STATE OF NEW JERSEY
218th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOSEPH A. LAGANA
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman RAJ MUKHERJI
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Permits use of digital meters in certain autocabs and advertising within and upon autocabs.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning regulation of autocabs and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. If a municipality requires an autocab fare to be charged based upon the use of an autocab meter, then the owner, operator, or driver of an autocab may calculate the autocab’s metered fares by using a digital meter available through a wireless telephone or electronic communication device that uses global positioning technology to track the distance that the autocab travels.
2. The owner of an autocab may display, within the autocab and upon the body of the autocab, advertisements to the extent that the advertisements do not impair the operator’s or driver’s ability to safely operate the autocab.
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that if a municipality requires an autocab fare to be charged based upon the use of an autocab meter, then the owner, operator, or driver of the autocab is permitted to calculate the autocab’s metered fares by using a digital meter available through a wireless telephone or electronic communication device that uses global positioning technology to track the distance that the autocab travels.
Under the bill, the owner of an autocab is permitted to display advertisements within the autocab and upon the body of the autocab so long as the advertisements do not impair the operator’s or driver’s ability to safely operate the autocab.