§ 27:25-1 Short title
§ 27:25-2 Legislative findings and declarations
§ 27:25-3 Definitions
§ 27:25-4 New Jersey Transit Corporation established; board; powers
§ 27:25-4.1 Duties of board of directors
§ 27:25-4.2 Passenger Advisory Committees
§ 27:25-4.3 NJT not to issue badge to board of directors which may be mistaken for law enforcement badge
§ 27:25-5 Powers and duties of corporation
§ 27:25-5.1 Railroad passes for retired employees
§ 27:25-5.2 Certificates; rules
§ 27:25-5.3 Restrictions
§ 27:25-5.4 Illegal use
§ 27:25-5.5 Confiscation of certificate
§ 27:25-5.6 Definitions relative to rail passenger service
§ 27:25-5.7 Payment for service; proof of payment
§ 27:25-5.8 Violation
§ 27:25-5.9 Applicability to juveniles
§ 27:25-5.10 Cooperation of passengers, required; violation
§ 27:25-5.11 Form of complaint, summons
§ 27:25-5.12 Fare enforcement officers
§ 27:25-5.13 Immunity of fare enforcement officers
§ 27:25-5.14 Rules, regulations
§ 27:25-5.15 Complaint, proceedings; jurisdiction
§ 27:25-5.16 Violation of act; penalty; distribution
§ 27:25-5.17 Rail passes not affected
§ 27:25-5.18 Use of wireless telephone, electronic communication devices by operator of public transportation service prohibited; exceptions
§ 27:25-5.19 Provision of proof of travel for certain veterans
§ 27:25-5.20 Findings, declarations relative to operation of trains
§ 27:25-5.21 Person with suspended driver’s license prohibited from operating a train
§ 27:25-5.22 New Jersey Transit required to take action, adopt policies relative to persons injured, killed in incidents involving their vehicles
§ 27:25-5.23 Office of real estate economic development and transit-oriented development established in NJT
§ 27:25-5.24 Audits of the corporation
§ 27:25-5.25 Appearances before Legislative committees
§ 27:25-5.26 Chief ethics officer
§ 27:25-5.27 Customer advocate, annual report
§ 27:25-5.28 Duties of corporation
§ 27:25-5.29 Prohibiting certain individuals from use of rail services
§ 27:25-5a Collapsible bicycles permitted on NJT passenger trains
§ 27:25-5b Regulations relative to guide or service dogs
§ 27:25-5c Access Link Customer Service Group
§ 27:25-5d Operation of Access Link service under state of emergency
§ 27:25-5e Compensation, paratransit workers, commercial vehicle travel restrictions; definition
§ 27:25-6 Contracts with public or private entity
§ 27:25-7 Motorbus charter service; continuation of school bus services
§ 27:25-8 Corporation, subsidiary not public utility; authority; jurisdiction; public hearings
§ 27:25-9 Proceedings for decrease in service; contract payments as available revenue
§ 27:25-10 Purchase and improvement of capital equipment and facilities
§ 27:25-11 Purchases, advertising; bids; awarding of contract
§ 27:25-12 Affirmative action programs
§ 27:25-13 Power of acquisition by purchase, condemnation, lease, gift or otherwise; exercise of power of condemnation
§ 27:25-14 Employer-employee relations
§ 27:25-15 Officers, employees and professional consultants; powers and duties of corporation
§ 27:25-15.1 New Jersey Transit Police Department; duties, appointments, training
§ 27:25-15.1a Participation in Police and Firemen’s Retirement System
§ 27:25-15.1b Liability to New Jersey Transit for training; terms defined
§ 27:25-15.1c Applicability of “45-day” rule for violation of internal rules to NJ Transit police officers
§ 27:25-15.2 Executive Director of New Jersey Transit; duties
§ 27:25-16 Taxes and assessments; exemption; in lieu payments; leases for private use
§ 27:25-17 Liability for expenses of corporation
§ 27:25-18 Exemptions from claims of creditors and levy, execution or attachment
§ 27:25-19 Applicability of Contractual Liability Act
§ 27:25-20 Reports by corporation
§ 27:25-21 Purchases in name of commuter operating agency, its predecessors or commissioner of transportation to be property of corporation
§ 27:25-22 Liberal construction
§ 27:25-23 Severability
§ 27:25-24 Reference to commuter operating agency to mean and refer to New Jersey transit corporation
§ 27:25-24.1 Short title
§ 27:25-24.2 NJT prohibited from asserting sovereign immunity in certain situations, subject to certain federal statutes, regulations
§ 27:25-25 Short title
§ 27:25-26 Legislative findings and declarations
§ 27:25-27 Definitions
§ 27:25-28 “The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program”; purposes
§ 27:25-29 Program guidelines; hearings; report
§ 27:25-30 Assistance; county plan
§ 27:25-31 Allocation of moneys
§ 27:25-32 Rules and regulations; assistance by other governmental units; public hearings; notice; access
§ 27:25-33 Audit
§ 27:25-34 Study; insurance pool for transit vehicles; report
§ 27:25-35 Short title
§ 27:25-36 Findings, declarations relative to paratransit services
§ 27:25-37 Definitions relative to paratransit services
§ 27:25-38 Standards for corporation paratransit service
§ 27:25-39 Paratransit best practices pilot program
§ 27:25-40 Regional paratransit coordinating councils
§ 27:25-41 Evaluation of paratransit best practices training materials, program
§ 27:25-42 A. Philip Randolph statue, duties of New Jersey Transit Corporation

Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes > Title 27 > Chapter 25 - New Jersey Public Transportation Act of 1979

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • census: means the latest Federal census effective within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • oath: includes "affirmation. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • population: when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.