Kenneth Vercammen is a Middlesex County Trial Attorney who has published 130 articles in national and New Jersey publications on Criminal Law, Probate, Estate and litigation topics.

He was awarded the NJ State State Bar Municipal Court Practitioner of the Year.

He lectures and handles criminal cases, Municipal Court, DWI, traffic and other litigation matters.

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39:4-144 Failure to Observe Stop or Yield Signs in NJ

39:4-144 Failure to obey Stop or

Yield Right of Way signs

Penalties set forth at 39:4-203 Fine or imprisonment not

exceeding 15 days, or both

fines $50 $200 plus court costs and possible non renewal by insurance company

plus 2 mvc points and 2 car insurance points

39:4-144. Failure to observe stop or yield signs, Stopping or yielding right of way before entering stop or yield intersections

No driver of a vehicle or street car shall enter upon or cross an intersecting street marked with a stop sign unless he has first brought his vehicle or street car to a complete stop at a point within 5 feet of the nearest crosswalk or stop line marked upon the pavement at the near side of the intersecting street and shall proceed only after yielding the right of way to all traffic on the intersecting street which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. No driver of a vehicle or street car shall enter upon or cross an intersecting street marked with a yield right of way sign without first slowing to a reasonable speed for existing conditions and visibility, stopping if necessary, and the driver shall yield the right of way to all traffic on the intersecting street which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard; unless, in either case, he is otherwise directed to proceed by a traffic or police officer or traffic control signal, or as provided in section 39:4-145 of this Title.

Amended by L.1956, c. 107, p. 486, s. 5; L.1958, c. 114, p. 588, s. 4.

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