New Jersey § 39:2-1

Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 39:2-1, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 39:2-1.

The department of motor vehicles, 1 created and established by an act entitled “A supplement to an act entitled ‘An act

defining motor vehicles and providing for the registration of the same and the licensing

of the drivers thereof; fixing rules regulating the use and speed of motor vehicles;

fixing the amount of license and registration fees; prescribing and regulating process

and the service thereof and proceedings for the violation of the provisions of the

act and penalties for said violations,’ approved April eighth, one thousand nine hundred

and twenty-one,” passed March twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six

(L.1926, c. 147, p. 228), as amended and supplemented is continued. The department shall have full charge of the registration and regulation of all

motor vehicles as provided by L.1921, c. 208, p. 643, entitled “An act defining motor

vehicles and providing for the registration of the same and the licensing of the drivers

thereof; fixing rules regulating the use and speed of motor vehicles; fixing the

amount of license and registration fees; prescribing and regulating process and the

service thereof and proceedings for the violation of the provisions of the act and

penalties for said violations”, effective January first, one thousand nine hundred

and twenty-two, and the amendments and supplements thereto. The department shall also have such other duties and powers as are described in

said L.1921, c. 208, p. 643, or as may hereafter be provided by law. 1

Now New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, see N.J.S.A. § 39:2A-4.

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