Bill Text: NJ A2881 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [A2881 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A2881-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2881

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 1, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOHN F. MCKEON

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee on February 14, 2019, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning unmanned ¹[aerial vehicles] aircraft systems¹ and supplementing Title 6 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.   As used in this section:

     ¹["Unmanned aerial vehicle means an aerial vehicle that uses aerodynamic forces to propel the vehicle and does not carry a human operator, and which is capable of flying autonomously or being piloted remotely and conducting surveillance as defined in this section.

     "Surveillance" means the act of monitoring, observing, photographing, or recording]

     "Operate" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 1 of P.L.2017, c.315 (C.2C:40-27).

     "Unmanned aircraft" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 1 of P.L.2017, c.315 (C.2C:40-27).

     "Unmanned aircraft system" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 1 of P.L.2017, c.315 (C.2C:40-27) ¹.

     b.    A person regularly engaged in the business of selling unmanned ¹[aerial vehicle] aircraft systems¹ shall post a sign at the point where the sales transaction is completed and shall provide every purchaser of an unmanned ¹[aerial vehicle] aircraft system¹ with a written notice containing the Federal Aviation Administration safety guidelines for flying a model aircraft.

     c.     The Department of Transportation shall prepare a sign and a notice containing the information required pursuant to subsection b. of this section and shall make the sign and notice available on the department's Internet website.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month after enactment, but the Commissioner of Transportation may take such administrative action in advance of the effective date as may be necessary.