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Disabled’ Placards Good

TRENTON - Police officers around the state are being warned that they must remember to check front windshields before writing tickets for vehicles using parking spaces reserved for handicapped individuals, says Clifford W. Snedeker, director of the New Jersey pivision of Motor Vehicles. “It has come to my attention that many police officers are failing to check the front window for the valid DMV handicapped parking placard and are writing tickets based solely on the absence of a handicapped license plate,” Snedeker said. “This is a great inconvenience to those' disabled individuals using the official authorized placards in place of the more expensive license plates." SINCE AUG. 12. 1981, New Jersey has had two valid identifications that can be used on vehicles transporting the handicapped. One is the special license plates for display on the front and rear of the auto showing the wheelchair symbol. They cost $10. The other is the special windshield placard, also showing the wheelchair symbol, which costs $4. To date DMV has issued 11,656 handicapped licensed plates and 10,069 handicapped placards.. The major advantage of the placard, in addition to its reduced cost, is that it can be transferred to any vehicle carrying a handicapped person, whether the handicapped in-

dividuals owns the vehicle or not. „ THE PLACARD corties in two forms: those issued' ^ directly by DMV on a permanent basis to permanently disabled individuals and those issued for a six-month period by, municipal police chiefs for individuals who are certified by a physician as being temporaHly disabled. However, the temporary placards arc valid only in the municipality where issued and /may not be honored inibther areas of the state.^ The ITandicapped placards are issued to individuals who are disabled to the extent that they are unable to walk without the aid of an assisting device or whose ability to walk is otherwise limited as certified by a physician. They can not be issued to orgat^izations which transport handicapped individuals. USE OF the handicapped placard or license plates allows the disabled individual to use parking spaces reserved for the handicapped and to park overtime on public streets where parking is restricted only by length of time. Applications for the handicapped placard or license plates are available at all Motor Vehicle agencies and by writing to the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles, Special Plate Unit. 25 South Montgomery' St.. Trenton. 08666. or by calling (609), 292-0800.

Pessagno, Tozour ' On Bank Board

BEACH HAVEN - Franklin H. Berry Jr, chairman of the board of The First Jersey National Bank/South, has announced that the board of directors recently elected Charles E. Pessagno of Cape May and William H. Tozour Jr. of Avalon to the bank's board. Pessagno is president of New Jersey National Associates, Inc., of Cape May, an insurance brokerage firm with offices in three eastern states and clients throughout the U.S. and in several foreign countries. He was formerly the founder and president of Computer Payroll Service Co., Cape. May County’s first computerized accounting service bureau. IN ADDITION to his business experience, Pessagno has government expertise gained from three years as treasurer of Upper Township, and three years in budget preparation- for the New Jersey Departments of Higher Education and Health. His public service also includes seven years in the N.J. National Guard, and his current positions as a director pf the board of the Cape May County Education Trust Fund, chairman of the county’s Heart Association, and co-chairman of the Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Building Fund. Pessagno received his M.B.A in finance and management from Drexel University and his B.S. from Bethel College, where he graduated magna/cum

TOZOUR. WITH over 36 years experience in building and property development in Cape May County, & the owner of Tozour Kei*T. Custom Builders, Inc., and Avalon Real Estate Agency, Inc. He is a partner in Jersey Cape Racquet Club, and has been a member of the Avalon Chamber of Commerce since 1961. For over 13 years, Tozour served the county’s financial community as president of the South Seaville Building and Loan Association in Upper Township, and as director of the boards of First National Bank of Stone Harbor and its successor, the Independent National Bahk. When these banking offices were acquired by First/People’s Bank of New/Jersey, Tozour served as a member of First People’s Shore Regional Advisory Board. A GRADUATE of Middle Township public schools, Tozour was president of the Avalon Elementary School Board for 17 years. He has served as chief, president and trustee during his 22 years of service to the Avalon Volunteer Fire Department,-«qd for the past 12 ye5rs, has assisted the County Vocational Center, Tozour is a 25-year member of the Masonic Lodge. The First Jersey National Bank/South, with 14 offices in Burlington, Cape May and Ocean Counties, is a subsidiary of First Jersey

THE FIRST SNOW of the season, here in this file photo from a bygone year, prompts one to wonder when the Jersey Cape will get its initial dusting this season. What’s your prediction.

“W 7 / ; ■ , • Penalties For Drug Trafficking Beefed Up

WASHINGTON, D.C. -

The House Judiciary Committee has approved legislation authored by Congressman Bill Hughes (D-NJ) for a tenfold‘increase in fines for major drug traffickers, and forfeiture of drug related

assets.

The commjttee’s action clears the measure for consideration by the full House of Rephesentatives. “THIS MEASURE will

hit the big time drug traffickers where it hurts the most — in the pocketbook," said Hughes, who chairs the .House Judiciary Sub-

committee on Crime.

“Under existing law, the' maximum fine for a firsttime offender is just $25,000, even for a garage full of heroin, Hughes said. "That's just pocket change in the multi-billion dollar il-

legal drug industry. •THIS INCREASE in

fines for major traffickers brings penalties more in line with the seriousness of the crime, and signals a new toughness in our attitude towards of thoseyho smuggle ih dangerous drugs that later windrup in the schoolyard." he said Another aspect of the bill 1 would make it easier foi* prosecutors to win forfeiture of assets, suph as mansions, limousines and yachts, purchased with

drug money

Trust Fund Audits On In County A statewide ra’.ndom audit program of attorneys' client trust funds by the Division of Ethics and Professional Services has begun in Cape May," Cumberland and Salem counties, according to Robert D. LipsCher, Administrative Director of the Courts. Known as the Random Audit Compliance Program. it began last summer. So far, the counties of Atlantic. Burlington, Morris, Ocean. Passaic. Somerset. Middlesex. Unidn, Monmouth, Hudson and Essex have been audited, and Camden and Gloucester are curpently in the audit process. In the future, attorneys throughout the state will be selected on a random basis county by county from computerized financial information furnished to the division earlier this year New Jersey is one of only three states to undertake a full-time compliance pro gram to ensure that lawyers are fully aware of and comply with the str ingent recordkeeping re quirements imposed by the New Jersey Supreme Cojirl in the handling of clients' trust funds

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