New Jersey legal term
Commit in New Jersey Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New Jersey legislative session
In New Jersey criminal law, “Commit” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New Jersey criminal code.
What does “Commit” mean in New Jersey criminal law?
"Commit" means to transfer legal custody to an institution. f. (N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-22)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Hazing
- Riot; failure to disperse
- Abandonment, neglect of elderly person, disabled adult; third degree crime
- Acceptance or receipt of unlawful benefit by public servant for official behavior
- Aiding suicide
- Bribery in official and political matters
- Burglary
- Carjacking defined
- Certain persons not to have weapons or ammunition
- Crime of cyber-harassment
- Crime of gang criminality; "criminal street gang" defined; grading of offense
- Crime of official deprivation of civil rights
Related terms in the same statutes
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