2020 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 56 - Trade Names, Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade Practices
Section 56:3-25 - Search warrant for unlawfully used containers marked with registered name, mark or device; procedure thereon
56:3-25. Search warrant for unlawfully used containers marked with registered name, mark or device; procedure thereon
56:3-25. Whenever any person makes oath before the Superior Court or any municipal court that he has reason to believe and does believe that any bottle, container or receptacle mentioned in section 56:3-15 of this Title, the property of any person or corporation who or which has complied with the provisions of sections 56:3-16 and 56:3-17 of this Title, are being filled, sold, bought, given, taken, possessed, used, disposed of or trafficked in by any person or corporation in violation of this article, the court shall issue a search warrant to discover and obtain such bottles, containers or receptacles, and to bring before the court the person in whose possession bottles, containers or receptacles may be found. If any such bottles, containers or receptacles are found in the possession of any such person in violation of the provisions of this article, the court issuing the search warrant shall proceed summarily in a criminal proceeding to trial and judgment, and, upon a conviction and judgment, shall also award possession of the bottles, containers or receptacles taken under the search warrant to the owners or proprietors thereof.
Amended 1953,c.53,s.6; 1991,c.91,s.521.
