12:5-2 - Preventing encroachment on water front - New Jersey Statutes

12:5-2.  Preventing encroachment on water front
    The Department of Environmental Protection may, by appropriate action in any  court, prevent the encroachment or trespass upon the water front of any of the  navigable waters of this State or bounding thereon, or upon the riparian lands  of this State, and compel the removal of any such encroachment or trespass, and  restrain, prevent and remove any construction, erection or accretion injurious  to the flow of any such waters, which may be detrimental to the proper  navigation thereof and the maintenance and improvement of commerce thereon.

     Amended by L.1975, c. 232, s. 7.