New Jersey § 2a:42a-8

Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 2a:42a-8, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 2a:42a-8.

a. An owner, lessee or occupant of premises on which a conservation restriction is

held by the State, a local unit, or a charitable conservancy and upon which premises

subject to the conservation restriction public access is allowed, or of premises upon

which public access is allowed pursuant to a public pathway or trail easement held

by the State, a local unit, or a charitable conservancy, and regardless of whether

public notice is provided, shall be liable to a person injured on the premises only

for: (1) willful or malicious failure to guard, or to warn against, a dangerous condition,

use, structure or activity; or (2) injury caused by acts of negligence on the part of the owner, lessee or occupant

of the premises to any person where permission to engage in sport or recreational

activity on the premises was granted for a consideration other than the consideration,

if any, paid to the landowner by the State, local unit, or charitable conservancy;

or (3) injury caused by acts of gross negligence on the part of the owner, lessee, or

occupant of the premises to any person entering or using the land for a use or purpose

unrelated to public access purposes. b. For the purposes of this section: “ Charitable conservancy ” means the same as that term is defined pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1979, c. 378

( C.13:8B-2 ), or a “qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organization” as defined pursuant to section

3 of P.L.1999, c. 152 ( C.13:8C-3 ); “ Conservation restriction ” means the same as that term is defined pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1979, c. 378

( C.13:8B-2 ); “ Local unit ” means the same as that term is defined pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1979, c. 378

( C.13:8B-2 ), or a “local government unit” as defined pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1999, c. 152 ( C.13:8C-3 ); “ Premises ” means any land in the State (1) regardless of location or characterization or classification

of location including but not limited to land characterized or classified as being

located in an urban, suburban, rural, semi-rural, populous, developed, undeveloped,

unpopulous, residential, nonresidential, commercial, or industrial area, and (2) regardless

of whether or not the land is improved or maintained in a natural condition, or used

as part of a commercial enterprise; and “ Sport or recreational activity ” means a “sport and recreational activity” as defined pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1968,

c. 73 ( C.2A:42A-2 ).

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