§ 21-2-53 - Powers of superior court in equity.
SECTION 21-2-53
§ 21-2-53 Powers of superior court inequity. – In addition to any other remedy set forth in this chapter for the enforcementof the provisions of the chapter or any rule, regulation, order, or decision ofthe director, the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, upon a billof complaint filed by the director or his or her authorized agents, to restrainor enjoin any person, his or her agents, and servants, from committing any actprohibited by this chapter or prohibited by any lawful rule, regulation, order,or decision of the director. If it is established upon hearing that any personcharged, himself or herself or by his or her agents and servants, has been oris committing any act declared to be unlawful by this chapter or is inviolation of any rule, regulation, order, and decision of the director, thecourt shall enter a decree enjoining that person, corporation, or trustee fromfurther commission of that act or actions. In case of violation of aninjunction issued under this section, the court or any judge of the court shallsummarily try and punish the person, or his or her agents and servants, orboth, for contempt of court. The existence of other civil or criminal remediesshall be no defense to this proceeding. The director, or his or her authorizedagents, shall not be required in that proceeding to give or post a bond whenmaking an application for an injunction, a restraining order, preliminaryinjunction, or permanent injunction under this section. The court may issue anex parte restraining order, until further hearing, upon a reasonable showing exparte that the respondent has been guilty of a violation, and shall have powerto enter preliminary injunctions and grant other relief, pendente lite, whichmay pertain to equity and justice in the premises. All proceedings under thissection, and any appellate proceedings which may follow, shall in all respectsfollow the course of equity.