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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 50, SHELLFISHERIES - POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT, SHELLFISHERIES COUNCIL, LEASING, AND PLANTING
Chapter 4: Dredge, drag, scrape prohibited on certain lands; rules, regulations.
Section: 50:4-3: Protection of leased lands; exception.
50:4-3. No person shall dredge upon, throw, cast or drag an oyster dredge, use oyster tongs, rakes, forks or other instruments or appliances used for catching shellfish, or tread for shellfish, upon any of the leased lands of this State lying under the tidal waters of the Atlantic seaboard or tributaries thereof, above Cape May Point, other than land or ground for which the person or the person's employer then holds a lease from the council. A lessee may, however, authorize another validly licensed individual to harvest shellfish on the lease using authorized gear during the authorized season.
Amended 1953, c.262, s.2; 1979, c.199, s.62; 1983, c.219, s.2; 2007, c.338, s.85.
This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2012-09-26 13:37:55.
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