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CHAPTER 211 & 212, LAWS OF 1954

AN ACT relating to the control and suspension of air pollution, creating an Air Pollution Control Commission in the State Department of Health and prescribing its functions, powers and duties and providing for the appointment of County Air Pollution Associations.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

C.26:2C-1 Short title.
1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Air Pollution Control Act (1954)."

C.26:2C-2 Terms defined.
2. The following words shall have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the Air Pollution Control Commission created under this act.
"Department" means the State Department of Health.
"Air pollution" as used in this act shall mean the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of substances in quantities which are injurious to human, plant or animal life or to property or unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property throughout the State and in such ter-