New Jersey Statutes 23:3-41. License to operate fishpound nets; requirement for; issuance
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 23:3-41
- 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
An application for a license for such purpose shall be made to the commissioner. The commissioner upon the payment to him of the sum of $100.00 for each pound net to be erected or set in the Atlantic ocean, and $50.00 for each pound net to be erected or set in Sandy Hook or Raritan bay, as a license fee, may in his discretion issue to the applicant, if he is a citizen of the United States, a license, to erect, set, operate and maintain a fishpound net in one of the waters above specified. The method of numbering and identification of pounds shall be that which the commissioner determines. A license issued hereunder shall expire annually on December 31 next succeeding its issuance, and may be renewed by the commissioner upon the payment of the same fee and upon the same terms as those upon which the original license was granted.
Amended by L.1951, c. 294, p. 1073, s. 1, eff. July 13, 1951; L.1975, c. 116, s. 7, eff. June 3, 1975; L.1979, c. 199, s. 64, eff. Sept. 19, 1979.