New Jersey Statutes 12:7-49. Dredges having in tow excessive lines of pontoons or other equipment
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12:7-49
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Length: means measurement from end to end over the deck parallel to the centerline excluding sheer, bowsprits, bumpkins, rudders, outboard motors, brackets or other equipment or appendages. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- Operate: means to navigate, use, control or command a vessel. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- 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
- Vessel: means a boat or watercraft, other than a sea plane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
No person shall operate a dredge which shall have in tow excessive lines of pontoons and other equipment and thereby endanger buoys, lights and other aids to navigation. A length of pontoon or other tow exceeding one hundred fifty feet measured from the stern of the towing vessel shall be deemed for the purposes of this act presumptive evidence of a violation of this section where damage is shown to have occurred within twenty-four hours after the passage of such pontoon or tow.
L.1952, c. 157, p. 524, s. 6, eff. May 9, 1952.