Bill Text: NJ S2133 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the display of county or municipal vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all county and municipal vehicles.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-07-26 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee [S2133 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-S2133-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator BRIAN P. STACK
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires the display of county or municipal vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all county and municipal vehicles.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring the display of county or municipal vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all county and municipal vehicles and supplementing chapter 31 of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. All vehicles purchased with funds appropriated by a county or municipality for the use of any officer, department or agency of a local unit, shall display a vehicle abuse hotline bumper sticker unless the vehicle is used for law enforcement purposes. The sticker shall contain a telephone number, or such other information as the State Treasurer shall deem necessary, through which complaints regarding potential misuse of a vehicle in use by a local unit can be submitted. The State Treasurer shall establish and maintain such a vehicle abuse complaint hotline. The State Treasurer shall forward a written transcription of any complaint to the clerk of the affected county or municipality. The operation of a county or municipal vehicle without the required sticker shall subject the operator to the penalty set forth in subsection b. of this section.
b. Any person using any such automobile or vehicle without the same being so marked, and any person or officer upon whose authority such automobile or vehicle not so marked is used, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a personal fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars.
c. The vehicle abuse hotline bumper sticker shall be made available to local units by the State Treasurer upon request.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that all vehicles purchased with funds appropriated by a county or municipality for the use of any officer, department or agency of the local unit, must display a vehicle abuse hotline bumper sticker unless used for law enforcement purposes. The sticker shall contain a telephone number or other pertinent information as the State Treasurer deems necessary, through which complaints regarding potential misuse of a vehicle in use by a local unit can be submitted. The vehicle abuse hotline bumper sticker shall be made available to local units by the State Treasurer upon request.
Pursuant to this bill, the State Treasurer shall establish and maintain a vehicle abuse complaint hotline, and forward a written transcription of any complaint to the clerk of the affected county or municipality.
The bill also provides that any person using a local unit automobile or vehicle without the abuse hotline sticker, and any person or officer upon whose authority the automobile or vehicle is used without bearing the sticker, will be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction will be subject to a personal fine of up to one hundred dollars.
