Bill Text: NJ A3631 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reduces waiting period to expunge disorderly and petty disorderly persons offenses from five to two years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-12-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A3631 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A3631-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3631

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 13, 2010

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  L. GRACE SPENCER

District 29 (Essex and Union)

Assemblyman  LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Reduces waiting period to expunge disorderly and petty disorderly persons offenses from five to two years.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning expungement and amending N.J.S.2C:52-3.

 

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

 

     1.    N.J.S.2C:52-3 is amended to read as follows:

     2C:52-3.  Disorderly Persons Offenses and Petty Disorderly Persons Offenses

     Any person convicted of a disorderly persons offense or petty disorderly persons offense under the laws of this State who has not been convicted of any prior or subsequent crime, whether within this State or any other jurisdiction, or of another three disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offenses, may, after the expiration of a period of [5] two years from the date of his  conviction, payment of fine, satisfactory completion of probation or release from incarceration, whichever is later, present a duly verified petition as provided in [section 2C:52-7 hereof] N.J.S.2C:52-7 to the Superior Court in the county in which the conviction was entered praying that such conviction and all records and  information pertaining thereto be expunged. 

(cf: P.L.1981, c.290, s.43)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would reduce the waiting period to expunge a disorderly persons offense or petty disorderly persons offense from five years to two years.

     Currently, a person may petition for expungement of a record of a disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense five years from the date of conviction if the person has not been convicted of another crime or another three disorderly or petty disorderly persons offenses.  This bill would reduce that waiting period to two years from the date of conviction.