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A4552 • 2026

Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.

Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Murphy, Carol A.
Last action
2026-03-10
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.

Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.

What This Bill Does

  • Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
  • Topic: Military and Veterans' Affairs Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-10 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
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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A4552

ASSEMBLY, No. 4552

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart
recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking
meter fees.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning disabled veterans and Purple Heart
recipients parking at municipal parking meters 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
or leased
by
the disabled veteran or the Purple Heart recipient displays
a
disabled
veteran's or Purple Heart license
[
plates
]

plate
issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission pursuant to the provisions of
Title 39 of the Revised Statutes
or
a motor vehicle displays a disabled
veteran or Purple Heart
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
]

plate
or

[
placards
have
]

placard
has
been issued is either the driver, or a passenger, of the vehicle.

���� b.��� The Chief Administrator
of the 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.

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

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

STATEMENT

����� This bill clarifies that a disabled veteran or Purple
Heart recipient is not required to own the motor vehicle for which a disabled
veteran or Purple Heart recipient license plate or placard is issued in order
to be exempt from paying municipal parking meter fees.� Under current law, in
order to be exempt from payment of municipal parking meter fees, a disabled
veteran or Purple Heart recipient is required to own the vehicle being parked
at the municipal parking meter.

����� This bill allows disabled veterans and Purple Heart
recipients that display a disabled veteran or Purple Heart recipient placard to
park at a municipal parking meter free of charge regardless of who owns the
vehicle, provided that the placard is displayed and the disabled veteran or
Purple Heart recipient is the driver or passenger of the vehicle. �The bill
further clarifies that the disabled veteran or Purple Heart recipient may lease
the motor vehicle for which a disabled veteran or Purple Heart license plate is
issued in order to be exempt from paying municipal parking meter fees, provided
that the disabled veteran or Purple Heart recipient is the driver or passenger
of the motor vehicle.