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NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-24.4 (2021)
2021 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.

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.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-24.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-24.5 - Prohibition of computer-assisted remote hunting; definitions.

23:4-24.5 Prohibition of computer-assisted remote hunting; definitions.  1. a. No person shall engage in computer-assisted remote hunting or provide or operate facilities for computer-assisted remote hunting in the State. b. As used in this act, "computer-assisted remote hunting" means the use of a computer via an Internet connection or any other device or equipment capable of establishing an Internet connection, or equipment or software capable of being used with an Internet connection, to remotely access and control the aiming and discharge of a firearm, bow and arrow, or any other weapon to hunt any game bird, game animal, or fur-bearing animal in the State, and "facilities for computer-assisted remote hunting" means real property and improvements on the property associated with hunting, including hunting blinds, offices, and rooms equipped to facilitate computer-assisted remote hunting via an Internet connection. c. No provision of this section shall be construed to restrict the use of equipment or devices, approved by the Fish and Game Council, by properly licensed hunters in the act of hunting in the field who require, because of a disability or other physical condition, the assistance of certain equipment or devices that may or may not employ a computer or computerized parts in order to hunt in the field. L.2006, c.7, s.1; amended 2017, c.131, s.64.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-24.6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-24.6 - Violation, penalties.

23:4-24.6 Violation, penalties.  2. Any person who violates the provisions of this act shall be liable to a civil penalty of up to $500 for each offense, to be collected in a civil action by a summary proceeding under the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.). If the violation is of a continuing nature, each day during which it continues shall constitute an additional, separate and distinct offense. L.2006,c.7,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-25 - Dogs; running at large; training; carrying firearms into woods or fields; exceptions

23:4-25. Dogs; running at large; training; carrying firearms into woods or fields; exceptions  The owner, lessee or custodian of a dog found running at large in the woods or fields, shall be liable to a penalty of $20.00 for each offense; provided, however, that the occupant of a farm may permit his dog to run at large on the land he occupies, except during the open season for deer. The owner, lessee or custodian of a dog may go into the woods or fields with the dog without firearms for the purpose of exercising or training it in daylight at any time, except during the open season for deer, provided that on State public shooting and fishing grounds or wildlife management areas such exercising or training may be restricted to designated areas, and raccoon dogs may be trained between the hours of sunset and sunrise for a period of 4 weeks prior to the last week preceding the opening of the raccoon season unless prescribed otherwise by the Fish and Game Code. The penalty for violation of this section shall be $20.00 for each offense. Any person going into the woods or fields with a firearm, except during the open seasons for the taking of birds and animals as prescribed by law or by the Fish and Game Code, shall be liable to a penalty of $20.00 for each offense; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the killing of crows, yellow-headed redwinged, bi-colored redwinged, tri-colored redwinged, Rusty and Brewer's blackbirds, cowbirds, grackles, woodchuck and vermin other than birds, which may be taken in any manner and at any time of the year, when in the act of destroying poultry, crops or property. Amended by L.1946, c. 103, p. 326, s. 1; L.1947, c. 319, p. 1043, s. 1; L.1948, c. 448, p. 1810, s. 50; L.1950, c. 86, p. 154, s. 3; L.1970, c. 316, s. 1, eff. Dec. 21, 1970; L.1979, c. 212, s. 1, eff. Sept. 28, 1979.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-26 - Field days allowed; license

23:4-26. Field days allowed; license  Nothing in this Title, or in any law supplementary thereto, or in any provision of the State Fish and Game Code, shall be construed to prohibit a regularly organized or incorporated association from holding what is commonly known as field trials or field days in this State for the handling and working of dogs upon game birds or animals. Dogs as defined in this section shall include hounds, bird dogs, and retrievers. The associations shall, however, first obtain a license from the division to hold the field trial or field day. The penalty for violation of this section shall be $20.00. Amended by L.1968, c. 448, p. 1811, s. 51; L.1970, c. 316, s. 2, eff. Dec. 21, 1970.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-28 - Bringing game into state; penalty

23:4-28. Bringing game into state; penalty  When by the laws of any other state or country it is lawful to take out of the confines thereof any game, whether the same is fowl or animal, that game may be brought within this state, but nothing herein contained shall permit the sale or exposure for sale of any such game. Cottontail rabbits, Belgian hares and jack rabbits legally killed in another state may be brought into this state at any time for possession, sale and consumption. A person violating this section shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for each fowl or animal so sold or exposed for sale.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-29 - Taking game from state prohibited; penalty; exceptions

23:4-29. Taking game from state prohibited; penalty; exceptions  No person shall remove or attempt to remove from this State an animal or bird, other than deer, protected by the provisions of the State Fish and Game Code, or, in the absence of any provision in said code to the contrary, protected by this Title. A nonresident holding a nonresidents' and aliens' hunting license may, however, in any one day, remove from the State the number of animals or birds that may be taken under the provisions of the State Fish and Game Code in one day by one person, or, in the absence of such provisions in said code, the number of animals or birds that may be taken under the laws of this State in one day by one person, but not more birds or animals may be removed by one person in one calendar week than the number that may be taken under the provisions of the State Fish and Game Code in two days by one person, or, in the absence of such provisions in said code, than the number that may be taken under the laws of this State in two days by one person. No removal shall be made unless the animals or birds are exposed to open view. A person violating this section shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each animal or bird removed or sought to be removed. This section shall not apply to common carriers carrying from beyond the confines of this State in unbroken packages to some point beyond the confines of this State any such protected animal or bird, nor shall it apply to English or ring-necked pheasants, mallard, black or wood ducks, Canada geese, ruffed grouse, rabbits, squirrels and quail, properly tagged, raised on game preserves, the owners or lessees of which are licensed by the division. Amended by L.1948, c. 448, p. 1812, s. 53, eff. April 1, 1949.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-30 - Application of law to game from without state

23:4-30. Application of law to game from without state  Except as otherwise provided in this Title, when the possession or sale of fowl or game is prohibited by this Title, or by the provisions of the State Fish and Game Code, reference is had equally to such fowl or game coming from without the State as to that taken within the State. Amended by L.1948, c. 448, p. 1813, s. 54.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-32 - Possession of gun evidence of violation

23:4-32. Possession of gun evidence of violation  The possession in this state of a shotgun or rifle at any place outside of buildings by an unnaturalized, foreign-born person, shall be conclusive proof of a violation of section 23:4-31 of this title, and shall render him liable to the penalty fixed thereby.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-33 - Gun in house a violation

23:4-33. Gun in house a violation  The presence of a shotgun or rifle in a room, house, building, tent, or camp of any description, within this state, occupied or controlled by an unnaturalized, foreign-born person, shall be prima facie evidence that the gun is owned or controlled by the person occupying or controlling the property in which the gun is found, and shall render him liable to the penalty imposed by section 23:4-31 of this title.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-34 - Notice of seizure of weapon; sale; proceeds

23:4-34. Notice of seizure of weapon; sale; proceeds  Notice of the seizure of all guns, made for violation of section 23:4-31 of this title, shall be sent to the board, at Trenton, by the officer making the seizure, immediately after the rendition of judgment in the prosecution brought for violation thereof. The gun so seized shall be sold, at the discretion of the board, and the proceeds of the sale shall be paid to the board for its use.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-35 - Search for gun; search warrant; right of entry

23:4-35. Search for gun; search warrant; right of entry  The board, protector and wardens may, when they suspect the concealment of guns of the kind mentioned in section 23:4-31 of this title by an unnaturalized, foreign-born person, apply to a justice of the peace in this state, who, upon receipt of proof made by affidavit of the probable cause for believing in the concealment, shall issue a search warrant, and cause a search to be made in any place. In execution of the warrant, the officer may, after demand and refusal, cause any building, room, inclosure or car to be broken open and entered, and any closet, chest, locker, box, trunk, crate, basket, package or receptacle to be opened and its contents examined.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-36 - Gunning under influence of liquor or drugs prohibited; penalty

23:4-36. Gunning under influence of liquor or drugs prohibited; penalty  No person shall go into the woods or fields at any time with a gun or firearm when under the influence of a drug or intoxicating liquor, under a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense. Upon the conviction of a person for violating this section, the license to hunt and fish of that person issued to him in accordance with article one of chapter three of this Title (s. 23:3-1 et seq.), shall become void, and the municipal court or other court before which the conviction is had, shall take the license from the person so convicted, mark it "revoked" and send it to the board. If the conviction is reversed on appeal the license shall be restored to the defendant. Any license to hunt or fish issued to a person convicted of a violation of this section during the calendar year in which the offense occurred shall be null and void. Amended by L.1953, c. 23, p. 450, s. 2, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-37 - Protection of fur-bearing animals; taking by traps

23:4-37. Protection of fur-bearing animals; taking by traps  No person shall, by moonlight or with the aid or by use of any lamp, lantern or artificial light, shoot or kill with a rifle of any kind or description, or any firearm or shotgun, a mink, muskrat or otter in this State, or take or attempt to take the same except by means of a trap or disturb or destroy any muskrat lodge or nesting chamber. Amended by L.1939, c. 69, p. 113, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-38.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-38.2 - Trap of conibear or killer type; restriction on use

23:4-38.2. Trap of conibear or killer type; restriction on use  No trap of the conibear or killer type shall be used in trapping unless such trap is submerged under water in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Environmental Protection. L.1971, c. 405, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-38.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-38.3 - Violations; penalty

23:4-38.3. Violations; penalty  Any person violating the provisions of section 3 of this act shall be subject to a fine of not more than $50.00 for each offense and to the forfeiture of his license to trap. L.1971, c. 405, s. 4. Amended by L.1984, c. 37, s. 9.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-39 - Mink, muskrat or otter; open season; destruction of muskrats damaging dams or canal banks; state owned grounds

23:4-39. Mink, muskrat or otter; open season; destruction of muskrats damaging dams or canal banks; state owned grounds  No person shall hunt, pursue, take or trap a mink or otter in this State at any time, except during such period as provided by the State Fish and Game Code, or, in the absence of such provision in said code, except from six o'clock post meridian, on November thirtieth in each year to March fifteenth of the following year. No person shall hunt, pursue, take or trap a muskrat in this State at any time, except from six o'clock post meridian, on November thirtieth in each year to March fifteenth of the following year. This section shall not prevent the destruction at any time of muskrats which are damaging dams or canal banks by the owners or agents thereof, or the setting of traps after three o'clock post meridian on November thirtieth in each year. No person shall hunt, pursue, take or trap a mink, muskrat or otter on any of the State owned public shooting and fishing grounds, at any time, or by any method, except during such period and by such method as provided by the State Fish and Game Code, or in the absence of such provision in said code, except from six o'clock post meridian, on November thirtieth in each year to March fifteenth of the following year. Amended by L.1939, c. 69, p. 113, s. 2; L.1939, c. 293, p. 721, s. 1; L.1948, c. 209, p. 1009, s. 1; L.1948, c. 448, p. 1813, s. 55; L.1952, c. 114, p. 453, s. 1, eff. May 5, 1952.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-40 - Stealing traps or trapped animals

23:4-40. Stealing traps or trapped animals  No person shall take, carry away or unlawfully appropriate or purloin, with intent to steal: a. A trap, the property of another, set along, by or in any of the public or private ditches, streams, ponds or waters in this state for the purpose of catching skunk, mink, muskrat or otter; or b. A skunk, mink, muskrat or otter, dead or alive, out of or from the trap of another person in this state.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-41 - Penalties

23:4-41. Penalties  Except as otherwise specifically permitted by this article, any person hunting, pursuing, taking or trapping a mink, muskrat, or otter in this State at any time except during the period designated therefor by the State Fish and Game Code, or, in the absence of such provision in said code, except during the period designated therefor in this article, or violating any other provision of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and whether or not he has been criminally prosecuted for the violation, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each offense. Amended by L.1948, c. 448, p. 1814, s. 56; L.1952, c. 114, p. 454, s. 2, eff. May 5, 1952.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-42 - Killing deer, season, permit to kill on cultivated land.

23:4-42 Killing deer, season, permit to kill on cultivated land.  23:4-42. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, no person shall hunt for, pursue, shoot at, take, kill, wound or attempt to take, kill or wound a deer of any description prohibited by the provisions of the State Fish and Game Code, or hunt for, pursue, shoot at, take, kill, wound or attempt to take, kill or wound any wild deer at any time except during the period permitted by the State Fish and Game Code, or kill in any one year more than the number of deer permitted by the State Fish and Game Code. b. The owner or lessee of any land, a portion of which is under cultivation, or the authorized agents of the owner or lessee having on their person a written permit issued by the division and countersigned by the owner or lessee may kill any deer that may be found on that land during the period covered by the permit. If requested by the owner or lessee of the land, the period covered by the permit issued to the owner or lessee, or authorized agent thereof, shall also include the entire months of February and March. The carcass of a deer killed under such permit shall become the property of the division and may be removed and disposed of in the manner it directs. For the purpose of this section, "land under cultivation" shall mean (1) pasture fields that are seeded with cultivated grass or that have been so seeded within the prior 12 months, or (2) land on which planted crops are growing or were growing within the prior 12 months. The division may require the owner or lessee of the land to provide evidence of deer damage within the prior 12 months as a condition of issuing a permit pursuant to this subsection. Amended 1947, c.239, s.1; 1948, c.448, s.57; 1957, c.193, s.1; 1967, c.158, s.1; 1999, c.327.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-42.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-42.1 - Killing of deer causing crop damage permitted, conditions

23:4-42.1 Killing of deer causing crop damage permitted, conditions  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.23:4-45 or any other law, rule, regulation, or provision of the State Fish and Game Code to the contrary, whenever a permit is issued by the State to a person to kill deer causing crop damage on land under cultivation pursuant to R.S.23:4-42, it shall be lawful for the permittee or authorized agent thereof, for the purposes authorized by the permit and only while on the land or lands under cultivation which are owned or leased by that permittee , but not on or along any public highway adjacent thereto, and for which the permit is issued, to: a. Kill either sex deer at any time of day or night , except that the Fish and Game Council may impose such restrictions thereon as may be necessary to protect the general public; b. Transport, possess, have in the permittee's or agent's control, or keep firearms authorized pursuant to R.S.23:4-44 uncased, unloaded, and outside the trunk while in or on a motor vehicle or any other kind of vehicle; c. Utilize an illuminating device or devices, including but not limited to a spotlight, flashlight, floodlight, or headlight, whether portable or fixed to a motor vehicle or any other kind of vehicle, to locate and stun deer; and d. Be assisted by the use of a driver for the motor vehicle or other kind of vehicle, and by a person or persons operating the illuminating device or devices, none of whom shall be required to possess a firearms purchaser identification card while providing such assistance. L.1997,c.123,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 23:4-42.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 23 - Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals|Section 23:4-42.2 - Annual report to include number of deer killed pursuant to permits

23:4-42.2 Annual report to include number of deer killed pursuant to permits  2. The Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife shall include in its annual report the number of deer killed pursuant to permits issued for the purposes set forth in R.S.23:4-42. L.1997,c.123,s.2.