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N.J.S.A. 2C:28-5.2 — Penalties for violations
Current through P.L.2025, c.346, and J.R.22
Part of Chapter 28, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Full text of N.J.S.A. 2C:28-5.2
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.
Any person violating any order made pursuant to section 1 of this act may be subject to any of the following penalties:
a. He may be charged with any substantive offense defined in N.J.S. 2C:28-5, N.J.S. 2C:29-3, or N.J.S. 2C:29-4 when violation of an order constitutes violation of any provision of those statutes;
b. He may be charged with contempt of the court that made the order. No finding of contempt shall be a bar to prosecution for a substantive offense; and any sentence for a conviction of contempt may be served consecutively to any sentence imposed for the underlying substantive offense. If the court does not impose a consecutive sentence, the court shall state on the record the reason for not imposing a consecutive sentence.
L. 1985, c. 250, s. 2, eff. July 31, 1985.
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