39:6-86.4. Death or injury due to
unidentifiable operator or owner, or to operator using automobile without
consent of owner; benefits payable; conditions
When the death of
or personal injury to any person arises out of the ownership, maintenance or
use of an automobile in this State on or after the effective date of this act,
but the identity of the automobile and of the operator and owner thereof cannot
be ascertained or it is established that the automobile was, at the time said
accident occurred, in the possession of some person other than the owner
without the owner's consent and that the identity of such person cannot be
ascertained, any person qualified to receive payments under the provisions of
the "
Unsatisfied Claim and
Judgment Fund Law
" shall be
entitled to receive payment under sections 7 and 10 of this act, provided that:


a. The claimant is not a
person covered with respect to such injury or death by any workers'
compensation law, or the personal representative of such a person,
b. The claimant was not at
the time of the accident the owner or registrant of an uninsured motor
vehicle, or was not operating a motor vehicle in violation of an order of
suspension or revocation,
c. The claimant was not at
the time of the accident:
(1) A person operating or
riding in a motor vehicle which he had stolen or participated in
stealing, or
(2) Operating a motor vehicle
without the permission of the owner, and is not the personal representative of
such a person,
d. All reasonable efforts
have been made to ascertain the identity of the motor vehicle and of the owner
and operator thereof and either that the identity of the motor vehicle and the
owner and operator thereof cannot be established, or that the identity of the
operator, who was operating the motor vehicle without the owner's consent,
cannot be established, or
e. (Deleted by
amendment, P.L. 1983, c. 362.)
f. The action or claim is not brought by or
on behalf of an insurer.
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