New Jersey Statutes 50:4-3. Protection of leased lands; exception
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 50:4-3
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- 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
50:4-3. No person shall dredge upon, throw, cast or drag an oyster dredge, use oyster tongs, rakes, forks or other instruments or appliances used for catching shellfish, or tread for shellfish, upon any of the leased lands of this State lying under the tidal waters of the Atlantic seaboard or tributaries thereof, above Cape May Point, other than land or ground for which the person or the person’s employer then holds a lease from the council. A lessee may, however, authorize another validly licensed individual to harvest shellfish on the lease using authorized gear during the authorized season.
Amended 1953, c.262, s.2; 1979, c.199, s.62; 1983, c.219, s.2; 2007, c.338, s.85.