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NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-2.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-2.3 - Case for displaying prices; manner of stating prices.

56:6-2.3 Case for displaying prices; manner of stating prices.  3. No retail dealer shall sell or offer for sale any motor fuel without having a. attached by a suitable bracket or slot arrangement in a manner regulated by the Director of the Division of Taxation to each pump or other dispensing equipment from which motor fuel is sold or offered for sale a weather-proof case of such dimensions as shall be prescribed by the director, or b. displayed by a sign or signs located on the premises and visible from any adjacent roadway in a manner and of such dimensions as shall be prescribed by the director, or c. both, as the director may prescribe, stating the price per gallon, or the price per gallon and per liter, at which motor fuel may be purchased from such pumps or other dispensing equipment. The price signs shall show the unit price per gallon, or if sold by the liter the unit price per gallon and the unit price per liter. If sold by the liter, the price per gallon shall be located on the top half of the sign and the price per liter shall be located on the bottom half of the sign on differing background colors, such colors to be designated by the director. Such unit price shall include all taxes imposed, whether State or Federal. Beneath the unit price there shall be either the statement: "Includes (insert the tax per gallon) N.J.Tax-- (insert the tax per gallon) Federal Tax," "Includes State and Federal Taxes," "Includes N.J. and U.S. Taxes," or "Includes all Taxes." The colors of all price signs shall be of such combination that the sign may be easily read by any person purchasing motor fuel from the pump or other dispensing equipment to which the sign is attached. Any figure or fraction used in any price computing mechanism constituting a part of a computing pump or any other dispensing equipment shall not be considered a price sign under the provisions of this section. Price signs displayed in accordance with the provisions of subsection b. of this section shall include the price per gallon, or the price per gallon and per liter, for both cash and credit card purchases of motor fuel.  L.1952, c.258, s.3; amended 1981, c.230, s.4; 2011, c.152.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-2.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-2.4 - No signs relating to prices to be posted except those authorized

56:6-2.4. No signs relating to prices to be posted except those authorized  No sign stating or relating to the price of motor fuel and no signs designed or calculated to cause the public to believe that they state or relate to the price of motor fuel other than the signs provided for herein, shall be posted or displayed on or about the premises where motor fuel is sold at retail and within view from any public highway or reservation. L.1952, c. 258, p. 882, s. 4. Amended by L.1981, c. 230, s. 5.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-2.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-2.5 - Inconsistent acts superseded

56:6-2.5. Inconsistent acts superseded  This act shall supersede any and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith. L.1952, c. 258, p. 882, s. 5.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-3 - Violations and penalties.

56:6-3 Violations and penalties.  301. Every retail dealer who shall fail to post and publicly display, in the manner herein required, a sign stating the price per gallon, or per gallon and per liter, of all motor fuel sold by said retail dealer, or who shall sell motor fuel at a price other than the per gallon or per liter price, as provided in article II hereof, or who shall violate any other provisions of article II of this act, shall, upon conviction, be subject to a penalty of not more than $1,500 for the first offense and not more than $3,000 for the second and any subsequent offense, and his license shall be suspended for a period of not less than five (5) days nor more than thirty (30) days, and in default of the payment of such penalty shall be imprisoned for a period not to exceed 30 days. If there shall be a conviction upon a second or subsequent offense, the license of the convicted retail dealer, issued under the provisions and procedure in chapter thirty-nine of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes, shall be revoked by the Director of the Division of Taxation. L.1938, c.163, s.301; amended 1939, c.62, s.2; 1981, c.230, s.2; 2007, c.221.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-3.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-3.1 - Sale of motor fuel during state of energy emergency.

56:6-3.1 Sale of motor fuel during state of energy emergency.  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 201 of P.L.1938, c.163 (C.56:6-2) or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, during a state of energy emergency, as declared by the Governor pursuant to section 15 of P.L.1977, c.146 (C.52:27F-17), when a retail dealer exhausts the dealer's supply of the lowest grade motor fuel, that dealer may sell any remaining supply of higher grade motor fuel at the same price per gallon or liter as the price the dealer charged for a gallon or liter of the lowest grade motor fuel. L.2015, c.113, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-4.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-4.1 - Weights and measures officers may recover penalties

56:6-4.1. Weights and measures officers may recover penalties  6. a. The State Superintendent of Weights and Measures or any State, county, or municipal weights and measures officer may also recover penalties for violations of P.L.1938, c.163 (C.56:6-1 et seq.). The action shall be within the jurisdiction of and may be brought before the Superior Court or any municipal court in the county or municipality where the offense was committed, or where the defendant may reside, or where the defendant may be apprehended, which court is hereinafter referred to as the court, upon the filing of a complaint by a weights and measures officer, in a civil penalty action pursuant to "the penalty enforcement law" (N.J.S.2A:58-1 et seq.).  b. The State Superintendent or any weights and measures official shall be authorized to serve all process out of said court.  c. Any judgment recovered for a penalty under the provisions of P.L.1938, c.163 (C.56:6-1 et seq.), in any municipal court may be docketed with the Superior Court. Execution may issue in a manner similar to that for other Superior Court judgments.  d. Any habitual violations of provisions of P.L.1938, c.163 (C.56:6-1 et seq.), or of any orders or rules or regulations made pursuant to said statutes may be restrained by the Superior Court in an action brought for such purpose by the Attorney General on behalf of the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures.  e. Penalties, when imposed or recovered in an action brought by a State weights and measures officer, shall be payable to the State Treasurer. When such action is brought by a county or municipal weights and measures officer, the penalty moneys shall be paid to the respective county or municipal treasury, as the case may be.  L.1981,c.230,s.6; amended 1991,c.91,s.525.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-5 - Disposition of penalties

56:6-5. Disposition of penalties  All moneys which shall be recovered as penalties under this act shall be paid by the commissioner to the State Treasurer to be transferred to the credit of the commissioner to defray the expenses of carrying into effect the provisions of this act. L.1938, c. 163, p. 369, art. IV, s. 402.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-6 - Administration; rules and regulations

56:6-6. Administration; rules and regulations  The State Tax Commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to carry into effect the provisions of this act and in pursuance thereof to make and enforce such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary. L.1938, c. 163, p. 369, art. V, s. 501.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-7 - Audit, examination or investigation of books, records, papers, etc.

56:6-7. Audit, examination or investigation of books, records, papers, etc.  For the purpose of administering this act, the commissioner whenever he deems it expedient, may make or cause to be made by any employee of the State Tax Department engaged in the administration of this act an audit, examination or investigation of the books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents of any retail dealer. It shall be the duty of every retail dealer, his agents or employees, to exhibit to the commissioner or to any such employee of the State Tax Department all such books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents of the retail dealer and to facilitate any such audit, examination or investigation so far as it may be in his or their power so to do. L.1938, c. 163, p. 369, art. V, s. 502.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-8 - Hearings; oaths; examination of witnesses

56:6-8. Hearings; oaths; examination of witnesses  The commissioner or any employee of the State Tax Department by him thereunto designated may conduct hearings, administer oaths to and examine under oath any retail dealer, his agents or employees and any other witnesses as well in investigating alleged violations of this act, or for the purpose of ascertaining facts to enable the commissioner to administer the provisions of this act. L.1938, c. 163, p. 369, art. V, s. 503.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-9 - Subpoenas; fees of witnesses

56:6-9. Subpoenas; fees of witnesses  The commissioner or any employee of the State Tax Department by him thereunto designated shall have the power by subpoena, signed by the commissioner and served in the same manner as like process in civil actions in the Supreme Court, to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of any books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts or documents of any retail dealer at any hearing held pursuant to the provisions of this act. The fees of witnesses required to attend any such hearing shall be the same as those allowed to witnesses appearing in the Supreme Court. Such fees shall be paid in the manner provided for the payment of other expenses incident to the administration of this act. L.1938, c. 163, p. 370, art. V, s. 504.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-10 - Refusal to obey subpoena; compelling compliance

56:6-10. Refusal to obey subpoena; compelling compliance  If a person subpoenaed to attend any hearing under this act fails to appear, be examined or answer any question or produce any books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts or documents when subpoenaed so to do by the Director of the Division of Taxation or by any employee of the Division of Taxation designated by the director, the director or such employee of the said division may apply to the Superior Court to compel the person to comply forthwith with the subpoena. L.1938, c. 163, p. 370, art. V, s. 505. Amended by L.1953, c. 53, p. 950, s. 13.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-11 - Assistant or deputy commissioner; civil service; continuous employment for 30 months

56:6-11. Assistant or deputy commissioner; civil service; continuous employment for 30 months  The commissioner may appoint an assistant or a deputy to administer this act, and such other assistants as he may deem necessary, and may establish, equip and maintain one office at such place in this State as he shall determine, subject always to the appropriations provided therefor. The assistant or deputy appointed under this act and not more than three employees assigned to special and confidential duties in connection therewith or whose duties require them to be attorneys shall be in the unclassified civil service; provided, however, that when any person employed as one of the said three employees has served or shall have served continuously in said employment for thirty months, said person shall hold and thereafter continue to hold his said employment within and as a part of the classified service of the State, in accordance with the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes. In case an employee in the classified service is appointed as assistant or deputy, he shall continue to have such rights of tenure in the classified service as he formerly possessed. L.1938, c. 163, p. 371, art. V, s. 506. Amended by L.1942, c. 260, p. 703, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-12 - Records kept by retailers, preservation

56:6-12. Records kept by retailers, preservation  507. Every retail dealer shall keep such records as may be prescribed by orders, rules or regulations of the director and as may be necessary to the determination of whether or not such retail dealer has observed the provisions of this act. All such records shall be safely preserved for a period of four years in such manner as to insure their security and accessibility for inspection by the director or any employee of the Division of Taxation engaged in the administration of this act. The director may consent to the destruction of any such records at any time within said period.  L.1938, c.163, p.371, art. V, s.507; amended 1992,c.23,s.63.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-12.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-12.1 - Aboveground pumps, totalizer required when in operation

56:6-12.1. Aboveground pumps, totalizer required when in operation  65. All aboveground pumps connected to storage tanks which are used to dispense fuels by a retail dealer or a seller of special fuels or a user of special fuels, as defined in chapter 39 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes who delivers or places fuels into the fuel supply tank or other fueling receptacles or devices of a motor vehicle, or who uses fuels within the meaning of the word "use" as defined in that chapter, or who makes sales to unlicensed buyers, shall have in operation at all times the pump is in use, a working, sealed, gallons totalizer of at least six digits.  L.1992,c.23,s.65.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-12.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-12.2 - Ensuring integrity of totalizers, seals

56:6-12.2. Ensuring integrity of totalizers, seals  66. The director or his assistants may, by the use of seals or sealing devices, ensure that totalizers or seals cannot be removed, altered, or manipulated.  L.1992,c.23,s.66.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-12.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-12.3 - Interference with, failure to use totalizer, fourth degree crime

56:6-12.3. Interference with, failure to use totalizer, fourth degree crime  67. Any person who, without permission or authority and for the purpose of evading or circumventing any law of this State, alters, manipulates, replaces, or in any other manner tampers or interferes with or causes to be altered, manipulated, replaced, tampered or interfered with, a totalizer, or who operates a pump not equipped with a sealed totalizer required by this act, is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.  L.1992,c.23,s.67.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-13 - Record of commissioner's official act; copies of rules, regulations, etc.

56:6-13. Record of commissioner's official act; copies of rules, regulations, etc.  The commissioner shall keep a record of all of his official acts and shall preserve copies of all rules, regulations, decisions and orders made by him. Copies of any rule, regulation, decision or order made by him or of any paper or papers filed in any office maintained by him in the administration of this act may be authenticated under his official seal, and when so authenticated shall be evidence in all courts of this State of the same weight and force as the originals thereof. For authenticating any such copy the commissioner shall be paid a fee of one dollar ($1.00). L.1938, c. 163, p. 371, art. V, s. 508.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-14 - Suspension, revocation of license

56:6-14. Suspension, revocation of license  509. The director may suspend or revoke the license held by any retail dealer for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or on other reasonable ground or grounds, after five (5) days' notice of such proposed revocation or suspension, and the ground or grounds thereof to such retail dealer. Said notice shall be served personally or by registered mail upon the retail dealer and shall set forth the date, time, and place of a hearing to be conducted under the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), for that purpose.  L.1939,c.63; amended 1992,c.23,s.64.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-15 - Enforcement expenses

56:6-15. Enforcement expenses  From and after January first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, the expenses of enforcing the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the moneys received under chapter thirty-nine of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes for license fees. L.1938, c. 163, p. 372, art. VI, s. 601.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-16 - Separability of provisions

56:6-16. Separability of provisions  If any of the provisions of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of other provisions or applications of this act, which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared separable. L.1938, c. 163, p. 372, art. VII, s. 701.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-17 - Title of Act

56:6-17. Title of Act  This act shall be cited and referred to as "An act to regulate the retail sale of motor fuels." L.1938, c. 163, p. 372, art. VIII, s. 802.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-19 - Legislative declaration of policy

56:6-19. Legislative declaration of policy  (a) It is hereby declared that: The methods and practices of the distribution and sale of motor fuels in this State have developed unfair methods of competition in the marketing of motor fuels; such conditions have produced waste harmful to the public and impaired the sale and distribution of motor fuel; that such conditions have caused unfair methods of competition in the industry resulting in the impairment of the supply of motor fuel needed by the general public and thereby affecting the general economic welfare of the people of this State. (b) These conditions vitally concern the health, safety and general economic welfare of the people of this State. (c) The distribution and sale of motor fuels within this State is hereby declared to be affected with a public interest. The provisions of this article are enacted in the exercise of the police powers of this State for the purpose of protecting the health, safety and general welfare of the people of this State. L.1953, c. 413, p. 2072, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-20 - Short title

56:6-20. Short title  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Unfair Motor Fuels Practices Act." L.1953, c. 413, p. 2072, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 56:6-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices|Section 56:6-21 - Definitions

56:6-21. Definitions  The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this act, shall have the meaning ascribed to them except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (a) "Distributor" or "refiner" or "supplier" means and includes every person, wherever resident or located, who imports or causes to be imported into this State motor fuels for distribution or sale after the same shall reach this State, whether in the original packages or containers in which it is imported or otherwise; and also any person who produces, refines, manufactures, blends or compounds or causes to be produced, refined, manufactured, blended or compounded fuels and distributes or sells the same within this State. (b) "Wholesaler" means any person who engages in the business of selling motor fuels to other persons who resell the said motor fuel or who place or have the said fuel placed into their containers or storage tanks for future consumption. The words "containers" or "storage tanks" as herein used shall not apply to vehicle service tanks used only to carry motor fuels for use in propelling only the vehicle carrying such tanks. (c) "Director" means the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury. (d) "Branded Motor Fuel" shall be that motor fuel which a retail dealer sells using the trade name of the refiner or supplier. (e) "Tank wagon price" is the invoice cost of motor fuel to the retailer. L.1953, c. 413, p. 2072, s. 3.