Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 39:3-10.19

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a person may operate a commercial motor vehicle in this State if the person has received a waiver of the commercial driver license requirements from the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation or the licensing authority of any other state, has a commercial driver license issued by any state in accordance with minimum federal standards for the issuance of commercial motor vehicle driver licenses, or has a commercial driver license issued by any other jurisdiction in accordance with minimum standards which are substantially similar to the standards in the federal “Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986,” Pub. L. 99-570 (49 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.) and this act. This section shall apply only if the person’s driving privilege is not suspended or revoked or cancelled in this State or in the jurisdiction that issued the commercial driver license, and the person is not disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle, or subject to an “out of service” order.

L.1990,c.103,s.11.