N.J. Stat. § 6:1-32

The commission may, in order to protect the public safety and the safety of those participating in aeronautical activities adopt reasonable rules, regulations and orders requiring the installation in and carriage by, aircraft, and the installation in airports, landing fields and landing strips, of safety devices and other avigation facilities consistent with the development of the art; and require obstructions which may be hazardous to avigation to be suitably marked by lights, signs or otherwise as the commission may provide. The commission shall have the right and is hereby empowered to proceed by appropriate legal or equitable action to cause any obstruction to flight in and about any airport or landing field to be abated and such obstructions are hereby declared to be hazards to human life and property, and the commission may cause the same to be removed by such orders and decrees as the court may issue in any legal or equitable proceedings instituted by the commission for that purpose. L.1938, c. 48, p. 133, s. 13.