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A1031 • 2026

Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.

Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
DeAngelo, Wayne P.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.

Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.

What This Bill Does

  • Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.
  • Topic: Military and Veterans' Affairs Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.
Topic:
Military and Veterans' Affairs
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1031

ASSEMBLY, No. 1031

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblyman WILLIAM F. MOEN, JR.

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Verrelli, Danielsen, Assemblywomen Haider, Park
and Assemblyman Venezia

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients
from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or
recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

An Act

concerning an exemption from payment of
municipal parking meter fees by certain persons under certain circumstances
, and amending P.L.2015, c.218.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.2015,
c.218 (C.39:4-207.10) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.� a. A person who is a
disabled veteran or a recipient of the Purple Heart is exempt from the payment
of municipal parking meter fees when a motor vehicle
[
owned by the disabled veteran or
the Purple Heart recipient
]

displays disabled veteran�s or Purple Heart license plates or a placard issued
by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission pursuant to the provisions of Title
39 of the Revised Statutes
[
,
unless the vehicle has been parked in one location for more than 24 hours
]
.� The
exemption provided under this subsection shall apply only when the disabled
veteran or recipient of the Purple Heart to whom the special license plates or
placards have been issued is either the driver
[
,
]
or a passenger
[
,
]
of the
motor

vehicle
and shall not apply when the motor vehicle is parked for more than
24 hours at one location where the motor vehicle is subject to a municipal
parking meter fee
.

���� b.��� The Chief Administrator
of the
New Jersey
Motor Vehicle Commission shall promulgate such rules
and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of subsection
a. of this section, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act,"
P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), and shall include provisions for the
issuance of disabled veteran's or Purple Heart recipient's placards
by the
commission
.

(cf: P.L.2015, c.218, s.1)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill allows the use of
special license plates or a placard issued to a disabled veteran (veteran) or
Purple Heart recipient (recipient) to permit a veteran or recipient to be
exempt from paying a parking meter fee (fee) when driving or traveling as a
passenger in a motor vehicle regardless of the vehicle�s ownership.� The
exemption does not apply to instances when the motor vehicle is parked for more
than 24 hours at one location where the motor vehicle is subject to a fee.