Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12:4-10

  • 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.
  • 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
No person shall throw or deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited any solid material of any kind into or upon the navigable waters of the Kill von Kull, Arthur Kill or Staten Island sounds, Newark bay or tributaries, Raritan bay or tributaries, New York bay and harbor, or the Hudson river, within the jurisdiction of this state, unless authorized so to do under the laws of this state or of the United States.

This section shall not apply to or affect the right any person has or may have to fish, by putting in poles or otherwise, to plant shellfish and fix and preserve the boundaries to any land he may be entitled to use for such purpose, or interfere with the emptying of sewage into the same by any city.

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