Bill Text: NJ A20 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits person whose driver's license is suspended for DWI from operating NJT train.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-27 - Substituted by S20 [A20 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A20-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 20

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 2, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  JOANN DOWNEY

District 11 (Monmouth)

Assemblyman  ERIC HOUGHTALING

District 11 (Monmouth)

Assemblyman  NICHOLAS CHIARAVALLOTI

District 31 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  CRAIG J. COUGHLIN

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman  LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits person whose driver's license is suspended for DWI from operating NJT train. 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the operation of New Jersey Transit Corporation trains and supplementing Title 27 of the Revised Statutes. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    The Legislature finds and declares that:

     a.    It is necessary to prohibit a person whose driver's license is suspended or revoked from operating a train in this State in order to eliminate or reduce an essentially local safety hazard; 

     b.    This prohibition is not incompatible with a law, regulation, or order of the United States Government; and

     c.    The prohibition does not impose an unreasonable burden on interstate commerce.

 

     2.    A person whose driver's license is suspended or revoked for a violation of R.S.39:4-50, section 2 of P.L.1981, c.512 (C.39:4-50.4a), or a law of a substantially similar nature in another jurisdiction shall not operate, during the period of suspension or revocation, a locomotive or train provided by the New Jersey Transit Corporation, or any public or private entity under contract to the corporation.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits any person whose driver's license currently is suspended or revoked for driving while intoxicated or refusing to take a breathalyzer test in this State or another state from operating, during the period of suspension or revocation, any New Jersey Transit Corporation (corporation) locomotive or train. 

     The bill specifically prohibits the person whose license is suspended or revoked from operating a locomotive or train provided by the corporation or any public or private entity under contract to the corporation.