New Jersey Statutes 23:4-40. Stealing traps or trapped animals
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 23:4-40
- 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 take, carry away or unlawfully appropriate or purloin, with intent to steal:
a. A trap, the property of another, set along, by or in any of the public or private ditches, streams, ponds or waters in this state for the purpose of catching skunk, mink, muskrat or otter; or
b. A skunk, mink, muskrat or otter, dead or alive, out of or from the trap of another person in this state.