Bill Text: NJ A201 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires display of State vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all State vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A201 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A201-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 201

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  AMY H. HANDLIN

District 13 (Monmouth)

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires display of State vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all State vehicles.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act requiring the display of State vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all State vehicles and supplementing chapter 31 of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    All vehicles purchased with funds appropriated by the State for the use of any officer, department or institution of the State, shall display a vehicle abuse hotline bumper sticker unless specifically exempted by R.S.52:31-14 or other provision of law or in writing by the State Treasurer pursuant to a State vehicular assignment and use policy.  The sticker shall contain a telephone number, or such other information as the State Treasurer shall deem necessary, through which complaints regarding potential misuse of a State vehicle can be submitted.  The State Treasurer shall establish and maintain such a vehicle abuse complaint hotline.  The operation of a State vehicle without the required sticker shall subject the operator to the penalty set forth in R.S.52:31-15.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the display of State vehicle abuse hotline stickers on all State vehicles, unless the display is exempt by law or written policy of the State Treasurer.  The bill would codify a current requirement for the display of such stickers set forth in the State vehicular assignment and use policy circular of the Department of the Treasury, effective April 20, 2012.