Legal Research Home > New Jersey Lawyer > Shellfish > New Jersey Shellfish Laws Section 50:1-34. Permission to plant or lodge foreign oysters; applications information on tag or billing.

    No oysters, native to, or brought directly or indirectly, from any foreign country or any other state shall be planted or lodged in the waters of this State without written permission issued by the commissioner, after notice to the council, for each separate shipment. Application for such permission shall be made in writing, and shall state:

    a. The species of such oysters;

     b. The location from which they were, or are to be, immediately taken;

     c. The source from which they were originally obtained; and

     d. The country to which their kind is native.

     The same information shall be shown upon a tag attached to, or upon the billing accompanying each shipment upon its arrival in this State.

     Amended by L.1979, c. 199, s. 24, eff. Sept. 19, 1979.

Last modified: October 22, 2006