  A nonresident owner of any motor vehicle or motor-drawn vehicle which has been registered in accordance with the laws respecting the registration of motor...
• Section 39:3-15.1 - Rules And Regulations; Forms
  The director may prescribe and provide forms and make such rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate the purposes of this amendatory act....
• Section 39:3-16 - Authority Of Commissioner; Suspension Of Touring Privileges
  The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of sections 39:3-12, 39:3-13 and 39:3-15 to 39:3-17 of this Title, and shall have the power to suspend...
• Section 39:3-17 - Touring Privileges Of Nonresident Chauffeurs Or Drivers
  The touring privileges allowed by R.S. 39:3-15 are also extended to any nonresident chauffeur or driver who has complied with the law of his...
• Section 39:3-17.1 - Reciprocal Driver License, Registration Of New Residents' Vehicles Required; Violations, Fines, Impoundment.
  1. a. Except as provided in section 9 of P.L.1990, c.103 (C.39:3-10.17), any person who becomes a resident of this State and who immediately...
• Section 39:3-18 - General Registration; "D" Or Temporary Plates, Use, Security, Fees.
  39:3-18. A manufacturer of motor vehicles, motor-drawn vehicles, motor vehicle bodies, motorized bicycles, or motorcycles doing business in this State may, with regard to...
• Section 39:3-19 - Annual Registration Fees
  39:3-19. For each vehicle used as an omnibus for the transportation of passengers for hire the applicant for the registration thereof shall pay an...
• Section 39:3-19.1 - Penalty For Violations Of Section 39:3-19; Certain Fines To Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund.
  39:3-19.1. Any person owning or operating a motor vehicle who shall use his motor vehicle for transportation of passengers for hire, without having an...
• Section 39:3-19.2 - School Vehicles; Fees; Exemptions
  The Director of Motor Vehicles shall have the authority to issue upon application therefor a license plate for school vehicles marked "School Vehicle Type...
• Section 39:3-19.3 - Inapplicability Of Act To Certain Buses And Vehicles
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to buses used in common carrier line service and school transportation service whose owner meets the...
• Section 39:3-19.4 - Vehicle Used For Summer Day Or Residence Camps; Inspection; Liability Insurance Coverage
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1974, c. 162 (C. 39:3-19.2) or of any other law, any vehicle with a seating capacity of...
• Section 39:3-19.5 - Special Registration Plates For Limousines.
  12. a. Upon the application of any person who owns a limousine service, the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall issue special...
• Section 39:3-19.6 - Fee Imposed On Limousine Services.
  43. a. On or before October 1, 2003 and on or before each October 1 thereafter, or in the case of persons commencing transporting...
• Section 39:3-20 - Commercial Motor Vehicle Registrations; Fees.
  39:3-20. For the purpose of this section, gross weight means the weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles, including load or contents. a.The...
• Section 39:3-20.1 - Issuance Of Registration Certificate, Plates For Empty Vehicles.
  1.In addition to the motor vehicle registration provisions authorized pursuant to this chapter, the director may issue, upon application on a form prescribed by...
• Section 39:3-20.2 - Misuse Of "In-transit Empty" Registration; Penalty
  The penalty for misuse of the registration provisions of section 1 shall be a fine of no less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00...
• Section 39:3-20.3 - Weight Limit For Vehicles Registered Out-of-state; Violations, Penalties, Fines.
  4.It shall be unlawful for any vehicle or combination of vehicles registered as a commercial motor vehicle by another state or jurisdiction to operate...
• Section 39:3-20.4 - "Highway Safety Fund."
  5.There is established in the General Fund a separate, nonlapsing, dedicated account to be known as the "Highway Safety Fund." All fines, penalties and...
• Section 39:3-21 - Motorcycle Registration Fee.
  39:3-21. The applicant for registration for a motorcycle shall pay to the commission for each registration a fee of $10.00. Amended 1968, c.130, s.7;...
• Section 39:3-22a - Reduction Of Fees On Or After October 1
  If application is made for the registration of a motor vehicle, other than a passenger automobile or motorcycle, or for the registration of a...
• Section 39:3-22.1 - Refund Of Registration Fee For Members Of Military; Application Procedure
  1. Any person, who has entered or shall enter into active service in any branch of the naval or military forces of the United...
• Section 39:3-22.2 - Warrant For Refund
  Upon approval by the commissioner of such application and the surrender of such certificate of registration and license plates, the State Comptroller shall draw...
• Section 39:3-23 - Rubber Tires Or Tires Of Approved Material Required
  No automobile, commercial vehicle, trailer, semitrailer or tractor shall be registered by the commissioner unless the same are equipped with rubber tires or tires...
• Section 39:3-23.1 - Use Of Non-rubber Tires.
  3.The commission may in its discretion approve the use of any particular type of tire, of a material other than rubber, on vehicles operated...
• Section 39:3-24 - Farm Tractors, Traction Equipment; Registration; Operation; Emblem; Fee.
  39:3-24. (a) The chief administrator shall register farm tractors and traction equipment used for farm operation to travel upon the public highways. The fee...
• Section 39:3-24.2 - Slow Moving Vehicle Emblem.
  3. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall design a slow moving vehicle emblem to be affixed to the...
• Section 39:3-24.3 - Rules, Regulations Defining The Term "Farm Implement."
  4.The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure...
• Section 39:3-24.4 - Reduction In Speed Relative To Approaching Slow Moving Vehicle; Violations, Fine.
  5. a. The driver of a motor vehicle traveling in the same direction as and approaching a slow moving vehicle shall, prior to overtaking...
• Section 39:3-24.5 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Self-propelled Sprayers.
  6. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et...
• Section 39:3-25 - "Farmer" License Plate, Issuance, Fee, Expiration.
  39:3-25. In addition to the motor vehicle licenses authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the chief administrator shall issue,...
• Section 39:3-26 - Traction Or Tractor Well-drill Machines Or Well-drilling Equipment; Trucks With Powered Feed Impregnating Machines; Fee
  In addition to the motor vehicle licenses authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the commissioner is authorized and empowered...
• Section 39:3-26.1 - Use Of Self-propelled Vehicles; Registration.
  1.Any self-propelled vehicle or vehicles which are used or intended to be used solely upon the private property of one person, and which would...
• Section 39:3-26.2 - Application; Issuance; Contents
  a. A property owner wishing a crossing permit under the terms of this act shall make application to the director, setting forth the number...
• Section 39:3-26.3 - Unauthorized Use Of Highway By Unregistered Vehicles; Penalty
  In addition to subjecting the holder of a crossing permit to the penalty provided for operation of an unregistered vehicle upon a highway, the...
• Section 39:3-26.4 - Fees
  a. Each applicant for a crossing permit under this act shall accompany his application with a fee based on the gross weight of vehicle...
• Section 39:3-26.5 - Death, Bodily Injury Or Property Damage Involving Vehicle On Public Highway; Application Of Motor Vehicle Security-responsibility Law
  In the event of death, bodily injury or property damage arising in connection with the operation of any vehicle while on a public highway...
• Section 39:3-27 - Registration Fee Not Charged For Certain Vehicles
  39:3-27. No fee shall be charged for the registration of motor vehicles not used for pleasure or hire, owned by the United States, the...
• Section 39:3-27.1 - Free Registration Of Vehicles Owned By Resident Blind Or Disabled Veterans Or Holder Of Medal Of Honor
  No fee shall be charged for the registration, in any year or years, of one motor vehicle of passenger type, which is not to...
• Section 39:3-27.2 - Special Registration For Passenger Automobiles Used In Connection With Convention, Pageant Or Parade
  Whenever, in connection with any convention, conference, meeting, pageant, parade, celebration or similar function held in this State, a manufacturer or dealer desires to...
• Section 39:3-27.3 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Historic motor vehicle" shall mean any motor vehicle which is at least 25 years old and which is owned...
• Section 39:3-27.4 - Historic Motor Vehicles; Registration, License Plates, Display
  2.Any owner of an historic motor vehicle who is a resident of this State may register such motor vehicle under the provisions of this...
• Section 39:3-27.5 - Amateur Radio Call Letter Registration Plates.
  1.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall cause to be issued to applicants who hold amateur radio licenses issued by the Federal...
• Section 39:3-27.6 - Application; Form, Fee.
  2.Application for registration of such motor vehicles and for the issuance of such amateur radio call letter registration plates shall be made in such...
• Section 39:3-27.7 - Revocation Or Expiration; Notification Of Director
  Upon revocation or expiration of the amateur radio station license the motor vehicle registrant within 15 days after said revocation or expiration shall notify...
• Section 39:3-27.8 - Special License Plate; Fire Department, First Aid Or Rescue Squad; Member, Spouse, Parent Or Business Firm
  Upon the application of any person who is a compensated, partially compensated or volunteer member of any fire department in this State, the director...
• Section 39:3-27.9 - Issuance; Proof Of Membership; Fees
  The special plate authorized by this act may be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the director, that the applicant is presently a bona fide...
• Section 39:3-27.10 - Termination Of Association; Return Of Special Plate
  Any person lawfully in possession of such special plate who resigns, is removed or otherwise terminates or is terminated from his association with such...
• Section 39:3-27.11 - Unauthorized Uses
  No person shall lend the special plate for use on a motor vehicle other than the vehicle for which issued, or use the same...
• Section 39:3-27.12 - Violations; Fine
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $50.00. L.1977, c. 369,...
• Section 39:3-27.13 - National Guard Registration Plates
  a. Upon the application of any person who is an active member of the New Jersey National Guard, or former active member who has...
• Section 39:3-27.14 - Interdepartmental Rules, Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Adjutant General of the State Department of Defense shall promulgate and adopt interdepartmental rules...
• Section 39:3-27.15 - "Disabled Veteran" License Plate
  1. Upon the application of any disabled veteran eligible to operate a motor vehicle in this State under the provision of R.S.39:3-10, the Director...
• Section 39:3-27.16 - Issuance; Fee
  The special plates authorized by this act may be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the director, that the applicant is a disabled veteran. The...
• Section 39:3-27.17 - Unauthorized Use; Prohibition
  No person shall lend the special plates for use on a motor vehicle other than the vehicle for which issued, or use the same...
• Section 39:3-27.18 - Violations; Fine
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $50.00. L.1979, c....
• Section 39:3-27.19 - Commuter Vans, Issuance Of Registration, Plates
  2. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may issue, upon application on a form prepared by him, a registration certificate and registration...
• Section 39:3-27.20 - Termination Of Use; Surrender Of Special Plate
  Upon the termination of service of any vehicle used as a commuter van, the owner of the van shall return such special plate to...
• Section 39:3-27.21 - Unauthorized Use Of Special Plate
  No person shall lend the special plate for use on a motor vehicle other than the vehicle for which issued, or use the same...
• Section 39:3-27.22 - Violations; Fine
  The fine for violating this act is not less than $25.00 nor more than $50.00. L.1981, c. 139, s. 5.
• Section 39:3-27.23 - Rules And Regulations
  After consultation with the Department of Energy, the director is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act....
• Section 39:3-27.24 - Special "P. O. W." Plates; Plates To Surviving Spouse
  Upon the application of any person who served in the armed forces of the United States and who was held as a prisoner of...
• Section 39:3-27.25 - Rules, Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall promulgate and adopt...
• Section 39:3-27.27 - Street Rod License Plates; Fees; Display Of National Street Rod Association Safety Inspection Sticker; Violations; Fine
  a. The owner of a modified antique automobile manufactured before 1949, referred to as a "street rod," which is registered in this State, may...
• Section 39:3-27.28 - Disposition Of Fees
  All fees collected as provided for herein are hereby appropriated to the Division of Motor Vehicles to fund the additional costs incurred in making...
• Section 39:3-27.29 - Issuance Of Special Registration Plates For Vehicles Owned Or Leased By Certain County Officials
  Upon the application of any person who is a member of the board of chosen freeholders in, or surrogate, county clerk, county register of...
• Section 39:3-27.30 - Proof Of Ownership, Rental Required For Issuance Of Special Motor Vehicle Registration Plates; Fee
  The motor vehicle registration plates authorized by this act shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the director, that the vehicle for which the...
• Section 39:3-27.31 - Surrender Of Special Registration Plates After Leaving Office
  Said special registration plates shall be surrendered to the Division of Motor Vehicles within 30 days after leaving said office. L.1981,c.401,s.3; amended 1991,c.146,s.3.
• Section 39:3-27.32 - Disposition Of Fees
  The fees established hereinabove are appropriated to the Division of Motor Vehicles to fund the additional costs incurred in making such plates available. L.1981,...
• Section 39:3-27.33 - Members Of Military Reserve Unit; Special License Plates
  Upon the application of any person who is a resident of this State and who is an active member of a military reserve unit,...
• Section 39:3-27.34 - Rules And Regulations
  The director shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the issuance and use of these registration plates and providing for their surrender by persons who...
• Section 39:3-27.35 - Organization Vehicle Registration Plates
  A person who is a member in good standing of a nonprofit community, alumni or service organization in the State approved by the director...
• Section 39:3-27.36 - Conditions For Issuance
  Special organization vehicle registration plates shall be issued subject to the following conditions: a. Each organization shall appoint an organization representative who will act...
• Section 39:3-27.37 - Director As Final Authority
  The director shall have the authority to make the final decision as to whether or not an organization is approved for the issuance of...
• Section 39:3-27.38 - Suspension Of Approval
  The director shall have the right to suspend approval of any organization granted permission to obtain special organization vehicle registration plates on behalf of...
• Section 39:3-27.39 - Rules, Regulations
  Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), the director may adopt rules and regulations governing the design, issuance...
• Section 39:3-27.40 - Other Laws Unaffected
  Notwithstanding the provisions of this act, laws and regulations which are in existence as of the effective date of this act and which provide...
• Section 39:3-27.41 - Special Purple Heart Veteran Plates; Plates To Surviving Spouse
  The surviving spouse of a purple heart veteran who is eligible to operate a motor vehicle in this State under the provision of R.S.39:3-10...
• Section 39:3-27.42 - Special Registration Plates For Mayor, Chief Executive Of Municipality, Fee, Violation, Penalty, Rules, Regulations
  a. Upon the application of any person who is the mayor or chief executive of a municipality in this State, the Director of the...
• Section 39:3-27.43 - Purple Heart Emblem May Be Affixed To License Plates
  1. A person who is an active member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart may affix a purple heart emblem which has...
• Section 39:3-27.44 - Rules, Regulations
  2. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the use, design, materials and placement of purple heart...
• Section 39:3-27.45 - Special License Plates, Insignia For Silver Star Medal Holders
  1. a. Upon application of any person who is the holder of a Silver Star medal as certified on the applicant's DD-214 form or...
• Section 39:3-27.46 - "Combat Infantryman Badge" Plates
  1. a. Upon application of any person who is the holder of a Combat Infantryman Badge, as certified on the applicant's DD-214 form or...
• Section 39:3-27.47 - Definitions
  1. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and Energy; "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection and Energy;...
• Section 39:3-27.48 - Issuance Of Coastal Protection License Plates
  2. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, upon proper application therefor, issue coastal protection license plates for any motor vehicle owned...
• Section 39:3-27.49 - Application, Fee
  3. a. Application for issuance of a coastal protection license plate shall be made to the division on forms and in a manner as...
• Section 39:3-27.50 - "Coastal Protection Trust Fund;" Special Emergency Account Created
  4. a. There is created in the Department of the Treasury a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Coastal Protection Trust Fund."...
• Section 39:3-27.51 - Reimbursement To Division Prior To Deposit Of License Plate Fees
  5. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 3 of this act into the fund, amounts thereof as...
• Section 39:3-27.52 - Recommendation For Appropriation; Distribution
  6. a. The Governor shall include in the annual budget recommendations to the Legislature pursuant to section 11 of article 3 of P.L.1944, c.112...
• Section 39:3-27.53 - Notification To Eligible Motorists
  7. The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain coastal protection license plates by including a notice with all motor vehicle...
• Section 39:3-27.54 - Interagency Memorandum Of Agreement
  8. The commissioner, the director, and the State Treasurer shall develop and enter into an interagency memorandum of agreement setting forth the procedures to...
• Section 39:3-27.55 - Issuance Of Animal Welfare License Plates
  1. a. Upon proper application, the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may issue animal welfare license plates for a motor vehicle owned...
• Section 39:3-27.56 - Use Of Fees
  2. Moneys from the application and renewal fees collected by the Division of Motor Vehicles for animal welfare license plates shall be deposited in...
• Section 39:3-27.57 - Notification Of Eligible Motorists
  3. The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain animal welfare license plates by including a notice with all motor vehicle...
• Section 39:3-27.58 - Interagency Memorandum Of Agreement
  4. The Commissioner of Health and the director shall enter into an interagency memorandum of agreement setting forth the procedures to be followed by...
• Section 39:3-27.59 - Issuance Of Emt-a Special License Plates
  1. a. Upon application by a person who has been certified by the Commissioner of Health as an Emergency Medical Technician-Ambulance, the Director of...
• Section 39:3-27.60 - Use Of Fees Collected
  2. The director shall retain from the fees collected pursuant to subsection c. of section 1 of this act such sums as are necessary...
• Section 39:3-27.61 - Definitions
  1. As used in this act: "Director" means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety;...
• Section 39:3-27.62 - Issuance Of United States Olympic License Plates
  2. The director shall, upon proper application therefor, issue United States Olympic license plates, for any motor vehicle owned or leased and registered in...
• Section 39:3-27.63 - Application; Fee
  3. Application for issuance of a United States Olympic license plate shall be made to the division on forms and in a manner as...
• Section 39:3-27.64 - "Garden State Games Trust Fund" Created
  4. There is created in the Department of the Treasury a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Garden State Games Trust Fund."...
• Section 39:3-27.65 - Allocation Of Funds
  5. Moneys deposited in the fund shall be allocated as follows: a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section...
• Section 39:3-27.66 - Notification Of Eligible Motorists
  6. The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain United States Olympic license plates by including a notice with all motor...
• Section 39:3-27.67 - Issuance Of Battleship U. S. S. New Jersey License Plates.
  1.The Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission shall, upon proper application therefor, issue Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey license plates for any motor vehicle...
• Section 39:3-27.68 - Application Procedure, Fees
  2. Application for a Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey license plate shall be made to the Division of Motor Vehicles on forms and in a...
• Section 39:3-27.69 - "Battleship New Jersey Memorial Fund."
  3.There is created in the Department of the Treasury a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Battleship New Jersey Memorial Fund." There...
• Section 39:3-27.70 - Use Of License Plate Fees
  4. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 2 of this act into the fund, amounts thereof as...
• Section 39:3-27.71 - Notification To Motorists.
  5.The chief administrator shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey license plates by including a notice with all...
• Section 39:3-27.72 - Definitions Relative To Issuance Of Historic Preservation License Plates
  1.As used in P.L.1995, c.368 (C.39:3-27.72 et seq.): "Department" means the Department of State; "Director" means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles...
• Section 39:3-27.73 - Issuance Of Historic Preservation License Plates
  2. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, upon proper application therefor, issue historic preservation license plates for any motor vehicle owned...
• Section 39:3-27.74 - Application For Historic Preservation License Plate
  3. a. Application for issuance of an historic preservation license plate shall be made to the division on forms and in a manner as...
• Section 39:3-27.75 - "Historic Preservation License Plate Fund" Created.
  4. a. There is created in the Department of Community Affairs a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Historic Preservation License Plate...
• Section 39:3-27.76 - Use Of Funds To Reimburse Division
  5. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1995, c.368 (C.39:3-27.74) into the fund, amounts thereof...
• Section 39:3-27.77 - Notification Of Eligible Motorists.
  6.The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain historic preservation license plates by including a notice with all motor vehicle registration...
• Section 39:3-27.78 - Procedures Set Forth In Interagency Memorandum Of Agreement.
  7.The secretary, the New Jersey Historic Trust, the director, and the State Treasurer shall develop and enter into an interagency memorandum of agreement setting...
• Section 39:3-27.79 - Issuance Of Shade Tree, Community Forest Preservation License Plates.
  10.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation shall, upon proper application therefor, issue shade tree and community forest...
• Section 39:3-27.80 - Application, Fee For Shade Tree, Community Forest Preservation License Plate
  11. a. Application for issuance of a shade tree and community forest preservation license plate shall be made to the Division of Motor Vehicles...
• Section 39:3-27.81 - Creation Of "Shade Tree And Community Forest Preservation License Plate Fund"
  12. a. There is created in the Department of Environmental Protection a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Shade Tree and Community...
• Section 39:3-27.82 - Reimbursement To Division Of Motor Vehicles
  13. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1996, c.135 (C.39:3-27.80) into the fund, amounts thereof...
• Section 39:3-27.83 - Notification Of Availability Of Shade Tree, Community Forest Preservation Plates
  14. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain shade tree and community forest preservation...
• Section 39:3-27.84 - Interagency Memorandum Of Agreement
  15. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection, the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, and the State Treasurer shall develop and enter into an...
• Section 39:3-27.85 - Pinelands Preservation License Plates; Fees
  1. a. The director may issue for a motor vehicle registered in this State special license plates bearing, in addition to the registration number...
• Section 39:3-27.86 - Issuance Of Barnegat Bay Decoy, Baymen's Museum License Plates
  3. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, upon proper application therefor, issue Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum license plates or...
• Section 39:3-27.87 - Application For License Plate; Fee
  5. a. Application for issuance of a license plate authorized pursuant to section 3 of this act shall be made to the division on...
• Section 39:3-27.88 - Reimbursement To Division
  7. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 5 of this act into the accounts, amounts thereof as...
• Section 39:3-27.89 - Notification To Motorists
  9. The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain special license plates authorized in section 3 of this act by including...
• Section 39:3-27.90 - Issuance Of "Conquer Cancer" License Plates; Fees; Distribution.
  1. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may issue for a motor vehicle owned or leased and registered in...
• Section 39:3-27.91 - Definitions Relative To Liberty State Park License Plates
  1. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection; "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection; "Director" means the Director...
• Section 39:3-27.92 - Liberty State Park License Plates, Issuance
  2. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, upon proper application therefor, issue Liberty State Park license plates for any motor vehicle...
• Section 39:3-27.93 - Application, Annual Fee
  3. a. Application for issuance of a Liberty State Park license plate shall be made to the division on forms and in a manner...
• Section 39:3-27.94 - Liberty State Park License Plate Fund
  4. There is created in the Department of Environmental Protection a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Liberty State Park License Plate...
• Section 39:3-27.95 - Reimbursement To Division; Average Cost Per License Plate
  5. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 3 of this act into the fund, amounts thereof as...
• Section 39:3-27.96 - Notices To Eligible Motorists
  6. The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain Liberty State Park license plates by including a notice with all motor...
• Section 39:3-27.97 - Interagency Memorandum Of Agreement
  7. The commissioner, the director, and the State Treasurer shall develop and enter into an interagency memorandum of agreement setting forth the procedures to...
• Section 39:3-27.98 - Submarine Veterans Emblem Authorized.
  1. a. A person who is an active member of the United States Submarine Veterans may affix a submarine veterans emblem which has been...
• Section 39:3-27.99 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Submarine Veterans Emblems.
  2.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may promulgate rules and regulations governing the use, design, materials and placement of submarine veterans emblems...
• Section 39:3-27.100 - Issuance Of Meadowlands Conservation License Plates.
  9.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation shall, upon proper application therefor, issue Meadowlands conservation license plates for...
• Section 39:3-27.101 - Application For Meadowlands Conservation License Plate; Fee; Registration, Fee.
  10. a. Application for issuance of a Meadowlands conservation license plate shall be made to the Division of Motor Vehicles on forms and in...
• Section 39:3-27.102 - Fees Deposted Into Meadowlands Conservation Trust Fund.
  11.There shall be deposited in the Meadowlands Conservation Trust Fund created pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1999, c.31 (C. 13:17-92) the amount collected from...
• Section 39:3-27.103 - Reimbursement To Division Of Motor Vehicles.
  12. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 10 of P.L.1999, c.31 (C.39:3-27.101) into the Meadowlands Conservation Trust...
• Section 39:3-27.104 - Notification Of Availability Of Meadowlands Conservation License Plates.
  13.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain Meadowlands conservation license plates by including a...
• Section 39:3-27.105 - Interagency Memorandum Of Agreement.
  14.The board of trustees of the Meadowlands Conservation Trust created pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1999, c.31 (C.13:17-90), the Director of the Division of...
• Section 39:3-27.106 - Issuance Of "Navy Cross" License Plates.
  1. a. Upon application of any person who is the holder of a Navy Cross as certified on the applicant's DD-214 form or on...
• Section 39:3-27.107 - Deborah Heart And Lung Center License Plates.
  1.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, upon proper application therefor, issue Deborah Heart and Lung Center license plates for any motor...
• Section 39:3-27.108 - Application, Renewal; Fee.
  2.An application for issuance of a Deborah Heart and Lung Center license plate shall be accompanied by a fee of $50, in addition to...
• Section 39:3-27.109 - "Deborah Hospital Foundation Fund."
  3. a. There is created in the Department of the Treasury a non-lapsing, interest-bearing fund to be known as the "Deborah Hospital Foundation Fund."...
• Section 39:3-27.110 - Contribution To Offset Initial Costs.
  4.The Deborah Heart and Lung Center shall contribute monies in an amount to be determined by the director, not to exceed $50,000, to be...
• Section 39:3-27.111 - Reimbursement For Costs Incurred.
  5. a. Prior to the deposit of the fees collected pursuant to section 2 of this act into the Deborah Hospital Foundation Fund, such...
• Section 39:3-27.112 - Notification To Eligible Motorists.
  6.The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain Deborah Heart and Lung Center license plates by including a notice with all...
• Section 39:3-27.113 - Memorandum Of Agreement.
  7.The director and the Trustees of the Deborah Heart and Lung Center shall enter into a memorandum of agreement setting forth the procedures to...
• Section 39:3-27.114 - Special License Plates For Former Municipal Mayor
  1. a. Upon the application of a person who has served as a municipal mayor for one term or longer but who presently does...
• Section 39:3-27.115 - Special License Plates For Former Legislator
  2. a. Upon the application of a former member of the New Jersey State Legislature, the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall...
• Section 39:3-27.116 - Issuance Of "Promote Agriculture" License Plates
  1.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, upon proper application therefor, issue "Promote Agriculture" license plates for any motor vehicle owned or...
• Section 39:3-27.117 - Additional Fee
  2.An application for issuance of a "Promote Agriculture" license plate shall be accompanied by a fee of $20, in addition to the fees otherwise...
• Section 39:3-27.118 - Contribution From New Jersey Farm Bureau
  3.The New Jersey Farm Bureau, representing agricultural interests Statewide, shall contribute monies in an amount to be determined by the director, not to exceed...
• Section 39:3-27.119 - Use Of Additional Fees
  4.The additional application fees collected pursuant to section 2 of this act shall first be used to reimburse the New Jersey Farm Bureau, up...
• Section 39:3-27.120 - Annual Certification Of Cost Per License Plate; Fee Increase, Method
  5 a. The director shall annually certify the average cost per license plate incurred in the immediately preceding year by the division in producing...
• Section 39:3-27.121 - Notification Of Eligible Motorists
  6.The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain "Promote Agriculture" license plates by including a notice with all motor vehicle registration...
• Section 39:3-27.122 - Memorandum Of Agreement By Dmv And Farm Bureau
  7.The director and the Executive Director of the New Jersey Farm Bureau shall enter into a memorandum of agreement setting forth the procedures to...
• Section 39:3-27.123 - Law Enforcement Officer Memorial License Plates; "Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund"
  2. a. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may issue for a motor vehicle owned or leased and registered in the State...
• Section 39:3-27.124 - Contributions To Offset Initial Costs For Law Enforcement Officer Memorial License Plates
  3.The State Police Benevolent Association, the State Fraternal Order of Police, and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Inc. shall contribute monies in...
• Section 39:3-27.125 - Use Of Appropriated Funds
  4.Funds from the Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund shall be annually appropriated first to reimburse the amount contributed by those organizations pursuant to section...
• Section 39:3-27.126 - Memorandum Of Agreement
  8.The director and the organizations contributing monies pursuant to section 3 of this act shall enter into a memorandum of agreement setting forth the...
• Section 39:3-27.127 - Issuance Of "Be An Organ Donor" License Plates; Application; Fees.
  1. a. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may issue for a motor vehicle owned or leased and registered in the State...
• Section 39:3-27.128 - Contribution From New Jersey Transplant Association.
  2.The New Jersey Transplant Association shall contribute an amount to be determined by the director, not to exceed a total of $50,000, to be...
• Section 39:3-27.129 - Notification Of Availability To Motorists.
  3. a. The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain organ donor license plates by including a notice with all motor...
• Section 39:3-27.130 - Annual Certification Of Cost Per License Plate.
  4. a. The director shall annually certify to the Commissioner of Transportation the average cost per license plate incurred in the immediately preceding year...
• Section 39:3-27.131 - "Fund" Defined
  1.As used in this act, "fund" means the "Rewards for Justice License Plate Fund" created pursuant to section 4 of this act. L.2002,c.52,s.1.
• Section 39:3-27.132 - Issuance Of United We Stand License Plates
  2.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, upon proper application therefor, issue United We Stand license plates for any motor vehicle owned...
• Section 39:3-27.133 - Application For Issuance Of License Plate, Fee
  3. a. Application for issuance of a United We Stand license plate shall be made to the division on forms and in a manner...
• Section 39:3-27.134 - "Rewards For Justice License Plate Fund."
  4.There is created in the Department of Transportation a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Rewards for Justice License Plate Fund." There...
• Section 39:3-27.135 - Contribution To Offset Initial Costs
  5.The Rewards for Justice Fund shall contribute monies in an amount to be determined by the director, not to exceed $50,000, to be used...
• Section 39:3-27.136 - Reimbursement To Rewards For Justice Fund, Dmv
  6. a. Prior to the deposit of license plate fees collected pursuant to section 3 of this act into the fund, amounts thereof as...
• Section 39:3-27.137 - Notification To Eligible Motorists
  7.The director shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtain United We Stand license plates by including a notice with all motor vehicle...
• Section 39:3-27.138 - Memorandum Of Agreement
  8.The director and officials of the Rewards for Justice Fund shall enter into a memorandum of agreement setting forth the procedures to be followed...
• Section 39:3-27.139 - Rules, Regulations
  9.Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the director may promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the provisions of this...
• Section 39:3-27.140 - Professional Sports Team Specialty License Plates.
  1. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall establish professional sports team specialty license plates. The commission is authorized...
• Section 39:3-27.141 - Issuance Of Gold Star Family License Plates.
  1. a. Upon proper application, the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue Gold Star Family license plates for any...
• Section 39:3-27.142 - Application Procedure, Documentation.
  2. a. Application for issuance of a Gold Star Family license plate shall be made to the chief administrator on forms and in a...
• Section 39:3-27.143 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1...
• Section 39:3-27.144 - Omega Psi Phi License Plates.
  1. a. Upon proper application, the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue Omega Psi Phi license plates for any...
• Section 39:3-27.145 - Cost Of Producing, Issuing, Publicizing Omega Psi Phi License Plates.
  2. a. No State or other public funds shall be used by the commission for the initial cost of: (1)producing, issuing, and publicizing the...
• Section 39:3-27.146 - Issuance Of Alpha Kappa Alpha License Plates; "Alpha Kappa Alpha License Plate Fund."
  1. a. Upon proper application, the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue Alpha Kappa Alpha license plates for any...
• Section 39:3-27.147 - Funds Used.
  2. a. No State or other public funds may be used by the commission for the initial cost of: (1)producing, issuing, and publicizing the...
• Section 39:3-28 - Licenses And Registrations Indexed; Certified Copies Of Applications As Evidence; Fees; Destruction Of Applications And Copies
  39:3-28. The director shall cause all applications for registration and drivers' licenses to be indexed, and any original application or copy thereof certified to...
• Section 39:3-29 - License, Registration Certificate And Insurance Identification; Possession; Exhibit Upon Request; Violations; Fine; Defense; Certain Fines To Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund.
  39:3-29. The driver's license, the registration certificate of a motor vehicle and an insurance identification card shall be in the possession of the driver...
• Section 39:3-29.1 - Insurance Identification Cards; Rules, Regulations.
  2.The Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall, after consultation with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, promulgate rules and regulations concerning the issuance, design...
• Section 39:3-29.1a - Provision Of Proof Of Insurance; Impoundment Of Vehicle.
  79. a. Upon the issuance of a summons for failing to possess or exhibit an insurance identification card in violation of R.S.39:3-29, the violator...
• Section 39:3-29.2 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Identification Cards for Nondrivers' Act." L.1980, c.47, s.1; amended 1989,c.52,s.1.
• Section 39:3-29.3 - Identification Cards, Issuance; Contents.
  2. a. The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue an identification card to any resident of the State who is 14 years of...
• Section 39:3-29.4 - Identification Card To Bear Color Picture.
  3.Every identification card authorized by section 2 of this act shall bear a color picture of the person to whom it is issued and...
• Section 39:3-29.5 - Expiration Of Card; Renewal Cards For Blind, Handicapped Valid For Life, Authorized Presence In U. S. Required For Renewal.
  4. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, each original identification card authorized by section 2 of this act shall, unless...
• Section 39:3-29.6 - Duplicate Card
  In the event an identification card issued under section 2 of this act is lost, destroyed or mutilated, a new name or address is...
• Section 39:3-29.7 - Fees.
  6.The Division of Motor Vehicles shall charge fees as follows: Identification Card, Original$18 Identification Card, Duplicate$5 Identification Card, Renewal$18 Digitized picture $6, in addition...
• Section 39:3-29.8 - Prohibited Acts
  It shall be unlawful for any person: a. To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in his possession any canceled,...
• Section 39:3-29.9 - Rules And Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), such...
• Section 39:3-29.10 - Violation Of Provisions
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act is a disorderly person. L.1980, c. 47, s. 9.
• Section 39:3-30 - Registration Void Upon Transfer Of Ownership, Destruction Of Vehicle
  39:3-30. Upon the transfer of ownership or the destruction of any motor vehicle or vehicle its registration shall become void. If the motor vehicle...
• Section 39:3-30.1 - Registration In Names Of Husband And Wife; Title; Presumption; Procedure Upon Death
  In the event that a motor vehicle is registered in the names of 2 individuals who are husband and wife title shall be presumed...
• Section 39:3-30.1a - Affidavit That Registrants Husband And Wife
  The Division of Motor Vehicles shall accept as proof that the registrants were husband and wife on the date of death, an affidavit to...
• Section 39:3-30.2 - Rights Of Creditors; Construction Against Waiver Of Inheritance Tax Requirements
  This act shall not impair the rights of any creditor of the decedent nor shall it be construed to waive the requirements of the...
• Section 39:3-30.3 - Operation Of Motor Vehicles Registered In Name Of Decedent
  Any motor vehicles registered in the name of any decedent may be operated, upon the public highways of this State, by a duly licensed...
• Section 39:3-31 - Duplicate Certificates; Licenses; New Pictures; Fees.
  39:3-31. The chief administrator, upon presentation of a statement duly sworn to, stating that the original registration certificate or original motorized bicycle registration certificate...
• Section 39:3-31.1 - Duplicate Family Registration; Fee.
  1.The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, upon presentation of a statement by the holder of an original registration certificate that...
• Section 39:3-32 - Replacement Of Lost, Destroyed Or Defaced License Plates; Reissuance Of Surrendered Plates; Fees
  39:3-32. If one or both license plates or one or both inserts are lost, destroyed, or so defaced that the numbers thereon are illegible,...
• Section 39:3-33 - Markers; Requirements Concerning; Display Of Fictitious Or Wrong Numbers, Etc.; Punishment
  39:3-33. The owner of an automobile which is driven on the public highways of this State shall display not less than 12 inches nor...
• Section 39:3-33a - Additional Charge For Personalized, Courtesy, Special License Plates.
  1.Whenever the Division of Motor Vehicles is authorized to charge an additional application fee for the issuance of a personalized, courtesy or special license...
• Section 39:3-33b - Subsequent Personalized, Courtesy, Special License Plates Permitted.
  1. a. The lessee in a motor vehicle leasing agreement or the owner of a motor vehicle who obtains a base set of personalized,...
• Section 39:3-33c - Merchandise Intended To Conceal, Degrade License Plate Legibility Prohibited; Fine.
  1.A person shall not sell, offer for sale, distribute, transfer, purchase, receive, or possess any merchandise, including but not limited to retractable license plate...
• Section 39:3-33.1 - Veterans Buying Motor Vehicles From United States; Temporary Identification Markers
  Any person who served in the active military or naval service of the United States, and who has been discharged or released from such...
• Section 39:3-33.2 - License Plates; Words "Garden State" To Be Imprinted
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall, upon the occasion of the next and...
• Section 39:3-33.3 - Special Identifying Marks; Issuance Of Plates
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles is hereby authorized to issue, upon application, registration plates of a particular identifying mark or marks...
• Section 39:3-33.4 - Fees For Courtesy And Personalized Plates
  2. The director is authorized to charge an additional fee for the issuance of such particular identifying mark in such amount as he may...
• Section 39:3-33.5 - Restrictions Upon Issuance Of Certain License Plates.
  3.Except as provided for courtesy marks in section 2 of P.L.2000, c.15 (C.39:3-33.5a), no particular identifying mark or special organization license plate issued pursuant...
• Section 39:3-33.5a - Restrictions Upon Issuance Of Courtesy Mark.
  2.No courtesy mark may be issued to any applicant who: a.has been convicted of a violation of either section 39:4-50, or section 39:4-96 of...
• Section 39:3-33.6 - Disposition Of Funds
  For a period commencing with the effective date of this act and terminating upon the completion of the first full fiscal year thereafter, all...
• Section 39:3-33.7 - Rules And Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall promulgate rules and regulations for effectuating the purposes of this act. L.1959, c. 56, p....
• Section 39:3-33.8 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July 1, 1959. L.1959, c. 56, p. 165, s. 6.
• Section 39:3-33.9 - Issuance Of Reflectorized Motor Vehicle Registration Plates.
  2. a. The chief administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall implement a phase-in program for the issuance of reflectorized motor vehicle...
• Section 39:3-33.10 - Issuance Of Wildlife Conservation License Plates; Establishment Of "Wildlife Conservation Fund"
  1. a. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may issue for a motor vehicle owned or leased and registered in the State,...
• Section 39:3-33.11 - Annual Renewal Fee; Use
  1.The annual renewal fee for the registration certificate of a motor vehicle for which a wildlife conservation license plate has been issued shall include,...
• Section 39:3-34 - Application For Certificate Or License During Suspension, Etc. Prohibited
  39:3-34. No person whose registration certificate or driving privilege, including any privilege to operate a commercial motor vehicle as defined in P.L.1990, c.103 (C.39:3-10.9...
• Section 39:3-35 - Lending Or Using Registration Certificate Or Plates On Other Vehicle Prohibited; Fine
  No person shall lend the registration certificate or registration plates for use on a motor vehicle other than the vehicle for which issued, or...
• Section 39:3-36 - Notification Of Change Of Residence; Fees, Penalties; Public Awareness Campaign.
  39:3-36. a. A licensed operator shall notify the chief administrator of any change in residence within one week after the change is made. Notice...
• Section 39:3-37 - Falsifying Application, Examination; Punishment, Revocation Of Registration, License
  39:3-37. A person who gives a fictitious name or address or makes any other intentional misstatement of a material fact in an application for...
• Section 39:3-37.1 - Unlawful Loan Of License, Vehicle; Penalty.
  121. a. A person who has been issued a driver's license shall not lend that driver's license for use by another person. b.A person...
• Section 39:3-38 - Counterfeiting Or Using Other Markers; Placement Of Forged Or Counterfeit Plate On Motor Vehicle; Revocation Of License; Fine
  No person shall counterfeit a number plate or marker or make a substitute or temporary marker, under penalty of revocation of such person's driver's...
• Section 39:3-40 - Penalties For Driving While License Suspended, Etc.
  39:3-40. No person to whom a driver's license has been refused or whose driver's license or reciprocity privilege has been suspended or revoked, or...
• Section 39:3-40.1 - Revocation Of Registration Certificate, Plates.
  2. a. Any motor vehicle registration certificate and registration plates shall be revoked if a person is convicted of violating the provisions of: (1)subsection...
• Section 39:3-40.2 - Issuance Of Temporary Registration Certificate, Plates
  3. a. The director may issue a temporary registration certificate and temporary registration plates for a motor vehicle for which the registration certificate and...
• Section 39:3-40.3 - Impoundment Of Motor Vehicles
  4. a. A motor vehicle subject to the provisions of this act may be impounded by any law enforcement officer if the registrant: (1)...
• Section 39:3-40.4 - Sale, Transfer Of Motor Vehicle Subject To Registration Restrictions
  5. A motor vehicle subject to the registration restrictions set forth in sections 2 and 3 of P.L.1995, c.286 (C.39:3-40.1 and C.39:3-40.2) may not...
• Section 39:3-40.5 - Rules, Regulations
  6.The director, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate...
• Section 39:3-40.6 - Proof Of Valid Motor Vehicle Insurance Before Release Of Impounded Vehicle.
  1.No motor vehicle which has been impounded pursuant to the laws of this State shall be released by the State or local law enforcement...
• Section 39:3-41 - Driver's Manual Made Available; Contents.
  39:3-41. a. At the time of the issuance of an examination permit or a special learner's permit to operate a motor vehicle, the chief...
• Section 39:3-41.1 - Distribution Of Existing Manual Prior To Reprint For Equestrian Information.
  2.The administrator may distribute all remaining copies of the existing manual before reprinting it with the information required pursuant to subsection b. of R.S.39:4-72.
• Section 39:3-42 - Compliance With Chapter Sufficient
  No owner, purchaser or driver of a motor vehicle who has complied with this chapter shall be required to obtain any other license or...
• Section 39:3-43 - Powers Of Commission.
  39:3-43. The commission is hereby given authority to pass upon the construction and equipment of any vehicle, motor vehicle or motor-drawn vehicle with a...
• Section 39:3-44 - Scope And Effect
  No person shall hereafter drive, move, park or be in custody of nor shall any owner or lessee hereafter cause or knowingly permit to...
• Section 39:3-45 - Certain Vehicles Excepted
  The subsequent provisions of this article with respect to equipment and lights on vehicles shall not apply to agricultural machinery and implements, road machinery,...
• Section 39:3-46 - Definitions Relative To Illuminating Devices.
  39:3-46. As used in this article, unless the context requires another or different construction: "Approved" means approved by the commission and when applied to...
• Section 39:3-47 - Illuminating Devices Required; Violations, Fines.
  39:3-47. No person shall drive, move, park or be in custody of any vehicle or combination of vehicles on any street or highway unless...
• Section 39:3-48 - Visibility
  (a) Whenever there shall be in this article a requirement declared as to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects...
• Section 39:3-49 - Headlamps
  Except as hereinafter in this article provided, every motor vehicle other than a motor-drawn vehicle and other than a motor cycle shall be equipped...
• Section 39:3-50 - Color Of Lights, Permits; Cancellation Or Revocation Of Permits; Fee.
  39:3-50. All lamps and reflectors, which display a light visible from directly in front of a vehicle as authorized by this subtitle, shall exhibit...
• Section 39:3-51 - Auxiliary Driving Lamps
  Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed two auxiliary driving lamps mounted on the front at a height not less than...
• Section 39:3-52 - Additional Lighting Equipment
  Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than two side cowl or fender lamps which shall emit a white or yellow light...
• Section 39:3-53 - Spot Lamps; Terms Defined.
  39:3-53. A motor vehicle may be equipped with no more than one spot lamp, but the use of any such spot lamp for driving...
• Section 39:3-54 - Warning Lights On Vehicles
  a. Any lighted lamp or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle other than a headlamp, spot lamp or auxiliary driving lamp which projects a...
• Section 39:3-54.7 - Mounting And Operation Of Emergency Warning Lights.
  1. a. An active member in good standing of any of the following organizations may mount and operate, on a motor vehicle operated by...
• Section 39:3-54.8 - Time Of Operation
  Emergency warning lights may be operated only while the vehicle is being used in answering a fire or emergency call. L.1977, c. 223, s....
• Section 39:3-54.9 - Specifications.
  3.Emergency warning lights shall be removable or permanently attached, of the flashing or revolving type, equipped with a blue lens and controlled by a...
• Section 39:3-54.10 - Placement Of Motor Vehicle, Types Of Lights.
  4.No more than two emergency warning lights shall be installed on a vehicle. If one light is used it shall be installed in the...
• Section 39:3-54.11 - Identification Cards; Issuance.
  5. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall prepare suitable identification cards bearing the signature of the chief administrator...
• Section 39:3-54.12 - Rights Of Motor Vehicle With Emergency Lights In Operation.
  6.Nothing contained herein is intended to grant to any member of a volunteer fire company, a volunteer first aid or rescue squad or a...
• Section 39:3-54.13 - Violation Of Act; Penalty.
  7.Any person authorized to operate emergency warning lights pursuant to P.L.1977, c.223 (C.39:3-54.7 et seq.) who willfully operates such emergency warning lights in violation...
• Section 39:3-54.14 - Special Identification Lights; Vehicles Of Licensed Private Detective Businesses; Permits; Penalty For Violation
  a. The director may issue permits authorizing vehicles of licensed private detective businesses under contractual agreement to provide community security services in planned developments...
• Section 39:3-54.15 - Warning Lights, Sirens On Vehicle Of Volunteer Fire, First Aid Or Rescue Squad Chiefs Or Officers.
  1.A current chief or first assistant chief of a volunteer fire company, or chief officer of a first aid or rescue squad, recognized by...
• Section 39:3-54.16 - Placement Of Lights
  All red emergency lights shall be mounted on the exterior of the motor vehicle. No more than two red emergency warning lights shall be...
• Section 39:3-54.17 - Siren Mounting, Operation
  All sirens shall be mounted under the hood of the motor vehicle and shall be operated only while the vehicle is being used by...
• Section 39:3-54.18 - Identification Cards
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall prepare suitable identification cards bearing the signature of the director, which, upon the request of...
• Section 39:3-54.19 - Subject To Traffic Laws; Right-of-way Or Sirens; Yielding Right Of Way
  This act shall not grant to any chief or first assistant chief of a volunteer fire company any privileges or exemptions denied to the...
• Section 39:3-54.20 - Penalty For Violation
  Any person authorized to display red emergency warning lights, sirens, or both, pursuant to this act, who willfully displays or uses the lights or...
• Section 39:3-54.21 - Rural Letter Carriers Permitted To Use Amber Warning Light On Motor Vehicle; Rules, Regulations
  a. Any employee of the United States Postal Service who, as part of his assigned duties as a rural route letter carrier, is required...
• Section 39:3-54.22 - Application, Approval For Permit To Display Emergency Light By County Volunteer Office Of Emergency Management Member.
  5.An active member of a county volunteer Office of Emergency Management shall submit an application for a permit to the County Emergency Management Coordinator...
• Section 39:3-54.23 - Application, Approval For Permit To Display Emergency Light By Municipal Volunteer Office Of Emergency Management Member.
  6.An active member of a municipal volunteer Office of Emergency Management shall submit an application to the Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator to display an...
• Section 39:3-54.24 - Employee Of Public Utility, Use Of Amber Light On Motor Vehicle Permitted; Fee.
  1.An authorized employee of a public utility company who, as part of the official duties of a public utility employee, is required to use...
• Section 39:3-54.25 - Use Of Public Utility Company Logo By Employee On Motor Vehicle.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1968, c.439 (C.39:3-8.1), an authorized employee of a public utility company who, as part of the official...
• Section 39:3-54.26 - Improper Use Of Amber Light, Logo; Penalty.
  3.Any person authorized to display an amber warning light or a magnetic sign pursuant to this act, who willfully uses the light or displays...
• Section 39:3-54.27 - Flashing Amber Warning Lights, Display On Sanitation Vehicles; Authorized.
  1. a. Sanitation vehicles operated by a local public entity, or by a licensed solid waste collection company pursuant to a State or local...
• Section 39:3-55 - Alternate Road Lighting Equipment
  Any motor vehicle need not be equipped with approved headlamps provided that every such vehicle during the times when lighted lamps are required is...
• Section 39:3-56 - Number Of Driving Lamps Required Or Permitted
  At the times when lighted lamps are required, at least 2 lighted driving lamps shall be displayed, an equal number on each side of...
• Section 39:3-57 - Single-beam Road Lighting
  Approved single-beam headlamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at...
• Section 39:3-58 - Multiple-beam Road Lighting
  Approved multiple beam headlamps shall be so arranged that the driver may control the selection between different distributions of light subject to the following...
• Section 39:3-59 - Beam Indicator Lights
  Every New Jersey registered motor vehicle hereafter equipped with multiple-beam road lighting equipment shall be equipped with a beam indicator, which shall be lighted...
• Section 39:3-60 - Use Of Multiple-beam Road Lighting Equipment
  Every person driving a motor vehicle equipped with multiple-beam road lighting equipment, during the times when lighted lamps are required, shall use a distribution...
• Section 39:3-61 - Lamps And Reflectors Required On Particular Vehicles.
  39:3-61. (a) Every motor vehicle other than a motor cycle and other than a motor-drawn vehicle shall be equipped on the front with at...
• Section 39:3-61.1 - Mounting Of Lamps And Reflectors
  Lamps and reflectors required by section 39:3-61 shall be mounted on a vehicle as follows: (a) Every lamp and every reflector shall be permanently...
• Section 39:3-61.2 - Combination Of Lighting Devices And Reflectors; Prohibited Combinations
  (a) Any 2 or more lighting devices and reflectors may be combined into one shell or housing except as stated below, provided that the...
• Section 39:3-61.3 - Stop Lamps; Construction, Placement And Use
  Every stop lamp shall be so constructed, placed and used as to indicate by a substantial increase in illumination that the service brakes of...
• Section 39:3-61.4 - Overhang Loads; Placement And Use Of Red Lamps And Flags
  (a) Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear 4 feet or more beyond the bed or body of such vehicle there...
• Section 39:3-62 - Lamps On Parked Vehicles
  Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped in areas other than business or residential districts, upon a highway or shoulder adjacent thereto, whether attended...
• Section 39:3-63 - Regulations Governing Lamps, Turn Signals And Reflectors; Promulgation By Commissioner
  The director is hereby authorized to promulgate regulations in his discretion not inconsistent with this article, governing the size, type, construction, location and use...
• Section 39:3-64 - Vehicular Traffic Hazard Warning Signals
  (a) Every truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer, 80 inches or more in width shall be equipped with a signaling system that...
• Section 39:3-64.1 - Itinerant Vendors' Vehicle
  "Itinerant vendors' vehicle" as used in this act means a motor vehicle used in the operation of the business of an itinerant vendor to...
• Section 39:3-64.2 - Signaling System; Flashing Simultaneously
  Every itinerant vendor's vehicle shall be equipped with a signaling system that in addition to signaling turning movements as provided for in section 39:4-126...
• Section 39:3-64.3 - Signals To Flash Simultaneously When Stopped For Purpose Of Transacting Business
  At all times during the daylight or at night, whenever the driver of an itinerant vendor's vehicle shall stop or park the vehicle on...
• Section 39:3-64.4 - Rules And Regulations
  The director shall adopt such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act. L.1968, c. 90, s. 4,...
• Section 39:3-65 - Lamps On Other Vehicles And Equipment
  All vehicles, including agricultural machinery or implements, road machinery, road rollers, traction engines and farm tractors not hereinbefore in this article specifically required to...
• Section 39:3-66 - Maintenance Of Lamps, Reflectors, Etc.
  All lamps, reflectors and other illuminating devices required by this article shall be kept clean and in good working order and, as far as...
• Section 39:3-66.2 - Punishment For Violation
  Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be subject to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or imprisonment for...
• Section 39:3-66.3 - Stoplights Required On Particular Motor Vehicles.
  2.Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, shall be equipped on the rear with at least two stoplights, one at each side of the...
• Section 39:3-67 - Brake Equipment Required
  Every motorcycle when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with at least one brake adequate to control the movement of and to stop...
• Section 39:3-68 - Brake Performance
  Every motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles, according to its type, shall be capable at all times and under all conditions of loading,...
• Section 39:3-68.1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Towing vehicle" means a road tractor or truck tractor. b. "Towed vehicle" means a motor-drawn vehicle, pole trailer,...
• Section 39:3-68.2 - Emergency Stopping System
  Every vehicle or combination of vehicles using compressed air at the wheels for applying the service brakes shall be equipped with an emergency stopping...
• Section 39:3-69 - Horns And Audible Warning Devices.
  39:3-69. Every motor vehicle except a motor-drawn vehicle when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with a horn in good working order and...
• Section 39:3-70 - Mufflers.
  39:3-70. Every motor vehicle having a combustion motor shall at all times be equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant...
• Section 39:3-70.1 - Air Pollution Control; Tests
  Any motor vehicle which is subject to inspection by the Division of Motor Vehicles or any other duly authorized body shall, as a condition...
• Section 39:3-70.2 - Air Pollution; Penalty.
  2.Any person who operates a motor vehicle or owns a motor vehicle, other than a school bus, which the person permits to idle in...
• Section 39:3-71 - Mirrors
  Every motor vehicle shall have rear view mirrors so located and angled as to give the driver adequate rear view vision. Every passenger automobile...
• Section 39:3-71.1 - Electronic Rear Back-up Monitoring Device, Crossview Mirror Required On Certain Commercial Delivery Vehicles.
  1. a. Every delivery van or truck registered in this State with a cube-style, walk-in cargo box up to 18 feet long that is...
• Section 39:3-72 - Tire Equipment
  No person shall drive or move any motor vehicle equipped with solid rubber tires unless every such tire shall have rubber on its entire...
• Section 39:3-73 - Tire-chains
  Motor vehicle tires may be fitted with tire-chains of reasonable proportions when roads, streets and highways are slippery, because of rain, snow, ice, oil,...
• Section 39:3-74 - Windshields Must Be Unobstructed And Equipped With Cleaners
  Every motor vehicle having a windshield shall be equipped with at least one device in good working order for cleaning rain, snow or other...
• Section 39:3-75 - Safety Glass
  The term "safety glass" shall be construed as meaning glass so treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary...
• Section 39:3-75.1 - Certain Tinting Materials On Windshields, Windows Of Motor Vehicles, Permitted For Medical Reasons
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the owner or lessee of a motor vehicle that is driven by or is...
• Section 39:3-75.2 - Rules, Regulations
  2.The director, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this...
• Section 39:3-75.3 - Violations, Fines
  3. a. A person who violates the provisions of subsection b. of section 2 of P.L.1999, c.308 (C.39:3-75.2) shall be subject to a fine...
• Section 39:3-76 - Dangerous Exhaust Gases
  Every motor vehicle shall be equipped and maintained so that exhaust gases cannot injure any person or animal, and no person shall use any...
• Section 39:3-76.1 - Use Of Sign "Press" On Motor Vehicle
  No person shall operate a motor vehicle on which is affixed any sign, poster or sticker with the word "Press" or any other word...
• Section 39:3-76.2 - Safety Belts Or Restraining Devices
  No person shall sell or operate any passenger automobile manufactured after July 1, 1966, and registered in this State unless such passenger automobile is...
• Section 39:3-76.2a - Child Passenger Restraint Systems.
  1.Every person operating a motor vehicle, other than a school bus, equipped with safety belts or a Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children system...
• Section 39:3-76.2c - Informational Material.
  3.The Division of Highway Traffic Safety in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall print materials to adequately inform the public about the...
• Section 39:3-76.2d - Violations, Fines.
  4.Any person guilty of violating any of the provisions of this act shall be fined not less than $50 and not more than $75....
• Section 39:3-76.2e - Short Title.
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Passenger Automobile Seat Belt Usage Act." L.1984, c. 179, s. 1, eff. March...
• Section 39:3-76.2f - Seat Belt Usage Requirements; Driver's Responsibility.
  2. a. Except as provided in P.L.1983, c.128 (C.39:3-76.2a et al.) for children under eight years of age and less than 57 inches in...
• Section 39:3-76.2g - Exceptions To Seat Belt Usage Requirements.
  3.This act shall not apply to a driver or passenger of: a.A passenger automobile manufactured before July 1, 1966; b.A passenger automobile in which...
• Section 39:3-76.2h - Personal Injury Or Death Actions; Effect Of Act
  This act shall not be deemed to change existing laws, rules, or procedures pertaining to a trial of a civil action for damages for...
• Section 39:3-76.2j - Violations, Fines.
  6.A person who violates section 2 of this act shall be fined $20.00. In no case shall motor vehicle points or automobile insurance eligibility...
• Section 39:3-76.2k - Informational Booklet; Availability To Public
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall develop a booklet containing information on the benefits of wearing safety seat belt systems. The...
• Section 39:3-76.2l - Use Of Securement Devices Required.
  1. a. The driver of a passenger automobile shall secure or cause to be secured any passenger using a wheelchair in a properly adjusted...
• Section 39:3-76.2m - Violations, Penalties.
  2.A person who violates this act shall be fined $100. In no case shall motor vehicle points or automobile insurance eligibility points pursuant to...
• Section 39:3-76.2n - Violations Considered Secondary Offense.
  3.Enforcement of the provisions of subsection c. of section 2 of P.L.1984, c.179 (C.39:3-76.2f) by State or local law enforcement officials shall be accomplished...
• Section 39:3-76.3 - Motorcycles; Height Of Handle Bar Grips
  No person shall operate on a public highway a motorcycle on which the handle bar grips are higher than the shoulder height of the...
• Section 39:3-76.3a - Motorcycles, Conformance To Federal Standards, Nhtsa Certification.
  5.No motorcycle shall be operated on the public highways or roadways of this State unless the motorcycle was manufactured in compliance with applicable Federal...
• Section 39:3-76.4 - Muffler Systems For Motorcycles
  In addition to the muffler requirements contained in section 39:3-70 of the Revised Statutes, motorcycles shall be equipped with muffler systems designed especially for...
• Section 39:3-76.5 - Permanent Seat; Passengers; Seat, Hand Holds And Footrests; Helmets; Method Of Riding; Violations; Penalties
  a. A person operating a motorcycle shall ride only upon the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, and such operator shall not carry any...
• Section 39:3-76.6 - Rules And Regulations; Motorcycle Equipment
  The director is authorized to adopt rules and regulations covering the types and specifications of the equipment for motorcycles required by this act. L.1967,...
• Section 39:3-76.7 - Protective Helmets
  6. a. No person shall operate or ride upon a motorcycle unless he wears a securely fitted protective helmet of a size proper for...
• Section 39:3-76.8 - Goggles Or Face Shield To Be Worn By Motorcycle Operator
  No person shall operate a motorcycle unless he wears goggles or a face shield of a type approved by the director. The director is...
• Section 39:3-76.9 - Wind Screen; Goggles Or Face Shield Not Necessary
  The provisions of section 7 of this act with respect to goggles and face shields shall not apply to the operator of a motorcycle...
• Section 39:3-76.10 - Sale Of Helmets, Goggles Or Face Shields; Type And Specifications Approved By Director
  No person shall sell, offer for sale or distribute any protective helmets, goggles or face shields for use by the operators of motorcycles, or...
• Section 39:3-76.11 - Certain Motorcycles Prohibited On Certain Roads.
  7.A motorcycle having a motor with a maximum piston displacement that is less than 50 cubic centimeters or a motor that is rated at...
• Section 39:3-77 - Selling Or Using Unapproved Devices Or Equipment
  No person shall have for sale, sell or offer for sale for use upon or as a part of the equipment of a motor...
• Section 39:3-77.1 - Use Of National School Bus Chrome Paint On Motor Vehicles
  No motor vehicle with a capacity of more than 16 passengers shall be painted National School Bus Chrome, unless that vehicle is used to...
• Section 39:3-77.2 - Motor Vehicles To Which Persons Admitted To Purchase Merchandise Or View Exhibit; Exit Door
  Every motor vehicle, including any van or trailer, to which persons are admitted for the purpose of purchasing merchandise, including books, or for the...
• Section 39:3-78 - Construction Of Article
  Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to amend, repeal or in any manner impair the operation or effect of section 39:3-4.1 of...
• Section 39:3-79 - Fine For Violating Article
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
• Section 39:3-79.1 - Devices To Prevent Throwing Of Dirt On Windshields Of Following Vehicles
  No person shall operate or cause to be operated any bus, truck, full trailer or semitrailer of registered gross weight exceeding three tons on...
• Section 39:3-79.2 - Violations
  Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, suffer and pay a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars...
• Section 39:3-79.3 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect January first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1952, c. 343, p. 1123, s. 3.
• Section 39:3-79.4 - Motor Vehicle Powered By Compressed Or Liquified Gaseous Fuel; Identification With Diamond Shaped Label; Fee
  a. No person shall drive upon a public highway, road or street a motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this State and powered...
• Section 39:3-79.5 - Diamond Shaped Label; Requirements; Rules And Regulations On Placement And Appearance
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may promulgate rules and regulations governing the placement and appearance of the label in addition to...
• Section 39:3-79.6 - Inspection For Compliance With Provisions Of Act
  The vehicle identification required in this act shall, at the time of an inspection pursuant to this Title, be inspected for compliance with the...
• Section 39:3-79.7 - Failure To Comply; Penalties
  Any person who fails to comply with sections 1 and 2 of this act following an inspection shall be subject to the penalties of...
• Section 39:3-79.8 - Prohibition Of Supplying Fuel To Vehicle Without Label; Violations; Penalty
  a. Any person requested to supply the compressed or liquified gaseous fuel for any vehicle covered under this act shall refuse to provide the...
• Section 39:3-79.9 - Publicity Of Provisions Of Act
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall periodically publicize the provisions of this act...
• Section 39:3-79.10 - Definitions Relative To Intermodal Chassis.
  1.As used in this act: "Department" means the New Jersey Department of Transportation. "Equipment interchange receipt" or "interchange receipt" means the receipt exchanged between...
• Section 39:3-79.11 - Systematic Maintenance Check Program Required; Violations, Penalties.
  2. a. An intermodal equipment provider shall not tender for interchange in New Jersey with a motor carrier an intermodal chassis that has not...
• Section 39:3-79.12 - Establishment, Implementation Of Systematic Maintenance Check Program.
  3. a. An intermodal equipment provider shall establish and implement a systematic maintenance check program for the intermodal chassis that it tenders for interchange...
• Section 39:3-79.13 - Identification Of Out-of-service Intermodal Chassis.
  4. a. Intermodal equipment providers shall implement a process to positively identify by means of a tag those intermodal chassis that are out-of-service as...
• Section 39:3-79.14 - Additional Events Causing Immediate Inspection.
  5.In addition to the routine SMC inspection which must take place at least once every six months in accordance with section 3 of this...
• Section 39:3-79.15 - Qualifications Of Inspectors.
  6.Individuals performing SMC inspections pursuant to this act shall be qualified, at a minimum, as set forth in 49 C.F.R. sections 396.19 and 396.25....
• Section 39:3-79.16 - Request For Repair, Replacement Prior To Completion Of Interchange; Violations, Penalties.
  7. a. Any motor carrier or driver who, as a result of the pre-trip inspection of the intermodal chassis, determines the intermodal chassis to...
• Section 39:3-79.17 - Records Maintained For Three Years, Format.
  8.Records of inspections, maintenance or repairs of chassis performed pursuant to this act shall be maintained for three years and made available upon request...
• Section 39:3-79.18 - Registration For Intermodal Equipment Provider Required.
  9. a. Any intermodal equipment provider that tenders intermodal chassis for interchange in New Jersey with a motor carrier shall register with the New...
• Section 39:3-79.19 - Contents Of Summons, Complaint, Violation Report.
  10. a. When, upon roadside inspection of an intermodal chassis, there is found a violation of State law or regulations or Federal Motor Carrier...
• Section 39:3-79.20 - Interference With Act Deemed Violation; Penalties.
  11. It shall be a violation of this act to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the duties, obligations, rights or remedies of...
• Section 39:3-79.21 - Rules, Regulations.
  12. The department shall adopt such rules and regulations pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary...
• Section 39:3-79.22 - Additional Fines To The Fund For Operation Without Certificate Required By R. S.48:4-3 For Omnibus.
  3. Whenever an owner or operator of an omnibus, as defined pursuant to R.S.39:1-1, does not have a certificate of public convenience and necessity...
• Section 39:3-79.23 - "Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund" In Department Of The Treasury; Use.
  4.There is created in the Department of the Treasury a separate, non-lapsing revolving fund to be known as the "Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund." This...
• Section 39:3-79.24 - "Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund Account Within New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
  5.There is created within the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, a separate, non-lapsing account to be known as the "Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund." All...
• Section 39:3-80 - Rubber Tires Or Tires Of Approved Material Required; Penalties
  Any person who shall operate an automobile, commercial vehicle, trailer or semitrailer or tractor not equipped on all wheels with rubber tires or tires,...
• Section 39:3-81 - Sale, Possession Or Use Of Tires Of Type Approved By Director; Regulations; Penalties
  No person shall sell, offer for sale or possess with intent to sell or use on a highway any motor vehicle tire fitted with...
• Section 39:3-82 - Tires On Commercial Vehicles, Tractors And Motor-drawn Vehicles; Distribution Of Load; Fine For Violation Of Section
  No commercial motor vehicle or tractor not equipped on all wheels with pneumatic tires shall be used on the public highways, unless there is...
• Section 39:3-84 - Vehicles, Dimensional, Weight Limitations; Routes, Certain; Prohibited.
  39:3-84. a. The following constitute the maximum dimensional limits for width, height and length for any vehicle or combination of vehicles, including load or...
• Section 39:3-84.1 - Application Of Weight Limitations
  a. The axle weight limitations as provided at R.S. 39:3-84b. shall apply to all vehicles registered in New Jersey subsequent to March 1, 1950,...
• Section 39:3-84.2 - Repeal
  Sections 39:3-83, 39:3-85 and 39:4-73 of the Revised Statutes are hereby repealed. L.1950, c. 142, p. 283, s. 4.
• Section 39:3-84.3 - Measurement, Weighing To Determine Compliance; Fines For Operating On Prohibited Routes.
  5. a. Officers shall have authority as set forth in paragraphs (1) through (3) of this subsection to require the driver, operator, owner, lessee...
• Section 39:3-84.4 - Damage To Highways Or Structures By Overweight Vehicles; Liability
  Any person driving any vehicle, object or contrivance referred to in section 39:3-84 of the Revised Statutes, in excess of the gross weight limits...
• Section 39:3-84.5 - Partial Invalidity
  If any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or to be ineffective in whole or in part, to...
• Section 39:3-84.6 - Definitions Relative To Tow Trucks.
  1.As used in this act: "Director" means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation. "Division" means the Division...
• Section 39:3-84.7 - Issuance Of Distinctive Markers, License Plates For Tow Trucks; Fee.
  2. a. Unless determined otherwise by the director pursuant to subsection b. of this section, the director shall issue distinctive markers for tow trucks...
• Section 39:3-84.8 - Information Contained In Application For Tow Truck Registration.
  3. a. An application for tow truck registration shall contain the following information: (1)The name and address of the towing company's principal owner or...
• Section 39:3-84.10 - Suspension, Revocation, Refusal To Renew Registration.
  5.The director may suspend, revoke or refuse to issue or renew any registrations issued pursuant to this act upon proof that the applicant: a.Used...
• Section 39:3-84.11 - Display Of Valid License Plates, Markers On Tow Truck.
  6.A towing company shall display valid tow truck license plates or markers as required by law on each of its tow trucks. The name...
• Section 39:3-84.12 - Authority Of Political Subdivision.
  7.The provisions of this act shall preempt a political subdivision from regulating, requiring or issuing any registration, license plate or marker or surety registration...
• Section 39:3-84.13 - Violations, Fine.
  8.A towing company operating a light-medium duty tow truck without displaying a proper marker or valid tow truck license plate as required by this...
• Section 39:3-84.14 - Rules, Regulations.
  10.The director shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of...
• Section 39:3-85.1 - Stolen Motor Vehicles Or Registration Plates; Notification Of Police
  Any person or persons whose motor vehicle has been stolen, and any person or persons whose registration plates have been lost or stolen, shall...
• Section 39:3-85.2 - Reports To State Police, Commission.
  2.Every chief of police or other peace officer in the State of New Jersey, upon receiving reliable information that any motor vehicle has been...
• Section 39:3-85.3 - Record Of Stolen Motor Vehicles, Registration Plates.
  3.The Superintendent of State Police and the commission having been notified of the theft of a motor vehicle or the loss or theft of...
• Section 39:3-85.4 - Partial Invalidity
  Should any section or provision of this act be held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, same shall not affect the...
• Section 39:3-85.5 - Informed Consent Agreement; Decal
  The Superintendent of the Division of State Police shall establish a program, as hereinafter provided, to combat the theft of motor vehicles in this...
• Section 39:3-85.6 - Authorization To Stop Motor Vehicle
  Whenever any law enforcement officer shall see a motor vehicle displaying a decal issued pursuant to the provisions of section 1 of this act...
• Section 39:3-85.7 - Content Of Informed Consent Agreement
  The superintendent shall design the manner and form of the informed consent agreement required under the provisions of section 1 of this act. The...
• Section 39:3-85.8 - Recording Of Participants In Program
  The superintendent shall provide for the recording of the registered owners of motor vehicles who participate in this program. The records shall be available...
• Section 39:3-85.9 - Fees For Consent Forms And Decals
  The chief law enforcement officer of the municipality may charge a fee for the informed consent forms and the decals provided under this act....
• Section 39:3-85.10 - Rules, Regulations
  The Superintendent of the Division of State Police shall promulgate pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.),...
• Section 39:3-86 - Penalty When No Specific Penalty Provided.
  1.For a violation of a provision of chapter three of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes for which no specific penalty is provided, the...
• Section 39:3-87 - Expenditure Of Receipts, Apportionment
  The receipts for licenses covering a 3-year period shall not be expended during any 1 year, but shall be apportioned for the purpose of...
• Section 39:3a-1 - Television Set With Screen Visible To Driver Of Vehicle Prohibited
  It shall be unlawful to operate upon any public highway in this State a motor vehicle which is equipped with or in which is...
• Section 39:3a-2 - Punishment For Violations
  A person violating the provisions of this act shall, for each violation, be subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00),...
• Section 39:3b-1 - Electric Identification And Warning Lamps.
  1.Every bus when being used to transport children to and from school pursuant to chapter 39 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes...
• Section 39:3b-1.1 - School Buses To Be Equipped With Crossing Control Arm.
  1.Every school bus as defined under R.S.39:1-1, which was originally designed to carry 10 or more passengers and which is in operation on August...
• Section 39:3b-1.2 - Reimbursement For Retrofitting School Buses With Crossing Control Arm.
  2.Each agency, school district and nonpublic school that owns and operates its own school buses and each school bus contractor that operates school buses,...
• Section 39:3b-1.3 - Submission Of List Of Vehicles, Application For Reimbursement.
  3.No later than 60 days after the effective date of P.L.1998, c.80 (C.39:3B-1.1 et seq.), each agency, board of education, nonpublic school and school...
• Section 39:3b-2 - Signs Or Legends Displayed On Bus
  There shall be displayed on every bus subject to the provisions of section 1 of this act signs or legends which will, insofar as...
• Section 39:3b-3 - Information On Back Of Certificates Of Approval
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, at such times as in his discretion he shall determine, cause to be displayed upon...
• Section 39:3b-4 - Convex Mirror Or Other Device For Observing Road Condition In Front Of Bus
  Every bus subject to the provisions of section 1 of this act shall be equipped with a mirror of the convex type, or such...
• Section 39:3b-5 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Title or any rule...
• Section 39:3b-5.1 - Duration Of Use Of School Buses.
  1.School buses manufactured prior to April 1, 1977, other than those of the transit type whose gross vehicle weight (G.V.W.) exceeds 25,000 pounds, shall...
• Section 39:3b-5.2 - Duration Of Use Of School Buses With Gross Vehicle Weight Over 25,000 Pounds
  School buses of the transit type whose gross vehicle weight (G.V.W.) exceeds 25,000 pounds shall not be used for pupil transportation purposes beyond the...
• Section 39:3b-5.3 - Inspection Of School Buses
  School buses manufactured on or after April 1, 1977, when used beyond the tenth year, other than the transit type whose gross vehicle weight...
• Section 39:3b-5.4 - Bus Safety Standards
  A motor vehicle retired from use as a school bus as defined in R.S. 39:1-1 which is used to transport children or senior citizens...
• Section 39:3b-6 - Violations
  Any person who willfully violates any provision of this act, or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, shall be subject to a fine...
• Section 39:3b-7 - Repeal
  "An act concerning public school buses, and supplementing chapter 14 of Title 18 of the Revised Statutes," approved June 12, 1948 (P.L.1948, c. 133),...
• Section 39:3b-8 - Van Type II School Vehicle
  As used herein "van type II school vehicle" is a vehicle transporting pupils, under the jurisdiction of a local board of education, manufactured after...
• Section 39:3b-9 - Identification Lettering, Color And Warning Lights
  In addition to owner identification, lettering shall be permitted on van type II school vehicles to identify the vehicles as school vehicles and all...
• Section 39:3b-10 - School Bus Seats, Seat Belts, Child Restraint Systems, Regulations
  1. In addition to the requirements in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 222 (49 CFR s.571.222) concerning school bus passenger seating and crash...
• Section 39:3b-11 - Seat Belts, Child Restraint Systems, Use Required, Liability
  2. Beginning on September 1 of the second year next following the year of enactment of P.L.1992, c.92 (C.39:3B-10 et seq.), each passenger on...
• Section 39:3b-12 - School Bus Emergency Exits
  1. A type I school bus when used to transport children to and from school, or to and from school-related activities, shall be equipped...
• Section 39:3b-13 - Definitions Relative To School Buses Fueled By Liquified Petroleum Gas
  1.As used in this act: "Conventional fuel" means gasoline or diesel fuel; "Governmental entity" means the State, any agency, authority, or employee thereof, or...
• Section 39:3b-14 - Use Of Liquified Petroleum Gas
  2. a. Liquefied petroleum gas may be used as an alternative fuel for a school bus instead of, in addition to, or in combination...
• Section 39:3b-15 - Equipping, Conversion Of School Bus For Operation Using Liquified Petroleum Gas
  3.No school bus may be operated using liquefied petroleum gas as the sole fuel, or in addition to or in combination with a conventional...
• Section 39:3b-16 - Immunity From Liability
  4. a. In any action brought for any injury or damages caused either directly or indirectly by the use of liquefied petroleum gas as...
• Section 39:3b-17 - Rules, Regulations
  5.The Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation, and the...
• Section 39:3b-18 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "School Bus Enhanced Safety Inspection Act." L.1999,c.5,s.1.
• Section 39:3b-19 - Findings, Declarations Relative To School Bus Safety.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that school bus safety is of paramount importance to the health and welfare of the school children of this...
• Section 39:3b-20 - Definitions Relative To School Bus Safety.
  3.As used in this act: "Director" means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation; "Division" means the Division...
• Section 39:3b-21 - Establishment Of School Bus Enhanced Safety Inspection Program.
  4. a. The chief administrator shall establish a school bus enhanced safety inspection program which shall include, but not be limited to, the following...
• Section 39:3b-22 - Violations, Penalties.
  5. a. Any operator who violates the standards for driver employment records established pursuant to subsection a. of section 4 of this act, or...
• Section 39:3b-23 - Removal From Service Upon Failure Of Inspection.
  6.Any school bus that fails an inspection based on out-of-service criteria as established by the director shall be immediately removed from service. L.1999,c.5,s.6.
• Section 39:3b-24 - Rules, Regulations.
  7.The director shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this...
• Section 39:3b-25 - Use Of Cell Phone Prohibited While Driving School Bus, Exception; Fines
  1. a. It shall be unlawful for the driver of a school bus, as defined in R.S.39:1-1, to use a cellular or other wireless...
• Section 39:3b-26 - School Buses Equipped With Certain Sensors.
  2.Each school bus as defined in R.S.39:1-1 shall be equipped with a sensor to determine the presence of objects in the front or back...
• Section 39:3c-1 - Definitions.
  1.As used in P.L.1973, c.307 (C.39:3C-1 et seq.): "All-terrain vehicle" means a motor vehicle, designed and manufactured for off-road use only, of a type...
• Section 39:3c-2 - Jurisdiction Divided.
  2.For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of P.L.1973, c.307 (C.39:3C-1 et seq.): a.The chief administrator shall have the power, duty, and authority...
• Section 39:3c-3 - Registration Required; Fees.
  3.Except as otherwise provided, no snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike shall be operated or permitted to be operated on or across a public...
• Section 39:3c-3.1 - "Off-road Vehicle Recreational Fund."
  31. a. There is established in the General Fund a separate, non-lapsing, dedicated account to be known as the "Off-Road Vehicle Recreational Fund," hereinafter...
• Section 39:3c-4 - Permanent Registration Number.
  4.Once a registration number is assigned, it shall remain with the registered snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike until the snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or...
• Section 39:3c-5 - Registration Required; Transfer Of Ownership.
  5.The owner of a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike required to be registered and numbered in this State shall do so with the...
• Section 39:3c-6 - Farm, Government Exemptions.
  6. a. Any snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike solely operated for use on a farm shall be exempt from the registration and numbering...
• Section 39:3c-7 - Reciprocity.
  7.The registration provisions of P.L.1973, c.307 (C.39:3C-1 et seq.) shall not apply to nonresident owners who have complied with the registration and licensing laws...
• Section 39:3c-8 - Display Of Registration Number.
  8.The number assigned to a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike and required to be displayed pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1973, c.307 (C.39:3C-3)...
• Section 39:3c-9 - Production Of Certificate.
  9. a. Every person operating a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike registered or transferred in accordance with any of the provisions of P.L.1973,...
• Section 39:3c-10 - Change Of Address, Public Awareness Campaign.
  10. a. It shall be the duty of every owner holding a certificate of registration to notify the commission, in writing, of any change...
• Section 39:3c-11 - Transfer Of Ownership.
  11. In accordance with the provisions of P.L.1973, c.307 (C.39:3C-1 et seq.), whenever there is a change of ownership for which a registration certificate...
• Section 39:3c-12 - Notification Of Destruction, Theft, Permanent Removal.
  12. It shall be the duty of every owner of a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike registered pursuant to P.L.1973, c.307 (C.39:3C-1 et...
• Section 39:3c-13 - Permit For Park Use.
  13. No political subdivision of the State shall require additional licensing or registration of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, or dirt bikes which are covered by...
• Section 39:3c-14 - Environmental Regulations.
  14. The commissioner, with a view towards minimizing detrimental effects on the environment and protecting public safety, shall adopt rules and regulations relating to...
• Section 39:3c-15 - Commissioner's Rules, Regulations.
  15. The commissioner may adopt rules and regulations relating to and including, but not limited to: a.(Deleted by amendment, P.L.2009, c.275). b.Establishment of a...
• Section 39:3c-16 - Age Requirements.
  16. a. A person under the age of 14 years shall not operate or be permitted to operate any snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt...
• Section 39:3c-17 - Operational Limitations.
  17. a. No person shall operate a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike upon limited access highways or within the right-of-way limits thereof. b.No...
• Section 39:3c-18 - Operation On Property Of Others; Limitations Of Liability.
  18. a. No person shall operate a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike on the property of another without receiving the consent of the...
• Section 39:3c-19 - Unlawful Activities.
  19. It shall be unlawful for: a.Any person to operate or ride as a passenger on any snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike without...
• Section 39:3c-20 - Mandatory Insurance.
  20. a. No snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike shall be operated or permitted to be operated unless the owner thereof has obtained a...
• Section 39:3c-21 - Post-accident Procedures.
  21. The operator of any snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike involved in an accident resulting in injuries or death of any person or...
• Section 39:3c-22 - Special Events.
  22. The commissioner may authorize the holding of organized special events. The commissioner shall adopt and may, from time to time, amend rules and...
• Section 39:3c-23 - Limited Exemptions.
  23. Snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and dirt bikes operated at special events shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter concerning registration and lights...
• Section 39:3c-24 - Mandatory Equipment.
  24. All snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and dirt bikes operating within the State of New Jersey shall be equipped with: a.Headlights. At least one white...
• Section 39:3c-25 - Inspection And Testing.
  25. The chief administrator may adopt rules and regulations with respect to the inspection of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and dirt bikes and the testing...
• Section 39:3c-26 - Restrictions On Sales.
  26. a. No person shall have for sale, sell, or offer for sale in this State any snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike which...
• Section 39:3c-27 - Law Enforcement Officers; Duties.
  27. Every law enforcement officer in the State, including any authorized officer of the commission, conservation officers of the Division of Fish and Wildlife,...
• Section 39:3c-28 - Violations, Penalties.
  28. Any person who shall violate any provision of P.L.1973, c.307 (C.39:3C-1 et seq.), if no other penalty is specifically provided, or any rule...
• Section 39:3c-29 - Deposit Of Moneys.
  29. The chief administrator shall deposit in the "Off-Road Vehicle Recreational Fund," established pursuant to section 31 of P.L.2009, c.275 (C.39:3C-3.1) all moneys received...
• Section 39:3c-30 - Chapter 4 Provisions Applicable.
  30. Owners and operators of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and dirt bikes shall, when operating such across a public highway or on public land or...
• Section 39:3c-30.1 - Golf Course, Form, Exemptions
  29. a. The provisions of this 1985 amendatory and supplementary act and this 1991 amendatory act insofar as they pertain to all-terrain vehicles shall...
• Section 39:3c-31 - Severability
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act shall, for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be...
• Section 39:3c-32 - Definitions.
  32. As used in sections 33 and 34 of P.L.2009, c.275 (C.39:3C-33 and C.39:3C-34): "Off-road vehicle" means any motorized vehicle with two or more...
• Section 39:3c-33 - Violations, Penalties.
  33. Any person who operates any vehicle or off-road vehicle on public lands in violation of P.L.1973, c.307 (C:39:3C-1 et seq.) or in violation...
• Section 39:3c-34 - Additional Fines, Impoundment.
  34. a. In addition to the fines set forth in section 33 of P.L.2009, c.275 (C.39:3C-33), any vehicle or off-road vehicle operated on public...
• Section 39:4-1 - Application Of Chapter
  39:4-1. The provisions of this chapter applicable to the drivers of vehicles on the highways shall also apply to the drivers of all vehicles...
• Section 39:4-2 - Transfer Of Powers And Duties Of Commissioner To Director Of Division Of Motor Vehicles
  All the powers and duties heretofore exercised and performed by the commission created by an act entitled "An act to establish a traffic commission...
• Section 39:4-6 - Duties Of Commissioner.
  39:4-6. The commissioner shall investigate traffic conditions, means for their improvement and the enforcement of laws and regulations relating to traffic, including pedestrian travel...
• Section 39:4-7 - Director's Hearings; Subpoenas
  The director shall hold hearings when in his judgment they are necessary. He may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the...
• Section 39:4-8 - Commissioner Of Transportation's Approval Required; Exceptions.
  39:4-8. a. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no ordinance, resolution, or regulation concerning, regulating, or governing traffic or traffic conditions, adopted or...
• Section 39:4-8.1 - Approval Of Handicapped Parking Spaces, Signs
  1. Any municipality, which pursuant to the provisions of R.S.39:4-8, R.S.39:4-197, section 1 of P.L.1977, c.202 (C.39:4-197.5) or section 1 of P.L.1977, c.309 (C.39:4-197.6)...
• Section 39:4-8.2 - Definitions Relative To Traffic Regulation.
  1.As used in this act: "Public highways" means public highways as defined in section 3 of P.L.1984, c.73 (C.27:1B-3). "Transportation system" means transportation system...
• Section 39:4-8.3 - Regulation Of Traffic, Parking On Public Highways, Transportation Systems.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the Commissioner of Transportation, in accordance with the provisions of this act,...
• Section 39:4-8.4 - Issuance Of Order.
  3. a. An order to be issued pursuant to this act shall cite the public highway or transportation system under the jurisdiction of the...
• Section 39:4-8.5 - Official Permanent Record Of Orders.
  4.The commissioner shall maintain an official permanent record of orders issued pursuant to this act providing for the regulation of traffic and parking on...
• Section 39:4-8.6 - Continuance, Adoption Of Rules, Regulations.
  5. a. Rules or regulations adopted pursuant to chapter 4 of this Title before the effective date of this act and in effect on...
• Section 39:4-8.7 - Orders Not Considered Rule, Regulation Pursuant To C.52:14b-1 et Seq.
  6.Any provision of chapter 4 of this Title authorizing or requiring the commissioner to provide for the regulation of traffic or parking on public...
• Section 39:4-8.8 - Construction Of Act.
  7. a. Nothing in this act shall be construed as expanding or diminishing the authority of the commissioner to regulate traffic and parking on...
• Section 39:4-8.9 - Definitions Relative To Speed Humps, Traffic Calming Measures.
  1.As used in P.L.2004, c.107 (C.39:4-8.9 et seq.): "Department" means the Department of Transportation. "Private roads" means semipublic or private roads, streets, driveways, parkways,...
• Section 39:4-8.10 - Construction Of Speed Humps, Traffic Calming Measures By Municipality, County.
  2. a. Pursuant to the provisions of section 3 of P.L.2004, c.107 (C.39:4-8.11), a municipality or county may, without the approval of the commissioner,...
• Section 39:4-8.11 - Conformance Of Speed Humps To Dot Standards.
  3.Any speed hump constructed by a municipality or a board of directors or trustees shall conform in design and construction to the technical standards...
• Section 39:4-8.12 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Traffic Control Signal Monitoring Systems.
  1.The Legislature finds: The disregard of traffic control devices at intersections impedes the efficient flow of traffic, and more importantly, dramatically increases the likelihood...
• Section 39:4-8.13 - Definitions Relative To Traffic Control Signal Monitoring Systems; Recording Requirements.
  2.As used in this act: "Recorded image" means a digital image recorded by a traffic control signal monitoring system. "Summons" means a citation alleging...
• Section 39:4-8.14 - Five-year Pilot Program Relative To Effectiveness Of Installation, Utilization Of Traffic Control Signal Monitoring Systems, Public Awareness Campaign.
  3. a. The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a five-year pilot program to determine the effectiveness of the installation and utilization of traffic control...
• Section 39:4-8.15 - Review Of Recorded Images By Law Enforcement Official; Issuance Of Summons.
  4. a. In any municipality where the governing body has authorized the installation and use of a traffic control signal monitoring system, a law...
• Section 39:4-8.16 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.The Commissioner of Transportation, the Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission, and the Superintendent of the State Police may, in accordance with the...
• Section 39:4-8.17 - Reports From Municipalities; Annual Report To Governor, Legislature.
  6.The municipalities whose applications have been approved for the pilot program established pursuant to this act shall submit reports every 12 months after a...
• Section 39:4-8.18 - Effective Date, Expiration Date.
  7.This act shall take effect ninety days following enactment and shall expire upon the submission of the Commissioner of Transportation's fifth and final report...
• Section 39:4-8.19 - Request For Commissioner's Review; Fees; Rules, Regulations.
  7. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.39:4-8, a municipality or county may request the commissioner's review and non-binding recommendation regarding any proposed municipal or...
• Section 39:4-8.20 - Payment Of Fine; Distribution.
  4. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.39:5-41, in the case of a violation of R.S.39:4-81, the evidence of which was captured by a traffic...
• Section 39:4-8.21 - Construction Of Curb Extension, Bulbout On Certain Private Roads.
  3.A county, municipality, or the board of directors or the board of trustees of any corporation or other institution of a public or semipublic...
• Section 39:4-9.1 - Exchange Of Information Between States Concerning Certain Violations
  Whenever another State shall have enacted a law providing for reciprocal exchange thereof, the director, upon receiving a certificate of conviction of a nonresident...
• Section 39:4-10 - Lights And Reflectors On Bicycles
  Every bicycle when in use at nighttime shall be equipped with a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible from...
• Section 39:4-10.1 - Bicycle Helmets, Requirements.
  1. a. A person under 17 years of age shall not operate, or ride upon a bicycle as a passenger, unless that person is...
• Section 39:4-10.2 - Violations, Warnings, Fines; "Bicycle And Skating Safety Fund."
  2. a. A person who violates a requirement of this act shall be warned of the violation by the enforcing official. The parent or...
• Section 39:4-10.3 - Posting Of Sign Required; Violations, Penalties; Renters Required To Provide Helmet; Immunity.
  3. a. A person regularly engaged in the business of selling or renting bicycles shall post a sign at the point where the sale...
• Section 39:4-10.4 - Rules, Regulations
  4. The director, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations which...
• Section 39:4-10.5 - Definitions, Requirements Relative To Wearing Helmets When Roller Skating, Skate Boarding.
  1. a. As used in this act: "Director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety. "Roller skates"...
• Section 39:4-10.6 - Violations, Penalties, Disposition Of Fines Collected.
  2. a. A person who violates the provisions of section 1 of this act by failing to wear an approved helmet shall be warned...
• Section 39:4-10.7 - Noncompliance No Bar To Action.
  3.The failure of any person to comply with the provisions of section 1 of this act shall not constitute negligence per se, contributory negligence...
• Section 39:4-10.8 - Warning Notice For Roller Skates, Skateboards, Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices; Immunity From Civil Liability.
  4. a. It shall be unlawful to manufacture, assemble, sell, offer to sell or distribute roller skates, skateboards or electric personal assistive mobility devices...
• Section 39:4-10.9 - Posting Of Sign Required; Violations; Penalties.
  5. a. A person, firm, corporation or other legal entity regularly engaged in the business of selling or renting roller skates or skateboards shall...
• Section 39:4-10.10 - Rights, Duties Of Roller Skaters, Skateboarders On Roadway.
  6.Every person operating any roller skates or skateboard upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all...
• Section 39:4-10.10a - Regulation Of Skateboarding, Roller Skating; "Roller Skates" Defined.
  1.The governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance, regulate the operation of skateboards and roller skates upon the roadways and public properties under...
• Section 39:4-10.10b - Accommodation Of Roller Skates, Skateboards Not Required.
  2.Nothing in P.L.1998, c.36 (C.39:4-10.10a et seq.) or in P.L.1997, c.411 (C.39:4-10.5 et al.) shall obligate the Commissioner of Transportation to in any way...
• Section 39:4-10.11 - Roller Skaters, Skateboarders To Keep To Right Of Roadway; Exceptions.
  7.Every person operating any roller skates or skateboard upon a roadway shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable,...
• Section 39:4-10.12 - Act Not Applicable To Roller Skating Rinks.
  8.The provisions of this act shall not apply to the operators and patrons of roller skating rinks governed by the provisions of the "New...
• Section 39:4-10.13 - Rules, Regulations.
  9.The director, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), may promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate...
• Section 39:4-11 - Audible Signal
  No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with a bell or other device capable of giving a signal audible for a...
• Section 39:4-11.1 - Brake Required
  Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable the operator to make the braked wheels skid on dry, level, clean pavement....
• Section 39:4-12 - Position Of Hands And Feet; Carrying Another Person
  A person propelling or riding on a bicycle shall not ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto, nor...
• Section 39:4-14 - Hitching On Vehicles Prohibited
  No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, skates, sled, or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any streetcar or vehicle upon...
• Section 39:4-14.1 - Rights, Duties Of Bicycle Riders On Roadways, Exemptions.
  16. a. Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of...
• Section 39:4-14.2 - Keeping To Right; Exceptions; Single File
  Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable, exercising due care...
• Section 39:4-14.3 - Regulations Relative To Motorized Bicycles.
  2. a. Motorized bicycles shall not be operated upon interstate highways or upon public highways divided by a grass or concrete median or highways...
• Section 39:4-14.3a - Retail Sales; Conformance Of Bicycles To Act And Regulations
  No person engaged in the business of selling motorized bicycles at retail shall sell or offer to sell any motorized bicycle unless such motorized...
• Section 39:4-14.3b - Violations; Penalties
  Except as otherwise provided by this act, any person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be subject to a fine...
• Section 39:4-14.3c - Rules And Regulations
  The director may promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1977, c. 267, s. 5.
• Section 39:4-14.3d - Operator Only On Bicycle
  A motorized bicycle shall carry only the operator. L.1977, c. 267, s. 6.
• Section 39:4-14.3e - Compulsory Liability Insurance Coverage
  Every owner of a motorized bicycle principally garaged or operated in this State and every person in the business of renting motorized bicycles shall...
• Section 39:4-14.3f - Accident Reports
  Article 15 of chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes pertaining to accidents and reports shall be applicable to all accidents involving...
• Section 39:4-14.3g - Operation By Person Under Influence Of Liquor Or Drugs; Penalty
  It is unlawful for any person to operate a motorized bicycle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or a narcotic, hallucinogenic or habit-producing...
• Section 39:4-14.3h - Suspension Of Privilege; Second Violation
  Any person under the age of 17 who commits a second violation of the provisions of P.L.1975, c. 250 (C. 39:4-14.3) or P.L.1977, c....
• Section 39:4-14.3i - Registration; Requirements; Form And Content Of Certificate; Expiration; Renewal
  In addition to the requirements of section 2 of P.L.1975, c. 250 (C. 39:4-14.3) and P.L.1977, c. 267 (C. 39:4-14.3a et seq.), no motorized...
• Section 39:4-14.3j - Form For Sale Of Motorized Bicycles; Registration; Fees
  10. At the time of original sale of a motorized bicycle in this State, a motorized bicycle dealer shall complete a form, of a...
• Section 39:4-14.3k - License Plate
  At the time of issuance of the registration of the motorized bicycle, the director shall also issue to the registrant, at no additional cost,...
• Section 39:4-14.3l - . Removal From State, Destruction, Theft Or Discontinued Usage; Notice; Transfer Of Ownership
  Whenever a motorized bicycle for which a registration certificate has been issued has been permanently removed from the State, the owner shall notify the...
• Section 39:4-14.3m - Display Of License
  No person shall operate a motorized bicycle in this State unless a license plate is displayed in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 39:3-33...
• Section 39:4-14.3n - Make And Model Numbers; Certification; List Of Approved Bicycles
  a. The director shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), requiring manufacturers or...
• Section 39:4-14.3o - . Nonresident Motorized Bicycle Owner; Registration
  The registration provisions governing motorized bicycles shall not apply to a nonresident motorized bicycle owner who has complied with the registration and licensing laws...
• Section 39:4-14.3p - Proof Of Ownership; Bicycle Purchased Prior To Effective Date Of Act
  With respect to motorized bicycles purchased prior to the effective date of this act, and for which no bill of sale or other formal...
• Section 39:4-14.3q - Helmet
  No person shall operate a motorized bicycle unless he wears a protective helmet of a type approved by the director. L.1983, c. 105, s.
• Section 39:4-14.3r - Dealer Licensed As Motor Vehicle Dealer; Inapplicability Of Restrictions Contained In Municipal Land Use Law
  Requiring a motorized bicycle dealer to be licensed as a motor vehicle dealer under R.S. 39:10-19 for the purposes of this act shall not...
• Section 39:4-14.3s - Rules And Regulations
  The director shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.)...
• Section 39:4-14.3t - Violations; Fine
  Except as otherwise provided by this act, a person who violates any of the provisions of this act or any rule or regulation promulgated...
• Section 39:4-14.3u - Ownership Acquired Prior To Effective Date Of Act; Compliance With Act
  The owner of a motorized bicycle who acquired ownership prior to the effective date of this act shall have 90 days from the effective...
• Section 39:4-14.3v - Education Program For Safe Operation; Fund
  The director shall establish a fund not to exceed $50,000.00 per year for the purpose of providing an educational program for the safe operation...
• Section 39:4-14.3v1 - Educational Program For Safe Operation Of Bicycles; Fund
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall use a portion of the fund established pursuant to section 22 of P.L.1983, c. 105...
• Section 39:4-14.3w - Appropriation Of Fees
  23.The fees collected pursuant to this act shall be appropriated to the Division of Motor Vehicles. L.1983,c.105,s.23.
• Section 39:4-14.3x - Motorized Bicycle Operators Subject To Penalties
  An operator of a motorized bicycle who is convicted of a violation of R.S.39:4-66 concerning the operation of a vehicle when emerging from an...
• Section 39:4-14.4 - Sale Or Rent Of Bicycle; Equipment With Reflectors
  No person shall sell or offer to sell, or rent or offer to rent, whether it be by retail, wholesale or by auction, any...
• Section 39:4-14.4a - Helmet Use; Required Display Of Promotional Statement
  1. No person shall sell or offer to sell at retail any bicycle unless there is affixed to that bicycle a statement promoting the...
• Section 39:4-14.5 - Bicycle Defined
  As used in this act "bicycle" means any two-wheeled vehicle having a rear drive wheel which is solely human-powered and having a seat height...
• Section 39:4-14.6 - Inapplicability Of Act To Person Not Regularly Engaged In Selling Or Renting Bicycles
  This act shall not apply to the sale or rental of a bicycle by any person who is not regularly engaged in the business...
• Section 39:4-14.7 - Equipment; Rules And Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety is authorized and empowered to adopt rules and...
• Section 39:4-14.7a - Rules, Regulations; Warning Cards.
  2.The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative...
• Section 39:4-14.8 - Violations; Penalties
  Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be subject to a fine of not more than $50.00 for...
• Section 39:4-14.9 - Enforcement Of Act; Jurisdiction Of Proceedings To Collect Fine
  6. The enforcement of this act shall be vested in the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs of the Department of Law and...
• Section 39:4-14.10 - Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Device Defined; Regulations Concerning
  1. a. As used in this act, "electric personal assistive mobility device" means a self-balancing non-tandem two wheeled device designed to transport one person...
• Section 39:4-14.11 - Noncompliance With Regulations On Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Device Operation, Warning, Fine.
  3.An operator who fails to comply with the requirements of this act shall receive a warning for the first offense. For a second offense,...
• Section 39:4-14.12 - Motorized Scooter, Prohibited From Operation On Public Street, Highway, Sidewalk; Exceptions.
  2. a. No person, except for an operator with a mobility-related disability, as authorized by section 2 of P.L.2007, c.21 (C.39:4-14.15), shall operate a...
• Section 39:4-14.13 - Violations, Fines, Seizure, Community Service.
  3.A person violating the provisions of section 2 of this act shall be subject: a.For the first offense, to a fine of not less...
• Section 39:4-14.14 - Operation Of Motorized Scooters Permitted On Designated Municipal, County Property, Requirements.
  4.The governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance, permit the operation of motorized scooters upon designated municipal property, other than the streets, highways...
• Section 39:4-14.15 - Issuance Of Placard, Sticker Authorizing Operation Of Motorized Scooter By Handicapped Person; Regulations; Definition.
  2. a. Upon request, the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue to any holder of a handicapped person identification...
• Section 39:4-15 - Sleigh Bells On Horses Attached To A Sleigh
  No person shall drive a horse attached to a sleigh or sled on a highway unless there are a sufficient number of bells attached...
• Section 39:4-16 - Unattended Horses; Precautions Used
  No horse shall be left unattended in a highway unless securely fastened or unless the wheels of the vehicle to which he is harnessed...
• Section 39:4-17 - Unbitted Horses
  No horse shall be unbitted in a highway unless secured by a halter.
• Section 39:4-18 - Removing Part Of Vehicle Or Harness
  No person shall remove a wheel, pole shaft, whiffletree, swinglebar or a part of a vehicle or harness likely to cause accident if the...
• Section 39:4-19 - Obstructing Sidewalk With Tie Rope, Etc., Prohibited
  No person shall fasten a horse in such a manner that the tie rope, reins, or lines are an obstruction to the free use...
• Section 39:4-20 - Hitching Horses To Pole, Post, Tree Or Hydrant Prohibited
  No horse shall be hitched or fastened to a pole carrying any wires, a public lamp-post, or pole, a shade tree or its protecting...
• Section 39:4-21 - Racing On Highway Prohibited; Exception
  No person shall run or race a horse on a highway, whether the running, racing or trotting is for trial of speed or for...
• Section 39:4-22 - Reins Held In Hands
  No person shall cease to hold the reins in his hands while riding, driving, or conducting a horse.
• Section 39:4-23 - Mistreatment Of Horse, Violations, Disorderly Person; Certain Acts, Crime Of Fourth Degree
  39:4-23. No person shall either ill-treat, overdrive, override or unnecessarily or cruelly beat a horse. A person who violates this section shall be guilty...
• Section 39:4-24 - Use Of Whip
  No person shall crack or so use a whip as to annoy, interfere with or endanger a person or excite a horse other than...
• Section 39:4-25 - Lights On Animal-drawn Vehicles
  Every vehicle drawn by a horse or other beast shall carry, during the period from thirty minutes after sunset and thirty minutes before sunrise,...
• Section 39:4-25.1 - Rights And Duties Of Persons Riding Or Driving Animals
  Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject...
• Section 39:4-26 - Moving Heavy Machinery, Apparatus, Etc.; Registration Fee; Permits; Reciprocity
  A person may move along or across a public road or highway, road building machinery, vehicles, traction engines, rollers, structural units incapable of dismemberment...
• Section 39:4-27 - Loading And Operation Of Trailer; Permittee's Responsibility In Damages
  In the transportation of any such road building machinery, vehicle, traction engine, roller, structural unit incapable of dismemberment or other apparatus or machinery in...
• Section 39:4-28 - Height; Overhead Wires
  No such road building machinery, vehicle, traction engine, steam roller or other apparatus or machinery having a height, including load or equipment or apparatus...
• Section 39:4-29 - Time For Moving Along Street Railway Tracks
  No such road building machinery, vehicle, traction engine, steam roller or other apparatus or machinery shall be operated, driven, propelled or conveyed along the...
• Section 39:4-30 - Exceptions To Application Of Article; "Temporary" Or "In-transit" Registration Plates
  Nothing in this article shall apply to any road building machinery, vehicle, traction engine, steam roller or other apparatus or machinery running upon railroad...
• Section 39:4-31 - Violations Of Article; Fine
  A person violating a provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, pay such fine as may be imposed by the court, not exceeding...
• Section 39:4-31.1 - Operation Of Low-speed Vehicle On Public Roads; Conditions.
  2. a. A low-speed vehicle may be operated upon any public road or highway under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation with a...
• Section 39:4-31.2 - Requirements For Low-speed Vehicles Operated On Public Road, Highway.
  3. a. Low-speed vehicles operated upon any public road or highway in this State shall be maintained in proper condition and comply with the...
• Section 39:4-31.3 - Valid Driver's License Required For Operation Of Low-speed Vehicle; Registration, Insurance.
  4. a. Any person operating a low-speed vehicle in this State authorized pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2005, c.273 (C.39:4-31.1) shall be in possession...
• Section 39:4-31.4 - Certificate Of Origin Of Low-speed Vehicle; Waiver Of Liability By Purchaser.
  5. a. When a new low-speed vehicle is delivered in this State by the manufacturer to his agent or a dealer, or a person...
• Section 39:4-31.5 - Low-speed Vehicle Exempt From Inspection.
  6.No low-speed vehicle shall be subject to a motor vehicle inspection by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. The registered owner of a low-speed...
• Section 39:4-32 - Crossing Roadway; Signal.
  39:4-32. On highways where traffic is controlled by a traffic control signal or by traffic or police officers: a.Pedestrians shall not cross a roadway...
• Section 39:4-33 - Use Of Designated Crosswalk; Keeping To Right
  At intersections where traffic is directed by a police officer or traffic signal, no pedestrian shall enter upon or cross the highway at a...
• Section 39:4-34 - Pedestrians To Cross Within Crosswalk Or At Right Angles; Facing Traffic; Sidewalks
  Where traffic is not controlled and directed either by a police officer or a traffic control signal, pedestrians shall cross the roadway within a...
• Section 39:4-36 - Driver To Yield To Pedestrians, Exceptions; Violations, Penalties.
  39:4-36. a. The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection,...
• Section 39:4-36.1 - Crossing Having Pedestrian Tunnel Or Overhead Crossing; Right Of Way
  Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right of...
• Section 39:4-36.2 - "Pedestrian Safety Enforcement And Education Fund."
  1.There is created in the Division of Highway and Traffic Safety in the Department of Law and Public Safety a nonlapsing revolving fund to...
• Section 39:4-36.3 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Pedestrian Safety.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares: a.every year almost 5,000 pedestrians are killed in automobile accidents in the United States, accounting for roughly 12 percent...
• Section 39:4-36.4 - Identification Of Problem Intersections.
  2. The Commissioner of Transportation shall identify intersections controlled by a traffic control signal where making a right turn upon "Stop" or "Caution" signals...
• Section 39:4-37 - Regulating Crossing At Intersections By Local Authorities
  Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may regulate by ordinance, which shall first be approved by the director, the crossing of pedestrians at intersections...
• Section 39:4-37.1 - Right-of-way Crossing Intersection For Blind Person, Guide Dog Instructor.
  1.Any blind person using as a guide a walking cane, predominantly white or metallic in color or any blind person using as a guide...
• Section 39:4-38 - Vehicles Travelling Upon Street Car Route To Give Way To Street Car; Intersections; Overtaking And Passing Street Cars
  The driver or person in control of a vehicle traveling upon a regular street car route, and proceeding so as to obstruct the passage...
• Section 39:4-39 - Distance To Be Kept Behind Street Car
  A driver of a vehicle when following a street car, upon the street car tracks, shall keep at least ten feet behind the car.
• Section 39:4-40 - Passing Street Car
  The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass upon the left, a street car proceeding in the same direction, whether actually in...
• Section 39:4-41 - Driving Through Safety Zones Prohibited
  No driver of a vehicle shall drive through a safety zone, unless directed to do so by a police or traffic officer or official
• Section 39:4-42 - Action Of Motorman On Collision
  The motorman or driver of a street car which collides with a person or vehicle shall stop immediately, give his name and address and...
• Section 39:4-43 - Crossing Signals
  The motorman or driver of a street car, on approaching road intersections or street crossings, shall sound his signal in quick succession at a...
• Section 39:4-44 - Car Stops
  Every street railway company may establish certain road intersections, street crossings or other points along its railway as regular stops, and unless otherwise ordered...
• Section 39:4-45 - Obstruction Of Crosswalks By Street Cars
  The cars of a street railway company shall not be allowed to obstruct the crosswalks of a street.
• Section 39:4-46 - Commercial Motor Vehicle Identification; Gvwr To Be Displayed
  39:4-46. a. Every vehicle used for commercial purposes on a street or highway, except for passenger automobiles and vehicles owned or leased by a...
• Section 39:4-47 - Violations Of Article; Fine
  A person violating this article shall be fined not more than ten dollars ($10.00). In default of the payment thereof he shall be imprisoned...
• Section 39:4-48 - Operating Or Using Motor Vehicle Without Consent Of Owner; Fine
  No person shall operate or use any motor vehicle without the permission of the owner. Any person violating this section shall be fined not...
• Section 39:4-49 - Tampering With Vehicle; Fine
  No person shall interfere or tamper with a motor vehicle or put its engine in motion while it is standing, without its owner's permission....
• Section 39:4-49.1 - Drug Possession By Motor Vehicle Operator
  No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any highway while knowingly having in his possession or in the motor vehicle any controlled dangerous...
• Section 39:4-49.2 - Exemption; Physicians, Dentists, Etc.
  The provisions of section 1 of this act shall not apply to a duly licensed physician, dentist, registered pharmacist, veterinarian, nurse, podiatrist, interne or...
• Section 39:4-49.3 - Exemption; Common Carriers, Warehousemen, Etc.
  The provisions of section 1 of this act shall not apply to common carriers or to warehousemen while engaged in lawfully transporting or storing...
• Section 39:4-50 - Driving While Intoxicated.
  39:4-50. (a) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, a person who operates a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating...
• Section 39:4-50a - And 39:4-50b Have Been Reallocated As 39:4-50.22 And 39:4-50.23, Respectively.
• Section 39:4-50.2 - Consent To Taking Of Samples Of Breath; Record Of Test; Independent Test; Prohibition Of Use Of Force; Informing Accused.
  2. (a) Any person who operates a motor vehicle on any public road, street or highway or quasi-public area in this State shall be...
• Section 39:4-50.2a - Guidelines For Dwi And Breath Test Refusal Prosecutions
  3.In order to promote the uniform enforcement of R.S.39:4-50 and section 2 of P.L.1966, c.142 (C.39:4-50.2), the Attorney General shall promulgate guidelines concerning the...
• Section 39:4-50.3 - Method Of Analyses; Approval Of Techniques; Certification Of Analysts; Reports; Forms
  Chemical analyses of the arrested person's breath, to be considered valid under the provisions of this act, shall have been performed according to methods...
• Section 39:4-50.4a - Revocation For Refusal To Submit To Breath Test; Penalties.
  2. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, the municipal court shall revoke the right to operate a motor vehicle of...
• Section 39:4-50.5 - Severability
  If any provision of this act, or any particular application thereof, be found invalid, the same shall be deemed severable to the end that...
• Section 39:4-50.8 - Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund
  1. Upon a conviction of a violation of R.S.39:4-50 or section 2 of P.L.1981, c.512 (C.39:4-50.4a), the court shall collect from the defendant a...
• Section 39:4-50.9 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Drunk Driving Victim's Bill of Rights." L. 1985, c. 442, s. 1.
• Section 39:4-50.10 - "Victim" Defined
  As used in this act, "victim" means, unless otherwise indicated, a person who suffers personal physical or psychological injury or death or incurs loss...
• Section 39:4-50.11 - Victims' Rights
  Victims shall have the right to: a. Make statements to law enforcement officers regarding the facts of the motor vehicle accident and to reasonable...
• Section 39:4-50.12 - Consultation With Prosecutor
  A victim shall be provided with an opportunity to consult with the prosecutor prior to dismissal of the case or the filing of a...
• Section 39:4-50.13 - Tort Claims Act Rights
  Nothing contained in the act shall mitigate any right which the victim may have pursuant to the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act" (N.J.S. 59:1-1...
• Section 39:4-50.14 - Penalties For Underage Person Operating Motor Vehicle After Consuming Alcohol.
  1.Any person under the legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages who operates a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.01% or more,...
• Section 39:4-50.15 - Additional Penalty For Driving Under The Influence With A Minor As A Passenger.
  1. a. As used in this act: "Minor" means a person who is 17 years of age or younger. "Parent or guardian" means any...
• Section 39:4-50.16 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Ignition Interlock Devices.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares: a.This State's penalties for drunk driving, including the mandatory suspension of driver's licenses and counseling for offenders, are among...
• Section 39:4-50.17 - Sentencing Drunk Driving Offenders; Device Defined.
  2. a. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, in sentencing a first offender under R.S.39:4-50, the court may order, in...
• Section 39:4-50.17a - Monthly Leasing Fee For Installation Of Ignition Interlock Device.
  6. a. If a person is required to install an ignition interlock device and that person's family income does not exceed 100% of the...
• Section 39:4-50.18 - Dmv Notation Of Interlock Device Installation.
  3.The court shall notify the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles when a person has been ordered to install an interlock device in...
• Section 39:4-50.19 - Violation Of Law; Penalties.
  4. a. A person who fails to install an interlock device ordered by the court in a motor vehicle owned, leased or regularly operated...
• Section 39:4-50.20 - Certification Of Devices.
  5.The director shall certify or cause to be certified ignition interlock devices required by this act and shall publish a list of approved devices....
• Section 39:4-50.21 - Rules, Regulations.
  6.Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the division shall promulgate rules and regulations for the installation and use of...
• Section 39:4-50.22 - Written Statement Of Potential Civil, Criminal Liability For Permitting An Intoxicated Arrestee's Operation Of Motor Vehicle
  1.Whenever a person is summoned by or on behalf of a person who has been arrested for a violation of R.S.39:4-50 or section 2...
• Section 39:4-50.23 - Impoundment Of Vehicle Operated By Arrestee; Conditions Of Release; Fee For Towing, Storage
  2. a. Whenever a person has been arrested for a violation of R.S.39:4-50 or section 2 of P.L.1981, c.512 (C.39:4-50.4a), the arresting law enforcement...
• Section 39:4-51 - Sentence For Violation Of 39:4-50; Service, Work Release; Rules, Regulations.
  A person who has been convicted of a first or second violation of section 39:4-50 of this Title, and in pursuance thereof has been...
• Section 39:4-51a - No Consumption Of Alcoholic Beverages In Motor Vehicles; Presumption; Penalties.
  1. a. A person shall not consume an alcoholic beverage while operating a motor vehicle. A passenger in a motor vehicle shall not consume...
• Section 39:4-51b - Prohibition Of Possession Of Open, Unsealed Alcoholic Beverage Container, Circumstances
  6. a. All occupants of a motor vehicle located on a public highway, or the right-of-way of a public highway, shall be prohibited from...
• Section 39:4-52 - Racing On Highway Prohibited; Fine
  No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon a public highway for a wager or in a race or for the purpose of making...
• Section 39:4-53 - Leaving Vehicle With Engine Running Prohibited; Fine
  A person who leaves a motor vehicle, with its engine running, stationary on the highway and unoccupied by a person able to control it,...
• Section 39:4-54 - Trailers; Number Permitted; Towing Methods; Auxiliary Axles; Converter Dolly
  No motor vehicle shall be used on the public highways while drawing more than 2 motor-drawn vehicles. A "double saddle-mount," herein defined, means mounting...
• Section 39:4-55 - Action On Steep Grades And Curves
  The driver of a motor vehicle traversing a steep grade or mountain highway shall hold the vehicle under control and as near the right-hand...
• Section 39:4-56 - Delaying Traffic Prohibited
  No person shall drive or conduct a vehicle in such condition, so constructed or so loaded, as to be likely to cause delay in...
• Section 39:4-56.1 - Willfully Causing Vehicle To Become Disabled; Abandonment Of Vehicle Upon Public Highway
  (a) No person shall operate a vehicle upon the public highways, bridges or tunnels of this State or upon any highways, bridges or tunnels...
• Section 39:4-56.2 - Violations; Penalties
  Any person who has been convicted of a violation of this act shall be subject, for a first offense, to a fine of not...
• Section 39:4-56.3 - Suspension Of Registration
  The registration of any motor vehicle which is used by any person in violation of section 1 of this act shall be suspended for...
• Section 39:4-56.4 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that a serious threat to the health, safety and welfare of the people of this State may be presented...
• Section 39:4-56.5 - Abandonment Of Motor Vehicle
  1. a. It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon a motor vehicle on or along any highway, other than a limited access...
• Section 39:4-56.6 - Abandonment Of Vehicle On Private Property; Removal By Owner Of Property; Costs; Sale Of Vehicle.
  1.No person shall park or leave unattended a vehicle on private property without the consent of the owner or other person in control or...
• Section 39:4-56.7 - Issuance Of Summons For Violation By Law Enforcement Officer
  Any law enforcement officer may in the performance of his duty enter upon the property upon request of the property owner wherein a vehicle...
• Section 39:4-56.8 - Definitions; Removal Of Disabled Motor Vehicles By Towing Service Under Contract; Failure To Remove Debris Surrounding Vehicle; Penalty
  a. As used in this act: (1) "Public entity" means the State, and any county, municipality, district, or political subdivision and any authority, agency,...
• Section 39:4-57 - Observance Of Directions Of Officers
  Drivers of vehicles, street cars or horses shall at all times comply with any direction, by voice or hand, of a member of a...
• Section 39:4-57.1 - Activation Of Interior Light In Vehicle Upon Request Of Police Officer; Fine
  1.The driver of a motor vehicle equipped with an interior light, when stopped by a law enforcement officer during the period when lighted lamps...
• Section 39:4-58 - Driving Vehicle With View To Rear And Sides Obstructed
  No person shall drive a vehicle that is so constructed, loaded or covered in as to prevent its driver from having a clear view...
• Section 39:4-59 - Begging Rides Prohibited
  No person shall stand in a highway for the purpose of or while soliciting a ride from the operator of any vehicle other than...
• Section 39:4-60 - Soliciting Trade Or Contributions Permitted, Certain; Designation Of Particular Highway As Hazardous For Such Purposes; Signs; Penalty
  39:4-60. Except as provided herein, no person shall stand in the roadway of a highway to stop, impede, hinder or delay the progress of...
• Section 39:4-60.1 - Certain Rotating Or Flashing Lights Prohibited
  On and after the effective date of this act no rotating or flashing light which imitates or resembles rotating or flashing lights such as...
• Section 39:4-60.2 - Removal Without Notice
  Every such prohibited light or signal is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway or the...
• Section 39:4-60.3 - Emergency Use
  This act shall not apply to any rotating or flashing light used to indicate an emergency or hazardous condition. L.1970, c. 134, s. 3,...
• Section 39:4-61 - Tailboard Riding
  No person shall ride upon the rear end of a vehicle, without the consent of the driver, and when so riding, no part of...
• Section 39:4-62 - Leaving Curb
  A vehicle waiting at the curb shall promptly give place to a vehicle about to take on or let off passengers.
• Section 39:4-63 - Placing, Throwing Or Depositing From Motor Vehicle, Injurious Substance On Highway; Fine; Forfeiture Of Right To Operate Motor Vehicle
  A person who throws, places or deposits, or who permits to be thrown, placed, or deposited from a motor vehicle, any glass or other...
• Section 39:4-64 - Highway Littering Ban
  39:4-64. a. No person shall throw or drop any bundle, object, article or debris of any nature from a vehicle whether in motion or...
• Section 39:4-64.1 - Signs Informing Of Consequences Of Violation
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall cause to be erected on the highways such signs as he deems necessary to inform...
• Section 39:4-65 - Letting Off Or Taking On Persons
  No operator of a vehicle shall stop the vehicle on the highway for the purpose of letting off or taking on a person, other...
• Section 39:4-66 - Emerging From Alley, Driveway, Garage, Or Private Road Or Driveway
  39:4-66. a. The operator of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, garage, or private road or driveway, shall stop the vehicle immediately prior...
• Section 39:4-66.1 - Right Of Way On Entering Or Leaving Alley, Driveway, Garage, Or Private Road Or Driveway
  When the driver of a vehicle, about to enter an alley, driveway, garage, or private road or driveway from a highway, shall find it...
• Section 39:4-66.2 - Avoidance Of Traffic Control Signal, Sign; Violations, Penalties
  1. Except for emergency vehicles and motor vehicles being operated at the direction of a law enforcement officer, no person shall drive a motor...
• Section 39:4-67 - Obstructing Passage Of Other Vehicles Or Street Cars Prohibited; Clearance Of Intersections
  No vehicle or street car shall be permitted by the owner or driver thereof to so occupy a street as to interfere with or...
• Section 39:4-68 - Doors Of Street Car Or Autobus Closed
  No operator of a street car or autobus shall knowingly operate the same while any door thereof is open.
• Section 39:4-69 - Riding On Part Not Intended For Passengers Prohibited
  No person shall ride on, and no operator shall knowingly allow a person to ride on a street car or vehicle, or on a...
• Section 39:4-71 - Driving On Sidewalk
  No person shall drive or back a horse or vehicle across, or allow the same to stand on a sidewalk unless it be in...
• Section 39:4-72 - Slowing, Stopping On Signal From Driver, Rider Of A Horse; Violations, Fine.
  39:4-72. a. When approaching or passing a person riding or driving a horse, a person driving a motor vehicle shall reduce the vehicle's speed...
• Section 39:4-75 - Overweight Vehicles On Bridge; Penalty.
  39:4-75. a. No motor vehicle shall be driven over a bridge in this State if the gross weight of the vehicle and load is...
• Section 39:4-76 - Driving Overweight Vehicles On Interstate Bridges; Penalty; Liability For Damages; Disposition Of Penalties
  No vehicle shall be driven over any interstate bridge owned or maintained in whole or in part by this State, upon which is posted...
• Section 39:4-77 - Loading So As To Spill Prohibited; Minimum Safety Standards; Penalty
  No person shall cause or permit a vehicle to be so loaded or operate a vehicle so loaded that the contents or any part...
• Section 39:4-77.1 - Snow, Ice Dislodged From Moving Vehicle Causing Injury, Property Damage; Penalties; Public Awareness Campaign, Data Collection System.
  1. a. (1) Each driver of a motor vehicle operated on a street or highway in this State shall have an affirmative duty to...
• Section 39:4-77.2 - "Motor Vehicle Snow And Ice Removal Safety Fund."
  2. a. There is established in the General Fund a separate, nonlapsing, dedicated account to be known as the "Motor Vehicle Snow and Ice...
• Section 39:4-77.3 - "Anti-snow Dumping Act"; Violations, Penalties.
  1. a. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Anti-Snow Dumping Act." b.The commercial operator of any snowplow, or other...
• Section 39:4-78 - Carrying Metals
  No person shall load a vehicle or drive a vehicle so loaded with iron or other material that may strike together, unless it is...
• Section 39:4-79 - Backing To Curb
  No operator shall allow a vehicle to stand backed to the curb when loading or unloading, except when it is impracticable to load or...
• Section 39:4-80 - Traffic Control By Officers
  When a traffic or police officer is stationed in a highway for the purpose of directing traffic, he may regulate and control traffic at...
• Section 39:4-80.1 - Penalty For Failure To Comply With School Crossing Guard's Signal To Stop.
  1.A motor vehicle operator who fails to comply with a school crossing guard's signal to stop during those time periods when that guard is...
• Section 39:4-81 - Traffic Signals, Observance; Rule At Nonoperational Signals.
  39:4-81. a. The driver of every vehicle, the motorman of every street car and every pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic...
• Section 39:4-82 - Keeping To Right
  Upon all highways of sufficient width, except upon one-way streets, the driver of a vehicle shall drive it on the right half of the...
• Section 39:4-82.1 - Two Roadway Highways; Driving Upon
  Whenever any highway has been divided into two roadways by leaving an intervening space or by a physical barrier or clearly indicated dividing section...
• Section 39:4-83 - Keeping To Right At Intersections; Exception On One-way Roadway
  In crossing an intersection of highways or the intersection of a highway and a railroad right of way, the driver of a vehicle shall...
• Section 39:4-84 - Passing To Right When Proceeding In Opposite Directions
  Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, each giving to the other at least one-half of the...
• Section 39:4-85 - Passing To Left When Overtaking; Passing When In Lines; Passing On Right.
  39:4-85. The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall pass at a safe distance to the left thereof...
• Section 39:4-85.1 - Designation Of One-way Traffic.
  42.The commissioner with respect to highways under his jurisdiction may by regulation, and local and county authorities with respect to highways under their jurisdiction...
• Section 39:4-86 - Overtaking And Passing Vehicles; Crossing "No Passing" Lines
  The driver of a vehicle shall not drive to the left side of the center line of a highway in overtaking and passing another...
• Section 39:4-87 - Overtaken Vehicle To Give Way.
  39:4-87. The driver of a vehicle on a highway, about to be overtaken and passed by another vehicle, approaching from the rear, shall give...
• Section 39:4-87.1 - Right Of Way Of Certain Buses Reentering Traffic.
  1. a. The driver of a non-emergency vehicle upon a highway shall yield the right of way to any bus, provided that: (1)The driver...
• Section 39:4-88 - Traffic On Marked Lanes.
  When a roadway has been divided into clearly marked lanes for traffic, drivers of vehicles shall obey the following regulations: a.A vehicle shall normally...
• Section 39:4-88.1 - Penalties, Fines.
  2.The penalty for a violation of failing to keep right under R.S.39:4-82 or failure to observe traffic lanes under R.S. 39:4-88 shall be a...
• Section 39:4-88.2 - Repository Fund.
  3.There is created within the Department of the Treasury, a separate, non-lapsing fund that shall be administered by the Department of Transportation. The fund...
• Section 39:4-89 - Following; Space Between Trucks
  The driver of a vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the speed of...
• Section 39:4-90 - Right Of Way At Intersections
  The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall yield the right of way to a vehicle which has entered the intersection. When 2...
• Section 39:4-90.1 - Limited Access Highways, Driving Onto Or From
  No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited-access highway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority....
• Section 39:4-91 - Right Of Way Of Emergency Vehicles; Liability Of Drivers.
  39:4-91. a. The driver of a vehicle upon a highway shall yield the right of way to any authorized emergency vehicle when it is...
• Section 39:4-92 - Authorized Emergency Vehicles; Clearance For; Following Or Parking Near
  Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle giving audible signal, and equipped, as required by section 39:4-91 of this Title, and unless...
• Section 39:4-92.1 - Fire Department Vehicle Returning To Fire Station; Flashing Red Light
  It shall be lawful for any fire department vehicle when returning to its fire station from an emergency call to display a flashing red...
• Section 39:4-92.2 - Procedure For Motorist Approaching Stationary Authorized Emergency Vehicle, Tow Truck, Highway Maintenance Or Emergency Service Vehicle.
  1. a. The operator of a motor vehicle approaching a stationary authorized emergency vehicle as defined in R.S.39:1-1 that is displaying a flashing, blinking...
• Section 39:4-93 - Processions
  If a procession takes longer than five minutes to pass a given point, it shall be interrupted every five minutes for the passage of...
• Section 39:4-94 - Railroad Blocking Highway
  No employee of a steam or electric railroad company shall operate a locomotive, train or crossing gate in such a manner as to unnecessarily...
• Section 39:4-94.2 - State, County Or Municipal Highway, Road Or Street Closed With Posted Notice And Barricade; Violations; Penalty
  Whenever by order of the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, a State highway, or by resolution of a county governing body, a county...
• Section 39:4-95 - "Vehicle" Defined
  As used in this article, the word "vehicle" includes street cars.
• Section 39:4-96 - Reckless Driving; Punishment
  39:4-96. A person who drives a vehicle heedlessly, in willful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others, in a manner so...
• Section 39:4-97 - Careless Driving
  39:4-97. A person who drives a vehicle carelessly, or without due caution and circumspection, in a manner so as to endanger, or be likely...
• Section 39:4-97a - Agricultural, Recreational Property Protected
  No person shall operate a motor vehicle, except a motor vehicle operated for emergency purposes by a fire department or ambulance or rescue squad,...
• Section 39:4-97.1 - Slow Speeds As Blocking Traffic
  No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic...
• Section 39:4-97.2 - Driving, Operating A Motor Vehicle In An Unsafe Manner, Offense Created; Fines; Surcharge.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a motor...
• Section 39:4-97.3 - Use Of Wireless Telephone, Electronic Communication Device In Moving Vehicles; Definitions; Enforcement.
  1. a. The use of a wireless telephone or electronic communication device by an operator of a moving motor vehicle on a public road...
• Section 39:4-97.4 - Inapplicability Of Act To Certain Officials.
  2.The prohibitions set forth in this act shall not be applicable to any of the following persons while in the actual performance of their...
• Section 39:4-97.5 - Supersedure, Preemption Of Local Ordinances.
  3.This act supersedes and preempts all ordinances of any county or municipality with regard to the use of a wireless telephone or electronic communication...
• Section 39:4-98 - Rates Of Speed.
  39:4-98. Rates of speed. Subject to the provisions of R.S.39:4-96 and R.S.39:4-97 and except in those instances where a lower speed is specified in...
• Section 39:4-98.1 - Designation Of Lower Maximum Speed Limits For Trucks Of Registered Gross Weight Of 10,000 Pounds And Over
  In accordance with the provisions of section 39:4-98 of the Revised Statutes, the State Highway Commissioner may, by regulation and identification by appropriate signs,...
• Section 39:4-98.2 - Counties Or Municipalities; Reduction Of Regular Speed Limit For 72 Hours For Maintenance Or Repairs; Notice To Commissioner
  Any county or municipal governing body may adopt an ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, designating a county or municipal official who may order a...
• Section 39:4-98.3 - Short Title
  2.This act may be known and shall be cited as the "Sixty-Five MPH Speed Limit Implementation Act." L.1997,c.415, s.2.
• Section 39:4-98.4 - Definitions Relative To 65 Mph Speed Limit.
  3.As used in this act: "Authorities" means the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and the South Jersey Transportation Authority. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Transportation....
• Section 39:4-98.5 - Speed Limit Of 65mph Established, Certain Highways
  4. a. Within four months following the effective date of this act, the commissioner, in consultation with the Attorney General and the authorities, shall...
• Section 39:4-98.6 - Certain Fines Doubled Where Speed Limit Is 65mph
  5. a. The fine for a motor vehicle offense embodied in the following sections of statutory law, when committed in an area which has...
• Section 39:4-98.7 - Speeding 20mph Or More Over Limit; Fines, Certain; Doubled
  6.The fine for a motor vehicle offense shall be double the amount specified by law when traveling 20 miles per hour or more over...
• Section 39:4-98.8 - Study To Determine Effect Of 65mph Speed Limit; Report; Implementation
  7. a. During the first 18 months following the establishment of 65 miles per hour speed limits on eligible public highways pursuant to section...
• Section 39:4-98.9 - Emergency Orders
  8. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner is authorized to set or change by emergency order, for periods...
• Section 39:4-99 - Exceeding Speed Limitations; Speed Specified In Charge
  It shall be prima facie unlawful for a person to exceed any of the foregoing speed limitations or any speed limitation in effect as...
• Section 39:4-100 - Rate Of Speed Across Sidewalk
  No vehicle or horse shall be driven or ridden across a sidewalk at a rate of speed greater than four miles per hour.
• Section 39:4-101 - Speedways
  Nothing in this article shall apply to a speedway, constructed with the permission of the local authorities or the board of freeholders, as the...
• Section 39:4-102 - Speeding By Physicians In Emergencies
  If a physician's motor vehicle is stopped for exceeding the speed limit while in the act of responding to an emergency call, the registration...
• Section 39:4-103 - Exemptions From Speed Regulations
  Motor vehicles belonging to the military establishment, while in use for official purposes in time of riot, insurrection or invasion; all police officers, while...
• Section 39:4-103.1 - Photo Radar Defined, Usage Prohibited
  1. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a law enforcement officer or agency shall not use photo radar to enforce...
• Section 39:4-104 - Violations Of Article; Penalty
  A person violating a section of this article shall, for each violation, be subject to a fine of not less than $50.00 or more...
• Section 39:4-105 - Color System
  Traffic signals or signal devices shall conform strictly with the provisions of this article. A three-color system shall be used; red, amber and green....
• Section 39:4-106 - Sequence Of Lights
  The colors shall be shown in the following sequence: A green light displayed for a predetermined number of seconds followed by an amber light...
• Section 39:4-107 - Period Or Cycle
  The period or cycle shall be based on counts of turning and through traffic and study of turns, special intersections, distance between intersections and...
• Section 39:4-108 - Semaphores
  Semaphores shall have four vanes or sides, the stop vanes having a red field with the word "stop" plainly visible thereon, and the go...
• Section 39:4-109 - Position Of Lenses
  When a vertical arrangement of lenses is used, red shall be placed at the top, amber in the middle and green at the bottom....
• Section 39:4-110 - Height Of Signals
  Traffic signals shall be placed at such height as to be plainly visible to approaching traffic at a distance of at least one hundred...
• Section 39:4-111 - Power Of Lights
  The light shall be of such power as to cause the signal to be visible for at least three hundred feet.
• Section 39:4-112 - Visibility Of Signals To Traffic At Intersections
  Traffic control signals shall be so located as to be plainly visible to all traffic to be regulated and shall provide at least two...
• Section 39:4-113 - Continuously Controlled Highway
  Each intersection on a continuously controlled highway shall be controlled by signals or suitable signs. If traffic signals are not erected at every intersection...
• Section 39:4-114 - Traffic Signal In Paved Roadway Or Poles In Crosswalk Lanes Prohibited
  No traffic signal shall be so located as to obstruct the paved width of the highway, nor shall poles carrying signal supports be so...
• Section 39:4-115 - Making Right Or Left Turn.
  39:4-115. The driver of a vehicle or the motorman of a streetcar: a. intending to turn to the right or left at an intersection...
• Section 39:4-116 - Special Right Or Left Turn
  Special right or left turn movements may be provided when approved by the director at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic control signals,...
• Section 39:4-117 - Special Pedestrian Interval
  A special pedestrian interval may be provided when approved by the director at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic control signals. When a...
• Section 39:4-118 - Beacon Or Flashing Signal
  Beacon or flashing signals may be erected on pedestals or posts or suspended by means of mast arms or cables over the intersection, but...
• Section 39:4-119 - Traffic Control Signals Operating As Flashing Mechanisms; Red; Amber
  Traffic control signals and beacon or flashing signals when operating as flashing mechanisms shall conform to the following: a. Flashing red: The red lens...
• Section 39:4-120 - Traffic Control Signal Devices.
  39:4-120. The commissioner may determine the character, type, location, placing and operation of all traffic control signal devices on the highways of this State....
• Section 39:4-120.1 - Official Traffic Control Signals
  Official traffic control signals shall be placed only by the authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction as authorized by law and...
• Section 39:4-120.2 - Flashing Mechanism; Use By Municipalities
  Subject to the provisions of R.S. 39:4-8 and P.L.1969, c. 65 (C. 27:1A-43 et seq.), a municipality may determine the operation of any approved...
• Section 39:4-120.3 - Submission Of Written Information To Commissioner
  Any municipality seeking to enact an ordinance, regulation or resolution under this act shall first submit written information to the Commissioner of the Department...
• Section 39:4-120.5 - Definitions
  1. As used in this act: a. "Private road open to the public" means a private road leading from an establishment open to the...
• Section 39:4-120.6 - Erection Of Traffic Control Device By Owner Of Private Open Road
  2. The owner of a private road open to the public which forms a public-private intersection may erect an official traffic control device at...
• Section 39:4-120.7 - Approval For Traffic Control Device
  3. a. Where the public-private intersection contains a State highway, the Commissioner of Transportation by regulation shall approve the erection of an official traffic...
• Section 39:4-120.8 - Owner's Responsibilities
  4. The owner of the private road open to the public shall obtain, install and maintain any official traffic control device at a public-private...
• Section 39:4-120.9 - Drivers' Obedience
  5. The driver of a motor vehicle shall observe and obey an official traffic control device erected at a public-private intersection in the same...
• Section 39:4-120.10 - Penalties
  6. For a violation of this act, the offender shall be subject to the same penalties as exist in connection with violations at public...
• Section 39:4-120.11 - Rules, Regulations
  7. The Commissioner of Transportation may promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the...
• Section 39:4-120.4 - Ordinance, Regulation Or Resolution; Effective Date
  Any ordinance, regulation or resolution adopted hereunder shall become effective on the ninetieth day following enactment unless it shall have been disapproved before that...
• Section 39:4-121 - Traffic Lights On State Roads In Suburban Districts At Location Of Fire Engine Houses; Installation By State Highway Commission
  The State Highway Commissioner, after proper investigation and survey, subject to the approval of the director, may install and maintain traffic lights upon State...
• Section 39:4-121.1 - Dangerous Intersections In Counties Or Municipalities; Traffic Lights
  Any county or municipality, wherein a dangerous intersection has been established by reason of the construction of a State highway within the territorial limits...
• Section 39:4-121.2 - Expenses Paid From State Highway Fund
  The state highway commissioner may expend such moneys as may be necessary to install and maintain traffic lights at the places mentioned in section...
• Section 39:4-121.3 - Installation, Alteration, Maintenance Of Traffic Control Devices
  Upon approval by the Department of Transportation of a request by a county or municipality for the installation, alteration or maintenance of a traffic...
• Section 39:4-122 - Signal By Police Whistle
  A driver shall, upon one blast of a police whistle given by a police officer with hand raised, bring the vehicle to a full...
• Section 39:4-123 - Right And Left Hand Turns
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection shall do so as follows: (a)...
• Section 39:4-124 - Method Of Turning At Intersection; Local Authorities May Determine
  The State Highway Commissioner and local authorities, with reference to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may modify the method provided in section 39:4-123 of...
• Section 39:4-125 - Turning On Curve, Grade Or Place Where View Obstructed Or State Highway Marked With "No U Turn" Sign
  Turning on curve, grade or place where view obstructed or State highway marked with "no U turn" sign. The driver of a vehicle shall...
• Section 39:4-126 - Signaling Before Starting, Turning Or Stopping
  No person shall turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway as required in section 39:4-123,...
• Section 39:4-127 - Backing Or Turning In Street
  No vehicle shall back or make a turn in a street, if by so doing it interferes with other vehicles, but shall go around...
• Section 39:4-127.1 - Railroad Crossings; Stopping
  (a) Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section, the driver of...
• Section 39:4-127.2 - Movable Span Bridges
  No person shall drive any vehicle through, around, or under any gate or barrier at or on the approaches to a movable span bridge...
• Section 39:4-128 - Vehicles Required To Stop At Grade Crossings; Method Of Crossing; Exceptions; Notice To Railroad Of Intention To Cross With Certain Vehicles Or Machinery; Violations; Penalties.
  39:4-128. (a) The driver of any omnibus, designed for carrying more than six passengers, or of any school bus carrying any school child or...
• Section 39:4-128.1 - School Buses Stopped For Children, Certain Disabled Persons, Duty Of Motorists, Bus Driver; Violations, Penalties.
  1.On highways having roadways not divided by safety islands or physical traffic separation installations, the driver of a vehicle approaching or overtaking a bus,...
• Section 39:4-128.3 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act: a. "Division" means the Division of Motor Vehicles. b. "Frozen dessert truck" means every motor vehicle in which...
• Section 39:4-128.4 - Approaching Or Overtaking Stopped Frozen Dessert Truck; Stopping
  a. The driver of a vehicle approaching or overtaking from either direction a frozen dessert truck stopped on the highway shall stop before reaching...
• Section 39:4-128.5 - Frozen Dessert Truck; Equipment
  In addition to other equipment required by law, every frozen dessert truck shall be equipped with: a. Signal lamps mounted at the same level...
• Section 39:4-128.6 - Stopped Frozen Dessert Truck; Duty Of Driver
  a. The driver of a frozen dessert truck stopped on the highway for the purpose of vending shall actuate the special red flashing lights...
• Section 39:4-128.7 - Conditions For Vending
  a. A person shall not vend on streets where the speed limit exceeds 30 miles per hour. b. A person shall not vend within...
• Section 39:4-128.8 - Backing Up Truck To Make Sale; Prohibition
  The driver of a frozen dessert truck shall not back up the same to make or attempt a sale. L.1979, c. 438, s. 6.
• Section 39:4-128.9 - Riding In Or On Frozen Dessert Truck; Authorized Persons Only
  a. The driver of a frozen dessert truck shall not permit any unauthorized person to ride in or on the vehicle. b. A person...
• Section 39:4-128.10 - Violations; Penalty
  Any person violating any provision of this act shall be liable for a penalty of not more than $100.00 for each offense, which may...
• Section 39:4-128.11 - Regulations Relative To Certain Commercial Vehicles Stopping At Railroad Crossings.
  10. a. A driver of a commercial motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle that is required to stop at a railroad crossing...
• Section 39:4-129 - Action In Case Of Accident.
  39:4-129. (a) The driver of any vehicle, knowingly involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to any person shall immediately stop the...
• Section 39:4-130 - Immediate Notice Of Accident; Written Report.
  39:4-130. The driver of a vehicle or street car involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person, or damage...
• Section 39:4-131 - Accident Reports; Availability.
  39:4-131. The commission shall prepare and supply to police departments and other suitable agencies, forms for accident reports calling for sufficiently detailed information with...
• Section 39:4-131.1 - Inconsistent Rule, Regulation, Resolution Or Ordinance Inconsistent With Act Or Establishing Fee In Excess Of Fee Under Right To Know Law; Supersedure
  Any rule, regulation, resolution or ordinance inconsistent with this act or establishing a fee in excess of the fee permitted by section 2 of...
• Section 39:4-132 - Certain Damages Reported By Repairman
  The person in charge of a garage or repair shop to which is brought a motor vehicle which shows evidence of having been involved...
• Section 39:4-134 - Report Of Death To Director
  Every county prosecutor, county medical examiner, or other official performing like functions shall make a report to the director with respect to a death...
• Section 39:4-134.1 - Application Of Article
  The duties and responsibilities imposed by the provisions of this article upon all persons designated therein shall apply to accidents occurring upon highways and...
• Section 39:4-134.2 - "Next-of-kin Registry."
  1. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall develop an emergency contact information registry program. Under the program, the...
• Section 39:4-134.3 - Use Of "Next-of-kin Registry."
  2. a. When a motor vehicle accident results in the serious bodily injury, death, or incapacitation of a driver or any passenger, the law...
• Section 39:4-134.4 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The chief administrator may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation...
• Section 39:4-135 - Parking; Direction And Side Of Street; Angle Parking; One-way Street
  The operator of a vehicle shall not stop, stand or park the vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the...
• Section 39:4-136 - Parking On Highway; Removing Vehicle; Disabled Vehicle
  No person shall park or leave standing a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway, outside of a business or residence district, when...
• Section 39:4-137 - Vehicle Without Driver; Brakes Set; Motor Stopped; Wheels Turned To Curb
  No person having control or charge of a motor vehicle shall allow it to stand on a highway unattended without first effectively setting the...
• Section 39:4-138 - Places Where Parking Prohibited; Exceptions; Moving Vehicle Not Under One's Control Into Prohibited Area.
  39:4-138. Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a traffic or police officer or traffic...
• Section 39:4-138.1 - Determination Of "No Parking Zones".
  1.The commissioner, by regulations, shall have authority to establish and maintain "no parking" zones on portions of State highways where parking is deemed hazardous...
• Section 39:4-138.3 - Parking In Front Of Driveway Permitted; Conditions
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.39:4-138 to the contrary, any municipality may, by ordinance, permit the parking of motor vehicles in front of private...
• Section 39:4-138.4 - Permits; Issuance, Application, Description
  2. Any municipality enacting an ordinance pursuant to section 1 of this act shall provide for the issuance of permits which authorize the parking...
• Section 39:4-138.5 - Display Required; Permit Fees
  3. A motor vehicle shall not be permitted to be parked in front of a private driveway unless the owner of the private driveway...
• Section 39:4-138.6 - Municipal Authority To Set Certain Permissible Parking Distances.
  2.A municipality may mandate by ordinance the permissible distance a person may park a motor vehicle from a crosswalk, side line of a street...
• Section 39:4-139 - Loading Or Unloading Passengers Or Materials; Period At Certain Places
  No operator of a vehicle shall stand or park the vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary for the loading or...
• Section 39:4-139.2 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Parking Offenses Adjudication Act." L. 1985, c. 14, s. 1.
• Section 39:4-139.3 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Director" means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles. b. "Division" means the Division of Motor Vehicles...
• Section 39:4-139.4 - Uniform Traffic Ticket; Complaint And Summons; Contents; Personal Service
  a. The complaint and summons shall be a uniform traffic ticket in the form prescribed by the Administrative Director of the Courts and shall...
• Section 39:4-139.5 - Joint Liability Of Owner And Operator; Recovery By Owner Against Operator; Leased Vehicles
  a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, the owner and operator shall be jointly liable for parking offenses, unless the owner...
• Section 39:4-139.6 - Failure To Answer Or Appear; Rule Applicable; Procedures; Notice
  The municipal court shall immediately upon expiration of time to answer or appear, with respect to residents of New Jersey, follow the procedures set...
• Section 39:4-139.7 - Answer To Parking Ticket Or Failure To Appear Notice
  a. In answer to a parking ticket or failure to appear notice, a person to whom a parking ticket or failure to appear notice...
• Section 39:4-139.8 - Evidence; Submission To Court; Presence Of Officer; Default Judgment After Failure To Answer Or Pay Fine And Penalties; Effect; Assessment Of Costs; Appeals; Limitation Of Actions
  a. The officer issuing the ticket shall not be required to appear at the hearing of a case unless the respondent has denied that...
• Section 39:4-139.9 - Operating Costs; Civil Contempt
  a. Out of each parking penalty assessed and disbursed to the municipality where a failure to appear notice was issued under these provisions, $2.00...
• Section 39:4-139.10 - Failure To Respond, Pay Parking Judgment, Penalties.
  9. a. If a person has failed to respond to a failure to appear notice or has failed to pay a parking judgment, the...
• Section 39:4-139.10a - Time Limit On Enforcement Of Parking Violations.
  1.In any parking case, if the municipal court fails, within three years of the date of the violation, to either issue a warrant for...
• Section 39:4-139.11 - Restoration Of Driver's License, Registration After Satisfaction Of Fines And Penalties; Recordation.
  10. a. When a person whose license or motor vehicle registration has been suspended pursuant to subsection b. of section 9 of P.L.1985, c.14...
• Section 39:4-139.12 - Suspension Of License; Fee; Deposit
  There shall be included in the fines and penalties imposed by the court on a person whose license has been suspended pursuant to subsection...
• Section 39:4-139.13 - Impoundment Or Immobilization Of Vehicle With Outstanding Warrants; Authorization By Municipalities By Ordinance; Sale At Auction; Reclamation Of Possession Prior To Sale; Disposition Of Proceeds
  a. The governing body of every municipality may make, amend, repeal and enforce an ordinance authorizing the impoundment or immobilization of a vehicle found...
• Section 39:4-139.14 - Contracts By Municipalities With Public Agency Or Private Organization For Services To Process Parking Offenses; Plan By Municipality; Approval By Supreme Court
  A municipality may enter into a contract with a public agency or private organization for services to be rendered in the processing of parking...
• Section 39:4-140 - Designation Of Through Highways, Stop Intersections And Yield Intersections; Erection Of Stop Or Yield Signs
  The Commissioner of Transportation, with reference to State highways, may by regulation and the local authorities, with reference to any highway under their jurisdiction,...
• Section 39:4-141 - Placing Of Signs
  The official, board or body charged with the maintenance of a highway or section thereof designated as a through street, or of an intersection...
• Section 39:4-143 - Intersecting Through Streets
  When through streets intersect each other the director shall determine the highway to be known as the through street and cause the board or...
• Section 39:4-144 - Stopping Or Yielding Right Of Way Before Entering Stop Or Yield Intersections.
  39:4-144. No driver of a vehicle or street car shall enter upon or cross an intersecting street marked with a "stop" sign unless: a.The...
• Section 39:4-183.1 - Legal Authority
  Traffic signs shall be placed only by the authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction as authorized by law and only for...
• Section 39:4-183.1a - Installation Of Traffic Control Device, Sign By Municipality At Request Of School.
  1.Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipality may, upon the request of the appropriate board of education or, in the case of a...
• Section 39:4-183.1b - Designation Of "Older And Walking Impaired Persons Crossing" Areas
  The Commissioner of Transportation, with reference to State highways, may by regulation and the local authorities, with reference to any highway under their jurisdiction,...
• Section 39:4-183.2 - Signs Hereafter Erected
  All traffic signs hereafter erected, whether initial installations or replacements, must conform in all respects to the provisions of this act. L.1941, c. 345,...
• Section 39:4-183.3 - Display Of Unauthorized Traffic Signs
  No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway, any unauthorized traffic sign, device or other contrivance which purports...
• Section 39:4-183.4 - Prohibited Signs Deemed A Nuisance; Action For Removal
  A sign, device or other contrivance prohibited by section four of this act shall be deemed a public and private nuisance and any citizen...
• Section 39:4-183.6 - Determination Of Signage.
  7.The commissioner may determine the character, type, location, wording or symbol, and use of all traffic signs on the highways of this State; may...
• Section 39:4-183.8 - Materials
  Permanent traffic signs should be made of metal or comparable durable material; wood may be used for large signs and also for temporary and...
• Section 39:4-183.9 - Design Of Traffic Signs.
  10.The design of all traffic signs shall conform to and have the minimum dimensions of the specifications adopted by the commissioner, except as otherwise...
• Section 39:4-183.10 - Message; Wording And Symbols
  Wording and arrangement for each type of traffic sign shall be as specified in subsequent sections of this act; symbols on the sign shall...
• Section 39:4-183.11 - Illumination; Reflectorization
  All warning signs, and all regulatory signs, with the exception of pedestrian signs, urban parking signs and signs having a significance only during daylight...
• Section 39:4-183.12 - Location
  All traffic signs shall be located as provided in subsequent sections of this act covering details of design and installation. Signs other than temporary...
• Section 39:4-183.15 - Continuous Maintenance
  All traffic signs shall be kept in good order and clearly legible at all times. Signs damaged or destroyed shall be replaced promptly. Signs...
• Section 39:4-183.21a - Removal Of Certain Signs.
  3.The commissioner shall, upon receiving notice from a railroad company that it has abandoned a particular line and the grade crossings thereon, order the...
• Section 39:4-183.22a - Construction Warning Signs
  The design and location of standard construction warning signs should be as follows: (a) Shape--Rectangle with longer dimension horizontal; (b) Color--White background with black...
• Section 39:4-183.24 - Standard Location, Information Signs.
  25.Standard location and information signs shall conform to the design and specifications adopted by the commissioner. L.1941,c.345,s.25; amended 1951, c.23, s.98; 2003, c.13, s.56.
• Section 39:4-183.25 - Repeal
  Article eighteen of chapter four of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes (R.S. 39:4-146 to and including R.S. 39:4-183) is repealed. L.1941, c. 345,...
• Section 39:4-183.27 - Rules And Regulations; Placement, Specifications, Location And Maintenance Of Traffic Signs And Markings
  The Commissioner of Transportation shall, from time to time, promulgate rules and regulations concerning the placing, specifications, location and maintenance of highway and traffic...
• Section 39:4-183.28 - Repeals
  Sections 8, 14 and 15 of P.L.1941, c. 345 (C. 39:4-183.7, 39:4-183.13 and 39:4-183.14), sections 17 to 20 of P.L.1941, c. 345 (C. 39:4-183.16...
• Section 39:4-183.29 - Continuance Of Rules And Regulations Promulgated By Department Of Transportation Prior To Act
  This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by the Department of Transportation relating to the placing, specifications,...
• Section 39:4-183.30 - Effect Of Act On Offenses, Liabilities, Penalties Or Forfeitures Prior To Date Of Act
  No offense committed, and no liability, penalty, or forfeiture, either civil or criminal, incurred, prior to the repeal or revision of any act or...
• Section 39:4-183.31 - Posting Of Pedestrian Crossing Yield Signs.
  3.The Commissioner of Transportation shall post, and shall request county and municipal authorities to post, pedestrian crossing yield signs that make reference to State...
• Section 39:4-191.1 - Legal Authority; Uniformity.
  100. a. Markings shall be placed only by the authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction as authorized by law, and only...
• Section 39:4-191.2 - Types Of Markings
  Markings shall be of the following types: a. Pavement markings, including lines and word markings on the pavement. b. Curb markings for parking prohibitions....
• Section 39:4-191.6 - Illumination And Reflectorization.
  105.All markings may be reflectorized, and all obstructions, within the roadway, shall be properly illuminated or reflectorized. The following markings shall normally be reflectorized:...
• Section 39:4-191.7 - Word Markings Limited
  The use of words painted on the pavement shall be limited to very brief warning messages expressed in the shortest possible words. Regulatory messages...
• Section 39:4-196.1 - Local Authority
  Safety zones and traffic islands shall be established and installed only by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction as authorized by...
• Section 39:4-196.2 - Types Of Safety Zones And Traffic Islands
  Safety zones and traffic islands shall be of the following types: 1. Safety zones a. Loading islands b. Refuge islands 2. Traffic islands a....
• Section 39:4-196.3 - Location, Design And Protection
  The location, design and protection of safety zones and traffic islands shall conform to the specifications adopted by the director. L.1951, c. 23, p....
• Section 39:4-197 - Ordinance, Resolution, Regulation On Matters Covered By Chapter.
  39:4-197. Except as otherwise provided in R.S.39:4-8, no municipality shall pass an ordinance or resolution on a matter covered by or which alters or...
• Section 39:4-197.1 - Prohibiting Normal Traffic On County Or State Highway; Consent Of Board Of Chosen Freeholders Or Highway Commission Necessary
  No municipality in the exercise of its power to regulate parades, processions or assemblages, shall prohibit normal traffic on any county or State highway...
• Section 39:4-197.2 - County Road Lying Within Municipality; Regulation Of Traffic And Parking
  Any municipality, which maintains a paid police force, may, by ordinance, resolution, or regulation, pursuant to R.S. 39:4-197 and with the consent of the...
• Section 39:4-197.3 - Special Traffic Regulations
  The governing body of any municipality may, upon the adoption of a resolution declaring that an emergent or temporary condition dictates adoption of special...
• Section 39:4-197.4 - Angle Parking Ordinances; Exemption From Approval By State; Conditions
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the chapter to which this act is a supplement, or any supplement to said chapter, no ordinance adopted by any...
• Section 39:4-197.5 - Restricted Parking For Use By Handicapped Persons; Ordinances, Resolutions Or Regulations
  Any municipality may, by ordinance, resolution or regulation, establish restricted parking spaces in front of residences, schools, hospitals and other public buildings and in...
• Section 39:4-197.6 - Restricted Parking Zone, Residence Of Handicapped Person
  1. Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish a restricted parking zone in front of a residence occupied by a handicapped person if a windshield...
• Section 39:4-197.7 - Permits For Motor Vehicle; Fee
  Any municipality enacting an ordinance pursuant to section 1 of this act shall provide for the issuance of permits which identify a specific motor...
• Section 39:4-197.8 - State Highway Route No. 94 In Sussex And Warren Counties; Regulations Limiting Use
  Notwithstanding any other law, the Commissioner of Transportation may adopt regulations limiting the operation of commercial motor vehicles, tractors, trailers or semi-trailers upon that...
• Section 39:4-197.9 - Handicapped Parking Enforcement Units
  1. In order to implement the enforcement of P.L.1977, c.202 (C.39:4-197.5) subject to R.S.39:4-138, and of P.L.1975, c.221 (C.52:32-11 et seq.) and spaces established...
• Section 39:4-197.10 - Qualifications For Appointment To Unit
  2. No person shall be appointed to or continue to be eligible for participation in the handicapped parking enforcement unit unless he: a. Evidences...
• Section 39:4-197.11 - Preference For Handicapped Persons
  3. Preference for participation in this program may be given to persons who are handicapped as defined in P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-204 et seq.). L.1991,c.442,s.3.
• Section 39:4-197.12 - Reimbursement For Mileage
  4. Any person appointed to the municipality's handicapped parking enforcement unit shall be reimbursed for actual expenses of transportation incurred in the course of...
• Section 39:4-197.13 - Course Of Instruction Required
  5. The municipality shall require any person who fulfills the requirements for appointment in section 2 of P.L.1991, c.442 (C.39:4-197.10) to take a course...
• Section 39:4-197.14 - Permissive Benefits
  6. The governing body of a municipality, by ordinance, may appropriate annually sums of money as it shall deem necessary for the purpose of...
• Section 39:4-197.15 - Uniform And Maintenance Allowance
  7. Any person who is selected for the handicapped parking enforcement unit shall be provided, at the expense of the municipality, with a distinctive...
• Section 39:4-197.16 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Prohibiting Certain Trucks, Truck-trailer Combinations From Using Portions Of Route 29
  1.The Legislature finds that sections of State Highway Route 29, from its intersection with Interstate Route 95 to its northern terminus at State Highway...
• Section 39:4-197.17 - Weight Prohibitions
  2.Except as otherwise provided in section 3 of this act, truck and truck-trailer combinations which exceed 26,000 pounds in gross registered vehicle weight, gross...
• Section 39:4-197.18 - Exceptions For Emergency, Government Or Local Service
  3.The prohibitions contained in section 2 of this act shall not apply to emergency vehicles, government owned or leased vehicles, vehicles which have an...
• Section 39:4-197.19 - Exceptions For Certain Vehicles After Hearing
  4.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of this act, the Commissioner of Transportation in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1998, c.28...
• Section 39:4-197.20 - Necessary Signage By Dot
  5.The provisions of this act shall not be enforceable until the Commissioner of Transportation has caused to be erected such signage as may be...
• Section 39:4-197.21 - Violations, Fines
  6.The driver, owner, lessee, bailee or any one of the foregoing of any truck or truck-trailer combination found or operated in violation of the...
• Section 39:4-198 - Notice Of Ordinance, Resolution Or Regulation By Signs.
  39:4-198. No ordinance, resolution or regulation enacted, passed, or adopted by local authorities nor any regulation adopted by the Commissioner of Transportation under any...
• Section 39:4-199 - Safety Zones, Signals, Guideposts And Other Structures On State Highway; Approval By Highway Commission
  No safety zones or platforms, commonly called "safety isles" , traffic signal devices, guideposts or any other structures shall be erected, constructed, operated or...
• Section 39:4-199.1 - Official Traffic Signs At Traffic Islands, Safety Zones And Grade Separations, Etc.
  Local, county and State authorities, with respect to highways under their jurisdiction, may erect and maintain appropriate official traffic signs not inconsistent with the...
• Section 39:4-201 - Resolutions, Ordinances, Regulations Pertaining To Traffic On County Roads; Notice; Penalties.
  39:4-201. Except as otherwise provided in R.S.39:4-8, no governing body of any county in this State may adopt resolutions, ordinances, or regulations on a...
• Section 39:4-201.1 - "No Passing" Zones.
  114.With respect to highways under his jurisdiction the commissioner, by regulations, shall have authority to establish and maintain as "no passing" zones portions of...
• Section 39:4-202 - Approval Of Resolutions, Ordinances Or Regulation By Commissioner
  No resolution, ordinance or regulation passed, enacted or established under authority of this article shall be effective until submitted to and approved by the...
• Section 39:4-203 - General Penalty For Violations Of Chapter
  For a violation of a provision of this chapter or any supplement thereto for which no specific penalty is provided, the offender shall be...
• Section 39:4-203.1 - Indigents Permitted To Pay Fines In Installments, Waiver, Certain; Guideline For Indigency.
  1.Any defendant convicted of a traffic offense pursuant to Title 39 of the Revised Statutes or a parking offense, shall, upon a satisfactory showing...
• Section 39:4-203.2 - Failure To Comply With Installment Order; Additional Penalties
  If the defendant fails to comply with any of the terms of the installment order, the court may, in addition to any other penalties...
• Section 39:4-203.3 - Violations Pertaining To Pedestrians And Bicycles By Juvenile Under 17; Warning; Penalties
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary, a juvenile under the age of 17 who commits an act...
• Section 39:4-203.4 - Conviction For Violation After Jan. 1, 1983; Petition For Reduction In Sentence
  A juvenile convicted of a violation of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes pertaining to pedestrians or bicycles, which violation occurred on or after...
• Section 39:4-203.5 - Offenses In Area Of Highway Construction, Repair Or Designated Safe Corridor.
  1. a. For the purposes of this act: "Area of highway construction or repair" means that segment of any highway which is identified by...
• Section 39:4-204 - "Person With A Disability" Defined.
  1.The term "person with a disability" as employed herein shall include any person who has lost the use of one or more limbs as...
• Section 39:4-205 - Person With A Disability Identification Card.
  2.The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue, at the expense of the State of New Jersey, person with a...
• Section 39:4-206 - Vehicle Identification Card, Placard.
  3.The chief administrator shall issue to such applicant, also, a placard of such size and design as shall be determined by the chief administrator...
• Section 39:4-207 - Parking Overtime By Driver Of Motor Vehicle With Placard Or Wheelchair Symbol License Plates; No Penalty
  No penalty shall be imposed for the parking overtime of any motor vehicle which has displayed thereon a placard or wheelchair symbol license plates...
• Section 39:4-207.1 - Rules And Regulations.
  5.The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-204...
• Section 39:4-207.2 - Person With An Intellectual Disability Defined.
  1.For purposes of this act "person with an intellectual disability" means a person in a state of significant subnormal intellectual development with reduction of...
• Section 39:4-207.3 - Issuance Of Insignia For Motor Vehicle Used For Transporting Persons With Intellectual Disabilities.
  2. a. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue a special insignia upon the application of a federal, State,...
• Section 39:4-207.4 - Vehicle Transporting Persons With Intellectual Disabilities Authorized To Park In Space Reserved For Persons With Physical Disabilities.
  3.A motor vehicle owned or operated by a federal, State, county or municipal entity or a public or private nonprofit organization incorporated under the...
• Section 39:4-207.5 - Out-of-state Vehicles With Persons With Disabilities Plate, Placard, Permit.
  1.A motor vehicle with a special license plate, placard or parking permit issued to a person with a disability by another state, district or...
• Section 39:4-207.6 - Definitions.
  1.As used in this act: a."Appropriate identification" means, in the case of a restricted parking zone, a permit issued by a municipality under the...
• Section 39:4-207.7 - Removal Of Motor Vehicle Unlawfully Parked.
  2. a. An eligible person with a disability may request a law enforcement officer to arrange for the removal and storage of a motor...
• Section 39:4-207.8 - Issuance Of Card, Placard For Vehicles Transporting Certain Nursing Home Residents.
  6.The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall issue a nursing home resident with a disability identification card and corresponding windshield...
• Section 39:4-207.9 - Unobstructed Access For Parking Spaces, Curb Cuts For Persons With A Disability; Violations, Penalties.
  1. a. A person who owns or controls a parking area which is open to the public or to which the public is invited...
• Section 39:4-207.10 - Exemption From Payment Of Parking Meter Fees For Disabled Veterans, Purple Heart Recipients, Certain Circumstances.
  1. a. A person who is a disabled veteran or a recipient of the Purple Heart is exempt from the payment of municipal parking...
• Section 39:4-208 - Trenton, State's Property At; Regulations Authorized
  The Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety is authorized and empowered to regulate traffic and the parking of...
• Section 39:4-209 - Violations; Penalties
  Any person who shall violate any of the said regulations shall be subject to a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than...
• Section 39:4-210 - Jurisdiction Of Offenses; Disposition Of Fines
  Every magistrate and every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses and the violations of public laws committed in the municipality in which such grounds...
• Section 39:4-211 - Enforcement Of Regulations
  The State Police, the State Capitol Police, the city police of the city of Trenton, and other police officers of this State, including those...
• Section 39:4-212 - Consultation, Cooperation Relative To Enforcement Of Regulations.
  5.The said division and any such board, body or officer is authorized to consult and co-operate with the commissioner, and the county and municipal...
• Section 39:4-213 - Control Of Traffic During Emergency Conditions; Attorney-general's Powers
  Whenever the Attorney-General shall determine that an emergency condition exists with regard to the flow of vehicular traffic in this State, he may, through...
• Section 39:4-214 - Signals; Signs; Police Personnel
  For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the Attorney-General is authorized to erect directional signals or signs, and assign...
• Section 39:4-215 - Failure To Obey Signals, Signs Or Directions
  Any person who fails to obey the directions of a police officer or fails to obey the directional signals or signs provided hereunder shall...
• Section 39:4-216 - Commercial Activity Or Solicitation Of Contributions; Prohibition
  No person shall tender or offer for sale goods or merchandise of any kind, engage in any other commercial activity, or solicit contributions for...
• Section 39:5-1 - Enforcement
  39:5-1. Except as otherwise provided, the enforcement of this subtitle shall be vested in the director and the police or peace officers of, or...
• Section 39:5-2 - Judicial Powers Of Director
  39:5-2. The director shall have the same powers as are conferred by this subtitle on a magistrate. In considering violations of this subtitle, the...
• Section 39:5-3 - Appearance, Arrest Process; Complaint; Venue.
  39:5-3. a. When a person has violated a provision of this subtitle, the judge may, within 30 days after the commission of the offense,...
• Section 39:5-5 - Entitling Proceedings; Bond To Secure Costs
  All proceedings for the violation of this subtitle shall be brought in the name of the State, with the director, police officer, peace officer,...
• Section 39:5-6 - Performance Of Ministerial Acts
  All acts, whether in connection with the taking of complaints, issuing of process, return thereof, taking of bail for appearance or committing to custody...
• Section 39:5-7 - Suspension Of Sentence; Probation
  In any proceeding instituted pursuant to the provisions of this subtitle, except where a mandatory penalty is fixed herein, the magistrate may suspend the...
• Section 39:5-9 - Forfeiture Of Bond Or Cash Deposit; Disposition Of Moneys
  A bail bond, if forfeited, may be enforced by the director, and any cash deposit in lieu of bond, if forfeited, shall be paid...
• Section 39:5-11 - Appeal To Superior Court; Procedure
  39:5-11. If the defendant appeals to the Superior Court, the appeal shall operate as a consent to an amendment of the complaint in that...
• Section 39:5-20 - Complaint Represented On Trial On Appeal By County Prosecutor, Attorney General Or Municipal Attorney; Aid In Prosecution
  On an appeal by the defendant in any proceeding instituted under this subtitle, the county prosecutor of the county wherein the alleged violation was...
• Section 39:5-22 - Revoked License Not Restored By Appeal
  Where a license has been revoked for a violation of section 39:4-50 of this Title, and an appeal has been taken from the judgment,...
• Section 39:5-24 - Proceedings On Sunday
  Proceedings under this subtitle may be instituted on any day of the week, and the institution of the proceedings on Sunday shall be no...
• Section 39:5-25 - Arrest Without Warrant
  39:5-25. Any law enforcement officer may, without a warrant, arrest any person violating in his presence any provision of chapter 3 of this Title,...
• Section 39:5-25.1 - Summons, Identification Of Motorist As Holder Of Commercial Driver License.
  11. Upon issuance of a summons or complaint charging a motorist with any violation, other than a parking violation, under Title 39 of the...
• Section 39:5-27 - License Exhibited To Magistrate Upon Arrest
  Any driver arrested for a violation of any provision of this subtitle shall, on demand of the magistrate hearing the complaint against him, produce...
• Section 39:5-28 - Validity, Service And Effect Of Summons Or Warrant And Arrest Thereon In County Other Than Where Issued
  A summons or warrant issued by a magistrate under this chapter shall be valid throughout the State. An officer who may serve the summons...
• Section 39:5-30 - Suspension, Revocation Of Registration, License Certificates.
  39:5-30. a. Every registration certificate, every license certificate, every privilege to drive motor vehicles, including commercial motor vehicles as defined in P.L.1990, c.103 (C.39:3-10.9...
• Section 39:5-30a - Habitual Offender Defined
  As used in this act: "Habitual offender" means a person who has his license to operate a motor vehicle suspended three times for violations...
• Section 39:5-30b - Suspension Of License; Period Of Time; Notice; Hearing
  The director may suspend for a period of no more than 3 years, the license to operate a motor vehicle of any person who,...
• Section 39:5-30c - Maximum Suspension Period; Circumstances Determining
  In determining the appropriateness of issuing a suspension for the maximum period of 3 years established by this act, the director may consider the...
• Section 39:5-30d - Concurrent Suspension; Application For Reinstatement
  A suspension issued pursuant to this act shall not run concurrently with any other suspension issued pursuant to law. A licensee may apply to...
• Section 39:5-30e - Operation Of Motor Vehicle During Suspension; Fine And Imprisonment
  Unless otherwise provided, an habitual offender convicted of operating a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, while suspended pursuant to this act, shall pay a...
• Section 39:5-30.1 - Suspension Or Revocation Of Driver's License Where Reciprocity Driving Privilege Is Suspended Or Revoked In Another State
  Whenever the reciprocity driving privilege of any New Jersey resident is suspended or revoked by lawful authority in another State upon a conviction of...
• Section 39:5-30.2 - Review By Chief Administrator, Alternatives To Suspension, Revocation.
  1.Any moving violation of the motor vehicle law which carries with it a penalty of suspension or revocation of a driver's license may be...
• Section 39:5-30.4 - Driver Improvement Program; Fee.
  1.Persons attending a Driver Improvement Program offered by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, an approved drivers' school, or a Statewide safety organization, as...
• Section 39:5-30.5 - Penalty Points; Rules And Regulations; Authority To Adopt
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall have the authority, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et...
• Section 39:5-30.5a - Assessment Of Points
  a. The director shall, in establishing a motor vehicle point system, pursuant to section 1 of P.L. 1982, c. 43 (C. 39:5-30.5), include in...
• Section 39:5-30.6 - Penalty Points; Assessment; Record
  The court shall assess points at the time of conviction for any offense committed in this State, and the Director of the Division of...
• Section 39:5-30.7 - Accumulated Points; Notification
  Whenever a licensee has accumulated six or more points, the director shall notify him at his last address of record with the Division of...
• Section 39:5-30.8 - Suspension Of License; Accumulated Points; Notice; Effective Date; Hearing; Failure To Appear
  Except for good cause, the director shall suspend for a period of no less than 30 days and no more than 180 days, except...
• Section 39:5-30.9 - Reduction Of Points
  Points recorded against a licensee shall be reduced at the rate of three points for each 12 consecutive months in which the licensee has...
• Section 39:5-30.10 - Subsequent Violations; Suspension; Notice; Hearing; Failure To Appear
  Except for good cause, the director shall suspend for a period as provided herein the license to operate a motor vehicle of any person...
• Section 39:5-30.11 - Initial Notification; Defense; Accumulated Points
  It shall not be a defense to nor a reason for an adjournment of any suspension proceeding instituted pursuant to this act that a....
• Section 39:5-30.12 - Definitions
  1. As used in sections 1 through 5 of this act: "Conviction" means a final adjudication that a violation has occurred, a final judgment...
• Section 39:5-30.13 - Suspension, Revocation, Postponement Of Driving Privilege For Persons Convicted Of Certain Offenses
  2. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall suspend, revoke, or postpone the driving privilege in this State for a period of...
• Section 39:5-30.14 - Notice Of Suspension, Revocation, Postponement; Hearing Request
  3. The proposed notice of suspension, revocation, or postponement shall be mailed to the person at his last address of record with the Division...
• Section 39:5-30.15 - Responsibility Of Director
  4. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall be responsible for the receipt of all reports of drug offense convictions submitted to...
• Section 39:5-30.16 - Rules, Regulations
  5. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et...
• Section 39:5-31 - Revocation Of Driver's License By Director Or Magistrate
  The director or any magistrate before whom any hearing under this subtitle is had may revoke the license of any person to drive a...
• Section 39:5-32 - Validation, Granting Of New License.
  39:5-32. The commission shall, at all times, have the power to validate a driver's license that has been revoked, or to grant a new...
• Section 39:5-33 - Validity Of New License.
  39:5-33. If a driver of motor vehicles shall have had his license suspended or revoked, a new license granted to him shall be void...
• Section 39:5-34 - Granting Of New Registration.
  39:5-34. If a registration or registration certificate shall have been suspended or revoked, a new registration or registration certificate issued shall be void and...
• Section 39:5-35 - Return Or Surrender Of Suspended Or Revoked Driver's License Or Registration Certificate And Registration Plates
  Any person, whose driver's license or registration certificate has been suspended or revoked, who fails to return it or them to the director, together...
• Section 39:5-36 - Incarceration For Default On Certain Penalties, Surcharges; Other Actions By Court.
  a.The court may incarcerate in the county jail or workhouse of the county where the offense was committed any person upon whom a penalty...
• Section 39:5-36.1 - Fee For Dishonored Check Or Payment
  31. The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall collect a $25 fee from a person who issues or passes to the division...
• Section 39:5-39 - Physician's Fee In Certain Cases
  The judge, either in an original proceeding or on appeal for a violation of R.S. 39:4-50, may tax in the costs a sum not...
• Section 39:5-40 - Disposition Of Moneys Received Under Motor Vehicle Law
  Except as otherwise provided by this subtitle all moneys received in accordance with the provisions of this Title, whether from fines, penalties, forfeitures, registration...
• Section 39:5-41 - Fines, Penalties, Forfeiture, Disposition Of; Exceptions.
  39:5-41. a. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed and collected under authority of law for any violations of R.S.39:4-63 and R.S.39:4-64 shall be forwarded...
• Section 39:5-42 - Reports By Judges To Chief Administrator On Violations, Crimes And Offenses; Removal Of Certain Information.
  39:5-42. a. Every judge shall make a report, in such form as the Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission may require, to the...
• Section 39:5-42.1 - Refund Of Additional Insurance Premiums.
  3.Any insurance company that charged any additional premium based on insurance points assessed against a policyholder as a result of a charge or conviction...
• Section 39:5-43 - Failure To Pay Over Fines Collected; Penalty
  Any person who, having collected any fine for any violation of this subtitle, fails, within 30 days, to return the same to the director...
• Section 39:5-44 - Record Of Fines Payable To County; Inspection
  Every court having jurisdiction to hear complaints for violations of the provisions of this Title shall keep a record of the disposition of all...
• Section 39:5-45 - Itemized Receipt.
  Any person who collects fines, costs or cash bail, for a violation of this subtitle, shall deliver to the defendant a proper itemized receipt,...
• Section 39:5-46 - Report To Commission Of Stolen Produce.
  39:5-46. The clerk of every court wherein a person licensed to operate a motor vehicle in this or another state is convicted of stealing...
• Section 39:5-47 - Seizure, Sale Of Stolen Motor Vehicles.
  39:5-47. The commission may authorize the seizure of a motor vehicle operated over the highways of this State when it has reason to believe...
• Section 39:5-51 - Information To Municipal Court Judges
  In a municipal court case which involves a violation of the motor vehicle and traffic laws as set forth in Title 39 of the...
• Section 39:5-52 - Information To Victim
  A victim of a motor vehicle accident as defined in this section shall, upon his request, be provided in writing by the court adjudicating...
• Section 39:5-53 - Definitions Relative To Diplomatic Immunity For Certain Offenses
  1.As used in this act: "Motor vehicle moving violation" means any violation of the motor vehicle laws of this State for which motor vehicle...
• Section 39:5-54 - Procedure For Law Enforcement Officer Stopping Person With Diplomatic Immunity
  2.Whenever a person with diplomatic immunity is stopped by a State, county or municipal law enforcement officer who has probable cause to believe that...
• Section 39:5-55 - Records Kept, Forwarded By Dmv
  3.The Division of Motor Vehicles shall: a.Keep records of each accident report, citation or other charging document, and incident report received by law enforcement...
• Section 39:5-56 - Other Laws Unaffected
  4.The provisions of this act do not prohibit or limit the application of any law to a criminal or motor vehicle violation by a...
• Section 39:5a-1 - Written Request; Provisions Made Applicable.
  1.Upon the filing of a written request by a person, or by the board of directors of any corporation, or by the board of...
• Section 39:5a-2 - Rescission Of Request
  Any such institution may rescind any request filed by it in conformity with the provisions of the foregoing section, by filing with the clerk...
• Section 39:5a-3 - Request Not Dedication; Prohibition Of Use; Different Or Additional Conditions
  The filing of a written request, in pursuance of section 1 of this act, shall not be deemed to constitute a dedication to public...
• Section 39:5a-4 - Application Of Motor Vehicle And Traffic Laws
  The provisions of subtitle one of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes shall be applicable to the semipublic or private roads, streets, driveways, trails,...
• Section 39:5b-18 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Certificate of handling" means a written document issued by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to the terms...
• Section 39:5b-19 - Radioactive Material; Production Of Certificate Of Handling, Certificate Number Or Other Documents Upon Request
  For the transport of certain types and quantities of radioactive material as specified by P.L.1977, c. 233 (C. 26:2D-18 et seq.), the driver or...
• Section 39:5b-20 - Placard On Vehicle
  Where a radioactive material shipment has been certified pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1977, c. 233 (C. 26:2D-18 et seq.), and the rules and...
• Section 39:5b-21 - Possession Of Certificate Of Handling Or Certification Number By Driver Or Operator
  In addition to any other conditions or liability imposed by law, it shall be unlawful to ship or transport, or cause to be shipped...
• Section 39:5b-22 - Conditions Of Certificate Of Handling; Deviations; Prohibition
  Where a certificate of handling is required by law and has been issued by the State Department of Environmental Protection, it shall be unlawful...
• Section 39:5b-23 - Inspection
  Any State Police officer or representative of the State Department of Environmental Protection, while in the performance of the duties of his office, is...
• Section 39:5b-24 - Violations; Penalties
  The civil penalty for violation of this act for a first offense is not more than $250.00 and for each subsequent offense is not...
• Section 39:5b-25 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Department" means the Department of Transportation; b. "Hazardous material" means a substance or material determined by the Secretary...
• Section 39:5b-26 - Rules And Regulations
  The department, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, the Divisions of...
• Section 39:5b-27 - Office Of Hazardous Materials Transportation Compliance And Enforcement; Responsibilities
  There is created in the Division of State Police of the Department of Law and Public Safety, an Office of Hazardous Materials Transportation Compliance...
• Section 39:5b-28 - Annual Report
  The department, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, the Divisions of...
• Section 39:5b-29 - Violations, Penalties.
  5. a. Any person who violates the provisions of this act or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be subject to a...
• Section 39:5b-30 - Transportation Of Hazardous Materials
  The transportation of hazardous materials in this State shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 1983, c. 401 (C. 39:5B-25...
• Section 39:5b-31 - Inspection Of Vehicles.
  2. a. Any State Police officer may inspect such vehicles, railroad cars, and places of origin or destination in the State with respect to...
• Section 39:5b-31.1 - Annual Report; Rules And Regulations; Deposit, Disbursement Of Fees
  3. a. Notwithstanding any provision of Title 39 or Title 48 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary, the Commissioner of Transportation shall require...
• Section 39:5b-32 - Rules And Regulations.
  3. a. The Superintendent of the State Police shall adopt, within six months of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act and...
• Section 39:5c-1 - Racing Or Making Of Speed Records; Penalty
  A person who shall operate or attempt or agree to operate a motor vehicle on a public highway in a race with any other...
• Section 39:5d-1 - Findings And Declaration Of Policy
  (a) The party States find that: (1) The safety of their streets and highways is materially affected by the degree of compliance with State...
• Section 39:5d-2 - Definitions
  As used in this compact: (a) "State" means a State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth...
• Section 39:5d-3 - Reports Of Conviction
  The licensing authority of a party State shall report each conviction of a person from another party State occurring within its jurisdiction to the...
• Section 39:5d-4 - Effect Of Conviction
  (a) The licensing authority in the home State, for the purposes of suspension, revocation or limitation of the license to operate a motor vehicle,...
• Section 39:5d-5 - Applications For New Licenses
  Upon application for a license to drive, the licensing authority in a party State shall ascertain whether the applicant has ever held, or is...
• Section 39:5d-6 - Applicability Of Other Laws
  Except as expressly required by provisions of this compact, nothing contained herein shall be construed to affect the right of any party State to...
• Section 39:5d-7 - Compact Administrator And Interchange Of Information
  (a) The head of the licensing authority of each party State shall be the administrator of this compact for his State. The administrators, acting...
• Section 39:5d-8 - Entry Into Force And Withdrawal
  (a) This compact shall enter into force and become effective as to any State when it has enacted the same into law. (b) Any...
• Section 39:5d-9 - Construction And Severability
  This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any...
• Section 39:5d-10 - Licensing Authority Defined; Duty Of Furnishing Information
  As used in the compact, the term "licensing authority" with reference to this State, shall mean the Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of Law...
• Section 39:5d-11 - Compact Administrator; Expenses
  The compact administrator provided for in Article VII of the compact shall not be entitled to any additional compensation on account of his service...
• Section 39:5d-12 - Executive Head Defined
  As used in the compact, with reference to this State, the term "executive head" shall mean the Governor. L.1966, c. 73, s. 4.
• Section 39:5d-13 - Report Of Action Suspending, Revoking Or Otherwise Limiting License
  Any court or other agency of this State, or a subdivision thereof, which has jurisdiction to take any action suspending, revoking or otherwise limiting...
• Section 39:5d-14 - Suspension Of Enforcement Against Party State
  If it is determined by the Director of Motor Vehicles of the State of New Jersey that the provisions of the compact, in full...
• Section 39:5f-1 - Findings Of Party Jurisdictions
  The party jurisdictions find that: a. In most instances, a motorist who is cited for a traffic violation in a jurisdiction other than his...
• Section 39:5f-2 - Policy Of Party Jurisdictions
  It is the policy of the party jurisdictions to: a. Seek compliance with the laws, ordinances, and administrative rules and regulations relating to the...
• Section 39:5f-3 - Purpose
  The purpose of this compact is to: a. Provide a means through which the party jurisdictions may participate in a reciprocal program to effectuate...
• Section 39:5f-4 - Definitions
  As used in this compact: a. "Citation" means any summons, ticket, or other official document issued by a police officer for a traffic violation,...
• Section 39:5f-5 - Collateral To Secure Appearance; Personal Recognizance
  When issuing a citation for a traffic violation, a police officer shall issue the citation to a motorist who possesses a driver's license issued...
• Section 39:5f-6 - Personal Recognizance
  Personal recognizance is acceptable only if not prohibited by law. If mandatory appearance is required, it shall take place immediately following issuance of the...
• Section 39:5f-7 - Report Of Motorists Failure To Comply With Terms Of Citation
  Upon failure of a motorist to comply with the terms of a traffic citation, the appropriate official shall report the failure to comply to...
• Section 39:5f-8 - Transmission Of Report To Home Jurisdiction Of Motorist
  Upon receipt of the report, the licensing authority of the issuing jurisdiction shall transmit to the licensing authority in the home jurisdiction of the...
• Section 39:5f-9 - Suspension Of Driving Privilege By Issuing Jurisdiction
  The licensing authority of the issuing jurisdiction need not suspend the driving privilege of a motorist for whom a report has been transmitted. L.1983,...
• Section 39:5f-10 - Limitation On Transmission Of Report; Date Of Transmission
  The licensing authority of the issuing jurisdiction shall not transmit a report on any violation if the date of transmission is more than 6...
• Section 39:5f-11 - Limitation On Transmission Of Report; Date Of Issuance Of Citation
  The licensing authority of the issuing jurisdiction shall not transmit a report on any violation where the date of issuance of the citation predates...
• Section 39:5f-12 - Suspension Of Drivers License By Home Jurisdiction
  Upon receipt of a report of a failure to comply from the licensing authority of the issuing jurisdiction, the licensing authority of the home...
• Section 39:5f-13 - Record Of Actions; Reports To Issuing Jurisdiction
  The licensing authority of the home jurisdiction shall maintain a record of actions taken and make reports to issuing jurisdictions as provided in the...
• Section 39:5f-14 - Effect On Other Laws Or Agreements
  Except as expressly required by provisions of this compact, nothing contained herein shall be construed to affect the right of any party jurisdiction to...
• Section 39:5f-15 - Board Of Compact Administrators
  For the purpose of administering the provisions of this compact and to serve as a governing body for the resolution of all matters relating...
• Section 39:5f-16 - Voting; Action Of Board
  Each member of the Board of Compact Administrators shall be entitled to one vote. No action of the board shall be binding unless taken...
• Section 39:5f-17 - Chairman And Vice-chairman
  The board shall elect annually, from its membership, a chairman and vice-chairman. L.1983, c. 46, s. 17, eff. Jan. 28, 1983.
• Section 39:5f-18 - Bylaws
  The board shall adopt bylaws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this compact or the laws of a party jurisdiction, for the conduct of...
• Section 39:5f-19 - Donations And Grants
  The board may accept for any of its purposes and functions under this compact any and all donations, and grants of money, equipment, supplies,...
• Section 39:5f-20 - Contracts For Or Acceptance Of Services Or Personnel
  The board may contract with, or accept services or personnel from any governmental or intergovernmental agency, persons, firm or corporation, or any private, nonprofit...
• Section 39:5f-21 - Procedures And Forms
  The board shall formulate all necessary procedures and develop uniform forms and documents for administering the provisions of this compact. All procedures and forms...
• Section 39:5f-22 - Effective Upon Adoption By At Least Two Jurisdictions
  This compact shall become effective when it has been adopted by at least two jurisdictions. L.1983, c. 46, s. 22, eff. Jan. 28, 1983.
• Section 39:5f-23 - Entry Into Compact; Resolution Of Ratification; Effective Date
  a. Entry into the compact shall be made by a Resolution of Ratification executed by the authorized officials of the applying jurisdiction and submitted...
• Section 39:5f-24 - Withdrawal
  A party jurisdiction may withdraw from this compact by official written notice to the other party jurisdictions, but a withdrawal shall not take effect...
• Section 39:5f-25 - Violations Not Covered By Compact
  The provisions of this compact shall not apply to parking or standing violations, highway weight limit violations, and violations of law governing the transportation...
• Section 39:5f-26 - Amendment
  This compact may be amended from time to time. Amendments shall be presented in resolution form to the chairman of the Board of Compact...
• Section 39:5f-27 - Endorsement Of Amendment
  Adoption of an amendment shall require endorsement of all party jurisdictions and shall become effective 30 days after the date of the last endorsement....
• Section 39:5f-28 - Failure To Respond As Endorsement
  Failure of a party jurisdiction to respond to the compact chairman within 120 days after receipt of the proposed amendment shall constitute endorsement. L.1983,...
• Section 39:5f-29 - Construction; Severability
  This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes stated herein. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if...
• Section 39:5f-30 - Title Of Compact
  This compact shall be known and may be cited as the "Nonresident Violator Compact" . L.1983, c. 46, s. 30, eff. Jan. 28, 1983.
• Section 39:5g-1 - Penalties For Violations Of Limousine Laws; Enforcement.
  18. A person who shall own and operate a limousine in any street in this State in violation of the provisions of article 2...
• Section 39:5g-2 - Chauffeur Endorsement.
  5. a. No person shall operate a limousine, or any other passenger automobile, as defined in R.S.39:1-1, provided through a company or service which...
• Section 39:6-23 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Motor Vehicle Security-Responsibility Law." L.1952, c. 173, p. 548, s. 1.
• Section 39:6-24 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases, when used in this act, shall, for the purposes of this act, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them...
• Section 39:6-25 - Security Deposit
  (a) If 20 days after the receipt of a report of a motor vehicle accident within this State which has resulted in bodily injury...
• Section 39:6-26 - Inapplicability Of Requirements As To Security And Suspension
  The requirements as to security and suspension in section 3 of this act shall not apply: (a) to the operator or the owner of...
• Section 39:6-27 - Duration Of Suspension; Default In Payment Of Installment
  The license and registration and nonresident's operating privilege suspended as provided in section three of this act shall remain so suspended and shall not...
• Section 39:6-28 - Operator Or Owner Involved In Accident Without License Or A Nonresident
  (a) In case the operator or the owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident within this State has no license or registration,...
• Section 39:6-29 - Security, Requirements As To
  The security under this act shall be in such form and in such amount as the director may require but in no case in...
• Section 39:6-30 - Application Of Security; Return Of Deposit Or Balance
  Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this act shall be applicable only to the payment of a judgment or judgments rendered against...
• Section 39:6-30.1 - Remission Of Funds To State Treasurer; Investments
  All sums deposited with the director in compliance with the requirements of the "Motor Vehicle Security-Responsibility Law" shall be remitted forthwith to the State...
• Section 39:6-35 - Failure To Satisfy Judgment
  If a person fails to pay and satisfy every judgment rendered against him for damages because of personal injury or death, or damage to...
• Section 39:6-36 - Nonresident; Judgment Unsatisfied
  While a final judgment against a nonresident motor vehicle owner or operator is so unstayed, unsatisfied and subsisting for more than 60 days, his...
• Section 39:6-37 - Insolvent, Bankrupt Insurer
  Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the director that: at the time of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of or...
• Section 39:6-38 - Partial Payments Which Are Deemed Satisfaction Of Judgment
  For the purposes of sections 9 to 14 of this act when: (a) $10,000.00 has been credited upon any judgment or judgments rendered in...
• Section 39:6-39 - Payment Of Judgment In Installments
  A judgment debtor to whom this chapter applies may, for the sole purpose of giving authority to the director to authorize the judgment debtor...
• Section 39:6-42 - Certified Abstract Of Operating Record; Fees
  20. Upon the request of any insurance company, any person furnishing any financial responsibility or any surety on a bond herein provided for, the...
• Section 39:6-48 - Form Of Liability Policy; Provisions To Which It Is Subject; Binders; Indorsements
  No motor vehicle liability policy shall be issued or delivered in this State, as proof of financial responsibility, unless such policy discloses the name,...
• Section 39:6-49 - Transfer Of Registration While Owner's Registration Suspended
  (a) The owner's registration of a vehicle involved in an accident to which this act applies shall not be transferred nor the vehicle, in...
• Section 39:6-50 - Enforcement Of Act; Rules And Regulations; Review
  (a) The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this act and may make rules and regulations necessary for the administration thereof and...
• Section 39:6-50.1 - Authority To Commissioner
  The commissioner shall have the authority to issue any rules and regulations or exercise any power granted to him by Title 17 of the...
• Section 39:6-51 - Informing Persons As To Contents Of Act
  The director shall, by means of any printed form he provides, inform every person to whom a driver's license or registration certificate is issued...
• Section 39:6-52 - Certificate Of Self-insurance
  (a) Any person in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are registered or in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are leased...
• Section 39:6-53 - Not Evidence At Civil Trial
  No action taken by the commissioner pursuant to this act, the findings, if any, of the commissioner upon which such action is based, nor...
• Section 39:6-54 - Public Entities
  a. This act shall not apply with respect to any motor vehicle owned by the United States, this State or any political subdivision of...
• Section 39:6-55 - Prohibited Acts; Violations; Enforcement; Remedies; Procedure; Revocation Of License
  (a) Any person who shall forge, or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility, or who files or offers for filing...
• Section 39:6-56 - Repeal
  Chapter six of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes is repealed so far as it relates to any motor vehicle accident within this State,...
• Section 39:6-57 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect April first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1952, c. 173, p. 570, s. 35.
• Section 39:6-58 - Expense Of Administering Motor Vehicle Security-responsibility Law; Ascertainment; Certifying Annually
  The Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury shall, on or before September first in each year,...
• Section 39:6-59 - Apportionment Of Amount Certified Among Liability Insurers
  The commissioner shall, on or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, apportion the amount so certified to him among the mutual...
• Section 39:6-60 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect April first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1952, c. 176, p. 599, s. 3.
• Section 39:6-61 - Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Law." L.1952, c. 174, p. 570, s. 1.
• Section 39:6-62 - Definitions Relative To New Jersey Property-liability Insurance Guaranty Association.
  2.Definitions. As used in this act: "Association" means the New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association created pursuant to P.L.1974, c.17 (C.17:30A-1 et seq.). "Commissioner"...
• Section 39:6-63 - Creation, Maintenance Of Fund.
  3.For the purpose of creating and maintaining the fund: (a)(Deleted by amendment, P.L.1968, c.323, s.3.) (b)(Deleted by amendment, P.L.1968, c.323, s.3.) (c)(Deleted by amendment,...
• Section 39:6-63.1 - Assessment Rescinded; Registration Of Uninsured Vehicles; Fee
  Any assessment made under the provisions of subparagraph (2), of paragraph (d) of section 3 of the act of which this act is amendatory...
• Section 39:6-64c - Unsatisfied Claim And Judgment Fund Abolished, Transfer To Pliga.
  7.The Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Board in the Department of Banking and Insurance, established pursuant to P.L.1952, c.174 (C.39:6-61 et seq.), is hereby...
• Section 39:6-64.1 - Plan Of Operation.
  18. a. The association may from time to time, adopt and amend a plan of operation, subject to the approval of the commissioner, necessary...
• Section 39:6-65 - Notice Of Intention To Make Claim.
  5.Any qualified person, or the personal representative of such person, who suffers damages resulting from bodily injury or death or damage to property arising...
• Section 39:6-67 - Defense Of Actions Against Motorists.
  7.The association may through counsel enter an appearance on behalf of the defendant, file a defense, appear at the trial or take such other...
• Section 39:6-68 - Cooperation Of Defendant.
  8.In any case in which the association has assumed under this act, the defense of any action, the defendant shall co-operate with the association...
• Section 39:6-69 - Unpaid Judgments.
  9.When any qualified person recovers a valid judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State against any other person, who was the...
• Section 39:6-70 - Hearing On Application For Payment Of Judgment.
  10. Hearing on application for payment of judgment. The court shall proceed upon such application, in a summary manner, and, upon the hearing thereof,...
• Section 39:6-71 - Order For Payment Of Judgment.
  11. The court shall make an order directed to the association requiring the association to make payment from the fund of such sum, if...
• Section 39:6-72 - Contents Of Petition; Settlement Of Claim.
  12. (a) In any action against an operator or owner of a motor vehicle for injury to or death of any person or for...
• Section 39:6-73 - $500 Exclusion.
  13. Except with respect to medical expense benefits paid pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1977, c.310 (C.39:6-73.1), no order shall be made for the...
• Section 39:6-73.1 - Assumption Of Excess Payment By Fund; Exceptions.
  2.In the event medical expense benefits paid by an insurer, in accordance with subsection a. of section 4 of P.L.1972, c.70 (C.39:6A-4) or section...
• Section 39:6-74 - Default And Consent Judgments.
  14. No claim shall be allowed and ordered to be paid out of the fund if the court shall find, upon the hearing for...
• Section 39:6-76 - Collusive Judgments
  No claim against the fund shall be allowed in any case in which the court shall find, upon the hearing for the allowance of...
• Section 39:6-77 - Assignment Of Judgments To Association.
  17. Assignment of judgments to association. The association shall not pay any sum from the fund, in compliance with an order made for that...
• Section 39:6-78 - Identity Of Vehicle, Operator, Owner Unascertainable.
  18. When the death of, or personal injury to, any person arises out of ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle in this...
• Section 39:6-79 - Action Within 180 Days Of Entry Of Judgment.
  19. When in an action in respect to the death of, or personal injury to, any person, arising out of the ownership, maintenance or...
• Section 39:6-80 - Impleading Association In "Hit-and-run" Cases.
  20. Impleading association in "hit-and-run" cases. When an action has been commenced in respect of the death or injury of any person arising out...
• Section 39:6-81 - Defense Of Such Actions By Association.
  21. Defense of such actions by association. In any action brought under sections 18 and 19 of this act, the association may appear. The...
• Section 39:6-82 - Settlement Of Actions Against The Association.
  22. Settlement of actions against the association. In any action brought against the association pursuant to an order by the court entered in accordance...
• Section 39:6-83 - Credits Against Judgment.
  23. Credits against judgment. A judgment against the association shall be reduced by any amounts which such plaintiff has received from any person mentioned...
• Section 39:6-84 - Limitation On Amount Of Judgment.
  24. When a judgment is obtained against the association, in an action brought under this act, upon the determination of all proceedings including appeals...
• Section 39:6-84.1 - Increase In Payment Of Maximum Amounts From Fund; Application To Accidents On Or After January 1, 1973
  The provisions of sections 9, 13 and 24 of the act of which this act is supplementary (C. 39:6-69, 39:6-73 and 39:6-84) as amended...
• Section 39:6-85 - Subrogation.
  25. Subrogation. When judgment has been obtained against the association in an action brought under this act, the association shall, upon payment from the...
• Section 39:6-86.1 - Ucjf Benefits.
  7.When any person qualified to receive payments under the provisions of the "Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Law" suffers bodily injury or death as...
• Section 39:6-86.2 - Payments Of Benefits
  The benefits provided in sections 7 and 10 shall be payable as loss accrues, upon written notice of such loss, including reasonable proof of...
• Section 39:6-86.3 - Denial Of Benefits; Grounds
  Any qualified person entitled to receive benefits as provided in section 7 of this act shall be precluded from receiving such benefits where such...
• Section 39:6-86.4 - Death Or Injury Due To Unidentifiable Operator Or Owner, Or To Operator Using Automobile Without Consent Of Owner; Benefits Payable; Conditions
  When the death of or personal injury to any person arises out of the ownership, maintenance or use of an automobile in this State...
• Section 39:6-86.5 - Application For Benefits; Payment
  Any qualified person seeking to receive benefits as provided in sections 7 and 10 of this act shall comply with the provisions of section...
• Section 39:6-86.6 - Recovery From Uninsured Motorist.
  12. The association shall be entitled to recover on behalf of the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund for all payments made by it pursuant...
• Section 39:6-86.7 - Provision Of Personal Injury Protection Benefits, Certain Pedestrians.
  35. The Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund created pursuant to P.L.1952, c.174 (C.39:6-61 et seq.) shall provide personal injury protection benefits pursuant to section...
• Section 39:6-87 - Registration, Etc. Not Restored Until Fund Is Reimbursed.
  27. Registration, etc. not restored until fund is reimbursed. Where the license or privileges of any person, or the registration of a motor vehicle...
• Section 39:6-88 - Fund To Be Held In Trust.
  28. Fund to be held in trust. All sums received by the association pursuant to any of the provisions of this act shall become...
• Section 39:6-90 - Penalty For False Statements.
  30. Any person and any agent or servant of such person, who knowingly files with the fund or the association or either of them,...
• Section 39:6-90.1 - Partial Invalidity
  In the event any section, term or provision of this act or of the act to which this act is amendatory and supplementary shall...
• Section 39:6a-1 - Short Title
  This act may be cited and known as the "New Jersey Automobile Reparation Reform Act." L.1972, c. 70, s. 1. 39:6A-1.1 Short title; findings,...
• Section 39:6a-1.1 - Short Title; Findings, Declarations.
  1. a. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Automobile Insurance Cost Reduction Act." b.The Legislature finds and declares: Whereas,...
• Section 39:6a-1.2 - Rules, Regulations.
  73.The commissioner may promulgate any rules and regulations pursuant to P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) deemed necessary in order to effectuate the provisions of...
• Section 39:6a-2 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: a."Automobile" means a private passenger automobile of a private passenger or station wagon type that is owned or hired...
• Section 39:6a-3 - Compulsory Automobile Insurance Coverage; Limits.
  3.Compulsory automobile insurance coverage; limits. Except as provided by section 4 of P.L.1998, c.21 (C.39:6A-3.1), every owner or registered owner of an automobile registered...
• Section 39:6a-3.1 - Election Of Basic Automobile Insurance Policy; Coverage Provided.
  4. As an alternative to the mandatory coverages provided in sections 3 and 4 of P.L.1972, c.70 (C.39:6A-3 and 39:6A-4), any owner or registered...
• Section 39:6a-3.2 - Issuance, Renewal Of Automobile Insurance Policies, Required Coverage.
  5. a. All automobile insurance policies issued or renewed on or after the effective date of P.L.1998, c.21 (C.39:6A-1.1 et al.) shall be issued...
• Section 39:6a-3.3 - Establishment Of Special Automobile Insurance Policy.
  45. a. In order to assist certain low income individuals in this State and encourage their greater compliance in satisfying the mandatory private passenger...
• Section 39:6a-4 - Personal Injury Protection Coverage, Regardless Of Fault.
  4.Personal injury protection coverage, regardless of fault. Except as provided by section 45 of P.L.2003, c.89 (C.39:6A-3.3) and section 4 of P.L.1998, c.21 (C.39:6A-3.1),...
• Section 39:6a-4.1 - Additional Automobiles; Reduced Personal Injury Protection Premium
  When a named insured is the owner and only designated operator of two or more automobiles and the only licensed driver residing in the...
• Section 39:6a-4.2 - Primacy Of Coverages
  Primacy of coverages. Except as provided in subsection d. of section 13 of P.L.1983, c.362 (C.39:6A-4.3), the personal injury protection coverage of the named...
• Section 39:6a-4.3 - Personal Injury Protection Coverage Options.
  13.Personal injury protection coverage options. With respect to personal injury protection coverage provided on an automobile in accordance with section 4 of P.L.1972, c.70...
• Section 39:6a-4.4 - Application Of Amendment Of S. 39:6a-4.3 By L.1984, C. 40
  The amendments to section 13 of P.L.1983, c. 362 (C. 39:6A-4.3) contained in section 1 of this amendatory and supplementary act shall apply to...
• Section 39:6a-4.5 - Loss Of Right To Sue For Failure To Insure, For Dwi, For Intentional Acts.
  14. a. Any person who, at the time of an automobile accident resulting in injuries to that person, is required but fails to maintain...
• Section 39:6a-4.6 - Medical Fee Schedules
  10. a. The Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall, within 90 days after the effective date of P.L.1990, c.8 (C.17:33B-1 et al.), promulgate medical...
• Section 39:6a-4.7 - Compilation Of List Of Valid Diagnostic Tests Used In Treatment Of Persons Sustaining Bodily Injury.
  12.The professional licensing boards governing health care providers in the Division of Consumer Affairs shall promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410...
• Section 39:6a-5 - Payment Of Personal Injury Protection Coverage Benefits.
  5.Payment of personal injury protection coverage benefits. a.An insurer may require written notice to be given as soon as practicable after an accident involving...
• Section 39:6a-5.1 - Dispute Resolution Provided Regarding Recovery Of Personal Injury Protection Benefits.
  24. a. Any dispute regarding the recovery of medical expense benefits or other benefits provided under personal injury protection coverage pursuant to section 4...
• Section 39:6a-5.2 - Establishment Of Standards For Certification Of Medical Review Organizations.
  25. a. The commissioner shall establish standards for the certification of medical review organizations, which shall include standards of performance formulated by the commissioner...
• Section 39:6a-6 - Collateral Source.
  6.Collateral Source. The benefits provided in sections 4 and 10 of P.L.1972, c.70 (C.39:6A-4 and 39:6A-10), the medical expense benefits provided in section 4...
• Section 39:6a-7 - Exclusion From Certain Insurance Benefits.
  7.Exclusions. a. Insurers may exclude a person from benefits under sections 4 and 10 of P.L.1972, c.70 (C.39:6A-4 and 39:6A-10), medical expense benefits provided...
• Section 39:6a-8 - Tort Exemption, Limitation On The Right To Noneconomic Loss.
  8.Tort exemption; limitation on the right to noneconomic loss. One of the following two tort options shall be elected, in accordance with section 14.1...
• Section 39:6a-8.1 - Election Of Tort Option
  Election of tort option. a. Election of a tort option pursuant to section 8 of P.L. 1972, c. 70 (C. 39:6A-8) shall be in...
• Section 39:6a-9.1 - Recovery From Tortfeasor.
  20. a. An insurer, health maintenance organization or governmental agency paying benefits pursuant to subsection a., b. or d. of section 13 of P.L.1983,...
• Section 39:6a-10 - Additional Personal Injury Protection Coverage.
  10.Additional personal injury protection coverage. Insurers shall make available to the named insured electing the standard automobile insurance policy and covered under section 4...
• Section 39:6a-11 - Contribution Among Insurers.
  11. Contribution among insurers. If two or more insurers are liable to pay benefits under sections 4 and 10 of P.L.1972, c.70 (C.39:6A-4 and...
• Section 39:6a-12 - Inadmissibility Of Evidence Of Losses Collectible Under Personal Injury Protection Coverage.
  12. Inadmissibility of evidence of losses collectible under personal injury protection coverage. Except as may be required in an action brought pursuant to section...
• Section 39:6a-13 - Discovery Of Facts As To Personal Injury Protection Coverage.
  13. Discovery of facts as to personal injury protection coverage. The following apply to personal injury protection coverage benefits payable under a standard automobile...
• Section 39:6a-13.1 - Two-year Limitation On Action For Payment Of Benefits.
  11. a. Every action for the payment of benefits payable under a standard automobile insurance policy pursuant to sections 4 and 10 of P.L.1972,...
• Section 39:6a-14 - Compulsory Uninsured Motorist Protection
  Every owner or registrant of an automobile registered or principally garaged in this State shall maintain uninsured motorist coverage as provided in P.L.1968, c....
• Section 39:6a-15 - Penalties For False And Fraudulent Representation.
  15. In any claim or action arising for benefits payable under a standard automobile insurance policy under section 4 of P.L.1972, c.70 (C.39:6A-4), any...
• Section 39:6a-16 - Construction And Severability
  This act shall be liberally construed so as to effect the purpose thereof. The provisions of this act shall be severable and if any...
• Section 39:6a-17 - General Repeal Of Inconsistent Statutory Provisions
  All laws or parts of laws which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are repealed and superseded to the extent of such...
• Section 39:6a-18 - Mandatory Reduction Of Bodily Injury Insurance Rates
  Bodily injury insurance rates in effect on July 1, 1972 shall be reduced by at least 15% and shall become effective upon the effective...
• Section 39:6a-19 - Rules And Regulations
  The Commissioner of Insurance is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate, rescind and enforce such reasonable rules and regulations as may be...
• Section 39:6a-20 - Powers Of Commissioner Of Insurance
  For the purpose of implementing and enforcing this act, the Commissioner of Insurance shall possess all of those general powers as enumerated in Title...
• Section 39:6a-21 - The New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange; Membership, Board Of Directors.
  15.The New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange; membership, board of directors. There shall be created, within 45 days of the operative date of this...
• Section 39:6a-22 - Powers Of Exchange
  Powers of exchange. a. The exchange shall be empowered to raise sufficient moneys (1) to pay its operating expenses, and (2) to compensate members...
• Section 39:6a-22.1 - Preference To New Jersey Investments
  Moneys collected by or available to the exchange shall be invested by the board of directors in accordance with the liabilities of the fund...
• Section 39:6a-23 - Written Notice - Buyer's Guide And Coverage Selection Form
  Written notice - buyer's guide and coverage selection form. a. No new automobile insurance policy shall be issued on or after the 180th day...
• Section 39:6a-23.1 - Comparative Premium Data
  Within nine months of the effective date of this 1988 amendatory and supplementary act, the Commissioner of Insurance shall cause to have published a...
• Section 39:6a-24 - Purpose And Intent Of Act
  The purpose and intent of this act is to establish an informal system of settling tort claims arising out of automobile accidents in an...
• Section 39:6a-25 - Actions To Be Submitted To Arbitration
  a. Any cause of action filed in the Superior Court after the operative date of this act, for the recovery of noneconomic loss, as...
• Section 39:6a-26 - Tolling Statute Of Limitations
  Submission of a controversy to arbitration shall toll the statute of limitations for filing an action until the filing of the arbitration decision in...
• Section 39:6a-27 - Selection Of Arbitrators
  a. The number or selection of arbitrators may be stipulated by mutual consent of all of the parties to the action, which stipulation shall...
• Section 39:6a-28 - Compensation And Fees; Rules Governing Offers Of Judgment
  Compensation for arbitrators shall be set by the rules of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The Supreme Court may also establish a schedule...
• Section 39:6a-29 - Subpoenas
  The arbitrators may, at their initiative or at the request of any party to the arbitration, issue subpenas for the attendance of witnesses and...
• Section 39:6a-30 - Award; Decision Of Arbitrator
  Notwithstanding that a controversy was submitted pursuant to subsection a. of section 2 of this act, the arbitration award for noneconomic loss may exceed...
• Section 39:6a-31 - Confirming Arbitration Decision
  Unless one of the parties to the arbitration petitions the court, within 30 days of the filing of the arbitration decision with the court,...
• Section 39:6a-32 - Trial De Novo; Fee
  9. Except in the case of an arbitration decision vacated by the court or offers of judgment made pursuant to court rules, the party...
• Section 39:6a-33 - Admissibility Of Evidence At Trial De Novo
  No statements, admissions or testimony made at the arbitration proceedings, nor the arbitration decision, as confirmed or modified by the court, shall be used...
• Section 39:6a-34 - Assessment Of Costs For Trial De Novo
  The party having filed for a trial de novo shall be assessed court costs and other reasonable costs of the other party to the...
• Section 39:6a-35 - Rules; Report
  The Supreme Court of New Jersey shall adopt rules of court appropriate or necessary to effectuate the purpose of this act. The Administrative Office...
• Section 39:6b-1 - Maintenance Of Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Coverage.
  1. a. Every owner or registered owner of a motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this State shall maintain motor vehicle liability insurance...
• Section 39:6b-2 - Penalties.
  2. An owner or registrant of a motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this State who operates or causes to be operated a...
• Section 39:6b-3 - Uninsured Motorist Prevention Fund.
  2.The Uninsured Motorist Prevention Fund (hereinafter referred to as the "fund") is established as a nonlapsing, revolving fund into which shall be deposited all...
• Section 39:7-1 - Construction Of Chapter
  This chapter shall be construed as extending the right and manner of service of process upon nonresidents, and not as limiting any other lawful...
• Section 39:7-2 - Director As Agent For Service Of Process; Effect Of Service
  39:7-2. (a) Any person, not being a resident of this State, who shall drive a motor vehicle in this State, whether or not such...
• Section 39:7-2.1 - Director As Agent For Service Of Process Of Residents Who Become Nonresidents; Effect Of Service
  1. Any resident of this State who shall drive a motor vehicle, or cause a motor vehicle to be driven in this State, whether...
• Section 39:7-2.2 - Manner Of Service; Notice; Fees
  Service of process shall be made, and notice thereof shall be given, under this act in the same manner and with the same effect,...
• Section 39:7-3 - Methods Of Service; Notice To Defendant; Fees And Expenses
  39:7-3. Service of process upon the director shall be made by leaving the original and a copy of the summons and two copies of...
• Section 39:7-4 - Continuances To Permit Defendant To Defend
  The court in which an action against a chauffeur, operator or owner mentioned in section 39:7-2 of this title is pending may order such...
• Section 39:7-5 - Fees And Expenses As Taxable Costs
  The fee of $5.00 paid by the plaintiff to the director at the time of service and the cost of giving notice as provided...
• Section 39:7-6 - Record Kept By Commissioner
  The director shall keep a record of processes served pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, which shall show the day and hour of...
• Section 39:7-7 - Power Of Attorney Constituting Director Agent For Service Condition Precedent To Release On Bail
  Whenever any collision or accident shall occur in this State and the driver of any motor vehicle involved therein shall be a non-resident and...
• Section 39:7-8 - Other Methods Of Service Of Process
  From and after April seventh, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, civil process in any action or proceeding arising out of a collision or...
• Section 39:8-1 - Motor Vehicle Inspections, Exceptions.
  39:8-1. a. Every motor vehicle registered in this State which is used over any public road, street, or highway or any public or quasi-public...
• Section 39:8-2 - Inspectors Of Motor Vehicles; Rules, Regulations.
  39:8-2. a. The commission may designate and appoint, subject to existing laws, competent inspectors of motor vehicles to conduct examinations, other than the periodic...
• Section 39:8-2.1 - Uniforms For Motor Vehicle Inspectors
  The Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall provide uniforms for its employees engaged in examining and inspecting...
• Section 39:8-2.2 - Inspection Stations; Hours Open; Rules And Regulations
  During the 12 calendar months following the effective date of this act the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the State Department...
• Section 39:8-2.3 - Possession Of Property In Advance Of Compensation
  In addition to the powers now vested in the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles under section 39:8-2 of the Revised Statutes for...
• Section 39:8-3 - Certificate Of Approval, Issuance; Owner's Obligation For Safety.
  39:8-3. a. No certificate of approval shall be issued by an examiner, official inspection facility or private inspection facility until the motor vehicle inspected...
• Section 39:8-3.1 - Inspection Of Certain Vehicles Owned By Active Duty Military.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, a passenger automobile registered in accordance with R.S.39:3-4 or R.S.39:3-27, owned by an...
• Section 39:8-4 - Reinspection
  39:8-4. a. If inspections as required by R.S. 39:8-1 disclose the necessity for adjustments, corrections or repairs, the director shall cause a rejection sticker...
• Section 39:8-4.1 - Rules And Regulations
  The director may promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1975, c. 157, s. 2,...
• Section 39:8-5 - Reports To Chief Administrator; Forms.
  39:8-5. a. Every designated inspector, official inspection facility or private inspection facility shall make such reports to the chief administrator concerning inspections made and...
• Section 39:8-6 - Display Of Approval Certificate On Request
  During the period designated by the director or any police officer who shall exhibit his badge or other sign of authority may stop any...
• Section 39:8-7 - Suspension, Revocation, Denial Of Registration, Reciprocity Privilege For Unsafe Vehicles
  39:8-7. Except as otherwise provided pursuant to R.S.39:3-5, the director may suspend, revoke or deny the registration of a motor vehicle registered or required...
• Section 39:8-8 - Certificate Of Approval As Prerequisite For Registration
  The director may rule that a certificate of approval shall serve as a prerequisite for obtaining a registration for the following registration period. Amended...
• Section 39:8-9 - Enforcement; Violations, Penalties
  39:8-9. a. The enforcement of this chapter shall be vested in the director and the police or peace officers of any municipality, any county...
• Section 39:8-10 - Powers Of Director
  39:8-10. The director shall have authority to make rules and regulations necessary for the administration and enforcement of this chapter. The director may employ,...
• Section 39:8-11 - Private Inspection Centers
  The director may, after appropriate inquiry and investigation, license to operate private inspection centers as many qualified and properly equipped persons engaged in the...
• Section 39:8-12 - Certification; Rejection
  A licensee shall inspect and certify or reject a motor vehicle presented to him for an initial inspection. Certification shall indicate that the licensee...
• Section 39:8-13 - Charges
  a. A licensee may charge any owner whose vehicle was adjusted, corrected or repaired by or under the direction of the licensee an amount...
• Section 39:8-14 - Self Inspections
  6. a. The director may license any person who is the owner or lessee of 10 or more motor vehicles to initially inspect, reinspect...
• Section 39:8-15 - Validity Of Licenses
  Every private inspection center license issued on or after May 1 in any year shall be valid through June 30 of the following year....
• Section 39:8-16 - Application, Renewal Of License
  An application or renewal for a private inspection center license shall be in such form and shall contain such information as the director may...
• Section 39:8-17 - Approval Sticker
  The director shall provide each licensee as many numbered private inspection approval stickers as may be required, and may charge the licensee $1.00 for...
• Section 39:8-18 - Violations, Penalties
  A person who affixes a private inspection approval sticker to a motor vehicle without having reinspected the specific item for which the vehicle was...
• Section 39:8-19 - Denial, Suspension, Revocation Of Licenses
  a. The director may deny, suspend or revoke a private inspection center license or refuse renewal thereof for cause, including but not limited to...
• Section 39:8-20 - Return Of Records
  Any licensee who discontinues operation of a private inspection center, or whose license has been suspended or revoked, or whose renewal thereof has been...
• Section 39:8-21 - Disorderly Persons Offenses
  Any person who shall display or cause or permit to be displayed any sign, mark, or advertisement as a private inspection center when a...
• Section 39:8-22 - Personnel, Expenditures
  The director may, subject to existing law, employ such persons and make such expenditures as are necessary to supervise the operation of licensed private...
• Section 39:8-23 - Rules And Regulations
  The director may adopt such rules and regulations as may be required or appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1975, c. 156,...
• Section 39:8-24 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect immediately. L.1975, c. 156, s. 16, eff. July 16, 1975. Amended by L.1977, c. 270, s. 1, eff. Oct....
• Section 39:8-37 - Redesignations
  All reinspection centers licensed pursuant to P.L. 1975, c. 156 (C. 39:8-11 et seq.) shall be redesignated by virtue of this 1986 amendatory and...
• Section 39:8-38 - Standards For Emission Test Equipment
  All licensed private inspection centers shall use emissions test equipment which has been certified by the Department of Environmental Protection. The department shall adopt...
• Section 39:8-39 - Training Courses
  A licensee or his employee shall not perform initial inspections or reinspections and make repairs for compensation pursuant to this act unless qualified by...
• Section 39:8-40 - Encouragement Of Participation
  The director may promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate the...
• Section 39:8-41 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 18 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Federal Clean Air Mandate Compliance Act." L.1995,c.112,s.1.
• Section 39:8-42 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that the federal Clean Air Act requires states that have been determined to be in nonattainment for certain...
• Section 39:8-43 - Definitions
  3. As used in chapter 8 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes: "Certificate of Approval" means a document, in a form determined by...
• Section 39:8-44 - Official Inspection Facilities, Options, Contracts, Specifications, Etc.
  4. a. The State Treasurer shall either: (1) Assign to the State the full responsibility for the design, construction, renovation, equipment, establishment, maintenance, and...
• Section 39:8-45 - Licensing Of Private Inspection Facility, Requirements, Application Fee.
  5. a. (1) The chief administrator, after appropriate inquiry and investigation, may license persons to operate private inspection facilities to inspect initially, reinspect and...
• Section 39:8-46 - Inspections, Reinspections By Private Inspection Facility, Charges
  6. a. Whenever a private inspection facility licensee conducts an initial inspection, the private inspection facility shall either reject the vehicle or certify that...
• Section 39:8-47 - Private Inspection Facility, Supplies, Record Keeping Required; Penalty
  7. a. The director shall provide each private inspection facility with as many certificates of approval and rejection stickers as may be required and...
• Section 39:8-48 - Fraudulent Affixing Of Certificate Of Approval, Waiver Certificate; Penalty
  8. A person who is employed by or under contract with a private inspection facility and who affixes a certificate of approval or a...
• Section 39:8-49 - Denial, Suspension, Revocation, Refusal Of Renewal Of Private Inspection Facility License
  9. a. The director may, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), deny, suspend or revoke a private inspection facility...
• Section 39:8-50 - Standards For Certification Of Emission Testing Equipment
  10. A private inspection facility or an official inspection facility shall use emission testing equipment that has been certified by the Department of Environmental...
• Section 39:8-51 - Expiration Of Outstanding Licenses, Return Of Items To Director
  11. All licenses issued pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1975, c.156 (C.39:8-11) shall expire and be of no force and effect on or after...
• Section 39:8-52 - Licensing Of Inspectors, Fees.
  12. a. A person shall not conduct any inspection required by the chief administrator on a motor vehicle or diesel bus, heavy-duty diesel truck,...
• Section 39:8-53 - Registration, Certification Program, Course Of Instruction For Repair Facilities, Technicians
  13. a. The director shall adopt, after consultation with the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, rules and...
• Section 39:8-54 - Misrepresentation, Transfer Of License; Penalties.
  14.A person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed any sign, mark, or advertisement, or otherwise identifies that person as a private...
• Section 39:8-56 - Required Repairs Under A Recall
  16. The owner or lessee of a motor vehicle that is subject to inspection pursuant to R.S.39:8-1 and that is included in either a...
• Section 39:8-57 - Rules, Regulations
  17. The director shall adopt, after consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et...
• Section 39:8-58 - Nonapplicability Of Act
  18. The provisions of P.L.1995, c.112 (C.39:8-41 et al.) shall not apply to violations committed prior to its effective date, and prosecutions and dispositions...
• Section 39:8-59 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Emissions From Diesel-powered Vehicles
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that exhaust emissions from diesel buses, heavy-duty diesel trucks, and other diesel-powered motor vehicles contribute significantly to air...
• Section 39:8-60 - Definitions Relative To Emissions Inspections.
  2.As used in this act: "Diesel bus" means any diesel-powered autobus or motorbus of any size or configuration, whether registered in this State or...
• Section 39:8-61 - Exhaust Emissions Standards, Test Methods.
  3.The Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the commission and the Department of Transportation, shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative...
• Section 39:8-62 - No Operation In Violation Of Standards Established
  4. No owner or lessee of a diesel bus, heavy-duty diesel truck, or other diesel-powered motor vehicle shall operate, or cause or allow the...
• Section 39:8-63 - Violations, Penalties.
  5. a. The owner and the lessee, if any, of a heavy-duty diesel truck operated in violation of section 4 of this act shall...
• Section 39:8-64 - Periodic Inspection, Roadside Enforcement Programs.
  6. a. The commission, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Transportation and with the approval of the Attorney...
• Section 39:8-65 - Pilot Roadside Enforcement Program.
  7.In implementing the roadside enforcement program, the commission, in consultation with the Commissioner of Transportation, shall phase in roadside inspections by establishing a pilot...
• Section 39:8-66 - Procedures For Conducting Test Methods.
  8. a. The commission, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Transportation, shall establish procedures by which test methods...
• Section 39:8-67 - Provision Of State Police Officers.
  9.The Superintendent of the State Police, in consultation with and subject to the approval of the Attorney General, shall provide State Police officers to...
• Section 39:8-68 - Additional Penalties.
  10.In addition to any other penalties that may be applicable, the operator of a diesel bus, heavy-duty diesel truck, or other diesel-powered motor vehicle...
• Section 39:8-69 - Licensing Of Private Inspection Facilities.
  11. a. The commission shall designate as many qualified and properly equipped duly licensed private inspection facilities as the commission determines shall be necessary...
• Section 39:8-70 - Civil Penalty.
  12.Any person who violates any provision of sections 2 through 20 of this act or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be...
• Section 39:8-71 - Issuance Of Ticket For Violations; Service.
  13. a. A complaint and summons charging a violation of this act or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto and seeking the imposition...
• Section 39:8-72 - Action For Recovery Of Civil Penalty.
  14.An action for the recovery of a civil penalty for violation of this act or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this act...
• Section 39:8-73 - Docketing Of Judgments; Enforcement.
  15. a. The court administrator of the municipal court shall docket in the Superior Court a municipal court judgment imposing a civil penalty pursuant...
• Section 39:8-74 - Distribution Of Fees.
  16.Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title to the contrary, all fees and other monies that the commission, or the State Treasurer receives pursuant...
• Section 39:8-75 - "Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Fund."
  17. a. There is established in the General Fund a separate, nonlapsing, dedicated account to be known as the "Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Fund." The...
• Section 39:8-76 - Receivable Account
  18. The State Treasurer shall establish a receivable account for the sole purpose of defraying the expenses incurred for program implementation and administration of...
• Section 39:8-77 - Rules, Regulations.
  19.Except as otherwise provided in this act, the commission, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Department of Transportation may adopt rules and regulations...
• Section 39:8-78 - Report.
  20.On the first day of the forty-eighth month after this act takes effect, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection,...
• Section 39:8-79 - To 39:8-89 Reallocated To 39:3-6.11 To 39:3-6.21.
• Section 39:8-90 - Redesignation Of Diesel Emission Inspection Centers.
  10. All diesel emission inspection centers licensed pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1995, c.157 (C.39:8-69) shall be redesignated by virtue of this act as...
• Section 39:8-91 - Prohibition Of Checkpoints Limited To Specific Vehicle Types.
  1.A law enforcement agency shall not conduct a roadside checkpoint or other systematic inspection of vehicles along any public road, street, or highway of...
• Section 39:9-1 - Citation Of Chapter
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the "hours of service law of 1936."
• Section 39:9-2 - Hours Of Duty Limited; Hours Off Duty; Emergencies.
  39:9-2. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, or to require or permit any person to operate, any commercial motor vehicle weighing...
• Section 39:9-4 - Violations Of Chapter; Punishment; Enforcement; Remedies; Procedure; Revocation Of Certificate
  Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon summary conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction, be sentenced to pay a fine...
• Section 39:10-1 - Short Title
  This chapter may be known and cited as the "motor vehicle certificate of ownership law." Amended by L.1946, c. 136, p. 622, s. 1.
• Section 39:10-2 - Definitions
  39:10-2. As used in this chapter unless other meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intention...
• Section 39:10-3 - Interpretation Of Chapter
  This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to regulate and control titles to, and possession of, all...
• Section 39:10-4 - Enforcement Intrusted To Commission.
  39:10-4. The enforcement of this chapter shall be intrusted to the commission and it may make rules and regulations necessary in its judgment for...
• Section 39:10-5 - Sale Contrary To Chapter Unlawful
  No person shall sell or purchase any motor vehicle in this state, except in the manner and subject to the conditions provided in this
• Section 39:10-5.1 - Terminal Rental Adjustment Clause In Motor Vehicle Lease; Definitions
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no agreement stating that it is for the lease of a vehicle shall...
• Section 39:10-6 - Ownership, Registration Certificates, Other Documentation.
  39:10-6. Every person shall have for each motor vehicle in his possession in this State: (a) certificate of ownership therefor in conformity with this...
• Section 39:10-7 - Manufacturer's Numbers Required On Motor Vehicles
  Every motor vehicle and nonconventional type motor vehicle shall have and contain a manufacturer's vehicle identification number, which number shall not be obliterated, erased,...
• Section 39:10-8 - Certificate Of Origin, Title; Security Interests.
  39:10-8. When a new motor vehicle is delivered in this State by the manufacturer to his agent or a dealer, or a person purchasing...
• Section 39:10-9 - Subsequent Sales; Power Of Attorney, Security Interests.
  39:10-9. When a used motor vehicle is sold in this State, the seller shall, except as provided in section 39:10-15 of this Title, execute...
• Section 39:10-9.1 - Used Police Patrol Car; Designation On Certificate Of Ownership
  In every sale or transfer of a used motor vehicle which has been used as a police patrol car, whether said patrol car bore...
• Section 39:10-9.2 - Penalty
  2. Any person who transfers or attempts to transfer a motor vehicle in violation of this act shall be subject to a fine of...
• Section 39:10-9.3 - Certificate Of Ownership Of Motor Vehicle Returned To Manufacturer To Indicate Status; Violation; Penalty; Rules, Regulations
  1. a. In every sale or transfer of a motor vehicle returned to the manufacturer under the provisions of P.L.1988, c.123 (C.56:12-29 et seq.),...
• Section 39:10-9.4 - Used Ambulances, Removal Of Markings, Certain Circumstances; Violations, Crime.
  1. a. Any ambulance sold, transferred, gifted, discarded or abandoned to an entity other than a hospital, licensed ambulance dealership, an emergency service organization...
• Section 39:10-10 - Delivery Of Certificate Of Ownership; Filing Of Evidence Of Satisfaction Of Contract Or Termination Of Security Interest; Penalty For Noncompliance
  When the contract or terms of the security agreement noted on the certificate of origin, or certificate of ownership have been performed the seller...
• Section 39:10-11 - Certificate Of Ownership; Fees
  39:10-11. A. The purchaser of a motor vehicle in this State, other than a dealer licensed pursuant to the provisions of R.S.39:10-19, shall, within...
• Section 39:10-11.1 - Certificate Of Ownership For Mobile Or Manufactured Home In Mobile Home Park; Cancellation On Relocation On Land With Interest Or Title In Owner
  A person who has a certificate of ownership issued by the director for a mobile or manufactured home located in a mobile home park...
• Section 39:10-12 - Lost Papers, Duplicate Certificate; Fees; False Statements In Application
  39:10-12. If certificate of ownership, or title papers, are lost, the director may, upon proof of certification or otherwise in the manner required by...
• Section 39:10-13 - File Of Certificates Kept; Destruction Of Other Certificates
  The commissioner shall retain a file of all certificates of ownership until the vehicles described therein shall be eight years old according to the...
• Section 39:10-14 - Notations; Index; Certificates; Security Interests; Fees; Furnishing Information From Records
  A. The director shall, on the record or abstract of every motor vehicle registered with him, which is subject to a security interest of...
• Section 39:10-15 - Procedure And Delivery Of Title Papers Upon Seizure Of Motor Vehicle
  If a motor vehicle is seized, levied upon, or attached and taken into possession, actually or constructively, by virtue of judicial process issued by...
• Section 39:10-15.1 - Certificate Of Ownership, Manufactured Home
  8.If a manufactured home is sold or otherwise disposed of pursuant to P.L.1999, c.340 (C.2A:18-72 et al.), the Director of the Division of Motor...
• Section 39:10-16 - Defective Or Improper Title Papers; Procedure To Correct; Fee
  39:10-16. If the title papers or certificate of ownership are defective or improper, or if the motor vehicle was purchased and its sale consummated...
• Section 39:10-18 - Title Papers Necessary To Registration
  The commissioner may refuse to grant a registration certificate and plates for a motor vehicle, unless there is furnished to him or his agent...
• Section 39:10-19 - Dealer's License; Eligibility, Term, Fee.
  39:10-19. No person shall engage in the business of buying, selling or dealing in motor vehicles in this State, nor shall a person engage...
• Section 39:10-19.1 - Definitions Relative To Off-site Sale Of Certain Motor Vehicles.
  1.As used in this act: "Off-site sale" means the display and sale of new or used recreational vehicles by a recreational vehicle dealer, or...
• Section 39:10-19.2 - Certain Dealers Permitted Off-site Sale Of Motor Vehicles.
  2.Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a recreational vehicle or used motor vehicle dealer, licensed under the provisions of R.S.39:10-19, may...
• Section 39:10-19.3 - Provisional Permit For Certain Off-site Motor Vehicles Sales; Conditions.
  3. a. The Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission may issue a provisional permit, subject to a fee, for an off-site sale to...
• Section 39:10-19.4 - Maintenance Of Booth, Desk By Dealer At Off-site Sale Premises.
  4. a. A dealer conducting an off-site sale shall maintain a booth or desk at the off-site sale premises location for the duration of...
• Section 39:10-20 - Fine, Suspension, Revocation Of License; Rules, Regulations.
  39:10-20. The chief administrator may impose a fine not to exceed $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for any subsequent offense upon the...
• Section 39:10-21 - Possession Of Title Papers By Dealer; Seizure And Sale For Nonconformity
  All dealers for both new and used motor vehicles in this State shall have a certificate of origin, certificate of ownership, or writing provided...
• Section 39:10-22 - Forms; Seizure Of Papers; Dealer To Keep, Store All Forms, Papers, Records.
  39:10-22. The chief administrator may prepare and prescribe any or all forms necessary for the proper administration of this chapter. The chief administrator or...
• Section 39:10-23 - Certificate Surrendered When Vehicle Junked, Etc.
  When a motor vehicle is scrapped, junked or destroyed, or a person permanently parts with its possession other than by sale, he shall immediately...
• Section 39:10-24 - Violations Of Chapter; Penalties.
  39:10-24. A person who purposely or knowingly violates a provision of this chapter for which a specific penalty is not provided herein shall be...
• Section 39:10-25 - Agency To Issue Certificates; Fees.
  39:10-25. The commission may designate any person to be its agent for the issuing and filing of certificates of origin, certificates of registration and...
• Section 39:10-26 - Standards For Used Motor Vehicles For Sale
  Unless otherwise provided in this act, no motor vehicle dealer shall sell at retail any used passenger motor vehicle to be registered in this...
• Section 39:10-27 - Failure To Meet Standards; Liability Of Seller
  In the event that any such used passenger motor vehicle is sold at retail and has any defect, which results in its rejection for...
• Section 39:10-28 - Specification Of Intended Registration In Written Agreement; Informing Purchaser Of Dealer's Responsibilities
  Prior to entering into any agreement for the retail sale of a used passenger motor vehicle, the dealer shall inquire as to whether the...
• Section 39:10-29 - Waiver Of Dealer's Obligation; Effect
  Any agreement of retail sale may contain a provision whereby the purchaser waives the dealer's obligation under section 2 of this act; provided, however,...
• Section 39:10-30 - Violations; Penalty
  Any dealer who fails to comply with the provisions of this act is a disorderly person. L.1971, c. 76, s. 5.
• Section 39:10-31 - "Salvage Certificate Of Title" Defined
  As used in this act "salvage certificate of tile" means a document issued by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles which serves...
• Section 39:10-32 - Vehicle Reported Stolen Or Damaged; Surrender Of Certificate Of Ownership; Issuance Of Salvage Certificate Of Title.
  2. a. If a motor vehicle has either been reported as being stolen or suffered sufficient damage to render it economically impractical to repair,...
• Section 39:10-33 - Recovery Of Stolen Vehicle; Conditions For Issuance Of Certificate Of Ownership
  If a motor vehicle reported as being stolen is subsequently recovered, a certificate of ownership for the vehicle which had been surrendered to the...
• Section 39:10-34 - Repair Of Damaged Vehicle; Conditions For Issuance Of Certificate Of Ownership
  If a motor vehicle which has suffered sufficient damage to render it economically impractical to repair is subsequently repaired, a certificate of ownership for...
• Section 39:10-35 - Fee For Inspection
  The director shall establish a fee for the inspections required under sections 3 and 4 of this act. The fees shall be deposited in...
• Section 39:10-36 - Vehicle Issued Salvage Certificate Of Title By Another State
  If a motor vehicle has been issued a salvage certificate of title, or similar document, by another state, that vehicle may be issued a...
• Section 39:10-37 - Rules And Regulations
  The director shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) he deems advisable to...
• Section 39:10-38 - Sale Of Motorcycles Permitted On Sunday, Certain Circumstances.
  1.Any dealer engaged in the business of selling motorcycles and licensed pursuant to R.S.39:10-19 and who holds a franchise from a manufacturer of new...
• Section 39:10a-1 - Public Auction Of Abandoned Motor Vehicles; Notices Required.
  1. a. When the State or any county, county park commission, municipality or any authority created by any thereof, hereinafter referred to as a...
• Section 39:10a-2 - Reclaiming Possession; Payment Of Costs And Penalties
  At any time prior to sale the owner or other person entitled thereto may reclaim possession of the motor vehicle upon payment of the...
• Section 39:10a-3 - Issuance Of Junk Title Certificate; Grounds
  If the public agency taking possession of a motor vehicle pursuant to this act shall, in its report thereof to the director, certify on...
• Section 39:10a-4 - Execution And Delivery Of Application For Certificate Of Ownership; Issuance Of Certificate; Fee
  Upon the sale of any motor vehicle for which no junk title certificate shall have been issued, the public agency shall execute and deliver...
• Section 39:10a-5 - Sale As Barring Claims Of Interest; Remission Of Proceeds Of Sale
  Upon the sale of a motor vehicle pursuant to the provisions of this act all claims of interest therein shall be forever barred and...
• Section 39:10a-6 - Rules And Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may make and promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this act. L.1964, c....
• Section 39:10a-7 - Additional Remedy
  This act is intended to provide an additional remedy and shall not be construed to supersede procedures provided under any other act. L.1964, c....
• Section 39:10a-8 - Motor Vehicle Abandoned At Repair Facility
  For purposes of this act a motor vehicle shall be deemed to be abandoned if it is left at a motor vehicle repair facility...
• Section 39:10a-9 - Removal And Storage, Sale Or Obtaining Junk Title Certificate; Inapplicability If Dispute Between Repair Facility And Owner On Amount Due
  a. An authorized representative of a motor vehicle repair facility may take one or more of the following actions with respect to an abandoned...
• Section 39:10a-10 - Notice To Owner Of Intent To Remove And Store
  Prior to the removal and storage of a motor vehicle pursuant to section 2. a.(1) of this act, an authorized representative of a motor...
• Section 39:10a-11 - Notice Of Intent To And Of Date, Time, Place And Manner Of Sale
  Prior to the sale of a motor vehicle pursuant to section 2. a.(2) of this act, an authorized representative of a motor vehicle repair...
• Section 39:10a-12 - Junk Title Certificate; Issuance; Notice
  If a motor vehicle repair facility determines that a motor vehicle subject to the provisions of this act is incapable of being operated safely...
• Section 39:10a-13 - Notices; Writing; Method Of Delivery; Publication
  Any notice required to be given by this act shall be in writing and sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to...
• Section 39:10a-14 - Reclamation Of Possession By Owner Prior To Sale Or Issuance Of Junk Title Certificate
  At any time prior to the sale of the motor vehicle or the issuance of a junk title certificate therefor, the owner of the...
• Section 39:10a-15 - Sale Of Motor Vehicle; Certificate Of Ownership; Application; Issuance; Fee
  Upon the sale of a motor vehicle for which no junk title certificate has been issued, an application for a certificate of ownership on...
• Section 39:10a-16 - Bar Of Claims Of Former Owner, Other Person Formerly Having Legal Right And Holder Of Security Interest
  Upon the sale of a motor vehicle, or the issuance of a junk title certificate pursuant to the provisions of this act, all claims...
• Section 39:10a-17 - Claims Allowable Against Repair Facility In Compliance With Act Only For Balance Of Proceeds Of Sale
  No claim of any kind may be asserted against a motor vehicle repair facility that complies with the provisions of this act by the...
• Section 39:10a-18 - Pattern Or Practice Of Knowingly Violating Act Or Aids Or Advises Such Pattern Or Practice; Penalty
  A motor vehicle repair facility, or any employee, officer or agent thereof, which or who engages in a pattern or practice of knowingly violating...
• Section 39:10a-19 - Rules And Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C....
• Section 39:10a-20 - Act As Additional Remedy; Priority Of Perfected Lien Or Security Interest
  This act provides an additional remedy and shall not be construed to supersede procedures provided under any other act, and shall not be deemed...
• Section 39:10b-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Director" means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety....
• Section 39:10b-2 - Major Component Parts Lacking Manufacturer's Part Number; Identification; Records; Exemption; Production And Examination; Fines And Penalties; Seizure
  a. All major motor vehicle component parts which do not contain a manufacturer's part number shall be identified by a person who deals in...
• Section 39:10b-3 - Destroyed, Removed, Altered, Defaced Or Obliterated Manufacturer's Part Number Or Identification Number; Seizure Or Confiscation Of Vehicle; Arrests; Assigning And Affixing New Number; Restoration Of Number
  a. Members of the State and local law enforcement agencies or members of the division who are designated by the director for this function...
• Section 39:10b-4 - Violations; Penalties; Defenses; Prima Facie Evidence; Burden Of Proof
  a. It shall be unlawful for a person to sell or offer for sale or transport a major motor vehicle component part or motor...
• Section 39:10b-5 - Inapplicability Of Act To Scrap Processors
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to scrap processors as defined in section 1 of this act. L.1983, c. 368. s. 5.
• Section 39:10b-6 - Rules And Regulations
  The director shall prescribe rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. L.1983, c. 368, s. 6.
• Section 39:10b-7 - Definitions Relative To Motor Vehicle Data Recording Devices.
  1.As used in this act: "Owner" means a person having all the incidents of ownership, including the legal title of a vehicle whether or...
• Section 39:10b-8 - Persons Permitted To Retrieve Data Relative To Recording Device.
  2. a. Except as provided in subsection c. of this section, no person, except the owner of the motor vehicle that contains the recording...
• Section 39:10b-9 - Alteration, Deletion Of Certain Data Prohibited; Violations, Penalties.
  3. a. No person shall knowingly alter or delete data on a recording device, or knowingly destroy a recording device with the intent to...
• Section 39:11-1 - Short Title
  The short title of this chapter is the "motor vehicle junk law" .
• Section 39:11-2 - "Motor Vehicle Junk Business," "Motor Vehicle Junk Yard" Defined.
  39:11-2. The terms "motor vehicle junk business" or "motor vehicle junk yard" shall mean and describe any business and any place of storage or...
• Section 39:11-4 - Permit Or Certificate From Municipality Required.
  39:11-4. A motor vehicle junk business or motor vehicle junk yard shall obtain a permit or certificate approving its proposed location from the governing...
• Section 39:11-5 - Municipal Hearing; Fee
  Upon receipt of an application for the local permit or certificate of approval, the governing body or zoning commission of the municipality in which...
• Section 39:11-6 - Public Hearing.
  39:11-6. Upon request of the governing body or zoning commission, as the case may be, of the municipality in which the yard or business...
• Section 39:11-7 - Discretion Of Commission Relative To Junk Yard, Business.
  39:11-7. The commission or its representative, in connection with a request for a hearing made by a municipal governing body or zoning commission pursuant...
• Section 39:11-8 - Fee.
  39:11-8. A fee of $50 shall be paid by the applicant to the commission for the examination of the proposed location of each motor...
• Section 39:11-9 - Certification Of Vehicle's Condition.
  39:11-9. Every person owning or operating a motor vehicle junk business or motor vehicle junk yard and who is also licensed as a motor...
• Section 39:11-10 - Review Of Action.
  39:11-10. A person aggrieved by the action of the governing body or zoning commission of a municipality under this chapter, or a person aggrieved...
• Section 39:11-11 - Violations, Penalties.
  39:11-11. A person who violates any provision of R.S.39:11-9 of this Title shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 or...
• Section 39:12-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: a. "Drivers' school" means the business of giving instruction,...
• Section 39:12-2 - License Required To Conduct Drivers' School; Application; Fees.
  2.No person shall engage in the business of conducting a drivers' school without being licensed therefor by the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey...
• Section 39:12-2.1 - Recognition Of Behind-the-wheel Instructional Experience For Drivers' School License.
  1.Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a person who is employed as a driving instructor in a public or non-public secondary...
• Section 39:12-2.2 - Provision Of List Of Licensed Drivers' Schools To School Districts.
  2.The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall, by January 31st of each year, provide to the Department of Education a list of...
• Section 39:12-3 - Grounds For Denial Of Application
  The director may deny the application of any person for a license if, in his discretion, he determines that: a. Such applicant has made...
• Section 39:12-4 - Rules
  The director may make such rules as he deems reasonable for the conduct of drivers' schools. L.1951, c. 216, p. 777, s. 4. 39:12-4.1...
• Section 39:12-4.1 - Inspection Of Premises Of Licensee; Violations, Fines.
  10.The director shall make or cause to be made a full and complete inspection, at least annually, of the premises of each licensee at...
• Section 39:12-5 - Instructor's License; Motorcycle Endorsement; Fees.
  5.No person shall be employed by any such licensee to give instruction in driving a motor vehicle unless he shall be licensed to act...
• Section 39:12-6 - Denial Of License, Endorsement Applications
  6. The director may deny the application of any person for an instructor's license or for a motorcycle safety education instructor endorsement to an...
• Section 39:12-7 - Suspension Or Revocation Of Or Refusal To Issue Renewal Of School License, Grounds For
  The director, or any employee of the Division of Motor Vehicles deputized by him, may suspend or revoke any school license issued under the...
• Section 39:12-8 - Suspension, Revocation, Refusal To Renew Licenses, Endorsements
  8. The director or any employee of the Division of Motor Vehicles deputized by him may suspend or revoke any instructor's license issued under...
• Section 39:12-9 - Renewal No Bar To Revocation Or Suspension
  9. Notwithstanding the renewal of a license, the director may revoke or suspend such license or endorsement for causes and violations, as prescribed by...
• Section 39:12-10 - Hearings, Notice, Subpoenas
  10. Every applicant or licensee shall be entitled to a hearing, before his application for a license, an endorsement or a renewal thereof is...
• Section 39:12-11 - Records Of Licensee
  Every licensee shall keep such records as the director may by regulation require. The records of the licensee shall be open to the inspection...
• Section 39:12-12 - Violations; Punishment
  A person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be subject, for a first offense, to a fine of not less...
• Section 39:12-13 - Enforcement Of Act; Jurisdiction Of Municipal Courts
  The provisions of this act shall be enforced and all penalties for the violation thereof shall be recovered in accordance with the provisions of...
• Section 39:12-14 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one. L.1951, c. 216, p. 781, s. 14.
• Section 39:12-15 - Seat Belts To Be Worn At All Times; Violations; Penalties
  No person shall give instruction in the operation of a motor vehicle at a drivers' school unless both the instructor and student wear seat...
• Section 39:13-1 - Definitions
  1.For the purposes of this act: "Auto body repair facility" means a business or person who for compensation engages in the business of repairing,...
• Section 39:13-2 - System For Licensure Of Auto Body Repair Facilities.
  2. a. The commission shall establish a system for the licensure of auto body repair facilities. This system may provide for licenses based upon...
• Section 39:13-2.1 - Qualification For Full Service License.
  7. a. To qualify for a full service license an auto body repair facility shall: (1)Have a building suitable for the conduct of all...
• Section 39:13-2.2 - Qualification For Automobile Dealer Sublet License
  8.A person which sells new automobiles under an agreement with an automobile manufacturer and does not satisfy the equipment requirements of section 7 of...
• Section 39:13-2.3 - Review Of Applications For Licensure
  9.Applications for a new or renewal full service auto body repair facility license or a motor vehicle dealer sublet license shall be reviewed by...
• Section 39:13-2.4 - Regulations
  10. Within 360 days of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act the director shall promulgate regulations, in accordance with the provisions...
• Section 39:13-3 - Investigation Of Violations
  The director shall, on his own initiative or in response to complaints, investigate on a continuing basis and gather evidence of violations of this...
• Section 39:13-4 - Fine; Refusal To Grant, Suspension, Revocation Of License
  4.The director may fine or refuse to grant or may suspend or revoke a license of an auto body repair facility for any of...
• Section 39:13-5 - Notification, Hearing Upon Written Request
  5.Upon refusal to grant a license or suspension or revocation of a license of an auto body repair facility, the director shall notify the...
• Section 39:13-6 - Cease And Desist Order, Civil Penalty
  6.The director may issue and cause to be served, upon an auto body repair facility charged with a violation of P.L.1983, c.360 (C.39:13-1 et...
• Section 39:13-7 - Rules, Regulations
  The director shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. L. 1983, c. 360, s. 7. Amended by L....
• Section 39:13-8 - Damage Repairs Reimbursable Under Insurance Policy By Negotiable Instrument Payable To Insured And Lienholder Or Lessor; Statement And Photograph As Proof; Inspection
  1. a. When a motor vehicle is repaired by an auto body repair facility as a result of damage to the vehicle and (1)...
• Section 39:14-1 - Definitions Relative To Motor Carrier Transportation Contracts.
  1.For the purposes of P.L.2015, c.112 (C.39:14-1 et seq.): "Motor carrier" means a person contracted to transport goods or property by motor vehicle. "Motor...
• Section 39:14-2 - Certain Provisions, Clauses, Covenants, Agreements Deemed Void, Unenforceable.
  2.Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a provision, clause, covenant, or agreement contained in, collateral to, or affecting a motor carrier...

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