Bill Text: NJ A1389 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for uniform basic structure of taxicab fares in certain municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2014-01-21 - Pocket Veto - Bills not Acted on by Governor-end of Session [A1389 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A1389-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1389

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  GILBERT "WHIP" L. WILSON

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman  RUBEN J. RAMOS, JR.

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Mainor, Assemblywoman Tucker, Assemblyman Greenwald, Assemblywomen Lampitt and Riley

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides for uniform basic structure of taxicab fares in certain municipalities.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Transportation, Public Works and Independent Authorities Committee on November 25, 2013, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning taxicabs and supplementing article 1 of chapter 16 of title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  Within six months after enactment of ¹[this act] P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill)¹, each municipality ¹[with a population in excess of 10,000 according to the latest census] of the first or second class¹, in which an autocab operates along any street in the municipality and transports passengers from a point within the municipality to a point within, or outside of, the State, and that is without a system of regulating the fares charged to passengers by meters installed in each taxicab, shall establish, by ordinance, a system for regulating the fares charged to ¹[such]¹ passengers.  The system shall provide that fares be charged based upon meters installed in each taxicab and regulated by ordinance.  The meters shall be so calibrated that there shall be an initial charge, and a subsequent charge or charges based upon the distance traveled by the autocab.  A charge may also be added for waiting time and for incidental services ¹[, such as handling of luggage]¹.  The fares charged shall be just ¹[and] ,¹ reasonable, and uniform, except that there may be a reduction or discount in fares charged for senior citizens and ¹[disabled persons] people with disabilities¹.

     Nothing in this section shall preclude a municipality from continuing a system for regulating fares based upon a zone system if ¹[such]¹ a ¹zone¹ system is in place in the municipality immediately prior to the effective date of ¹[this act] P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill)¹, or from establishing special flat rate fares for transportation to, or from, particular places, including, but not limited to, an airport, transportation terminal, or similar facility.

     b.    Each taxicab operating under a system of regulating autocabs adopted pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall, within six months from the date of enactment of the municipal ordinance establishing the system for regulating the fares charged to ¹[such]¹ taxicab passengers, comply with the ordinance by ¹[the installation] installing¹ and ¹[operation of] operating¹ the required meters.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.