Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:27D-206

  • 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
a. A person aggrieved by a ruling, action, order, or notice of the commissioner pursuant to this act shall be entitled to an administrative hearing. The application for the hearing shall be filed with the commissioner by the 15th day after receipt by the person of notice of the ruling, action, order or notice.

All hearings shall be conducted by the Office of Administrative Law pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) and P.L.1978, c. 67 (C. 52:14F-1 et seq.), and the final decision shall be issued by the commissioner or his designee.

b. A person aggrieved by any ruling, action, order or notice of a local enforcement agency pursuant to this act, shall be entitled to an administrative hearing before the construction board of appeals created pursuant to section 9 of P.L.1975, c. 215 (C. 52:27D-127), having jurisdiction in the municipality in which the building, structure or premises is located. The applications for the hearing shall be filed with the construction board of appeals by the 15th day after the receipt by the person of notice of the ruling, action, order or notice complained of.

L.1983, c. 383, s. 15.