{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-53-1-1","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 53:1-1","heading":"Department continued;  executive head","body":"The department of state police, created and established by an act entitled \"An act creating a department of state police, providing for the appointment of a superintendent thereof, together with the officers and men who shall constitute the force, defining their powers and duties, and making an appropriation for the expenses connected therewith,\"  passed March twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (L.1921, c. 102, p. 167), as amended and supplemented, is continued.  The executive and administrative head of such department shall be a superintendent of state police.","path":["TITLE 53 STATE POLICE"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"c9a5b424740af1e66e73c68ff259bfba3924b09ec747cc695fa9e0602e1ada55","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-52-40-21","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-53-1-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}