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NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-16.5a (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-16.5a - Fines for violation of certain truck route ordinances; required signage.

40:67-16.5a Fines for violation of certain truck route ordinances; required signage.  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a municipality with a system of truck routes established by ordinance pursuant to P.L.1953, c.354 (C. 40:67-16.1 et seq.) that excludes all trucks having a total combined gross weight in excess of four tons from certain municipal streets may, by ordinance, increase the penalties for violating the truck route ordinance while traveling on a street or road having a grade in excess of five percent as follows: a. for a first violation a fine of not less than $2,500 or more than $3,000, and b. for second or subsequent violations a fine of not less than $4,000 or more than $5,000.   A municipality that adopts an ordinance to increase penalties in accordance with this section shall place signs in appropriate locations to warn truck drivers in advance that a road grade in excess of five percent is ahead, that trucks in excess of four tons are prohibited from traveling on the grade, and that increased fines will be imposed for a violation of the prohibition. L.2005,c.213,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-16.6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-16.6 - Limiting use of streets to certain classes of vehicles

40:67-16.6. Limiting use of streets to certain classes of vehicles  Nothing in this act shall be deemed to be a limitation upon the authority of any such municipality to limit the use of streets to certain classes of vehicles pursuant to section 39:4-197 of the Revised Statutes. L.1953, c. 354, p. 1930, s. 6, eff. Aug. 8, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-16.7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-16.7 - Temporary closing of streets for ingress and egress to school or for provision of recreational facilities

40:67-16.7. Temporary closing of streets for ingress and egress to school or for provision of recreational facilities  The governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance, authorize the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality, or the officer, in charge of streets in any municipality not having a chief executive officer, if he shall find that a safety problem exists for ingress and egress to any public or private school or for the provision of recreational facilities for children attending such school, or both, due to lack of a suitable area surrounding the school, to close by regulation any portion of any street within the block upon which such school is located, to the use of through traffic during such time as he shall determine, not to exceed 1 hour between 7:30 and 10:00 A.M., 2 hours between 11:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. and 1 hour between 2:30 and 4:30 P.M., on any days upon which such school is in session and to permit the use of said portion of said street, during said hours, for ingress and egress to such school, and for the use by the pupils of such school for recreational purposes, under proper supervision and to provide adequate police facilities for such supervision and for the control of traffic upon such portion of said street, which ordinance shall provide for the posting of proper warning signs in said street indicating that said street is so closed and the purpose thereof, during the time when the same is so closed and shall provide penalties for the violation of the terms of such ordinance or of any regulation promulgated thereunder. L.1964, c. 158, s. 1, eff. July 31, 1964.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-16.8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-16.8 - Approval of regulation by director of division of motor vehicles

40:67-16.8. Approval of regulation by director of division of motor vehicles  No such regulation shall become effective unless and until it shall have been approved by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety. L.1964, c. 158, s. 2, eff. July 31, 1964.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-16.9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-16.9 - Closing of street for preservation of public safety, health or welfare; authorization by governing body by ordinance; regulations

40:67-16.9. Closing of street for preservation of public safety, health or welfare; authorization by governing body by ordinance; regulations  The governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance, authorize the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality, or the officer, in charge of streets in any municipality not having a chief executive officer, to provide by regulation for the closing of any street or portion thereof to motor vehicle traffic on any day or days or during specified hours on any day or days whenever he finds that such closing is necessary for the preservation of the public safety, health or welfare. Such ordinance and regulations promulgated thereunder shall provide for the posting of proper warning signs of such closing in any street or portion thereof during the time the same is closed in pursuance thereof and shall provide penalties for the violation of such ordinance or any regulation promulgated thereunder. L.1971, c. 408, s. 1, eff. Jan. 20, 1972.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-16.10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-16.10 - Ordinances and regulations; approval

40:67-16.10. Ordinances and regulations; approval  No ordinance or regulation adopted thereunder pursuant to this act shall become effective unless and until it shall have been approved by the Commissioner of Transportation of the Department of Transportation. L.1971, c. 408, s. 2, eff. Jan. 20, 1972.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-17 - Statues and memorials erected upon public streets

40:67-17. Statues and memorials erected upon public streets  The governing body may construct and maintain upon the public streets and places thereof, statues, monuments, tablets, fountains and memorials, commemorative of any person or public event; accept and maintain any statue, monument, tablet, fountain or memorial presented to the municipality, and contribute money toward the construction or maintenance thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-18 - Spanish American war monuments; municipal contribution

40:67-18. Spanish American war monuments; municipal contribution  The body having control of the finances of any municipality may appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the cost of the pedestal and foundation of a monument commemorating the services of the soldiers and sailors of the United States in the late war with Spain, which any organization or association of veterans in the county in which such municipality is situated, may propose to erect in or near such municipality; provided, such organization or association shall first file with such body of the municipality, a statement duly verified by the oath or affirmation of at least five members of the organization or association, of its proposal to erect such monument, with a general description and drawing thereof and of the proposed location, the estimated cost of the proposed monument and site, and such body of said municipality approves the proposed site and plan and is satisfied that sufficient moneys have been raised to provide for such estimated cost, except the pedestal and foundation. The sum so appropriated may be paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, or may be borrowed, and a sum sufficient to pay the same included in the next municipal budget and tax levy.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-19 - Vacation of streets and places dedicated but not accepted; ordinance; notice and hearing

40:67-19. Vacation of streets and places dedicated but not accepted; ordinance; notice and hearing  Whenever there shall have been a dedication of lands as a public street or highway or a public square or public place, and the same has not been accepted or opened by the municipality, and it shall appear to the governing body that the public interest will be better served by releasing those lands or any part thereof from such dedication, the governing body may by ordinance release and extinguish the public right arising from said dedication as to the whole or any part of those lands, and thereupon said lands or the part thereof so released shall be effectually discharged therefrom as though the dedication had not taken place; but only after notice of the intention of the governing body to consider any such ordinance, and a hearing thereon, shall have been given as provided in section 40:49-6 of this title concerning ordinances for the vacation of streets.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-20 - Abandonment of plans to open or widen streets; disposition of lands

40:67-20. Abandonment of plans to open or widen streets; disposition of lands  Whenever any municipality shall have received, or may hereafter receive, by deed or otherwise, land for the widening of any public street, and thereafter abandons such widening, the municipality may convey the land not needed to the owner or owners of the abutting lands.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-21 - Vacation of streets and places; recording; copy as evidence

40:67-21. Vacation of streets and places; recording; copy as evidence  Whenever any street, highway or other public place, or part thereof in any municipality shall be vacated in pursuance of proceedings, by ordinance or otherwise, authorized by law, the municipal clerk shall within sixty days after such ordinance or other proceeding becomes effective file a copy of such ordinance or other proceeding, certified by him, under the seal of the municipality, to be a true copy of such ordinance or other proceeding, together with a copy of the proof of publication thereof, if publication be required, 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 other proceeding, or a copy thereof, certified to be a true copy of such ordinance or other proceeding 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 or other proceeding and the adoption thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-22 - Vacation of streets and public places between March 11, 1920, and March 11, 1922; recording; copy as evidence

40:67-22. Vacation of streets and public places between March 11, 1920, and March 11, 1922; recording; copy as evidence  L.1922, c. 142, s. 1, p. 250 (1924 Suppl. s. *136-2212), being section one of an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning municipalities,' approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen," approved March eleventh, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, saved from repeal. [This section provides for the recording of copies of ordinances or other proceedings whereby streets and public places have been vacated between the above-mentioned dates; and further provides that copies of such records when certified by the county clerk or register of deeds with whom the same have been recorded, shall be received as evidence in all courts and places.]
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-22.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-22.1 - Payment for vacating street

40:67-22.1. Payment for vacating street  When any county acquires real property for use as a public park or other recreational facility in excess of 500 acres and a portion of such property has been (a) designated as a municipal public street, whether or not actually opened or improved, and (b) the municipality agrees to vacate the said public street or portion thereof, by ordinance adopted pursuant to chapter 67 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes, such county may, by resolution of the governing body, or in the case of counties organized pursuant to the "Optional County Charter Law," P.L.1972, c. 154 (C. 40:41A-1 et seq.) by ordinance of the governing body, make payment to such municipality in return for vacating said street upon such terms as shall be agreed upon by the governing bodies of the county and municipality. L.1980, c. 164, s. 1, eff. Dec. 10, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23 - Return of taxes paid on certain streets

40:67-23. Return of taxes paid on certain streets  Whenever a tract of land shall be mapped and laid out by the owner showing lots and a street or streets on such lands and the map has been placed on file in the office of the county clerk or of the register of deeds of the county in which the lands are located and sales have been made of some of the lots, and when the street or streets have been treated by the municipality in which the streets are located as private property and assessed as such, the municipality subsequently treating the street or streets as fully dedicated and opening such street or streets without condemning the lands, may in its discretion return the taxes so paid without interest for a period not to exceed twenty years.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.1 - Road, street services

40:67-23.1. Road, street services  1. a. The governing body of every municipality may make, amend, repeal and enforce ordinances to cause the governing body of the municipality to repair and maintain and provide for the removal of snow, ice and other obstructions from, and provide for the lighting of, any roads or streets upon which the travel is sufficient, in the opinion of said governing body, to warrant such expenditures, even though such roads or streets shall not have been taken over by said municipal governing body or dedicated and accepted as public highways. The municipality may also provide for the curbside collection of solid waste along such streets, or for the reimbursement of such solid waste collection costs as the municipality may determine to have been reasonably incurred by persons residing adjacent to such streets. Roads or streets so serviced, which are not shown on the official map of the municipality, may, at the option of the governing body of said municipality, be suitably improved in accordance with any requirements established pursuant to article 5 of the "Municipal Land Use Law," P.L.1975, c.291, ss. 23-27 (C.40:55D-32 to C.40:55D-36) and the ordinance. b. A municipal governing body that provides for the curbside collection of solid waste pursuant to subsection a. of this section may limit these services to specified operating hours in order to preserve the peace and quiet in neighborhoods during the hours when most residents are asleep. c. A municipal governing body that provides for the collection of designated recyclable materials pursuant to subsection b. of section 6 of P.L.1987, c.102 (C.13:1E-99.16) may limit these services to specified operating hours in order to preserve the peace and quiet in neighborhoods during the hours when most residents are asleep. d. If, as a condition of providing services for any road or street proposed to be serviced, the municipality notifies the owner that dedication thereof to the municipality is required, the owner may refuse to accept the services and benefits of the ordinance upon that condition by so notifying the municipality within 60 days of receipt of the notice. With respect to any road or street for which services are provided, if the municipality notifies the owner that continuation of provision of the services is conditioned upon the dedication thereof to the municipality, the owner may refuse to accept continuance of the services and benefits of the ordinance upon that condition by so notifying the municipality within 60 days of receipt of the notice. Notices to be given pursuant to this section shall be in writing. L.1975,c.243,s.1; amended 1982, c.190; 1983, c.12; 2001, c.92, s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.2 - Definitions

40:67-23.2. Definitions  1. For the purposes of this act: a. "Condominium" means the form of real property ownership provided for under the "Condominium Act," P.L.1969, c.257 (C.46:8B-1 et seq.);  b. "Cooperative" means a housing corporation or association wherein the holder of a share or membership interest in the corporation or association is entitled to possess and occupy, for dwelling purposes, a house, apartment, or other unit of housing owned by the corporation or association, or to purchase a unit of housing constructed or erected by the corporation or association;  c. "Fee simple community" means a private community which consists of individually owned lots or units and provides for common or shared elements or interests in real property;  d. "Horizontal property regime" means the form of real property ownership provided for under the "Horizontal Property Act," P.L.1963, c.168 (C.46:8A-1 et seq.);  e. "Qualified private community" means a residential condominium, cooperative, fee simple community, or horizontal property regime, the residents of which do not receive any tax abatement or tax exemption related to its construction, comprised of a community trust or other trust device, condominium association, homeowners' association, or council of coowners, wherein the cost of maintaining roads and streets and providing essential services is paid for by a not-for-profit entity consisting exclusively of unit owners within the community. No apartment building or garden apartment complex owned by an individual or entity that receives monthly rental payments from tenants who occupy the premises shall be considered a qualified private community. No "proprietary campground facility," as defined in section 1 of P.L.1993, c.258 (C.45:22A-49), shall be considered to be a qualified private community.  L.1989,c.299,s.1; amended 1993,c.258,s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.3 - Municipality to reimburse private community for services or provide services

40:67-23.3. Municipality to reimburse private community for services or provide services  2. a. Except as otherwise provided in subsection b. of this section, the governing body of every municipality shall reimburse a qualified private community for the following services as provided in sections 4 and 5 of P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.5 and C.40:67-23.6) or provide the following services within a qualified private community in the same fashion as the municipality provides these services on public roads and streets:  (1) Removal of snow, ice and other obstructions from the roads and streets;  (2) Lighting of the roads and streets, to the extent of payment for the electricity required, but not including the installation or maintenance of lamps, standards, wiring or other equipment; and  (3) Collection of leaves and recyclable materials along the roads and streets and the collection or disposal of solid waste along the roads and streets.  b. Nothing in P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.2 et seq.) shall require a municipality to operate any municipally owned or leased vehicles or other equipment, or to provide any of the services enumerated in subsection a. of this section, upon, along or in relation to any road or street in a qualified private community which either (1) is not accepted for dedication to public use or (2) does not meet all municipal standards and specifications for such dedication, except for width.  c. 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 pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1976, c.68 (C.40A:4-45.2), shall provide a cap base adjustment to the total general appropriations of the local budget year prior to the year in which the services are first provided by the municipality for the full amount appropriated pursuant to P.L.1989, c.299 (C.40:67-23.2 et seq.).  L.1989,c.299,s.2; amended 1993,c.6,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.4 - Private community to pay insurance riders

40:67-23.4. Private community to pay insurance riders  A qualified private community shall be required to pay the cost of any insurance riders required by the municipality to enable municipal vehicles to operate on private roads and streets within the qualified private community. L.1989, c.299, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:67-23.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:67-23.5 - Use of municipal reimbursement to pay for services

40:67-23.5. Use of municipal reimbursement to pay for services  a. As provided in section 5 of this act and in lieu of providing some or all of the services set forth in section 2 of this act, a municipality shall enter into a written agreement to annually reimburse the qualified private community in an amount not to exceed the cost that would be incurred by the municipality in providing those services directly.  b. The amount to be reimbursed to the qualified private community shall be used by the qualified private community to pay for the service which the municipality chooses not to provide, and that amount shall be the actual cost to the qualified private community of providing that service, but not exceeding the amount which the municipality would have expended on that service if it were provided directly by the municipality to the qualified private community.  c. An agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall provide for an accounting by the qualified private community of the use of the money paid over to it by the municipality, and for the refunding to the municipality of any payments in excess of the amounts actually expended or contractually committed by the qualified private community during the accounting period in order to provide for the services covered by the agreement.  L.1989, c.299, s.4.