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NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51.7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51.7 - Sale of lands acquired for places of resort and recreation

40:60-51.7. Sale of lands acquired for places of resort and recreation  Whenever any municipality in this State shall heretofore have acquired lands for public purposes and for places of resort for public health and recreation and to improve the same, and shall thereafter have acquired other lands, which the governing body of the said municipality shall deem to be better suited for the purposes of resort for public health and recreation, and shall have improved such other lands; and whenever the governing body of such municipality shall, by resolution duly adopted, determine that the said lands first acquired are no longer needed for public use, it shall be lawful for the governing body of such municipality to sell such land first acquired, either as a whole or in parcels, and if in parcels, either at 1 time or from time to time, at public auction, to the highest bidder or bidders, upon such terms and conditions and subject to such restrictions as the said governing body shall determine and to be set forth both in the resolution to sell and in the advertisement of sale, and to make due conveyance of such lands pursuant to such sale or sales; provided no part of such land shall be sold until due public advertisement, signed by the municipal clerk, of the time and place of selling the same shall have been given by publication once in each week for 2 consecutive calendar weeks prior to the date of sale, in a newspaper circulating in said municipality, the last publication to be not more than 7 days prior to the day appointed for selling the same. L.1958, c. 118, p. 598, s. 1, eff. July 8, 1958.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51.8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51.8 - Burial grounds for indigents; removal and reinterment of bodies; sale of land

40:60-51.8. Burial grounds for indigents; removal and reinterment of bodies; sale of land  Whenever a municipality owns lands which have been used for the burial of indigents but have not been used for such purposes for 20 or more years, the governing body of the municipality may, by resolution, determine that it is for the best interests of the municipality to cause the removal and reinterment of the bodies interred therein to a more suitable place. In the event of any such determination, the governing body of the municipality may, by resolution, provide for the disinterment and reinterment of the said bodies and after the removal of the said bodies if the governing body of the municipality shall, by resolution, determine that the lands from which the bodies have been so removed are not needed for public use may sell the same as in the case of other lands not needed for public use. Prior to the adoption of the resolution a public hearing thereon shall be held before the governing body which shall be noticed by advertisement published once each week for 2 weeks in a newspaper published or circulating in the municipality. The notice shall contain a description of the lands involved and of the action proposed by the resolution. L.1963, c. 127, s. 1, eff. July 3, 1963.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51.9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51.9 - Cost of removal and reinterment

40:60-51.9. Cost of removal and reinterment  The cost of the removal of the bodies and of the acquisition of the lands wherein the bodies shall be reinterred shall be deemed to be a municipal expense and municipal funds may be appropriated to provide for the payment of the said expense, or the necessary funds may be provided for by requiring the purchaser of said lands to assume such expense as a condition of the purchase. L.1963, c. 127, s. 2, eff. July 3, 1963.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51.10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51.10 - Applicability of act to sales of land previously made

40:60-51.10. Applicability of act to sales of land previously made  The provisions of this act shall be applicable to sales of such lands heretofore made as well as to those hereafter made and the governing body of the municipality may, by resolution, supplement the previous sale by providing for the removal and reinterment of the bodies at the expense of either the municipality or the purchaser as shall be agreed upon and in any such case after the removal and reinterment has been accomplished the governing body of the municipality, by resolution, may provide for the execution and delivery to the purchaser of an appropriate release of the easement for burial purposes. L.1963, c. 127, s. 3, eff. July 3, 1963.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51.12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51.12 - Leasing of municipal real estate to nonprofit entities

40:60-51.12. Leasing of municipal real estate to nonprofit entities  1. The governing body of any municipality may lease any real estate owned or controlled by it or any interest therein when, and to the extent that, it is not required for municipal purposes, to any not-for-profit corporation or not-for-profit association while it is used for the purposes of such organization in promoting the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the community and not for commercial business, trade, or manufacturing purposes, without costs or at a nominal rental. L.1966,c.238,s.1; amended 2002,c.19.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-2 - Sale or donation of park lands to state; reversion by nonuse; provisos

40:61-2. Sale or donation of park lands to state; reversion by nonuse; provisos  The governing body may sell, or give to the state of New Jersey, for military or armory purposes, or both, any real estate heretofore or hereafter acquired by the municipality for park purposes, and in the judgment of the governing body not needed therefor, and may cause to be executed good and sufficient conveyance or conveyances therefor. The municipality may impose as a condition of such sale or gift and conveyance a covenant that if the state shall cease to use the real estate for military or armory purposes for two consecutive years, it shall forthwith revert to and become vested in the municipality upon payment by the municipality to the state of the value of the improvements thereon at the time of reversion, but such reversion for nonuse shall not occur, if the nonuse is occasioned by, or occurs during the time the United States or this state is engaged in war, or the suppression of rebellion or armed insurrection. Should the municipality and the state be unable to agree upon the value of the improvements, it shall be determined by two appraisers, one to be appointed by the governor and one by the municipality, and if they are unable to agree, they shall select a third and the decision of said appraisers shall be final.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-3 - Return of certain unused lands to municipality by park commissions

40:61-3. Return of certain unused lands to municipality by park commissions  Whenever any municipality has, prior to April seventh, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, transferred to any park commission the care, custody and control of any land which has been acquired subject to a right of way for public or private use and has been dedicated for park purposes and whenever such park commission shall determine and declare that such land or portions thereof has never been used for and is not necessary or desirable for park purposes and that it is for the public interest that the care, custody and control of such land so acquired and dedicated, or of any portion thereof, should be returned to the municipality, the park commission may, by resolution, return to such municipality the care, custody and control of such land, or of any portion thereof, if the municipality shall by resolution consent to the return to it by the park commission of the care, custody and control of such land or of such portion or portions thereof, on the terms and conditions, if any, imposed by the park commission, which consent such municipality is hereby authorized to give. The governing body of such municipality, or body politic, having the legal title or an interest in and to such land, may by resolution sell and convey, or lease such lands or a portion thereof, upon such terms as such governing body or body politic may by resolution fix and determine, and in such case, the conveyance or lease thereof shall be made and executed by the proper officers of the municipality or body politic having the legal title or interest in and to such land.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-4 - Entertainments to raise funds for improvement and maintenance; no charge for children

40:61-4. Entertainments to raise funds for improvement and maintenance; no charge for children  The body in control of any playground or place of public resort and recreation of any municipality, in order to provide funds for improving, maintaining and policing thereof, may hold outdoor exhibitions, concerts, games and contests therein, and charge and collect reasonable admission fees for entrance thereto, while in use for any such purpose. No such playground or place of resort and recreation shall be so used on more than two days, nor more than eight hours in all, in any one week, and no admission fee shall be charged or collected from children under twelve years of age.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-5 - Use by school children; admission fee; exceptions

40:61-5. Use by school children; admission fee; exceptions  The body or authority having control of any public park, playground or other public place or property in any municipality may permit the same or part thereof to be used for athletic purposes or as playgrounds by the pupils of the public schools of the municipality and the public generally, subject to such reasonable regulations as may be prescribed by the body or authority having control thereof. The board of education of the school district coextensive with the municipality may charge and collect a reasonable admission fee from each person entering such park, playground or place of public resort and recreation, or part thereof, for the purpose of witnessing any athletic contest or game wherein the pupils of the public schools may be contestants or participants, but only where the admission fees so charged and collected are used in furtherance and maintenance of athletics and athletic purposes in the public schools of the municipality, and have first been approved by the authority having control of such park, playground and place of public resort and recreation, or part thereof, used for athletic purposes. No such park, playground or place or part thereof shall be so used for any athletic game or contest for which an admission fee is to be charged on more than two days, nor more than eight hours in all, in any one week. This section shall not apply to any county park situated in any municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-6 - Library, art gallery and museum in parks; site; control

40:61-6. Library, art gallery and museum in parks; site; control  A public library, art gallery, or museum, may be constructed or maintained in any public park or square in any municipality. The board or body having control of such park or square shall designate the part thereof upon which any such building may be constructed or maintained. The building shall be managed and controlled by the board or body charged with the care and maintenance thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-7 - Memorial buildings in parks; ordinance authorizing; referendum

40:61-7. Memorial buildings in parks; ordinance authorizing; referendum  In case any municipality shall have heretofore acquired or shall hereafter acquire by purchase, gift, devise, dedication or otherwise any lands or property for the purposes of a public park and place of public resort for recreation to be kept and remain open and unobstructed as a public park, it may erect or permit to be erected upon any part of the lands of such park not needed for a public park and place of public recreation a memorial building or buildings to be used for public uses and purposes. The ordinance or resolution of the governing body providing therefor shall, before it becomes effective, be submitted to the legal voters of the municipality for their approval, at a special election to be held for that purpose.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-8 - Referendum; notice and publication

40:61-8. Referendum; notice and publication  The municipal clerk shall give public notice of the time, place and object of the special election by advertisement set up at least ten days prior thereto, in at least ten public places in the municipality, and also by publishing it in a newspaper circulating within the municipality, at least ten days prior to the election.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-9 - Conduct of election

40:61-9. Conduct of election  The election shall be by ballot and shall be conducted by the election officers of the municipality at the regular polling places, and shall in all respects conform to the requirements of the general laws relating to elections.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-10 - Ballot; form and content; ordinance adopted

40:61-10. Ballot; form and content; ordinance adopted  The proposition shall be printed upon the official ballots in substantially the following form:  "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word YES, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word NO.  ] YES "Shall the ....................... (here insert the title of the ordinance or [ ] NO proposition) be adopted?" If the majority of the votes cast at the election shall be in favor of the ordinance or proposition, it shall be adopted and become effective.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-11 - Relocation of streets or railways; cost; exchange of lands

40:61-11. Relocation of streets or railways; cost; exchange of lands  Wherever any highway, railroad or street railway runs through or across any public park, or public place for resort or recreation of any municipality, or any lands of any municipality acquired therefor, the body having control of such parks or lands may make an agreement with the body having control of any such highway, and with the company owning the railroad, or street railway, to change the course or location of such highway, railroad or railway, and to agree as to payment of the cost of such change. Upon execution of such agreement, the municipality may grant and convey to such body having control of the highway or to the company owning the railroad or railway, a right of way over the lands of such changed location, and the body in control of the highway, or the company owning the railroad or railway shall in like manner grant and convey to the municipality all its interest in the lands of the former location of said highway, railroad or street railway. Upon execution and delivery of such conveyances, the body in control of the highway, or the company owning the railroad or railway, may locate, lay out, construct, operate and maintain its highway, railroad, or street railway upon the lands of the changed location, and connect and operate with the remaining portion of its highway, railroad or street railway in accordance with the agreement and shall possess all the powers with respect to the changed location as it had in the former location, and the same shall be subject to all the obligations and limitations imposed thereon in the former location. All the rights, privileges and powers of the body in control of the highway, or of the company owning the railroad or street railway, in the lands of the former location shall be transferred to and vested in the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-12 - Ordinances regulating railways in and through parks

40:61-12. Ordinances regulating railways in and through parks  No steam, or other railroad or railway, shall be laid, or maintained or operated upon or over any part of any of the parks, open spaces, public squares, beach fronts, water fronts, playgrounds, and other places for resort and recreation of any municipality, and of the boulevards or parkways leading thereto, and connecting the same, except at such places and in such manner as the governing body shall, by ordinance, designate and approve.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-13 - Park lands held by trustees; agreement with trustees; enforcement

40:61-13. Park lands held by trustees; agreement with trustees; enforcement  When a park or public place, the title of which is in trustees, is within the corporate limits of a municipality, the governing body of such municipality may enter into an agreement with such trustees, as a consideration in whole or in part for a conveyance of the park to the municipality, providing for the expenditure of not less than a designated sum annually for the maintenance, upkeep and improvement thereof, to be specified in such agreement, as arranged upon between the parties, and thereupon accept a conveyance of such park subject to the conditions under which such trustees hold the same, provided such trustees have power to make such conveyance. After the making of such conveyance the agreement shall continue to be binding upon the municipality and may be enforced by appropriate civil action or proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ instituted by any of the grantors in the deed, or their heirs or legal representatives or of any taxpayer resident in the municipality. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 712, s. 209, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-14 - Contribution to maintenance of park lands held by trustees

40:61-14. Contribution to maintenance of park lands held by trustees  Any such municipality, without taking title to such park may appropriate such sum or sums of money as the governing body shall think proper for the maintenance of roads, paths, lakes, bridges, planting of trees, flowers and shrubbery, the erection of shelters, stands, rest houses, seats, and provisions for the comfort and convenience of the persons using the park, but money so appropriated shall be used and expended by the proper officer of the municipality under the direction of the appropriate committee of the governing body thereof, subject to the approval of the trustees of the park.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-15 - Conveyances of burial grounds to municipalities for parks

40:61-15. Conveyances of burial grounds to municipalities for parks  Any religious corporation which prior to July fourth, one thousand nine hundred and five, had acquired lands in this state on condition that the same be used for burial or cemetery purposes and for no other purpose and prior to the date herein above mentioned the care of such burial grounds had become a burden to such corporation, and the same had become a hindrance to the development of thickly populated areas, may convey such lands in fee simple to the municipality in which the same may be situate for the uses and purposes of a public park or parks.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-16 - Burial grounds conveyed; acceptance and use by municipality

40:61-16. Burial grounds conveyed; acceptance and use by municipality  Any municipality may receive, hold and maintain any lands so conveyed, and embellish and improve the same, from time to time, for the purposes of a public park or parks.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-17 - Recreation commission; creation

40:61-17. Recreation commission; creation  The governing body of any municipality may create a commission of three persons to be known and designated as the recreation commission of (name of municipality) with power and authority to arrange and provide for the giving of indoor and outdoor exhibitions, concerts, games, contests and sporting events and to charge and collect a reasonable admission fee for each person admitted to any of these divertisements.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-18 - Commissioners; term and compensation

40:61-18. Commissioners; term and compensation  The commissioners appointed to the recreation commission in any municipality shall hold office for such period of time and receive such compensation as may be prescribed by the governing body of the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-19 - Recreation commissioners; powers

40:61-19. Recreation commissioners; powers  For the purpose of arranging and providing for the things enumerated in section 40:61-17 of this title, the commission may: a. Purchase or otherwise acquire, in its own name, such lands either improved or unimproved, in fee or otherwise, as may be necessary; b. Improve or cause the same to be improved; c. Lay out or cause to be laid out all necessary roads, paths, tracts and boulevards; d. Construct or cause to be constructed on the lands so acquired such buildings or other structures as may be deemed necessary to enable the commission to properly and adequately arrange and provide for the giving of the aforesaid divertisements; and e. Improve, maintain and police the same.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:61-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:61-20 - Bond issue; state and federal aid

40:61-20. Bond issue; state and federal aid  The commission may, in the manner provided by article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 40:1-1 et seq.), borrow money and incur other indebtedness and issue its bonds for the purpose of carrying out the objects of sections 40:61-17 to 40:61-22 of this title. The bonds so issued shall not be the obligations of the municipality creating such commission but shall be the obligations of the commission and shall constitute a lien on the property acquired by the commission. If the commission shall obtain the moneys needed by it for the purposes of effectuating the objects hereof from any agency of the state or federal government, it may sell its bonds directly to such state or federal agency, and the proceeds of the sale of the bonds, after deducting expenses for negotiating the same and for engraving, and all other expenses connected with their issue and sale, shall be paid over to the commission.