Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 146-A:13

  • 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 commissioner may set a schedule of bonding to be required from oil, gas and petroleum product suppliers, dealers and others that are under the jurisdiction of this chapter to provide for emergency cleanup and provide for the protection of the environment from accidental intrusions and from purposeful evasion of rules adopted under this chapter.