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NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-20 - Council to provide legal representation to local units, conditions.

13:20-20 Council to provide legal representation to local units, conditions.  22. The council shall provide legal representation to any requesting local government unit located in the Highlands Region in any cause of action filed against the local government unit and contesting an act or decision of the local government unit taken or made under authority granted pursuant to the "Municipal Land Use Law," P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-1 et seq.), R.S.40:27-1 et seq., the "State Uniform Construction Code Act," P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.), or this act, provided that: a. the municipal master plan and development regulations, or, in the case of a county governmental entity, the county master plan and associated regulations, have been approved by the council to be in conformance with the regional master plan in accordance with section 14 or 15 of this act;  b. the council determines that the act or decision of the local government unit which is the subject of the cause of action is consistent with the regional master plan; and c. the act or decision of the local government unit that is the subject of the cause of action involves an application for development that provides for the ultimate disturbance of two acres or more of land or a cumulative increase in impervious surface by one acre or more. L.2004,c.120,s.22.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-21 - Guidelines, instructions to local government units.

13:20-21 Guidelines, instructions to local government units.  23. Within 10 days after the date of enactment of this act, the Department of Community Affairs, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, shall provide guidelines and instructions to all local government units located wholly or partially within the preservation area with respect to the processing, review, and enforcement of applications for development after the date of enactment of this act and before adoption of the regional master plan. L.2004,c.120,s.23.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-22 - Plans, regulations entitled to strong presumption of validity.

13:20-22 Plans, regulations entitled to strong presumption of validity.  24. The municipal master plan and development regulations of any municipality, and the county master plan and associated regulations of any county, located in the Highlands Region which have been approved by the council to be in conformance with the regional master plan in accordance with section 14 or 15 of this act shall be entitled to a strong presumption of validity. In any cause of action filed against such a local government unit and contesting an act or decision of the local government unit taken or made under authority granted pursuant to the "Municipal Land Use Law," P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-1 et seq.), R.S.40:27-1 et seq., the "State Uniform Construction Code Act," P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.), or this act, the court shall give extraordinary deference to the local government unit, provided that the municipal master plan and development regulations, or, in the case of a county governmental entity, the county master plan and associated regulations, have been approved by the council to be in conformance with the regional master plan in accordance with section 14 or 15 of this act. The plaintiff shall have the burden of proof to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the act or decision of any such local government unit was arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable or in patent abuse of discretion. L.2004,c.120,s.24.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-23 - Regional master plan considered in allocation of prospective fair housing share.

13:20-23 Regional master plan considered in allocation of prospective fair housing share.  25. a. The Council on Affordable Housing shall take into consideration the regional master plan prior to making any determination regarding the allocation of the prospective fair share of the housing need in any municipality in the Highlands Region under the "Fair Housing Act," P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.) for the fair share period subsequent to 1999. b. Nothing in this act shall affect protections provided through a grant of substantive certification or a judgment of repose granted prior to the date of enactment of this act. L.2004,c.120,s.25.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-24 - Modification of site improvement standards for residential development.

13:20-24 Modification of site improvement standards for residential development.  26. Within 90 days after the first meeting of the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council, the Site Improvement Advisory Board established pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1993, c.32 (C.40:55D-40.3) and the Commissioner of Community Affairs shall consult with the council and the Commissioner of Environmental Protection concerning whether the site improvement standards for residential development adopted pursuant to P.L.1993, c.32 (C.40:55D-40.1 et seq.) are appropriate and sufficiently protective for the Highlands Region, especially for the preservation area; and if it is determined they are not, those standards shall be modified accordingly as soon as practicable thereafter to meet that objective. L.2004,c.120,s.26.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-25 - Council may institute action, proceeding for injunctive relief.

13:20-25 Council may institute action, proceeding for injunctive relief.  27. The council may institute an action or proceeding in Superior Court for injunctive relief for any violation of this act, or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, or, in the preservation area for any violation of, or nonconformance with, the regional master plan. The council may also institute an action or proceeding for injunctive relief for any violation of the regional master plan in the planning area as it relates to a municipality or county that has been approved to be in conformance with the regional master plan pursuant to section 15 of this act. In any action or proceeding brought pursuant to this section, the court may proceed in a summary manner and may also grant temporary or interlocutory relief. L.2004,c.120,s.27.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-26 - Council decision deemed final agency action, appellate review.

13:20-26 Council decision deemed final agency action, appellate review.  28. Any decision rendered or action taken by the council pursuant to this act shall be a final agency action subject to judicial review in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey in accordance with the Rules of Court. The court may grant such relief as it deems just and proper, and to make and enter an order enforcing, modifying, and enforcing as so modified, remanding for further specific evidence or findings, or setting aside in whole or in part, the decision of the council. The findings of fact upon which the council's decision is based shall be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole. L.2004,c.120,s.28.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-27 - Annual report of council.

13:20-27 Annual report of council.  29. On or before March 31 in each year the council shall make an annual report of its activities for the preceding calendar year to the Governor, the Legislature, and the governing body and the chief executive officer of each municipality and county in the Highlands Region. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering its operations during the year. L.2004,c.120,s.29.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-31 - Adoption of rules, regulations; procedure.

13:20-31 Adoption of rules, regulations; procedure.  33. a. Within 270 days after the date of enactment of this act, and notwithstanding the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, after consultation with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Community Affairs, the State Planning Commission, and the Department of Transportation, shall, immediately upon filing proper notice with the Office of Administrative Law, adopt the rules and regulations prepared by the department pursuant to section 34 of this act and any other rules and regulations necessary to establish the Highlands permitting review program established pursuant to section 35 of this act. b. The rules and regulations adopted pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be in effect for a period not to exceed one year after the date of the filing. These rules and regulations shall thereafter be adopted, amended, or readopted by the commissioner in accordance with the requirements of the "Administrative Procedure Act," after consultation with the council, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Community Affairs, the State Planning Commission, and the Department of Transportation. c. The requirements and provisions of sections 33 through 43 of this act shall not apply in the planning area. L.2004,c.120,s.33.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:20-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:20-34 - Review of applications.

13:20-34 Review of applications.  36. a. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall review filed applications for Highlands permitting reviews, including any information presented at public hearings or during a comment period, or submitted during the application review period. Except as otherwise provided by subsection b. of this section, a Highlands permitting review approval may be issued only upon a finding that the proposed major Highlands development: (1) would have a de minimis impact on water resources and would not cause or contribute to a significant degradation of surface or ground waters. In making this determination, the commissioner shall consider the extent of any impacts on water resources resulting from the proposed major Highlands development, including, but not limited to, the regenerative capacity of aquifers or other surface or ground water supplies, increases in stormwater generated, increases in impervious surface, increases in stormwater pollutant loading, changes in land use, and changes in vegetative cover; (2) would cause minimal feasible interference with the natural functioning of animal, plant, and other natural resources at the site and within the surrounding area, and minimal feasible individual and cumulative adverse impacts to the environment both onsite and offsite of the major Highlands development; (3) will result in minimum feasible alteration or impairment of the aquatic ecosystem including existing contour, vegetation, fish and wildlife resources, and aquatic circulation of a freshwater wetland; (4) will not jeopardize the continued existence of species listed pursuant to "The Endangered and Nongame Species Conservation Act," P.L.1973, c.309 (C.23:2A-1 et seq.) or the "Endangered Plant Species List Act," P.L.1989, c.56 (C.13:1B-15.151 et seq.), or which appear on the federal endangered or threatened species list, and will not result in the likelihood of the destruction or adverse modification of habitat for any rare, threatened, or endangered species of animal or plant; (5) is located or constructed so as to neither endanger human life or property nor otherwise impair the public health, safety, and welfare; (6) would result in minimal practicable degradation of unique or irreplaceable land types, historical or archeological areas, and existing public scenic attributes at the site and within the surrounding area; and (7) meets all other applicable department standards, rules, and regulations and State laws. b. A Highlands permitting review approval may be issued to a major Highlands development granted a waiver pursuant to the provisions of subsection b. of section 35 of this act notwithstanding the inability to make the finding required pursuant to subsection a. of this section. L.2004,c.120,s.36.
NJ Rev Stat § 14:2-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 14 - Acts Saved From Repeal|Section 14:2-2 - Additional corporate purposes

14:2-2. Additional corporate purposes  There may be incorporated under this Title corporations for the purpose of (1) Constructing, maintaining and operating railroads or street railways, or (2) Constructing, maintaining and operating works, systems, conduits, conductors, lines, equipment, and facilities for the carrying on of one or more of the activities separately described in any one of subsections a through g following: a. Generation, transmission and distribution of electric current for heat, light and power, or b. Manufacturing, processing, transmission, distribution and supply of gas for heat, light and power, and other purposes, or c. Furnishing means of disposal of sewage, or d. Production, transmission, distribution and supplying of steam heat and power or steam power, or e. Generation, transmission and distribution of water power or of electrical power generated by water power, or f. Supplying of telegraph or telephone service or telegraph and telephone service, or g. Transmission, distribution and supplying of water, and (3) Furnishing such service or the sale of such product for profit to the public within or outside of this State. Each corporation heretofore incorporated and organized under any of the provisions of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes, or of any other statutes therein revised, shall hereafter be governed by the provisions of Title 14 of the Revised Statutes to the same extent that it would have been governed thereby if it had been incorporated thereunder and it shall be subject to the restrictions and conditions in said title contained but shall have, in addition to the powers and privileges conferred by said Title 14 of the Revised Statutes, a. All the powers conferred upon it by the provisions of the statute under which it was incorporated and organized, and b. The power to issue its capital stock without nominal or par value and to change its existing capital stock to stock without nominal or par value as may be provided for in its charter or certificate of incorporation or any amendment thereof in the manner prescribed by the statute hereby supplemented subject, however, to such control by the Public Utility Commission as is provided by law. L.1937, c. 188. Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 197.
NJ Rev Stat § 14:3-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 14 - Acts Saved From Repeal|Section 14:3-7 - Land improvement companies; ferry rights; sale of franchise for operating ferries; waiver of exemptions by purchaser

14:3-7. Land improvement companies; ferry rights; sale of franchise for operating ferries; waiver of exemptions by purchaser  That any corporation organized under any law of this state for the purpose of laying out and improving such lands as it is authorized to own or purchase, and having power under its act of incorporation or any supplement thereto, to purchase and enjoy ferry rights, shall have power whenever the directors of such company deem it advisable to separate such ferry rights from the other property and franchises of such company, to sell and transfer its franchise of owning, operating and enjoying a ferry or ferries and all its property, real and personal, connected therewith or appurtenant thereto, to any other corporation organized or to be organized under the laws of this state, authorized by law to transact the business of transporting goods, merchandise or passengers by water, at such price and upon such terms as may be agreed upon by and between the directors of said two corporations, and to receive payment therefor either in money, property or in the capital stock of such purchasing corporation; and after such sale and transfer it shall be lawful for the corporation purchasing such franchise or franchises, and the property connected therewith or appurtenant thereto, to possess and enjoy the same as fully in all respects as the corporation selling the same by its charter or any supplement thereto is authorized to enjoy such rights and franchises; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any corporation unless such corporation shall first and as a condition precedent to the exercise of any power granted by this act, file in the office of the secretary of state an agreement, to be approved by the governor and attorney general, waiving all rights of exemption from taxation and from privileges and advantage arising from any law or contract, if any there be, establishing any special mode of taxation of any such corporation, and the further agreement to be bound by any general law of this state now in existence or that may hereafter be passed, taxing such corporations as are now authorized to be taxed by the legislature of the state under any general law, and further agreeing that the exercise of any power granted by this act shall not in any way affect the rights of the state, if any there exist, to take the property of such corporation under any existing law of the state, and agreeing further that all laws affecting such corporations shall be subject to alteration or repeal by the legislature. L.1888, c. 155, s. 1, p. 198 [C.S. p. 2310, s. 12].
NJ Rev Stat § 14:3-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 14 - Acts Saved From Repeal|Section 14:3-10 - Prohibited acquisitions of stock of other corporations; inapplicable to public utility corporations; subsidiaries

14:3-10. Prohibited acquisitions of stock of other corporations; inapplicable to public utility corporations; subsidiaries  No corporation of this state engaged in trade or commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation also engaged in trade or commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such trade or commerce in any section or community, or tend to created a monopoly of any line of trade or commerce. No such corporation shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of two or more corporations engaged in trade or commerce where the effect of such acquisition, or the use of such stock by the voting or granting of proxies or otherwise may be to substantially lessen competition between such corporations, or any of them, whose stock or other share capital is so acquired, or to restrain trade or commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of trade or commerce. Nothing contained in this section shall apply to corporations subject to the jurisdiction of the board of public utility commissioners under Title 48, Public Utilities, nor to corporations purchasing such stock solely for investment and not using the same by voting or otherwise to bring about, or in attempting to bring about, the substantial lessening of competition, nor to prevent a corporation engaged in trade or commerce from causing the formation of subsidiary corporations for the actual carrying on of their immediate lawful business, or the natural and legitimate branches or extensions thereof, or from owning and holding all or a part of the stock of such subsidiary corporations, when the effect of such formation is not to substantially lessen competition. This section shall not be held to affect or impair any right legally acquired before March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. L.1937, c. 188.
NJ Rev Stat § 14:7-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 14 - Acts Saved From Repeal|Section 14:7-5 - Residence of directors and officers of corporations organized under special charter

14:7-5. Residence of directors and officers of corporations organized under special charter  The directors and officers of a corporation incorporated under any special charter need not reside in any designated county or counties of this state. This section shall not apply to mutual fire insurance companies incorporated by special charter. L.1937, c. 188.
NJ Rev Stat § 14:8-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 14 - Acts Saved From Repeal|Section 14:8-18 - Mutual association; creation of capital stock

14:8-18. Mutual association; creation of capital stock  The members of any incorporated mutual association may provide for and create a capital stock of such corporation, upon the consent in writing of all the members of the corporation, and may provide for the payment of such stock, and fix and prescribe the rights and privileges of the stockholders therein. L.1937, c. 188.
NJ Rev Stat § 14:8-22(1) (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 14 - Acts Saved From Repeal|Section 14:8-22(1) - Manufacturing company incorporated by special act; exchange of full-paid capital stock for assessable shares; issuance of preferred and common shares; reissuance of stock; total capital

14:8-22(1). Manufacturing company incorporated by special act; exchange of full-paid capital stock for assessable shares; issuance of preferred and common shares; reissuance of stock; total capital  1. That it shall and may be lawful for any manufacturing company duly incorporated by special act of incorporation of this state, to exchange any portion of its full-paid capital stock, by and with the consent of the holders thereof, for assessable shares, which shall acknowledge the payment in the aggregate of the same amount of money as may be represented by the full-paid shares so surrendered; and the directors of the said company may call from time to time for installments on the said assessable shares until the same shall be fully paid, and the directors of any such company may, with the consent of all the stockholders thereof first had and obtained in writing, issue any portion of its capital stock in preferred shares bearing a fixed rate of dividend not exceeding eight per cent per annum, which shares shall be subjected to redemption and retirement upon such conditions as may be expressed in the certificates of said stock; and the said directors may use the said preferred shares at par, or the proceeds thereof, to provide additional capital or to pay the debts of the said corporation; it shall be lawful for the said directors in their discretion to make an issue of shares of common stock equal in number to the preferred shares so issued, which common stock shall be subject to assessment from time to time by the directors of the said company for the redemption and retirement of the said preferred stock in accordance with the provisions thereof or for the general uses of the said company; provided always, that any stock of any company which may at any time have been retired or surrendered may be reissued at par for money or in payment of debts; and provided further, that at no time shall the total amount of the capital stock outstanding at any one time exceed the amount authorized by law. L.1892, c. 264, s. 1, p. 413 [C.S. p. 1671, s. 130].