New Jersey Statutes 12:3-21. Removal of sand and other material without license; penalty; exception
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12:3-21
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- 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.
- 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
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
- 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 or corporation shall dig, dredge or remove any deposits of sand or other material from the lands of the State lying under tidal waters without a license so to do first obtained as provided in section 12:3-22 of this Title, and any person or corporation who shall so unlawfully dig, dredge or remove any deposit of sand or other material as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offense the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00), to be prosecuted for and recovered by a civil action by any person or persons in any court of competent jurisdiction with costs of suit, the one-half the amount so recovered to be for the use of the State, and the other half to the use of the person or persons who shall sue for and prosecute the same to effect; provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall prevent the owner of any grant or lease from the State, or the assignee or lessee thereof, from digging, dredging, removing, and taking sand and other material within the lines of, or in front of, such grant or lease, for the purpose of improving lands granted or leased to them, or their grantors or lessors, by the State, nor prevent such owner, assignee or lessee from digging or dredging a channel or channels to the main channels, and removing and taking the material therefrom.
Amended by L.1953, c. 12, p. 100, s. 4, eff. March 19, 1953.