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NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.42 - Commissioners to appraise land; notice

40:60-25.42. Commissioners to appraise land; notice  In case of the neglect or refusal or inability of such church or other corporation to convey such burying ground or cemetery in whole or in part and free of outstanding interests therein, to such municipality or board of education, and after the making of the adjudication referred to in section seven hereof, the board or body having charge or control of the finances or the said board of education shall then apply to the Superior Court for the appointment of three commissioners to appraise the value of the said burying ground or cemetery and the rights of any person owning any lot or plot therein. Upon the appointment of the said three commissioners they shall give notice in such manner as such court shall designate which may be in whole or in part by publication and may be addressed generally to such persons as have or may have any interest in the said premises to present their claims to the said commissioners, who shall give a public hearing to all persons interested who may present themselves. The said commissioners shall appraise the value of each separate lot or plot and other land included within said burying ground or cemetery. L.1948, c. 80, p. 470, s. 10. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 711, s. 206, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.43 - Cost of removal of bodies and of new site; lien; payment of difference to lot owners

40:60-25.43. Cost of removal of bodies and of new site; lien; payment of difference to lot owners  The said commission shall further ascertain the cost of the removal of the bodies from each of said lots and the cost of securing the new site and the cost of such disinterment and reinterment, and this cost shall be a first lien against the value of the lots or plots in the abandoned burying ground or cemetery as appraised, and the said municipality or board of education as the case may be shall pay to the owners of each lot or plot the difference, if any, between the value of the lots in the abandoned burying ground or cemetery as appraised and the cost of removing the said bodies and reinterring them in a new cemetery. L.1948, c. 80, p. 471, s. 11, eff. May 21, 1948.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.44 - Report; objections; notice

40:60-25.44. Report; objections; notice  The said commissioners shall report to said court the appraised value of each of said lots or plots and other lands within said burying ground or cemetery, and the amounts charged against each of said lots or plots for the removal of said bodies and the reinterment thereof. The report may be confirmed or corrected by said court, which shall fix a day and place for the hearing of objections thereto, and public notice thereof by such advertisement as shall be directed shall be given. L.1948, c. 80, p. 471, s. 12. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 711, s. 207, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.45 - Objections to report

40:60-25.45. Objections to report  In case the owner of any lot or plot or other lands within said burying ground or cemetery shall feel aggrieved by the report of said commissioners he may object thereto to the court in the proceeding or by action within twenty days after the confirmation of such report. The court may hear any such objection or proceed in the action in a summary manner or otherwise and with a struck jury if any party demands a jury. L.1948, c. 80, p. 471, s. 13. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 712, s. 208, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.46 - Borrowing money; bonds

40:60-25.46. Borrowing money; bonds  The board or body having charge or control of the finances of such municipality or the board of education, as the case may be, may from time to time borrow the money necessary for the acquisition of said burying grounds or cemeteries as aforesaid and the disinterment of the bodies and the reinterment of the same and all expenses connected therewith, and issue temporary obligations therefor, and after the entire cost thereof has been ascertained may issue interest-bearing bonds of the said municipality or school district to take up such temporary obligations. L.1948, c. 80, p. 471, s. 14, eff. May 21, 1948.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.51 - Acquisition of land and buildings for use by municipality, county, State or United States; courts; lease

40:60-25.51. Acquisition of land and buildings for use by municipality, county, State or United States; courts; lease  The governing body of any municipality, in the name and on behalf of the municipality, may acquire, by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, or as lessee may lease, for municipal or public uses any land or buildings located within the municipality, and may improve the same and construct therein or thereon and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained therein or thereon, a city hall or other municipal building. Every such city hall or other building shall provide facilities for use by the municipality and shall include and provide such space and facilities for use by the county in which such municipality is located, or by or on behalf of the Courts, or by the State or the United States or any board, commission, department or other agency of either of them, as the governing body may determine to be desirable for the public convenience and welfare. The governing body of any municipality may lease or sublease any or all space and facilities in any city hall or other such building to the county for a term not to exceed 40 years, for such rental and upon such terms and conditions, as the governing body and the board of chosen freeholders, by respective resolutions, shall agree, or to the State or the United States or any board, commission, department or other agency thereof aforesaid for such time and rental and upon such terms and conditions as the governing body by ordinance shall authorize. L.1965, c. 133, s. 1. Amended by L.1966, c. 297, s. 2, eff. Dec. 8, 1966.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.52 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.52 - Financing of acquisition and improvement; acquisition of facilities for use by county or courts

40:60-25.52. Financing of acquisition and improvement; acquisition of facilities for use by county or courts  The governing body of the municipality may finance the acquisition and improvement of real estate for the purposes of this act by the adoption of a bond ordinance or otherwise as in the case of municipal improvements, and the board of chosen freeholders, in the name and on behalf of the county, may lease as aforesaid or otherwise acquire possession of such space or facilities in any such city hall or other municipal building, whether or not located at the county seat, for use by the county or by the courts as said board may determine to be desirable for the public convenience and welfare. L.1965, c. 133, s. 2. Amended by L.1966, c. 297, s. 2, eff. Dec. 8, 1966.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.53 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.53 - Historic sites; acquisition and maintenance

40:60-25.53. Historic sites; acquisition and maintenance  Any municipality may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation, and maintain and improve any real estate or any interest therein, together with any and all buildings thereon, located within the municipality, as a historic site or for historical purposes, or for the purpose of preserving therein or thereon historical data or objects of historic interest. L.1966, c. 240, s. 1, eff. Aug. 10, 1966.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.54 - Acquisition of lands for future school sites; approval

40:60-25.54. Acquisition of lands for future school sites; approval  The governing body of any municipality may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation lands for use as future sites for public schools provided that such lands shall have theretofore been designated with the approval of the board of education as future public school sites on a master plan adopted by the planning board or official map, of the municipality, adopted by the governing body. L.1966, c. 298, s. 1, eff. Dec. 8, 1966.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.55 - Future school sites; use for public purpose pending conveyance to board of education

40:60-25.55. Future school sites; use for public purpose pending conveyance to board of education  Any lands acquired by a municipality pursuant to section 1 may, pending subsequent conveyance to a board of education, be used for any public purpose. L.1966, c. 298, s. 2, eff. Dec. 8, 1966.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.56 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.56 - Consideration for conveyance to board of education

40:60-25.56. Consideration for conveyance to board of education  The governing body may convey such lands to the board of education of the school district for such nominal or other consideration as shall be agreed upon between the governing body and the board of education. L.1966, c. 298, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.57 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.57 - Acquisition of real property for use by State-operated college of medicine or college of medicine and dentistry

40:60-25.57. Acquisition of real property for use by State-operated college of medicine or college of medicine and dentistry  Any municipality in which a State-operated college of medicine or college of medicine and dentistry, is located, or proposed to be located, is hereby empowered to acquire by purchase, gift, grant, devise or otherwise, and to take for public use, any estate or interest in any real property within the municipality by condemnation, in the manner provided by chapter 1 of Title 20 of the Revised Statutes, except as otherwise provided by this act. The municipality may thereupon sell and convey any estate or interest in any real property so acquired to such college for use by the college for the construction of such facilities as may be required by the college in the performance of its teaching, research and treatment functions. Any estate or interest in any real property so acquired may be sold by the municipality to such college for a nominal consideration for the purpose of promoting the health and general welfare of the municipality. L.1967, c. 11, s. 1, eff. March 13, 1967.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.59 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.59 - Relocation assistance program; services

40:60-25.59. Relocation assistance program; services  (a) Any municipality which acquires, or seeks to acquire, real property pursuant to the provisions of this act for the purposes authorized herein shall do any and all things necessary to assure that a workable relocation assistance program for displaced persons and business concerns, offering the services prescribed by subsection (b) of this section, is available to reduce hardship to those affected, and to reduce delays in public improvements. (b) Every workable relocation assistance program required by subsection (a) of this section shall include such measures, facilities, or services as may be necessary or appropriate, (1) to determine the needs of displaced persons, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations for relocation assistance; (2) to assist owners of displaced business concerns in obtaining and becoming established in suitable business locations; (3) to supply information concerning programs offering assistance to displaced persons and business concerns; (4) to assist in minimizing hardships to displaced persons in adjusting to relocation; and (5) to secure to the greatest extent practicable, the co-ordination of relocation activities with other project activities and other planned or proposed governmental actions in the community or nearby areas which may affect the execution of the workable relocation program. (c) A municipality which acquires, or seeks to acquire, real property pursuant to the provisions of this act for the purposes authorized herein shall, within 30 days of the filing of the declaration of taking and the depositing of the estimated compensation as required by section 2 of this act, designate or appoint a public officer of the municipality who shall be charged with the formulation and implementation of the workable relocation assistance program as required by subsection (a) of this section. The municipality, acting through the public officer so designated or appointed may utilize the facilities, personnel, and services of any other officer or agency of the municipality, or of any agency or authority created or chartered thereby, or may enter into appropriate contracts or agreements with any officer or agency of the Federal, State, county or municipal government, or of any agency or authority created or chartered thereby, or with any nonprofit organization, for the purpose of implementing the workable relocation assistance program. L.1967, c. 11, s. 3, eff. March 13, 1967.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.61 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.61 - Abandoned burying ground or cemetery; application for order vesting title in municipality

40:60-25.61. Abandoned burying ground or cemetery; application for order vesting title in municipality  The governing body of a municipality may apply, in accordance with the provisions of this act, to the Superior Court for an order vesting title in the municipality to any abandoned burying ground or cemetery therein owned or controlled by a person who cannot be located through diligent inquiry. L.1983, c. 194, s. 1, eff. May 24, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.62 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.62 - Inquiry to locate owner; certification

40:60-25.62. Inquiry to locate owner; certification  An application for an order vesting title to the abandoned burying ground or cemetery in the municipality shall include a certification by the clerk of the municipality that a diligent inquiry has been conducted to locate the person owning or controlling the burying ground or cemetery. A diligent inquiry shall include, but shall not be limited to: a. Mailing, by certified mail to the last known address of the last owner of record of the burying ground or cemetery in question and the last known address of any lot owner or any interested party if such information is available, a notice of intent to acquire the burying ground or cemetery by the municipality and that in the absence of a written response to this notice by the person who owns or controls it or lot owner or other interested party, within 60 days of the date of delivery, the municipality will apply to the Superior Court for an order vesting title to the burying ground or cemetery in the municipality under this act. b. Publication, in at least two newspapers published in this State and of general circulation in the county in which the municipality is located, at least four times in a period of 60 days, of notice of intent to acquire the burying ground or cemetery by the municipality and that in the absence of a written response to this notice by the person who owns or controls it within 60 days of the last date of publication or a lot owner within the same period of time, the municipality will apply to the Superior Court for an order vesting title to the burying ground or cemetery in the municipality under this act. L.1983, c. 194, s. 2, eff. May 24, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.63 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.63 - Vesting of title in municipality

40:60-25.63. Vesting of title in municipality  The Superior Court may vest title to the burying ground or cemetery in the municipality upon its satisfaction that the person owning or controlling the burying ground or cemetery cannot be located through diligent inquiry for the purpose of the transfer of the burying ground or cemetery to the municipality. L.1983, c. 194, s. 3, eff. May 24, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-25.64 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-25.64 - Maintaining and preserving burying ground or cemetery; interments; disinterments

40:60-25.64. Maintaining and preserving burying ground or cemetery; interments; disinterments  This act shall apply only to the acquisition of an abandoned burying ground or cemetery for the purpose of restoring, maintaining and preserving it as a burying ground or cemetery. No further interments will be permitted, except by order of the Superior Court upon satisfactory proof of ownership of a lot prior to the date of vesting of title in the municipality, and any subsequent disinterment of bodies from the burying ground or cemetery shall conform to the provisions of P.L.1948, c. 80, s. 8 (C. 40:60-25.40), except that portion of that section requiring execution of a deed. L.1983, c. 194, s. 4, eff. May 24, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-28 - Sale of vacated street land; advertisement unnecessary

40:60-28. Sale of vacated street land; advertisement unnecessary  Whenever any road, street, highway, lane or alley has been or shall hereafter be lawfully altered or relocated in such manner as to leave a portion of the original road, street, highway, lane or alley not needed for public use, and the municipality has or shall have vacated or released the public rights therein, the municipality, if it be the owner of the fee of said land, may make a private sale of and convey the lands so vacated to the adjoining property owner or owners at such price as it may deem fair and just. The provisions of section 40:60-26 of this title shall not apply to such sale.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-28.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-28.1 - Riparian lands purportedly dedicated as street; sale when not needed

40:60-28.1. Riparian lands purportedly dedicated as street; sale when not needed  Whenever any municipality has received, or shall hereafter receive, title to riparian lands of which there has been a purported dedication as a public street and said lands have not been dedicated or opened as a street nor the purported dedication thereof as a street accepted by the municipality because of a relocation of such purported dedicated street by the making and filing of new maps of real estate development showing such relocation and showing such riparian lands as numbered lots in such development, the municipality, when the governing body thereof shall have determined that said lands are not needed for public use, may by resolution provide for the sale of such lands, subject to the terms and conditions of the grant under which title to such riparian lands was conveyed by the State, at such prices and on such terms and conditions as said governing body may determine and sell such lands accordingly. L.1947, c. 322, p. 1047, s. 1, eff. June 20, 1947.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-32 - Vacation of lands dedicated to public use other than a public street; referendum

40:60-32. Vacation of lands dedicated to public use other than a public street; referendum  Whenever within any municipality any lands dedicated or devoted, wholly or partially, to public use other than a public street, highway, lane, alley, square or place shall be considered by the governing body of such municipality to be unsuited to or undesirable for such public use, or otherwise useless, burdensome or disadvantageous to the public, the governing body may by ordinance and on such terms as it shall prescribe, with the consent of the owner of the fee, vacate or extinguish the public rights in and to those lands and restore the same to the owner of the fee thereof, freed and discharged from all such public rights therein. The ordinance shall not become operative until approved by a majority of the legal voters of the municipality voting on the proposition at a general election. If such municipality shall be the owner of the fee at the time of the final adoption of the ordinance, such ordinance shall become operative without referendum. Amended by L.1944, c. 199, p. 716, s. 1; Laws 1949, c. 268, p. 837, s. 1, eff. May 28, 1949.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-33 - Referendum; notice and publication

40:60-33. Referendum; notice and publication  Public notice of the submission of the proposition shall be given by advertisements signed by the municipal clerk of and posted in at least ten public places in the municipality and also published in at least two newspapers printed or circulating in the municipality at least twenty days before the election.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-34 - Ballot; form and content

40:60-34. Ballot; form and content  The proposition to be submitted shall be placed upon the official ballots to be used at such election in substantially the following form:  "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word YES, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word NO.  "Shall the following described lands be [ ] YES vacated and the public rights in and to such lands be extinguished? [ ] NO ...................................... (Here insert short description.)"
NJ Rev Stat § 40:60-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:60-35 - Fee restored to owner to be absolute

40:60-35. Fee restored to owner to be absolute  After the adoption of the ordinance and proposition such vacation or extinguishment shall be and remain valid, and such lands shall, thereafter, be the property of the owner of the fee thereof, free, clear and entirely discharged of and from such dedication or devotion to public use.