30:8-6 - Penalty for violations of section 30:8-5 - New Jersey Statutes

30:8-6.  Penalty for violations of section 30:8-5
    If any sheriff, undersheriff, jailer or other officer, or minister aforesaid, shall offend against the provisions of section 30:8-5 of this Title,  every such offender shall, besides being punished on conviction for a misdemeanor, forfeit and pay double damages to the party aggrieved, to be recovered, with costs, by a civil action in any court having cognizance thereof.

     Amended by L.1971, c. 2, s. 15, eff. Jan. 15, 1971.