N.J. Stat. § 48:3-36
Every agent authorized to sell tickets or other evidence entitling the holder to travel on any railroad, steamboat or other public conveyance, shall have a certificate from the owner or persons operating the public conveyance setting forth the authority of the agent to make such sale, signed by the officer whose name is signed upon the tickets or coupons which such agent may sell.
The agent shall exhibit the certificate to any person desiring to purchase a ticket, or to any officer of the law who may so request and shall keep the certificate conspicuously posted in his office.
Any person not possessed of such certificate of authority, who shall sell or transfer any coupon or part of any ticket or other evidence entitling the holder to travel on any such public conveyance, whether the same be situated, operated or owned within or without this state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
N.J.S. § 48:3-36