Sponsored by:
Senator ANTHONY M. BUCCO
District 25 (Morris and Somerset)
Senator NELLIE POU
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Requires MVC to allow customers to schedule appointments on MVC’s website, extends expiration date of certain documents under certain circumstances.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning service provided by and documents issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and supplementing Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall allow a customer to reserve an appointment for service at a specific commission agency location on the commission’s Internet website.
b. If a customer schedules an appointment pursuant to subsection a. of this section to renew a document that is set to expire and the first available appointment at the selected commission agency location for that service is for a date and time after the document is set to expire, the document shall not expire until the date and time of the appointment scheduled by the customer for that service at the selected commission agency location. The commission shall issue to the customer documentation extending the expiration date of the document until the date and time of the scheduled appointment at the selected commission agency location.
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of third month after enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (commission) to allow a customer to reserve an appointment for service at a specific commission agency location on the commission’s website.
If a customer schedules an appointment through the commission’s website to renew a document that is set to expire and the first available appointment at the selected commission agency location is for a date and time after the document is set to expire, the document is not to expire until the date and time of the appointment scheduled by the customer for that service at the selected commission agency location.
The commission is required to issue to the customer documentation that extends the expiration date of the document to the date and time of the scheduled appointment.