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Ex. AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-027 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

NJTA announcement, Mar. 24, 2020: cash collections suspended at all toll locations on the Turnpike and Parkway from 10:00 p.m. Mar. 24, 2020 'as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19'; all tolls collected electronically; non-E-ZPass vehicles billed by mail at the cash rate; UPDATE: cash collections resumed May 19, 2020

Cash toll collections suspended on the Turnpike and the Parkway

New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) · New Jersey (New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway) (Sector regulator)

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Jurisdiction
New Jersey (New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway) · New Jersey
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
NJTA toll-collection powers under N.J.S.A. 27:23-5 and N.J.A.C. 19:9
Issued
2020-03-24 Mar. 24, 2020
Effective
2020-03-24 10:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-24)
End
2020-05-19 (cash collections resumed; Ex. 029) (read as 2020-05-19)
In force
Mar. 24, 2020 to May 19, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • all motorists on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway
  • registered owners of non-E-ZPass vehicles
Functions reached
  • DR drivers (toll-payment procedure changed on the Northeast's principal truck corridor)
  • TV travel
  • CB customer access
  • SC supply chain (I-95 corridor freight)
Character
context
Collection
State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT

Operative words

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority will suspend cash collections at all toll locations on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway as of 10:00 p.m. March 24th as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. All tolls will be collected electronically.... If you do not have an E-ZPass tag, the equipment in the lane will capture a photograph of the license plate on the vehicle you are driving, and an invoice for the cost of the toll will be mailed to the registered owner.... UPDATE: Cash collections resumed on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway on May 19, 2020.

Enforcement

Toll-by-mail invoice; administrative fees if unpaid by the due date (Ex. 028)

Notes

Binding operating rule of a State toll authority on every user of the Turnpike and Parkway for eight weeks of the second quarter of 2020; the page as saved carries the authority's own update fixing the end date.

Retrieval note

Rendered live copy (2026 site footer) of the authority's archived newsroom item dated March 24, 2020, 'Updated April 21, 2020,' with the authority's later update on the May 19, 2020 resumption.

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