New Jersey statute
N.J.S.A. 2C:24-8 — Abandonment, neglect of elderly person, disabled adult; third degree crime
Current through P.L.2025, c.346, and J.R.22
Part of Chapter 24, Colorado Revised Statutes.
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Full text of N.J.S.A. 2C:24-8
Statutory text current through the P.L.2025, c.346, and J.R.22. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.
1. a. A person having a legal duty to care for or who has assumed continuing responsibility for the care of a person 60 years of age or older or a disabled adult, who abandons the elderly person or disabled adult or unreasonably neglects to do or fails to permit to be done any act necessary for the physical or mental health of the elderly person or disabled adult, is guilty of a crime of the third degree. For purposes of this section "abandon" means the willful desertion or forsaking of an elderly person or disabled adult.
b. A person shall not be considered to commit an offense under this section for the sole reason that he provides or permits to be provided nonmedical remedial treatment by spiritual means through prayer alone in lieu of medical care, in accordance with the tenets and practices of the elderly person's or disabled adult's established religious tradition, to an elderly person or disabled adult to whom he has a legal duty to care for or has assumed responsibility for the care of.
c. Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude or limit the prosecution or conviction for any other offense defined in this code or in any other law of this State.
L.1989,c.23,s.1; amended 1999, c.8.
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What degree of offense is abandonment, neglect of elderly person, disabled adult; third degree crime in New Jersey?
Abandonment, neglect of elderly person, disabled adult; third degree crime is a crime of the third degree in New Jersey under N.J.S.A. 2C:24-8.
Which New Jersey statute covers abandonment, neglect of elderly person, disabled adult; third degree crime?
Abandonment, neglect of elderly person, disabled adult; third degree crime is governed by N.J.S.A. 2C:24-8 (Abandonment, neglect of elderly person, disabled adult; third degree crime).
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