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NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.6 - Schedule for reimbursement for portion of cost

40:67-23.6. Schedule for reimbursement for portion of cost  5. a. Pursuant to a reimbursement agreement entered into in lieu of providing some or all of the services set forth in section 2 of P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.3), the municipality shall reimburse the qualified private community for a portion of the cost of providing services commencing in local budget year 1993 for municipalities operating on a calendar year basis and in local budget year 1994 for municipalities operating on a fiscal year basis in the following manner:  1993 or 1994, as appropriate, ...20% of the total cost of services in 1993 or 1994, as appropriate  1994 or 1995, as appropriate, ...40% of the total cost of services in 1994 or 1995, as appropriate  1995 or 1996, as appropriate, ...60% of the total cost of services in 1995 or 1996, as appropriate  1996 or 1997, as appropriate, ...80% of the total cost of services in 1996 or 1997, as appropriate  The total cost of services in each local budget year shall be determined pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.5). In local budget year 1997 or 1998, as appropriate, and for each local budget year thereafter, the municipality shall either provide the services pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.3) or enter into a written agreement to annually reimburse the qualified private community in full pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.5).  b. Notwithstanding the schedule set forth in subsection a. of this section, any municipality that entered into a reimbursement agreement prior to January 1, 1993, shall be permitted to continue in accordance with the schedule in that reimbursement agreement.  c. Appropriations by a municipality during the phase-in period in conformance with the implementation schedule set forth in subsection a. or b. of this section shall be considered appropriations mandated by State statute for the purposes of subsection cc. of section 3 of P.L.1976, c.68 (C.40A:4-45.3). The Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, for the purpose of calculating the allowable operating appropriations before exceptions, shall provide a cap base adjustment to the local budget year in which the 100% level is reached for the full amount appropriated pursuant to P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.2 et seq.).  L.1989,c.299,s.5; amended 1993,c.6,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.7 - Acceptance for public use if conforms to municipal specifications

40:67-23.7. Acceptance for public use if conforms to municipal specifications  A municipality shall be required to accept for dedication for public use, by a qualified private community, any road or street within the community that conforms to municipal specifications for public roads and streets.  L.1989, c.299,s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.8 - Additional services; repeal of ordinance; prior agreements to remain in effect

40:67-23.8. Additional services; repeal of ordinance; prior agreements to remain in effect  Nothing in this act shall prevent a municipality from providing additional services, that primarily serve public purposes, to the residents of a qualified private community. The governing body of any municipality which prior to the operative date of this act has enacted an ordinance providing all the services or reimbursement provided by this act to a qualified private community may repeal the ordinance and implement the provisions of this act. Nothing in this act shall be construed as abrogating or superseding any agreement in effect pursuant to such an ordinance prior to the operative date of this act.  L.1989, c.299, s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-26 - Passage of ordinances; subsequent proceedings by resolution; supervision by county

40:67-26. Passage of ordinances; subsequent proceedings by resolution; supervision by county  After the passage of such ordinance authorizing in general terms the making of such improvement and the expenditure of a sum equal to the estimated cost thereof, all proceedings to fix the form, terms, cost, manner, and materials to be used and details of the improvement, providing for the taking over of the road to be improved as a county road, and form and details of the contract may be by resolution. All work on the improvement shall be carried on under the supervision of the board of chosen freeholders.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-27 - Contract with county; advertisement for bids unnecessary

40:67-27. Contract with county; advertisement for bids unnecessary  Any municipality may enter into such contract with the county in which it is situated without advertising for bids, but otherwise shall proceed in the manner provided in this subtitle, including the giving of notice to the owners of real estate affected by such proposed improvement.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-28 - Assessment for benefits; bonds and improvement certificates

40:67-28. Assessment for benefits; bonds and improvement certificates  Any municipality entering into such a contract may assess all or part of the cost to be borne by the municipality upon the real estate benefited by the improvement, in the same manner as assessments for benefits for local improvements in such municipality, and the same authorization and hearing to all persons interested shall be required as in the case of local improvements. The municipality may issue its bonds and bond anticipation notes to finance the improvement.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-29 - Highways may be connected by tunnels; approaches

40:67-29. Highways may be connected by tunnels; approaches  When in any municipality any street has been improved by the municipality to or near any navigable waterway or basin, on both sides of the waterway or basin, and for any reason it shall be deemed advisable to build a tunnel or tunnels under such waterway or basin to connect such street or streets or parts of streets, at or near the end or ends thereof, with a street or streets or parts of streets, at or near the ends thereof on the other side of such waterway or basin in the same municipality, the governing body of such municipality may lay out and construct a tunnel under such waterway or basin and under such parts of such streets or adjacent streets, highways or avenues as shall be desirable to make the grade of such tunnel and approaches practicable, with the necessary approaches thereto on each side, connecting such street or streets, or parts of streets, with a street or streets, or parts of streets, or adjacent streets, or highways or avenues on the opposite or other side of such waterway or basin in the same municipality, of sufficient size to accommodate the public travel thereby and therein, instead of over such street or streets or adjacent streets, highways or avenues where such tunnel or its approaches shall be built.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-30 - Use of state land

40:67-30. Use of state land  If it shall be necessary to own or take any lands of the state under or above tidewater or the state's interest therein such lands or interest may be taken and used for said purposes, and the state hereby assents to such taking without compensation.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-31 - Location of tunnel and approaches; right of entry upon lands

40:67-31. Location of tunnel and approaches; right of entry upon lands  The governing body may locate such tunnels and approaches wholly on private lands, or partly in streets or highways or avenues and partly on private lands, and the municipality by its agents and employees may enter upon, open, use and occupy such portion of any such street, highway or avenue in the municipality as may be necessary or proper to construct properly the tunnel or tunnels and approaches.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-32 - Acquisition of necessary land; damages to land compensated

40:67-32. Acquisition of necessary land; damages to land compensated  When the tunnel or tunnels or approaches shall be located upon any land other than a highway or street, or land which has been acquired by the municipality, and such land or any right or interest therein shall be necessary for the construction of such tunnel or tunnels or approaches the municipality may acquire said lands in fee simple, or any lesser estate or right therein, and the proceedings for the acquisition of such property shall conform to the proceedings provided by law for the acquisition of lands for the opening of such streets in the municipality. The proceedings to ascertain the damages, if any, sustained by the owner or owners of lands fronting on such improvements by reason of the construction and maintenance of such tunnel or tunnels or approaches, shall conform as nearly as may be to the proceedings provided by law for ascertaining the damages sustained by the owners of property injured by the change of grade of a street where such street has been built upon since the establishment of a former grade.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-33 - Contract with landowners to build tunnel; contribution by; streets vacated

40:67-33. Contract with landowners to build tunnel; contribution by; streets vacated  The governing body of such municipality with the mayor or other chief executive officer may enter into contract with the owner or owners of lands fronting on all or any part of said proposed tunnel or tunnels or approaches, or with any person or persons who may prefer a tunnel to other means of connection as aforesaid, whereby such owner or persons may themselves build or erect said tunnel or tunnels and approaches, or whereby they may contribute towards the building of the same such sums of money as in the judgment of the governing body and the mayor or other chief executive officer may be just and fair, in consideration of the authorities vacating the whole or any portion of such street or streets over and above and on each side of the proposed tunnel or tunnels or approaches, which vacation the authorities are hereby empowered and authorized to make in consideration thereof, any law, usage or charter to the contrary notwithstanding, but no contract or act of vacation under this article shall impair the public right in any such street or part of street until the tunnel is completed.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-34 - Statement of cost and damages filed

40:67-34. Statement of cost and damages filed  The governing body authorized to construct the tunnel shall file with the municipal clerk a detailed statement in writing of the estimated cost of the tunnel or tunnels and of the estimated damages to be paid to property owners by reason of the construction thereof and the approaches. Until such a statement shall have been filed, no contract or act of vacation under the provisions hereof, shall be made.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-35 - Tunnel considered general improvement

40:67-35. Tunnel considered general improvement  The work provided for in this article shall be undertaken as a general improvement, and the provisions therefor, except as in this article otherwise provided, shall conform to proceedings provided in this subtitle for making general improvements.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-47 - Release or extinction of public right in canal or canal bed not used for twenty years

40:67-47. Release or extinction of public right in canal or canal bed not used for twenty years  Whenever any canal or canal bed, the title to which is not vested in the State, county, municipality, or other public body, and has not been used for navigation purposes or as a public highway for passage and repassage of the public at large with boats or other means of transportation for a period of twenty years or more, the governing body of any municipality in which such canal or canal bed is located in whole or in part, may by ordinance vacate, release and extinguish the public right in that portion of the canal or canal bed or any part thereof which is located within such municipality, whether such public right was created by an act of the Legislature or by dedication or in any other manner; provided, it shall appear to the governing body of such municipality that the public interest will not be injured by the release or extinction of such public right. L.1949, c. 288, p. 885, s. 1, eff. May 28, 1949.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-48 - Filing copy of ordinance; evidence

40:67-48. Filing copy of ordinance; evidence  After such ordinance becomes effective, the municipal clerk shall file a copy of such ordinance, certified by him, under the seal of the municipality, to be a true copy of such ordinance, in the office wherein conveyances of lands are recorded in the county in which the municipality is situated, and such certified copy shall be recorded in a book with proper index to be provided for the purpose and entitled "Vacations." The record of any such ordinance, or a copy thereof, certified to be a true copy of such ordinance by the officer in whose office such record is kept, under the seal of the county, shall be taken and received in all courts and places as evidence of such ordinance and the adoption thereof. L.1949, c. 288, p. 885, s. 2, eff. May 8, 1949.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-1 - Acquisition of land; reclamation and improvement of land

40:68-1. Acquisition of land; reclamation and improvement of land  The governing body of each municipality may acquire by purchase or condemnation, any marsh or other unimproved lands within or adjoining the municipality as it may deem advisable for the best interests of the municipality, and, from time to time, reclaim, fill in and improve the same, or part thereof, and construct thereon wharves, piers, docks, slips, basins, harbor structures and other like structures, and docking facilities, roads, railroads, bridges and other facilities for transportation, and open, construct, deepen, widen, keep open, dredge and maintain channels in any navigable waters upon which any lands so acquired may front, and may acquire, by purchase or condemnation, additional lands to connect such piers, docks, wharves and other structures with the highways and railways within the municipality, and with other public docks and wharves therein, and upon such additional lands may construct and maintain waterways, railroads, roads, highways and appliances suitable to afford convenient access to said wharves, docks, piers and other structures, and also may construct thereon wharves, piers, docks and other structures proper and convenient to afford docking and transportation facilities; and may acquire by purchase or condemnation, or by lease on such terms and conditions as it may deem proper, any wharves, piers, docks, slips, basins and other like structures within the municipality, and all lands, rights and privileges in anywise appurtenant thereto. No lands shall be purchased or otherwise acquired nor shall any contract be executed for reclaiming, filling in or improving the same, or for the construction of any structures, or the making of any improvement, or doing of any work mentioned in this section, until an appropriation shall have been made equal to the cost thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-2 - Contracts; plans, specifications, advertisement and bids

40:68-2. Contracts; plans, specifications, advertisement and bids  Before the erection, construction, extension, alteration or improvement of wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips, basins, or harbor or other structures or shipping and docking facilities in and upon or about any property owned or acquired for such purpose or reclaimed by the municipality the governing body shall prepare full and detailed plans and specifications for such work, and advertise for proposals for doing such work under said plans and according to such specifications, in the same manner as is prescribed by law for obtaining proposals and letting contracts for public works in the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-3 - Lease of improvements; terms; lessee's bond; use of improvement by others

40:68-3. Lease of improvements; terms; lessee's bond; use of improvement by others  The governing body may lease for any period not exceeding ten years, under such covenants, terms and conditions as it may prescribe, storage facilities, wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips and basins belonging to the municipality. All such leases shall be made by public sale and shall be sold to the highest responsible bidder at public sale at such time and place as the governing body may fix. If no satisfactory bid be made at such sale such lease or leases may, in the same manner, be again exposed to public sale, or the governing body may lease the same for one year or less, and for such rent or rents as it shall deem proper. The term of any lease sold shall begin within twelve months from the date of sale and a bond with satisfactory surety conditioned for the faithful performance of all covenants, terms and conditions of the lease may be required from the lessee. At least two weeks' public notice of the time, place, terms and conditions of the sale of all such leases shall be given by advertisement in two newspapers circulating in the municipality, if there be two such newspapers, or if not, then in one such newspaper, for two successive weeks next preceding the sale, twice in each week. The governing body may permit the temporary use for landing purposes, of any wharf, pier, dock, bulkhead, or basin, or the use thereof by any department of the municipality, or by the state or the United States, or any department thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-4 - Ordinances relating to water fronts

40:68-4. Ordinances relating to water fronts  The governing body of every municipality shall have power to make, amend, repeal and enforce ordinances to: General improvements; use regulated. a. Provide for the erection, improvement, alteration, extension, maintenance, use, regulation and supervision of wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips, basins, docking facilities, harbors and harbor structures; regulate, fix and establish bulkhead and pier head lines, and the distances between piers, subject to the regulations of the United States and of this state, and make or cause to be made soundings and surveys and plans therefor, and to keep records thereof. Licenses; fees. b. Adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the construction, alteration, improvement, extension, repair and use of all wharves, piers, docks, bulkheads, slips, basins, docking facilities, harbors, and harbor structures within the municipality, and for the issuance of licenses and permits therefor, upon payment of fees to be fixed from time to time. Regulation of rates chargeable. c. Regulate the service and fix the maximum rates, after public hearing of all parties interested, to be charged for public wharfage, dockage and cranage, whether performed by the owners of the wharves, docks and piers, or by the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-5 - Acquisition of railroads and equipment connecting with water front improvements

40:68-5. Acquisition of railroads and equipment connecting with water front improvements  Any municipality may own or acquire by purchase or lease, any railroad and railroad system existing on April nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, which lies entirely within the municipality, serving or connected with or adjacent to any wharf, pier, dock, bulkhead, slip, basin, or like structure owned by or leased to the municipality, whether or not leased or subleased by it to others, which on April nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, was in active operation for the sole use of transporting freight between a railroad terminal and a water shipping terminal, together with all real estate and interests therein connected with or appurtenant thereto, and also the sidings, rolling stock, equipment, tools, buildings, structures, facilities and appliances thereof, used or adapted for use, for transportation and shipping, or for affording convenient access to the wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips, basins or like structures of the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-6 - Operation of railroad by municipality; lease to corporation

40:68-6. Operation of railroad by municipality; lease to corporation  Any municipality may operate any such railroad or railroad system owned or leased by it, or rent the same for revenue, to a corporation authorized by law to operate, upon such rentals, terms and conditions, as to operation or otherwise, as may be agreed, and in case of operation by the municipality may make, alter, repeal and enforce ordinances, rules and regulations for such operation, and for fixing and collecting rates and reasonable charges for all services rendered thereby, but every such railroad or railroad system shall be operated exclusively for the transportation of freight.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-7 - Income from improvements and railway; use of; annual deficits

40:68-7. Income from improvements and railway; use of; annual deficits  All income received by the municipality for wharfage, storage, cranage, dockage and all other rates, fees and charges, all rentals from leases, and the gross receipts and income received from the operation by the municipality, or for the rental by it, of any such railroad or railroad system, shall be paid into the treasury of the municipality and applied as follows: First, to the management and operation, care, maintenance and upkeep of the wharves, docks, piers, slips, basins and other structures, and the operation, care, maintenance, upkeep, management and supervision of any such railroad or railroad system operated by the municipality; Second, to the payment of interest upon outstanding bonds or other indebtedness of the municipality; Third, to the payment of the principal of all such bonds and indebtedness; and Fourth, to the general expenses of the municipality. Any deficiency remaining for payment of all proper expenses in any year, and the yearly interest on and proper yearly provision for the principal of all such bonds and other debts, after application of all revenues received as aforesaid for the year shall be appropriated, levied and raised by taxation.