§ 21-0507 — Enforcement proceedings

§ 21-0507. Enforcement proceedings.\n Whenever the interstate environmental commission shall be of the\nopinion that any person, association or corporation, municipal or\notherwise, within the district is failing or omitting, or about to fail\nor omit to do anything required of it by its order or by the laws\ngoverning the control or elimination of pollution of the waters of the\ndistrict, or is doing or is about to do anything, or permitting or about\nto permit anything to be done contrary to or in violation of such orders\nor such laws, or the provisions of the compact, it may direct its legal\nrepresentative to commence an action or a proceeding in the name of the\ninterstate environmental commission in an appropriate court having\njurisdiction for the purpose of having such violations or threatened\nviolations stopped and prevented. Such an action or proceeding when\ndirected against any person, firm, association, corporation, municipal\nor otherwise, within the state may be brought in the supreme court of\nthis state and the said court shall have and is hereby given the\nnecessary and appropriate jurisdiction to determine such action or\nproceeding upon the merits and/or to grant any relief appropriate to the\ncase.\n