New Jersey Statutes 32:19-4. Initiation of action, proceeding due to violations, threatened violations
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 32:19-4
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- 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.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
32:19-4. Whenever the Interstate Environmental Commission shall be of the opinion that any person, association or corporation, municipal or otherwise, within the district is failing or omitting, or about to fail or omit to do anything required of it by its order or by the laws governing the control or elimination of pollution of the waters of the district, or is doing or is about to do anything or permitting or about to permit anything to be done contrary to or in violation of such orders or such laws or the provisions of the compact, it may direct its legal representative to commence an action or a proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ in the name of the Interstate Environmental Commission in the Superior Court for the purpose of preventing the continuance of such violations or threatened violations either by injunctive or other relief. The court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such action or proceeding upon the merits and grant such relief as may be appropriate.
Amended 1953, c.31, s.19; 2000, c.6, s.6.