ASSEMBLY, No. 2631

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

211th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MAY 3, 2004

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman PATRICK DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman JOSEPH V. EGAN

District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Wisniewski

SYNOPSIS

    Requires all new passenger automobiles to be equipped with ignition interlock devices after 2009.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

    As introduced.

An Act concerning motor vehicle registration and supplementing chapter 3 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.

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

    1. a. No person shall register a newly manufactured passenger automobile unless the automobile is equipped with an ignition interlock device of a type certified by the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1999, c.417 (C.39:4-50.20).

    b. For the purposes of this section, "ignition interlock device" shall mean an ignition interlock device as defined by subsection d. of section 2 of P.L.1999, c.417 (C.39:4-50.17).

    2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2010.

STATEMENT

    The bill mandates that no newly manufactured passenger automobile may be registered on or after January 1, 2010, unless equipped with an ignition interlock device of a type approved by the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. An ignition interlock device is a device that measures blood alcohol content and prevents a motor vehicle from starting if the operator's blood alcohol content exceeds a predetermined level when the operator blows into the device.

    Under current law, a court may require a DUI offender to install an ignition interlock device in each vehicle the offender owns.