ASSEMBLY, No. 1777
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
218th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ROBERT D. CLIFTON
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Chiaravalloti
SYNOPSIS
Requires omnibus drivers to inspect bus at end of route for passengers with disabilities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee on January 24, 2019, with amendments.
An Act concerning omnibus drivers and supplementing Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. At the end of a transportation route, the driver assigned to an omnibus shall visually inspect the omnibus to determine that no person with a disability has been left on the omnibus.
2. In the event that, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, an omnibus driver is found to have left a person with a disability on the omnibus at the end of the driver’s route, the driver’s commercial motor vehicle driving privilege shall be:
a. suspended for one month, for a first offense;
b. suspended for six months, for a second offense; or
c. permanently revoked, for a third offense.
3. In the event that a person with a disability, who was left on an omnibus by a driver at the end of the route, is harmed as a result of foreseeable danger and the driver is found, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, to have acted with gross negligence, the omnibus driver’s commercial motor vehicle driving privilege shall be permanently revoked.
4. a. In the case of a person holding or required to hold a commercial driver license, the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall include in the commission’s records any information related to a driver leaving a person with a disability on an omnibus 1[pursuant to] in violation of1 P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
b. Any omnibus driver whose commercial motor vehicle driving privilege has been suspended 1or revoked1 pursuant to 1[subsection a. or b. of]1 section 2 1or section 31 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall have information about the suspension 1or revocation1 included on the driver’s driving record information filed with the Commercial Driver License Information System.
5. This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month next following the date of enactment.