New Jersey Statutes 24:11A-10. Violations; penalties; recovery; disposition
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 24:11A-10
- 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.
- local board of health: means the board of health of any municipality, or the boards, bodies, or officers in such municipality lawfully exercising the powers of a local board of health under the laws governing such municipality, and includes any consolidated local board of health or county local board of health created and established pursuant to law. See New Jersey Statutes 24:1-1
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- 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
Any violation of this act or of any rule or regulation of the department lawfully issued hereunder shall be punishable by a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). All such penalties shall be sued for and recovered in a civil action by and in the name of the department or by and in the name of the local board of health of the municipality in which the violation occurred.
Any penalty recovered in any such action shall be paid to the plaintiff therein. When the plaintiff is the department, the penalty recovered shall be paid by the department into the State treasury. When the plaintiff is a local board of health, the penalty recovered shall be paid by the local board into the treasury of the municipality within which the local board has jurisdiction.
L.1946, c. 86, p. 300, s. 10. Amended by L.1953, c. 24, p. 459, s. 26, eff. March 19, 1953.