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New Jersey regulations: details

Copied from New Jersey agencies’ own posted copies of their rule chapters (some through Internet Archive captures of them) and, for Titles 1, 2, 3A, 4A, 5, 5A, 6A and 10A, Cornell LII’s copy (www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/new-jersey; date not stated), not the official Code, on October 20, 2026 (agency copies), November 5, 2026 (Title 10A), November 6, 2026 (Title 3A), November 7, 2026 (Title 5A) and November 5 to 7, 2026 (Titles 1, 2, 4A, 5 and 6A). Check the official page before you rely on a rule.

What is here

New Jersey: copies of regulation chapters that New Jersey agencies post on their own websites, read by GLO on 2026-10-20 (some from Internet Archive captures of those pages, each shown with its capture date). This is a small part of the New Jersey Administrative Code and is NOT the official Code: the official N.J.A.C. is published by LexisNexis for the Office of Administrative Law, and GLO does not read it. Most other titles are not in the agency copies; Titles 1, 2, 3A, 4A, 5, 5A, 6A and 10A come from another source, below, and Titles 5 and 6A are in both. Each agency-copy section shows the as-of its own file prints (Community Affairs: 'adopted and published through the New Jersey Register' with its volume, number and date; Consumer Affairs: its 'Last Revision Date'; Environmental Protection: its 'Date last amended' where the file prints one (1,768 of its 2,304 served sections carry one); the Pinelands plan: its cover's 'Updated: 10/10/2025'; Education's files print no date, so only the date GLO read the file is shown). The agencies say these are courtesy copies that may differ from the official text and that the official version governs. 7,561 sections are served; 1,502 sections are held, each by number with its reason; 18 files could not be read. Nothing here says a rule is current or still in force; check the official Code.
Release 1: 7,561 sections, from 158 files that New Jersey agencies post on their own websites (5,537 of the sections read from Internet Archive captures of those files, each shown with its capture date), copied on October 20, 2026. By agency: Consumer Affairs 3,233, Environmental Protection 2,304, Education 1,029, Community Affairs 903 and the Pinelands Commission 92.
Of the 9,063 sections our readers found, 1,502 are held and not shown, each with its reasons: mainly sections whose caption says reserved, repealed or expired (368), sections the two readers read differently, tables among them (311), sections whose lettered paragraphs do not run in order as read (277). A held section comes back as held, with its reasons and no text. Held is not absent.
18 files could not be read at all (Agriculture 5, Casino Control 3, Consumer Affairs 5, Environmental Protection 4 and Health 1). Their sections are not in this copy; each file is listed by name with its reason.
Release 3, Title 10A (Corrections, with the State Parole Board’s chapters), from another source, never mixed with the agency copies: Cornell’s Legal Information Institute’s copy at www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/new-jersey, fetched by GLO on November 5, 2026. 1,481 of the 1,687 sections its Title 10A contents pages link are shown. 43 saved pages are held by name: 39 carry a second (compare) version that our two readers read differently, 3 print a table, and 1 is [Reserved]. 163 linked sections were not saved (161 answered with no text block, 2 met a network error); LII lists 162 of them as Reserved. Release 7 (November 7, 2026) re-read Title 10A’s saved pages with the fixed reader: in 9 sections, history notes whose two sentences had run together now have a space between them; nothing else changed.
Release 4, Title 3A (Children and Families), from the same Cornell LII copy, in its own tables, never mixed with Title 10A or the agency copies, fetched by GLO on November 6, 2026. 811 of the 866 sections its Title 3A contents pages link are shown, each with the history notes its page prints (1,177 notes). 17 saved pages are held by name: 10 print a table, 5 are [Reserved], and 2 are headed (Repealed) and print no text. 38 linked sections were not saved (each answered with no text block); LII lists 31 of them as Reserved and the other 7 as Recodified or Repealed.
Release 5, Title 5A (Military and Veterans’ Affairs), from the same Cornell LII copy, in its own tables, never mixed with Titles 10A or 3A or the agency copies, fetched by GLO on November 7, 2026. 106 of the 110 sections its Title 5A contents pages link are shown, each with the history notes its page prints (65 notes on 65 sections; the other 41 pages print none). 1 saved page is held by name because it prints a table. 3 linked sections were not saved: 2 answered with no text block and LII lists them as Reserved; the third, 5A:4-2.5, failed because the connection dropped during GLO’s fetch. That is a gap in our fetch, not a missing page.
Release 6, Titles 1 (Administrative Law), 2 (Agriculture), 4A (Civil Service), 5 (Community Affairs) and 6A (Education), from the same Cornell LII copy, each in its own tables, fetched by GLO from November 5 to 7, 2026. 5,468 sections are shown, each with the history notes its page prints: Title 1 349, Title 2 1,173, Title 4A 253, Title 5 2,574 and Title 6A 1,119. 837 entries are held by name with their reasons: saved pages our readers did not clear (tables, pages our two readers read differently, [Reserved] pages and pages with no text), sections LII links that our fetch did not save, and 117 appendix links and 5 chapter or subchapter pages, which this release lists by name in their chapter and does not show.
Titles 5 and 6A are also in the agency copies (Community Affairs and Education post them). The two copies are never mixed. For a Title 5 or 6A section the agency copy answers first, as before, and the answer names Cornell LII’s copy of the same section; where the agency copy only holds a section, LII’s text is shown with the agency’s hold named beside it. Either copy can be asked for by itself.
Titles 1, 2, 3A, 4A, 5, 5A, 6A and 10A are Cornell LII’s copy, date not stated. They are not the official N.J.A.C. LII prints no currency or effective date for a section; its only words on the matter are “State regulations are updated quarterly”. Each section shows the history notes its page prints, in order and as printed (in Title 10A, 1,566 notes on 1,230 sections). We show the government text only, never LII’s markup. Credit: LII / Legal Information Institute (www.law.cornell.edu).
The agencies call these courtesy copies. Consumer Affairs: “The text of rules and regulations and notices of proposal and adoptions in PDF format provided on this website by the Division are unofficial courtesy copies, which may differ from the official text. ... if any discrepancies exist between the text on this website and the official version, the official version will govern.” Environmental Protection: “THIS IS A COURTESY COPY OF THESE RULES. ALL OF THE DEPARTMENT'S RULES ARE COMPILED IN TITLE 7 OF THE NEW JERSEY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.” Community Affairs’ printouts print “Copyright © <year> by the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law”, the publisher’s assertion, shown as printed. Those are their words, not ours. Education’s files print no as-of date.
Look a section up by its citation, as in N.J.A.C. 13:45A-26D.2, N.J.A.C. 10A:5-6.1, N.J.A.C. 3A:51-6.1, N.J.A.C. 5A:6-2.1 or N.J.A.C. 4A:1-1.1. A long section comes back in pages, and nothing is cut. A chapter such as N.J.A.C. 13:45A lists its sections: shown and held, and the files that could not be read.

How we checked it

In Release 2, GLO restored 14 marks in 4 sections (apostrophes, quotation marks, a delta and check boxes) that its readers had kept as a symbol font’s codes or letters. A mark in a font this rule does not name may still show as a letter.
Two separate readers, written with no shared code, read every file: one from the PDF’s text laid out by page, one from the PDF’s words rebuilt into lines. A section is shown only where both agree on every word of its caption and text and of its History and as-of lines.
A section is held when its caption says it is reserved or repealed, when the two readers differ or only one found it, when its paragraph letters do not run in order, when lines stand between its head and its text or after where it stops, when its file has no contents list to check, when a newer copy is held or its copies differ, when its page is printed in two columns, or when a line read as a head is not one.
Before release, we drew 20 shown sections at random, by agency, and read each one against its file’s own pages: its caption, its first and last words, its History and its as-of. All 20 matched.
For Title 10A, two readers with no shared code read every saved page (one from the page’s structure, one by pattern over the same bytes); a section is shown only where both agree on every field. We drew 20 shown Title 10A sections at random and an AI reader checked each against its saved page: heading, every paragraph, the citation line and every history note. All 20 matched.
For Title 3A, the same two readers read every saved page, and we drew 20 more shown sections at random; a new AI reader checked each against its saved page the same way. All 20 matched.
For Title 5A, the same two readers read every saved page, and we drew 20 shown sections at random; a new AI reader checked each against its saved page the same way. All 20 matched.
For Titles 1, 2, 4A, 5 and 6A, the same two readers read every saved page, changed in one way: a line break inside a history note now reads as a space, so two sentences no longer run together. We drew 20 shown sections of each title at random, and a new AI reader checked each against its saved page. All 100 matched.
One AI system wrote the readers, ran every check and made every reading and ruling, with no second reader.

What it can't tell you

Whether a rule is in force, valid or current, or is good law.
Whether the official Code says the same. We do not read it.
How current Cornell LII’s copy of Titles 1, 2, 3A, 4A, 5, 5A, 6A and 10A is. LII does not say.
What the held sections say, or what the files we could not read hold.
Whether anything changed after a file was printed, captured or copied.

Known gaps

This is a small part of the Code: the agency copies and Titles 1, 2, 3A, 4A, 5, 5A, 6A and 10A. Most other titles are not here.
In Title 10A, 43 saved pages are held and 163 linked sections were not saved; each is listed by name with its reason.
In Title 3A, 17 saved pages are held and 38 linked sections were not saved; each is listed by name with its reason.
In Title 5A, 1 saved page is held and 3 linked sections were not saved (one of them, 5A:4-2.5, only because our fetch lost its connection); each is listed by name with its reason.
In Titles 1, 2, 4A, 5 and 6A, 837 entries are held or not saved (Title 5 484, Title 6A 179, Title 2 109, Title 4A 38 and Title 1 27), among them 117 appendix links and 5 chapter or subchapter pages listed by name only; each is listed by name with its reason.
1,502 sections are held, not shown; the largest group is sections whose caption says reserved, repealed or expired (368).
Environmental Protection prints its “Date last amended” in only some files (1,768 of its 2,304 shown sections carry one).
Lines are shown as the file prints them; a word split at a line’s end stays split.
Keyword search reads only the shown sections. Held sections have no text here and never match. Each Cornell LII title is searched in its own list, never ranked together with another or with the agency copies.

Notes you may see on an entry

A held section: “GLO holds this section and does not show its text, because its two readers or the release check did not clear it. Its reasons are listed by name.”
A Cornell LII section not saved: “Cornell LII links this section, but GLO’s fetch did not save its page. It is listed by name with LII’s link words; GLO has no copy.”
A Title 3A page with no text: “The page prints a heading (both such pages say Repealed) but no section text. GLO writes none; it is listed by name.”
A Title 5A page our fetch lost: “5A:4-2.5: the connection dropped while GLO fetched the page, so GLO has no copy. It is a gap in our fetch, not a missing page.”
A section in both copies: “Titles 5 and 6A are in the agency copies and in Cornell LII’s copy. The agency copy answers first, and the answer names the other copy. The two are never mixed.”
An appendix or chapter page: “Cornell LII links it, but this release shows sections only. It is listed by name in its chapter; no text is shown.”
A file not read: “No reader could take any section from this file. It is listed by name with its reason; its sections are not in this copy.”
An Internet Archive copy: “This section was read from an Internet Archive capture of the agency’s file; the capture date is shown.”
A section not in this copy: “Not in this copy of New Jersey’s regulations, neither shown nor held. That never means the section does not exist.”

Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every New Jersey result (source=nj).