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Pennsylvanian e-bikers headed to the Shore, get ready for your appointment with New Jersey\u2019s motor vehicle commission.<\/p>\n
In a reversal, New Jersey\u2019s Motor Vehicle Commission now says out-of-state residents should register their e-bikes in New Jersey in order to legally ride them in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Earlier, MVC spokesperson William Connolly said New Jersey would not be registering out of state e-bikes<\/a> and that visitors to the Shore should follow the law in their home states. <\/p>\n But now the MVC says that since New Jersey is the only state that requires e-bikes to be registered, out of state e-bikers should follow New Jersey\u2019s law.<\/p>\n That means out-of-state riders need to make an appointment at the MVC<\/a> when they visit, which starts by filling out a registration form.<\/a><\/p>\n Connolly says as of July 28, New Jersey had issued 9,410 e-bike registrations; of those, 182 are for out-of-state residents.<\/p>\n \u201cMVC is now offering to register e-bikes for out-of-state residents so that they can lawfully ride their bikes in NJ,\u201d Connolly said in a statement e-mailed to the Inquirer. <\/p>\n \u201cThus far, MVC has registered more than 100 e-bikes for individuals who reside outside of New Jersey. Out-of-state visitors who are sixteen or older can also rent a low-speed e-bike from rental companies operating under a contract with a local government, which is an exception to the registration requirement under the e-bike law.\u201d<\/p>\n Properly registered e-bikes will display a sticker issued by the MVC.<\/p>\n The law has caused confusion among riders, bike-shop owners, and law enforcement since its adoption in January. After a six month grace period, it went into enforcement mode July 19.<\/p>\n The law requires all riders to wear helmets, forbids any riders under the age of 15, and requires insurance for higher speed classified electric bikes. The classification for basic e-bikes is for pedal assisted electric bicycles that have a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour.<\/p>\n If an out-of-state rider does not already have a driver\u2019s license, they won\u2019t be permitted to ride an e-bike in New Jersey, according to the Motor Vehicle Commission, which has been embroiled in a national controversy since it was revealed that thousands of non-U.S. citizens were automatically registered to vote<\/a> while obtaining driver\u2019s licenses in New Jersey.<\/p>\n For non-New Jersey e-bikers, the process for e-bike registration will be the same as for residents, but out of staters can use out-of-state proof of identification and register the e-bike with an out-of-state address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Pennsylvanian e-bikers headed to the Shore, get ready for your appointment with New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108894,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-new-jersey-e-bike-registration","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}