Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 48:3-96.1

  • 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.
1. Any company under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities that periodically bills its customers may, upon the request of a customer:

a. offer each customer the ability to receive or access, in electronic format, any periodic bill for service sent by the company to its customers and any additional information sent by the company to its customers as required by law, provided that any notice of disconnection, discontinuance or termination of service shall be sent to a customer in written form to a customer’s legal mailing address in addition to being sent or being made available in electronic format; and

b. provide the customer of such company the option of paying any such periodic bill via electronic means.

L.2010, c.90, s.1.