Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:48C-35

  • 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 taxes, interest and penalties imposed by any ordinance adopted pursuant to this act from the time the same shall be due shall be a debt of the taxpayer by whom payable to the municipality, recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action in the name of the municipality to be instituted within 3 years of the date due or of the filing of the report, whichever date is later.

L.1970, c. 326, s. 35, eff. Dec. 23, 1970.