The type of badge that an ex-Port Authority commissioner flashed to Tenafly police officers who stopped a car her daughter was riding in has been banned in New Jersey.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law on Friday that prohibits the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ Transit and municipalities and counties in the state from issuing badges to non-law enforcement elected officials that could be used to garner favor.

The state Legislature approved the measure in June.

Officials who possessed those badges have former Port Authority Commissioner Caren Turner to thank (or blame) for it.

In March 2018, Turner was captured on video after intervening in an Easter weekend traffic stop in Tenafly, flashing her Port Authority commissioner’s credentials, including a gold-plated badge, in an effort to prevent the impounding of her daughter’s friend’s car. The vehicle had an expired registration.

At one point on the video, Turner insists police officers address her as commissioner. She resigned just before the video was made public and legislators proposed bills outlawing the badges in Sept. 2018. Turner surrendered her badge and other credentials to the Port Authority after she resigned.

“We’ve seen multiple scenarios recently where commissioners have tried to use their badges to get out of traffic stops,” said state Assemblyman Eric Houghtaling, D-Monmouth, one of three sponsors of the assembly bill. “This is unacceptable behavior and it will not be tolerated in New Jersey.”

Port Authority officials researched why commissioners had badges in the first place as they mulled taking badges away. Board chairman Kevin O’Toole said Port Authority by-laws did not mention the purpose of providing badges for commissioners.

“Existing badges were all handed in voluntarily and no badges will be assigned going forward by Chief Security Officer John Bilich,” said Steve Coleman, a Port Authority spokesman.

Port Authority commissioners voluntarily gave up their badges in June 2018 in favor of ID cards. Officials also asked for an inventory of non-law enforcement officials at the Authority who had badges.

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