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NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-47 - Assessment of damages incurred by improvement; payments to owner; appeal

13:17-47. Assessment of damages incurred by improvement; payments to owner; appeal  In addition to the making of assessments for benefits, the appropriate officer of the commission shall fix and determine the amount, if any, the property is damaged incidentally to the making of the improvement and deduct such amount from the amount of benefits assessed thereon. If the amount of any such damages as confirmed by the commission shall exceed the benefits assessed on the same property, if in case no benefits shall accrue thereto, or if such property is damaged subsequent to the levying and collection of an assessment which shall be confirmed by the commission to be a direct result of the making of the improvement, the balance or amount of such damages so fixed, may be raised from the general revenues of the commission, and shall be paid by the commission to the owner of the property so damaged. Any person aggrieved by such assessment or award of damages may after the same has been confirmed by the commission, appeal therefrom as provided in section 58 of this act. L.1968, c. 404, s. 46.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-48 - Payment of funds into court in event of uncertainty or dispute

13:17-48. Payment of funds into court in event of uncertainty or dispute  When owners of any property have been or shall have been awarded damages as incidental to any improvement undertaken pursuant to this act, and such award has been or shall have been duly confirmed, the amount thereof shall be tendered to the person or persons entitled thereto. If there is uncertainty as to the person entitled to receive the award or if the party entitled to receive the amount awarded shall refuse upon tender thereof to receive the same, or shall be out of the State or under any legal disability, or if several parties interested in the fund shall not agree as to the distribution thereof, or the lands damaged are encumbered by any mortgage, judgment or other lien, or if for any other reason the commission cannot safely pay the amount awarded to any person, in all such cases the amount awarded may, with leave of the Superior Court, be paid into said court and shall there be distributed according to law, on the application of any person interested therein. L.1968, c. 404, s. 47.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-49 - Report certifying assessments and awards of damages; map

13:17-49. Report certifying assessments and awards of damages; map  Assessments for benefits for any improvement together with any accompanying awards for incidental damages and all awards of damages for land or interests therein taken from any improvement, shall be certified by the officer making the same to the commission by a report in writing signed by the officer. The report shall be accompanied by a map showing the land taken, damaged or benefited by the improvement and for which damages or benefits have been assessed. L.1968, c. 404, s. 48.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-50 - Consideration of report; notice; adoption and confirmation; appeal

13:17-50. Consideration of report; notice; adoption and confirmation; appeal  The report may be considered by the commission at any meeting, notice whereof shall be published in a newspaper circulating in the district, once each week for 2 weeks prior to said meeting, and also by mailing a copy of the notice to the owners named in the report, directed to his or their last known post-office addresses, and the affidavit of the appropriate officer of the commission shall be conclusive as to such mailing. The notice shall briefly state the object of the meeting with reference to the assessment. At that or any subsequent meeting the commission, after considering the report and map, may adopt and confirm the same with or without alterations, as may seem proper, and may refer such matter to any committee of the commission, or to the officer making such assessment, for revision or correction before taking final action thereon. When the report shall be adopted and confirmed with or without alterations, it shall be final and conclusive and appeals may be taken as hereinafter provided. Failure to mail the notice in this section required shall not invalidate the proceedings. L.1968, c. 404, s. 49.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-51 - Bills for assessment; record and books of assessments

13:17-51. Bills for assessment; record and books of assessments  Immediately after the confirmation of any assessment, a duplicate thereof duly certified by the commission shall be delivered to the appropriate officer of the commission, who shall immediately thereafter send out by mail or deliver to owners of such land, bills for such assessment. Such officer shall mail or deliver a bill for an assessment in the manner required in connection with local improvements and shall keep a record and books of assessments in the same manner required for local improvements under Revised Statutes 40:56-31, at the expense of the commission. The commission may make additional requirements for recording, accounting for, and collecting assessments. L.1968, c. 404, s. 50.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-52 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-52 - Levy and payment of special assessments; establishment and administration of revolving fund

13:17-52. Levy and payment of special assessments; establishment and administration of revolving fund  (a) Special assessments levied against land in class 1 shall be considered to be of general benefit to the entire district and shall be included as a charge against general revenues of the commission or paid out of any funds of the commission which shall be available for such purpose. (b) Special assessments made against land certified to be in class 2 shall be paid to the commission, immediately upon delivery of an assessment bill to the State Treasurer from the Hackensack Meadowland Revolving Fund. (c) There is hereby established a Hackensack Meadowland Revolving Fund which shall be administered by the State Treasurer. The Legislature may appropriate from time to time amounts to such fund. All money appropriated or otherwise made available to this fund, including the repayment of expenditures made under the provisions of subsection (b), shall be held for the purpose of paying special assessments made against class 2 property pursuant to this article. Pending use, moneys in the Hackensack Meadowland Revolving Fund may be invested and reinvested as other trust funds in the custody of the State Treasurer in the manner provided by law. All earnings received from the investment or deposit of such moneys shall be paid into and become a part of such fund. (d) A statement of the amount of the special assessment against class 2 property paid for out of the fund shall be filed with the appropriate agency having title to the property and shall be included in the purchase price fixed for lands and made part of the payment for the grant or sale. The full amount of such assessment shall be repaid and deposited in the fund established by subsection (c). In the case said lands are leased for a term of years, there shall be included in the annual rental, a charge for the assessment levied on the property. Such payments up to the full amount of such assessment shall be paid to and deposited in said fund. (e) The assessment against land in class 3 shall be payable immediately upon delivery to the collecting officer of the commission. When any assessment shall not be paid within 2 months after the date of confirmation thereof, interest thereon from the date of confirmation shall be imposed at the rate of 6%. L.1968, c. 404, s. 51.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-53 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-53 - Lien of assessment; confirmation of amount.

13:17-53 Lien of assessment; confirmation of amount.  53. Every assessment for any improvement together with interest thereon and all costs and charges connected therewith shall be upon authorization of the assessment by ordinance or resolution a first lien on the land described in the assessment, paramount to all prior or subsequent alienations and descents of such land or encumbrances thereon, shall constitute a lien in the same manner as taxes and assessments for State purposes notwithstanding any mistake in the name or names of any owner or owners, or any omission to name any owner or owners who are unknown, and notwithstanding any lack of form therein, or in any proceeding which does not impair the substantial rights of the owner or owners or person or persons having a lien upon or interest in any such land. Confirmation of the amount of the assessment by the commission or by the court shall be considered as determining the amount of the existing lien and not as establishing the lien. All assessments for improvements shall be presumed to have been regularly assessed and confirmed and every assessment or proceeding preliminary thereto shall be presumed to have been regularly made or conducted until the contrary be shown. L.1968,c.404,s.52; amended 2002, c.15, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-54 - New assessments; lien

13:17-54. New assessments; lien  In all cases in which any assessment incident to any improvement has been set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction, and the improvement shall have been actually made in the manner provided by law, the officer charged with the duty of making assessments for benefits for improvements shall make a new assessment of benefits upon the property benefited by the improvement, in the manner and by the proceeding herein provided. All such new assessments shall become a lien upon the land so assessed in the same manner and with like effect and be enforceable in the same way as an original assessment for like improvements. L.1968, c. 404, s. 53.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-55 - Refund of amount of illegal assessments

13:17-55. Refund of amount of illegal assessments  When any court of competent jurisdiction shall decide that any assessment has been illegally made, the commission shall refund the amount thereof, if the same has been paid, and if a new assessment of less amount is to be made, then the difference between the new assessment and the amount paid shall be refunded. L.1968, c. 404, s. 54.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-56 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-56 - Installment payments

13:17-56. Installment payments  The commission may by resolution provide that the owner of any land upon which any assessments for any improvement shall have been made may pay such assessments in such equal yearly installments, for such number of years as may be provided by rules and regulations of the commission, with legal interest thereon, and at such time and in each year as the commission shall determine under the requirements and conditions for local improvements pursuant to Revised Statutes 40:56-35, provided that any person assessed may pay the whole of any assessment, or any balance of installments, with accrued interest thereon, at one time. If any such installment becomes due and is not paid the whole assessment or balance due thereon shall become and be immediately due, shall draw interest at the rate of 6% and be collected in the same manner as is provided in this act for other past due assessments. L.1968, c. 404, s. 55.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-57 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-57 - Enforcement of lien

13:17-57. Enforcement of lien  When any unpaid assessment, interest thereon or other charges for collection thereof, remains in arrears on July 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year when the same became in arrears, the appropriate officer of the commission shall enforce the lien by selling the property in the manner set forth in sections 54:5-19 to 54:5-129 of the Revised Statutes. L.1968, c. 404, s. 56.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-58 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-58 - Deposit of funds in improvement assessment account

13:17-58. Deposit of funds in improvement assessment account  All assessments as collected shall be immediately placed in an account to be known as "improvement assessment account." Such moneys shall be used only to pay the cost of such improvements or indebtedness incurred for such improvements or interest or premium, if any thereon. L.1968, c. 404, s. 57.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-59 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-59 - Appeal from assessment or award; enforcement of order or judgment

13:17-59. Appeal from assessment or award; enforcement of order or judgment  The owner of any property assessed for benefits or awarded damages incident to any improvement under this act may, within 30 days after confirmation of such assessment or award, appeal from the same to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court by serving written notice of such appeal upon the tax collector and a duplicate upon the appropriate officer of the commission, either personally or by leaving the same at his office or place of abode. The court shall determine whether or not the record contains substantial evidence that the assessment or award appealed from is just and fair, and if not shall make an order correcting the same, or, if the assessment or award is sustained shall so order. The determination shall be by order or judgment for the amount determined and shall be enforced in an appropriate manner pursuant to procedures set forth in Revised Statutes 40:56-57, as amended. The commission may proceed with the prosecution and completion of the improvement and the issuing of bonds and other indebtedness in connection with said improvements notwithstanding any such appeal. L.1968, c. 404, s. 58.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-60 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-60 - Purpose; report to legislature

13:17-60. Purpose; report to legislature  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that a vital component of any comprehensive plan for the development of the meadowland district, is a program whereby the financial benefits and liabilities of each constituent municipality, are clearly established and equitably distributed. Article 9 of this act provides for such a program, by the creation of an intermunicipal account, and specifically provides that each constituent municipality will be guaranteed, in perpetuity, against loss of its present existing tax ratable values within the meadowland district occurring by reason of the acquisition of taxable real property, through purchase, eminent domain or gift, by a governmental body or agency to be used for a public purpose, to the extent that such loss of existing tax ratable values is not offset by increased true value of the remaining taxable real property within the district, and will equitably share in the new financial benefits and new costs resulting from the development of the meadowland district as a whole. This article further provides that the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission shall not be able to receive any funds from the intermunicipal account. (b) The Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission shall, in 1974, and every year thereafter, submit a report to the Meadowlands Municipal Committee and the Legislature, relating to the operation of the intermunicipal account in the prior year, and shall recommend, when it deems necessary, such amendments to this article as it may deem necessary, to carry out the legislative intent herein stated. L.1968, c. 404, s. 59. Amended by L.1972, c. 103, s. 1, eff. July 19, 1972.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-61 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-61 - Definitions

13:17-61 Definitions  As used in this article, unless the context indicates another meaning or intent:  (a) "Adjustment year" means the year in which the respective obligations of the intermunicipal account and the constituent municipalities of the district are due and payable.  (b) "Intermunicipal account" means the administrative device established and administered by the commission to record all the transactions made pursuant to this article for the purpose of calculating the meadowlands adjustment payment for each constituent municipality, and to act as the clearinghouse for the transfer of the meadowlands adjustment payments among the constituent municipalities as required by this article.  (c) "Meadowlands adjustment payment" means the amount that is payable by each constituent municipality to the intermunicipal account, or the amount that is payable by the intermunicipal account to each municipality, as the commission shall determine the case to be, pursuant to the provisions of this article.  (d) "Resident enrollment" means the number of full-time pupils who are residents of the school district and who are enrolled in day schools on the last day of September during the school year in which calculation of aid is made and are attending the public schools of the school district or a school district or State teachers' college demonstration school in which the school district of residence pays tuition; school district may count in its enrollment any pupil regularly attending on a full-time basis a county vocational school in the same county, for which the school district pays tuition.  (e) "Base year" means the calendar year 1970. (f) "Comparison year" means the second calendar year preceding the adjustment year. (g) "Apportionment rate" means a rate determined as follows: (1) The total property taxes levied for local, school, and veterans' and senior citizens' purposes, as certified pursuant to R.S. 54:4-52, of the municipality in the comparison year after the meadowlands adjustment payment made in that comparison year has been subtracted or added, as the case may be, divided by  (2) The aggregate true value of all taxable real property, exclusive of Class II railroad property, located in the municipality, both within and without the district, in the comparison year, as determined by the Director of the Division of Taxation on October 1 of the comparison year, pursuant to P.L. 1954, c. 86, as amended, as the same may have been modified by the tax court. If a tax appeal is decided after calculations are made for an adjustment year, the next year's calculations must show a retroactive correction for the applicable preceding two years.  L. 1968, c. 404, s. 59.1; amended 1972, c.103, s.2; amended 1983, c.36, s.2; 1989,c.26,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-62 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-62 - Applicability of laws relating to assessment and taxation of real and personal property

13:17-62. Applicability of laws relating to assessment and taxation of real and personal property  The laws relating to the assessment and taxation of real and personal property shall apply to all constituent municipalities unless otherwise specifically provided in this act. L.1968, c. 404, s. 60.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-63 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-63 - Assessor's list

13:17-63. Assessor's list  (a) In preparing the list of owners of taxable property pursuant to Revised Statutes 54:4-24, the assessor of each constituent municipality shall indicate in the list for each parcel of property whether or not it is located within the district boundaries, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Director of the Division of Taxation. (b) When the boundary of the district divides a lot of land, the entire lot shall be included within the district. L.1968, c. 404, s. 61.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-65 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-65 - Resident enrollment certification

13:17-65. Resident enrollment certification  On or before November 15, 1969, and on or before November 15 of each year thereafter, the secretary, superintendent or a person designated by the school board of each school district of each constituent municipality shall certify to the commission the resident enrollment as of September 30 of that year. The certification shall show the number, address and grade enrolled of pupils who reside within the district and the number who reside outside, in a manner to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the Department of Education.  L. 1968, c. 404, s. 63; amended 1989,c.26,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-66 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-66 - Establishment of intermunicipal account; computation of amount payable by or due to each constituent municipality

13:17-66. Establishment of intermunicipal account; computation of amount payable by or due to each constituent municipality  In the adjustment year 1973, and in each adjustment year thereafter, the commission shall establish an intermunicipal account and shall compute the amount payable to said account by each of the constituent municipalities and the amount due to each constituent municipality from said account for that year pursuant to this article. L.1968, c. 404, s. 64. Amended by L.1970, c. 319, s. 1, eff. Dec. 21, 1970.
NJ Rev Stat § 13:17-67.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations|Section 13:17-67.1 - Adjustment payment exclusion

13:17-67.1. Adjustment payment exclusion  Notwithstanding the provision of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, no constituent municipality shall pay out or receive a meadowlands adjustment payment for any adjustment year in which its municipal equalized valuation per capita, as defined in section 1 of P.L. 1978, c. 14 (C. 52:27D-178) and as certified by the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs exceeds $1,000,000.00.  L. 1989, c.26,ss.4,5.