Officials from the state Department of Transportation say 63 of the 85 red-light cameras in New Jersey have not been tested to ensure yellow lights were timed in accordance with the statute that created the pilot program.

Beginning today, tickets will not be issued at those 63 locations until it is determined whether the traffic systems are in compliance with the law.

Under national standards, yellow lights are expected to stay lit one second for every 10 mph — or 3.5 seconds in the case of an intersection where the speed limit is 35 mph.

But the statute that created New Jersey’s red-light camera program also calls for towns to study the speed at which vehicles approach the intersection before determining how long the yellow lights stay lit, taking into account the speed at which 85 percent of drivers travel through the intersection.

For 63 of the 85 cameras in 21 towns, those speeds had not been determined before the towns received approval to install the red-light cameras, according to the DOT.

Towns where the red-light cameras will remain in limbo are: Newark, Linden, Wayne, Palisades Park, Union Township and Springfield in Union County, Roselle Park, Rahway, Englewood Cliffs, Pohatcong, Piscataway, Edison, East Windsor, Lawrence, Cherry Hill, Stratford, Monroe, Brick, Glassboro, Jersey City (one camera of 13) and Woodbridge (one camera of four).

The 22 cameras that are in compliance include 12 in Jersey City (all but the one at the intersection of John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Communipaw Avenue), three in Woodbridge (all but the one at Route 1 and Avenel Street), four in Gloucester and one each in East Brunswick, New Brunswick and Deptford.

See complete list below (suspended cameras in blue):

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