New Jersey

New Jersey Revised Statutes — Title 39, Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation

1,595 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 39:3C-5 — Registration required; transfer of ownership
• § 39:3C-7 — Reciprocity
• § 39:3C-8 — Display of registration number
• § 39:3C-9 — Production of certificate
• § 39:4-1 — Application of chapter
• § 39:4-10 — Lights and reflectors on bicycles
• § 39:4-10.1 — Bicycle helmets, requirements
• § 39:4-10.10 — Rights, duties of roller skaters, skateboarders on roadway
• § 39:4-10.10a — Regulation of skateboarding, roller skating; "roller skates" defined
• § 39:4-10.10b — Accommodation of roller skates, skateboards not required
• § 39:4-10.11 — Roller skaters, skateboarders to keep to right of roadway; exceptions
• § 39:4-10.12 — Act not applicable to roller skating rinks
• § 39:4-10.13 — Rules, regulations
• § 39:4-10.2 — Violations, warnings, fines; "Bicycle and Skating Safety Fund."
• § 39:4-10.3 — Posting of sign required; violations, penalties; renters required to provide helmet; immunity
• § 39:4-10.4 — Rules, regulations
• § 39:4-10.5 — Definitions, requirements relative to wearing helmets when roller skating, skate boarding
• § 39:4-10.6 — Violations, penalties, disposition of fines collected
• § 39:4-10.7 — Noncompliance no bar to action
• § 39:4-10.8 — Warning notice for roller skates, skateboards, electric personal assistive mobility devices; immunity from civil liability
• § 39:4-10.9 — Posting of sign required; violations; penalties
• § 39:4-100 — Rate of speed across sidewalk
• § 39:4-101 — Speedways
• § 39:4-102 — Speeding by physicians in emergencies
• § 39:4-103 — Exemptions from speed regulations
• § 39:4-103.1 — Photo radar defined, usage prohibited
• § 39:4-104 — Violations of article; penalty
• § 39:4-105 — Color system
• § 39:4-106 — Sequence of lights
• § 39:4-107 — Period or cycle
• § 39:4-108 — Semaphores
• § 39:4-109 — Position of lenses
• § 39:4-11 — Audible signal
• § 39:4-11.1 — Brake required
• § 39:4-110 — Height of signals
• § 39:4-111 — Power of lights
• § 39:4-112 — Visibility of signals to traffic at intersections
• § 39:4-113 — Continuously controlled highway
• § 39:4-114 — Traffic signal in paved roadway or poles in crosswalk lanes prohibited
• § 39:4-115 — Making right or left turn
• § 39:4-116 — Special right or left turn
• § 39:4-117 — Special pedestrian interval
• § 39:4-118 — Beacon or flashing signal
• § 39:4-119 — Traffic control signals operating as flashing mechanisms; red; amber
• § 39:4-12 — Position of hands and feet; carrying another person
• § 39:4-120 — Traffic control signal devices
• § 39:4-120.1 — Official traffic control signals
• § 39:4-120.2 — Flashing mechanism; use by municipalities
• § 39:4-120.3 — Submission of written information to commissioner
• § 39:4-120.4 — Ordinance, regulation or resolution; effective date
• § 39:4-120.5 — Definitions
• § 39:4-120.6 — Erection of traffic control device by owner of private open road
• § 39:4-120.7 — Approval for traffic control device
• § 39:4-120.8 — Owner's responsibilities
• § 39:4-120.9 — Drivers' obedience
• § 39:4-121 — Traffic lights on state roads in suburban districts at location of fire engine houses; installation by state highway commission
• § 39:4-121.1 — Dangerous intersections in counties or municipalities; traffic lights
• § 39:4-121.2 — Expenses paid from state highway fund
• § 39:4-121.3 — Installation, alteration, maintenance of traffic control devices
• § 39:4-122 — Signal by police whistle
• § 39:4-123 — Right and left hand turns
• § 39:4-124 — Method of turning at intersection; local authorities may determine
• § 39:4-125 — Turning on curve, grade or place where view obstructed or State highway marked with "no U turn" sign
• § 39:4-126 — Signaling before starting, turning or stopping
• § 39:4-127 — Backing or turning in street
• § 39:4-127.1 — Railroad crossings; stopping
• § 39:4-127.2 — Movable span bridges
• § 39:4-128 — Certain vehicles required to stop at railroad crossings; exempt crossings
• § 39:4-128.1 — School buses stopped for children, certain disabled persons, duty of motorists, bus driver; violations, penalties
• § 39:4-128.10 — Violations; penalty
• § 39:4-128.11 — Regulations relative to certain commercial vehicles stopping at railroad crossings
• § 39:4-128.3 — Definitions
• § 39:4-128.4 — Approaching or overtaking stopped frozen dessert truck; stopping
• § 39:4-128.5 — Frozen dessert truck; equipment
• § 39:4-128.6 — Stopped frozen dessert truck; duty of driver
• § 39:4-128.7 — Conditions for vending
• § 39:4-128.8 — Backing up truck to make sale; prohibition
• § 39:4-128.9 — Riding in or on frozen dessert truck; authorized persons only
• § 39:4-129 — Action in case of accident
• § 39:4-130 — Immediate notice of accident; written report
• § 39:4-131 — Accident reports; availability
• § 39:4-131.1 — Inconsistent rule, regulation, resolution or ordinance inconsistent with act or establishing fee in excess of fee under Right to Know Law; supersedure
• § 39:4-132 — Certain damages reported by repairman
• § 39:4-134 — Report of death to director
• § 39:4-134.1 — Application of article
• § 39:4-134.3 — Use of "Next-of-Kin Registry."
• § 39:4-134.4 — Rules, regulations
• § 39:4-135 — Parking; direction and side of street; angle parking; one-way street
• § 39:4-136 — Parking on highway; removing vehicle; disabled vehicle
• § 39:4-137 — Vehicle without driver; brakes set; motor stopped; wheels turned to curb
• § 39:4-138 — Places where parking prohibited, exceptions; moving vehicle not under one's control into prohibited area
• § 39:4-138.1 — Determination of "no parking zones"
• § 39:4-138.3 — Parking in front of driveway permitted; conditions
• § 39:4-138.4 — Permits; issuance, application, description
• § 39:4-138.5 — Display required; permit fees
• § 39:4-138.6 — Municipal authority to set certain permissible parking distances
• § 39:4-139 — Loading or unloading passengers or materials; period at certain places
• § 39:4-139.10 — Failure to respond, pay parking judgment, penalties
• § 39:4-139.10a — Time limit on enforcement of parking violations
• § 39:4-139.11 — Restoration of driver's license, registration after satisfaction of fines and penalties; recordation
• § 39:4-139.2 — Short title
• § 39:4-139.3 — Definitions
• § 39:4-139.4 — Uniform traffic ticket; complaint and summons; contents; personal service
• § 39:4-139.5 — Joint liability of owner and operator; recovery by owner against operator; leased vehicles
• § 39:4-139.6 — Failure to answer or appear; rule applicable; procedures; notice
• § 39:4-139.7 — Answer to parking ticket or failure to appear notice
• § 39:4-139.8 — Evidence; submission to court; presence of officer; default judgment after failure to answer or pay fine and penalties; effect; assessment of costs; appeals; limitation of actions
• § 39:4-139.9 — Operating costs; civil contempt
• § 39:4-14 — Hitching on vehicles prohibited
• § 39:4-14.1 — Rights, duties of bicycle riders on roadways, exemptions
• § 39:4-14.10 — Electric personal assistive mobility device defined; regulations concerning
• § 39:4-14.11 — Noncompliance with regulations on electric personal assistive mobility device operation, warning, fine
• § 39:4-14.12 — Motorized scooter, prohibited from operation on public street, highway, sidewalk; exceptions
• § 39:4-14.13 — Violations, fines, seizure, community service
• § 39:4-14.14 — Operation of motorized scooters permitted on designated municipal, county property, requirements
• § 39:4-14.15 — Issuance of placard, sticker for persons with disabilities to operator of motorized scooter
• § 39:4-14.16 — Operation of low-speed electric bicycle or scooter
• § 39:4-14.2 — Keeping to right; exceptions; single file
• § 39:4-14.3 — Regulations relative to motorized bicycles
• § 39:4-14.3a — Retail sales; conformance of bicycles to act and regulations
• § 39:4-14.3b — Violations; penalties
• § 39:4-14.3c — Rules and regulations
• § 39:4-14.3d — Operator only on bicycle
• § 39:4-14.3e — Compulsory liability insurance coverage
• § 39:4-14.3f — Accident reports
• § 39:4-14.3g — Operation by person under influence of liquor or drugs; penalty
• § 39:4-14.3h — Suspension of privilege; second violation
• § 39:4-14.3i — Registration; requirements; form and content of certificate; expiration; renewal
• § 39:4-14.3j — Form for sale of motorized bicycles; registration; fees
• § 39:4-14.3k — License plate
• § 39:4-14.3m — Display of license
• § 39:4-14.3n — Make and model numbers; certification; list of approved bicycles
• § 39:4-14.3p — Proof of ownership; bicycle purchased prior to effective date of act
• § 39:4-14.3q — Helmet
• § 39:4-14.3r — Dealer licensed as motor vehicle dealer; inapplicability of restrictions contained in Municipal Land Use Law
• § 39:4-14.3s — Rules and regulations
• § 39:4-14.3t — Violations; fine
• § 39:4-14.3u — Ownership acquired prior to effective date of act; compliance with act
• § 39:4-14.3v — Education program for safe operation; fund
• § 39:4-14.3x — Motorized bicycle operators subject to penalties
• § 39:4-14.4 — Sale or rent of bicycle; equipment with reflectors
• § 39:4-14.4a — Helmet use; required display of promotional statement
• § 39:4-14.5 — Bicycle defined
• § 39:4-14.6 — Inapplicability of act to person not regularly engaged in selling or renting bicycles
• § 39:4-14.7 — Equipment; rules and regulations
• § 39:4-14.7a — Rules, regulations; warning cards
• § 39:4-14.8 — Violations; penalties
• § 39:4-14.9 — Enforcement of act; jurisdiction of proceedings to collect fine
• § 39:4-140 — Designation of through highways, stop intersections and yield intersections; erection of stop or yield signs
• § 39:4-141 — Placing of signs
• § 39:4-143 — Intersecting through streets
• § 39:4-144 — Stopping or yielding right of way before entering stop or yield intersections
• § 39:4-15 — Sleigh bells on horses attached to a sleigh
• § 39:4-16 — Unattended horses; precautions used
• § 39:4-17 — Unbitted horses
• § 39:4-18 — Removing part of vehicle or harness
• § 39:4-183.1 — Legal authority
• § 39:4-183.10 — Message; wording and symbols
• § 39:4-183.11 — Illumination; reflectorization
• § 39:4-183.12 — Location
• § 39:4-183.15 — Continuous maintenance
• § 39:4-183.2 — Signs hereafter erected
• § 39:4-183.21a — Removal of certain signs
• § 39:4-183.22a — Construction warning signs
• § 39:4-183.24 — Standard location, information signs
• § 39:4-183.25 — Repeal
• § 39:4-183.27 — Rules and regulations; placement, specifications, location and maintenance of traffic signs and markings
• § 39:4-183.28 — Repeals
• § 39:4-183.29 — Continuance of rules and regulations promulgated by department of transportation prior to act
• § 39:4-183.3 — Display of unauthorized traffic signs
• § 39:4-183.30 — Effect of act on offenses, liabilities, penalties or forfeitures prior to date of act
• § 39:4-183.31 — Posting of pedestrian crossing yield signs
• § 39:4-183.4 — Prohibited signs deemed a nuisance; action for removal
• § 39:4-183.6 — Determination of signage
• § 39:4-183.8 — Materials
• § 39:4-183.9 — Design of traffic signs
• § 39:4-19 — Obstructing sidewalk with tie rope, etc., prohibited
• § 39:4-191.1 — Legal authority; uniformity
• § 39:4-191.2 — Types of markings
• § 39:4-191.6 — Illumination and reflectorization
• § 39:4-191.7 — Word markings limited
• § 39:4-196.1 — Local authority
• § 39:4-196.2 — Types of safety zones and traffic islands
• § 39:4-196.3 — Location, design and protection
• § 39:4-197 — Ordinance, resolution, regulation on matters covered by chapter
• § 39:4-197.1 — Prohibiting normal traffic on county or state highway; consent of board of chosen freeholders or highway commission necessary
• § 39:4-197.10 — Qualifications for appointment to unit
• § 39:4-197.11 — Preference for persons with disabilities
• § 39:4-197.12 — Reimbursement for mileage
• § 39:4-197.13 — Course of instruction required
• § 39:4-197.14 — Permissive benefits
• § 39:4-197.15 — Uniform and maintenance allowance
• § 39:4-197.16 — Findings, declarations relative to prohibiting certain trucks, truck-trailer combinations from using portions of Route 29
• § 39:4-197.17 — Weight prohibitions
• § 39:4-197.18 — Exceptions for emergency, government or local service
• § 39:4-197.19 — Exceptions for certain vehicles after hearing
• § 39:4-197.2 — County road lying within municipality; regulation of traffic and parking
• § 39:4-197.20 — Necessary signage by DOT
• § 39:4-197.21 — Violations, fines
• § 39:4-197.3 — Special traffic regulations