39:4-8.9 - Definitions relative to speed humps - New Jersey Statutes

39:4-8.9  Definitions relative to speed humps.
1.As used in this act:

"Department" means the Department of Transportation.

"Private roads" means semipublic or private roads, streets, driveways, parkways, parking areas, or other roadways owned by a private person, corporation or institution open to or used by the public for the purposes of vehicular travel by permission of such persons, corporations or institutions and not as a matter of public right.

"Speed hump" means one of several traffic calming measures which use forces of vertical acceleration to discourage speeding.  For purposes of this chapter, speed humps means all vertical speed deflectors, including but not limited to, speed tables, raised crosswalks, raised intersections, and modified speed humps.

"Vertical speed deflector" means a raised area in the roadway pavement surface extending transversely across the travel way.

L.2004, c.107, s.1; amended 2008, c.110, s.4.