LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ESTIMATE TO

SENATE, No. 1892

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MAY 2, 1997

      Senate Bill No. 1892 of 1997 exempts timing devices in clothes dryers in residential buildings from regulation by the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures.

      Information provided informally by the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety indicates that approximately 4,300 clothes dryers (35 percent of dryers inspected by the division) would be subject to the provisions of this bill. An annual fee of $10 is charged by the Office of Weights and Measures to inspect the timing devices on these dryers. Thus an annual revenue loss of approximately $43,000 would result following enactment of this bill, according to the division.

      The Office of Legislative Services concurs with this estimate, while observing that the revenue loss should be offset to some extent by savings in personnel costs.

This fiscal estimate has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67.