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NJ Rev Stat § 40:55D-163 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:55D-163 - Construction of act relative to Burlington County municipalities.

40:55D-163 Construction of act relative to Burlington County municipalities.  27. a. Except as provided otherwise pursuant to subsections b. and c. of this section, the provisions of P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-137 et al.) shall not apply or be construed to nullify any development transfer ordinance adopted by a municipality in Burlington County pursuant to P.L.1989, c.86 (C.40:55D-113 et al.) prior to the effective date of P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-137 et al.). b. On or after the effective date of P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-137 et al.), any municipality in Burlington County may adopt a development transfer ordinance either pursuant to P.L.1989, c.86 (C.40:55D-113 et al.) or P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-137 et al.). c. Any municipality in Burlington County may utilize a development transfer bank established by the municipality or county pursuant to P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-137 et al.), by the municipality or Burlington County pursuant to P.L.1989, c.86 (C.40:55D-113 et al.), or by the State pursuant to P.L.1993, c.339 (C.4:1C-49 et seq.) or P.L.2004, c.2 (C.40:55D-137 et al.). L.2004,c.2,s.27.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-1.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-1.1 - Parking facilities

40:56-1.1. Parking facilities  Any municipality may undertake, as a local improvement, the work of providing facilities for the parking of motor vehicles by the acquisition and improvement of real property and by the construction of buildings and structures. Any such acquisition may be by purchase or lease and the parking facilities may include equipment, entrances, exits, fencing and other accessories necessary or desirable for the safety and convenience of the parking of motor vehicles. L.1949, c. 261, p. 828, s. 1, eff. May 28, 1949.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-1.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-1.2 - Parking facilities as distinct work or in connection with parking authority

40:56-1.2. Parking facilities as distinct work or in connection with parking authority  Any such local improvement may be undertaken as a separate and distinct work or in connection with the creation of a parking authority pursuant to the parking authority law (P.L.1948, c. 198), or in the furtherance of any project of a parking authority heretofore or hereafter created by the municipality pursuant to said parking authority law. L.1949, c. 261, p. 828, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-1.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-1.3 - Laws applicable

40:56-1.3. Laws applicable  Whenever any such local improvement is undertaken, the provisions of the chapter to which this act is a supplement shall be applicable. L.1949, c. 261, p. 828, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-1.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-1.4 - Clean energy special assessment, financing by municipality.

40:56-1.4 Clean energy special assessment, financing by municipality.  1. a. Upon application to and approval by the Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, the governing body of a municipality may undertake the financing of the purchase and installation of renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements by property owners as a local improvement and may provide by ordinance for a "clean energy special assessment" to be imposed on a property within the municipality, if the owner of the property requests the assessment in order to install such systems or improvements. Each improvement on an individual property shall constitute a separate local improvement and shall be assessed separately to the property owner benefitted thereby. The clean energy special assessment shall be payable in quarterly installments. The terms of the clean energy special assessment shall be in accordance with the terms of the financing provided by the municipality pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2011, c.187 (C.40:56-13.1). b. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection a. of this section to the contrary, the Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs shall not accept, and a municipality shall not submit, an application to undertake the financing of the purchase and installation of renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements by property owners as a local improvement pursuant to the provisions of P.L.2011, c.187 (C.40:56-1.4 et al.) after the date the Economic Development Authority has published on its Internet website all the items pursuant to subsection a. of section 5 of P.L.2021, c.201 (C.34:1B-378). The Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs shall continue to process any application submitted prior to that date, and a municipality shall continue its undertaking approved prior to that date and any undertaking for which an application was pending on that date that is approved on or after that date.  c. All actions taken by the Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs or any municipality pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be unaffected by the enactment of P.L.2021, c.201 (C.34:1B-374 et al.). L.2011, c.187, s.1; amended 2021, c.201, s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-2 - Connecting streets with streets in adjoining municipality; considered a local improvement

40:56-2. Connecting streets with streets in adjoining municipality; considered a local improvement  Whenever the governing body of a municipality may deem it advantageous to lay out, open and construct a public street or highway through such municipality into and through an adjoining municipality in order to connect any street or highway therein with a street or highway in the first municipality, it may acquire the necessary land in such adjoining municipality by purchase or condemnation, and lay out, open and construct such street or highway as it may deem necessary. The laying out, opening and construction of such street or highway may be carried out as a local improvement and the benefits therefrom assessed on any lands or real estate benefited thereby in the municipality laying out, opening and constructing such street or highway.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-3 - Improvement at request and expense of petitioners; improvement by owners; cash deposit

40:56-3. Improvement at request and expense of petitioners; improvement by owners; cash deposit  The governing body of a municipality may undertake any improvement mentioned in this chapter at the request of a number of petitioners who shall agree to pay the cost of the improvement and all expenses incidental thereto, and any other charge imposed by the governing body. The petitioners shall file with the governing body a statement showing the improvement desired, the real estate owned by each of them, and the proportion of cost each is willing to pay. The statement shall be verified by each of the petitioners and, before any such work or improvement is commenced, the petitioners shall enter into bond with sufficient surety to the municipality in double the amount of the cost of the improvement as estimated by the engineer of the municipality conditioned for the prompt payment of the cost of the improvement and all expenses incidental thereto and charges imposed. The governing body may require further security for such payment as it may deem advisable, and when so secured may proceed to make the improvement. Upon the completion thereof the governing body shall determine the cost and expense thereof and cause the same to be collected from the petitioners. Whenever an owner of land in this State is desirous of improving same by the installation of utilities, sidewalks, curbs, street paving and any other improvement and the municipality wherein the land is located desires assurance of completion of such improvement, such municipality is hereby authorized to accept a cash deposit from said owner, conditioned upon the completion of said improvement or improvements to the satisfaction of, and within the time set by the governing body of such municipality. Upon such completion, the municipality shall return said cash deposit to the owner of said land. Upon failure to complete to the satisfaction of the municipality, the municipality may complete said improvement or improvements, using the monies so deposited, or so much thereof as is necessary for such purpose, returning the balance of said deposit, if any, to the owner of such land so improved. Such cash deposit shall be used for no other purpose. The municipality is further authorized to enter into such contracts, stipulations or agreements with said owner as are necessary and proper to carry out the purpose of this act. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent a municipality from accepting bonds or other surety under like circumstances, and nothing herein shall be construed to, in any way, limit the powers of a municipality as they now exist, it being intended that the authority herein granted is supplementary and in addition to rights and powers presently possessed by municipalities. Amended by L.1941, c. 242, p. 661, s. 1, eff. June 28, 1941.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-4 - Rejection of ordinance; new ordinance

40:56-4. Rejection of ordinance; new ordinance  If any ordinance providing for any local improvement as defined by this article is rejected such rejection shall not be reconsidered and the ordinance thereafter passed, but a new ordinance in the same or other terms may at any time be introduced and passed.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-5 - Single ordinance for several improvements; advertisement

40:56-5. Single ordinance for several improvements; advertisement  An ordinance may provide for the making of several improvements not connected with each other and the notice of several local improvements not connected with each other may be included in one advertisement.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-6 - Further proceedings by resolution

40:56-6. Further proceedings by resolution  Whenever the governing body shall pass an ordinance for making any local improvement all further acts and proceedings necessary to carry out and complete the same and the work thereof and all orders relating thereto may be by resolution.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-7 - Acquisition of lands; condemnation; engineers, officers and employees

40:56-7. Acquisition of lands; condemnation; engineers, officers and employees  Any municipality may purchase, condemn, or otherwise acquire any real estate or right or interest therein, useful or necessary for the making of such improvement, located within or without the municipality, and any personal property, useful or necessary therefor, may hire and employ all such engineers, surveyors, officers and employees; construct or cause to be constructed any work or thing deemed necessary for the making of any such improvement; enter into any contract or agreement for the acquisition of any such property or the construction of any such work, and do all other acts necessary to carry on, complete, maintain and operate any such improvement.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-8 - Acquisition of private works and property; condemnation; assessment for benefits

40:56-8. Acquisition of private works and property; condemnation; assessment for benefits  Any municipality may acquire by purchase or condemnation any property or works mentioned in this article which at the time of such purchase or condemnation is privately owned or operated, and assessments for benefits accruing therefrom may be made and levied upon the lands benefited thereby.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-9 - Condemnation; ordinance and map; abandonment of improvement; payment into Superior Court

40:56-9. Condemnation; ordinance and map; abandonment of improvement; payment into Superior Court  Except as provided in article four of this chapter (s. 40:56-58 et seq.), as to cities of the first class, when an improvement ordinance shall require the taking of real estate, or any interest therein, the ordinance when introduced shall state the location and character of the improvement proposed to be made and the real estate or interest therein proposed to be taken therefor, sufficiently described so as to be readily identified and located, and the ordinance as introduced shall be accompanied by a map showing in detail the location and dimensions of the real estate proposed to be taken, or in which rights and interests are to be taken. After the passage of the ordinance the map together with a copy of the ordinance attested by the municipal clerk shall be filed by him with the officer or board charged with the duty of making assessments for benefits in the municipality, or with the commissioners appointed to make the assessments for benefits for the particular improvement, and said officer or board or commissioners shall proceed to make an award for the real estate, or interest therein to be taken for such improvement, to the owner or owners thereof, after hearings held, and upon notice thereof given in the way and manner provided in section 40:56-25 and 40:56-26 of this Title in the case of assessments for benefits and awards for incidental damages where no real estate or rights therein are to be taken, and shall certify and report the same to the governing body in the manner provided in section 40:56-30 of this Title. Said governing body shall proceed and act upon the report in the manner provided in said section 40:56-30. If for any reason, such as that the aggregate awards for damages are so large as to make the improvement unwise in the judgment of the governing body, nothing herein shall be construed to deprive it of power to abandon the proposed improvement and repeal the improvement ordinance, at any time before confirmation of any award for real estate to be taken thereunder. When an award for damages for real estate or any interest therein taken for any local improvement is confirmed by the governing body, or the court, as the case may be, the amount thereof shall, after such confirmation, be tendered to the person or persons entitled thereto promptly and before the commencement of the work. If it is uncertain as to who is entitled thereto or if the municipality is unable to tender such award by reason of the incapacity or absence of any person entitled thereto, or otherwise, or if any person or persons refuse to accept or receive such award the same may be paid into the Superior Court to be distributed to the person or persons entitled thereto according to law. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 698, s. 182, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-10 - Copy of award filed; title vested; right of entry

40:56-10. Copy of award filed; title vested; right of entry  Except as provided in article four of this chapter (s. 40:56-58 et seq.), as to cities of the first class, upon the acceptance of any such award or payment thereof into the Superior Court, title to the real estate or interest therein shall vest in the municipality, which may thereupon enter upon and take possession of such real estate or interest therein and remove all persons therefrom, and a duplicate original of the award as confirmed or a copy thereof certified by the municipal clerk as a true copy of the award as confirmed by the governing body shall be recorded in the county in which the municipality is situated in the record of deeds for such county. The officer in charge of such office shall cause the names of the owner or owners of the property taken as shown by such award to be indexed under "grantors" in the index of deeds for such county, and the names of mortgages named in such award under "releasors" in the index of releases of mortgages for such county. A copy of the map shall be filed in the same office. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 700, s. 183, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-11 - Work done by municipality or by contract

40:56-11. Work done by municipality or by contract  All work or any portion thereof in connection with any local or general improvement may be done either by the municipality or by contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Advertisements for bids for the doing of any such work shall be published and the bids shall be received and the contract awarded in each municipality in accordance with the provisions of chapter 50 of this title (s. 40:50-1 et seq.).
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-12 - Part of cost paid by municipality; ordinance

40:56-12. Part of cost paid by municipality; ordinance  The governing body may provide in any ordinance authorizing a local improvement that a certain proportion, or a definite and fixed amount of the whole cost thereof, be paid by the municipality.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-13 - Appropriations for local improvements; amount; bonds and notes; fund

40:56-13. Appropriations for local improvements; amount; bonds and notes; fund  The governing body may from time to time fix and designate the amounts of money to be expended by the municipality for local improvements. Any amount so appropriated may be raised by the issue of bond anticipation notes or permanent bonds. Any municipality may also create a capital fund for the carrying on of local improvements and such capital fund may be raised in any annual tax budget or by the sale of bonds. In making the appropriation the governing body may designate the particular local improvement to which said money so appropriated is to be applied, and in such designation may include one or more of the works set out in this article if the same are so connected as to be part of one general scheme.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-13.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-13.2 - Amounts of money to be expended for improvements established.

40:56-13.2 Amounts of money to be expended for improvements established.  3. a. Upon application to and approval by the Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, the governing body of a municipality may establish the amounts of money to be expended by the municipality for the improvements authorized in sections 1 and 2 of P.L.2011, c.187 (C.40:56-1.4 and C.40:56-13.1). Any amount so appropriated may be raised by the issuance of clean energy special assessment bonds by the municipality. In making the appropriation, the governing body may designate the particular projects to be financed to which the moneys shall be applied. b. Clean energy special assessments and bonds issued to finance them shall be issued and shall be generally subject to R.S.40:56-21 et seq., as the director shall determine to be applicable. c. The director is authorized and empowered to take such action as deemed necessary and consistent with the intent of this act to implement its provisions. d. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section to the contrary, the Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs shall not accept, and the governing body of a municipality shall not submit an application pursuant to subsection a. of this section after the date the Economic Development Authority has published on its Internet website all of the items pursuant to subsection a. of section 5 of P.L.2021, c.201 (C.34:1B-378). The Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs or a municipality shall continue to process any application submitted prior to that date, and an application approved by a municipality prior to that date shall be implemented. e. All actions taken by the Director of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs or any municipality pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be unaffected by the enactment of P.L.2021, c.201 (C.34:1B-374 et al.). L.2011, c.187, s.3; amended 2021, c.201, s.12.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-14 - General appropriations; contents of ordinance or resolution

40:56-14. General appropriations; contents of ordinance or resolution  The governing body may make general appropriations for a particular class of work or for any combination of classes of work set out in this article and the money so appropriated may be expended for such work or classes of work by the board designated by law to carry on such work at such time and place as in their judgment shall seem proper. The resolution or ordinance making any such appropriation shall state that it is to apply to local improvements and that an assessment is thereafter to be levied on property in the vicinity thereof benefited or increased in value by reason thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-15 - Completion of improvements already begun

40:56-15. Completion of improvements already begun  L.1917, c. 152, Art. XX, s. 52, p. 396, 1924 Suppl. s. 136-2052; section 52 of Article XX of an act entitled "An act concerning municipalities," approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, as amended by "An act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning municipalities,' approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and constituting chapter 152 of the pamphlet laws of 1917," approved March thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (L.1921, c. 129, p. 254), saved from repeal. [This section provides that work theretofore begun shall be completed under the provisions hereof.]
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-16 - Choice of paving materials; advertisement for bids; hearing

40:56-16. Choice of paving materials; advertisement for bids; hearing  The governing body, in any ordinance for the paving of a street or highway, may designate two or more kinds of material to be used, and may advertise for proposals for the work of making such improvement with each of the materials so designated. The governing body after receiving such proposals may determine which of the materials shall be used. The governing body may solicit bids for any such work before the final passage of the improvement ordinance and announce the same at any hearing accorded under such ordinance to persons interested.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:56-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:56-17 - Joint municipal improvements; agreement; contracts with county

40:56-17. Joint municipal improvements; agreement; contracts with county  Any two or more municipalities may unite in undertaking any one or more of the works mentioned in this article as a local or general improvement. One or more municipalities may unite with a county in the undertaking of any such improvement. Whenever such work is contemplated a proposed agreement shall be prepared setting forth the work or works to be undertaken, the plans and specifications therefor, the proportion of the cost thereof to be borne by each and any other provisions deemed necessary to be inserted therein.