New Jersey StatutesTITLE 23 - FISH AND GAME, WILD BIRDS AND ANIMALS
- Section 23:1
- Section 23:10
- Section 23:12
- Section 23:2
- Section 23:2A
- Section 23:2B
- 23:2B-1 - Short title
- 23:2B-10 - Aquaculture task force; commercial fisheries development task force; members; duties; report
- 23:2B-11 - Interference or damage to devices used to take fish
- 23:2B-12 - Enforcement of marine management statutes, rules and regulations; duties and training of marine police; reports
- 23:2B-13 - Review of previously adopted rules and regulations
- 23:2B-14 - "Act" defined, penalties; enforcement
- 23:2B-15 - Division of fish, game and wildlife; fish and game council; continuance of functions, powers and duties
- 23:2B-15.1 - Division of Fish and Wildlife constituted
- 23:2B-16 - Severability; liberal construction
- 23:2B-17 - Pending actions or proceedings; preexisting orders, rules and regulations
- 23:2B-18 - Saltwater recreational anglers license
- 23:2B-19 - Taking, processing of fish on certain vessels in marine waters prohibited
- 23:2B-2 - Legislative findings; state policy
- 23:2B-20 - Findings, declarations, determinations relative to horseshoe crab and shorebird conservation
- 23:2B-21 - Moratorium on taking of horseshoe crabs, exceptions; shorebird management plan
- 23:2B-3 - Definitions
- 23:2B-4 - Marine Fisheries Council
- 23:2B-5 - Powers and duties of council
- 23:2B-6 - Preparation of fisheries management plans; rules and regulations
- 23:2B-7 - Powers and duties of commissioner
- 23:2B-8 - Management of shared fisheries resources; cooperation to develop integrated management plans; reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions
- 23:2B-9 - Disclosure of information by persons taking fisheries resources; records, books or accounts; audits
- Section 23:3
- 23:3-1 - License for hunting, fishing or trapping; penalty; exemptions
- 23:3-1.1 - "All Around Sportsman License."
- 23:3-10 - Division's monthly return to state treasurer
- 23:3-11 - Disposition of fees
- 23:3-12 - Hunters' and anglers' license fund
- 23:3-12.1 - "Shellfisheries Management Account" established
- 23:3-12.2 - "Oyster Resource Development Account."
- 23:3-13 - Annual returns to division
- 23:3-14 - Penalty for failure to make return or report
- 23:3-15 - Failure to turn over moneys by clerk, warden or magistrate; misdemeanor
- 23:3-16 - Licenses and buttons or tags to be issued promptly
- 23:3-17 - Registrars of licenses
- 23:3-18 - Antedating license a misdemeanor
- 23:3-19 - Records open to public
- 23:3-1a - Fees; adjustment by council, once
- 23:3-1b - "Free fishing" days
- 23:3-1c - Application fee for each permit, license
- 23:3-1d - Pennsylvania fishing license holders permitted to fish in Delaware river
- 23:3-1e - Members of New Jersey National Guard, disabled veterans exempt from certain fees
- 23:3-1f - Certification of reduction in "hunters' and anglers' license fund" for free NG licensees
- 23:3-1g - Fee for hunting migratory birds
- 23:3-2 - Minimum age for issuance of license; misrepresentation; penalty
- 23:3-20 - Penalty for violations of article
- 23:3-21 - Procuring license wrongfully; penalty
- 23:3-21.1 - Sale of pointed or metal tipped arrow to minor other than holder of bow and arrow hunting license; disorderly persons
- 23:3-21.2 - Shooting of pointed or metal tipped arrow by minor other than holder of bow and arrow hunting license; juvenile delinquency
- 23:3-22 - Subsequent convictions; penalty
- 23:3-22.1 - Appeal to council by aggrieved person
- 23:3-22.2 - Establishment of range of costs for replacement value of animals possessed in violation of law
- 23:3-22.3 - Remedial sportsmen education program; established
- 23:3-27 - Penalty for killing or having certain game
- 23:3-27.1 - Wild turkey permits, fee
- 23:3-29 - Licenses for raising, selling game birds, animals
- 23:3-3 - Youth hunting license
- 23:3-33 - Shipment of killed game; regulations
- 23:3-36 - Expiration of licenses; renewal of propagating license
- 23:3-37 - License displayed; record kept; certified copy sent to board
- 23:3-38 - Counterfeiting tag or seal; affixing improperly
- 23:3-39 - Penalty
- 23:3-4 - Types of licenses; fees
- 23:3-4.1 - One-day license; fee
- 23:3-4.10 - Migrant or farm labor camp resident; issuance of license
- 23:3-4.11 - Rifle permit; fee
- 23:3-4.2 - Applicants 10 or over; certificate showing completion of gun safety course
- 23:3-4.3 - Instructors of methods of handling firearms
- 23:3-4.4 - Forwarding of certificates
- 23:3-4.5 - Instruction and certificate to be without charge
- 23:3-4.6 - Application to issuance of youth hunting licenses
- 23:3-4.7 - Issuance of license to person over 10 without submission of license of previous year or certificate; prohibition; obtaining license under false information; penalty
- 23:3-4.8 - Effective date
- 23:3-4.9 - Special limited fishing licenses; issuance; fee
- 23:3-41 - License to operate fishpound nets; requirement for; issuance
- 23:3-46 - Use of shirred or purse seines, otter or beam trawls without license prohibited
- 23:3-47 - Application for and granting of license; fee; term
- 23:3-48 - Menhaden fishing excepted
- 23:3-5 - Button or tag worn by licensee
- 23:3-51 - License to take menhaden, prohibited takings
- 23:3-51.1 - Rules, regulations for taking of menhaden
- 23:3-52 - Fee
- 23:3-54 - Issuance of permit to take carp and suckers
- 23:3-55 - Issuance of permit to take suckers, catfish, carp and eels
- 23:3-56 - Penalty for noncompliance
- 23:3-56.1 - Limited deer license, fees; exemption
- 23:3-56.2 - Possession, transfer and display of license; violations; penalty
- 23:3-57 - "Special trout fishing stamp."
- 23:3-58 - Form and issuance of stamps
- 23:3-59 - Fee for trout stamps
- 23:3-6 - License blanks and buttons or tags
- 23:3-60 - Altering or changing stamp
- 23:3-61 - Effective date
- 23:3-61.1 - "Special pheasant and quail stamp."
- 23:3-61.2 - Special pheasant and quail stamp; privileges of holder; procurement; signature of owner
- 23:3-61.3 - Fee for pheasant and quail stamps
- 23:3-61.4 - Violations; penalty
- 23:3-62 - Fishing preserve waters defined
- 23:3-63 - Fishing preserve license
- 23:3-64 - Taking of fish by licensee
- 23:3-65 - Sale of fish by licensee or taking of fish by non-licensee
- 23:3-66 - Tagging of fish, fee
- 23:3-67 - Records; inspection; annual report
- 23:3-68 - Use of toxins in licensed waters
- 23:3-69 - Application of act
- 23:3-7 - Issuance of license and buttons or tags
- 23:3-7.1 - Certificate of completion of bow and arrow safety course; necessity
- 23:3-7.10 - Certificate; forwarding to division
- 23:3-7.11 - No charge for certificate or instructions
- 23:3-7.12 - Issuance of license; submission of license of previous year or certificate; obtaining under false information; penalty
- 23:3-7.2 - Instruction agents; issuance of certificates
- 23:3-7.3 - Forwarding certificates to division
- 23:3-7.4 - Charge for certificate or instruction
- 23:3-7.5 - Application to issuance of youth hunting licenses
- 23:3-7.6 - Issuance of bow and arrow licenses to uncertified persons; prohibition; penalty for obtaining license under false information
- 23:3-7.7 - Effective date
- 23:3-7.8 - Trapping license; application; certificate of completion of course in trapping methods; renewal
- 23:3-7.9 - Designation of agents to give instructions and issue certificates
- 23:3-70 - Rules and regulations by division
- 23:3-71 - Violations; penalty
- 23:3-72 - Necessity; fee
- 23:3-73 - Rules and regulations
- 23:3-74 - Violations; penalty
- 23:3-75 - Short title
- 23:3-76 - New Jersey Waterfowl Stamp
- 23:3-78 - Design and form of stamp; rules and regulations
- 23:3-79 - New Jersey Waterfowl Stamp Account
- 23:3-8 - Stubs attached to license; spoiled blanks
- 23:3-80 - Violations; penalties; enforcement
- 23:3-81 - Migratory waterfowl advisory committee
- 23:3-9 - Monthly returns to division; retention of issuance fees
- Section 23:4
- 23:4-1 - Open and close seasons; federal regulations; penalty for violations
- 23:4-10 - Shooting squirrel's nest prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-11 - Hunting, except during seasons and in manner provided, prohibited
- 23:4-12 - Hunting certain game, except in manner provided by Code or with gun or bow and arrow, unlawful; penalty
- 23:4-13 - Regulations concerning guns
- 23:4-13.1 - Clothing; outer garment of fluorescent hunter's orange
- 23:4-14 - Use of ferrets prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-15 - Baiting wild fowl prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-16 - Prohibited hunting practices; penalty
- 23:4-18 - Hunting migratory waterfowl; lying in wait; hours; penalty
- 23:4-19 - Pursuing game birds in power boats or aircraft prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-2 - Bag limit; penalty
- 23:4-20 - Trapped or snared game; possession or sale; setting traps
- 23:4-21 - Trapping hare by children
- 23:4-22 - "Pole traps" prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-22.1 - Animal trap of steel-jaw leghold type; prohibition of manufacture, sale, possession, importation or transportation
- 23:4-22.2 - Prohibition of taking or attempting to take any animal
- 23:4-22.3 - Possession as prima facie evidence
- 23:4-22.4 - Study to develop better trap; traps not classified as steel-jaw leghold traps
- 23:4-22.5 - Allowable uses and possessions
- 23:4-22.6 - Rules and regulations; contents
- 23:4-22.7 - Violations; penalties
- 23:4-22.8 - Confiscation of equipment, pelts or animals
- 23:4-23 - Mutilating game prohibited; deer
- 23:4-24 - Hunting, certain, prohibited on Sundays; penalty; exemptions
- 23:4-24.1 - Carrying loaded firearms in vehicle for hunting purposes prohibited; proof
- 23:4-24.1a - Improper transportation of firearm in motor vehicle; penalty
- 23:4-24.2 - Shooting or taking game bird or animal from tree or structure within 300 feet of baited area
- 23:4-24.3 - Baited area defined
- 23:4-24.4 - Hunting deer with bait; "baited area" defined
- 23:4-24.5 - Prohibition of computer-assisted remote hunting; definitions
- 23:4-24.6 - Violation, penalties
- 23:4-25 - Dogs; running at large; training; carrying firearms into woods or fields; exceptions
- 23:4-26 - Field days allowed; license
- 23:4-27 - Unlawful sale, purchase of wildlife; penalties
- 23:4-28 - Bringing game into state; penalty
- 23:4-29 - Taking game from state prohibited; penalty; exceptions
- 23:4-3 - Bag limit for migratory birds to conform to federal regulations
- 23:4-30 - Application of law to game from without state
- 23:4-32 - Possession of gun evidence of violation
- 23:4-33 - Gun in house a violation
- 23:4-34 - Notice of seizure of weapon; sale; proceeds
- 23:4-35 - Search for gun; search warrant; right of entry
- 23:4-36 - Gunning under influence of liquor or drugs prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-37 - Protection of fur-bearing animals; taking by traps
- 23:4-38.2 - Trap of conibear or killer type; restriction on use
- 23:4-38.3 - Violations; penalty
- 23:4-39 - Mink, muskrat or otter; open season; destruction of muskrats damaging dams or canal banks; state owned grounds
- 23:4-40 - Stealing traps or trapped animals
- 23:4-41 - Penalties
- 23:4-42 - Killing deer, season, permit to kill on cultivated land
- 23:4-42.1 - Killing of deer causing crop damage permitted, conditions
- 23:4-42.2 - Annual report to include number of deer killed pursuant to permits
- 23:4-42.3 - Application for special deer management area designation
- 23:4-42.4 - Submission of deer management plan
- 23:4-42.5 - Exemption, variation from certain laws, etc. for implementation of alternative control methods
- 23:4-42.6 - Special deer management permit; issuance
- 23:4-42.7 - Venison, donation program, permanent
- 23:4-42.8 - Guidelines for venison donation program
- 23:4-43 - Possession of wild deer; prohibitions; exceptions; prima facie evidence; inapplicability of article to certain deer
- 23:4-44 - Weapons authorized for hunting deer; kinds; caliber; size of shot
- 23:4-45 - Deer-hunting restrictions
- 23:4-46 - Dogs not to be used
- 23:4-47 - Dead deer, tagging procedures, transportation; violations, penalties; rules, regulations
- 23:4-48 - Penalties
- 23:4-49 - "Game bird" defined
- 23:4-50 - Wild birds other than game birds; capturing; killing; possession; sale; penalties; enforcement
- 23:4-51 - Robbing nests or taking eggs prohibited; exception; penalty
- 23:4-52 - Collecting mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds, and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes; certificate
- 23:4-53 - Wild pigeons protected; penalty
- 23:4-54 - Carrier pigeon protected; penalty
- 23:4-55 - Beaver trapping permits
- 23:4-56 - Acquisition of land by United States for migratory bird reservations
- 23:4-57 - Penalty for liberating foxes
- 23:4-58 - Possession of live fox prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-58.1 - Hunting foxes with hounds and firearms; penalty
- 23:4-58.3 - Killing other game while hunting foxes; penalty
- 23:4-62.2 - Bounties or premium for killing prohibition
- 23:4-63.1 - Penalty for liberating coyotes
- 23:4-63.2 - Possession of live coyote prohibited; penalty
- 23:4-63.3 - Possession, release of certain animals, prohibited; terms defined
- 23:4-63.4 - Violations; penalties
- 23:4-63.5 - Right to use mechanical devices to repel marauding birds and other wildlife
- 23:4-63.6 - Issuance of permits; cancellation; rules and regulations
- 23:4-63.7 - Disposal of dead wildlife by authorized personnel
- 23:4-64 - Sale of bittersweet prohibited; penalty; enforcement
- 23:4-8 - Female English or ring-necked pheasant protected; exceptions
- 23:4-9 - Trapping or shooting squirrels and rabbits by farmers and fruit growers
- Section 23:5
- Section 23:6
- Section 23:7
- Section 23:7A
- Section 23:8
- Section 23:8A
- Section 23:9
- Section 23:9A