23:3-3 - Youth hunting license - New Jersey Statutes

23:3-3  Youth hunting license.

23:3-3.  The division may, in its discretion, issue a youth hunting license to a citizen of the United States above 10 years and under 16 years of age, who has successfully completed a course in gun or bow and arrow safety, as the case may be, as required in accordance with this title.  Persons above 10 years and under 14 years of age may obtain the license only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian.  The license shall authorize a licensee above 10 years and under 14 years of age to hunt only when accompanied by a holder, above 21 years of age, of a regular resident's or nonresident's firearm or bow and arrow license, as the case may be.  This license shall be void after December 31 of the year in which the licensee becomes 16 years of age.

Amended 1971, c.125, s.1;1971, c.381, s.1;1982, c.180, s.1;1991, c.286, s.3;1999, c.282, s.9.