2A:154-1. Any judge of the Superior Court, or of a municipal court shall have power to cause to be kept all laws made or to be made for the conservation of the peace and for the good government of the citizens and inhabitants of this State, within their respective counties, according to the force, form and effect of such laws, and to apprehend, and to cause to come before them, and imprison and punish all persons offending against such laws, or any of them, in their respective counties, in such manner as, according to such laws, shall be right and proper, and to perform and execute all such matters, acts and things as by law appertain to their office, and are or shall be enjoined upon them, or be committed to their charge and execution.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1991,c.91,s.123.