Bill Text: NJ A3496 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires special paratransit vehicles to display flashing warning lights while discharging or receiving passengers.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee [A3496 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A3496-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3496

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED APRIL 4, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires special paratransit vehicles to display flashing warning lights while discharging or receiving passengers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act requiring special paratransit vehicles to display warning lights while discharging or receiving passengers and supplementing Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    The driver of a special paratransit vehicle, as defined in R.S.48:4-1, shall be required to display the flashing warning lights of the vehicle, as required pursuant to R.S.39:3-54, while the vehicle is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers to alert drivers of other vehicles to exercise care in approaching, overtaking, or passing the stopped vehicle.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires drivers of special paratransit vehicles to display flashing warning lights while discharging or receiving passengers to alert drivers of other vehicles to exercise care in approaching, overtaking, or passing the stopped vehicles.