ASSEMBLY, No. 2288
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman L. GRACE SPENCER
District 29 (Essex and Union)
Assemblyman ALBERT COUTINHO
District 29 (Essex and Union)
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Rice
SYNOPSIS
Establishes crime of entering into certain restricted airport areas.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As amended by the Senate on October 18, 2010.
An Act concerning trespass on restricted airport property and amending N.J.S.2C:18-1 and N.J.S.2C:18-3.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.2C:18-1 is amended to read as follow:
2C:18-1. In this chapter, unless a different meaning plainly is required:
[a. "structure"] “Structure” means any building, room, ship, vessel, car, vehicle or airplane, and also means any place adapted for overnight accommodation of persons, or for carrying on business therein, whether or not a person is actually present 1[;] .1
[b. “utility company property”] “Utility Company Property” means property; (1) owned by a public utility, as defined in R.S.48:2-13, or by a municipality, county, water district, authority or other public agency, and (2) which is used for the purpose of providing electric, gas or water utility service.
“Operational area” means any portion of a public airport, from which access by the public is prohibited by fences or appropriate signs, and includes runways, taxiways, all ramps, cargo ramps and apron areas, aircraft parking and storage areas, fuel storage areas, maintenance areas, and any other area of a public airport used or intended to be used for landing, takeoff or surface maneuvering of aircraft1[; and] .1
“Sterile 1[passenger holding]1 area” means 1[any] a1 portion of 1[a public] an1 airport 1[designated by appropriate signs as an area into which access is conditioned upon the prior inspection of persons and property in accordance with the approved Federal Aviation Administration security requirements] , as set forth in an airport security program approved by the Transportation Security Administration, that provides passengers access to boarding aircraft and to which the access generally is controlled by the Transportation Security Administration, an aircraft operator pursuant to 49 C.F.R. part 1544, or an air carrier pursuant to 49 C.F.R. part 1546, through the screening of persons and property1.
(cf: P.L.2009, c.283, s.1)
2. N.J.S.2C:18-3 is amended to read as follows:
2C:18-3. a. Unlicensed entry
of structures. A person commits an offense if, knowing that he is not licensed
or privileged to do so, he enters or surreptitiously remains in any research
facility, structure, or separately secured or occupied portion thereof, or in
or
upon utility company property, or in the sterile 1[passenger holding]1 area or
operational area of an airport in violation of federal security requirements.
An offense under this subsection is a crime of the fourth degree if it is
committed in a school or on school property. The offense is a crime of the
fourth degree if it is committed in a dwelling. An offense under this section
is a crime of the fourth degree if it is committed in a research facility,
power generation facility, waste treatment facility, public sewage facility,
water treatment facility, public water facility, nuclear electric generating
plant or any facility which stores, generates or handles any hazardous chemical
or chemical compounds. An offense under this subsection is a crime of the
fourth degree if it is committed in or upon utility company property. An
offense under this subsection is a crime of the fourth degree if it is
committed in the sterile 1[passenger holding]1 area or
operational area of an airport in violation of federal security requirements.
Otherwise it is a disorderly persons offense.
b. Defiant trespasser. A person commits a petty disorderly persons offense if, knowing that he is not licensed or privileged to do so, he enters or remains in any place as to which notice against trespass is given by:
(1) Actual communication to the actor; or
(2) Posting in a manner prescribed by law or reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders; or
(3) Fencing or other enclosure manifestly designed to exclude intruders.
c. Peering into windows or other openings of dwelling places. A person commits a crime of the fourth degree if, knowing that he is not licensed or privileged to do so, he peers into a window or other opening of a dwelling or other structure adapted for overnight accommodation for the purpose of invading the privacy of another person and under circumstances in which a reasonable person in the dwelling or other structure would not expect to be observed.
d. Defenses. It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that:
(1) A structure involved in an offense under subsection a. was abandoned;
(2) The structure was at the time open to members of the public and the actor complied with all lawful conditions imposed on access to or remaining in the structure; or
(3) The actor reasonably believed that the owner of the structure, or other person empowered to license access thereto, would have licensed him to enter or remain, or, in the case of subsection c. of this section, to peer.
(cf: P.L.2009, c.283, s.3)
3. This act shall take effect immediately.