New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY › Chapter 9 - NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY › Subchapter 9 - ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION MONITORING SYSTEM › Section 19:9-9.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
					 indicates otherwise:
"Electronic toll collection system" or "ETC system" means
					 the electronic system employed or utilized by the Authority to register and
					 collect the toll required to be paid for a vehicle entering a toll plaza owned
					 and/or operated by, or upon the behalf of, the Authority.
"Inadvertent toll violation" means a toll violation that
					 occurs when a person who enters a toll collection plaza and takes every
					 reasonable action to pay the required toll but who is prevented by
					 circumstances beyond his or her reasonable ability to control from paying the
					 required toll. The owner of a violating vehicle shall have the affirmative
					 obligation to establish an inadvertent toll violation. An inadvertent toll
					 violation does not include the following:
1. Failure to have the coinage, currency or other
					 authorized means necessary to pay the required toll;
2. Entering a dedicated ETC system lane with a vehicle that
					 is not equipped for the electronic toll collection system; or
3. Failure to adequately deposit the full amount of the
					 toll in a toll collection basket.
"Lessee" means any person, corporation, firm, partnership,
					 agency, association or organization that rents, leases or contracts for the use
					 of a vehicle and has exclusive use of the vehicle for any period of
					 time.
"Lessor" means any person, corporation, firm, partnership,
					 agency, association or organization engaged in the business of renting or
					 leasing vehicles to any lessee under a rental agreement, lease or other
					 contract that provides the lessee with the exclusive use of the vehicle for any
					 period of time.
"Operator" means the term "operator" as defined in
					 39:1-1.
"Owner" means the term "owner" as defined in
					 39:1-1.
"Toll collection monitoring system" means a vehicle sensor,
					 placed in a location to work in conjunction with a toll collection facility,
					 that produces one or more photographs, one or more microphotographs, a
					 videotape or other recorded images, or a written record, of a vehicle at the
					 time the vehicle is used or operated in violation of the toll collection
					 monitoring system rules. The term shall also include any other process that
					 identifies a vehicle by photographic, electronic or other method.
"Toll collection monitoring system rules" means the rules
					 contained in this subchapter and authorized and adopted pursuant to
					 27:23-34.2 that prohibit a vehicle
					 from making use of the Roadway except upon the payment of such tolls as may
					 from time to time be prescribed by the Authority and that further makes it a
					 violation subject to a civil penalty for any person to refuse to pay, to evade,
					 or to attempt to evade the payment of such tolls, if the violation is recorded
					 by a toll collection monitoring system as defined in
					 27:23-34.1.
"Vehicle" means the term "vehicle" as defined in
					 39:1-1.
"Violating vehicle" means a vehicle alleged to be involved
					 in a violation of the toll collection monitoring system rules.