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39:4-139.7. Answer to parking ticket or failure to appear notice
In answer to a parking ticket or failure to appear notice, a person to whom a parking ticket or failure to appear notice was issued may:
(1) Admit the commission of the parking offense by payment of the fine and penalty due; or
(2) Deny liability and appear in court in accordance with the instructions on the summons or otherwise as provided by court rule.
A person to whom a parking ticket or failure to appear notice has been issued may answer by personal appearance or by mail in accordance with instructions on the summons.
A person who admits the commission of a parking offense shall, at the same time he submits his answer, pay the civil fine and any additional penalties established pursuant to local ordinance or regulation, which may be due for failure to answer within the time required.
Under the Parking Offenses Adjudication Act, a driver's license may be suspended by the municipal court or by the DMV for failure to pay a parking fine or penalty or failure to appear at parking offense-related hearing. Suspension is discretionary. Those who are indigent or participating in a government-based income maintenance program must be permitted to pay by installment, but they can still have their licenses suspended if they fail to make an installment payment.
Under New Jersey law, licenses may be suspended either administratively, by the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), or judicially. Some of the statutes providing for license suspension are mandatory, but others grant discretion to the DMV Director or to the courts. This distinction is important to note, as it effects the options for effecting change.m