Bill Text: NJ A3703 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits car wash business to operate during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-24 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee [A3703 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3703-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman AURA K. DUNN
District 25 (Morris and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Permits car wash business to operate during state of emergency or public health emergency.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the operation of car wash businesses during a state of emergency or public health emergency and supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if, during a state of emergency or public health emergency, the Governor has ordered all non-essential businesses to suspend operations, car wash businesses shall be deemed essential and may continue to operate as they would under normal circumstances. Nothing in this section prohibits the owner of a car wash business from choosing to suspend operations of the car wash during a state of emergency or public health emergency.
b. The designation of car wash businesses as essential during a state of emergency or public health emergency does not relieve the owner of a car wash from complying with safety standards issued in response to a state of emergency or public health emergency for the continued operations of essential businesses, including but not limited to, the provision of personal protective equipment for employees of the car wash.
c. As used in this act:
"Public health emergency" means an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition, caused by bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or a novel and highly fatal infectious agent or biological toxin, that poses a substantial risk of a significant number of human fatalities or incidents of permanent or long-term disability, and which has been declared a public health emergency by the Governor.
"State of emergency" means a natural or human-made disaster or emergency, including an epidemic or other health emergency, for which a state of emergency has been declared by the President of the United States, the Governor, a municipal emergency management coordinator, or other public authority permitted by law to declare a state of emergency.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that if, during a state of emergency or public health emergency, the Governor orders all non-essential businesses to suspend operations, car wash businesses will be deemed essential and may continue to operate as they would under normal circumstances. Nothing in the bill prohibits the owner of a car wash business from choosing to suspend operations of the car wash during a state of emergency or public health emergency.
The bill provides that the designation of car wash businesses as essential during a state of emergency or public health emergency does not relieve the owner of a car wash from complying with safety standards issued in response to a state of emergency or public health emergency for the continued operations of essential businesses.
