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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 49

  • 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.
A Superior Court in the county in which the imminent danger is alleged to exist shall have jurisdiction, upon petition of the director, to restrain any conditions or practices in any place of employment subject to section 45 which are such that a danger exists which will reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm immediately or before the imminence of such danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures otherwise provided by this chapter. [PL 1975, c. 519, §9 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1975, c. 519, §9 (NEW).