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NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-11 - Sale of canal property for railroad purposes

13:12-11. Sale of canal property for railroad purposes  L.1924, c. 218, p. 482 (1924 suppl. s. 170-144m), entitled "An act to authorize the sale of lands of the Morris Canal and Banking Company for railroad purposes in certain cases," approved March twelve, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, saved from repeal. [This act authorizes the board of directors of the canal and banking company to sell and convey to railroad companies whose right of ways adjoin the lands of the canal and banking company such portions of such lands as may be deemed reasonable and proper to enable the railroad companies to construct additional main tracks.]
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-12 - Construction of electric railways on canal lands acquired by municipalities

13:12-12. Construction of electric railways on canal lands acquired by municipalities  L.1925, c. 75, p. 248, entitled "An act to authorize any municipality through which the Morris canal passes to construct an electric railway upon such canal lands and other lands required for such purpose and to enter into leases or contracts providing for the operation thereof, and to issue bonds therefor," approved March thirteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, saved from repeal. [This act authorizes any municipality through which the Morris canal passes and which has or shall acquire any such lands pursuant to law to construct and maintain thereon electric railways and issue bonds therefor.]
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-13 - Abandoned portions of canal property dedicated as public highways

13:12-13. Abandoned portions of canal property dedicated as public highways  Upon the discontinuance by the canal and banking company of the use as a means of transportation by water of that portion of the property the title to which is, by section 13:12-3 of this title, vested in the canal and banking company in trust for the state of New Jersey, and the discontinuance of the use as a means of transportation of water to the canal of those portions of such property which had been used as feeders to the canal, which discontinuance was authorized by section one of the act entitled "An act to authorize the abandonment of navigation upon the Morris canal and providing for the dismantling of the canal and the disposition of portions of the property, the title to which is now held in trust for the state of New Jersey by the Morris Canal and Banking Company upon terms and compensation fixed by said Morris Canal and Banking Company and providing for the review of said terms and compensation by the board of public utility commissioners of the state of New Jersey, and further providing for the management and control of such property pending the disposition thereof," approved March twelve, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four (L.1924, c. 229, s. 1, p. 506), such portions of such property, the use of which has been so discontinued, shall be applied and are hereby dedicated, subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, to the public use as public highways for the transportation and passage thereon of persons and property and for any and all other purposes of public highways.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-14 - Diversion of waters for municipal purposes

13:12-14. Diversion of waters for municipal purposes  The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to consent, under restrictions which shall not impair any existing rights, and for a consideration in each case to be fixed by its board of directors and approved in writing by the governor of this state, to the diversion, for the purpose of municipal water supply, of the waters or any portion thereof, the title to the right to the use of which is vested in the canal company in trust for the state of New Jersey; but nothing in this section contained shall be construed to dispense with any consent at any time required to be obtained by any municipality, board or commission as a condition precedent to the diversion of the state's waters or to the development of a municipal water supply.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-15 - Sale of canal property in counties to such counties for road purposes

13:12-15. Sale of canal property in counties to such counties for road purposes  The canal and banking company is hereby authorized and directed to sell any and all of the property the title to which is vested in the company in trust for the state of New Jersey, other than the rights and property to be retained for public use as provided by section 13:12-4 of this title. Wherever such property shall consist of lands so located as to be capable of use in the widening of any county road, the canal and banking company is authorized to transfer to the county wherein such section of the canal is located such section thereof, upon the adoption by the board of chosen freeholders of such county of a resolution indicating the desire of such county to acquire such section for the purposes of a county road, within the period provided by section 13:12-16 of this title for the adoption of a similar resolution by municipalities or agencies; such transfer to be made upon such terms and for such consideration as shall be fixed after negotiation as provided by said section 13:12-16 in the case of municipalities and agencies and subject to the same right of review.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-17 - Sale of canal property outside municipalities to municipalities; public sale

13:12-17. Sale of canal property outside municipalities to municipalities; public sale  If any municipality mentioned in section 13:12-16 of this title shall fail to accept the terms and compensation for any such property fixed by the canal and banking company or upon review of its decision by the board of public utility commissioners as provided in said section 13:12-16 or if prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, any such municipality shall have failed to adopt the resolution mentioned in said section 13:12-16, or if prior to such date any such municipality shall have adopted a resolution declaring that it does not desire to acquire the property of the canal and banking company within its limits, then, and in either of such cases, the canal and banking company may transfer such property as hereinafter in this section provided. In the first place, the canal and banking company shall offer, subject to the same review as provided in said section 13:12-16, to any municipality which shall have taken appropriate steps to acquire the canal property lying within its boundaries pursuant to said section 13:12-16, such portions of the canal lying in any municipality or municipalities which shall have failed to take the necessary steps to acquire such property, as shall form a single, contiguous tract capable of development for the purpose for which the first mentioned municipality shall have acquired its tract. In the second place, if, after a reasonable time, any municipality to which any such canal property lying without its limits shall have been offered, shall fail to have availed itself of such offer, the canal and banking company, after advertisement, in such manner as may be determined by its board of directors, shall sell any unsold portions of the canal property to the highest bidder deemed by such board of directors to be responsible, at public or private sale; but no such sale shall be made unless first approved, in writing, by the governor of the state of New Jersey; and at such sale any municipality through which such canal may pass, either alone or jointly with other municipalities through which such canal may pass, may bid for any parcel of the canal so offered for sale. Upon any such sale, any previous dedication of the property so sold to any public use shall cease and be of no further force and effect, and the purchaser shall be entitled to take and hold such property free from any previous dedication to any public use. The canal company is also hereby authorized to sell, in such manner and for such price and upon such terms as its board of directors may deem advisable, the structures and parts thereof and other materials to be removed on dismantling the canal as provided for in section 13:12-19 of this title and other personal property no longer useful in connection with the canal.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-17.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-17.1 - Sale by municipalities of canal property acquired from Morris Canal and Banking Company

13:12-17.1. Sale by municipalities of canal property acquired from Morris Canal and Banking Company  When any municipality to which canal property has been conveyed pursuant to chapter 229 of the laws of 1924 or chapter 12 of Title 13 of the Revised Statutes, shall hereafter determine that any part or parts thereof are no longer needed for the public use or uses for which such property was purchased, the governing body of such municipality may sell or lease said land in the manner provided by law for the sale or leasing of lands owned by municipalities. L.1957, c. 185, p. 681, s. 1, eff. Aug. 22, 1957.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-18 - Leases; termination

13:12-18. Leases; termination  The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to let part or parts of the property and property rights, the title to which is vested in it in trust for the state of New Jersey; but any and all leasehold estates so created shall be terminable upon thirty days' notice to the lessee of the desire of the canal and banking company or the state of New Jersey to terminate the same.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-19 - Removal of bridges, etc.

13:12-19. Removal of bridges, etc.  The canal and banking company is hereby authorized and directed, as soon as the water shall have been drained off from the canal under authority of the act mentioned in section 13:12-13 of this title, to proceed promptly to remove such highway and road bridges as have heretofore been maintained by the canal and banking company at intersections of the canal with existing highways and roads and to refill the canal bed at these points and to grade down the approaches and to replace such bridges with roadways connecting with the adjoining highways or roads, graded, paved or surfaced to conform to the adjoining highways or roads respectively.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-20 - Repair, etc., of dams, sluice gates, etc.

13:12-20. Repair, etc., of dams, sluice gates, etc.  The canal and banking company is authorized and directed to repair and make safe the dams and sluice gates at the lakes and ponds mentioned in section 13:12-4 of this title and to raze and remove or put in a condition safe to life and limb all other structures heretofore maintained by the canal company and to make proper provision to prevent future obstruction of highways, roads or watercourses through the decay and fall of culverts, aqueducts or other structures and to provide for the proper drainage of the canal.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-21 - Crossings in municipalities

13:12-21. Crossings in municipalities  If the authorities in charge of any street, highway or road, on which there is a bridge or crossing to be removed by the canal and banking company as provided by section 13:12-19 of this title, shall prefer to relocate or otherwise readjust such crossing in a manner and to an extent different from that provided in said section 13:12-19, the canal and banking company, instead and in lieu of constructing any such crossing as required by said section 13:12-19, is authorized to contract with such authorities for the construction, by such authorities, of any such relocated or readjusted crossing, and, in such contract, to agree with such authorities for the payment by the canal company of such portion of the cost of such relocated or readjusted crossing as shall not exceed the estimated cost of the crossing instead of which such relocated or readjusted crossing shall be so contracted for.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-22 - Legal and administrative help, etc.; agreements with independent contractors

13:12-22. Legal and administrative help, etc.; agreements with independent contractors  The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to procure and employ such legal and technical aid and to employ such administrative officers, clerical assistants and laborers as it may require for the purpose of enabling it to administer, in accordance with the terms of this chapter, the property, the title to which is vested in it in trust for the state of New Jersey. The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to enter into such agreements with independent contractors as its board of directors may deem advisable in order to carry out the directions contained in this chapter; but no such agreement involving the expenditure of more than one thousand dollars shall be entered into unless first approved in writing by the governor of this state; nor shall any such agreement be entered into in excess of existing appropriations available therefor and applicable thereto.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-23 - Canal and banking company acting through officers thereof; execution of contracts, conveyances, etc.

13:12-23. Canal and banking company acting through officers thereof; execution of contracts, conveyances, etc.  The board of directors of the canal and banking company are hereby authorized and directed in behalf of the canal and banking company to do or cause to be done by the officers of the canal and banking company, thereunto authorized by the board of directors, all acts and things and to execute or cause to be executed all contracts, instruments of conveyance, consents, leases or other documents authorized or directed by the provisions of this chapter to be done or executed by the canal and banking company or which its board of directors shall deem expedient to be done or executed for the purpose of this chapter.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-24 - Contracts, conveyances, etc., approved by attorney general

13:12-24. Contracts, conveyances, etc., approved by attorney general  All contracts, instruments of conveyance, consents, leases or other documents mentioned in section 13:12-23 of this title shall be approved as to form by the attorney general before being executed by the canal company.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-25 - Title conveyed by deeds of canal and banking company

13:12-25. Title conveyed by deeds of canal and banking company  Any instrument of conveyance executed by the canal and banking company pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter shall operate to convey all the right, title and interest of the canal and banking company and of the state of New Jersey in and to the property therein described.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-26 - Release of lien of bonds on sale of property

13:12-26. Release of lien of bonds on sale of property  The board of conservation and development, in whom is vested the title to the bonds issued by the canal and banking company, shall, upon any sale of any property as authorized by the terms of this chapter, take such action and execute such documents as may be necessary or advisable to procure the release of such property from the lien of the mortgage securing such bonds.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-27 - Receipts from sales or rentals of property; payment into state treasury

13:12-27. Receipts from sales or rentals of property; payment into state treasury  The canal and banking company, by its general manager or by any officer thereunto duly authorized by its board of directors, shall be entitled to and is hereby authorized to receive and receipt for the purchase price, rentals or other income of any property sold or let as authorized by any of the provisions of this chapter, and to receive and receipt for the consideration paid upon the granting of any consent, as authorized by any of the provisions of this chapter. All moneys so received by the canal and banking company shall be paid into the state treasury not later than the tenth of the month following that during which such moneys were collected or received.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:12-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:12-29 - Injuries to or destruction of canal property; forfeiture; recovery

13:12-29. Injuries to or destruction of canal property; forfeiture; recovery  If any person shall, in any manner, willfully or maliciously, destroy, injure or damage any of the property of the Morris canal, the title to which is vested in the canal and banking company in trust for the state of New Jersey, or any of its parts, or any of the works connected therewith, or thereunto appertaining, or if any person shall, against the will or without the consent of the person appointed by the canal and banking company to have charge of or attend any existing lock, open any gate of such lock, or pass a boat, raft or other floating thing through or over such lock, or if any person shall willfully or maliciously let off or discharge water from any part of the canal property still in existence, through or by any waste weir, or water gate, or otherwise, or shall shut down or close, either in part or in whole, any feed gate, or water weir, when the same shall be in operation, such person, so offending, shall forfeit and pay to the canal and banking company the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered by and in the name of the president and board of directors of the canal and banking company, in any court of competent jurisdiction.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:13-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:13-1 - Title to canal vested in state

13:13-1. Title to canal vested in state  Pursuant to the rights reserved by it in and by virtue of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company," which act was enacted by the legislature of the state of New Jersey on February fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and by virtue of section seventeen of said act, and all other acts supplemental and amendatory to said act, the state of New Jersey shall forthwith take possession of the Delaware and Raritan canal, hereinafter in this chapter designated as the "canal" , and the feeder thereof and the appendages thereto, and the works and improvements erected thereon, except the properties and facilities now used for railroad purposes referred to in section 13:13-7 of this title, heretofore abandoned by the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, the former owner thereof, and that in and by and upon such taking of possession, title to such canal and feeder, the appendages thereto and the works and improvements erected thereon shall be deemed to be and shall thenceforth be vested in the state of New Jersey to be thereafter used or disposed of as the legislature may deem proper.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:13-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:13-2 - Custody of canal and feeder vested in department of conservation and development

13:13-2. Custody of canal and feeder vested in department of conservation and development  The department of conservation and development is empowered and directed to enter upon and take possession of the canal and feeder mentioned in section 13:13-1 of this title, except the properties and facilities now used for railroad purposes referred to in section 13:13-7 of this title, for and on behalf of the state of New Jersey.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:13-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:13-3 - Repair and preservation of canal and feeder and banks thereof

13:13-3. Repair and preservation of canal and feeder and banks thereof  13:13-3. The canal and feeder shall continue to be a public highway, and, until the legislature shall have further directed the use or disposition of the canal and feeder, the Department of Environmental Protection or its designee, the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, shall, until further directions of the legislature, repair and preserve the banks of the canal and feeder, and at all times keep a flow of water through the canal at a level heretofore maintained when the canal was in operation or as necessary to conduct dredging operations or effect repairs, except that, during the period of December fifteenth of each year and March first of the ensuing year, the department may close the canal or maintain such flow of water as it deems desirable or necessary to comply with any contract for the sale of water.  To insure the flow aforesaid and in order to preserve sanitary conditions in the canal and about the banks thereof and the towpath adjacent thereto, the feeder, the canal and the banks thereof and the towpath shall be kept free of weeds and other growth, save and except such growth as, in the judgment of the department, is conducive to the appearance of the canal and feeder and the banks and towpath thereof.  Amended 1991,c.344,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:13-3.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:13-3.1 - Department of Transportation, control and responsibility for bridge maintenance; commissioner may close public access

13:13-3.1. Department of Transportation, control and responsibility for bridge maintenance; commissioner may close public access  4. The provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, and until further direction from the Legislature, the Department of Transportation shall have control and responsibility for the maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and replacement of any existing vehicle bridges over the Delaware and Raritan Canal carrying State, county, or municipal roads and any guardrails or barriers along the approaches to these vehicle bridges. The commissioner, in accordance with generally accepted engineering principles, standards or techniques, may, in order to protect the public safety, order the closing of public access, including roads, highways, sidewalk, tracks, paths or passageways, leading to, in, under or near any bridge described pursuant to this amendatory and supplementary act, the provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.  L.1991,c.344,s.4.