Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 13:8-56

  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
a. The department may grant easements and rights-of-way upon, over, under, across, or through any State-owned land within a component river area of the system in accordance with the laws and rules and regulations applicable to the department; provided, however, that any conditions precedent to granting such easements and rights-of-way shall be related to the policy and purposes of this act.

b. Subsequent to the designation procedure provided in section 5 of this act, the commissioner may reclassify the designation of any component river area of the system.

L.1977, c. 236, s. 12, eff. Sept. 28, 1977.