Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 23:3-61.1

  • Code: means the State Fish and Game Code. See New Jersey Statutes 23:1-1
  • Conservation police officer: means any sworn, salaried member of the Bureau of Law Enforcement in the division holding the titles of Conservation Police Officer I, II, or III, and includes the titles of Supervising Conservation Police Officer and Chief of the Bureau of Law Enforcement. See New Jersey Statutes 23:1-1
  • Hunting: means the possession of an instrument used to take wildlife in a condition that makes the instrument readily usable, while in a place or in proximity thereto where wildlife may be found. See New Jersey Statutes 23:1-1
  • 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
  • Wildlife: means any wild mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, mollusk, crustacean, or other wild animal or any part, product, egg, or offspring or the dead body or parts thereof. See New Jersey Statutes 23:1-1
1. No person above the age of 16 years shall at any time hunt for, pursue, kill, take, or attempt to take with a firearm or bow and arrow, or have in possession, any pheasant or quail while present in such division wildlife management areas as may be designated in the Fish and Game Code unless such person is the holder of a valid youth hunting license issued pursuant to R.S.23:3-3 or has first procured in addition to a hunting license a valid “special pheasant and quail stamp.”

This special pheasant and quail “stamp” shall be in the possession of the hunter at all times while engaged in hunting pheasant or quail in such division wildlife management areas as may be designated in the Fish and Game Code and the hunter shall exhibit the special stamp for inspection to any conservation police officer, deputy conservation police officer, or police officer requesting to see the stamp.

L.1975, c.117, s.1; amended 1999, c.282, s.20; 2019, c.407, s.10.