Bill Text: NJ S2884 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs NJTA to study and report on potential revenue generating services of NJTA rest areas and service plazas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-19 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Transportation Committee [S2884 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-S2884-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2884

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 19, 2011

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH F. VITALE

District 19 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Directs NJTA to study and report on potential revenue generating services of NJTA rest areas and service plazas.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act directing the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to study and report on potential revenue generating services at authority rest areas and service plazas.

 

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

 

     1.    The New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall conduct a study and prepare a report concerning potential opportunities for increasing current and generating new authority revenue by providing additional services, including, but not limited to, business, commercial, or retail services, at rest areas and service plazas along the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway.  The report shall identify the types of services that may be offered, the types of businesses that may be involved, how the services may be managed, and the role of the authority in offering these new services.

 

     2.    The authority shall report its findings not later than six months following the effective date of this act to the Governor and the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1).

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill directs the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to study and prepare a report, for submission to the Governor and the Legislature, concerning potential opportunities for increasing current and generating new authority revenue by providing additional services, including, but not limited to, business, commercial, or retail services, at rest areas and service plazas along the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway.  The report shall identify the types of services that may be offered, the types of businesses that may be involved, how the services may be managed, and the role of the authority in offering these new services.   

     This bill is in response to a recommendation in the report issued by the New Jersey Privatization Task Force on May 31, 2010.