Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires special paratransit vehicles to display flashing warning lights while discharging or receiving passengers.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring special paratransit vehicles to display warning lights while discharging or receiving passengers and supplementing Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The driver of a special paratransit vehicle, as defined in R.S.48:4-1, shall be required to display the flashing warning lights of the vehicle, as required pursuant to R.S.39:3-54, while the vehicle is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers to alert drivers of other vehicles to exercise care in approaching, overtaking, or passing the stopped vehicle.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the driver of a special paratransit vehicle to display the flashing warning lights of the vehicle while the vehicle is discharging or receiving passengers to alert drivers of other vehicles to exercise care in approaching, overtaking, or passing the stopped vehicle.