New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 41B - NEWSPAPER BOXES ON STATE HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY › Subchapter 4 - LOCATION, INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF NEWS DISPENSERS › Section 16:41B-4.1 - General requirements

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) News dispensers
				may be placed adjacent to the wall of a building but shall not be separated
				from such wall by more than six inches. Unless otherwise prohibited in this
				section, news dispensers may be placed within one and one-half feet of a
				gutterline or within one foot thereof in areas where the distance from the
				gutterline to the far edge of the sidewalk is less than six and one-half feet
				wide.
(b) Placement of news
				dispensers within the State highway right-of-way is prohibited in the following
				locations:
1. Within the traveled way,
				shoulders, acceleration or deceleration lanes of any State highway;
2. Within medians, jug handles, channelizing
				islands and along ramps;
3. Within
				three feet of any marked crosswalk;
4. Within the curved portion of a curb return
				(from point of tangency to point of tangency), as illustrated in the diagram
				below, except that news dispensers may be placed adjacent to the wall of a
				building as set forth in (a) above notwithstanding this paragraph;
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5. Within
				five feet of any fire hydrant, fire call box, police call box, or other
				emergency facility;
6. Within three
				feet of any driveway;
7. Within 10
				feet to the rear of any sign or other demarcation marking the beginning of a
				designated bus stop as illustrated in the diagram below;
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8. Within
				three feet of any bus bench, except where such bench is within a bus shelter,
				in which event this restriction shall not apply provided that the news
				dispenser is not placed within such bus shelter;
9. Within the public sidewalk curb ramp
				designed to accommodate persons with disabilities;
10. Where the placement of the news dispenser
				would reduce the width of the sidewalk to less than three feet; and
11. Where the speed limit is 45 mph or above,
				placement of news dispensers is prohibited within the clear zone, subject to
				the following exceptions:
i. News dispensers
				shall be permitted within the clear zone in close proximity to fixed objects
				which might operate to impede the safe recovery of errant vehicles to the
				traveled way, or bus shelters, but shall be no closer to the traveled way than
				said fixed object or bus shelter. For the limited purpose of this exception,
				clusters or rows of a maximum of three news dispensers positioned adjacent to
				one another are permissible, provided that at least one of the aforesaid news
				dispensers in each row or cluster be at least partially within five feet of the
				aforesaid object. As to bus shelters only, there shall be no restrictions
				placed upon the number of news dispensers permitted within close proximity
				thereto, provided they be positioned adjacent to one another and provided that
				at least one of the aforesaid news dispensers be within five feet of the bus
				shelter.
ii. Even where there are
				no fixed objects which might operate to impede the safe recovery of errant
				vehicles, news dispensers shall be permitted within the clear zone where there
				are sidewalks or walkways, but shall be placed on the far side
				thereof.
iii. News dispensers shall
				be permitted within the clear zone on the near side of a sidewalk or walkway,
				or in the grassy area, as close to the sidewalk or walkway as practicable, but
				only where it is not practicable to be on the far side of the sidewalk or
				walkway or in close proximity to a fixed object.
iv. News dispensers shall be permitted in
				areas within the clear zone where there are no fixed objects which might
				operate to impede the safe recovery of an errant vehicle to the traveled way,
				sidewalks or walkways but only in areas where pedestrians gather for other
				purposes. These areas include bus stops and park and ride facilities. Placement
				of a news dispenser pursuant to this exception shall be at least seven and one
				half feet away from the gutterline where practicable and shall be placed to
				service only the area where pedestrians gather.
v. Circumstances referred to in (b)11iii and
				iv above which will render placement of news dispensers not "practicable"
				include, for example, where news dispensers would encroach upon private
				property, block display windows, or where there are unacceptable ground
				conditions, such as a ditch, which prevent the placement of or access to a news
				dispenser.