Bill Text: NJ A796 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Concerns sale of cemetery, grave, monument and historical markers. *

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-03 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee [A796 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A796-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 796

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

Assemblyman  VINCENT PRIETO

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Concerns sale of cemetery, grave, and historical markers and plaques.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning scrap metal sale of certain markers and plaques amending and supplementing P.L.2009, c.8 (C.45:28-1 et seq.).

 

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

 

     1.    (New Section)  No operator of a scrap metal business shall receive or purchase any scrap metal in the form of a cemetery, grave, or historical marker or plaque unless the person delivering or selling the scrap metal shows that the local police department or, if the municipality does not have a local police force, the State Police, has certified the metal for removal, sale, or disposal.

 

     2.    Section 6 of P.L.2009, c.8 (C.45:28-5) is amended to read as follows:

     6.    Violations of section 2 or 4 of P.L.2009, c.8 (C.45:28-2 or C.45:28-3) or section 1 of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) are disorderly persons offenses for a first or second offense, and crimes of the fourth degree for third and subsequent offenses.

(cf:  P.L.2009, c.8, s.6)

 

     3.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would prohibit the sale of stolen grave markers or historical plaques.  Under the bill, scrap metal dealers would be prohibited from receiving or purchasing any scrap metal in the form of a cemetery, grave, or historical marker or plaque unless the person delivering or selling the scrap metal has shown that the local police department or State Police certified the metal for removal, sale, or disposal.  As with other violations of the laws pertaining to scrap metal dealers, first and second violations of the bill's provisions would be considered disorderly persons offenses and crimes of the fourth degree for third and subsequent offenses.