{"id":"NJ-091","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of New Jersey (Chief Justice Stuart Rabner) and Hon. Glenn A. Grant, J.A.D., Acting Administrative Director of the Courts","authority":"N.J. Const. art. VI, sec. 2, para. 3 (Supreme Court\u0027s administrative authority over all courts)","instrument":"Notice to the Bar, Municipal Courts - COVID-19 Coronavirus - Rescheduling of Court Sessions Scheduled March 16 - March 27, 2020","title":"Two-week suspension of all Municipal Court sessions","dateIssued":"2020-03-14","effective":"2020-03-16 through 2020-03-27","end":"Extended by the First and Second Omnibus Orders; Municipal Court sessions resumed by video or phone with consent from April 27, 2020 and generally from May 11, 2020 (NJ-096)","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-04-27","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["all Municipal Courts","persons scheduled to appear on traffic, parking and ordinance matters"],"clause":"\u0022This notice announces a two-week suspension of all Municipal Court sessions as part of the efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This suspension of Municipal Court sessions will begin Monday, March 16 and continue through Friday, March 27, 2020. Persons who are scheduled to appear before a Municipal Court to contest a traffic or parking ticket, or minor local ordinance violation should not appear and should await notice of a new court date.\u0022","enforcement":"Judiciary administrative directive","functions":["CT court-dependent functions (municipal prosecutors, defense practices, towing and process businesses)","CB court users"],"notes":"Professional services and courts: the first Judiciary closure notice; municipal court sessions did not resume until May 11, 2020, and then only remotely.","sourceUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210425010102id_/https://www.njcourts.gov/notices/2020/n200314a.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210425010102/https://www.njcourts.gov/notices/2020/n200314a.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":339273,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NJ","url":"/library/NJ-091","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NJ-091","citation":"Supreme Court of New Jersey (Chief Justice Stuart Rabner) and Hon. Glenn A. Grant, J.A.D., Acting Administrative Director of the Courts, Notice to the Bar, Municipal Courts - COVID-19 Coronavirus - Rescheduling of Court Sessions Scheduled March 16 - March 27, 2020 (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. NJ-091)","stateName":"New Jersey","related":["NJ-096"]}