SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2022

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: NOVEMBER 17, 1997

      The Senate Judiciary Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 2022 (1R).

      Title 2C, the "New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice" enacted in 1979, codified New Jersey's criminal laws. This codification was accomplished largely through the repeal of many sections of Title 2A. However, several sections of law setting criminal penalties remain in Title 2A. Similarly, when the "Comprehensive Drug Reform Act of 1986" was enacted many sections of Title 24 were repealed and incorporated into Title 2C. A few drug related crimes, however, remain in Title 24.

      The New Jersey Law Revision Commission examined the criminal statutes still found in Titles 2A and 24 with a view toward completing the task of codifying all criminal statutes in Title 2C. The bill implements the Commission's recommendations.

      This bill incorporates into Title 2C those Title 2A and Title 24 provisions with continuing validity. Provisions that are obsolete or superseded are repealed. Title 2A and Title 24 provisions that are regulatory in nature are reenacted for compilation in other more appropriate titles. The bill revises some of the language of the provisions that are re-enacted but generally follows the substantive meaning of existing law.