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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING TITLE VIII, BUSINESS AND OCCUPATIONS, CHAPTER 19 OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 2000, TO ADOPT NEW PROCEDURES FOR THE NONCONSENSUAL TOWING AND STORAGE OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
Invitation: Newark Parking Authority - November 19, 2012
No Action Taken, November 20, 2012
Deferred 8b 120512
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WHEREAS, this Chapter is enacted pursuant to the statutory authority set forth in P.L.1997, c. 387, § 3, eff. Jan. 19, 1998 (N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.54) in order to regulate the towing and storage of motor vehicles without the consent of the owners of those vehicles and to set forth a schedule of required towing and storage services and rates therefore based on the usual, customary and reasonable rates of operators towing and storing motor vehicles in the City of Newark in the County of Essex, to facilitate full implementation of that certain Interlocal Agreement with the Parking Authority of the City of Newark, and to implement a procedure to receive complaints and resolve disputes arising from the towing and storage of motor vehicles required by the City of Newark without the consent of the owner; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council of the City of Newark finds and declares that the City of Newark adopts and endorses the policies embodied in the New Jersey Predatory Towing Prevention Act, P.L. 2007, c. 193, eff. Oct. 24, 2007, (N.J.S.A. 56:8-1, et seq.,) and the provisions of the New Jersey Administrative Code which implement that Act, N.J.A.C. 13:45-31.1 to N.J.A.C. 13:45-31.10. The Municipal Council of the City of Newark further finds that the legitimate business of tow truck operators, private property owners, operators and owners of automobiles and commercial motor vehicles, law enforcement, street maintenance and the users of the public rights of way for relief from unauthorized parking, abandoned or disabled automobiles and commercial motor vehicles and non-consensually towed automobiles and...
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