WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 59 (2003) established the Billboard Policy
and Procedure Review Task Force (hereinafter Task Force); and
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 59 (2003) imposed a 120-day moratorium
on the approval of any permit application, contract, sale or lease for
billboards on State-owned property or property of any State department,
agency or independent authority; and
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 66 (2003) continued that moratorium until
the end of the current Legislative Session of the New Jersey Legislature,
to allow time to convert the recommendations of the Task Force into proposed
legislation and to achieve their enactment; and
WHEREAS, the complexity involved in drafting the proposed legislation
and the nature and schedule of the Legislature's Lame Duck Session did
not allow for sufficient time to achieve the passage of the necessary
legislation; and
WHEREAS, there remains a compelling need to continue the suspension
of the siting and construction of new billboards on State property until
the new Legislative framework is put in place;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. McGREEVEY, Governor of the State of New
Jersey, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
by the Statutes of this State, do hereby ORDER and DIRECT:
- The moratorium on the approval of any permit application or contract
for the design, construction or erection of any new billboards on
State-owned property or property owned by any State department, agency
or independent authority established by Executive Order No. 59 (2003)
and continued by Executive Order No. 66 (2003) is hereby continued
until June 30, 2004, so that the 211th Legislature has an opportunity
to enact appropriate legislation.
- This Order shall take effect immediately.
GIVEN, under my hand and seal this 14th day of January
in the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Four, and
of the Independence of the United States, the Two Hundred and
Twenty-Eighth.
/s/ James E. McGreevey
Governor
[seal]
Attest:
/s/ Michael R. DeCotiis
Chief Counsel to the Governor