[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 504

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 29, 1996

 

 

By Senators KOSCO, Inverso, Matheussen and Scott

 

 

An Act concerning parking spaces for handicapped motorists and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

    1. a. A person who owns or controls a parking area which is open to the public or to which the public is invited and which contains special parking spaces for the use of persons who have been issued a placard or wheelchair symbol license plates pursuant to P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-204 et seq.) shall be responsible for assuring that 1[snow or ice removed from the parking area does not obstruct]1 access to these special parking spaces 1and curb cuts or other improvements designed to provide accessibility for handicapped persons is not obstructed1.

    b. 1If snow or ice is obstructing the special parking space, curb cut or other improvement designed to provide accessibility for the handicapped, it shall be removed within 24 hours after the weather condition causing the snow or ice ceases.

    c.1 A person who violates this act shall be liable for a penalty of not less than $200 nor more than $500, imprisonment for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both.

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

 

Prohibits snow obstruction of parking spaces reserved for handicapped motorists.