2016 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 23 - Fish And Game, Wild Birds And Animals
Section 23:4-24.4 - Hunting Deer With Bait; "Baited Area" Defined.

NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-24.4 (2016) What's This?

23:4-24.4 Hunting deer with bait; "baited area" defined.

1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 and section 2 of P.L.1970, c.180 (C.23:4-24.2 and C.23:4-24.3), a person may: (1) use bait to attract, entice, or lure a deer; and (2) kill, destroy, injure, shoot, shoot at, take, wound, or attempt to take, kill, or wound, a deer, or have in possession or control any firearm or other weapon of any kind for such purposes, within any distance of a baited area. A person may be elevated in a standing tree or in a structure of any kind when using a baited area for hunting deer, and the baited area may be within any distance of the standing tree or structure.

b.For the purposes of this section, "baited area" means the presence of placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered agricultural products, salt, or other edible lure whatsoever capable of attracting, enticing, or luring deer.

L.1997,c.424,s.1; amended 1999, c.231.


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