New Jersey · statute · N.J. Stat. tit. 12 · 396 active provisions
As used in this title: a. "Board" means the board of commerce and navigation. b. "Department" means the department of commerce and navigation. c. "Director" means the director of commerce and navigation.
The board shall have suitable offices at Trenton at which all original records shall be kept. The board may for local purposes establish suboffices in other parts of the state. The board shall meet every month at Trenton at such times as its rules may prescribe, and at such other times and places within the state as in…
The board shall select a person who shall be known as the "director of commerce and navigation" . He shall be a resident of this state. In case the board cannot agree upon the selection of a director because of a tie vote therein, the governor shall sit with the board for the purpose of casting the deciding vote.
The director shall receive a salary of not more than five thousand dollars per annum. He shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office and shall serve for a term of four years, and until his successor has been appointed and qualified.
The board may create subdepartments or divisions, to take specific charge of the different lines of work. It may appoint heads or chiefs of such subdepartments or divisions.
The governor may remove the director after a hearing upon charges submitted in writing and signed by a majority of the members of the board, if he finds the charges to be true and that their nature is such that the best interests of the state demand the removal of the director.
The board shall fix the salaries of all employees of the department, subject to the provisions of Title 11, Civil Service, except where otherwise provided by statute.
The officers and employees in the employ of the former boards and commissions enumerated in sections 12:2-13 of this title, and retained in their respective offices and positions at the time such boards and commissions became consolidated with the department, shall be continued as employees of the department unless rem…
The board shall succeed to and exercise all the powers and perform all the duties formerly exercised and performed by or conferred upon the board of riparian commissioners, the department of inland waterways, the inspectors of power vessels, and the New Jersey harbor commission, with which last-named commission the New…
The board shall have full control and direction of all state projects and work relating, in any way whatsoever, to commerce and navigation, except such work as is conferred upon other boards, commissions, officers or agencies not included within the provisions of this chapter.
The board shall make such rules and regulations governing the work of the department, the conduct of its employees and the performance of its duties as may be necessary to promote the interests of the state in all matters committed to its charge, and may alter or amend the same as it shall become necessary or advisable…
Whenever the Division of Planning and Development in the Department of Conservation and Economic Development acquires the land and constructs a public basin, or leases berthing space for boat anchorage to the public, a reasonable charge shall be made for said space or anchorage by the division, and revenue so collected…
The director shall: a. Be subject to the rules and regulations of the board; b. Exercise general supervision over all projects relating to the commerce and navigation within and about the state, and all work in any way relating thereto; c. Be charged with the enforcement of all laws relating to the powers and duties of…
The director and any person authorized by him so to do may, without fee or hindrance, enter upon, examine and survey all waterways, riparian lands and proposed waterways in and about the state.
The board by its presiding officer, each of its committees by the chairman thereof, and the director, may administer oaths and examine witnesses in any part of the state in any matter relating to the powers and duties of the department, and to the commerce and navigation of the state. For this purpose the board may iss…
The heads or chiefs of the several subdepartments shall codify the laws relating to or concerning their respective departments. Such codification shall set forth, in a clear and comprehensive manner, the act creating the department, followed, in their proper order, by all existing amendatory and supplementary acts rela…
The board may purchase or acquire by gift, grant, or by condemnation, for the purpose of furthering the commercial interests of this state, lands not to exceed one thousand feet in width from Raritan bay, at Morgan, in the county of Middlesex, across the state to the Delaware river, at Bordentown, in the county of Burl…
The board may acquire from the federal government, by gift, grant, purchase or in any other lawful manner, the Barnegat lighthouse and curtilage, situate near Barnegat City, and provide for the preservation of the same.
P.L.1864, c. 391, p. 681 (Rev.1877, pp. 981, 982, s.s. 1 to 6; C.S. pp. 4383, 4384, s.s. 1 to 7), entitled "An Act to ascertain the rights of the state and of the riparian owners in the lands lying under the waters of the bay of New York, and elsewhere in the state," approved April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred…
The bulkhead line or lines of solid filling and pier lines in the tidewaters of the Hudson river, New York bay and Kill von Kull, lying between Enyard's dock, on the Kill von Kull, and the New York state line, so far as they have been recommended and reported to the legislature by the commissioners appointed under the…
It shall not be lawful to fill in with earth, stones or other solid material, in the tidewaters of the Hudson river, New York bay and Kill von Kull, beyond the bulkhead line or lines of solid filling by section 12:3-2 of this title adopted, fixed and established, laid down and exhibited on the aforesaid maps; and it sh…
The repeal of the act entitled "An act to authorize the owners of lands under tidewaters to build wharves in front of the same," approved March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one (L.1851, p. 335), as to the tidewaters of this State below the line of mean high tide, by section three of the act entitled…
12:3-5. In case any person or corporation who by any legislative act, is a grantee or licensee, or has such power or authority, or any of his, her or their representatives or assigns shall desire a paper capable of being acknowledged and recorded, made by and in the name of the State of New Jersey, conveying the land m…
No grant hereafter made, extending beyond the line of high-water mark, shall be in force or operation as to so much thereof as extends below said line of high-water mark, until the grantee or grantees shall have paid into the treasury of the state such compensation or rentals, or secured to the state such payment or re…
12:3-7. If any person or persons, corporation or corporations, or associations, shall desire to obtain a grant for lands under water which have not been improved, and are not authorized to be improved, under any grant or license protected by the provisions of R.S.12:3-2 to R.S.12:3-9, it shall be lawful for the Tidelan…