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Bill Text

S2369 

SENATE, No. 2369 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator JOHN F. MCKEON

District 27 (Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires vehicles with large loads or trailers to use 
right lane of highways.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning certain motor vehicles including those with 
large loads or trailers and amending and supplementing Title 39 of the Revised 
Statutes. 

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

���� 1.��� R.S.39:4-77 is amended 
to read as follows: 

���� 39:4-77.� No person shall 
cause or permit a vehicle to be so loaded or operate a vehicle so loaded that 
the contents or any part thereof may be scattered in any street.� Whenever the 
load of any vehicle is of material other than farm products susceptible to 
scattering on a street and [such] the 
load extends above the height of the sides or tail gate or rear of the body of 
the vehicle, [such] the 
load shall be securely covered by a tarpaulin or other cover and the vehicle 
operator shall use the right lane of any public highway except when necessary 
to enter or leave the roadway by entrance or exit to or from the left lane. 

���� The [director] chief 
administrator , where public safety so warrants, shall, after a public 
hearing, prescribe by rule or regulation minimum safety standards for fastening 
loads on and fix loading procedures for any commercial type flat bed motor 
vehicle or motor-drawn vehicle.� Any rule or regulation so promulgated by the [director] chief 
administrator shall be filed in the Secretary of State�s office and copies 
thereof shall be available, upon request, in the [director�s] chief 
administrator�s office.

���� The owner, lessee, bailee, or 
operator of any vehicle described above found on a highway in violation of any 
such safety standard or procedure that may be prescribed by the [director] chief 
administrator shall be fined not more than [$500.00] $500 for each� violation.

(cf: P.L.1968, c.272, s.1)

���� 2.��� (New section) An 
operator of a motor-drawn vehicle, or a towed vehicle as defined by subsection 
b. of R.S.39:3-68.1, shall use the right lane of any public highway except when 
necessary to enter or leave the roadway by entrance or exit to or from the left 
lane. 

���� A violation of this section 
shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500.� 

���� 3.��� This act shall take 
effect on the first day of the fourth month after the date of enactment, except 
that the Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission may take any 
anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the 
implementation of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires certain 
vehicles to use the right lane of public highways except when entering or 
exiting the roadway from the left lane.

���� Under the bill, a motor-drawn 
vehicle, a towed vehicle, or a vehicle with a load extending above the height 
of the sides, tail gate, or rear of the vehicle�s body is required to use the 
right lane of a highway except when necessary to enter or leave the roadway 
from the left lane.� Current law defines a motor-drawn vehicle to include 
trailers, semitrailers, or any other vehicle drawn by a motor-driven vehicle.� 
Additionally, current law defines a towed vehicle as a motor-drawn vehicle, 
pole trailer, semitrailer, or trailer. �The bill provides that a violation of 
the bill�s provisions would be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.