New Jersey § 45:14d-2

§ 45:14d-2.

As used in this act: a. “ Accessorial service ” means the preparation of articles for shipment, including, but not limited to, the

packing, crating, boxing and servicing of appliances, the furnishing of containers,

unpacking, uncrating and reassembling of articles, placing them at final destination

and the moving or shifting of articles from one location to another within a building,

or at a single address; b. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2010, c. 87 ) c. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1993, c. 365 ). d. “ Department ” means the Department of Law and Public Safety; e. “ Household goods ” means personal effects, fixtures, equipment, stock and supplies or other property

usually used in or as part of the stock of a dwelling, when it is put into storage

or when it is transported by virtue of its removal, in whole or in part, by a householder

from one dwelling to another, or from the dwelling of a householder to the dwelling

of another householder, or between the dwelling of a householder and a repair or storage

facility, or from the dwelling to an auction house or other place of sale. The term “household goods” shall not apply to property moving from a factory or

store, except property which the householder has purchased and which is transported

at his request as part of the movement by the householder from one dwelling to another; f. “ Intrastate commerce ” means commerce moving wholly between points within the State over all public highways,

or at a single location; g. “ License ” means a license issued by the director ; h. “ Motor vehicle ” means any vehicle, machine, tractor, truck or semitrailer, or any combination thereof,

propelled, driven or drawn by mechanical power, and used upon the public highways

in the transportation of household goods, office goods and special commodities in

intrastate commerce; i. “ Mover's services ” means all of the services rendered by a public mover; j. “ Storage services ” means all of the services rendered by a warehouseman; k. “ Office goods ” means personal effects, fixtures, furniture, equipment, stock and supplies or other

property usually used in or as part of the stock of any office, or commercial, institutional,

professional or other type of establishment, when it is put into storage or when the

property is transported by virtue of its removal, in whole or in part, from one location

to another, but does not mean or include stock and supplies or other property usually

used in or as part of the stock of any office, or commercial, institutional, professional

or other type of establishment, when put into storage; l . “ Person ” means any individual, copartnership, association, company, or corporation, and includes

any trustee, receiver, assignee, lessee, or personal representative of any person

herein defined; m. “ Place of business ” means a business office located in New Jersey from which the mover or warehouseman

conducts his daily business and where records are kept; n. “ Property ” means all of the articles in the definition of household goods, office goods or

special commodities; o . “ Public highway ” or “ highway ” means any public street, road, thoroughfare, bridge and way in this State open to

the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of motor vehicular travel,

including those that impose toll charges; p. “ Public mover ” or “ mover ” means any person who engages in the transportation of household goods, office goods

or special commodities by motor vehicle for compensation in intrastate commerce between

points in this State, including the moving of household goods, office goods or special

commodities from one location to another at a single address, and any person who engages

in the performance of accessorial services; except that the term “public mover” or

“mover” shall not apply to an owner-operator, or any person who engages in, or holds

himself out to the general public as engaging in, the transportation of special commodities

when such commodities are not transported by virtue of a removal, in whole or in part,

and who does not engage, nor hold himself out to the general public as engaging in,

the transportation of household or office goods; q. “ Special commodities ” means uncrated or unboxed works of art, fixtures, appliances, business machines,

electronic equipment, displays, exhibits, home, office, store, theatrical or show

equipment, musical instruments, or other articles being put into storage or being

moved, and which require the use of equipment and personnel usually furnished or employed

by warehousemen or public movers, except that the provisions of P.L.1981, c. 311 ( C.45:14D-1 et seq. ) shall not apply to any person engaged in the transportation or storage of special

commodities when these commodities are not transported by virtue of a removal, in

whole or in part; r. “ Storage ” means the safekeeping of property in a depository for compensation; s. “ Tariff ” means a schedule of rates and charges for the storage or transportation of property

in intrastate commerce on file with the director , which shall be used, except in the use of binding estimates by movers, in computing

all charges on the storage or transportation of property as of the date of the time

in storage or transportation; t. “ Warehouseman ” means a person engaged in the business of storage; u. “ Removal ” means the physical relocation, in whole or in part, of either household goods, office

goods or special commodities from one location to another location, including internal

relocations within the same room or facility, for compensation; v. “ Bill of lading ” means “bill of lading” as defined by paragraph (6) of N.J.S.12A:1-201 ; w. “ Consumer ” means a person who contracts with a public mover for mover's services; x. “ Contracting public mover ” means a licensed public mover who contracts with an owner-operator to provide any

mover's service of the licensed public mover, and is liable for any mover's services

performed or agreed to be performed by the owner-operator pursuant to that contract; y. “ Director ” means the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law

and Public Safety; z. “ Owner-operator ” means a person who owns, leases, or rents one or more motor vehicles and who uses

the vehicles to provide mover's services for a contracting public mover.