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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:3-93

  • 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.
The ordinances of each local board of health of each municipality participating in any regional health commission, shall remain in effect within the geographic area of such municipality, until altered or repealed by the regional health commission. Such ordinances may be enforced by and in the name of the regional health commission by proceedings instituted and prosecuted in any court having jurisdiction of such proceedings in such municipality. Ordinances of the regional health commission may be enforced by and in the name of the regional health commission by proceedings instituted and prosecuted in a court having jurisdiction of such proceeding in the region.

L.1970, c. 60, s. 5.