New Jersey Statutes 4:7-54. Permitting Canada thistle to ripen; penalty
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 4:7-54
- 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
A person owning, possessing or having charge of lands in this State, whether improved or unimproved, inclosed or uninclosed, who shall knowingly permit any Canada thistle to stand thereon until its seeds ripen, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five cents ($0.25) for every stalk or branch thereof, to be sued for and recovered in a civil action, with costs, by any person, in his name, in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Amended by L.1953, c. 5, p. 32, s. 17.