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New Jersey Duty to Inform Police Laws (2026)

Conditional: New Jersey has a proactive duty to inform, new as of December 2022: N.J.S.A. 2C:58-4.4(b) requires a permit holder who is stopped or detained while carrying in public, or traveling with a handgun in a vehicle, to immediately disclose that they are carrying — or that a handgun is stored in the vehicle — and to display the carry permit as well.

New Jersey has a proactive duty to inform, new as of December 2022: N.J.S.A. 2C:58-4.4(b) requires a permit holder who is stopped or detained while carrying in public, or traveling with a handgun in a vehicle, to immediately disclose that they are carrying — or that a handgun is stored in the vehicle — and to display the carry permit as well. Failing to disclose is a fourth-degree crime; failing to display starts as a disorderly-persons offense with a $100 fine.

Official source: pub.njleg.state.nj.us →

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