13:9A-2 - Authority of commissioner to adopt, modify or repeal orders regulating, altering or polluting coastal wetlands; coastal wetlands defined - New Jersey Statutes

13:9A-2.  Authority of commissioner to adopt, modify or repeal orders regulating, altering or polluting coastal wetlands;  coastal wetlands defined
    The Commissioner may from time to time, for the purpose of promoting the public safety, health and welfare, and protecting public and private property, wildlife and marine fisheries, adopt, amend, modify or repeal orders regulating, restricting or prohibiting dredging, filling, removing or otherwise  altering, or polluting, coastal wetlands.  For the purposes of this act the  term  "coastal wetlands"  shall mean any bank, marsh, swamp, meadow, flat or  other low land subject to tidal action in the State of New Jersey along the  Delaware bay and Delaware river, Raritan bay, Barnegat bay, Sandy Hook bay,  Shrewsbury river including Navesink river, Shark river, and the coastal inland  waterways extending southerly from Manasquan Inlet to Cape May Harbor, or at  any inlet, estuary or tributary waterway or any thereof, including those areas  now or formerly connected to tidal waters whose surface is at or below an  elevation of 1 foot above local extreme high water, and upon which may grow or  is capable of growing some, but not necessarily all, of the following:  Salt  meadow grass (Spartine patens), spike grass (Distichlis spicata), black grass  (Juncus gerardi), saltmarsh grass (Spartina alterniflora), saltworts  (Salicornia Europaea, and Salicornia bigelovii), Sea Lavendar (Limonium  carolinianum), saltmarsh bulrushes (Scirpus robustus and Scirpus paludosus var.  atlanticus), sand spurrey (Spergularia marina), switch grass (Panicum  virgatum), tall cordgrass (Spartina pectinata), hightide bush (Iva frutescens  var. oraria), cattails (Typha angustifolia, and Typha latifolia), spike rush  (Eleocharis rostellata), chairmaker's rush (Scirpus americana), bent grass  (Agrostis palustris), and sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata).  The term  "coastal wetlands"  shall not include any land or real property subject to the jurisdiction of the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission pursuant to  the provisions of P.L.1968, chapter 404, sections 1 through 84 (C. 13:17-1  through C. 13:17-86).

     L.1970, c. 272, s. 2, eff. Nov. 5, 1970.