Bill Text: NJ A6025 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Concerns parking spaces restricted for persons with disabilities located near youth athletic fields.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-05 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee [A6025 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A6025-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CAROL A. MURPHY
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Concerns parking spaces restricted for persons with disabilities located near youth athletic fields.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning certain parking spaces restricted for persons with disabilities and supplementing Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A municipality that, by ordinance pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1991, c.285 (C.39:4-8.1) or R.S.39:4-197, establishes a restricted parking space or spaces upon land owned or leased and maintained by the municipality or the board of education of a school district for the public parking of vehicles adjacent to an athletic field used for a youth sports activity, for use by persons who have been issued special vehicle identification cards by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-205) when using a motor vehicle displaying a special vehicle identification placard or license plate issued pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-206), shall establish the restricted parking space or spaces in a location that allows the driver and front seat passenger of the vehicle to view youth sports activities on that athletic field, provided that the activities on the athletic field are visible from the parking area. The provisions of this section shall apply when a municipality or board of education of a school district constructs, expands, resurfaces, or repaints a parking area adjacent to an athletic field used for a youth sports activity.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a municipality or board of education that restricts a parking space for use by persons with disabilities on land owned or leased and maintained by the municipality or board of education that is adjacent to an athletic field used for a youth sports activity, to locate the restricted parking space or spaces so that the driver and front seat passenger of the vehicle within a restricted parking space or spaces are able to view youth sports activities on the athletic field, provided that the activities on the athletic field are visible from the parking area. The bill's requirement applies when a municipality or board of education of a school district constructs, expands, resurfaces, or repaints a parking area adjacent to an athletic field used for a youth sports activity.
