New Jersey - Private School Busing State Regulations. Can this happen here?

New Jersey - Lakewood's Orthodox Jewish parents send their boys and girls to separate private schools, as their faith requires. To do so, they pay van operators to transport their children, but many drivers do not have commercial licenses or drive commercial vehicles.
When police found out, they began ticketing the drivers. Parents of the 15,000 Orthodox students in the Ocean County township complained, and the citations stopped.

Seventy miles away, in Dover in Morris County, the town's Latino parents have a similar dilemma but a different outcome.
Many of the 3,000 school-age children live within 2 miles of their school, which means they don't qualify for busing. So, parents pay van drivers there, too. Just like in Lakewood, the ticketing started, but in Dover it hasn't stopped.
Police say these vans don't use seat belts or car seats. They say they ticket drivers paid by parents because the exchange of money makes the drivers part of a business, and a business should have the proper commercial license.

Although our New York laws are different this issue can affect our local Monsey area where many parents create carpools or hire private vans for busing on days that the the public bus service does not run.

(Star Ledg)