Bill Text: NJ A1812 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires investigating law enforcement officer to contact next of kin of unconscious motor vehicle accident victim who has been transported to hospital emergency room.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-15 - Senate Amendment (33-0) (Kyrillos) [A1812 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1812-Amended.html
ASSEMBLY, No. 1812
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CAROLINE CASAGRANDE
District 12 (Mercer and Monmouth)
Assemblyman NELSON T. ALBANO
District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Wolfe, Assemblywoman Wagner, Assemblymen Chivukula, Milam, Senators Kyrillos, Allen and Beck
SYNOPSIS
Requires investigating law enforcement officer to contact next of kin of unconscious motor vehicle accident victim who has been transported to hospital emergency room.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As amended by the Senate on December 15, 2011.
An Act concerning next of kin notification and supplementing chapter 1[2 of Title 53 of the Revised Statutes and chapter 14 of Title 40A of the New Jersey Statutes] 4 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes1.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, 1[whenever a person involved in a motor vehicle accident on a highway or road under the jurisdiction of the State Police is transported to the emergency room of a medical facility and is unconscious or otherwise incapable of communication, the member of the State Police who responded to the accident scene or other member investigating the accident shall notify the next of kin of the whereabouts of the accident victim as soon as possible] the primary investigating law enforcement agency investigating a motor vehicle accident shall ensure the timely notification of the victim's location to the victim's nest of kin, if the victim is transported to an emergency room of a medical facility and is unconscious or otherwise incapable of communication1.
1[2. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, whenever a person involved in a motor vehicle accident on a highway or road under the jurisdiction of a county or municipal police department or force is transported to the emergency room of a medical facility and is unconscious or otherwise incapable of communication, the police officer who responded to the accident scene or other officer investigating the accident shall notify the next of kin of the whereabouts of the accident victim as soon as possible.]1
12. The primary investigating law enforcement agency shall be afforded total immunity from all liability if the department has adopted a standard operating procedure for the notification of next of kin. The primary investigating law enforcement agency shall incur no liability for failure to notify the next of kin.1
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month after enactment.
