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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 23 - FISH AND GAME, WILD BIRDS AND ANIMALS
Chapter 4 - Open and close seasons; federal regulations; penalty for violations
- Section 23:4-1 - Open and close seasons; federal regulations; penalty for violations
- Section 23:4-2 - Bag limit; penalty
- Section 23:4-3 - Bag limit for migratory birds to conform to federal regulations
- Section 23:4-8 - Female English or ring-necked pheasant protected; exceptions
- Section 23:4-9 - Trapping or shooting squirrels and rabbits by farmers and fruit growers
- Section 23:4-10 - Shooting squirrel's nest prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-11 - Hunting, except during seasons and in manner provided, prohibited
- Section 23:4-12 - Hunting certain game, except in manner provided by Code or with gun or bow and arrow, unlawful; penalty
- Section 23:4-13 - Regulations concerning guns
- Section 23:4-13.1 - Clothing; outer garment of fluorescent hunter's orange
- Section 23:4-14 - Use of ferrets prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-15 - Baiting wild fowl prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-16 - Prohibited hunting practices; penalty.
- Section 23:4-18 - Hunting migratory waterfowl; lying in wait; hours; penalty
- Section 23:4-19 - Pursuing game birds in power boats or aircraft prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-20 - Trapped or snared game; possession or sale; setting traps
- Section 23:4-21 - Trapping hare by children
- Section 23:4-22 - "Pole traps" prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-22.1 - Animal trap of steel-jaw leghold type; prohibition of manufacture, sale, possession, importation or transportation
- Section 23:4-22.2 - Prohibition of taking or attempting to take any animal
- Section 23:4-22.3 - Possession as prima facie evidence
- Section 23:4-22.4 - Study to develop better trap; traps not classified as steel-jaw leghold traps
- Section 23:4-22.5 - Allowable uses and possessions
- Section 23:4-22.6 - Rules and regulations; contents
- Section 23:4-22.7 - Violations; penalties
- Section 23:4-22.8 - Confiscation of equipment, pelts or animals
- Section 23:4-23 - Mutilating game prohibited; deer
- Section 23:4-24 - Hunting, certain, prohibited on Sundays; penalty; exemptions.
- Section 23:4-24.1 - Carrying loaded firearms in vehicle for hunting purposes prohibited; proof
- Section 23:4-24.1a - Improper transportation of firearm in motor vehicle; penalty
- Section 23:4-24.2 - Shooting or taking game bird or animal from tree or structure within 300 feet of baited area
- Section 23:4-24.3 - Baited area defined
- Section 23:4-24.4 - Hunting deer with bait; "baited area" defined.
- Section 23:4-24.5 - Prohibition of computer-assisted remote hunting; definitions.
- Section 23:4-24.6 - Violation, penalties.
- Section 23:4-25 - Dogs; running at large; training; carrying firearms into woods or fields; exceptions
- Section 23:4-26 - Field days allowed; license
- Section 23:4-27 - Unlawful sale, purchase of wildlife; penalties.
- Section 23:4-28 - Bringing game into state; penalty
- Section 23:4-29 - Taking game from state prohibited; penalty; exceptions
- Section 23:4-30 - Application of law to game from without state
- Section 23:4-32 - Possession of gun evidence of violation
- Section 23:4-33 - Gun in house a violation
- Section 23:4-34 - Notice of seizure of weapon; sale; proceeds
- Section 23:4-35 - Search for gun; search warrant; right of entry
- Section 23:4-36 - Gunning under influence of liquor or drugs prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-37 - Protection of fur-bearing animals; taking by traps
- Section 23:4-38.2 - Trap of conibear or killer type; restriction on use
- Section 23:4-38.3 - Violations; penalty
- Section 23:4-39 - Mink, muskrat or otter; open season; destruction of muskrats damaging dams or canal banks; state owned grounds
- Section 23:4-40 - Stealing traps or trapped animals
- Section 23:4-41 - Penalties
- Section 23:4-42 - Killing deer, season, permit to kill on cultivated land.
- Section 23:4-42.1 - Killing of deer causing crop damage permitted, conditions
- Section 23:4-42.2 - Annual report to include number of deer killed pursuant to permits
- Section 23:4-42.3 - Application for special deer management area designation.
- Section 23:4-42.4 - Submission of deer management plan.
- Section 23:4-42.5 - Exemption, variation from certain laws, etc. for implementation of alternative control methods
- Section 23:4-42.6 - Special deer management permit; issuance
- Section 23:4-42.7 - Venison, donation program, permanent
- Section 23:4-42.8 - Guidelines for venison donation program.
- Section 23:4-43 - Possession of wild deer; prohibitions; exceptions; prima facie evidence; inapplicability of article to certain deer
- Section 23:4-44 - Weapons authorized for hunting deer; kinds; caliber; size of shot
- Section 23:4-45 - Deer-hunting restrictions
- Section 23:4-46 - Dogs not to be used
- Section 23:4-47 - Dead deer, tagging procedures, transportation; violations, penalties; rules, regulations.
- Section 23:4-48 - Penalties
- Section 23:4-49 - "Game bird" defined
- Section 23:4-50 - Wild birds other than game birds; capturing; killing; possession; sale; penalties; enforcement
- Section 23:4-51 - Robbing nests or taking eggs prohibited; exception; penalty
- Section 23:4-52 - Collecting mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds, and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes; certificate
- Section 23:4-53 - Wild pigeons protected; penalty
- Section 23:4-54 - Carrier pigeon protected; penalty
- Section 23:4-55 - Beaver trapping permits
- Section 23:4-56 - Acquisition of land by United States for migratory bird reservations
- Section 23:4-57 - Penalty for liberating foxes
- Section 23:4-58 - Possession of live fox prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-58.1 - Hunting foxes with hounds and firearms; penalty
- Section 23:4-58.3 - Killing other game while hunting foxes; penalty
- Section 23:4-62.2 - Bounties or premium for killing prohibition
- Section 23:4-63.1 - Penalty for liberating coyotes
- Section 23:4-63.2 - Possession of live coyote prohibited; penalty
- Section 23:4-63.3 - Possession, release of certain animals, prohibited; terms defined
- Section 23:4-63.4 - Violations; penalties
- Section 23:4-63.5 - Right to use mechanical devices to repel marauding birds and other wildlife
- Section 23:4-63.6 - Issuance of permits; cancellation; rules and regulations
- Section 23:4-63.7 - Disposal of dead wildlife by authorized personnel
- Section 23:4-64 - Sale of bittersweet prohibited; penalty; enforcement
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