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NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-18 - Notice of intention to make contract

40:56-18. Notice of intention to make contract  If any such work is to be undertaken as a local improvement, notice of the intention of any governing body to consider any ordinance authorizing the execution of a contract therefor and the doing of the work contemplated therein, and a hearing thereon, shall be given in each municipality in the same manner as is provided by this article in cases where the improvement is undertaken by a single municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-19 - Apportionment of cost; assessments for benefits; procedure

40:56-19. Apportionment of cost; assessments for benefits; procedure  If such contract is authorized and executed the work shall proceed as provided therein. Upon the completion of such work if undertaken as a local improvement, the governing body of each municipality party to the agreement, shall certify to the officer or board charged with the duty of making assessments in such municipality, the cost thereof to be borne by the municipality, and such board shall make an assessment on real estate in the municipality benefited by such improvement not in excess of the benefits conferred. Such officer or board shall give the same notice and accord the same hearing and proceed in the same manner and such assessment shall be a lien and shall be enforced in the same manner as in making assessments where the improvement is made by a single municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-20 - Abandonment of improvement; reimbursement of costs to participants

40:56-20. Abandonment of improvement; reimbursement of costs to participants  When a municipality shall abandon a proposed improvement, or repeal the improvement ordinance, it shall make payment to owners and other parties who appeared in the proceedings, of their reasonable costs, expenses and counsel fees to be fixed by a judge of the Superior Court. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 700, s. 184, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-20.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-20.1 - Limitation on proceedings to review or restrain ordinance

40:56-20.1. Limitation on proceedings to review or restrain ordinance  No action or proceeding for injunctive or other relief shall be commenced to restrain or review an ordinance for any improvement after the contract therefor shall have been awarded. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 700, s. 185, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-21 - Assessments; by whom made; board of assessments

40:56-21. Assessments; by whom made; board of assessments  All assessments for benefits for local improvements under this chapter shall be made by the officer or board charged with the duty of making general assessments of taxes in the municipality, except where there is provided by law a board for the making of all such assessments, in which case all assessments shall be made by such board. The governing body of every municipality in which no board is provided by law for the making of all assessments for benefits accruing from local improvements may by ordinance create a general board for that purpose, which board shall thereafter make all such assessments.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-22 - Assessment commissioners; when necessary; appointment

40:56-22. Assessment commissioners; when necessary; appointment  Where no such board is provided for by law or by such ordinance, the governing body, upon the completion of any local improvement, may appoint by resolution three discreet freeholders, residents of the municipality, in no way interested in the improvement, as commissioners to make the assessments for benefits for such improvement. If such local improvement shall be of a general nature affecting the greater part of the real estate in the municipality, no commissioner shall be disqualified to act by reason of the fact that he may own real estate included in such assessment.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-23 - Assessment officer or members of board or commission; oath; vacancies; compensation

40:56-23. Assessment officer or members of board or commission; oath; vacancies; compensation  The officer or members of the board or commissioners charged with the duty of making assessments for benefits under this chapter shall, before the commencement of their duties, be sworn by an officer duly authorized to administer oaths for the faithful performance of such duties. In case of the death or disqualification of such officer or any member or members of such board or commission, the governing body shall appoint some other suitable person or persons to act in his place. Such officer and the members of said board or commission shall receive such compensation for their services as the governing body may fix and determine.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-24 - Costs certified to assessors; contents of statement; contributions; total assessment

40:56-24. Costs certified to assessors; contents of statement; contributions; total assessment  Upon the completion of any local improvement the body in charge thereof shall immediately notify the officer, board or commissioners whose duty it is to make the assessment for benefits therefor, and shall certify to such officer, board or commissioners a statement showing in detail the cost of the improvement, including therein the cost of advertising, financing and inspection and the engineering expense, and also the cost of any real estate or interest therein purchased or condemned for such improvement. Such statement shall also show the proportion or amount of the whole cost of the improvement if any paid or contributed by the municipality, or by the board of chosen freeholders of the county in which the municipality is situated, or by any person. The total amount of the assessment levied upon the real estate benefited by the improvement shall not exceed the cost thereof, less any such payment or contribution. If the benefits so assessed shall not equal the cost less such contribution the balance shall be paid by the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-25 - Assessors to view improvement; notice of hearing

40:56-25. Assessors to view improvement; notice of hearing  The officer, board or commissioners charged with the duty of making assessments for benefits for the improvement shall, when notified of its completion, examine the work and view all lands and real estate upon the line and in the vicinity thereof benefited thereby and shall thereupon fix a time and place for hearing all persons interested. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be mailed to the owners of all real estate affected directed to their last known post-office addresses, and shall be published at least once in a newspaper circulating in the municipality at least ten days before the hearing. The notices shall be mailed and published by the clerk of the municipality, or by such clerk or official as the governing body may designate. Failure to mail any such notice shall not invalidate any proceeding or assessment.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-26 - Hearing; quorum; amount of assessments determined

40:56-26. Hearing; quorum; amount of assessments determined  The officer, board or commissioners making the assessment shall attend at the time and place appointed, and shall give all parties interested or affected by the improvement ample opportunity to be heard upon the subject of the assessment. A majority of such board or commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall be sufficient to make any assessment. One member shall have power to adjourn any hearing, and any hearing may be adjourned from time to time. They shall have power to examine witnesses under oath to be administered by such officer or any member of such board or commission, and they shall thereupon make a just and equitable assessment of the benefits conferred upon any real estate by reason of such improvement having due regard to the rights and interests of all persons concerned, as well as to the value of the real estate benefited.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-27 - Assessments proportionate to benefits; not to exceed benefits

40:56-27. Assessments proportionate to benefits; not to exceed benefits  All assessments levied under this chapter for any local improvement shall in each case be as nearly as may be in proportion to and not in excess of the peculiar benefit, advantage or increase in value which the respective lots and parcels of real estate shall be deemed to receive by reason of such improvement.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-28 - Incidental damages; amount determined and deducted; damages exceeding benefits; appeal

40:56-28. Incidental damages; amount determined and deducted; damages exceeding benefits; appeal  Except as provided in article 4 of this chapter (s. 40:56-58 et seq.), as to cities of the first class, in addition to the making of assessments for benefits the said officer, board or commissioners, or a majority of such board or commission, shall also at the same time fix and determine the amount, if any, that any property is damaged incidentally to the making of the improvement, but exclusive of damages for real estate taken, and the amount of such incidental damages accruing to any real estate shall be deducted from the amount of any benefits assessed thereon. If the amount of any such damages as confirmed by the governing body shall exceed the benefits assessed upon the same real estate, or in case no benefits shall accrue thereto, the balance or the amount of such damages as so fixed, may be raised as provided by law, and shall be paid by the municipality to the owner of the real estate so damaged. Any person aggrieved by any such assessment or award of damages may after the same has been confirmed by the governing body with or without alteration, appeal therefrom as provided in sections 40:56-54 and 40:56-55 of this title.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-29 - Incidental damages; award tendered; payment into court in certain cases

40:56-29. Incidental damages; award tendered; payment into court in certain cases  When the owners of any property have been or shall have been awarded damages as incidental to any improvement, as distinguished from damages for land taken, under this subtitle, and such award has been or shall have been duly confirmed, the amount thereof shall be tendered to the person or persons entitled thereto. If there is uncertainty as to the person entitled to receive the award or if the party entitled to receive the amount awarded shall refuse upon tender thereof to receive the same, or shall be out of the State or under any legal disability, or if several parties interested in the fund shall not agree as to the distribution thereof, or the lands damaged are encumbered by any mortgage, judgment or other lien, or if for any other reason the municipality cannot safely pay the amount awarded to any person, in all such cases the amount awarded may, with leave of the Superior Court, be paid into said court, and shall there be distributed according to law, on the application of any person interested therein. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 701, s. 186, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-30 - Report of assessors; hearing; final report; confirmation; appeal

40:56-30. Report of assessors; hearing; final report; confirmation; appeal  Except as provided in article 4 of this chapter (s. 40:56-58 et seq.) as to cities of the first class, assessments for benefits for local improvement together with any accompanying awards for incidental damages and all awards of damages for real estate or interests therein taken for any improvement, shall, except as provided in sections 40:56-42 to 40:56-51 of this title, be certified by the officer, board or commissioners making the same to the governing body of the municipality by a report in writing signed by the officer, or a majority of the board or commissioners making the said assessment or award for damages or incidental damages. The report shall be accompanied by a map showing the real estate taken, damaged or benefited by the improvement and for which damages or benefits have been assessed. The report may be considered by the governing body at any meeting thereof, of which at least two weeks' previous notice shall have been given by the municipal clerk, or by an officer designated as aforesaid by the governing body, posted in five public places in the municipality, or published in a newspaper circulating therein, once in each week for two weeks prior to the meeting, as the governing body may direct, and also by mailing a copy of the notice to the owner or owners named in the report, directed to his or their last known post-office addresses, and the affidavit of said clerk or other designated official shall be conclusive as to such mailing. The notice shall briefly state the object of the meeting with reference to the assessment. At that or any subsequent meeting the governing body after considering the report and map may adopt and confirm the same with or without alterations, as to them may seem proper, and may refer the matter to any committee of its own body, or to the officer or board making such assessment, for revision or correction before taking final action upon it. When the report shall be adopted and confirmed with or without alterations it shall be final and conclusive and appeals may be taken as hereinafter provided in article 3 of this chapter (s. 40:56-54 et seq.). Failure to mail the notice in this section required shall not invalidate the proceedings.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-31 - Duty of collector; books and records

40:56-31. Duty of collector; books and records  Except as provided in article 4 of this chapter (s. 40:56-58 et seq.) as to cities of the first class, immediately after the confirmation of any assessment a duplicate thereof duly certified by the clerk of the body confirming the same shall be delivered to the tax collecting officer of the municipality. The assessment shall be payable immediately upon delivery to such collecting officer, who shall immediately after delivery to him send out by mail or deliver to the owners of such real estate, bills for such assessment. The collector shall enter the date and amount of each payment on his duplicate in the proper column opposite the item of the assessment on account of which payment is made, and also enter the same in a proper cash book as a credit to the taxpayer, and shall also enter therein a designation of the property on which the tax was paid, the total amount of the assessment and the interest and penalty charged. Such cash book shall be provided by the collector at the expense of the taxing district and shall be its property and be open at all reasonable times to public inspection. The board or body having control of the finances of the municipality may make additional regulations for recording, accounting for, and collecting assessments.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-32 - Interest on unpaid assessments

40:56-32. Interest on unpaid assessments  When any assessment shall not be paid within two months after the date of confirmation thereof interest thereon from the date of confirmation shall be imposed at the same rate as may be imposed upon unpaid taxes in the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-33 - Assessment as continuous lien; informalities not to invalidate proceedings.

40:56-33 Assessment as continuous lien; informalities not to invalidate proceedings.  40:56-33. Except as provided in article 4 of this chapter (s. 40:56-58 et seq.) as to cities of the first class, every assessment for local improvements together with interest thereon and all costs and charges connected therewith, shall upon the effective date of the ordinance or resolution authorizing the assessment be a continuous first lien upon the real estate described in the assessment, paramount to all prior or subsequent alienations and descents of such real estate or encumbrances thereon, except subsequent taxes or assessments, notwithstanding any mistake in the name or names of any owner or owners, or any omission to name any owner or owners who are unknown, and notwithstanding any lack of form therein, or in any other proceeding which does not impair the substantial rights of the owner or owners or other person or persons having a lien upon or interest in any such real estate. Confirmation of the amount of the assessment by the governing body or by the court shall be considered as determining the amount of the existing lien and not as establishing the lien. All assessments for local improvements shall be presumed to have been regularly assessed and confirmed and every assessment or proceeding preliminary thereto shall be presumed to have been regularly made or conducted until the contrary be shown. Amended 2002, c.15, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-34 - Assessment set aside; new assessment a lien; refund

40:56-34. Assessment set aside; new assessment a lien; refund  In all cases where any assessments for benefits incident to any improvement shall be set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction and the improvement shall have been actually made in the manner provided by law the officer or board charged with the duty of making assessments for benefits for local improvements, or in case of an assessment made by commissioners specially appointed then by such commissioners, shall make a new assessment of benefits upon the property benefited by the improvement, in the manner and by the proceeding herein provided. All such new assessments shall become a lien upon the property so assessed in the same manner and with like effect and be enforceable in the same way as an original assessment for like improvements. When any court of competent jurisdiction shall decide that an assessment for a local improvement has been illegally made and no new assessment can be made the municipality shall refund the amount thereof, if the same has been paid, and if a new assessment of a less amount is made then the difference between the new assessment and the amount paid shall be refunded.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-36 - Separate account for assessments; sinking fund

40:56-36. Separate account for assessments; sinking fund  All assessments as collected shall be immediately placed in an account to be known as "local improvement assessment account" . Such moneys shall be used only to pay indebtedness incurred for such improvements whether by temporary or permanent certificates, notes or bonds. Whenever a sinking fund is maintained, upon a vote of the governing body such moneys as collected shall be paid into such sinking fund and kept in a similarly designated account and used for the purposes herein described.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-37 - Municipality to pay excess over assessments; taxation to meet excess; report to auditor

40:56-37. Municipality to pay excess over assessments; taxation to meet excess; report to auditor  Where the total amount of the assessments does not equal the cost of an improvement the difference between the cost of the improvement and the amount of the assessment shall be paid by the municipality and may be raised by taxation at large, or paid out of any funds of the municipality available for the purpose. It shall not be necessary to raise the whole amount of such difference in any one year but the same may be raised by equal installments to be fixed by the governing body. The entire amount to be raised by the municipality shall be levied before the date when bonds issued to secure the funds for the improvements fall due. The financial officer of the municipality shall one month before the time for passing the annual tax budget report to the governing body the cost of each improvement completed during the year, the amount of the assessments levied therefor and the amount necessary to be levied by general taxation. In municipalities having a comptroller or auditor the collecting officer immediately upon receipt of an assessment duplicate shall report the amount thereof to such comptroller or auditor.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-38 - Assessments for benefits not affected by annexation or consolidation

40:56-38. Assessments for benefits not affected by annexation or consolidation  The annexation of the whole or a portion of a municipality to another municipality, or the consolidation of two or more municipalities, shall not affect the making of assessments for benefits or damages by reason of local improvements made or initiated under this chapter in either or any of said municipalities before such annexation or consolidation. In such case assessments shall be made in the manner provided herein by the board or body charged with the duty of making such assessments of the municipality as shall be agreed upon by and between said municipalities before such annexation or consolidation shall become effective, but no assessment shall be made for any such improvement unless the municipality initiating the same could have levied such assessment, and shall have given notice of its intention to make such improvement as provided by any statute effective in such municipality at the time the improvement was commenced.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-39 - Mortgaged lands officially held treated as other property

40:56-39. Mortgaged lands officially held treated as other property  All real estate that may be or may have been mortgaged to or owned by any officer of this state in his official capacity, mortgaged to or owned by any official or person appointed by any court or in any judicial proceeding had or taken in this state or elsewhere in his official capacity, and held in trust for the benefit of any persons shall be subject to assessment for benefits for local improvements, as real estate held or owned by other citizens of this state, and all assessments levied in pursuance of this chapter shall be and remain a lien against such real estate, as in case of assessments imposed or levied against property of other persons. The board or officer charged by law with the duty of collecting assessments in any municipality in which such real estate may be situated, may collect such assessments in the same manner as other assessments for local improvements are or may be collected, and may sell such real estate in the same manner as other real estate may be sold for unpaid assessments; provided, that actual notice shall be given of such intended sale to the person holding the same in trust.