Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CLINTON CALABRESE
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Requires contract between certain governmental units and online parking payment service providers stipulate service provider not charge user during certain times.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning online parking payment services and amending R.S.40:52-1 and P.L.1948, c.198.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. R.S.40:52-1 is amended to read as follows:
40:52-1. The governing body may make, amend, repeal, and enforce ordinances to license and regulate:
a. [All] all vehicles used for the transportation of passengers, baggage, merchandise, and goods and chattels of every kind, and the owners and drivers of [all such] those vehicles; and the places and premises in which or at which the different kinds of business or occupations mentioned herein are carried on and conducted. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as modifying or repealing any of the provisions of chapter 4 of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes (R.S.48:4-1 et seq.);
b. [Autobuses] autobuses, and the owners and drivers of [all such] those vehicles, and to fix the fees for [such] licenses, which may be imposed for revenue, and to prohibit the operation of [all such] those vehicles in the public streets or places of [such] the municipality, unless [such] the ordinances are complied with, whether [such] the vehicles are operated over routes wholly or partly within the territorial limits of [such] the municipality; the powers conferred by this section shall not be in substitution of but in addition to whatever other right, power, and authority [any such] a municipality may at any time have as to licensing, regulating, or control of the operation of [such] autobuses, commonly called jitneys, and this section shall not be construed as modifying or repealing any of the provisions of chapter 4 (R.S.48:4-1 et seq.) or article 3 of chapter 16 (R.S.48:16-23 et seq.) of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes;
c. [Cartmen] cartmen, expressmen, baggagemen, porters, common criers, hawkers, peddlers, employment agencies, pawnbrokers, junk shop-keepers, junk dealers, motor vehicle junk dealers, street sprinklers, bill posters, bill tackers, sweeps, scavengers, itinerant vendors of merchandise, medicines, and remedies; and the places and premises in which or at which the different kinds of business or occupations mentioned herein are conducted and carried on; provided, however, no ordinance regulating solicitation for services shall be applicable to solicitations, whether written or oral, for snow shoveling services made within 24 hours of a snowstorm that has been predicted by a commonly recognized commercial or governmental weather reporting entity;
d. [Hotels] hotels, boardinghouses, lodging and rooming houses, trailer camps and camp sites, motels, furnished and unfurnished rented housing or living units, and all other places and buildings used for sleeping and lodging purposes, and the occupancy thereof, restaurants and all other eating places, and the keepers thereof;
e. [Automobile] automobile garages, dealers in second-hand motor vehicles and parts thereof, bathhouses, swimming pools, and the keepers thereof;
f. [Theatres] theaters, cinema, and show houses, opera houses, concert halls, dance halls, pool or billiard parlors, bowling alleys, exhibition grounds, and all other places of public amusement, circuses and traveling or other shows, plays, dances, exhibitions, concerts, theatrical performances, and all street parades in connection therewith;
g. [Lumber] lumber and coal yards, stores for the sale of meats, groceries, and provisions, dry goods and merchandise, and goods and chattels of every kind, and all other kinds of business conducted in the municipality other than herein mentioned, and the places and premises in or at which the business is conducted and carried on; street stands for the sale or distribution of newspapers, magazines, periodicals, books, and goods and merchandise or other articles;
h. [Street] street signs and other objects projecting beyond the building line, into or over any public street or highway;
i. [Auctioneers] auctioneers and their business, whether the auctioneers be real estate brokers engaged in selling at auction or real estate auctioneers licensed by the New Jersey Real Estate Commission; fix their fees, and license and regulate public auctions; make [such] regulations as the governing body of the municipality shall deem necessary[,] to protect the public against fraud at public auction sales, and for the safety and protection of the property of the municipality and its inhabitants, including the power to require from auctioneers a bond to the municipality, not exceeding the penal sum of [$5,000.00] $5,000, conditioned as the governing body shall require;
j. [Sales] sales of goods, wares, and merchandise to be advertised, held out, or represented, or which are advertised, held out, or represented, to the public, by any means, directly or by implication, as forced sales at reduced prices or as insurance, bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure, insolvency, removal, loss, or expiration of lease or closing out sales, or as assignees', receivers', or trustees' sales or as sales of goods distrained or as sales of goods damaged by fire, smoke, or water, except any sale [which] that is to be held under a judicial order, judgment, or decree or a writ issuing out of any court or to enforce any lawful lien or power of sale whether by judicial process or not or by a licensed auctioneer; to make [such] regulations governing the advertisement, holding out, or representing to the public of [such] those sales, and the conduct thereof, as the governing body of the municipality shall deem necessary to protect the public against fraud; to prohibit the advertising, holding out, or representing to the public of any sale as being of the character above described <