[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 2132

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED JUNE 5, 1997

By Senator CIESLA

An Act concerning the licensing of drivers' schools and supplementing P.L.1951, c.216 (C.39:12-1 et seq.).

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

    1.    Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a person who is employed as a driving instructor in a public or non-public secondary school shall receive hour-for-hour credit from the Division of Motor Vehicles for the person's behind-the-wheel instructional experience towards the fulfillment of any behind-the-wheel hourly instructional requirement necessary to obtain a drivers' school license. ¹The principal of the high school or superintendent of the school district shall affirm, in the form of an affidavit, the person's total number of hours of behind-the-wheel instructional experience.

    For the purposes of this act, behind-the-wheel instructional experience for courses taught only on public highways and streets is applicable to fulfillment of any behind-the-wheel hourly instructional requirement. Instructional experience using simulator devices and driving ranges shall not be applicable to the provisions of this act.¹

    2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to instructional experience heretofore or hereafter acquired.

Requires the DMV to credit secondary school driving instructors for their behind-the-wheel instructional experience for purposes of obtaining a drivers' school license.