New Jersey Statutes 58:10A-72. Violations, penalties
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 58:10A-72
- 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
3. a. A person or entity who violates this act shall be subject to a penalty of not more than $500 for each offense, to be collected by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection in a civil action by a summary proceeding under the “Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999,” P.L.1999, c.274 (C. 2A:58-10 et seq.). The municipal court and Superior Court shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for the enforcement of the penalty provided by this section.
b. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection may institute a civil action for injunctive relief to enforce the provisions of section 2 of this act and to prohibit and prevent a violation of this act, and the court may proceed in the action in a summary manner.
c. Nothing set forth in this act shall be construed as creating, establishing or authorizing a private cause of action by an aggrieved person against a person who has violated, or is alleged to have violated, the provisions of this act.
L.2015, c.28, s.3.