Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 48:5A-21

  • 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.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • 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
21. Upon the prior approval of the board, any person may lease or rent or otherwise make available facilities or rights-of-way, including pole space, to a CATV company for the redistribution of television signals to or toward the customers or subscribers of such CATV company. The terms and conditions, including rates and charges to the CATV company, imposed by any public utility under any such lease, rental or other method of making available such facilities or rights-of-way, including pole space, to a CATV company shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the board in the same manner and to the same extent that rates and charges of public utilities generally are subject to the board’s jurisdiction by virtue of the appropriate provisions of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

L.1972,c.186,s.21; amended 2006, c.83, s.18.