New Jersey S 2497: Allows use of Internet website address in advertisements for purposes of communicating license numbers of burglar alarm, fire alarm, and locksmith businesses and professionals.

Bill Text

S2497 

SENATE, No. 2497 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator DECLAN J. O'SCANLON, JR.

District 13 (Monmouth)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires posted speed limit on certain limited access 
highways be based on speed at which 85 percent of vehicles are traveling; 
designated as Speed Limit Sanity Act.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning speed limits on certain limited 
access highways, designated as Speed Limit Sanity Act, amending R.S.39:4-98, 
supplementing Titles 27 and 39 of the Revised Statutes, and repealing sections 
2 through 8 of P.L.1997, c.415.

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

���� 1.��� R.S.39:4-98 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 39:4-98.����� Rates of speed.� 
Subject to the provisions of R.S.39:4-96 and R.S.39:4-97 and except in those 
instances where a lower speed is specified in this chapter, it shall be prima 
facie lawful for the driver of a vehicle to drive it at a speed not exceeding 
the following:� 

���� a.���� Twenty-five miles per 
hour, when passing through a school zone during recess, when the presence of 
children is clearly visible from the roadway, or while children are going to or 
leaving school, during opening or closing hours;

���� b.��� (1)���� Twenty-five 
miles per hour in any business or residential district;

���� (2)�� Thirty-five miles per 
hour in any suburban business or residential district;

���� c.���� Fifty miles per hour in 
all other locations, except as otherwise provided [in the "Sixty-Five MPH Speed 
Limit Implementation Act," pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1997, c.415 
(C.39:4-98.3 et al.)] 
pursuant to sections 2 through 8 of 
P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending 
before the Legislature as this bill).

���� Whenever it shall be 
determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any 
speed hereinbefore set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe 
under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any 
part of a highway, the Commissioner of Transportation, with reference to State 
highways, may by regulation and municipal or county authorities, with reference 
to highways under their jurisdiction, may by ordinance, in the case of 
municipal authorities, or by ordinance or resolution, in the case of county 
authorities, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Transportation, 
except as otherwise provided in R.S.39:4-8, designate a reasonable and safe 
speed limit thereat which, subject to the provisions of R.S.39:4-96 [and] , 
R.S.39:4-97, and pursuant to sections 2 through 8 of 
P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending 
before the Legislature as this bill), shall be prima facie lawful at all 
times or at such times as may be determined, when appropriate signs giving 
notice thereof are erected at such intersection, or other place or part of the 
highway.� Appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limits authorized under

the provisions of paragraph (1) of 
subsection b. and subsection c. of this section may be erected if the 
commissioner or the municipal or county authorities, as the case may be, so 
determine they are necessary.� Appropriate signs giving notice of the speed 
limits authorized under the provisions of subsection a. and paragraph (2) of 
subsection b. of this section shall be erected by the commissioner or the 
municipal or county authorities, as appropriate.

���� When designating reasonable 
and safe speed limits for a street under its jurisdiction pursuant to this 
subsection, as part of an engineering and traffic investigation, a municipality 
or county shall consider, but not be limited to, the following criteria:� 
residential density; the presence, or lack, of sidewalks; the prevalence of 
entry and exit ways for business and commercial establishments; whether school 
children walk adjacent to the street on their way to and from school; and the 
proximity of recreational or park areas, schools, community residences, family 
day care homes, child care centers, assisted living facilities, or 
senior communities.� Nothing in this paragraph shall substitute for traffic 
count, accident, and speed sampling data as appropriate.

���� The driver of every vehicle 
shall, consistent with the requirements of this section, drive at an 
appropriate reduced speed when approaching and crossing an intersection or 
railway grade crossing, when approaching and going around a curve, when 
approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, 
and when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or 
by reason of weather or highway conditions.

���� The Commissioner of 
Transportation shall cause the erection and maintenance of signs, at [such] 
points of entrance to the State as are deemed advisable, setting forth the 
lawful rates of speed, the wording