23:2-7. Wardens may be armed
The board, with the approval of the governor, may in writing authorize any of its salaried wardens to have in possession and carry a revolver, club, billy, handcuffs and twisters, or any other weapon or article required in the performance of their official duty.
Structure New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals
Section 23:1-2 - "Waters of this state" construed
Section 23:1-3 - Season includes date of beginning and end
Section 23:1-4 - Inapplicability to public museums or natural history societies
Section 23:2-2 - Powers and duties of board; annual report
Section 23:2-3 - Stocking with fish, birds and game restricted to certain places
Section 23:2-4 - Protector, assistant protector and wardens; appointment; compensation
Section 23:2-5 - Payment of compensation and expenses
Section 23:2-6 - Powers and duties of protector and wardens
Section 23:2-7 - Wardens may be armed
Section 23:2-8 - Summary arrest; aid by peace officers
Section 23:2-9 - Payment of appropriations
Section 23:2-10 - Deputy wardens; appointment
Section 23:2-11 - Power and authority.
Section 23:2-12 - Impersonating warden; penalty
Section 23:2-13 - Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Section 23:2-14 - Collection, maintenance of data; annual report.
Section 23:2-15 - Rules, regulations.
Section 23:2A-2 - Legislative findings and declarations.
Section 23:2A-3 - Definitions.
Section 23:2A-4 - Investigations, list of endangered species.
Section 23:2A-4.1 - Diamondback terrapin designated nongame indigenous species.
Section 23:2A-5 - Rules, regulations; inspections; fees.
Section 23:2A-6 - Prohibitions relative to certain species.
Section 23:2A-6.2 - Activities permitted pursuant to conduct of biomedical research.
Section 23:2A-8 - Obstruction, hindrance or delay of personnel of department
Section 23:2A-9 - Investigation of suspected violators
Section 23:2A-10 - Violations; penalties; enforcement.
Section 23:2A-11 - Severability
Section 23:2A-12 - Functions, powers and duties of department under other laws
Section 23:2A-13 - Liberal construction of act
Section 23:2A-13.1 - Findings, declarations relative to ivory trafficking.
Section 23:2A-13.2 - Definitions relative to ivory trafficking.
Section 23:2A-13.3 - Additional prohibitions, penalties; exemptions.
Section 23:2A-13.4 - Additional penalties, degree of crime; disposition of seized ivory.
Section 23:2A-13.5 - Rules, regulations.
Section 23:2A-14 - Intentional feeding of black bears prohibited; violations, penalties
Section 23:2A-15 - Matching funds for certain federal grants to benefit wildlife, wildlife habitat.
Section 23:2B-2 - Legislative findings; state policy
Section 23:2B-4 - Marine Fisheries Council.
Section 23:2B-5 - Powers and duties of council
Section 23:2B-6 - Preparation of fisheries management plans; rules and regulations
Section 23:2B-7 - Powers and duties of commissioner
Section 23:2B-11 - Interference or damage to devices used to take fish
Section 23:2B-13 - Review of previously adopted rules and regulations.
Section 23:2B-14 - "Act" defined, penalties; enforcement.
Section 23:2B-15.1 - Division of Fish and Wildlife constituted.
Section 23:2B-16 - Severability; liberal construction
Section 23:2B-17 - Pending actions or proceedings; preexisting orders, rules and regulations
Section 23:2B-18 - Saltwater recreational anglers license
Section 23:2B-19 - Taking, processing of fish on certain vessels in marine waters prohibited.
Section 23:2B-21 - Moratorium on taking of horseshoe crabs, exceptions; shorebird management plan.
Section 23:2B-22 - Registry program for saltwater recreational anglers; violations, penalties.
Section 23:2B-23 - Prohibition on sale, possession of shark fins; exceptions; violations, penalties.
Section 23:2B-24 - Possession in Excess of Daily Limit Vessel License.
Section 23:2B-25 - "Marine Fisheries Program Support Account."
Section 23:3-1 - License for hunting, fishing, or trapping; penalty; exceptions.
Section 23:3-1a - Fees; adjustment by council, once
Section 23:3-1b - "Free fishing" days
Section 23:3-1c - Application fee for each permit, license.
Section 23:3-1d - Pennsylvania fishing license holders permitted to fish in Delaware river
Section 23:3-1e - Members of New Jersey National Guard, disabled veterans exempt from certain fees.
Section 23:3-1g - Fee for hunting migratory birds.
Section 23:3-1.1 - "All Around Sportsman License."
Section 23:3-2 - Minimum age for issuance of license; misrepresentation; penalty.
Section 23:3-3 - Youth hunting license.
Section 23:3-3.1 - Issuance of apprentice firearm, bow and arrow licenses.
Section 23:3-4 - Types of licenses; fees.
Section 23:3-4.1 - One-day license; fee.
Section 23:3-4.2 - Applicants 10 or over; certificate showing completion of gun safety course.
Section 23:3-4.3 - Instructors of methods of handling firearms
Section 23:3-4.4 - Forwarding of certificates
Section 23:3-4.5 - Instruction and certificate to be without charge
Section 23:3-4.6 - Application to issuance of youth hunting licenses.
Section 23:3-4.7 - Conditions for issuance of firearm hunting license; fines.
Section 23:3-4.8 - Effective date
Section 23:3-4.9 - Special limited fishing licenses; issuance; fee
Section 23:3-4.10 - Migrant or farm labor camp resident; issuance of license
Section 23:3-4.11 - Rifle permit; fee.
Section 23:3-5 - Button or tag worn by licensee
Section 23:3-6 - License blanks and buttons or tags
Section 23:3-7 - Issuance of license and buttons or tags
Section 23:3-7.1 - Certificate of completion of bow and arrow safety course.
Section 23:3-7.2 - Instruction agents; issuance of certificates
Section 23:3-7.3 - Forwarding certificates to division
Section 23:3-7.4 - Charge for certificate or instruction
Section 23:3-7.5 - Application to issuance of youth hunting licenses.
Section 23:3-7.6 - Requirements for issuance of bow and arrow license; fines.
Section 23:3-7.7 - Effective date
Section 23:3-7.9 - Designation of agents to give instructions and issue certificates
Section 23:3-7.10 - Certificate; forwarding to division
Section 23:3-7.11 - No charge for certificate or instructions
Section 23:3-8 - Stubs attached to license; spoiled blanks
Section 23:3-9 - Monthly returns to division; retention of issuance fees
Section 23:3-10 - Division's monthly return to state treasurer
Section 23:3-11 - Disposition of fees
Section 23:3-12 - Hunters' and anglers' license fund
Section 23:3-12.1 - "Shellfisheries Management Account" established
Section 23:3-12.2 - "Oyster Resource Development Account."
Section 23:3-13 - Annual returns to division
Section 23:3-14 - Penalty for failure to make return or report
Section 23:3-15 - Failure to turn over moneys by clerk, warden or magistrate; misdemeanor
Section 23:3-16 - Licenses and buttons or tags to be issued promptly
Section 23:3-17 - Registrars of licenses
Section 23:3-18 - Antedating license a misdemeanor
Section 23:3-19 - Records open to public
Section 23:3-20 - Penalty for violations of article
Section 23:3-21 - Procuring license wrongfully; penalty
Section 23:3-21.1 - Pointed, metal tipped arrow, prohibition under certain circumstances.
Section 23:3-21.2 - Shooting pointed, metal tipped arrow, prohibited under certain circumstances.
Section 23:3-22 - Subsequent convictions; penalty
Section 23:3-22.1 - Appeal to council by aggrieved person
Section 23:3-22.3 - Remedial sportsmen education program; established
Section 23:3-27 - Penalty for killing or having certain game
Section 23:3-27.1 - Wild turkey permits, fee.
Section 23:3-29 - Licenses for raising, selling game birds, animals.
Section 23:3-31 - Killing game; sale; conditions; license required
Section 23:3-33 - Shipment of killed game; regulations
Section 23:3-34 - Tag fee; rules, regulations
Section 23:3-36 - Expiration of licenses; renewal of propagating license
Section 23:3-37 - License displayed; record kept; certified copy sent to board
Section 23:3-38 - Counterfeiting tag or seal; affixing improperly
Section 23:3-41 - License to operate fishpound nets; requirement for; issuance
Section 23:3-46 - Use of shirred or purse seines, otter or beam trawls without license prohibited
Section 23:3-47 - Application for and granting of license; fee; term
Section 23:3-48 - Menhaden fishing excepted
Section 23:3-51 - License to take menhaden, prohibited takings.
Section 23:3-51.1 - Rules, regulations for taking of menhaden.
Section 23:3-51.2 - Definitions relative to taking of menhaden.
Section 23:3-51.3 - Menhaden Landing License.
Section 23:3-51.5 - Transfer of license.
Section 23:3-51.6 - Monthly report by licensee to commissioner.
Section 23:3-51.7 - Menhaden Dealer License.
Section 23:3-51.8 - Weekly report by holders of Menhaden Dealer License.
Section 23:3-51.9 - Permitted removal of fish harvested.
Section 23:3-51.10 - Requirements for licensees relative to littering, cleanup.
Section 23:3-51.11 - Annual State menhaden catch quota.
Section 23:3-51.12 - "Menhaden Marine Fisheries Management Account."
Section 23:3-51.13 - Violations, penalties.
Section 23:3-51.14 - Compliance with instructions, signals of law enforcement officer.
Section 23:3-51.15 - Modifications of requirements by commissioner.
Section 23:3-51.16 - Menhaden Personal Use and Limited Sale License.
Section 23:3-51.17 - Review of applicable laws, rules, regulations concerning menhaden.
Section 23:3-51.18 - Reporting procedures and methods.
Section 23:3-54 - Issuance of permit to take carp and suckers
Section 23:3-55 - Issuance of permit to take suckers, catfish, carp and eels
Section 23:3-56 - Penalty for noncompliance
Section 23:3-56.1 - Limited deer license, fees; exemption.
Section 23:3-56.2 - Possession, transfer and display of license; violations; penalty
Section 23:3-57 - "Special trout fishing stamp."
Section 23:3-58 - Form and issuance of stamps
Section 23:3-59 - Fee for trout stamps.
Section 23:3-60 - Altering or changing stamp
Section 23:3-61 - Effective date
Section 23:3-61.1 - "Special pheasant and quail stamp."
Section 23:3-61.3 - Fee for pheasant and quail stamps.
Section 23:3-61.4 - Violations; penalty
Section 23:3-62 - Fishing preserve waters defined
Section 23:3-63 - Fishing preserve license.
Section 23:3-64 - Taking of fish by licensee
Section 23:3-65 - Sale of fish by licensee or taking of fish by non-licensee
Section 23:3-66 - Tagging of fish, fee
Section 23:3-67 - Records; inspection; annual report
Section 23:3-68 - Use of toxins in licensed waters
Section 23:3-69 - Application of act
Section 23:3-70 - Rules and regulations by division
Section 23:3-71 - Violations; penalty
Section 23:3-72 - Necessity; fee
Section 23:3-73 - Rules and regulations
Section 23:3-74 - Violations; penalty
Section 23:3-76 - New Jersey Waterfowl Stamp.
Section 23:3-77 - Procurement; fee for New Jersey Waterfowl Stamp
Section 23:3-77.1 - Annual fee adjustment.
Section 23:3-78 - Design and form of stamp; rules and regulations
Section 23:3-79 - New Jersey Waterfowl Stamp Account
Section 23:3-80 - Violations; penalties; enforcement
Section 23:3-81 - Migratory waterfowl advisory committee
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 23:4-13 - 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 23:4-22.2 - 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 23:4-24.3 - 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 23:4-26 - 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 23:4-40 - Stealing traps or trapped animals
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 23:4-42.6 - 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.
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 - Use of dogs to track wild deer.
Section 23:4-49 - "Game bird" defined
Section 23:4-51 - Robbing nests or taking eggs prohibited; exception; penalty
Section 23:4-53 - Wild pigeons 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
Section 23:5-1 - Open season for certain fish; penalty
Section 23:5-2 - Sale of propagated trout or landlocked salmon; tagging
Section 23:5-3 - Fishing through ice
Section 23:5-7 - Minimum size of certain fish; penalty
Section 23:5-9 - Lobster restrictions
Section 23:5-10 - Trout, perch, pickerel, bass, crappie or salmon; limit
Section 23:5-11 - Fishing, except angling, prohibited; penalty; exceptions
Section 23:5-13 - Set lines in waters having certain fish prohibited; number of hooks
Section 23:5-14 - Carp or tench as bait; penalty
Section 23:5-15 - Artificial bait; number of hooks; penalty
Section 23:5-15.1 - Possession of unlawful bait; penalty
Section 23:5-16 - Taking eels in tidal waters with certain devices
Section 23:5-17 - Fishing at night for certain fish prohibited; penalty
Section 23:5-24.1 - License to fish with net; possession
Section 23:5-24.2 - Fish-netting license fees
Section 23:5-24.3 - Hauling seines; restrictions on use
Section 23:5-28 - Pollution of fresh or tidal waters, penalties
Section 23:5-29 - Shutting off, drawing off or screening waters prohibited; penalty
Section 23:5-29.1 - Fish ladder in dams required; penalty
Section 23:5-30 - Placing carp in public or private waters prohibited; penalty
Section 23:5-31 - Proceedings by persons aggrieved
Section 23:5-32 - Conviction no bar to civil action
Section 23:5-33 - Article inapplicable to certain private ponds.
Section 23:5-35.2 - Taking crabs; license; necessity; exceptions; fees; rules and regulations
Section 23:5-45.1 - Daily limit for taking striped bass.
Section 23:5-45.1a - Rules, regulations for taking, management of striped bass.
Section 23:5-45.2 - Closed season for striped bass, except Atlantic Ocean
Section 23:5-45.3 - Sale of striped bass prohibited
Section 23:5-47 - Lawful methods
Section 23:5-48 - Violations; penalties
Section 23:6-1 - Penalty for permitting; destruction of contrivances
Section 23:7-1 - Trespassing prohibited; posting notice; private notice; penalties
Section 23:7-1.1 - Littering prohibited; penalty
Section 23:7-1.2 - Archaeological findings in wildlife management area protected.
Section 23:7-2 - Arrest of offender; trial; failure to show permit
Section 23:7-3 - Causing injury to property while hunting or fishing; penalties
Section 23:7-5 - Disposition of fines collected
Section 23:7-6 - Posting by other than owner or lessee prohibited
Section 23:7-7 - Legal notices
Section 23:7-9 - Actions forbidden on property under State control; penalty.
Section 23:7A-2 - Prevention of lawful taking of wildlife prohibited.
Section 23:7A-3 - Violations, penalties
Section 23:8-1 - Acquiring real estate; management and personnel; salaries; expenses
Section 23:8-4 - Trespass on hatchery or game land; penalty
Section 23:8-6 - Disposition of fish, game and eggs; use of proceeds
Section 23:8-7 - Lands for game refuges; acquisition
Section 23:8-8 - Fencing and notices
Section 23:8-9 - Lands of board deemed refuges
Section 23:8-10 - Hunting or carrying gun in preserve prohibited
Section 23:8-11 - Violations; penalty
Section 23:8-12 - Investigations as to fish culture by United States
Section 23:8-13 - Fishing by fish cultural stations
Section 23:8A-1 - Sale, lease or exchange by commissioner; terms and conditions
Section 23:8A-2 - Title in name of state; use
Section 23:8A-3 - Disposition of proceeds from sale, lease or exchange; use
Section 23:9-3 - Waters affected by article
Section 23:9-4 - Common rights to fish
Section 23:9-5 - Game, bait and food fish defined
Section 23:9-6 - Manner and means of fishing for game fish; fine
Section 23:9-7 - Manner and means of fishing for bait fish; fine
Section 23:9-8 - Manner and means of fishing for food fish; fine
Section 23:9-10 - Use of certain nets prohibited; fine; forfeiture of appliances
Section 23:9-11 - Prohibited hours for fishing; fine; forfeiture of appliances
Section 23:9-12 - Catching food fish with lines; season for game fish; fine
Section 23:9-13 - Bag limit on game fish
Section 23:9-14 - Use of eelpots and fyke nets; fine; forfeiture of appliances
Section 23:9-15 - Use of parallel nets prohibited; fine; forfeiture of appliances
Section 23:9-16 - Size of certain fish; fine
Section 23:9-17 - Interference with or injury to nets; fine
Section 23:9-19 - Purchase, sale or possession of fish except during lawful period prohibited; fine
Section 23:9-20 - Concurrent jurisdiction of states; procedure for violations
Section 23:9-21 - Interference with officers; fine
Section 23:9-114 - License to take shad with net required
Section 23:9-115 - License fee; season; lift period from Friday noon until Saturday midnight
Section 23:9A-1 - Penalty for injury or death caused by negligent use of weapon
Section 23:9A-2 - Misuse of weapon while hunting; penalty
Section 23:10-1 - Provisions of title enforced and penalties recovered in accordance with chapter
Section 23:10-2 - Jurisdiction
Section 23:10-3 - Who may institute proceedings
Section 23:10-4 - Process and proceedings on Sunday
Section 23:10-5 - Arrest on view without warrant; interference with or resisting officer
Section 23:10-12 - Incriminating testimony
Section 23:10-14 - Commitment for nonpayment of penalties
Section 23:10-15 - Release on probation; payment of fine in installments
Section 23:10-17 - Powers and fees for service of process of certain officers
Section 23:10-19 - Use of moneys recovered for violations
Section 23:10-20 - Searches and seizures; immunity from civil suit.
Section 23:10-21 - Forfeiture of apparatus; procedure
Section 23:10-21.1 - Illegal apparatus used for fishing; confiscation
Section 23:12-1 - Assent of state to Federal act pertaining to wildlife restoration
Section 23:13-1 - Enactment, entry into Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
Section 23:13-2 - Compliance with compact; authority of division.
Section 23:13-3 - Suspension of privileges.
Section 23:13-4 - Failure of resident to comply; violations, penalties.
Section 23:13-5 - Contents of suspension notification letter.