New Jersey criminal code — chapter
Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of Title 2C: The New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice, New Jersey Statutes. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Chapter 1
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-1 — Short title; rules of construction
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-2 — Purposes; principles of construction
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-3 — Territorial applicability
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-4 — Classes of offenses
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-4.1 — Crime, disorderly persons offense, petty disorderly persons offense, construing out-of-State conviction
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-5 — Abolition of common law crimes; all offenses defined by statute; application of general provisions of the code; limitation of local government laws
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-6 — Time limitations
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-8 — Method of prosecution when conduct constitutes more than one offense
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-9 — When prosecution barred by former prosecution for the same offense
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-10 — When prosecution barred by former prosecution for different offense
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-11 — Former prosecution in another jurisdiction: when a bar
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-12 — Former prosecution before court lacking jurisdiction or when fraudulently procured by the defendant
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-13 — Proof beyond a reasonable doubt; affirmative defenses; burden of proving fact when not an element of an offense
- N.J.S.A. 2C:1-14 — Definitions
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