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What You Should Know About Getting Towed The amended Predatory Towing Prevention Act became effective in New Jersey on April 15, 2009. The amended Act regulates tows from private property, and tows initiated by law enforcement, without the prior consent of the vehicle?s owner or operator. TOWING FROM PRIVATE PROPERTY Unattended cars cannot be towed from private parking lots, unless: ■ There is a sign posted at vehicular entrances to the property stating 1) The purposes for which parking is authorized; 2) The times when parking is permitted; 3) That unauthorized parking is prohibited and unauthorized vehicles will be towed at the owner?s expense; 4) The name of, and contact information for, the towing company and the address of the storage facility?which must be secure and located within a reasonable distance of the property?to which the vehicle will be towed; 5) The charges for towing and storage and the times during which the vehicle may be redeemed; and 6) Contact information for the Division of Consumer Affairs (1-800-242-5846, prompt #4.) ■ The property owner and the towing company have a contract for the towing the property owner has authorized the towing company to remove the particular vehicle. Revised 10/16/09 ■ The requirements do not apply to a single-family home or an owner-occupied multi-unit structure, and the signage requirements are different for a residential community with clearly-marked assigned spaces for residents. TOWING AND STORAGE CHARGES The towing company?s fees must be reasonable. A reasonable fee is considered one that is no more than 25% greater than the company?s fee for the same consensual (vehicle owner approved) towing services or no more than 50% above the fees charged by other towing companies in the community for the same towing services without the vehicle owner?s permission. Towing and storage charges cannot exceed rates set by town ordinance. VEHICLE STORAGE The Act requires that after a vehicle is towed: ■ The vehicle must be stored in a secure facility; ■ The facility?s business office must be open to the public between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. at least five days a week; and ■ A towing company must make reasonable accommodation for after-hours release of stored vehicles. The towing company may charge for after-hours release. UNLAWFUL PRACTICES FOR TOWING COMPANIES The Act prohibits towing companies from the following: ■ Failing to release a vehicle hooked or lifted, but not actually removed from private property, upon request of the vehicle?s owner; ■ Trolling (cruising) for vehicles parked without authorization; ■ Paying for information about vehicles parked without authorization; ■ Refusing to accept an insurance company check or a debit card, charge card, credit card or check for towing or storage services, if the towing company ordinarily accepts such payment at its place of business; ■ Charging for a towing or storage service not on the Division?s schedule of services; ■ Charging an unreasonable or excessive fee. NEWARK CHERRY HILL 124 Halsey Street 2201 Route 38 P.O. Box 45025 Suite # 202 Newark, NJ 07101 Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 973-504-6200 856-482-4380 800-242-5846 (toll free within New Jersey) E-Mail: AskConsumerAffairs@lps.state.nj.us Web site: www.NJConsumerAffairs.gov New Jersey Office of the Attorney General DIVISION OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Posted on: 2010/10/12 19:45
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Re: What is wrong with the people driving in JC?
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WRONG...read the law: http://www.state.nj.us/oag/hts/pedestrian.html A. The driver of a vehicle must stop and stay stopped for a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk, but shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except at crosswalks when the movement of traffic is being regulated by police officers or traffic control signals, or where otherwise prohibited by municipal, county, or State regulation, and except where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided, but no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield. So if you are crossing against the light you do not have the right of way, it is called jaywalking and is expressly against the law. PEDESTRIANS MUST obey pedestrian signals and use crosswalks at signalized intersections. Both carry a $54.00 fine for failure to observe the law.
Posted on: 2010/10/12 12:55
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Re: Do Hudson Catholic or St Peters offer their wrestling programs to non-students/alumni?
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I don't know about Hudson, but at Prep non students may not compete. Prep does invite alumni back for Black Flag Day, a kind of hell day for the team just before the season opens. During the off season they have open mat days and some recent alumni may participate in that but no coaches.
Posted on: 2010/7/14 19:54
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Re: Fitch Rates Jersey City, NJ's Refunding Notes; Outlook Positive
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Of course they also rated Sub-Prime Mortgage paper AAA. How did that work out?
Posted on: 2010/6/6 10:35
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Re: How did you come to live in Jersey City?
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Was born in the Margaret Hague and grew up one of 4 boys on Concord and Fleet St in a house my great-grandparents bought in 1917. St. Joe's, Prep, SHU then SPC. Lived in Greenville and Country Village, then bought by Lincoln Park. 3 kids, 1 going to college, 1 in St. Doms and 1 in Prep. Work in Manhattan, so it has always been an easy commute.
Posted on: 2010/5/25 19:29
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Re: Downtown: (you pick the title, the best “ny post” type title to this thread wins)
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Posted on: 2010/5/12 20:25
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Re: Maybe there should be sales or renter's tax in JC
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Ahhhhh........the good old days....................sigh
Posted on: 2010/4/23 0:21
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Re: Jersey City Board of Education
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I am not teacher bashing, I am union bashing, 2 different things. My understanding is that Sterling Waterman has been endorsed by the union. Sorry, but that puts my voting for him out of the question. When I hear that someone comes from a "family of teachers" I worry also. I come from a family of teachers. They will all tell you they were never overworked. Some were underpaid, most were under appreciated, but made up for some of that with great benefits and a lot of time off. But that was a long time ago(8 years since the last retired in JC). Now even they believe that salaries are pretty good and benefits are still excellent, and there is still a lot of time off. Even back then the staffing was bloated, lazy and unproductive, and that has just gotten worse. Something has to give. Abated properties pay nothing to the schools, so any increase in tax is put squarely on the backs of property owners who are already choking on city tax raises. Give me the guy who everybody hates, but who is trying to keep taxes down. If it takes a sc#&bag to get it started, then so be it.
Posted on: 2010/4/9 21:53
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Re: Jersey City Board of Education
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I am a lifelong JC resident and I personally cannot stand McCann, at his best he is a jacka**. However, he voted against the new teachers contract that gave unaffordable raises of over 4% per year for 3 years to the union. He also voted against the budget, given that we will be getting less state aid next year. Dehere voted the same way. Patel has indicated she supports renegotiating the contract and cutting costs at headquarters. So as much as I can't stand Jerry on a personal level, I will hold my nose and vote for him. Otherwise the School Board will become a part of the JCEA.
Posted on: 2010/4/9 18:01
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Re: City staffer retires with huge payout then rehired by City
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Imagine, you can retire, get paid for your "banked" sick, personal and vacation days and then get your old job back while collecting your pension.
Great country America........as long as you work for the government.
Posted on: 2010/2/25 3:40
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Re: TAX PROTEST Feb 24th City Hall - WE'RE GONNA RUN THIS TOWN!
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A lot of people tonight, now we have to keep up the pressure.
This tax increase is nothing compared to what can happen with the school budget of 600 million bucks. The city only pays about 20% of that. What will happen going forward? Do get out and vote in the school board election, because unless you live in an abated building there could be a world of tax hurt coming all our way.
Posted on: 2010/2/25 3:36
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Re: Greenville: Double Murder
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Gang Related?
Two Jersey City men were both shot in the head this morning at the corner of Woodlawn Avenue and Corcoran Street in what police believe to be a gang-related execution. At around 4 a.m., cops found Lester "Bleek" Thompson and Mileak Richardson sprawled on the sidewalk face down, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said.T While it is sad that 2 young lives were cut short, I will reserve my sympathies for the innocent victims of gang violence.
Posted on: 2010/2/3 1:55
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Re: How angry? We'll know after Wednesday
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Personally I wouldn't call this a Tea Party protest, it seems more; "We're MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE" spontaneous tax payer revolt.
Posted on: 2010/1/25 19:36
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Re: How angry? We'll know after Wednesday
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Looks like the Rally has hit one of the bigger time blogs:
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/92488/
Posted on: 2010/1/25 18:41
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Re: Save the Food Trucks of Jersey City
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Speaking of which: Filthy Conditions 'Filthy' conditions at Jersey City home kitchen take food truck off Downtown streets Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Gotta wonder about when and if the kitchens are ever inspected after this story.
Posted on: 2010/1/16 0:12
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Re: Football field by TPK entrance. Mersiles and Grand St - turf or grass?
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Posted on: 2009/12/10 18:02
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Re: Woman Murdered - 135 Amity Street (Near The Beacon)
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It is what I would like to see the JCPD focus on also. 1 bone to pick; With the exception of rape, males are more likely to become victims of violent crime. Even with rape included the victimization rate is 21.3 males per 1000 to 17.3 female per 1000. This Bureau of Justice Statistics In NJ in 2007 of 381 murders 311 were men. However the gender should not matter. We need to have better policing for all of us.
Posted on: 2009/10/12 16:54
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Re: Westside ave Lightrail question
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The Society Hill bus runs to JSQ I think. So if you are taking the PATH train it is easier. You can take the Montgomery Westside bus to Grove or the #80. The 80 takes the long way, through JSQ and down Newark Ave.
Posted on: 2009/8/21 12:26
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Re: For Graffiti Artists in Jersey City -- Texting Replaces Tagging
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Oh I don't know, maybe Shepard Fairey? http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2009/08 ... shepard-fairey-wants.html This is one wall Shepard Fairey wants to keep free of self-expression After pleading guilty to vandalism charges in Boston over his guerrilla art tactics, artist Shepard Fairey had to deal with acts of vandalism closer to home. A few days ago workers sandblasted the brick exterior of his Echo Park studio, gallery and ad agency - called Studio Number One - and applied a shiny layer of anti-graffiti coating to the walls. Frequent tagging and graffiti had apparently taken a toll on the Sunset Boulevard building and Fairey, who rose to fame by employing the same hit-and-run tactics of graffiti artists and taggers.
Posted on: 2009/8/19 20:18
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Re: Mr. Christie did not obey the law!
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And then there is this: How ethics disappear http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/fin ... 47286-fellow-decided.html ... What is most obviously missing from both these senators? approach to ethics, or rather their avoidance of it, is their neglect of what may be the most basic, and is surely one of the first, ethical injunctions ever recorded: Build a fence around the law, said an ancient sage. That is, don?t even come close to stepping over the line. Or appearing to. Something else seems to have escaped these two U. S. senators ? namely, that they are U.S. senators. Which means their getting a loan at a preferential rate through the head of a corporation like Countrywide, which was very much dependent on favorable treatment by the government before it came crashing down at great expense to the taxpayers, is quite different from a private citizen?s getting a mortgage at the same preferential rate. Why? Because the private citizen is in no position to return the favor through political influence. Which is why the ethical standards expected of public officials are higher. Or at least should be. That crucial distinction used to be well understood. I?m not so sure it is now. Read the whole thing............
Posted on: 2009/8/19 18:31
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Re: New Jersey Policy Perspective Report on Tax Abatements in Jersey City
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The Sugar House wouldn't be empty, the apatments would have sold for a lower price. Of course the building also would have sold for less before it was renovated. Also, what will happen to the prices in 15 or so years when the abatement ends and the taxes more than double? The abatement has artificially inflated the selling price of the condo, enriching the developer, giving a break to the owner for a set number of years, but I wouldn't want to be an owner when the bill comes due.
Posted on: 2009/8/18 2:04
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Re: Good Dentist Recommendation
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Dr John Colucci, Kennedy Blvd right by Montgomery St.
Posted on: 2009/8/17 20:27
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Re: The NJPP Report on Tax Abatements in JC
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When I bought my home the market price was very close to the assessed value. While the value of the home has gone up, it is not by a factor of 4, given current value my payment is a shade under 3% of the actual resale value. The article estimates the taxes would be about 3% of the value of the condos, so the owners are getting a tax break of more than 50%. 5% goes to the county, 95% to the city, bupkus to the school district. Taxes go up in the city, county and school district? No problem for the abated properties, those payments remain the same. Not just to single out the Sugar House, but for the last 15+ years it is a great deal for the developers and the owners, not such a great deal for anyone else.
I don't begrudge it for people who bought or built in the late seventies through 1990 or so, but it hasn't been NEEDED since then on the waterfront. It would have been built up no matter at that point. It just became expected by the developers and was built into the land prices. I don't begrudge it for developers of some other areas of the city, as i said it can be a useful tool. But any tool can become dangerous in the wrong hands.
Posted on: 2009/8/17 20:10
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Re: You're Bob Dylan? Jersey Shore Cops Want to See Some ID
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Bob Dylan must be a nobody. If he was a real star he would have beat the cop with his cell phone or had his posse threaten her while he rode off in his armored Escalde.
Posted on: 2009/8/17 19:44
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Re: The NJPP Report on Tax Abatements in JC
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From what I understand, the way tax abatements work is the owner pays a reduced tax rate to the municipality. The original abatement law had all of the payments going direct to city coffers, cutting out the school district and county. After many complaints, centered around Jersey City?s overuse of abatements, which put a heavier county burden on surrounding towns, the law was changed to give the county a portion of the abated rate. It is lower then they would have gotten with regular property tax but better than zero. The school district is still cut out. This worked for the city in a few ways, there were up front payments, and at least in the beginning, the city would usually see more revenue then if they taxed the property at the normal rate. Most of the abated properties also have protections built in, so PILOTS don?t go up or go up in predictable increments. As for the Sugar house, if they had not received abatements there would still be condos there, abet with cheaper amenities and the developer would have made a few million less. I am a homeowner in one of the ?ghetto? areas of JC. I pay approximately 6% of the $132,000 rated value of my home in city, county and school taxes. So paying 1.3% of the value of a new construction ?luxury ? condo is extremely out of line with what the average homeowner in the city is paying, and it is being done on the backs of the people living in just about every area of JC except the waterfront. Abatements have their place and can be an important tool for a city to use. But they should be a tool for those who are willing to gamble on an area that needs development and where the builder is taking a risk beyond a systemic economic risk. There has been no need for abatements in downtown for almost 20 years. It is however a cash cow for politicians running for office, and keeps wealthier new residents from paying too much attention to corruption, waste and the uselessness of the school system. Bump those taxes up a 2 or 3 thousand dollars a month and suddenly you might have a whole new group of people looking to clean up the city, with the resources to make life very uncomfortable for our entrenched political class.
Posted on: 2009/8/17 19:16
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Re: Not only the building is ugly. So is the company. Goldman Sachs.
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The Fed is a hybrid. It has a presidentially appointed Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, The FOMC and 12 regional privately-owned, Federal Reserve Banks
Posted on: 2009/7/28 15:35
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Re: DANGEROUS GRAND STREET IN DOWNTOWN JERSEY CITY
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I drive through downtown at least once a day, and people darting out from the middle of the block and between cars and against lights is a constant concern as a driver. I am one of those funny drivers who actually stops when I see someone step into the crosswalk, but even I have had close calls with pedestrians who refuse to obey walk/don't walk signs, traffic signals and common sense. There is a large percentage of stupid drivers, especially the idiot who swung around me at Montgomery and Warren at about 40 mphs when I stopped to let someone in the crosswalk go last week, but there a also a large number of stupid walkers who need to realize that getting hit with a 2000 lb metal box going 25 hurts..a lot. One thing to remember if you insist on crossing against a light, when a car is making a legal right on red, the driver is looking to his left to make sure it is safe to go, so when you cross against the light you are putting yourself in his path as he starts to accelerate, when he is making a right with the light he is, or should be, looking to his right for pedestrians.
Posted on: 2009/7/28 15:22
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Re: DANGEROUS GRAND STREET IN DOWNTOWN JERSEY CITY
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My question then would be, why is the traffic light at the intersection of Kennedy Blvd and Sip Ave in a black housing? Perhaps they should shut that on off until they replace it with a yellow housing and see how it works out.
Posted on: 2009/7/28 15:03
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Re: High-price Call Girl Ring Taken Down in the Heights
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Like Charlie Sheen said, "I don't pay them for sex, I pay them to leave.."
Posted on: 2009/7/2 13:41
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