New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 38 - ROADSIDE, DRAINAGE, UNUSUAL, AND DISASTER MAINTENANCE › Subchapter 2 - DEFINITIONS › Section 16:38-2.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of
				  Transportation.
"Driveway" means an access route or connection to abutting
				  property, either residential or business, including throat or apron.
"Highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines
				  of the right-of-way maintained by the Department when any part thereof is open
				  to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
"Maintenance operations" means and includes, but is not
				  limited to:
1. Lay out, excavation, opening, construction, improvement,
				  repair and maintenance of highways and removal of obstructions and
				  encroachments from adjoining sidewalks and right-of-way limits;
2. Building, repair and operation of bridges;
3. Building culverts, walls and storm drains;
4. Installation and repair of road signs and
				  monuments;
5. Lighting of highways;
6. Removal of obstructions to traffic and to safe sight
				  distances; and
7. All other activities and services necessary or convenient
				  to maintain and preserve the functional integrity of the highway for the safe
				  and efficient movement of people and goods.
"Object" means vehicle, cargo or any other tangible
				  thing.
"Owner" means the owner of the object, or a person or
				  authorized agent of a company, proprietorship or corporation having legal right
				  of possession of the object.
"Parking" means the standing or waiting on a highway of a
				  vehicle not actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers or
				  merchandise, unless in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or
				  signals.
"Sidewalk" means permanent, paved, pedestrian walkways,
				  including ramps or steps.
"Stopping or standing," when referring to a vehicle, means
				  any cessation of movement of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when
				  necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, to comply with the directions
				  of a police officer or a traffic control sign or signal, or due to a medical or
				  mechanical emergency.
"Traveled portion" means that portion of a highway improved,
				  designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or
				  shoulder.
"Utility" or "utilities" means a privately, publicly or
				  cooperatively owned line, facility or system for producing, transmitting or
				  distributing communications, cable television, power, electricity, light, heat,
				  gas, oil, crude products, water, steam, waste, storm water not connected with
				  highway drainage, or any other similar commodity, including any fire or police
				  signal system or street lighting system, which directly or indirectly serves
				  the public. The term utility shall also mean the utility company inclusive of
				  any wholly owned or controlled subsidiary. The term "utility" or "utilities"
				  when used in this chapter is intended to reference both public and private
				  utilities unless otherwise individually specified.