New Jersey Statutes 40:37-18. Rules and regulations effective throughout park; arrests; prosecutions
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:37-18
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- 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
Whenever by virtue of section 40:37-17 of this Title any park commission or other body has or shall have established any public park which is partly in another county, all ordinances, rules and regulations duly established by the park commission or body and applicable to the park shall be effective to the same extent in all portions of the park regardless of the county line. Every park police officer or other official empowered to make arrests in the county in which the park is controlled shall have the same powers of arrest in all parts of the park without regard to the county line. Proceedings against any person arrested therein shall be before a court of the county or municipality having local criminal jurisdiction, in which the offense was committed.
Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 651, s. 65, eff. March 19, 1953.