Bill Text: NJ A815 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires municipalities which license peddlers and solicitors to accept certain background check results from other municipalities.**

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-11-09 - Approved P.L.2015, c.122. [A815 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A815-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 815

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  CRAIG J. COUGHLIN

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman  JACK M. CIATTARELLI

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Assemblyman  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires municipalities which license canvassers, peddlers, and solicitors to accept certain background check results from other municipalities.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Regulated Professions Committee on February 20, 2014, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning municipal licensing of canvassers, peddlers, and solicitors, and supplementing Title 53 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  ¹[A] If authorized by the county prosecutor, a¹ municipality shall accept, for the purposes of licensing a person as a canvasser, peddler, or solicitor, the results of a criminal history record background check of State records ¹conducted within the previous six months¹ indicating no disqualifying information which was required for that person to be licensed in another municipality as a canvasser, peddler, or solicitor. 

     b.    For the purposes of this section: 

     "Canvasser" means any person, other than a peddler or solicitor, traveling by foot or vehicle of any kind, who distributes printed matter or any other thing from house to house or who calls in person upon the occupants of these houses seeking contributions or anything of value. 

     "Peddler" means any person traveling by vehicle of any kind, who conveys or transports goods, articles or property of any kind or description for the purpose of offering for sale, selling and delivering the same to customers, or offering to render immediate services of any kind or description; and shall include the words "hawker," "huckster" or "itinerant vendor."

     "Solicitor" means any person traveling by foot or vehicle of any kind, who sells or offers to sell goods, articles or property of any kind or description by sample or otherwise for future delivery, or who offers to render services at some time in the future, with or without accepting payment or partial payment for the same.

 

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