The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- N.J. Const. art. VI, sec. 2, para. 3 (Supreme Court's administrative authority over all courts)
- Issued
- 2020-03-14 Mar. 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16 through 2020-03-27 (read as 2020-03-16)
- 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) (read as 2020-04-27)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to Apr. 27, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- all Municipal Courts
- persons scheduled to appear on traffic, parking and ordinance matters
- Functions reached
- CT court-dependent functions (municipal prosecutors, defense practices, towing and process businesses)
- CB court users
- Collection
- New Jersey NJ
Operative words
"This 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."
Enforcement
Judiciary administrative directive
Notes
Professional services and courts: the first Judiciary closure notice; municipal court sessions did not resume until May 11, 2020, and then only remotely.
Retrieval noteRead from the Internet Archive's raw capture of the Judiciary's own notice (njcourts.gov blocks direct retrieval).