STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CAROL A. MURPHY
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Requires certain water companies to provide representative of fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company access to fire hydrants for water flow rate testing purposes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning certain fire hydrant access and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, a water company operating as a public utility, pursuant to R.S.48:2-13, shall allow an authorized representative of a fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company to access a fire hydrant used by the fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company for public fire protection purposes, in order to ascertain the water flow rate of a fire hydrant.
b. As used in this section:
“Fire department” shall have the same meaning as provided in section 2 of P.L.1977, c.85 (C.34:13A-15);
“Fire district” means a fire district organized pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.40A:14-70 et seq.; and
“Volunteer fire company” means a volunteer fire company organized pursuant to Title 15 of the Revised Statutes or Title 15A of the New Jersey Statutes.
2. This act shall take effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative for 60 days following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a water company operating as a public utility under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to allow an authorized representative of a fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company to access a fire hydrant used by the fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company for public fire protection purposes, in order to ascertain the water flow rate of a fire hydrant.