A Princeton man is suing the City of Hoboken over their Camera-based License Plate Enforcement for Access & Response (CLEAR), claiming that it’s in violation of the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
” … The eleventh edition of the MUTCD is an amendment to the 2009 edition of the MUTCD and thus, N.J.A.C. § 16:27- 3.1 refers to that edition. As a result, N.J.S.A. 39:4-198 requires that Hoboken post ‘signs according to the specifications contained’ in the eleventh edition of the MUTCD,” Freeman, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, argues.
“Even if, this Court were to find that N.J.A.C. § 16:27-2.1 refers to the latest version3 of the tenth edition of the MUTCD (“MUTCD 10th Ed.”), it ultimately is irrelevant because Hoboken fails to comply with both the tenth (as revised) and eleventh editions of the MUTCD.”
The lawsuit is unique since Freeman is not a lawyer and he is representing himself, as well as for the fact that he is not a Mile Square City resident…