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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:11A-2 - Criteria for selection of maritime history, marine life preservation projects, grants

13:11A-2. Criteria for selection of maritime history, marine life preservation projects, grants
4. a. The department shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), establish the criteria and process for selection of maritime history or marine life preservation projects to be supported by special license plates issued pursuant to section 3 of this act, the procedures for awarding of grants, and the limitation on the amount of individual grants from the Maritime History and Marine Life Preservation Project Account created pursuant to section 6 of this act.
b. Following adoption of these rules and regulations, the department shall select the project or projects to be selected for special license plates issued pursuant to section 3 of this act, after consultation with the director regarding the estimated costs of issuing those special license plates and the potential revenues therefrom, and include the selection and grant allocation in the department's budget request.
L.1997,c.74,s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:11A-3 - Creation of "Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum Account," "Maritime History and Marine Life Preservation Project Account"

13:11A-3. Creation of "Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum Account," "Maritime History and Marine Life Preservation Project Account"
6. a. There are created in the Department of Environmental Protection two special non-lapsing accounts to be known as the "Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum Account" and the "Maritime History and Marine Life Preservation Project Account." There shall be deposited into each of the accounts, the amounts collected from license plate fees collected pursuant to section 5 of this act, less the amounts necessary to reimburse the division for administrative costs pursuant to section 7 of this act, as follows:
(1) the amount collected from Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum license plate fees shall be deposited in the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum Account; and
(2) the amount collected from other maritime history or marine life preservation project license plate fees shall be deposited in the Maritime History and Marine Life Preservation Project Account.
b. Monies deposited in the accounts shall be dedicated to the purposes set forth in section 8 of this act. Monies deposited in the accounts shall be held in interest-bearing accounts in public depositories as defined pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1970, c.236 (C.17:9-41), and may be invested or reinvested in such securities as are approved by the State Treasurer. Interest or other income earned on monies deposited into the accounts, and any monies which may be appropriated or otherwise become available for the purposes of the accounts, shall be credited to and deposited in the accounts for use as set forth in this act.
L.1997,c.74,s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:11A-4 - Recommendation for appropriation; purposes

13:11A-4. Recommendation for appropriation; purposes
8. a. The Governor shall include in the annual budget recommendations to the Legislature, pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1944, c.112 (C.52:27B-20), a recommendation for an appropriation from the accounts created pursuant to section 6 of this act for the purposes set forth in this section. The Legislature shall annually appropriate to the department from the first $600,000 in license plate fees collected pursuant to section 5 of this act and deposited in the accounts:
(1) An amount not to exceed $400,000 for a grant to the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum for the purposes of supporting and maintaining the museum, to be appropriated from the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum Account created pursuant to section 6 of this act; and
(2) An amount not to exceed $200,000 for a grant to an agency, group, organization or individual responsible for a maritime history or marine life preservation project selected by the department as eligible for a special license plate issued pursuant to section 3 of this act, to be appropriated from the Maritime History and Marine Life Preservation Project Account created pursuant to section 6 of this act and allocated as provided in the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to section 4 of this act .
b. If an amount less than $600,000 is collected from license plate fees pursuant to section 5 of this act in any given year, the amounts provided in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection a. of this section shall be reduced proportionately.
L.1997,c.74,s.8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:11A-5 - Interagency memorandum of agreement

13:11A-5. Interagency memorandum of agreement
10. The commissioner, the director, and the State Treasurer shall develop and enter into an interagency memorandum of agreement setting forth the procedures to be followed by the department and the division in carrying out their respective responsibilities under this act.
L.1997,c.74,s.10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-1 - Corporate existence of canal and banking company continued

13:12-1. Corporate existence of canal and banking company continued
The corporate existence of the Morris Canal and Banking Company, chartered by the act entitled "An act to incorporate a company to form an artificial navigation between the Passaic and Delaware rivers," passed December thirty-one, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four (L.1824, p. 158), and hereinafter in this chapter designated as the "canal and banking company" , is continued.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-2 - "Morris canal" defined

13:12-2. "Morris canal" defined
The term "Morris canal" as used in this chapter, and hereinafter designated as the "canal" , means and includes all of the property, lands, rights, easements, privileges and franchises of whatsoever character vested on March eleven, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, in the Morris Canal and Banking Company as well as that which on said date had passed to or had been directly or indirectly acquired by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, a corporation of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as lessee under and by virtue of a certain indenture of lease, dated May fourth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, between the Morris Canal and Banking Company and the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company under and by virtue of the authority of the act entitled "A further supplement to "An act to incorporate a company to form an artificial navigation between the Passaic and Delaware rivers,' passed December thirty-one, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four," approved March fourteen, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (L.1871, c. 153, p. 444), including two tracts of land and land under water in Jersey City fronting on the Hudson river, known as the "Little basin" and the "Big basin" , respectively, and including any water rights and rights of diversion vested on March eleven, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, or prior to such date, vested in the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company or the Morris Canal and Banking Company, excepting any such rights that may have been acquired by any municipality of this state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-4 - Rights in certain lakes, etc., vested in canal and banking company in trust for certain purposes

13:12-4. Rights in certain lakes, etc., vested in canal and banking company in trust for certain purposes
The rights vested in the Canal and Banking Company to impound and divert waters of lakes, ponds and streams, and the property and rights vested in such company in Lake Hopatcong, Lake Musconetcong--otherwise known as Stanhope reservoir--Cranberry lake, Bear ponds, the pond on the Musconetcong river at Saxton Falls, and Greenwood lake, together with all such lands, easements, rights and other property, the title to which is vested in such company in trust for the State of New Jersey, as may be necessary to maintain such lakes and ponds, or as may be of public value for public parks or recreation areas, shall be retained by such company in trust for the State of New Jersey, for the public use of conserving the public waters of the State or for public use for recreation, and shall be and are hereby dedicated to such public use; and the Canal and Banking Company is hereby authorized and directed to control, maintain and operate the dams and sluice gates at such lakes and ponds for the purpose aforesaid and in such manner that the rights of the riparian owners upon such lakes and ponds and the outlets thereof shall be properly conserved.
Amended by L.1939, c. 326, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-5 - Use of Lake Hopatcong for boating, etc.; maintenance of water level

13:12-5. Use of Lake Hopatcong for boating, etc.; maintenance of water level
The waters of Lake Hopatcong may be used as an aquatic public park, for boating, bathing, fishing and winter sports, and the lake level shall be maintained for such purposes at the normal high water mark as established on March eleven, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, natural elements permitting.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-7 - Management and control of property by canal and banking company

13:12-7. Management and control of property by canal and banking company
Pending the sale of the property authorized or directed by the provisions of this chapter to be sold, such property shall continue to be managed and controlled by the canal and banking company. All the other property and rights, the title to which is vested in the canal and banking company in trust for the state of New Jersey, shall continue to be managed and controlled by the canal and banking company.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-8 - Board of directors of canal and banking company; voting capital stock

13:12-8. Board of directors of canal and banking company; voting capital stock
The board of directors of the canal and banking company shall consist of three members, two of whom shall constitute a quorum. The members of the board shall be elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the canal company, and shall hold office for one year and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The Commissioner of Conservation and Economic Development, the State Treasurer and the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury and their successors in office shall be eligible to serve as directors of the canal and banking company.
The capital stock of the canal and banking company, the title to which is vested in the Department of Conservation and Economic Development in trust for the State by section 13:12-6 of this Title, shall, at each election of directors of the canal and banking company, be voted in favor of the election as such directors of the persons then holding the offices of Commissioner of Conservation and Economic Development, State Treasurer, and Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury, respectively.
Amended by L.1948, c. 448, p. 1793, s. 15.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-9 - General powers of board of directors

13:12-9. General powers of board of directors
The directors elected pursuant to section 13:12-8 of this title shall manage the affairs of the canal and banking company, and shall be fully vested with all the rights and powers, except as modified by this chapter of the board of directors of such company existing prior to March nineteen, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, which former board, and the terms of office of the members thereof are abolished.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-10 - Grants to municipalities to lay and maintain sewer pipes under and along canal right of way

13:12-10. Grants to municipalities to lay and maintain sewer pipes under and along canal right of way
The board of directors of the canal and banking company shall have power to grant to any municipality or municipalities the right and easement of laying, constructing, replacing, renewing and forever maintaining, under or along the right of way of the Morris canal, sewer pipes for the preservation of the purity of the potable waters of this state and the protection of the health of the inhabitants of such municipality or municipalities. Any such grant or grants shall be made only when the board of directors is satisfied that such pipes are necessary and convenient. All pipes laid under any such grant or grants shall be laid under the supervision of and in the manner prescribed by the board of directors.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-11 - Sale of canal property for railroad purposes

13:12-11. Sale of canal property for railroad purposes
L.1924, c. 218, p. 482 (1924 suppl. s. 170-144m), entitled "An act to authorize the sale of lands of the Morris Canal and Banking Company for railroad purposes in certain cases," approved March twelve, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, saved from repeal. [This act authorizes the board of directors of the canal and banking company to sell and convey to railroad companies whose right of ways adjoin the lands of the canal and banking company such portions of such lands as may be deemed reasonable and proper to enable the railroad companies to construct additional main tracks.]
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-12 - Construction of electric railways on canal lands acquired by municipalities

13:12-12. Construction of electric railways on canal lands acquired by municipalities
L.1925, c. 75, p. 248, entitled "An act to authorize any municipality through which the Morris canal passes to construct an electric railway upon such canal lands and other lands required for such purpose and to enter into leases or contracts providing for the operation thereof, and to issue bonds therefor," approved March thirteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, saved from repeal. [This act authorizes any municipality through which the Morris canal passes and which has or shall acquire any such lands pursuant to law to construct and maintain thereon electric railways and issue bonds therefor.]
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-13 - Abandoned portions of canal property dedicated as public highways

13:12-13. Abandoned portions of canal property dedicated as public highways
Upon the discontinuance by the canal and banking company of the use as a means of transportation by water of that portion of the property the title to which is, by section 13:12-3 of this title, vested in the canal and banking company in trust for the state of New Jersey, and the discontinuance of the use as a means of transportation of water to the canal of those portions of such property which had been used as feeders to the canal, which discontinuance was authorized by section one of the act entitled "An act to authorize the abandonment of navigation upon the Morris canal and providing for the dismantling of the canal and the disposition of portions of the property, the title to which is now held in trust for the state of New Jersey by the Morris Canal and Banking Company upon terms and compensation fixed by said Morris Canal and Banking Company and providing for the review of said terms and compensation by the board of public utility commissioners of the state of New Jersey, and further providing for the management and control of such property pending the disposition thereof," approved March twelve, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four (L.1924, c. 229, s. 1, p. 506), such portions of such property, the use of which has been so discontinued, shall be applied and are hereby dedicated, subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, to the public use as public highways for the transportation and passage thereon of persons and property and for any and all other purposes of public highways.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-14 - Diversion of waters for municipal purposes

13:12-14. Diversion of waters for municipal purposes
The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to consent, under restrictions which shall not impair any existing rights, and for a consideration in each case to be fixed by its board of directors and approved in writing by the governor of this state, to the diversion, for the purpose of municipal water supply, of the waters or any portion thereof, the title to the right to the use of which is vested in the canal company in trust for the state of New Jersey; but nothing in this section contained shall be construed to dispense with any consent at any time required to be obtained by any municipality, board or commission as a condition precedent to the diversion of the state's waters or to the development of a municipal water supply.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-15 - Sale of canal property in counties to such counties for road purposes

13:12-15. Sale of canal property in counties to such counties for road purposes
The canal and banking company is hereby authorized and directed to sell any and all of the property the title to which is vested in the company in trust for the state of New Jersey, other than the rights and property to be retained for public use as provided by section 13:12-4 of this title. Wherever such property shall consist of lands so located as to be capable of use in the widening of any county road, the canal and banking company is authorized to transfer to the county wherein such section of the canal is located such section thereof, upon the adoption by the board of chosen freeholders of such county of a resolution indicating the desire of such county to acquire such section for the purposes of a county road, within the period provided by section 13:12-16 of this title for the adoption of a similar resolution by municipalities or agencies; such transfer to be made upon such terms and for such consideration as shall be fixed after negotiation as provided by said section 13:12-16 in the case of municipalities and agencies and subject to the same right of review.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-17 - Sale of canal property outside municipalities to municipalities; public sale

13:12-17. Sale of canal property outside municipalities to municipalities; public sale
If any municipality mentioned in section 13:12-16 of this title shall fail to accept the terms and compensation for any such property fixed by the canal and banking company or upon review of its decision by the board of public utility commissioners as provided in said section 13:12-16 or if prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, any such municipality shall have failed to adopt the resolution mentioned in said section 13:12-16, or if prior to such date any such municipality shall have adopted a resolution declaring that it does not desire to acquire the property of the canal and banking company within its limits, then, and in either of such cases, the canal and banking company may transfer such property as hereinafter in this section provided.
In the first place, the canal and banking company shall offer, subject to the same review as provided in said section 13:12-16, to any municipality which shall have taken appropriate steps to acquire the canal property lying within its boundaries pursuant to said section 13:12-16, such portions of the canal lying in any municipality or municipalities which shall have failed to take the necessary steps to acquire such property, as shall form a single, contiguous tract capable of development for the purpose for which the first mentioned municipality shall have acquired its tract.
In the second place, if, after a reasonable time, any municipality to which any such canal property lying without its limits shall have been offered, shall fail to have availed itself of such offer, the canal and banking company, after advertisement, in such manner as may be determined by its board of directors, shall sell any unsold portions of the canal property to the highest bidder deemed by such board of directors to be responsible, at public or private sale; but no such sale shall be made unless first approved, in writing, by the governor of the state of New Jersey; and at such sale any municipality through which such canal may pass, either alone or jointly with other municipalities through which such canal may pass, may bid for any parcel of the canal so offered for sale.
Upon any such sale, any previous dedication of the property so sold to any public use shall cease and be of no further force and effect, and the purchaser shall be entitled to take and hold such property free from any previous dedication to any public use.
The canal company is also hereby authorized to sell, in such manner and for such price and upon such terms as its board of directors may deem advisable, the structures and parts thereof and other materials to be removed on dismantling the canal as provided for in section 13:12-19 of this title and other personal property no longer useful in connection with the canal.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-17.1 - Sale by municipalities of canal property acquired from Morris Canal and Banking Company

13:12-17.1. Sale by municipalities of canal property acquired from Morris Canal and Banking Company
When any municipality to which canal property has been conveyed pursuant to chapter 229 of the laws of 1924 or chapter 12 of Title 13 of the Revised Statutes, shall hereafter determine that any part or parts thereof are no longer needed for the public use or uses for which such property was purchased, the governing body of such municipality may sell or lease said land in the manner provided by law for the sale or leasing of lands owned by municipalities.
L.1957, c. 185, p. 681, s. 1, eff. Aug. 22, 1957.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-18 - Leases; termination

13:12-18. Leases; termination
The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to let part or parts of the property and property rights, the title to which is vested in it in trust for the state of New Jersey; but any and all leasehold estates so created shall be terminable upon thirty days' notice to the lessee of the desire of the canal and banking company or the state of New Jersey to terminate the same.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-19 - Removal of bridges, etc.

13:12-19. Removal of bridges, etc.
The canal and banking company is hereby authorized and directed, as soon as the water shall have been drained off from the canal under authority of the act mentioned in section 13:12-13 of this title, to proceed promptly to remove such highway and road bridges as have heretofore been maintained by the canal and banking company at intersections of the canal with existing highways and roads and to refill the canal bed at these points and to grade down the approaches and to replace such bridges with roadways connecting with the adjoining highways or roads, graded, paved or surfaced to conform to the adjoining highways or roads respectively.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-20 - Repair, etc., of dams, sluice gates, etc.

13:12-20. Repair, etc., of dams, sluice gates, etc.
The canal and banking company is authorized and directed to repair and make safe the dams and sluice gates at the lakes and ponds mentioned in section 13:12-4 of this title and to raze and remove or put in a condition safe to life and limb all other structures heretofore maintained by the canal company and to make proper provision to prevent future obstruction of highways, roads or watercourses through the decay and fall of culverts, aqueducts or other structures and to provide for the proper drainage of the canal.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-21 - Crossings in municipalities

13:12-21. Crossings in municipalities
If the authorities in charge of any street, highway or road, on which there is a bridge or crossing to be removed by the canal and banking company as provided by section 13:12-19 of this title, shall prefer to relocate or otherwise readjust such crossing in a manner and to an extent different from that provided in said section 13:12-19, the canal and banking company, instead and in lieu of constructing any such crossing as required by said section 13:12-19, is authorized to contract with such authorities for the construction, by such authorities, of any such relocated or readjusted crossing, and, in such contract, to agree with such authorities for the payment by the canal company of such portion of the cost of such relocated or readjusted crossing as shall not exceed the estimated cost of the crossing instead of which such relocated or readjusted crossing shall be so contracted for.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-22 - Legal and administrative help, etc.; agreements with independent contractors

13:12-22. Legal and administrative help, etc.; agreements with independent contractors
The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to procure and employ such legal and technical aid and to employ such administrative officers, clerical assistants and laborers as it may require for the purpose of enabling it to administer, in accordance with the terms of this chapter, the property, the title to which is vested in it in trust for the state of New Jersey. The canal and banking company is hereby authorized to enter into such agreements with independent contractors as its board of directors may deem advisable in order to carry out the directions contained in this chapter; but no such agreement involving the expenditure of more than one thousand dollars shall be entered into unless first approved in writing by the governor of this state; nor shall any such agreement be entered into in excess of existing appropriations available therefor and applicable thereto.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-23 - Canal and banking company acting through officers thereof; execution of contracts, conveyances, etc.

13:12-23. Canal and banking company acting through officers thereof; execution of contracts, conveyances, etc.
The board of directors of the canal and banking company are hereby authorized and directed in behalf of the canal and banking company to do or cause to be done by the officers of the canal and banking company, thereunto authorized by the board of directors, all acts and things and to execute or cause to be executed all contracts, instruments of conveyance, consents, leases or other documents authorized or directed by the provisions of this chapter to be done or executed by the canal and banking company or which its board of directors shall deem expedient to be done or executed for the purpose of this chapter.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-24 - Contracts, conveyances, etc., approved by attorney general

13:12-24. Contracts, conveyances, etc., approved by attorney general
All contracts, instruments of conveyance, consents, leases or other documents mentioned in section 13:12-23 of this title shall be approved as to form by the attorney general before being executed by the canal company.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-25 - Title conveyed by deeds of canal and banking company

13:12-25. Title conveyed by deeds of canal and banking company
Any instrument of conveyance executed by the canal and banking company pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter shall operate to convey all the right, title and interest of the canal and banking company and of the state of New Jersey in and to the property therein described.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-26 - Release of lien of bonds on sale of property

13:12-26. Release of lien of bonds on sale of property
The board of conservation and development, in whom is vested the title to the bonds issued by the canal and banking company, shall, upon any sale of any property as authorized by the terms of this chapter, take such action and execute such documents as may be necessary or advisable to procure the release of such property from the lien of the mortgage securing such bonds.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-27 - Receipts from sales or rentals of property; payment into state treasury

13:12-27. Receipts from sales or rentals of property; payment into state treasury
The canal and banking company, by its general manager or by any officer thereunto duly authorized by its board of directors, shall be entitled to and is hereby authorized to receive and receipt for the purchase price, rentals or other income of any property sold or let as authorized by any of the provisions of this chapter, and to receive and receipt for the consideration paid upon the granting of any consent, as authorized by any of the provisions of this chapter. All moneys so received by the canal and banking company shall be paid into the state treasury not later than the tenth of the month following that during which such moneys were collected or received.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:12-29 - Injuries to or destruction of canal property; forfeiture; recovery

13:12-29. Injuries to or destruction of canal property; forfeiture; recovery
If any person shall, in any manner, willfully or maliciously, destroy, injure or damage any of the property of the Morris canal, the title to which is vested in the canal and banking company in trust for the state of New Jersey, or any of its parts, or any of the works connected therewith, or thereunto appertaining, or if any person shall, against the will or without the consent of the person appointed by the canal and banking company to have charge of or attend any existing lock, open any gate of such lock, or pass a boat, raft or other floating thing through or over such lock, or if any person shall willfully or maliciously let off or discharge water from any part of the canal property still in existence, through or by any waste weir, or water gate, or otherwise, or shall shut down or close, either in part or in whole, any feed gate, or water weir, when the same shall be in operation, such person, so offending, shall forfeit and pay to the canal and banking company the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered by and in the name of the president and board of directors of the canal and banking company, in any court of competent jurisdiction.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-1 - Title to canal vested in state

13:13-1. Title to canal vested in state
Pursuant to the rights reserved by it in and by virtue of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company," which act was enacted by the legislature of the state of New Jersey on February fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and by virtue of section seventeen of said act, and all other acts supplemental and amendatory to said act, the state of New Jersey shall forthwith take possession of the Delaware and Raritan canal, hereinafter in this chapter designated as the "canal" , and the feeder thereof and the appendages thereto, and the works and improvements erected thereon, except the properties and facilities now used for railroad purposes referred to in section 13:13-7 of this title, heretofore abandoned by the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, the former owner thereof, and that in and by and upon such taking of possession, title to such canal and feeder, the appendages thereto and the works and improvements erected thereon shall be deemed to be and shall thenceforth be vested in the state of New Jersey to be thereafter used or disposed of as the legislature may deem proper.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-2 - Custody of canal and feeder vested in department of conservation and development

13:13-2. Custody of canal and feeder vested in department of conservation and development
The department of conservation and development is empowered and directed to enter upon and take possession of the canal and feeder mentioned in section 13:13-1 of this title, except the properties and facilities now used for railroad purposes referred to in section 13:13-7 of this title, for and on behalf of the state of New Jersey.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-3 - Repair and preservation of canal and feeder and banks thereof

13:13-3. Repair and preservation of canal and feeder and banks thereof
13:13-3. The canal and feeder shall continue to be a public highway, and, until the legislature shall have further directed the use or disposition of the canal and feeder, the Department of Environmental Protection or its designee, the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, shall, until further directions of the legislature, repair and preserve the banks of the canal and feeder, and at all times keep a flow of water through the canal at a level heretofore maintained when the canal was in operation or as necessary to conduct dredging operations or effect repairs, except that, during the period of December fifteenth of each year and March first of the ensuing year, the department may close the canal or maintain such flow of water as it deems desirable or necessary to comply with any contract for the sale of water.
To insure the flow aforesaid and in order to preserve sanitary conditions in the canal and about the banks thereof and the towpath adjacent thereto, the feeder, the canal and the banks thereof and the towpath shall be kept free of weeds and other growth, save and except such growth as, in the judgment of the department, is conducive to the appearance of the canal and feeder and the banks and towpath thereof.
Amended 1991,c.344,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-3.1 - Department of Transportation, control and responsibility for bridge maintenance; commissioner may close public access

13:13-3.1. Department of Transportation, control and responsibility for bridge maintenance; commissioner may close public access
4. The provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, and until further direction from the Legislature, the Department of Transportation shall have control and responsibility for the maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and replacement of any existing vehicle bridges over the Delaware and Raritan Canal carrying State, county, or municipal roads and any guardrails or barriers along the approaches to these vehicle bridges. The commissioner, in accordance with generally accepted engineering principles, standards or techniques, may, in order to protect the public safety, order the closing of public access, including roads, highways, sidewalk, tracks, paths or passageways, leading to, in, under or near any bridge described pursuant to this amendatory and supplementary act, the provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.
L.1991,c.344,s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-3.2 - Department of Transportation, consult prior to bridge repair; responsibility for bridge design

13:13-3.2. Department of Transportation, consult prior to bridge repair; responsibility for bridge design
5. The Department of Transportation shall consult with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission, not less than 30 days before the Department of Transportation undertakes, or causes to be undertaken, any maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and replacement performed upon any existing vehicle bridges carrying State, county, or municipal roads and any guardrails or barriers along the approaches to these vehicle bridges over the Delaware and Raritan Canal. The provisions of section 5 of P.L.1974, c.118 (C.13:13A-5), Section 4 of P.L.1970, c.268 (C.13:1B-15.131), or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, the Department of Transportation shall be responsible for the design of any bridges or structures appurtenant thereto along or traversing the canal.
L.1991,c.344,s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-3.3 - Right-of-way permission provided

13:13-3.3. Right-of-way permission provided
6. Each person, agency of the State or instrumentality thereof owning or controlling a right-of-way shall provide permission for the use of and sufficient access to that right-of-way, and any other incidental services required by the Department of Transportation to undertake its responsibilities under this amendatory and supplementary act.
L.1991,c.344,s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-3.4 - Rules, regulations

13:13-3.4. Rules, regulations
7. The Commissioner of Transportation shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) adopt the rules and regulations necessary to carry out its responsibilities under the provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act.
L.1991,c.344,s.7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-4 - Sale of water; rental or use of property

13:13-4. Sale of water; rental or use of property
The department of conservation and development is empowered to sell water from the canal for industrial or potable purposes, and rent or, in its discretion, use as a residence for its employees connected with the maintenance of the canal lands and dwellings adjoining the canal and feeder, to which the title has vested in this state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-5 - Maintenance deficit

13:13-5. Maintenance deficit
The deficit, if any, arising from the maintenance of the canal, after deducting the income derived therefrom in the manner provided in section 13:13-4 of this title, shall be borne and paid out of funds appropriated under any general or special act of the legislature.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-6 - Operation of canal; charges for use

13:13-6. Operation of canal; charges for use
The department of conservation and development may, but, by this chapter, shall not be required to, operate the canal and the locks thereof, and, as a part of such operation, permit the use of the canal by pleasure and commercial craft, or pleasure craft alone, passing through or requiring the use of such locks. In the event of such operation, the department of conservation and development shall adopt and formulate, from time to time, a tariff of tolls and lock charges to be paid by the craft so using the canal.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-7 - Quitclaim deeds to canal and feeder

13:13-7. Quitclaim deeds to canal and feeder
The department of conservation and development, if it deems it necessary and advisable so to do, is empowered and directed to accept a quitclaim deed or deeds from the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, or either of them, of their rights in and to the canal and feeder. Any such quitclaim deed or deeds may except perpetual easement rights for railroad tracks, sidings, switches, spurs, crossings and other railroad facilities now existing for the operation of the railroads owning the same and their service to the shippers and industries located thereon.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-8 - Lease of buildings

13:13-8. Lease of buildings
The department of conservation and development is empowered to lease any buildings acquired by the state under the provisions of this chapter, which buildings are not required for use in the maintenance and operation of the canal, and shall have authority to determine the terms of such lease or leases.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-9 - Fixing boundaries of canal

13:13-9. Fixing boundaries of canal
In addition to the powers conferred by the other provisions of this chapter the department of conservation and development shall have power to agree with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company or the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, or both, as to the limits and boundaries of the land vested in the state of New Jersey by virtue of this chapter and of section seventeen of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company," passed February fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-10 - Grants of easements along or across canal; sale of canal lands not needed

13:13-10. Grants of easements along or across canal; sale of canal lands not needed
The department of conservation and development shall have power:
a. To grant to any public utility the right to cross the lands of the canal, including the canal itself, upon such conditions as in the judgment of the department may be necessary to protect the state in its use and occupancy thereof;
b. To grant to the state highway commissioner or any other department of the state, or to any county or municipal authority, or any person or corporation owning or occupying lands abutting lands of the canal, an easement for highway, driveway or drainage purposes across or along any canal lands; and
c. To sell, subject to the approval of the governor, any lands not needed for canal purposes.
No grant or sale shall be made, or easement created, which shall interfere with the canal as a waterway for either drainage, recreational, or commercial use.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-11 - Transfer of portion of canal property to city of Trenton for highway purposes

13:13-11. Transfer of portion of canal property to city of Trenton for highway purposes
The department of conservation and development is authorized and directed to transfer and convey to the city of Trenton, New Jersey, for highway purposes that portion of the Delaware and Raritan canal property lying within said city and extending from the south side of the junction of the feeder with the main canal southward to the city limits on such terms as shall be agreed upon by the board of conservation and development and the city authorities of the city of Trenton, and approved by the governor.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-12 - Filling in of canal

13:13-12. Filling in of canal
The department of conservation and development is authorized, by agreement either with the city of Trenton, or with any Federal agency, or with the authorities of any municipalities in which the canal may lie, to fill the canal from the southerly line of the city of Trenton to its terminus at Bordentown.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-12.1 - Canal to be used for industrial water supply and for recreational purposes

13:13-12.1. Canal to be used for industrial water supply and for recreational purposes
The Delaware and Raritan canal and the feeder thereof and the appendages thereto and the works and improvements erected thereon, except the properties and facilities referred to in the proviso of section five of chapter one hundred thirty-nine of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four and except the existing vehicle bridges over the same, shall henceforth be used as a source of industrial water supply and for recreational purposes, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.
L.1944, c. 172, p. 659, s. 1, eff. April 20, 1944.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-12.2 - Department to retain possession of canal

13:13-12.2. Department to retain possession of canal
The Department of Conservation and Development shall continue to retain possession of said canal and shall hold the same for the purposes of this act.
L.1944, c. 172, p. 659, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-12.3 - Department to maintain canal and flow

13:13-12.3. Department to maintain canal and flow
Until otherwise directed by the Legislature, the Department of Conservation and Development shall repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, maintain and improve the said canal in such manner as shall preserve said canal in safe and proper condition for operation of the same for the purposes of this act and as shall maintain such necessary flow through said canal in order that safety and sanitary conditions in and adjoining said canal shall be in a safe and wholesome condition and as shall assure and maintain such flow of water through said canal as may from time to time be appropriate in order that the maintenance and operation of said canal as a source of industrial water supply may be efficiently provided for.
L.1944, c. 172, p. 659, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 13 - Conservation and Development--Parks and Reservations › Section 13:13-12.4 - Department may sell water; long term contracts

13:13-12.4. Department may sell water; long term contracts
The Department of Conservation and Development shall be empowered to sell, for industrial purposes, water from said canal, on just and reasonable terms and conditions and at just and reasonable prices, and shall be empowered to enter into long term contracts, but not exceeding twenty-five years for the sale of such water, for industrial purposes, whenever it deems the same will reasonably promote industrial development in any section or sections of the State through which said canal flows and will properly conserve the public interest.
L.1944, c. 272, p. 660, s. 4.