Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 56:3-46

  • 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
Any person who shall, in violation of this article, either use, sell, dispose of, buy, traffic in or have in his possession, or in, on or about his premises any such can or cans, or who shall willfully mar, erase or change by remarking or otherwise the name or initials of any such owner, dealer or shipper, so stamped, marked or fastened upon such can or cans, or who shall have any such can or cans on, in or about his premises as in this article provided, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every such can either so used, sold, disposed of, bought, trafficked in, or found in his possession or in, on or about his premises.

The penalty prescribed by this section shall be recovered in an action at law, to be brought in the name of the owner, dealer or shipper in any court of this state having cognizance thereof, with costs of action and such reasonable disbursements as any such owner, dealer or shipper, or his agent, may incur in retaking possession of any such can or cans, to be determined in such action.

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