Bill Text: NJ A2641 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts disabled persons from the payment of municipal parking meter fees unless otherwise posted.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Human Services Committee [A2641 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A2641-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Exempts disabled persons from the payment of municipal parking meter fees unless otherwise posted.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the payment of municipal parking meter fees by disabled persons and amending P.L.1949, c.280.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 4 of P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-207) is amended to read as follows:
4. a. No penalty shall be imposed for the parking overtime of any motor vehicle which has displayed thereon a placard or wheelchair symbol license plates issued pursuant to the provisions of [this act] P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-204 et seq.) under any law or municipal ordinance now in effect or hereafter enacted unless such vehicle shall have been parked in one location for more than 24 hours.
b. Any motor vehicle displaying a placard or wheelchair symbol license plate, issued pursuant to P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-204 et seq.), is exempt from parking meter and kiosk fees unless conspicuously posted signage states the following: "All motor vehicles in metered spaces must pay the parking meter."
The Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission may prescribe alternative standards for signage installed pursuant to this subsection.
c. This [provision] section shall apply only when the person to whom the placard or special license plate has been issued is either the driver or a passenger of the vehicle.
(cf: P.L.1989, c.201, s.4)
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month next following enactment, except that the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
It is the sponsor's intent for this legislation to require local units operating parking meters or kiosks to either allow disabled persons an exemption from the payment of parking meter and kiosk fees, or require the payments by disabled persons so long as signage clearly indicates that all persons must pay. It has come to the sponsor's attention that, due to mobility constraints and accessibility imperfections along many roads and sidewalks, disabled persons often experience hardship in returning to parked vehicles prior to the expiration of a parking meter.
