58:5A-3. Rules and regulations; penalties

The commission or the governing body of such municipality, as the case may be, may make, alter, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the protection, regulation and control of its watershed properties, reservoirs, pumping stations, dams, pipelines, buildings, machinery and structures, and all other properties and things contained therein, and may prescribe penalties for the violations of such rules and regulations, either by imprisonment in a county jail or in any place provided by a municipality for the detention of prisoners, for any term not exceeding ninety days, or by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00), or both. The proposed rules and regulations shall first be approved by the Department of Law and Public Safety of the State of New Jersey, and in the case of a municipality, by the district water supply commission, if any, of the water supply district within which said watershed properties are situated, as well, and, when so approved, they shall be advertised once a week for two weeks in at least two newspapers circulating in the county or counties in which said rules and regulations are to apply and shall not be adopted until a public hearing shall have first been held. Such rules and regulations shall not take effect until ten days after their adoption and after their publication once a week for two weeks in at least two newspapers circulating in the county or counties in which said rules and regulations are to apply.

L.1952, c. 355, p. 1145, s. 3.