Bill Text: NJ A4115 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits hotels from interfering with wireless networking services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-29 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee [A4115 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4115-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman DANIEL R. BENSON
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits hotels from interfering with wireless networking services.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning hotels and interference with wireless networking services and supplementing Title 29 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. No person engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in a hotel shall operate any device that blocks or otherwise interferes with the ability of persons to establish or access wireless networking services.
2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first offense, and not more than $1,000 for the second and each subsequent offense, collected and enforced in a summary proceeding pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits any person engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in a hotel from operating any device that blocks or otherwise interferes with the ability of persons establish or access wireless networking services.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this bill is liable to a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first offense, and not more than $1,000 for the second and each subsequent offense.
