Title 39, Title 39: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATION

39:6A-9.1 Recovery from tortfeasor. 20. a. An insurer, health maintenance organization or governmental agency paying benefits pursuant to subsection a., b. or d. of section 13 of P.L.1983, c.362 (C.39:6A-4.3), personal injury protection benefits in accordance with section 4 or se…

39:6B-1 Maintenance of motor vehicle liability insurance coverage. 1. a. Every owner or registered owner of a motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this State shall maintain motor vehicle liability insurance coverage, under provisions approved by the Commissioner of …

39:6B-1.1 Insurer to provide written disclosure of policy limits, circumstances, certain; requirements for request. 1. a. An insurer who receives a request, from an attorney admitted to the practice of law in this State, for disclosure of the policy limits under an insurance poli…

39:6B-2 Penalties. 2. An owner or registrant of a motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this State who operates or causes to be operated a motor vehicle upon any public road or highway in this State without motor vehicle liability insurance coverage required by P.L.1…

39:6B-3 Uninsured Motorist Prevention Fund. 2. The Uninsured Motorist Prevention Fund (hereinafter referred to as the "fund") is established as a nonlapsing, revolving fund into which shall be deposited all revenues from the fines imposed pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1972, c.197 …

39:7-1. Construction of chapter This chapter shall be construed as extending the right and manner of service of process upon nonresidents, and not as limiting any other lawful manner for such service.

39:7-2. Director as agent for service of process; effect of service 39:7-2. (a) Any person, not being a resident of this State, who shall drive a motor vehicle in this State, whether or not such person shall be licensed to do so in accordance with the laws of this State or of any…

39:7-2.1. Director as agent for service of process of residents who become nonresidents; effect of service 1. Any resident of this State who shall drive a motor vehicle, or cause a motor vehicle to be driven in this State, whether or not such motor vehicle is registered under the…

39:7-2.2. Manner of service; notice; fees Service of process shall be made, and notice thereof shall be given, under this act in the same manner and with the same effect, the same fees shall be chargeable and payable, continuance may be ordered and the same records shall be kept,…

39:7-3. Methods of service; notice to defendant; fees and expenses 39:7-3. Service of process upon the director shall be made by leaving the original and a copy of the summons and two copies of the complaint, with a fee of $10.00, in the hands of the director, or someone designat…

39:7-4. Continuances to permit defendant to defend The court in which an action against a chauffeur, operator or owner mentioned in section 39:7-2 of this title is pending may order such continuances as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to defend the…

39:7-5. Fees and expenses as taxable costs The fee of $5.00 paid by the plaintiff to the director at the time of service and the cost of giving notice as provided in this chapter shall be taxed in plaintiff's costs if he prevails in the action. Amended by L.1949, c. 190, p. 637, …

39:7-6. Record kept by commissioner The director shall keep a record of processes served pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, which shall show the day and hour of such service. Amended by L.1949, c. 190, p. 638, s. 4.

39:7-7. Power of attorney constituting director agent for service condition precedent to release on bail Whenever any collision or accident shall occur in this State and the driver of any motor vehicle involved therein shall be a non-resident and not licensed under the laws of th…

39:7-8. Other methods of service of process From and after April seventh, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, civil process in any action or proceeding arising out of a collision or accident in which any motor vehicle of a nonresident owner, not registered or licensed under the…

39:8-1 Motor vehicle inspections, exceptions. 39:8-1. a. Every motor vehicle registered in this State which is used over any public road, street, or highway or any public or quasi-public property in this State, and every vehicle subject to enhanced inspection and maintenance prog…

39:8-10. Powers of director 39:8-10. The director shall have authority to make rules and regulations necessary for the administration and enforcement of this chapter. The director may employ, subject to existing laws, such persons as the director requires for the administration a…

39:8-11. Private inspection centers The director may, after appropriate inquiry and investigation, license to operate private inspection centers as many qualified and properly equipped persons engaged in the business of motor vehicle repairs and service as are necessary, to condu…

39:8-12. Certification; rejection A licensee shall inspect and certify or reject a motor vehicle presented to him for an initial inspection. Certification shall indicate that the licensee or his employee has inspected the motor vehicle as prescribed by the director and has found …

39:8-13. Charges a. A licensee may charge any owner whose vehicle was adjusted, corrected or repaired by or under the direction of the licensee an amount for certification to be determined by the director. b. A licensee may charge any owner who himself has made the necessary adju…

39:8-14. Self inspections 6. a. The director may license any person who is the owner or lessee of 10 or more motor vehicles to initially inspect, reinspect and certify those vehicles if such person has available to him the equipment, facilities and qualified employees, or other q…

39:8-15. Validity of licenses Every private inspection center license issued on or after May 1 in any year shall be valid through June 30 of the following year. L. 1975, c. 156, s. 7, eff. July 16, 1975. Amended by L. 1986, c. 22, s. 8, eff. June 2, 1986.

39:8-16. Application, renewal of license An application or renewal for a private inspection center license shall be in such form and shall contain such information as the director may prescribe, and shall be accompanied annually by a nonrefundable $25.00 fee, which shall be remit…

39:8-17. Approval sticker The director shall provide each licensee as many numbered private inspection approval stickers as may be required, and may charge the licensee $1.00 for each sticker. There shall be no refund or credit for expired or unused private inspection approval st…

39:8-18. Violations, penalties A person who affixes a private inspection approval sticker to a motor vehicle without having reinspected the specific item for which the vehicle was initially rejected, or without having determined that the condition of the item conforms to standard…

39:8-19. Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses a. The director may deny, suspend or revoke a private inspection center license or refuse renewal thereof for cause, including but not limited to one or more of the following: (1) Violation of any provision of this act or of any…

39:8-2 Inspectors of motor vehicles; rules, regulations. 39:8-2. a. The commission may designate and appoint, subject to existing laws, competent inspectors of motor vehicles to conduct examinations, other than the periodic inspections required pursuant to subsection b. of this s…

39:8-2.1. Uniforms for motor vehicle inspectors The Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall provide uniforms for its employees engaged in examining and inspecting motor vehicles at official inspection stations, and shall pay for such uniforms o…

39:8-2.2. Inspection stations; hours open; rules and regulations During the 12 calendar months following the effective date of this act the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the State Department of Law and Public Safety shall provide for the keeping open of such of th…

39:8-2.3. Possession of property in advance of compensation In addition to the powers now vested in the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles under section 39:8-2 of the Revised Statutes for the acquisition of property by the power of eminent domain, the Director, upon or af…

39:8-20. Return of records Any licensee who discontinues operation of a private inspection center, or whose license has been suspended or revoked, or whose renewal thereof has been denied, shall forthwith deliver to the director the license, all unused private inspection approval…

39:8-21. Disorderly persons offenses Any person who shall display or cause or permit to be displayed any sign, mark, or advertisement as a private inspection center when a license has not been issued by the director or is not then in effect, or who shall transfer or attempt to tr…

39:8-22. Personnel, expenditures The director may, subject to existing law, employ such persons and make such expenditures as are necessary to supervise the operation of licensed private inspection centers to insure compliance with the provisions of this act and the regulations a…

39:8-23. Rules and regulations The director may adopt such rules and regulations as may be required or appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1975, c. 156, s. 15, eff. July 16, 1975.

39:8-24. Effective date This act shall take effect immediately. L.1975, c. 156, s. 16, eff. July 16, 1975. Amended by L.1977, c. 270, s. 1, eff. Oct. 20, 1977.

39:8-3 Certificate of approval, issuance; owner's obligation for safety. 39:8-3. a. No certificate of approval shall be issued by an examiner, official inspection facility or private inspection facility until the motor vehicle inspected successfully passes inspections for emissio…

39:8-3.1 Inspection of certain vehicles owned by active duty military. 2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, a passenger automobile registered in accordance with R.S.39:3-4 or R.S.39:3-27, owned by an active duty member of any branch of the Armed Forces…

39:8-37. Redesignations All reinspection centers licensed pursuant to P.L. 1975, c. 156 (C. 39:8-11 et seq.) shall be redesignated by virtue of this 1986 amendatory and supplementary act as private inspection centers with the authority to make initial motor vehicle inspections, r…

39:8-38. Standards for emission test equipment All licensed private inspection centers shall use emissions test equipment which has been certified by the Department of Environmental Protection. The department shall adopt standards for the certification of the equipment, which sha…

39:8-39. Training courses A licensee or his employee shall not perform initial inspections or reinspections and make repairs for compensation pursuant to this act unless qualified by the completion of training courses prescribed by the division, in cooperation with the Department…

39:8-4. Reinspection 39:8-4. a. If inspections as required by R.S. 39:8-1 disclose the necessity for adjustments, corrections or repairs, the director shall cause a rejection sticker to be issued. b. The director may require the owner of a motor vehicle requiring an adjustment, c…

39:8-4.1. Rules and regulations The director may promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1975, c. 157, s. 2, eff. July 16, 1975.

39:8-40. Encouragement of participation The director may promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate the purposes of this act. The director shall also take the appropriate steps necessary …

39:8-41. Short title 1. Sections 1 through 18 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Federal Clean Air Mandate Compliance Act." L.1995,c.112,s.1.

39:8-42. Findings, declarations 2. The Legislature finds and declares that the federal Clean Air Act requires states that have been determined to be in nonattainment for certain ambient air quality standards to take extraordinary measures to reduce air emissions; and that among t…

39:8-43. Definitions 3. As used in chapter 8 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes: "Certificate of Approval" means a document, in a form determined by the director, issued in accordance with guidelines set by the division certifying that a motor vehicle complies with the requireme…