Bill Text: NJ S1108 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires Motor Vehicle Commission to issue exempt certificates for motor vehicles not required to be inspected.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S1108 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-S1108-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator MICHAEL J. DOHERTY
District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)
SYNOPSIS
Requires motor vehicle commission to issue exempt certificates for motor vehicles not required to be inspected.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning certain motor vehicles and supplementing chapter 8 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The chief administrator shall issue exempt certificates for those motorcycles; historic motor vehicles registered as such; collector motor vehicles designated as such pursuant to R.S.39:8-1; and diesel-powered, passenger motor vehicles plated as passenger, not-for profit, governmental, commuter van, farmer or farm truck model year 1996 and older with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating of 9,999 pounds or less that are exempt from inspection.
The exempt certificate shall be displayed in the same manner as are certificates of approval, unless the chief administrator shall otherwise prescribe.
The chief administrator shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month following enactment, but the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may take such administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
Under current law, motorcycles, registered historic motor vehicles, motor vehicles designated as collector vehicles, and certain diesel-powered passenger motor vehicles built before the 1997 model year are exempt from emissions inspections and equipment inspections.
Since these motor vehicles are not subject to inspection, no certificates of approval (windshield "stickers") are issued for them to display. On occasion, the operators of these exempt vehicles are stopped by law enforcement because there is no certificate of approval affixed to their windshield. As a result, the owners of these vehicles must carry all the documentation that is needed to prove their exempt status.
This bill would eliminate that problem by requiring the motor vehicle commission to issue a certificate of exemption for display on these vehicles.
