Title 39, Title 39: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATION

39:6-27. Duration of suspension; default in payment of installment The license and registration and nonresident's operating privilege suspended as provided in section three of this act shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed nor shall any such license or registration b…

39:6-28. Operator or owner involved in accident without license or a nonresident (a) In case the operator or the owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident within this State has no license or registration, or is a nonresident, he shall not be allowed a license or registrati…

39:6-29. Security, requirements as to The security under this act shall be in such form and in such amount as the director may require but in no case in excess of the limits specified in section three of this act in reference to the acceptable limits of a policy or bond. The pers…

39:6-30. Application of security; return of deposit or balance Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this act shall be applicable only to the payment of a judgment or judgments rendered against the person or persons on whose behalf the deposit was made, for da…

39:6-30.1. Remission of funds to state treasurer; investments All sums deposited with the director in compliance with the requirements of the "Motor Vehicle Security-Responsibility Law" shall be remitted forthwith to the State Treasurer and shall be kept separate and apart from a…

39:6-35. Failure to satisfy judgment If a person fails to pay and satisfy every judgment rendered against him for damages because of personal injury or death, or damage to property in excessˆof $500.00, resulting from the ownership, maintenance, use or operation of a motor vehicl…

39:6-36. Nonresident; judgment unsatisfied While a final judgment against a nonresident motor vehicle owner or operator is so unstayed, unsatisfied and subsisting for more than 60 days, his privilege of operating a motor vehicle, whether owned by him or not, in this State, shall …

39:6-37. Insolvent, bankrupt insurer Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the director that: at the time of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of or injury to any person, or damage to property to the extent of $500.00, the judgment debtor, against whom a judgme…

39:6-38. Partial payments which are deemed satisfaction of judgment For the purposes of sections 9 to 14 of this act when: (a) $10,000.00 has been credited upon any judgment or judgments rendered in excess of that amount for bodily injury to or the death of 1 person as the result…

39:6-39. Payment of judgment in installments A judgment debtor to whom this chapter applies may, for the sole purpose of giving authority to the director to authorize the judgment debtor to operate a motor vehicle thereafter, on due notice to the judgment creditor, apply to the c…

39:6-42 Certified abstract of operating record; fees 20. Upon the request of any insurance company, any person furnishing any financial responsibility or any surety on a bond herein provided for, the director shall furnish such company person or surety a certified abstract of the…

39:6-48. Form of liability policy; provisions to which it is subject; binders; indorsements No motor vehicle liability policy shall be issued or delivered in this State, as proof of financial responsibility, unless such policy discloses the name, address and business of the insur…

39:6-49. Transfer of registration while owner's registration suspended (a) The owner's registration of a vehicle involved in an accident to which this act applies shall not be transferred nor the vehicle, in respect to which such registration was issued, registered in any other n…

39:6-50. Enforcement of act; rules and regulations; review (a) The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this act and may make rules and regulations necessary for the administration thereof and shall provide for hearings upon request of persons aggrieved by orde…

39:6-50.1. Authority to commissioner The commissioner shall have the authority to issue any rules and regulations or exercise any power granted to him by Title 17 of the Revised Statutes with respect to vehicles which are self-insured pursuant to the provisions of sections 30, 31…

39:6-51. Informing persons as to contents of act The director shall, by means of any printed form he provides, inform every person to whom a driver's license or registration certificate is issued of the contents of this act. L.1952, c. 173, p. 568, s. 29.

39:6-52. Certificate of self-insurance (a) Any person in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are registered or in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are leased may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by the Commissioner of Insuranc…

39:6-53. Not evidence at civil trial No action taken by the commissioner pursuant to this act, the findings, if any, of the commissioner upon which such action is based, nor the security filed, as provided by this act, shall be referred to in any way, nor be any evidence of the n…

39:6-54. Public entities a. This act shall not apply with respect to any motor vehicle owned by the United States, this State or any political subdivision of this State or any municipality therein; nor with respect to any motor vehicle which is subject to the requirements of law …

39:6-55. Prohibited acts; violations; enforcement; remedies; procedure; revocation of license (a) Any person who shall forge, or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility, or who files or offers for filing any such evidence of proof, knowing or ha…

39:6-56. Repeal Chapter six of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes is repealed so far as it relates to any motor vehicle accident within this State, or to any conviction or forfeiture of bail, occurring on or after the effective date of this act. L.1952, c. 173, p. 570, s. 34.

39:6-57. Effective date This act shall take effect April first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1952, c. 173, p. 570, s. 35.

39:6-58. Expense of administering Motor Vehicle Security-Responsibility Law; ascertainment; certifying annually The Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury shall, on or before September first in each year, ascertain and certify to the C…

39:6-59. Apportionment of amount certified among liability insurers The commissioner shall, on or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, apportion the amount so certified to him among the mutual associations and stock companies writing motor vehicle liability insurance…

39:6-60. Effective date This act shall take effect April first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1952, c. 176, p. 599, s. 3.

39:6-61. Title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Law." L.1952, c. 174, p. 570, s. 1.

39:6-62 Definitions relative to New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association. 2. Definitions. As used in this act: "Association" means the New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association created pursuant to P.L.1974, c.17 (C.17:30A-1 et seq.). "Commis…

39:6-63 Creation, maintenance of fund. 3. For the purpose of creating and maintaining the fund: (a) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1968, c.323, s.3.) (b) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1968, c.323, s.3.) (c) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1968, c.323, s.3.) (d) Commencing on or before Decemb…

39:6-63.1. Assessment rescinded; registration of uninsured vehicles; fee Any assessment made under the provisions of subparagraph (2), of paragraph (d) of section 3 of the act of which this act is amendatory which has not been collected prior to the effective date of this act, is…

39:6-64.1 Plan of operation. 18. a. The association may from time to time, adopt and amend a plan of operation, subject to the approval of the commissioner, necessary or desirable in connection with its functions, duties and responsibilities in administering this act. The plan of…

39:6-64c Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund abolished, transfer to PLIGA. 7. The Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Board in the Department of Banking and Insurance, established pursuant to P.L.1952, c.174 (C.39:6-61 et seq.), is hereby abolished and all its functions, powers a…

39:6-65 Notice of intention to make claim. 5. Any qualified person, or the personal representative of such person, who suffers damages resulting from bodily injury or death or damage to property arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle in this State on …

39:6-67 Defense of actions against motorists. 7. The association may through counsel enter an appearance on behalf of the defendant, file a defense, appear at the trial or take such other steps as it may deem appropriate on the behalf and in the name of the defendant, and may the…

39:6-68 Cooperation of defendant. 8. In any case in which the association has assumed under this act, the defense of any action, the defendant shall co-operate with the association in the defense of such action. In the event of his failure to do so, the association may apply to t…

39:6-69 Unpaid judgments. 9. When any qualified person recovers a valid judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State against any other person, who was the operator or owner of a motor vehicle, for injury to, death of, any person or persons, or a similar valid jud…

39:6-70 Hearing on application for payment of judgment. 10. Hearing on application for payment of judgment. The court shall proceed upon such application, in a summary manner, and, upon the hearing thereof, the applicant shall be required to show: (a) He is not a person covered w…

39:6-71 Order for payment of judgment. 11. The court shall make an order directed to the association requiring the association to make payment from the fund of such sum, if any, as it shall find to be payable upon said claim, pursuant to the provisions of and in accordance with t…

39:6-72 Contents of petition; settlement of claim. 12. (a) In any action against an operator or owner of a motor vehicle for injury to or death of any person or for damage to property arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of said vehicle in this State on or after April…

39:6-73 $500 exclusion. 13. Except with respect to medical expense benefits paid pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1977, c.310 (C.39:6-73.1), no order shall be made for the payment and the association shall make no payment, out of the fund, of (a) Any claim for damage to property for …

39:6-73.1 Assumption of excess payment by fund; exceptions. 2. In the event medical expense benefits paid by an insurer, in accordance with subsection a. of section 4 of P.L.1972, c.70 (C.39:6A-4) or section 4 of P.L.1998, c.21 (C.39:6A-3.1), are in excess of $75,000.00 on accoun…

39:6-74 Default and consent judgments. 14. No claim shall be allowed and ordered to be paid out of the fund if the court shall find, upon the hearing for the allowance of the claim, that it is founded upon a judgment which was entered by default unless (1) the claimant shall have…

39:6-76. Collusive judgments No claim against the fund shall be allowed in any case in which the court shall find, upon the hearing for the allowance of the claim, that the judgment upon which the claim is founded was obtained by fraud, or by collusion of the plaintiff and of any…

39:6-77 Assignment of judgments to association. 17. Assignment of judgments to association. The association shall not pay any sum from the fund, in compliance with an order made for that purpose, in any case in which the claim is founded upon a judgment, except a judgment obtaine…

39:6-78 Identity of vehicle, operator, owner unascertainable. 18. When the death of, or personal injury to, any person arises out of ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle in this State on or after April 1, 1955, but the identity of the motor vehicle and of the operator…

39:6-79 Action within 180 days of entry of judgment. 19. When in an action in respect to the death of, or personal injury to, any person, arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle in this State on or after April 1, 1955, judgment is rendered for the defe…

39:6-80 Impleading association in "hit-and-run" cases. 20. Impleading association in "hit-and-run" cases. When an action has been commenced in respect of the death or injury of any person arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle in this State on or afte…