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A129 • 2026

Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's placard issued by MVC.

Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's 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
Barlas, Al
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 honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's placard issued by MVC.

Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's placard issued by MVC.

What This Bill Does

  • Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's 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 honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's 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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A129

ASSEMBLY, No. 129

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman AL BARLAS

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Assemblyman WILLIAM B. SAMPSON, IV

District 31 (Hudson)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Simonsen and Scharfenberger

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of
municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's
placard issued by MVC.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
concerning 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
or an honorably
discharged veteran
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
or honorably discharged veteran
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
or honorably
discharged veteran�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 a
placard issued to an honorably discharged veteran to permit a veteran to be
exempt from paying a parking meter 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.

���� Current law permits disabled
veterans and Purple Heart recipients to be exempt from paying parking meter
fees when the disabled veteran�s or Purple Heart recipient�s vehicle is parked
in a single location for a period of no more than 24 hours and the vehicle
displays a disabled veteran or Purple Heart recipient license plate or placard
issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.