Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 56:3-41

  • 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
56:3-41. Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, for the first offense, be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and for each subsequent offense to a penalty of two hundred dollars ($200.00), recoverable in a civil action before the Superior Court or municipal courts, which courts within their respective territorial jurisdictions, shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine actions brought under this article. An action for the recovery of a penalty under this article may be instituted by any person aggrieved or damnified by a violation of this article. The penalty, when recovered in the Superior Court shall be paid to the treasurer of the county, and, when recovered in a municipal court, shall be paid to the treasurer of the municipality.

Amended 1953,c.53,s.9; 1991,c.91,s.522.

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