New Jersey Statutes 5:3-21. Penalty for violation
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 5:3-21
- 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.
- 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
5:3-21. Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00). Such penalty shall be imposed for each day such violation thereafter continues. The penalties may be imposed against the owner or lessee of the premises wherein such violation occurs, or both. The Superior Court and the municipal courts shall have jurisdiction of said violations and the penalties hereunder shall be enforced and collected in a summary manner under “the penalty enforcement law” (N.J.S. 2A:58-1 et seq.).
Amended 1953,c.6,s.4; 1991,c.91,s.180.