New Jersey legal term
Owner in New Jersey Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New Jersey legislative session
In New Jersey criminal law, “Owner” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New Jersey criminal code.
What does “Owner” mean in New Jersey criminal law?
"Owner" means (a) the person who owns the sounds fixed in any master sound recording on which the original sounds were fixed and from which transferred recorded sounds are directly or indirectly derived; or (b) the person who owns the rights to record or authorize the recording of a live performance. (3) "Audiovisual work" means any work that consists of a series of related images which are intrinsically intended to be shown by the use of machines or devices such as projectors, viewers, or electronic equipment, together with accompanying sounds, if any, regardless of the nature of the materi (N.J.S.A. 2C:21-21)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Degree of crime; penalties; restitution; liability to owner of property
- Resisting arrest, eluding officer
- Shoplifting
- Causing fear of unlawful bodily violence, crime of third degree; act of graffiti, additional penalty
- Certain payments for referral to certain facilities, fourth degree crime
- Consumer products; unauthorized writing, offense
- Creating a hazard
- Defacement of private property, crime of fourth degree; act of graffiti, additional penalty
- Discarding hypodermic needle or syringe
- Misapplication of entrusted property and property of government or financial institution
- Misconduct by corporate official
- Receiving a stolen motor vehicle
Related terms in the same statutes
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