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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2D-23.1

  • census: means the latest Federal census effective within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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
  • population: when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
It shall be unlawful for any person to transport or store in transit the following radioactive materials in any county in New Jersey which has an average population density exceeding 1,000 persons per square mile as measured in the most recent decennial census:

a. Plutonium isotopes in any quantity and form exceeding 20 curies;

b. Uranium enriched in the isotope U-235 exceeding 25 atomic per cent of the total uranium content in quantities where the U-235 content exceeds 1 kilogram;

c. Any of the actinides (i.e., elements with atomic number 89 or greater) the activity of which exceeds 20 curies; or

d. Spent reactor fuel elements or mixed fission products associated with such spent fuel elements the activity of which exceeds 20 curies.

Any quantity of radioactive material specified as “Low Specific Activity” by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 10 C.F.R. part 71, entitled “Packaging of Radioactive Material for Transport” shall be exempt from the provisions of this act.

L.1983, c. 345, s. 1.