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NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-36.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-36.1 - Lands restricted to beach and park purposes; retention or disposition; referendum; optional courses

40:60-36.1. Lands restricted to beach and park purposes; retention or disposition; referendum; optional courses  In any municipality where lands have been conveyed to a municipality, and a valuable consideration has been paid therefor, with conditions, limitations and restrictions contained in such conveyance upon said lands to the effect that said lands shall forever thereafter be used solely for public uses of beach or park purposes and prohibiting the municipality from leasing or selling all or any part of such lands for private use, the governing body may at any time after five years from date of acquiring said lands, where no improvements upon, damages to or changes in said lands have been made, may cause to be put upon the ballots of any general election a question to determine whether or not the general public desire to retain said lands with said conditions, limitations and restrictions thereon. If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of retaining said lands with said conditions, limitations and restrictions thereon, the said lands shall be so retained; but, if a majority of the votes so cast shall be against so retaining said lands, the governing body of said municipality shall take one of the following courses: (a) Adopt a resolution renouncing all public, right, title and interest of said municipality in said lands, after which said municipality may levy subsequent taxes and municipal liens against the same as in the case of other lands not owned by the municipality. (b) Offer to convey all the right, title and interest of the municipality to the person who conveyed said lands to the municipality for the same consideration as the municipality paid. The word "person" as used in this paragraph and in the succeeding paragraph hereof shall be construed to include the heirs-at-law, next of kin, devisees, administrators, executors, successors and assigns of the individual or individuals who conveyed said lands to the municipality and where the grantor to the municipality was a corporation, the word "person" shall include such corporation, its successors and assigns. (c) If the person who conveyed the lands to municipality refuses or neglects, for ninety days after tender of conveyance from municipality, to accept said conveyance and pay the said consideration price therefor, as described in the preceding paragraph hereof, the municipality may consider said conditions, limitations and restrictions waived and ineffectual and proceed, at any time thereafter, to make such use, sale, lease or rental of said lands as, in the opinion of its governing body, are for the best public interest. L.1940, c. 156, p. 353, s. 1, eff. June 28, 1940.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-36.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-36.2 - Lands conveyed with conditions, limitations and restrictions; election on retention

40:60-36.2. Lands conveyed with conditions, limitations and restrictions; election on retention  In any municipality where lands have been conveyed to a municipality and no consideration has been paid therefor, with conditions, limitations and restrictions contained in such conveyance upon said lands to the effect that said lands shall be used for public or park purposes and prohibiting the municipality from erecting structures upon the same or from using said lands other than for public purposes, and providing that said lands shall revert to the grantor or his heirs or assigns upon breach of any of such conditions, whether said lands have been accepted by the municipality or not, the governing body at any time after five years from the date said lands were acquired, when no improvements upon, damages to or changes in said lands have been made, may cause to be put upon the ballots of any general election a question to determine whether or not the general public desire to retain said lands with said conditions, limitations and restrictions thereon. L.1941, c. 104, p. 236, s. 1, eff. April 30, 1941.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-36.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-36.3 - Offer of reconveyance of lands conveyed with conditions and restrictions

40:60-36.3. Offer of reconveyance of lands conveyed with conditions and restrictions  If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of retaining said lands with said conditions, limitations and restrictions thereon, the said lands shall be so retained; but, if a majority of the votes so cast shall be against so retaining said lands, the governing body of said municipality shall offer to convey all the right, title and interest of the municipality to the person who conveyed said lands to the municipality or to his or her heirs or assigns or to such person or persons who may then have the reversionary interest in the same. The word "person" as used in this paragraph and in the succeeding paragraph hereof shall be construed to include the heirs-at-law, next of kin, devisees, administrators, executors, successors and assigns of the individual or individuals who conveyed said lands to the municipality, and where the grantor to the municipality was a corporation, the word "person" shall include such corporation, its successors and assigns. L.1941, c. 104, p. 236, s. 2, eff. April 30, 1941.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-36.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-36.4 - Use of lands conveyed with conditions on refusal of offer of reconveyance

40:60-36.4. Use of lands conveyed with conditions on refusal of offer of reconveyance  If the person who conveyed the lands to the municipality refuses or neglects, for ninety days after tender of conveyance from the municipality, to accept said conveyance, as described in the preceding paragraph hereof, the said municipality may consider said conditions, limitations and restrictions waived and ineffectual and proceed, at any time thereafter, to make such use, sale, lease or rental of said lands as, in the opinion of its governing body, are for the best public interest. L.1941, c. 104, p. 237, s. 3, eff. April 30, 1941.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-40.6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-40.6 - Reconveyance of unneeded lands to nonprofit hospital association

40:60-40.6. Reconveyance of unneeded lands to nonprofit hospital association  Whenever any municipality shall have acquired any lands for any public use from any duly incorporated nonprofit hospital association and the governing body of such municipality shall thereafter determine that such lands are no longer needed for any municipal or public purpose, such municipality may by resolution of its governing body authorize the sale and conveyance of such lands back to such nonprofit hospital association for such consideration and upon such terms, conditions and limitations as said governing body shall deem advisable. L.1964, c. 173, s. 1, eff. Aug. 19, 1964.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-40.7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-40.7 - Persons whose residential improved property is to be acquired for highway or other public purposes; application to buy unneeded lands

40:60-40.7. Persons whose residential improved property is to be acquired for highway or other public purposes; application to buy unneeded lands  Any person who owns and resides in improved real property which is to be acquired by the Federal Government, the State, a county, municipality, or an authority or agency created by any thereof, for highway or other public purposes, may apply to the governing body of the municipality wherein such property is situated, to purchase at private sale, for residential purposes, a parcel of real property owned by the municipality not needed for public use, provided said person owned and resided in said property at the time notice was first given by any of the above of said acquisition to be made thereof. L.1965, c. 18, s. 1. Amended by L.1966, c. 264, s. 2, eff. Sept. 6, 1966.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-40.8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-40.8 - Ordinance authorizing sale; price; terms and conditions

40:60-40.8. Ordinance authorizing sale; price; terms and conditions  When the governing body of the municipality shall determine that such an owner or owners are qualified to make application pursuant to this act and that the municipality has a parcel or parcels of land not needed for public use, it may, by ordinance, authorize the sale and conveyance of such parcel or parcels of real property described therein to any such applicant or applicants, at private sale, for residential purposes only, at a fair market price to be fixed by the governing body after obtaining at least 2 independent appraisals thereof by licensed real estate brokers, within a period of time specified in the ordinance, upon such terms and conditions as shall be specified by the governing body. Such ordinance shall provide that the sale and conveyance shall be made subject to covenants that the grantee shall, within 2 years from the date of the deed or such lesser period of time specified therein, construct residential improvements thereon of a specified minimum cost and that the grantee shall not make a voluntary sale and conveyance of the premises for the period of 1 year from the date of the deed. On application, and upon good cause being shown, the governing body may, by resolution, extend the time specified for the construction of the improvements to the premises for an additional period not in excess of 1 year. L.1965, c. 18, s. 2, eff. April 12, 1965.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-40.9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-40.9 - Contents of notice of pendency of ordinance resolution authorizing sale and conveyance; reversion of title

40:60-40.9. Contents of notice of pendency of ordinance resolution authorizing sale and conveyance; reversion of title  The published notice of the pendency of the ordinance shall contain the sale prices fixed for the parcels of real estate therein described and that, in the event more than one qualified person shall apply to purchase a particular parcel, such parcel will be sold at auction, to the highest bidder among such qualified applicants with the minimum acceptable bid being the sale price fixed in accordance with section 2, above. No sale and conveyance made pursuant to this act shall become effective until specifically authorized by resolution of the governing body adopted at a regular meeting. In the event of failure by the grantee, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns of any real estate conveyed pursuant to this act to fully perform any of the terms, conditions or covenants imposed in connection therewith, upon resolution of the governing body, such real estate and improvements, if any, shall thereupon revert to and the title thereof be vested in the municipality. L.1965, c. 18, s. 3, eff. April 12, 1965.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-41 - Public burial grounds devoted to other public uses; disinterment of bodies

40:60-41. Public burial grounds devoted to other public uses; disinterment of bodies  The governing body of any municipality, wherein any lands are held by the municipality for burial purposes in trust for such use, may by ordinance devote such lands to any other public purpose or use to which in the judgment of the governing body it is best adapted. The ordinance shall provide for the removal of any human remains interred in such lands to some proper burial place and for the protection and suitable marking and care thereof. The governing body may make such appropriation therefor as it may judge to be reasonably necessary.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-46 - Leasing municipally owned and operated casino and bathing establishment; referendum

40:60-46. Leasing municipally owned and operated casino and bathing establishment; referendum  Whenever in any municipality bordering on the Atlantic ocean, owning and operating a public casino, playground and bathing establishment, the owners of property therein, representing two-thirds in amount of its ratables, shall file in the office of the clerk of the governing body, a petition requesting the governing body to submit to the voters of the municipality at an election to be held for that purpose, the proposition of leasing the public casino, playgrounds and bathing establishment, the governing body shall submit the proposition to the vote of the electors of the municipality at the general election held therein at least thirty days after the filing of the petition unless the governing body shall call a special election therefor.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-47 - Petition; sufficiency

40:60-47. Petition; sufficiency  The question as to whether the signatures of the necessary two-thirds in amount of ratables have joined in the petition shall be determined by the governing body, which shall use for that purpose the last preceding valuation for the purpose of taxation.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-48 - Lease; term

40:60-48. Lease; term  If the proposition shall be approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the municipality voting at the election, the governing body shall forthwith, upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, lease the public casino, playgrounds and bathing establishment for a period not exceeding five years.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-49 - Advertisement for bids; award

40:60-49. Advertisement for bids; award  The letting thereof shall be advertised in a newspaper circulating in the municipality at least ten days prior to the receipt of bids, and shall be to the highest responsible bidder therefor.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-49.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-49.1 - Lease of cultural centers; exemption of leasehold interest from taxation

40:60-49.1. Lease of cultural centers; exemption of leasehold interest from taxation  The governing body of any city of the first class may lease any cultural center to a nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to Title 15 of the Revised Statutes, Corporations and Associations not for Profit, to conduct such center. Any such lease (a) shall be for a term not exceeding 50 years; (b) shall provide for a term rental, payable in such installments as may be agreed upon, at least equal to the acquisition cost of the leased premises if acquired by the governing body within the 5-year period next preceding the making of such lease, or at least equal to the appraised value of the leased premises if acquired more than 5 years prior to the making of the lease; (c) shall limit the primary use of the leased premises to purposes of a cultural center, with provision for the subletting or licensing of space not adapted to or required for such primary use; (d) shall provide that the leased premises shall be available generally to the public, upon reasonable terms and conditions, and that the lessee shall not discriminate in the use of the property on the grounds of race, color, creed, religion or ancestry; and (e) shall make such other provisions respecting the leased premises and the conditions of letting as the governing body may prescribe, including the grant of a purchase option or options. Notwithstanding the provision of any law governing the taxation of leasehold interests in exempt real property, the leasehold estate of any lessee or sublessee or other lawful tenant or occupant of the premises constituting all or part of a cultural center so leased shall be exempt from taxation by any municipality or county or by the State and its political divisions. L.1962, c. 86, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-50 - Transfer of municipal property to federal government for national park

40:60-50. Transfer of municipal property to federal government for national park  Any municipality owning or holding lands devoted to or used for public recreation ground or park purposes or set apart and designated as a public recreation ground or park, or devoted to or used for water purposes or any other purposes whatsoever, however acquired or held, and which said lands embrace or are a part of a site or sites of historical interest and are part of the lands or areas of any national historical park created, established, dedicated or set apart by act of the congress of the United States, may dedicate, turn over and transfer said lands, or any part or parts thereof, free of payment therefor, to the federal government for the purposes of and to become part of said national historical park. Such dedication, turning over or transfer of said land shall be authorized by ordinance and may be made with such restrictions, reservations and reversions as the governing body of said municipality may by said ordinance determine.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51 - National park; referendum if voters protest

40:60-51. National park; referendum if voters protest  The ordinance provided in section 40:60-50 of this title shall become operative ten days after the publication thereof after its final passage, unless within said ten days a protest or protests against making such conveyance or dedication shall be filed in the office of the municipal clerk signed by taxpayers representing ten per cent in amount of the assessed valuation of such municipality whose names appear on the last preceding assessment roll thereof, in which case such ordinance shall remain inoperative until a proposition for the ratification thereof shall be adopted at an election to be held for that purpose by a majority of the qualified voters of the municipality voting on such proposition. The certificate of the municipal clerk filed in his office as to the filing or sufficiency of any protest or protests shall be conclusive for the purposes of this section. At least ten days before the election, notice thereof shall be published once in a newspaper published in such municipality, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in a newspaper published in the county and circulating in the municipality. Any proposition submitted to the voters of any municipality under the provisions of this section and said section 40:60-50 shall be voted upon at the next general election held in the municipality at least thirty days after the filing of the protest or protests herein provided for, unless the governing body thereof shall call a special election therefor. Any such special election shall be conducted and canvassed by the same officers and in the same manner as near as may be prescribed by the laws regulating general elections. The proposition shall be stated on the ballots in substantially the following form: "Shall an ordinance of the (name of governing body) of the of (name of municipality) entitled (title of ordinance and date of passage), be ratified?" "Yes." "No." The governing body of such municipality shall adopt a resolution declaring the result of the election, which resolution shall be published once in the manner provided above for the notice of election. No action, suit or proceeding to contest the validity of such election shall be instituted after the expiration of twenty days from the date of publication of the resolution declaring the result thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51.2 - Power to waive restrictions.

40:60-51.2 Power to waive restrictions.  1. Any municipality is authorized and empowered, by resolution of the governing body thereof, to waive, release, modify or subordinate any terms, covenants, conditions, limitations or reverters imposed in sales and conveyances of lands as to the erection, alteration or demolition of buildings or any other use to be made of land heretofore imposed by said municipality to accomplish the purposes for which such lands were sold and conveyed either at public or private sale, including those set forth pursuant to section 21 of P.L.1971, c.199 (C.40A:12-21),but only after public hearing held before such governing body, of the holding of which notice describing the lands in question, and the terms, covenants, conditions, limitations or reverters to be waived, released, modified or subordinated, and, if to be modified or subordinated, describing the manner in which the same shall be modified or subordinated, shall first have been given by advertisement published once each week for two weeks in a newspaper published in said municipality or, if no newspaper be published therein, then in a newspaper circulating in such municipality, provided, however, that the power herein granted shall not be exercised to impair any vested or contractual rights of third parties. L.1943,c.33,s.1; (title amended 1946, c.140, s.1; 1970, .43, s.1.) amended 1946, c.140, s.2; 1950, c.136; 1951, c.142; 1956, c.111;1958, c.119; 1960, c.101; 1963, c.72; 1965, c.15; 1969, c.155; 1970, c.43, s.2; 1977, c.31; 1983, c.442; 1993, c.131; 2005, c.52, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-51.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-51.5 - Waiver, release or modification of covenants, conditions or limitations as to erection of buildings or use of land in conveyances

40:60-51.5. Waiver, release or modification of covenants, conditions or limitations as to erection of buildings or use of land in conveyances  Any municipality is authorized and empowered, by resolution of the governing body thereof, to waive, release or modify any covenants, conditions or limitations as to the erection of buildings or any other use to be made of land heretofore imposed by said municipality in sales and conveyances of land by such municipality at public or private sale made prior to the effective date of this act, but only after public hearing held before such governing body, of the holding of which notice describing the lands in question and the covenants, conditions or limitations to be waived, released or modified and, if to be modified, describing the manner in which the same shall be modified, shall first have been given by advertisement published once each week for two weeks in a newspaper published in said municipality or, if no newspaper be published therein, then in a newspaper circulating in such municipality; provided, however, that the power herein granted shall not be exercised to impair any vested or contractual rights of third parties. L.1953, c. 403, p. 2040, s. 1, eff. Sept. 16, 1953.