Bill Text: NJ A2700 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for promotion of tourism attractions within New Jersey at service areas along certain toll roads.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Tourism and the Arts Committee [A2700 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2700-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CHRIS A. BROWN
District 2 (Atlantic)
Assemblywoman DIANNE C. GOVE
District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Provides for promotion of tourism attractions within New Jersey at service areas along certain toll roads.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning tourism promotion at New Jersey toll road service areas and supplementing P.L.1948, c.454 (C.27:23-1 et seq.) and P.L.1991, c.252 (C.27:25A-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall adopt, in consultation with the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of State and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations to provide for the display of brochures and information concerning tourism attractions located within the State at service areas along the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike. These rules and regulations shall include, but need not be limited to, provisions allowing for:
(1) the designation of locations for such displays at all service areas; and
(2) a provision allowing the New Jersey Turnpike Authority or any of its contracted vendors, as appropriate, to lease out space within such displays for the placement of brochures and information for other tourism attractions if there is available space at such displays.
b. To the extent necessary, appropriate, and practicable, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall initiate discussions with contracted vendors at service areas concerning the display of brochures and information about tourism attractions located within the State at service areas and shall incorporate any necessary provisions in the contracts of the vendors to allow for the display of such brochures and information at service areas along the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike.
2. a. The South Jersey Transportation Authority shall adopt, in consultation with the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of State and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations to provide for the display of brochures and information concerning tourism attractions located within the State at service areas along the Atlantic City Expressway. These rules and regulations shall include, but need not be limited to, provisions allowing for:
(1) the designation of locations for such displays at all service areas; and
(2) a provision allowing the South Jersey Transportation Authority or any of its contracted vendors, as appropriate, to lease out space within such displays for the placement of brochures and information for other tourism attractions if there is available space at such displays.
b. To the extent necessary, appropriate, and practicable, the South Jersey Transportation Authority shall initiate discussions with contracted vendors at service areas concerning the display of brochures and information about tourism attractions located within the State at service areas and shall incorporate any necessary provisions in the contracts of the vendors to allow for the display of such brochures and information at service areas along the Atlantic City Expressway.
3. This act shall take effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative for 60 days following the date of enactment
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STATEMENT
This bill directs the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, for the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike, and the South Jersey Transportation Authority, for the Atlantic City Expressway, in consultation with the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of State, to respectively adopt rules and regulations to provide for the display of brochures and information concerning tourism attractions located within the State at service areas along these toll roads. The bill provides that the rules and regulations would include, but would not need to be limited to: 1) the designation of locations for such displays at all service areas; and 2) a provision allowing the toll road authorities or any of its contracted vendors, as appropriate, to lease out space within such displays for the placement of brochures and information for other tourism attractions if there is available space at such displays.
Finally, the bill also directs the toll road authorities to initiate discussions with contracted vendors at service areas concerning the display of brochures and information about tourism attractions located within the State at service areas and to incorporate any necessary provisions in the contracts of the vendors to allow for the display of such brochures and information at service areas along the three toll roads.
