Section 21-0507. Enforcement proceedings  


Latest version.
  • Whenever  the  interstate  environmental  commission  shall  be of the
      opinion that  any  person,  association  or  corporation,  municipal  or
      otherwise,  within the district is failing or omitting, or about to fail
      or omit to do anything required of it  by  its  order  or  by  the  laws
      governing  the  control or elimination of pollution of the waters of the
      district, or is doing or is about to do anything, or permitting or about
      to permit anything to be done contrary to or in violation of such orders
      or such laws, or the provisions of the compact, it may direct its  legal
      representative  to commence an action or a proceeding in the name of the
      interstate environmental  commission  in  an  appropriate  court  having
      jurisdiction  for  the  purpose  of having such violations or threatened
      violations stopped and prevented. Such  an  action  or  proceeding  when
      directed  against  any person, firm, association, corporation, municipal
      or otherwise, within the state may be brought in the  supreme  court  of
      this  state  and  the  said  court  shall  have  and is hereby given the
      necessary and appropriate  jurisdiction  to  determine  such  action  or
      proceeding upon the merits and/or to grant any relief appropriate to the
      case.