Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 39:4-199.1

  • 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.
  • 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
Local, county and State authorities, with respect to highways under their jurisdiction, may erect and maintain appropriate official traffic signs not inconsistent with the provisions of chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes, on a highway or at an intersection where the movements of traffic are regulated and controlled by traffic islands, traffic circles, channelizing islands, divisional islands, safety zones, grade separations or other physical structures which have been erected by such authority; and such authorities may erect and maintain railroad advance warning signs and other appropriate official traffic signs where any such highway crosses a railroad at grade.

L.1951, c. 23, p. 120, s. 118. Amended by L.1963, c. 167, s. 1.