Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 58:5A-4

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • magistrate: includes any judge, municipal magistrate or officer or other person having the powers of a committing magistrate. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
The members and officers of the said constabulary may make service of summons or any other legal process, and may arrest on view and without warrant and conduct before the nearest magistrate of the municipality in which the arrest is made, or of a neighboring municipality, or any judge having jurisdiction to impose fines and penalties generally in said municipalities, any person found violating the rules and regulations so enacted and promulgated and in addition they shall have all the powers conferred by law on police officers or constables for the enforcement of the laws of this State in the municipalities in which the watershed properties, reservoirs, pumping stations, dams, pipelines, buildings, machinery and structures are located and the apprehension of violators thereof.

L.1952, c. 355, p. 1145, s. 4.