ASSEMBLY, No. 5288
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED DECEMBER 7, 2017
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOHN F. MCKEON
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Assemblyman GORDON M. JOHNSON
District 37 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Concerns use of digital parking meters to monitor parking compliance.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on December 18, 2017, with amendments.
An Act concerning electronic parking compliance devices 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. A State, county or municipal department, board, bureau, commission 1[or],1 agency 1, or parking authority1 may use a digital parking meter or other electronic parking compliance device 1in accordance with P.L. , c. (C. )(pending before the Legislature as the bill)1 to monitor parking compliance within its jurisdiction. 1As used in P.L. , c. (C. )(pending before the Legislature as this bill), “digital parking meter or other electronic parking compliance device” means a parking meter or other electronic device that is installed in a fixed location to electronically monitor compliance with metered parking spaces using sensors, video or photo capture capabilities. The term does not include digital handheld parking citation writers used by law enforcement or parking code enforcement officers to facilitate the issuance of a complaint-summons after an officer personally observes a violation and the subsequent electronic processing of the complaint-summons through State or local court automatic systems.1
b. A digital parking meter or other electronic parking compliance device may be used to alert a law enforcement or parking code compliance officer of a parking violation. 1[An officer receiving an alert shall issue and serve a summons-complaint] Any complaint-summons1 for a parking violation 1[in accordance] that may be issued by an officer receiving an alert from a digital parking meter or other electronic parking compliance device shall comply1 with the provisions of 1[the Parking Offenses Adjudication Act,] “The Parking Offenses Adjudication Act,”1 P.L. 1985, c.14 (C.39:4-139.2 et seq).
c. Unless specifically authorized by State law, a digital parking meter or other electronic parking compliance device shall not electronically process, issue, or serve upon an owner or operator of a motor vehicle a 1[summons-complaint] complaint-summons1 for a parking violation or interconnect with any 1State or local1 court automated system to process, issue, or serve a 1[summons-complaint] complaint-summons1 for a parking violation.
d. A digital parking meter or other electronic parking compliance device capable of 1[taking] capturing1 a digital photograph 1or video1 shall not be installed or engineered 1[to take] for the sole purpose of taking1 a photograph 1or video1 of any 1[passenger] occupant1 of a motor vehicle.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.