Cit Clerk File No.

Ord. 11-075

Agenda No. Agenda No.

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1st Reading

2nd Reading & Final Passage

ORDINANCE OF
JERSEY CITY, N.J.
COUNCIL AS A WHOLE offered and moved adoption of the following ordinance:

CITY ORDINANCE 11 -075

ORDINANCE AMNDING CHATER 332 (VIDCLESAND TRAFIC) ARTICLE VI TITLE: (pARG FACILITIES OPERATED BY PARG AUTHORITy) AN ARTICLE X THE JERSEY CITYMUCI AL CODE (IOUNING AN BOOTING VEIDCLES) OF
THE MUNCIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JERSEY CITY HEREBY ORDAINS:

A. The following alendments to Chapter 332 (Vehicles and Trafc) Aricle VI (Parking
Facilities Operated by Parking Authority) are hereby adopted:

VEHICLES AN TRAFIC
ARTICLE

VI

Parkig Facilties Operated by Parking Authority

332-40. Through 332-43.

332-44.

No Change.

Towing away and booting of vehicles whose owners have failed to appear in response to traffc tickets.
Notwthstading any other penalty provided by law, or any previous authorization given to the Jersey City Parking Authority, no motor vehicle parked in violation of Aricles IV and V, or parked in violation of any other law, regulation, or ordinance, including but not limted to the City's zone parking ordinances, may be booted; or towed from its parking space and impounded by the City or the Parkig Authority uness the owner of the vehicle has thee (3) or more outstading parking tickets and has received failure to appear notices from the Jersey City Muncipal Cour on such parkig tickets provided, however, that this limitation does not apply withn Parking Authority Zones Three (3) and Eight (8) and also provided, however, that any vehicle
may be towed in an emergency, or when the vehicle is unreasonably impeding

A.

vehicular or pedestran trfic, or when the vehicle is deemed a hazd to persons or

propert.l
B. C.

No Change.

No Change.
No

332-45. Through 332-46.

Change.

A. The followig amendments to Chapter 332 (Vehicles ard Traffic) Aricle X (Ipounding
and Bootig Vehicles) are hereby adopted:
ARTICLE

Impounding llnd Booting Vehicles

lThs provision is made in concurence with that of Arcle X, Section 73, of

the Jersey City Police Deparent in

the with Chapter.

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ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 332 (VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC) ARTICLE VI (pARKING FACILITIES OPERATED BY PARKG AUTHORITy) AND ARTICLE X AND BOOTING VEHICLES) OF THE JERSEY CITY MUNICIPAL CODE (IMPOUNING

332-72
332'-73.

No Change.
Impounding and Booting

Motor Vehicles.

A.

The Police Deparent may tow away and impound or boot any vehicle under the following circumstaces:

(1) The vehicle has been abandoned as provided in the preceding sectio'n.
(2) The vehicle is parked in violation of any provision of ths chapter or of 39 of

(3) The vehicle constitutes a danger or impediment to trafc or a danger to public

,. safety. '
the New.Jersey Statutes.
a.m. and 6:00 a.m.2

Title

(4) There exists outstanding warants agaist the owner of

the vehicle issued in connection with parking offenses involving that specific vehicle.

il The vehicle 'has thee (3) or more outstanding 'parking tickets and has

received failure to appear notices from the Jersey City Muncipal Cour on
such parking tickets.' The vehicle may be booted at any given time inclliding,
but notlimited to, between the hours of 12:00

B. Neither the city nor its agents or employees shall

be liable for the loss of any vehicle

or for daage to any vehicle which is booted or impounded and stored by the city or by an agent of the city, nor shall the city be liabl~ for the disposal of any iipounded

vehicle.
C. The Police Deparent may use the services of a

private tower to enforce any of the

provisions of ths Aricle.

332-74., Through 332-77.

No Change.

B. All ordinances and pars of ordinances inconsistent herewith re hereby repealed.

C. The City Clerk shall have this ordinance codified and incorporated in the offcial copies of
the

Jersey City Code.

D. Ths ordinance shall tae effect at the time and in the maner as provided by law.
E. The City Clerk and the Corporation Counsel may' change any chapter numbers, aricle

numbers and section numbers if codification of tils ordinance reveals a confict between
those numbers and the existing code, in

order to avoid confsion and possible accidental

repealers of existing provisions.

NOTE:

, All new material is underlined; words in (brackets) are omitted.

For puroses of advertising only, new matter is indicated by boldface

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and repealed matter by italic.' '

2 This provision is made in concurence with that of the Municipal Parking Authority in
Aricle VI, Section 44, of

the withn Chapter.

APPROVED:

APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM APPROVED:

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