Chapter 2C:1
- Section 2C:1-1 - Short title; rules of construction
- Section 2C:1-2 - Purposes; principles of construction
- Section 2C:1-3 - Territorial applicability
- Section 2C:1-4 - Classes of offenses
- Section 2C:1-4.1 - Crime, disorderly persons offense, petty disorderly persons offense, construing out-of-State conviction
- Section 2C:1-5 - Abolition of common law crimes; all offenses defined by statute; application of general provisions of the code; limitation of local government laws
- Section 2C:1-6 - Time limitations
- Section 2C:1-8 - Method of prosecution when conduct constitutes more than one offense
- Section 2C:1-9 - When prosecution barred by former prosecution for the same offense
- Section 2C:1-10 - When prosecution barred by former prosecution for different offense
- Section 2C:1-11 - Former prosecution in another jurisdiction: when a bar
- Section 2C:1-12 - Former prosecution before court lacking jurisdiction or when fraudulently procured by the defendant
- Section 2C:1-13 - Proof beyond a reasonable doubt; affirmative defenses; burden of proving fact when not an element of an offense
- Section 2C:1-14 - Definitions