New Jersey Environmental Law Index

TOPIC INCLUDED SECTIONS

Index
NJSA Title 4: Agriculture and Domestic Animals Chs. 1C, 8, 17, 24, 27
NJSA Title 12: Commerce and Navigation ALL (Chs. 1-13)
NJSA Title 13: Conservation and Development ALL (Chs. 1-20)
NJSA Title 20: Eminent Domain ALL (Chs. 1-4)
NJSA Title 23: Fish and Game, Wild Birds and Animals ALL (Chs. 1-13)
NJSA Title 26: Health and Vital Statistics Ch. 2C
NJSA Title 40: Municipalities and Counties (select provisions, not Chs. 9, 10A, 10B, 10D,
indexed by short title) 12, 14, 14A, 14B, 27,
29, 32, 33A, 33B, 34,
35, 37, 37A, 37B, 27C,
37D, 55D, 56A, 57, 58,
60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66,
66A, 68
NJSA Title 40A: Municipalities and Counties (select provisions, not Chs. 12, 12A, 14, 26A,
indexed by short title) 27, 31
NJSA Title 50: Shellfish ALL (Ch.s 1-5)
NJSA Title 58: Waters and Water Supply ALL (Chs. 1-31)
NJAC Title 7: Environmental Protection ALL (Chs. 1-70)

New Jersey Environmental Laws Index

TOPIC STATUTE (NJSA title) REGULATION (NJAC

title)
Abandoned or Sunken Vessels 12:7C-1 to -20
Disposition Law (see Vessels)
Agriculture, Dept. of 4 2
Agriculture Retention and 4:1C-11 to -48
Development Act
Aid for Urban Environmental 13:1H-8 to -11
Concerns Act (see also
Environmental Aid Act)
Air Pollution 26:2C-1 to 58 7:27; 7:27A - 7:27D
Air Pollution Control Act (see 26:2C-1 to -25.2
Air Pollution)
Air Pollution Emergency Control 26:2C-26 to -36
Act (see Air Pollution)

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Aquaculture (see New Jersey 4:27 2:89
Aquaculture Development Act)
Batteries (see also Electronics 13:1E-99.94 to -99.118;
Waste Management Act, Dry 13:1E-198 to -212
Cell Battery Management Act)
Battleship New Jersey 13:15A
Beach Protection/Bulkheads 12:6A-1 to 5; 40:14-1 to -24
Blue Acres 13:8C-1 to 57
Boats (see Vessels)
Boat Ownership Certificate Act 12:7A-1 to -29
(see Vessels)
Brownfield and Contaminated 58:10B-1 to -31
Site Remediation Act (see Site
Remediation)
Butterflies (Adopt a Monarch 13:1B-15.162 to -15.177/
Butterfly Waystation Act/ 13:1B-15.170 to -15.177
Milkweed for Monarchs Act)
CAFRA (see Coastal Area
Facility Review Act)
Canals (see Delaware & Raritan
Canal or Morris Canal)
Clean Communities Program Act 13:1E-213 to -227
Clean Ocean Act (see also Spill 58:10-23.25 to -23.34
Compensation and Control Act,
Water Supply)
Clean Ocean Education Act (see 58:10A-52 to -55
Water Pollution, Ocean Sludge
Dumping Elimination Act,
Ocean Dumping Enforcement
Act, Clean Ocean Act)
Coastal Area Facility Review 13:19-1 to -21
Act (see Coastal Areas)
Coastal Areas (Coastal Zone 13:19-1 to -51 7:7
Management Rules) (see Coastal
Area Facility Review Act, New
Jersey Adopt a Beach Act, Shore
Tourism and Ocean Protection
from Offshore Oil and Gas Act)
Coastal Wetlands (see Wetlands 13:9A 7:7
Act of 1970)
Commerce & Navigation, Dept 12:1-1 to -2-22
of
Comprehensive Regulated 13:1E-48.1 to -48.25
Medical Waste Management Act
(see Solid Waste Management)

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Condemnation (see Eminent
Domain)
Conserve Wildlife Matching 39:3-33.11 7:5
Grants
Conservation, Dept of 13:1A
Conservation & Development, 13:1
Dept of
Conservation & Economic 13:1B
Development, Dept of
Conservation Restrictions (note 13:8B-1 to 9
that many statutes contain
provisions for conservation/deed
restrictions)
Council on Environmental 13:1DD
Quality
County & Municipal Water 40A:31
Supply
County Agencies 40 subtitle 2
County Environmental Health 7:1H
Standards of Administrative
Procedure and Performance
County Historical Commissions 40:33B
County Improvement Authorities 40:37A
County Parks 40:37
County Utilities (see Municipal
& County Utilities)
Dams (see Safe Dam Act, Water 58:4-1 to -14 7:20; 7:24A
Supply)
Delaware and Raritan Canal 13:13-1 to -12.12; 13:13A-1 7:45
to -15
Delaware and Raritan Canal 13:13A-1 to -15
State Park Law of 1974
Deleterious Substance 23:5-28
Discharges of Petroleum and 7:1E
Other Hazardous Substances
Discharge/Disposal of Waste at 58:10-23.25 to -23.34
Sea (see Clean Ocean Act,
Ocean Pollution)
Discharge into Water (see also 58:10-23.1 to -23.24
New Jersey Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System)
Dredging 12:6A-1 to -5; 12:6B-1 to -9
Drinking Water 58:12A 7:10; 7:10A
Dry Cell Battery Management 13:1E-99.59 to -99.81
Act (see Solid Waste
Management)

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Economic Development 13:16-1 to -18
Assistance (see State Economic
Development Assistance Act of
1966)
Electronic Waste Management 13:1E-99.94 to -99.118
Act (see Solid Waste
Management, Mercury Switch
Removal Act of 2005)
Eminent Domain 20
Eminent Domain Act of 1971 20:3-1 to -50
(see Eminent Domain)
Energy & Environmental 13:1D-134 to -137
Technology Verification
Program
Endangered and Nongame 23:2A-1 to -16
Species Conservation Act
Endangered Plant Species List 13:1B-15.151 to -15.161 7:5C
Act
Environmental Aid Act (see also 13:1H-1 to -7
Aid for Urban Environmental
Concerns Act)
Environmental Infrastructure 7:22
Environmental Measurements 7:18
Environmental Protection, Dept 13:1D
of
Environmental Protection Act of 13:1B-71
1970, Dept of
Farmland Assessment Act 54:4-23 18:15
Fish & Game Code 13:1B-29 to -41
Fish & Game Commissioners, 23:2-1 to -15
Bd. Of
Fish & Wildlife, Div of 13:1B-23 to -28.1; 23 7:25
Fish/Fishing/Fishing License 23:2B-1 to -22; 23:3-1 to -81;
23:5-1 to 5-48; 23:6-1;
23:8A; 23:9-1 to -126
Floods (see Flood Hazard Area 58:16A-1 to -103; 40A:27 7:13
Control Act, State Flood Control
Facilities Act)
Flood Hazard Area Control Act 58:16A-50 to -103
(see Floods)
Foreign Trade Zones 12:13-1 to -6
Forestry (see Parks & Forestry) 7:3
Forest Fire Prevention and 13:9-44.1 to -44.10
Control Act

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Forest Fire Service (see Forest 13:9-1 to -52
Fire Prevention and Control Act,
Prescribed Burn Act
Freshwater Wetlands Protection 13:9B-1 to -30 7:7A
Act
Game 13:4-1 to -64
Game Farms/Hatcheries 23:8-1 to 13
Garden State Preservation Trust 13:8C-1 to -42
Act (see also Preserve New
Jersey Act)
General Practice & Procedure 7:1D
Geological Survey 13:10-1 to 7
Global Warming Response Act 26:2C-37 to -58
(see also Air Pollution)
Global Warming Solutions Fund 7:27D
(see also Air Pollution)
Grace Periods 13:1D-125 to -133
Green Acres (see New Jersey 13:8A-1 to -56; 13:8C 7:36
Green Acres Land Acquisition
Act of 1961, New Jersey Green
Acres Land Acquisition Act of
1971, New Jersey Green Acres
Land Acquisition and Recreation
Opportunities Act)
Ground Water Quality 7:9C
Hackensack Meadowlands (see 13:17-1 to -106; 13:17A
Hackensack Meadowlands
Reclamation and Development
Act, Meadowlands Conservation
Trust Act, Hackensack
Meadowlands Transportation
Planning District Act)
Hackensack Meadowlands 13:17-1 to -86
Reclamation and Development
Act (see also Hackensack
Meadowlands)
Hackensack Meadowlands 13:17-95 to -106
Transportation Planning District
Act (see also Hackensack
Meadowlands)
Harbor Masters 12:6-4 to -7; 12:9-1 to -13
Hatcheries (see Game Farms)
Hazardous Discharge Site 58:10B-1 to -31
Remediation
Hazardous Liquids, 58:10-46 to -50
Transportation of

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Hazardous Waste (see Industrial 13:1K-1 to -42 7:26G
Site Recovery Act, Toxic
Catastrophe Prevention Act, see
also Solid Waste Management)
Hazardous Waste Facilities (see
Major Hazardous Waste
Facilities Siting Act)
Highlands Water Protection and 13:20-1 to -35 7:38; 7:70
Planning Act
Hindering Lawful Taking of 23:7A-1 to -3
Wildlife
Historic New Bridge Landing 13:15B-1 to -5
Park Commission
Historic Preservation (Historic 13:8B-1 to -9 7:4
Places, see New Jersey
Conservation Restriction and
Historic Preservation Restriction
Act)
Hunting 23:3-1 to -81; 23:4-1 to -64; 7:25
23:6-1; 23:8A-1 to -3; 23:9A
Individual Subsurface Sewage 7:9A
Disposal Systems
Industrial Classification System 13:1D-138 to -143
Industrial Site Recovery Act (see 13:1K-1 to -18 7:26B
also Toxic Catastrophe
Prevention Act)
Infrastructure 58:11B; 58:30 7:22
Injury while hunting 23:9A
Inland Waterways (see also 12:6-1 to 20)
Navigation)
Interstate Environmental Appendix A
Commission
Interstate Wildlife Violator 23:13-1 to -6
Compact
Laboratories 7:18
Lake Hopatcong Protection Act 58:4B-1 to -13
(see Water Supply)
Landfills (see Solid Waste 13:1E-100 to -177 7:1I
Management, Sanitary Landfill
Facility Closure and
Contingency Fund Act,
Municipal Landfill Site Closure,
Remediation and Redevelopment
Act)
Licensed Site Remediation 58:10C-1 to -29 7:26I
Professionals (LSRP)

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Local Aid (see Environmental
Aid Act, Aid for Urban
Environmental Concerns Act)
Local Environmental Agencies 13:1H-1 to -11
Local Historians 40:10A
Local Parks 40:12-1 to -30
Major Hazardous Waste 13:1E-49 to -91
Facilities Siting Act (see Solid
Waste Management)
Marine Fisheries Management 23:2B-1 to -22
and Commercial Fisheries Act
Marine Life Preservation 13:11A-1 to -5
Meadowlands (see also 13:1B-13.1 to -13.15
Hackensack Meadowlands)
Meadowlands Conservation 13:17-87 to -94
Trust Act (see also Hackensack
Meadowlands)
Medical Waste (see Solid Waste 13:1E-48.1 to -48.25
Management)
Mercury Switch Removal Act 13:1E-99.82 to -99.93
(see Solid Waste Management)
Mining 13:1J-1 to -6
Misuse of firearm while hunting
(see Injury while hunting)
Morris Canal 13:12-1 to -29
Municipal & County Utilities 40:14B-1 to -78
(see also Municipal Utilities)
Municipal Forestry 40:58
Municipal Land Use 40:55D
Municipal Landfill Site Closure, 13:1E-116.1 to -176
Remediation, and
Redevelopment Act
Municipal Parks 40:61
Municipal Sewer 40:63; 40A:26A
Municipal Utilities 40:62
Municipal Solid Waste 40:66A
Natural Areas Systems 13:1B-15.4 to -15.12a10 7:5A
Natural Areas System Act 13:1B-15.12a to -15.12a10
Natural Heritage Program 13:1B-15.146 to -15.150
Navigation 12:4-1 to -22
Negligent Hunting (see Injury
while hunting)
New Jersey Adopt a Beach Act 13:19-22 to -37
(see Coastal Areas)

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New Jersey Aquaculture 4:27-1 to -25
Development Act
New Jersey Boat Act of 1962 12:7-34.46 to -34.55
(see Vessels)
New Jersey Conservation 13:8B-1 to -9
Restriction and Historic
Preservation Restriction Act
New Jersey Green Acres Land 13:8A-1 to -18
Acquisition Act of 1961 (see
also Green Acres)
New Jersey Green Acres Land 13:8A-19 to -34
Acquisition Act of 1971 (see
also Green Acres)
New Jersey Green Acres Land 13:8A-35 to -55
Acquisition and Recreation
Opportunities Act
New Jersey Pollutant Discharge 58:10; 58:10A 7:14A
Elimination System (NJPDES)
(see also Water Pollution)
New Jersey Shade Tree and 13:1L-17.1 to -17.9
Community Forestry Assistance
Act
New Jersey Statewide 13:1E-99.32 to -99.43
Mandatory Source Separation
and Recycling Act
New Jersey Trails System Act 13:8-30 to -44.2
New Jersey Wastewater 58:27-1 to -18
Treatment Privatization Act (see
Wastewater Privatization)
New Jersey Wastewater 58:27-19 to -27
Treatment Public-Private
Contracting Act (see Wastewater
Privatization)
New Jersey Water Supply 58:1B-1 to -25
Authority Act (see Water
Supply)
New Jersey Water Supply Law 58:22-1 to -19
of 1958 (see Water Supply Law
of 1958)
New Jersey Water Supply 58:26-1 to -18
Privatization Act (see Water
Supply, Water Supply
Privatization)
New Jersey Water Supply 58:26-19 to -27
Public-Private Contracting Act

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(see Water Supply, Water
Supply Privatization)
New Jersey Waterfowl Stamp 23:3-75 to -81
Act (see Hunting)
New Jersey Wild and Scenic 13:8-45 to -63
Rivers Act
Noise (see also Power Vessel 13:1G-1 to -23 7:29
Noise Control Act)
Noise Control Act of 1971 13:1G-1 to -23
Nongame Species (see
Endangered & Nongame
Species)
Ocean Dumping Enforcement 58:10A-47 to -51
Act (see Ocean Sludge Dumping
Elimination Act, Clean Ocean
Act, Clean Ocean Education Act,
Water Pollution)
Ocean Sludge Dumping 58:10A-44 to -46
Elimination Act (see Clean
Ocean Act, Clean Ocean
Education Act,
Discharge/Disposal of Waste at
Sea, Water Pollution)
Oil & Natural Gas Wells 13:1M-1 to -18
Open Lands Management Act 13:1B-15.133 to -15.145
Operators, of Wastewater & 58:11-64 to -73 7:10A
Water Supply
Organization of Dept 13:1A; 13:1B; 13:1D 7:1
Oysters (see also Shellfish) 7:25A
Park Service Code 7:2
Parks & Forestry (see also State 13:1B-15.100 to -15.177; 7:2; 7:3
Park and Forestry Resources 13:1L-1 to -36; 13:8-1 to -68
Act)
Passaic Valley Sewage District 58:14-1 to -37
(see also Water Pollution)
Pesticide (see also Pesticide 13:1F-1 to -33 7:30
Control Act, School Integrated
Pest Management Act)
Pesticide Control Act of 1971 13:1F-1 to -17
Petroleum Pipelines across Fresh 58:10-24 to -35
Water Streams
Percolating Water (see 58:4A
Subsurface & Percolating Water)
Permits (Construction) 13:1D-29 to -34; 13:1D-101 7:1L
to -124
Pilots 12:8-1 to -53

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Pinelands (see Pinelands 13:18A-1 to -58 7:50
Protection Act, Pinelands
Development Credit Bank Act)
Pinelands Development Credit 13:18A-30 to -58
Bank Act (see also Pinelands)
Pinelands Protection Act (see 13:18A-1 to -29
also Pinelands)
Pollution Prevention 13:1D-35 to -69 7:1K
Pollution Prevention Act 13:1D-35 to -50
Port Wardens 12:10-1 to -15
Power Vessel Noise Control Act 12:7-23.1 to -23.6
(see Vessels)
Prescribed Burn Act 13:9-44.11 to -44.17
Preservation (see Historic 13:8A, 13:8B, 13:8C
Preservation, Green Acres,
Garden State Preservation Trust
Act, Preserve New Jersey Act)
Preserve New Jersey Act 13:8C-43 to -57
Private Well Testing Act 58:12A-26 to -37
Public Hunting/Fishing Grounds 23:8A-1 to -3
Public Playgrounds 40:12
Radioactive Waste (see Solid 13:1E-177 to -191 7:28
Waste Management, Regional
Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Facility Siting Act)
Rahway River 58:1A-18 to -26
Intergovernmental Cooperation
Committee Act (see Water
Supply)
Realty Improvement Sewerage 58:11-23 to -48
and Facilities Act
Recreation, Bureau of 13:1B-15.1 to -15.3
Recreation Commissioners 40:12-1 to -30
Recreation Examiners, Bd of 13:1C
Recycling (see Solid Waste 13:1E-96.2 to -99.32 7:26A
Management, Recycling
Enhancement Act, New Jersey
Statewide Mandatory Source
Separation Recycling Act)
Recycling Enhancement Act 13:1E-96.2 to -96.8
Redevelopment 40A:12A
Refuges 23:8-7 to -11
Regional Low-Level Radioactive 13:1E-177
Waste Disposal Facility Siting
Act

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Relocation Assistance Act (see 20:4-1 to -22
Eminent Domain)
Remediation (see Site
Remediation)
Reservoirs (see Dams)
Right to Farm Act 4:1C-1 to -10.4
Right to Know 7:1G
Register of Historic Places (see 7:4
Historic Preservation)
Riparian (see also floods) 12:3-1 to -71
Round Valley 58:20-1 to -8
Safe Dam Act (see Dams, Water 58:4-1 to -14
Supply)
Safe Drinking Water Act (see 58:12A-1 to -25
Drinking Water, Private Well
Testing Act)
Sanitary Landfill Facility 13:1E-100 to -116
Closure and Contingency Fund
Act
Scenic Rivers (see New Jersey
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act)
School Integrated Pest 13:1F-19 to -33
Management Act
Sewage (see also Water 58:11; 58:14; 58:25 7:9A
Pollution, Realty Improvement
Sewerage and Facilities Act)
Sewerage Authorities 40:14A-1 to -45; 40A:26A
Sewerage Facilities Aid Program 58:25-1 to -10
Sewerage Infrastructure 58:25-23 to -33
Improvement Act
Shade Trees (see also New 40:64
Jersey Shade Tree and
Community Forestry Assistance
Act)
Shellfish (see also Oysters and 50; 58:24-1 to -14; 4:27; 8:18 7:12; 2:89; 8:13
Aquaculture)
Shore Tourism and Ocean 13:19-47 to -51
Protection from Offshore Oil and
Gas Act (see Coastal Areas)
Site Remediation (see 58:10B-1 to 31; 58:10C-1 to 7:26B; 7:26C; 7:26D;
Brownfield and Contaminated 29 7:26E; 7:26F; 7:26G;
Site Remediation Act, Site 7:26H; 7:26I
Remediation Reform Act, Spill
Compensation and Control Act)
Site Remediation Reform Act 58:10C-1 to -29
Sludge 7:14C

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Smart Growth 13:1D-144 to -149
Soil Conservation 4:24 2:90
Soil Erosion and Sediment 4:24-39 to -55
Control Act
Solid Waste Management 13:1E-1 to -227 7:26; 7:26H
Solid Waste Management Act 13:1E-1 to -48
South Jersey Port Corporation 12:11A-1 to -23; -24 to -24 is
Act dissolution
Spill Compensation and Control 58:10-23.11 to -23.24 7:1J
Act (see also Solid Waste
Management, Water Supply)
Spruce Run 58:21-1 to -9
State Economic Development 13:16-1 to -18
Assistance Act of 1966
State Flood Control Facilities 58:16A-1 to -17
Act (see Floods)
State Park and Forestry 13:1L-1 to -17
Resources Act (see also Parks &
Forestry)
State Park Service Code (see 7:2
Park Service Code)
State Trails System (see Trails)
State Transfer of Development 4:1C-49 to -55
Rights Bank Act
Stormwater Management 58:10; 58:10A-1 to 73 7:8
Striped Bass Act (see Fishing) 23:5-43 to -48
Subsurface & Percolating Waters 58:4A
Subsurface Sewage Disposal 7:9A
Surface Water Quality 7:9B
Taxation of Recreation and 7:35
Conservation Land Owned by
Nonprofit
Tidelands (see Riparian)
Timber 4:17 7:2; 7:3
Toxic Catastrophe Prevention 13:1K-19 to -42 7:31
Act (see also Industrial Site
Recovery Act)
Toxic Packaging Reduction Act 13:1E-99.44 to -99.58
(see Solid Waste Management)
Trails (see New Jersey Trails 13:8-1 to -44.2 7:2-12.1 to 12.5; 7:5D
System Act)
Tree Experts, Bd of 45:15C 7:3A
Trespass 23:7-1 to -9
Underground Storage 58:10-35.1 to -35.4

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Underground Storage Tank 58:10A-37.1 to -37.23
Finance Act (see Water
Pollution)
Underground Storage Tanks 58:10A 7:14B
Unlawful Taking of Fish/Game 23:6-1
Vessels (see Power Vessel Noise 12:7 to 7E
Control Act, New Jersey Boat
Act of 1962, Boat Ownership
Certificate Act, Abandoned or
Sunken Vessels Disposition
Law)
Veterans’ Services 13:1B-16 to -22.1
Waiver of Dept Rules 7:1B
Waste Control Act 13:1I-1 to -10
Wastewater Operators (see 7:10A
Water Supply and Wastewater
Operators’ Licensing Act)
Wastewater Treatment (see New 58:27
Jersey Wastewater Treatment
Privatization Act, New Jersey
Wastewater Treatment Public-
Private Contracting Act)
Water Infrastructure Protection 58:30-1 to -9
Act
Water Policy 13:1B-47 to -51
Water Pollution 58:10; 58:10A; 58:25 7:8; 7:14; 7:14A; 7:14D
Water Pollution Control Act 58:10A-1 to -35
Water Privatization 58:26; 58:27
Water Quality (see Water 58:11A-1 to -16; 58:31-1 to - 7:9A; 7:9B; 7:9C; 7:9D;
Quality Planning Act, Water 7 7:9E; 7:14C; 7:14D; 7:15;
Quality Accountability Act) 7:18; Appendix A
Water Quality Accountability 58:31-1 to -7
Act
Water Quality Planning Act 58:11A-1 to -16
Water Supply 58 7:1A
Water Supply Allocation Permits 7:19
Water Supply and Wastewater 58:11-64 to -73 7:10A
Operators’ Licensing Act
Water Supply Authorities 7:11
Water Supply Districts 58:5
Water Supply Law of 1958 58:22-1 to -19
Water Supply Loan Program 7:1A
Water Supply Management Act 58:1A-1 to -17

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Water Supply Operators (see 7:10A
Water Supply and Wastewater
Operators’ Licensing Act)
Water Supply Privatization (see 58:26
New Jersey Water Supply
Privatization Act, New Jersey
Water Supply Public-Private
Contracting Act)
Water Transmission Facilities 58:5-31 to -58
Act (see Water Supply)
Water Usage 7:20A
Waterfront Development 12:5-1 to -11 7:7
Watershed Protection and 58:29-1 to -8
Management Act of 1997
Waterways Improvement 40:14-1 to -24
Wells (water, not oil & gas) (see 58:4A; 58:12A 7:9D; 7:9E
Private Well Testing Act)
Wetlands Act of 1970 (see also 13:9A-1 to -10 7:7
Coastal Wetlands)
Wetlands, Coastal (see Wetlands 13:9A-1 to -10 7:7
Act of 1970, also Coastal Areas)
Wetlands, Freshwater (see 13:9B-1 to -30 7:7A
Freshwater Wetlands Protection
Act)
Wetlands Mitigation Council 13:9C-1 to -4
Wild and Scenic Rivers (see
New Jersey Wild and Scenic
Rivers Act)
Wildlife Conservation 23:2A-1 to -15
Wildlife Sanctuaries 13:8-64 to -68

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