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NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-8 - Funds for supervision and control of improvements and ferries

40:68-8. Funds for supervision and control of improvements and ferries  The governing body shall appropriate and raise annually the funds necessary to pay the costs and expenses incident to the supervision and control of wharves, docks and ferries.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-9 - Officers, agents and employees

40:68-9. Officers, agents and employees  Any municipality may provide for and employ all officers, agents, engineers and employees needed to carry out the powers given by this chapter, and prescribe their duties, powers and authority, fix their salaries and compensation and their terms of office and employment and the method of appointment and employment, removal, suspension or discharge.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-10 - Annual report; contents; filing

40:68-10. Annual report; contents; filing  The governing body shall require an annual report to be made and submitted to the mayor or other chief executive officer and filed in the office of the municipal clerk, setting forth the amount of property owned, the amount of property acquired during the year and the price paid therefor; the condition of all storage facilities, wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips and basins, and approaches thereto; the amount of money received from dockage, wharfage, storage, cranage and other services, itemized as to sources; an itemized account of the money expended for improvements and new construction, repairs, purchase of property, or for any other purpose; the number, names and addresses of all employees, and their respective salaries; the terms and conditions of all leases of storage facilities, wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips, basins and ferries; the time of expiration of all leases and the amount paid therefor; and the number of ships, vessels and boats arriving and departing, and their net and gross tonnage.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-11 - Powers conferred deemed additional

40:68-11. Powers conferred deemed additional  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to repeal, amend or affect the provisions of Title 48, Public Utilities. This chapter shall be deemed to confer additional and independent powers, and the powers herein conferred shall not be deemed restricted or limited by any other law, except the law herein specifically named.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-12 - Private wharves or other improvements; license for construction; application; procedure

40:68-12. Private wharves or other improvements; license for construction; application; procedure  Any person desiring to construct, alter, improve or extend any wharf, pier, dock, bulkhead, or other building in the nature thereof, harbor structures, and shipping and docking facilities shall make written application to the proper officer or body stating the nature and extent of such intended construction, alteration, improvement or extension, and shall file with such application, full and complete plans and specifications thereof, and shall also produce his deeds, leases or other evidence of title, or right of possession. The governing body of the municipality shall give notice of the time and place of public hearing of such application, to all persons interested, by advertisement in two newspapers of general circulation in the municipality, for two successive weeks at least once in each week, and by posting such notice upon the lands or premises mentioned in the application. After such hearing the governing body shall by resolution grant or deny such application, and approve or disapprove the plans and specifications filed therewith and if it grant the same and approve the plans and specifications, shall in its resolution, direct a license or permit to issue therefor. All such licenses or permits shall be recorded in a book to be kept for the purpose, and no such license or permit shall be unreasonably withheld by the governing body.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-13 - Failure to obtain license; effect; penalty; duration of license

40:68-13. Failure to obtain license; effect; penalty; duration of license  Any such wharf, pier, dock, bulkhead, building, harbor or other structure, constructed, altered, improved or extended within the limits of any municipality beyond low water mark, without a license or order of court first obtained therefor, shall be deemed and taken to be a public or common nuisance and the person causing the same to be so constructed, altered, improved or extended without a license, shall be guilty of maintaining a nuisance, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment of not more than six months, or either or both, in the discretion of the court, and the court may, by its order, direct either the defendant or the sheriff of the county, at the expense of the defendant, to abate the nuisance. Every such license or permit or order granted or made for the construction, alteration, improvement or extension of any such wharf, pier or other like structure, beyond low water mark of the waterways, or any harbor structure, shall become and be absolutely void, unless work thereunder shall be commenced within six months after the date thereof and diligently prosecuted to completion.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-14 - Removal of obstruction from wharves; procedure on failure of owner

40:68-14. Removal of obstruction from wharves; procedure on failure of owner  The owner or lessee of private wharves, piers and bulkheads within the municipality shall at all times keep and maintain the adjoining dock or docks clean and free from obstructions, and the municipality may, upon default for thirty days after service of notice upon any such owner or lessee, cause said dock or docks to be cleaned and freed from obstructions, and apportion the cost thereof among the owner, owners, lessee and lessees of the wharves, piers and bulkheads adjoining such dock or docks in proportion to the extent that their wharves, piers or bulkheads have the privilege of the use of such dock or docks. The cost so apportioned shall be a lien upon the property to the same extent and enforced and collected as liens for assessments for local improvements are enforced and collected.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-15 - Persons aggrieved may petition court; procedure

40:68-15. Persons aggrieved may petition court; procedure  40:68-15. Any person aggrieved by any decision of the governing body, either granting or refusing in whole or in part application for a license as provided in section 40:68-12 of this Title, may, within thirty days thereafter, obtain a review thereof by instituting an action in the Superior Court, joining as parties defendant all persons legally interested therein. The court shall proceed in the action in a summary manner or otherwise. The judgment of the court thereon shall be final and conclusive.  Amended 1953,c.37,s.235; 1991,c.91,s.389.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-16 - Municipal appropriation to assist federal government in protecting water front

40:68-16. Municipal appropriation to assist federal government in protecting water front  The governing body of any municipality bordering upon the Atlantic ocean may appropriate and pay out of its treasury into the treasury of the United States to and for the credit of the secretary of war to be used and expended by him or under his direction, for work or works to preserve the coast of such municipality against encroachment by the ocean which may cause or tend to cause injury and destruction of the inland waterways, navigable rivers and waterways, riparian lands, public roads and boulevards of the municipality, a sum equal in amount to any sum expended or about to be expended forthwith by or on behalf of the United States in the construction of any such protective work or works on the coast of such municipality, of which expenditure or purposed expenditure a notice signed by the secretary of war of the United States, addressed to the governor, shall be sufficient evidence and such notice shall be sufficient authority for the governing body, the finance or auditing committee and the collector or treasurer of the municipality to pay the same. Such money may be taken out of any unexpended balance or balances of any appropriations or any cash remaining on hand and not otherwise appropriated, and if such balances and cash be insufficient for the purpose, so much of such sum as may be necessary may be included in the next annual assessment and raised by the regular tax levy of the municipality. Not more than one such auxiliary appropriation, which in no case under this section shall exceed fifteen thousand dollars, shall be made by any municipality hereunder. Such appropriation shall be paid into the treasury of the United States, as hereinbefore provided, only in conjunction with a like equal payment from the county in which the municipality is located.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-17 - "Port authority" defined

40:68-17. "Port authority" defined  As used in this article "port authority" means The Port of New York Authority created by compact of April thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, between the states of New York and New Jersey, with the consent of congress and also any other public body or corporation of the state of New Jersey authorized by law to establish, maintain or operate a marine terminal.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-18 - "Marine terminal" defined

40:68-18. "Marine terminal" defined  As used in this article the words "marine terminal" means and includes a development consisting of one or more piers, wharves, docks, bulkheads, slips, basins, vehicular roadways, railroad connections, side tracks, sidings and other buildings, structures, facilities or improvements, necessary or convenient to the accommodation of steamships or other vessels and their cargoes and passengers.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-19 - "Property" defined

40:68-19. "Property" defined  As used in this article the word "property" means and includes real and personal property, chattels, lands, structures, franchises, and interests in land, including lands under water and riparian rights and any and all things and rights usually included within said term, and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lessor interests, such as easements, rights of way, uses, leases, leaseholds, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and estates, interest or rights, legal or equitable, including terms of years, and liens thereon by way of mortgages or otherwise.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-20 - Powers appurtenant to establishment and maintenance of marine terminals

40:68-20. Powers appurtenant to establishment and maintenance of marine terminals  Any municipality may co-operate with the port authority in the establishment, maintenance and operation of marine terminals within the corporate limits of such municipality, and for such purposes is hereby vested with the following powers which shall be exercised on behalf of such municipality by its governing body by ordinance, in the discretion of such governing body; to a. Acquire from the port authority marine terminals and property for marine terminal purposes, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the governing body and the port authority; b. Enter into contracts with the port authority for the establishment, acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance and use of marine terminals and property for marine terminal purposes, either by the municipality or by the port authority, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the governing body and the port authority, and to do so without advertisement or public notice otherwise than is required for the adoption of the ordinance; c. Establish, acquire, construct, operate and maintain marine terminals and marine terminal property; d. Lease, sublease and authorize subleases of marine terminals or marine terminal property, and grant franchises, wharfage rights, licenses and other rights in or to marine terminals or marine terminal property, to third persons for such periods of time and upon such terms as may seem advantageous to the governing body of the municipality, but no such lease or sublease, franchise, wharf rights, license and other rights in or to such marine terminal or marine terminal property to third persons which will afford to such third persons a monopoly of the facilities of such terminal, shall be valid unless first approved by the board of public utility commissioners; e. Enter into a contract with such port authority providing for the making of a lease to such municipality of any such marine terminal or part thereof, for a term not exceeding fifty years upon such terms and conditions as may be fixed and prescribed in such contract, and accept any lease made in accordance with such contract and do so without making any appropriation prior to the making of such contract except to meet payments required by such lease to be made within one year after the commencement of its term.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-21 - Use of income; issuance of bonds and other obligations

40:68-21. Use of income; issuance of bonds and other obligations  The income derived by any municipality from the maintenance, operation or control of any marine terminal leased to such municipality pursuant to this article shall be paid into the municipal treasury and shall be applied to the payment of any rental or other charges or obligations required to be paid by the lease accepted by such municipality and to the payment of any expenses incident to the control, supervision and operation of the marine terminal. If in the judgment of the governing body of such municipality such income will not be sufficient to pay such rental, charges, obligations and expenses, such municipality may borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of making such payments, and may issue temporary bonds or notes in anticipation of the sale of such bonds. Such obligations shall be issued pursuant to article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 40:1-1 et seq.), notwithstanding that the purposes for which said obligations are issued may constitute current expenses. Any temporary notes or temporary bonds so issued shall mature in not exceeding one year from the date when the indebtedness evidenced thereby was incurred and any permanent or definite bonds issued for said purpose shall mature in annual installments commencing not more than one year from their date and ending not more than ten years from their date. Any such bonds shall be designated "marine terminal revenue deficit bonds" and shall recite upon their face in general terms the purpose of their issuance. No such obligations may be issued later than five years after the commencement of the term of such lease, and any such bonds shall mature not later than fifteen years after the commencement of the term of such lease.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-22 - Local harbor and water front commission; creation; members; appointment; term

40:68-22. Local harbor and water front commission; creation; members; appointment; term  The governing body of each municipality is hereby authorized to create, by ordinance, a local harbor and water front commission to be known as "The Harbor Commission of " (here insert name of municipality). Such commission shall consist of seven persons, residents of such municipality, and shall be appointed by the governing body. Two members of said commission shall be members of the governing body and shall be appointed annually, and the remaining five members shall be appointed for the following terms: one member for a term of one year; one for a term of two years; one for a term of three years; one for a term of four years and one for a term of five years. Thereafter all appointments, except the members of the governing body who shall be appointed for the period of one year, shall be for the term of five years each, and the members shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. L.1940, c. 161, p. 513, s. 1, eff. June 28, 1940.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-23 - Powers and duties.

40:68-23 Powers and duties.  2. The commission so created shall be vested with such powers and duties as shall be defined and designated by ordinance adopted by the governing body of such municipality with respect to the management, operation and control of the harbor and water front owned or leased by said municipality, including the construction, maintenance, operation and use of the harbor, water front, beach, land and all properties, structures, piers, bulkheads and jetties located upon lands owned or leased by the municipality and upon lands owned or leased by the municipality contiguous to such harbor, water front and beach. A commission is vested with the power to raise, recover, tow, remove, store, destroy, and dispose of vessels that have been abandoned in the harbor or waterfront, as appropriate, pursuant to the procedures applicable to municipal waterways in the "Abandoned or Sunken Vessels Disposition Law," P.L.1975, c.369 (C.12:7C-7 et seq.). A vessel that has been abandoned at a public or private boat dock, pier, or marina is considered abandoned in the harbor or waterfront. L.1940, c.161, s.2; amended 2008, c.52, s.22.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-24 - Governing body approval required

40:68-24. Governing body approval required  3. a. Any act by the commission so created involving an expenditure, lease or transfer of property exceeding $2,500.00 in value shall require the approval, by resolution, of the municipal governing body.  b. Subject to the approval, by resolution, of the municipal governing body and notwithstanding the requirements of section 14 of P.L.1971, c.199 (C.40A:12-14), the commission so created may lease without public bidding, at such prices and upon such terms as it deems reasonable, any real or riparian property and the improvements thereon under its management, operation and control for a term not to exceed 20 years.  L.1940,c.161,s.3; amended 1982,c.168; 1991,c.374.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-25 - Dedicated revenues; applicability of section 40:2-18

40:68-25. Dedicated revenues; applicability of section 40:2-18  Revenues of any harbor and water-front commission created by ordinance of a municipality pursuant to the act of which this act is a supplement shall and are hereby declared to be dedicated revenues as defined in section 40:2-18 of the Revised Statutes and shall be subject to the provisions thereof. L.1956, c. 220, p. 780, s. 1, eff. Jan. 16, 1957.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-26 - Repeals

40:68-26. Repeals  All general or special laws, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are to the extent of such inconsistency hereby repealed. L.1956, c. 220, p. 780, s. 2, eff. Jan. 16, 1957.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-27 - Establishment of district; ordinance; special election

40:68-27. Establishment of district; ordinance; special election  Whenever any section or portion of a municipality which borders on tidal waters is threatened by flooding, the governing body of such municipality may provide by ordinance for the creation and establishment in the municipality, within designated boundaries, of a beach erosion control district (herein referred to as the district), which district shall consist of such lands which are or may be threatened by flooding as the governing body in its discretion shall determine to be practical or convenient to include within such district. In addition to the notice required to be published pursuant to the provisions of 40:49-2 of the Revised Statutes of any such ordinance, notices shall also be posted at not less than 2 public places within the district proposed to be created by said ordinance setting forth the date of the hearing and designating the boundaries of the proposed district. The ordinance shall provide that it shall not be effective until approved by a majority vote at a special election to be held in the proposed district, which election shall be held on a day designated in the ordinance. A. Ballots for said special election pursuant to this section shall be ordered to be printed by the clerk of the municipality wherein the district is located and shall contain a heading "Beach Erosion Control District Election Ballot," followed by the name of the municipality and county in which the district is located and shall have printed thereon the question, "Should a special district be formed for the purpose of combating beach erosion which district shall encompass the following described area," followed by description of the districts to be formed. The ballot shall contain appropriate squares marked "yes" or "no" to be marked by the voters at the said special election pursuant to this section. B. The special election pursuant to this section shall be conducted in the manner as prescribed in sections 9, 10, 11 and 12. The clerk of the municipality in which the district is located shall cause the election to be advertised at least 1 week before the holding thereof in some newspaper circulating in said district and shall further cause the notice of said special election to be posted in at least 2 public places within the district at least 1 week prior to said special election. L.1967, c. 184, s. 1, eff. July 27, 1967. Amended by L.1968, c. 219, s. 1, eff. July 24, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-28 - Beach erosion control commission; establishment

40:68-28. Beach erosion control commission; establishment  Whenever in any such municipality a Beach Erosion Control District is established under the provisions of this act, a Beach Control Erosion Control Commission shall thereby be created for such district and shall be known as " Beach Erosion Control Commission" (inserting the name the governing body has designated to identify the district). L.1967, c. 184, s. 2, eff. July 27, 1967.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:68-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:68-29 - Election of commissioners; term

40:68-29. Election of commissioners; term  On a day designated in the ordinance creating such district, a special election shall be held in the district, to elect 3 commissioners who shall be qualified voters and residents of such district. The commissioners so elected shall hold office for 3 years and until their successors are elected. L.1967, c. 184, s. 3, eff. July 27, 1967.