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NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-101.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-101.1 - Counties over 200,000 having park commission; annual appropriation for maintenance of parks in certain cases; limitation

40:37-101.1. Counties over 200,000 having park commission; annual appropriation for maintenance of parks in certain cases; limitation  In any county having a population of more than two hundred thousand and having a county park commission, the members of which shall be appointed, or shall have been appointed under the provisions of section 40:37-97 of the Revised Statutes; and having established a county park system and having acquired the funds for the establishment of such county park system by public bond issue approved by the voters of said county; and said park commission shall not have funds for the maintenance of said county park system and the voters of said county shall have rejected the adoption of sections 40:37-12, 40:37-13, 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 of the Revised Statutes; the board of chosen freeholders in said county, upon the written request of the county park commission, signed by its president, vice-president and secretary, for funds for the maintenance of said county park system, after a public hearing on said request, and after determining in their discretion that funds for the maintenance of said county park system are necessary, may hereafter annually appropriate funds for the maintenance of said county park system; provided, however, that the funds raised and appropriated shall not exceed one-half of one mill on the dollar on the assessed valuation on the total ratables and taxables in said county, the minimum authorized by section 40:37-14 of the Revised Statutes. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 657, s. 81, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-101.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-101.2 - Manner of appropriating, paying over and expending funds

40:37-101.2. Manner of appropriating, paying over and expending funds  The funds so raised and appropriated shall be raised and appropriated in the same manner as the funds for any other department of government in said county and after the funds shall have been raised and appropriated, shall be paid over to and expended by the said park commission of said county for the maintenance of said county park system in the same manner as any other department of government of said county. L.1939, c. 133, p. 455, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-101.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-101.3 - Adoption of sections 40:37-12, 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 not to be submitted within five years after rejection

40:37-101.3. Adoption of sections 40:37-12, 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 not to be submitted within five years after rejection  The question of the adoption or rejection of sections 40:37-12, 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 of the Revised Statutes shall not be submitted to the voters of any county within five years after the majority of the legal voters in any county shall have rejected the same. L.1939, c. 133, p. 456, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-101.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-101.4 - Additional lands; acquisition after lands valued at 35% of tax ratables have been acquired

40:37-101.4. Additional lands; acquisition after lands valued at 35% of tax ratables have been acquired  When any park commission established pursuant to the provisions of subdivision C of article five of chapter thirty-seven of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes (R.S. 40:37-96 et seq.) shall have acquired land in any municipality amounting in the aggregate to thirty-five per centum (35%) of the total area of such municipality, said park commissioners may acquire additional lands in such municipality only upon compliance with the provisions of this act. L.1947, c. 382, p. 1216, s. 1. Amended by L.1948, c. 271, p. 1166, s. 2, eff. July 27, 1948.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-101.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-101.5 - Assessor's certificate that value of lands acquired exceeds 35% value of ratables

40:37-101.5. Assessor's certificate that value of lands acquired exceeds 35% value of ratables  The assessor of any municipality, in which any such park commissioners shall have acquired lands exceeding in area thirty-five per centum (35%) of the total area of the municipality, shall file with the county board of taxation, in each year, with his assessment list, a certificate that the area of the land, acquired by such park commissioners in such municipality, exceeds in the aggregate thirty-five per centum (35%) of the total area of the municipality, briefly describing the same and stating the value of the lands acquired in excess of such percentage of the total area of the municipality, with any buildings and improvements thereon, at the time they, or the respective parcels thereof, were acquired. L.1947, c. 382, p. 1216, s. 2. Amended by L.1948, c. 271, p. 1166, s. 3, eff. July 27, 1948.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-101.6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-101.6 - Appropriation to municipality in lieu of taxes

40:37-101.6. Appropriation to municipality in lieu of taxes  The county board of taxation shall in each year calculate the sum of money in which the municipality would have derived during said year as tax revenue for local purposes from such lands, buildings and improvements in excess of said thirty-five per centum (35%) of the total area of the municipality, valued as aforesaid, if the same had not been so taken and were not exempt from taxation, as soon as practicable after the receipt of such certificate and shall forthwith certify such amount to the clerk of the municipality and to the park commission and an appropriation equal to said amount shall be included by the park commission in its budget submitted to the board of chosen freeholders, and by the board of chosen freeholders in its budget, for the following year and shall be payable to the municipality on or before the first day of July of that year and said amount shall be included by the municipality in its budget for said year as anticipated revenue and when paid to the municipality shall be used by the municipality for general municipal purposes. L.1947, c. 382, p. 1217, s. 3. Amended by L.1948, c. 271, p. 1166, s. 4, eff. July 27, 1948.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-102 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-102 - Surveys and maps of parks; records

40:37-102. Surveys and maps of parks; records  Before proceeding to purchase or condemn real estate for a public park or place, the commission shall determine the location and quantity of the same to be included in any park or place, and cause a survey thereof to be made together with a map showing the real estate to be embraced therein. The map shall be kept by the commissioners in their office, and the boundary lines of every such park or place shall be recorded in a book to be kept by them for that purpose. The commission shall not be obliged to disclose such locations, surveys or maps to public inspection until it has taken proceedings to condemn real estate or any right or interest therein necessary therefor.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-103 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-103 - Condemnation for parks; law applicable

40:37-103. Condemnation for parks; law applicable  Whenever the commission shall have determined to take and acquire any real estate or any right or interest therein for any public park or place which it has located as provided in sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title, and cannot acquire the same by agreement with the owner, by reason of disagreement as to price, the legal incapacity or absence of the owner, or his inability to convey valid title, or for any other reason, the compensation therefor shall be ascertained and paid in the manner directed in and by chapter 1 of the title Eminent Domain (s. 20:1-1 et seq.).
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-104 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-104 - Construction of roadways; acquisition of real estate; exemption from taxation

40:37-104. Construction of roadways; acquisition of real estate; exemption from taxation  The commission may connect any road, park or public open space with any other park or public open space, and with any municipality in the county by a suitable roadway or boulevard, and for this purpose may exercise any of the rights and powers granted by sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title in the manner herein prescribed. The commission may acquire in its corporate name, for the benefit of the county, by purchase, gift, devise or eminent domain, any real estate or right or interest therein within the county, although the real estate so taken or any part thereof, be already a street or way, but the concurrence of the body having authority over highways shall be necessary to take or appropriate any portion of an existing street or road. The real estate so taken, and all buildings and improvements which may be placed thereon shall be exempt from all taxes, assessments and municipal liens.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-105 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-105 - Survey and map of roadways and boulevards; records

40:37-105. Survey and map of roadways and boulevards; records  Before laying out and opening any roadway, parkway or boulevard, the commission shall cause a survey to be made and a map thereof to be filed in its office, showing the termini of each roadway, parkway or boulevard, including the courses and distances, the names of the several owners or reputed owners of real estate through which the same will pass, so far as the same can be ascertained, and the streets or roads which may be included therein. The commission shall not be obliged to disclose such locations, surveys or maps to public inspection until it has taken proceedings to condemn real estate or any right or interest therein necessary therefor.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-106 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-106 - Construction and improvement of roadways and paths

40:37-106. Construction and improvement of roadways and paths  The commission may: a. Construct and maintain along, across, upon and over any of the real estate acquired by it under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title, roadways, parkways or boulevards; b. Grade and improve the same; c. Regulate the width thereon of sidewalks, roadways, service ways, bridle paths, bicycle paths or roads; d. Plant therein trees and shrubbery; e. Construct such sidewalks, roadways, service ways, bridle paths, bicycle paths or roads and pave the same, or any part thereof, in such manner and of such material as it may deem advisable. The grading, construction and improvements may proceed simultaneously, or from time to time, and in and upon such parts or sections of the parkways or boulevards as may be determined by the commission from time to time.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-107 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-107 - Commission may establish grades; pavement and improvement of roadways

40:37-107. Commission may establish grades; pavement and improvement of roadways  The commission may not only lay out and open roadways, parkways and boulevards, connecting parks and open spaces as herein provided, but may also establish the grade of such highways, and change and alter the same, grade, curb, flag, pave and otherwise improve such parkways, roadways and boulevards, and regulate the use thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-108 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-108 - Lines of frontage on new parkways

40:37-108. Lines of frontage on new parkways  The commission may also determine, in the case of a new parkway or boulevard laid out and opened by it, the lines for the frontage of any and all buildings to be located on the real estate fronting thereon.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-109 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-109 - Condemnation for roadways; commissioners appointed; benefits assessed

40:37-109. Condemnation for roadways; commissioners appointed; benefits assessed  Whenever the commission shall determine to open and lay out a boulevard, parkway or roadway, or make any improvement thereof which shall require the condemnation of real estate or any right or interest therein, it shall give notice by publication, at least ten days, in one or more of the newspapers circulating in the county wherein the real estate to be condemned is situate of its intention to apply to a judge of the Superior Court in that county for the appointment of three disinterested commissioners to: a. Make an appraisement of the value of the real estate which in their judgment is necessary to be taken for the opening and laying out of any boulevards or roadways, or for the improvement thereof; b. Ascertain, fix and determine the amount of the damages occasioned thereby; c. Ascertain, fix and determine the amount of the special benefits which the laying out of the street or the improvement thereof will confer upon any owner of property benefited thereby. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 658, s. 82, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-110 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-110 - Commissioners; appointment; duties; oaths

40:37-110. Commissioners; appointment; duties; oaths  At the time and place specified in the notice provided for in section 40:37-109 of this Title the judge shall appoint three disinterested freeholders resident in the county to: a. Make a just and true appraisement of the value of the real estate to be condemned and taken by the county park commission for the purposes specified in the notice; b. Ascertain, fix and determine the amount of damages occasioned thereby; c. Make a just and true estimate and appraisement of the special or peculiar benefits which the opening of any such boulevard, parkway or roadway, or the improvement thereof, may confer upon any owner of property benefited thereby, in proportion as nearly as may be to the benefit which each owner may be deemed to acquire. The commissioners so appointed shall forthwith take and subscribe an oath that they will faithfully and impartially perform their duties, and their oaths shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 658, s. 83, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-111 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-111 - Hearing and notice; view premises; report

40:37-111. Hearing and notice; view premises; report  The commissioners so appointed shall fix a time and place when they will hear the persons interested in the property to be taken, and in the benefits to be conferred by the proposed improvement, and shall give public notice of such time and place for at least ten days prior to the day of meeting in two or more of the newspapers published and circulating in the county. After having viewed the premises and heard the parties interested, they shall proceed to estimate and fix the value of the real estate taken and the damages caused by such taking, and ascertain and determine the amount of special or peculiar benefits conferred upon the owners of property benefited, in proportion as nearly as may be to the benefits which each owner shall be deemed to acquire, and to make report of their assessments to the court. They may report the damages awarded and the benefits assessed in any case in the same report or separately as they may determine.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-112 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-112 - Court to hear objections to report; confirmation

40:37-112. Court to hear objections to report; confirmation  Upon receipt of any such report, signed by the commissioners, or any two of them, the court shall cause such notice to be given as it shall direct of the time and place of hearing any objections that may be made to the awards or assessments, and after hearing any matter which may be alleged against the same, shall, by rule or order, either confirm the report or refer it to the same commissioners for revision and correction. The commissioners shall return the same, when referred to them again, corrected and revised, or make a new report to the court without unnecessary delay, and the same, on being so returned, shall be confirmed or again referred by the court in the manner hereinbefore provided, and so from time to time until a report shall be made or returned, which the court shall confirm. The report when so confirmed shall be final and conclusive, upon the county park commissioners and upon the owners of real estate or any right or interest therein affected thereby, and the court shall thereupon cause the report to be filed in the office of the county clerk, there to remain of record.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-113 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-113 - Rules of procedure

40:37-113. Rules of procedure  The Supreme Court may make such rules for the regulation of the practice and procedure under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this Title as it shall deem appropriate. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 659, s. 84, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-114 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-114 - Compensation of commissioners; expenses; inclusion in cost of improvement

40:37-114. Compensation of commissioners; expenses; inclusion in cost of improvement  The court shall, upon application, by the county park commissioners or on its behalf, fix and determine the compensation to be paid the commissioners so appointed, and allow any other expense necessarily incurred in making any such assessment, all of which shall be paid by the county park commissioners. The cost and expense of making any assessment for benefits, including the fees of commissioners, may be included in making up the cost for the purpose of the assessment.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-115 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-115 - Benefits assessed deducted from damages awarded

40:37-115. Benefits assessed deducted from damages awarded  Whenever damages are awarded under the provisions of section 40:37-111 of this title to an owner of real estate, and benefits are assessed against the same owner, the county park commissioners may, when both the award of damages and the assessment of benefits have been finally confirmed, deduct the amount of the benefits assessed from the damages awarded, and set off the benefits against the damages by proper charges and credits, in order that only the excess of damages, if any, shall be paid, and only the excess of benefits, if any, collected.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-116 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-116 - Award collected by suit

40:37-116. Award collected by suit  Any person to whom an award shall be made may, subject to the deduction of benefits assessed, sue for and collect or obtain payment of the award after it shall have been confirmed in an action or by a proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ against the county park commission in the Superior Court or any court of competent jurisdiction, and a certified copy of the award so made shall be presumptive evidence of the claim. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 659, s. 85, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-117 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-117 - Assessments a lien; collection; action at law

40:37-117. Assessments a lien; collection; action at law  The county park commissioners may collect the assessments for benefits either by a civil action in the name of the commission against the person from whom it is due, together with the costs of making the same and interest at the rate of six per centum (6%) per annum from the date of confirmation, or by a sale of the property benefited, or by both of these remedies, which are to be cumulative. Every assessment shall be a first lien upon the property benefited as ascertained by the commissioners, to the amount of the assessment with the interest and costs from the date of the confirmation thereof. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 659, s. 86, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-118 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-118 - Improvement of parkways and boulevards already established; assessments for benefits; appointment of commissioners

40:37-118. Improvement of parkways and boulevards already established; assessments for benefits; appointment of commissioners  Whenever the county park commission shall determine to make any improvement of any parkway, boulevard or part thereof, theretofore laid out or opened by it, which improvement may consist of grading, paving or surface construction, or of planting trees or shrubbery, or any one or more, or all of the items of construction or improvement which are or may be authorized by law, it may, in the manner provided by section 40:37-109 of this Title, apply to a judge of the Superior Court for the appointment of commissioners to ascertain, fix and determine the amount of special benefits which the improvement may confer upon any owner of property benefited thereby. The commissioners shall be appointed and shall proceed to make their assessment for benefits in the manner provided by sections 40:37-109 to 40:37-114 of this Title, and all of the provisions of those sections, so far as they relate to assessments for benefits, shall apply to assessments for benefits in connection with the improvements authorized by this section. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 660, s. 87, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-119 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-119 - Assessments a lien until paid

40:37-119. Assessments a lien until paid  All assessments for benefits made under sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of this title shall remain liens upon the real estate benefited, from the confirmation thereof until fully paid.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37-120 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37-120 - Sale of lands for unpaid assessments; notice and publication

40:37-120. Sale of lands for unpaid assessments; notice and publication  If any assessment shall remain in arrears for more than six months after confirmation, suit may be brought for its collection with interest and costs, and the commission may proceed to advertise the real estate upon which the assessment may be a lien to be sold at public auction at the courthouse of the county, on a day not less than two months distant, between two and five o'clock in the afternoon. Such advertisement shall be published at least once each week for a period of at least three weeks next preceding the sale, in two of the newspapers published and circulating in the county, and shall be the only notice required. It shall contain the names of the owners of real estate in default, if the same be known, and if not known, shall state the names of owners to be unknown, and shall give the amounts due from them respectively, with a short description of the real estate to be sold.