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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 58:11-41

  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
In case any water supply system or sewerage facilities or any part thereof is about to be, or is, or has been, erected or installed after the effective date of this act in violation of any of the provisions of this act as aforesaid, such erection or installation is hereby declared to be a nuisance and the State department or the board having jurisdiction in the municipality in which the realty improvement is situate, may institute a civil action for an injunction to prohibit the further violations of this act in any court of competent jurisdiction, which court shall have power to order an abatement of such nuisance, and to prevent its further maintenance, and any further violation of this act, by injunction or otherwise according to the practice of said court, and the court may proceed in a summary manner.

L.1954, c. 199, p. 752, s. 19. Amended by L.1966, c. 143, s. 8, eff. June 18, 1966; L.1971, c. 386, s. 5, eff. Jan. 7, 1972.