16:85-1.1 Purpose
N.J. TRANSIT was established by the New Jersey Public Transportation Act of 1979 (N.J.S.A. 27:25-1 et seq.) as an instrumentality of the State to establish and provide for the operation and improvement of a coherent public transportation system in the most efficient and effective manner. One of the ways by which N.J. TRANSIT fulfills this responsibility is by reviewing opportunities to contract out its regular route bus services. In April 1986, the N.J. TRANSIT Board of Directors adopted a contracting out policy to govern how the existing bus services provided by N.J. TRANSIT might be contracted in an effort to reduce the cost of providing such services. Since 1986, N.J. TRANSIT has awarded numerous contracts for the provision of regular route service to private bus carriers or its wholly owned subsidiary, N.J. TRANSIT Bus Operations, in accordance with the procedures set forth in these rules. On March 31, 1993, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division rule in Academy Bus Tours, Inc. v. New Jersey Transit Corporation, Docket No. A-2195-90T3, that N.J. TRANSIT should have adopted its contracting out policy in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. These rules are intended to comply with this ruling and to govern whenever N.J. TRANSIT seeks proposals for the provisions of regular route bus services, and these rules shall constitute N.J. Transit's Board's policy statement and rule concerning the Contracting out program.
Amended by: N.J.S.A. 27:25-5 and 27:26-6(b), effective October 4, 1999.