New Jersey Statutes
§ 23:4-40 — Stealing traps or trapped animals
New Jersey § 23:4-40
JurisdictionNew Jersey
Title 23FISH AND GAME, WILD BIRDS AND ANIMALS
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Bluebook
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 23:4-40 (2026).
Text
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.
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Bluebook (online)
New Jersey § 23:4-40, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/nj/23/23%3A4-40.