New Jersey lawmakers recalling Roman empire in beach fight
MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) " New Jersey lawmakers are reaching back to the Roman empire in their latest effort to guarantee public access to the shoreline and end some shore towns' long history of trying to keep outsiders off their beaches.State lawmakers have introduced a new beach access bill that writes the Public Trust Doctrine into law and directs the state Department of Environmental Protection to apply it to coastal land use and funding decisions.The doctrine is a legal [...]
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