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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-202.1 - Referendum to determine hours or salaries of county park police

40:37-202.1. Referendum to determine hours or salaries of county park police
Whenever there shall be submitted to the board of chosen freeholders of any county having park police appointed pursuant to the provisions of subdivision E of article five of chapter thirty-seven of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes, a petition signed by three per centum (3%) of the legal voters of the county requesting that there shall be submitted to the legal voters of the county the question of fixing the hours of duty or the salary or salaries of any officer or officers or of the members of any park police, according to the hours or the amount or amounts stated in the petition, the board of chosen freeholders shall cause the question or questions to be submitted to the legal voters of the county at the next general election therein occurring more than forty-five days after the receipt of the petition by the governing body.
L.1951, c. 209, p. 753, s. 1, eff. June 13, 1951.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-203 - Powers of park police.

40:37-203 Powers of park police.
40:37-203. The members and officers of the park police may arrest on view and without warrant, and conduct before the nearest police magistrate of the municipality in which the arrest is made, or a police magistrate of a neighboring municipality, any persons found violating the rules and regulations enacted by the commission for the protection, preservation, regulation and control of the parks and parkways, and all property and other things therein, and in addition while on or off duty anywhere within the territorial limits of the State, shall have the same powers for the enforcement of the laws of this State and the apprehension of violators thereof as are conferred by law upon police officers or constables.
Amended 1969, c.167; 1997, c.308, s.3..
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-204 - Establishment and location of parks; acquisition of property

40:37-204. Establishment and location of parks; acquisition of property
The commission may acquire, maintain and make available to the public, parks and open spaces for public resort and recreation; locate such public parks and places within the limits of the county; and for these purposes may acquire by purchase, gift, devise or eminent domain, real estate or any right or interest therein for public parks and open spaces within the county. Deeds of conveyance therefor shall be made to the commission by its corporate name, and it shall preserve, care for, lay out and improve such parks and places, and make rules for the use and government of the same.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-205 - Lands for parks; lease with option to purchase

40:37-205. Lands for parks; lease with option to purchase
The commission may acquire by lease for a definite period, not exceeding ten years, lands for parks and open spaces for public resort and recreation, but all such leases shall contain an option to purchase the leased lands.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-206 - Surveys and maps of parks; records

40:37-206. Surveys and maps of parks; records
Before proceeding to purchase or condemn lands for a public park or place, the commission shall determine the location and quantity of land to be included in such park or place, and cause a survey thereof to be made together with a map showing the lands to be embraced therein. The map shall be kept by the commissioners in their office, and the boundary lines of every such park or place shall be recorded in a book to be kept by them for that purpose.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-207 - Condemnation for parks; law applicable

40:37-207. Condemnation for parks; law applicable
Whenever the commission shall have determined to acquire any real estate or any right or interest therein for any public park or place which it has located as provided in sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title, and cannot acquire the same by agreement with the owner, by reason of disagreement as to price, the legal incapacity or absence of the owner, or his inability to convey valid title, or for any other reason, the compensation shall be ascertained and paid in the manner directed in and by chapter 1 of the title Eminent Domain (s. 20:1-1 et seq.).
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-208 - Construction of roadways; acquisition of real estate

40:37-208. Construction of roadways; acquisition of real estate
The commission may connect any road, park or public open space with any other park or public open space, and with any municipality in the county by a suitable roadway or boulevard, and for this purpose may exercise any of the rights and powers granted by sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title in the manner herein prescribed.
It may acquire in its corporate name, for the benefit of the county, by purchase, gift, devise or eminent domain, any real estate or right or interest therein within the county, although the real estate so taken or any part thereof, be already a street or way, and it may construct and maintain along, across and upon and over the same, or any other real estate acquired by it under said sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247, roadways, parkways or boulevards, but the concurrence of the body having authority over streets or roads shall be necessary to take or appropriate any portion of an existing street or road.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-209 - Survey and map of roadways and boulevards; records

40:37-209. Survey and map of roadways and boulevards; records
Before laying out and opening any roadway, parkway or boulevard, the commission shall cause a survey to be made and a map thereof to be filed in their office, showing the termini of each roadway, parkway or boulevard, including the courses and distances, the names of the several owners or reputed owners of land through which the same will pass, so far as the same can be ascertained, and the streets or roads which may be included therein. The commission shall not be obliged to disclose such locations, surveys or maps to public inspection until it has taken proceedings to condemn real estate or any right or interest therein necessary therefor.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-210 - Commission may establish grades; pavement and improvement of roadways

40:37-210. Commission may establish grades; pavement and improvement of roadways
The commission may not only lay out and open roadways, parkways and boulevards, connecting parks and open spaces as herein provided, but may also establish the grade of such highways and change and alter the same, and grade, curb, flag, pave and otherwise improve such parkways, roadways and boulevards, and regulate the use thereof.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-211 - Condemnation for roadways; commissioners appointed; benefits assessed

40:37-211. Condemnation for roadways; commissioners appointed; benefits assessed
Whenever the commission shall determine to open and lay out a boulevard, parkway or roadway, or make any improvement thereof which shall require the condemnation of real estate or any right or interest therein, it shall give notice by publication, at least ten days, in one or more of the newspapers circulating in the county wherein the real estate to be condemned is situate of its intention to apply to a judge of the Superior Court for the appointment of three disinterested commissioners to:
a. Make an appraisement of the value of the real estate which in their judgment is necessary to be taken for the opening and laying out of any boulevard or roadway, or for the improvement thereof;
b. Ascertain, fix and determine the amount of the damages occasioned thereby;
c. Ascertain, fix and determine the amount of the special benefits which the laying out of the street or the improvement thereof will confer upon any owner of property benefited thereby.
Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 662, s. 93, eff. March 19, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-212 - Commissioners; appointment; duties; oaths

40:37-212. Commissioners; appointment; duties; oaths
At the time and place specified in the notice provided for in section 40:37-211 of this Title the judge shall appoint three disinterested freeholders resident in the county to:
a. Make a just and true appraisement of the value of the real estate to be condemned and taken by the county park commission for the purposes specified in the notice;
b. Ascertain, fix and determine the amount of damages occasioned thereby;
c. Make a just and true estimate and appraisement of the special or peculiar benefits which the opening of any such boulevard, parkway or roadway, or the improvement thereof, may confer upon any owner of property benefited thereby, in proportion as nearly as may be to the benefit which each owner may be deemed to acquire. The commissioners so appointed shall forthwith take and subscribe an oath that they will faithfully and impartially perform their duties, and their oaths shall be filed in the office of the county clerk.
Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 663, s. 94, eff. March 19, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-213 - Hearing and notice; view premises; report

40:37-213. Hearing and notice; view premises; report
The commissioners so appointed shall fix a time and place when they will hear the persons interested in the property to be taken, and in the benefits to be conferred by the proposed improvement, and shall give public notice of such time and place for at least ten days prior to the day of meeting in two or more of the newspapers published and circulating in the county. After having viewed the premises and heard the parties interested, they shall proceed to estimate and fix the value of the real estate taken and the damages caused by such taking, and ascertain and determine the amount of special or peculiar benefits conferred upon the owners of property benefited, in proportion as nearly as may be to the benefits which each owner shall be deemed to acquire, and to make report of their assessments to the court. They may report the damages awarded and the benefits assessed in any case in the same report or separately as they may determine.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-214 - Court to hear objections to report; confirmation

40:37-214. Court to hear objections to report; confirmation
Upon receipt of any such report, signed by the commissioners, or any two of them, the court shall cause such notice to be given as it shall direct of the time and place of hearing any objections that may be made to the awards or assessments, and after hearing any matter which may be alleged against the same, shall, by rule or order, either confirm the report or refer it to the same commissioners for revision and correction. The commissioners shall return the same, when referred to them again, corrected and revised, or make a new report to the court without unnecessary delay, and the same, on being so returned, shall be confirmed or again referred by the court in the manner hereinbefore provided, and so from time to time until a report shall be made or returned, which the court shall confirm.
The report when so confirmed shall be final and conclusive, upon the county park commissioners and upon the owners of the real estate or any right or interest therein affected thereby, and the court shall thereupon cause the report to be filed in the office of the county clerk, there to remain of record.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-215 - Rules of procedure

40:37-215. Rules of procedure
The Supreme Court may make such rules for the regulation of the practice and procedure under sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this Title as it shall deem appropriate.
Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 663, s. 95, eff. March 19, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-216 - Compensation of commissioners; expenses; inclusion in cost of improvement

40:37-216. Compensation of commissioners; expenses; inclusion in cost of improvement
The court shall, upon application by the county park commissioners or on its own behalf, fix and determine the compensation to be paid the commissioners so appointed, and allow any other expense necessarily incurred in making any such assessment, all of which shall be paid by the county park commission. The cost and expense of making any assessment for benefits, including the fees of commissioners, may be included in making up the cost for the purpose of the assessment.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-217 - Benefits assessed deducted from damages awarded

40:37-217. Benefits assessed deducted from damages awarded
Whenever damages are awarded under the provisions of section 40:37-213 of this title to an owner of real estate, and benefits are assessed against the same owner, the county park commissioners may, when both the award of damages and the assessment of benefits have been finally confirmed, deduct the amount of the benefits assessed from the damages awarded, and set off the benefits against the damages by proper charges and credit, in order that only the excess of damages, if any, shall be paid, and only the excess of benefits, if any, collected.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-218 - Award collected by suit

40:37-218. Award collected by suit
Any person to whom an award shall be made may, subject to the deductions for benefits assessed, sue for and collect the award after it shall have been confirmed, in an action at law against the county park commissioners in any court of competent jurisdiction, and a certified copy of the award so made shall be presumptive evidence of the claim sued upon.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-219 - Assessments a lien; collection; action at law

40:37-219. Assessments a lien; collection; action at law
The county park commissioners may collect the assessments for benefits either by an action at law in the name of the commission against the person from whom it is due, together with the costs of making the same and interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from the date of confirmation, or by a sale of the property benefited, or by both of these remedies, which are to be cumulative.
Every assessment shall be a first lien upon the property benefited as ascertained by the commissioners, to the amount of the assessment, with the interest and costs from the date of the confirmation thereof.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-220 - Assessments for benefits; disposition of funds; payment of bonds

40:37-220. Assessments for benefits; disposition of funds; payment of bonds
All sums of money received from assessments for benefits shall be set apart by the county park commission and devoted exclusively to the payment of bonds or obligations issued on its requisition, for the purpose of providing a fund to meet the expenditures of the commission and to the payment of the interest thereon.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-222 - Sale of lands for unpaid assessments; notice and publication

40:37-222. Sale of lands for unpaid assessments; notice and publication
If any assessment shall remain in arrears for more than six months after confirmation, suit may be brought for its collection with interest and costs, and the commission may proceed to advertise the real estate upon which the assessment may be a lien to be sold at public auction at the courthouse of the county, on a day not less than two months distant, between two and five o'clock in the afternoon. Such advertisement shall be published at least once each week for a period of at least three weeks next preceding the sale, in two of the newspapers published and circulating in the county, and shall be the only notice required. It shall contain the names of the owners of real estate in default, if the same be known, and if not known shall state the names of owners to be unknown, and shall give the amounts due from them respectively, with a short description of the real estate to be sold.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-223 - Sale for term of years

40:37-223. Sale for term of years
At the sale, the real estate shall be publicly sold to the person who will take the same for the shortest period of time, not exceeding fifty years from the date of sale, and pay to the commission before the close of the sale the full amount due upon the unpaid assessments, with interest thereon from the time when the same was confirmed at the rate of six per cent per annum, together with such sum as the commission may fix and determine to be a fair proportion of the expenses of advertising, conducting and making the sale.
If any purchaser fails to make such payment, he shall forfeit all claim to the real estate, and the same shall be resold by the commission after advertisement in the manner provided in section 40:37-222 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-225 - Certificate of sale; issuance; assignability; recording

40:37-225. Certificate of sale; issuance; assignability; recording
The commission shall make and deliver to a purchaser at such sale, who shall have made payment, a certificate of sale, signed by its officers thereunto duly authorized, sealed with its seal and acknowledged or proved according to law. The certificate shall set forth as concisely as possible, the facts of the assessment, advertisement and sale, together with a short description of the real estate sold, the amount actually paid therefor by the purchaser and the length of time for which he shall have purchased the same. Every such certificate shall, before its delivery, be recorded in one of the books to be kept by the commission for that purpose. It may be assigned by deed of assignment under seal, duly acknowledged, and every such assignment may be recorded in the books of the commission upon the payment of a fee of one dollar.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-226 - Redemption of property sold

40:37-226. Redemption of property sold
The owner of any real estate so sold, his legal representatives, or any mortgagee or judgment creditor having a legal or equitable interest therein, may within the time prescribed by section 40:37-227 of this title redeem the property from the lien so imposed by paying to the commission, for the benefit of the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the amount originally paid by the purchaser plus any tax or assessment paid by him and of which he may have given written notice to the commission, together with interest on all such payments at the rate of ten per cent per annum.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-227 - Time for redemption; declaration of sale; contents; filing

40:37-227. Time for redemption; declaration of sale; contents; filing
If at the expiration of three years no such redemption as is provided for in section 40:37-226 of this title is made, the commission shall, upon the surrender of the certificate of sale, execute and deliver to the purchaser, his legal representatives or assigns, a declaration of sale executed in the same manner as the certificate of sale. The declaration shall be duly proved or acknowledged and shall state briefly the facts of the assessment, advertisement and sale, giving a short description of the real estate sold, and the term for which it was sold. The declaration of sale shall be recorded in the books of the commission and also in the record of deeds in the office of the proper recording officer of the county, upon the payment of a fee of one dollar in each case. Until the recording of the declaration the time for redeeming such real estate shall remain open, notwithstanding the expiration of the said term.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-228 - Effect of declaration of sale; liability for waste

40:37-228. Effect of declaration of sale; liability for waste
The declaration of sale shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places that the sale and proceedings were regular and according to law, and the purchaser or his legal representatives shall, by virtue thereof, lawfully hold and enjoy such real estate, with the rents, issues and profits thereof, for his own proper use against the owner thereof and all persons claiming under him, until the end of the term mentioned in the declaration. The purchaser so holding shall be liable for any injury or waste done or committed in the same manner and to the same extent as a tenant for years.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-229 - Redemption by mortgagee; notice to mortgagee; rights after redemption

40:37-229. Redemption by mortgagee; notice to mortgagee; rights after redemption
No mortgagee whose mortgage shall have been recorded or registered before the sale, shall be divested of his rights in and to the real estate unless, after written notice shall have been given to him by the purchaser for a period of six months, he shall neglect to redeem the real estate by paying the amount actually paid by the purchaser, including taxes and assessments subsequently made, together with interest at the rate of six per cent from the date of payment and all costs or charges which the purchaser may have been by law obliged to pay. Notice to every mortgagee who is a resident of the county shall be served personally. If he is not a resident it shall be addressed to him by mail at his place of residence as stated in the mortgage or any assignment thereof.
Any mortgagee who shall redeem the property as hereinbefore provided may collect the amount paid as a part of the debt due, and shall be entitled to receive and hold by assignment the declaration of sale, as evidence of such payment and as further security for the repayment of the sum so paid, with interest.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-230 - Unsold lands struck off to board

40:37-230. Unsold lands struck off to board
Real estate which is not bid off and sold when offered for sale or resale, according to the provisions of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title shall be struck off to the commission by its corporate name, for the longest term for which a sale is authorized to be made, and it may hold the property and sell, assign and dispose thereof and use the proceeds in the same manner as directed in the case of moneys paid for benefits assessed. The commission shall, in relation to the real estate so struck off to it, have all the rights and privileges of a purchaser at such sale.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-231 - Freeholders to borrow money upon requisition of park commission; bonds; limitation

40:37-231. Freeholders to borrow money upon requisition of park commission; bonds; limitation
To meet the expenses incurred under the provisions of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title, in addition to the money received from benefit assessments as herein provided and otherwise, the board of chosen freeholders of the county shall from time to time, on the requisition of the park commissioners, borrow money in the name and on the credit of the county by issuing bonds of the county to a sum in the aggregate not exceeding two million dollars. All such bonds shall be issued as hereinafter in section 40:37-235 of this title provided.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-232 - Additional bond issues

40:37-232. Additional bond issues
The following supplements to the act entitled "An act to establish public parks in certain counties in this state and to regulate the same," approved April first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, providing for additional bond issues, and approved on the following dates, are hereby saved from repeal:
April 18, 1930. (L.1930, c. 233, p. 1037.)
April 8, 1931. (L.1931, c. 73, p. 129.)
[These acts provide the authority for the issuance of bonds in addition to the amounts authorized by the original act.]
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-233 - Appropriations; action by freeholders

40:37-233. Appropriations; action by freeholders
On requisition of the park commission the board of chosen freeholders may appropriate for the park commission such sums as the board of chosen freeholders may deem advisable subject to the limitation provided in section 40:37-231 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-235 - Bond issues; law applicable; deductions from debt statement

40:37-235. Bond issues; law applicable; deductions from debt statement
Appropriations for other than current expenses, including, however, all expenses of the board of park commissioners incurred prior to the establishment of a park, may be provided for by the issuance of bonds or other obligations of the county in pursuance of article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 40:1-1 et seq.). The chief financial officer of the county may deduct such bonds or other obligations, including the bonds or other obligations referred to in section 40:37-236 of this title, from any annual or supplemental debt statement, equal in amount to one per cent of the average assessed valuation of the county for the three preceding years.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-236 - Certain expenses replaced by bond issue; limitation

40:37-236. Certain expenses replaced by bond issue; limitation
In the discretion of the board of chosen freeholders, budget appropriations not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in aggregate amount for the expenses of the park commission made prior to the establishment of a park, may be replaced by the issuance of bonds or other obligations for park purposes, as provided in section 40:37-235 of this title, and the proceeds of the bonds or other obligations used for that purpose, may be reappropriated for any county purpose.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-237 - Amount collected from benefit assessments applied to payment of bonds

40:37-237. Amount collected from benefit assessments applied to payment of bonds
Upon the receipt of moneys collected from benefit assessments the park commissioners shall turn over the sum so collected to the officer, board or body charged by law with the care, custody and control of the fund for the payment of the bonds issued for the improvement in connection with which the assessment was levied.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-238 - Lands used only for park purposes; railroads excluded; exceptions

40:37-238. Lands used only for park purposes; railroads excluded; exceptions
Except as hereinafter in section 40:37-239 of this title provided, all real estate taken or held under the provisions of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title for the purpose of public parks shall be forever kept open and maintained as such, and no steam or other railroad shall be laid out on, or maintained or operated in or on any portion of the parks, open spaces, boulevards, parkways or roadways laid out and located under said sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247, except at such places and in such manner as the commission shall by resolution approve.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-239 - Sale of real estate in certain cases; vacation of roadways

40:37-239. Sale of real estate in certain cases; vacation of roadways
If the commission shall by resolution determine that any real estate, or part thereof, acquired under sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title, is no longer required for park purposes, it may sell and convey the same or exchange it for other real estate. Whenever any real estate was conveyed to the commission for park or boulevard purposes only the commission may reconvey the same to the grantor or his heirs, successors or assigns. The commission may also, by resolution, vacate or surrender any roadway, parkway or boulevard, within its jurisdiction or control.
All such conveyances heretofore or hereafter made by the commission shall be valid and effectual in law, and shall convey all the right, title and interest of the commission and of the county in which the real estate is situate, and of the public, in and to such real estate.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-240 - Rules and regulations; notice; penalties; disposition of

40:37-240. Rules and regulations; notice; penalties; disposition of
The commission may make rules and regulations for the government and use of the parks, open spaces, boulevards, parkways and roadways, and enforce the same by prescribing and fixing for the violation thereof suitable penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense. All rules and regulations shall be plainly printed and posted within the parks and public places or on the boulevards and other highways. The commission may sue for and collect the penalties prescribed and fixed for any violation of the rules and regulations so made in a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction. All fines and penalties recovered shall be used by the commission for the same purposes and in the same manner as its other funds.
Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 663, s. 96, eff. March 19, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-241 - Transfer of municipal parks and streets to county park commission

40:37-241. Transfer of municipal parks and streets to county park commission
Any municipality within the county and any board in such municipality, having control of the parks or streets therein may, with the consent of the park commission, transfer the care, custody and control of any park, public place or street under its care or control to the commission for the purpose of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-242 - Referendum; submission at general election; notice

40:37-242. Referendum; submission at general election; notice
The question of the adoption of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title shall be submitted to the voters of any county having the necessary population at the next general election. The county clerk shall, at least ten days before the election, give public notice by publication in two or more newspapers published and circulating in the county, that the submission will be made at the ensuing election. The notice shall state briefly the question to be submitted.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-243 - Ballot, form and content

40:37-243. Ballot, form and content
The county clerk shall cause the question to be printed upon the sample and official ballots for the general election in substantially the following form:
"To vote upon the public question printed below if in favor thereof, mark a cross (X) or a plus (+) in the square at the left of the word YES, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word NO.
"Shall a county park commission be appointed in
[ ] YES ................. county pursuant to sections
40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of the title Municipalities
[ ] NO and Counties of the Revised Statutes?"
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-244 - Vote required for adoption

40:37-244. Vote required for adoption
All ballots so cast for or against the question shall be counted and the result thereof returned by the election officers, and the acceptance or rejection thereof shall be determined by the result thereof. If upon the canvass of all the votes cast for or against the question, it shall appear that a majority of them were in favor thereof, the provisions of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title shall become operative in that county.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-245 - Results returned and certified; record of

40:37-245. Results returned and certified; record of
The votes cast for and against the adoption of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title shall be counted, returned, certified and canvassed in the manner provided by the laws relating to elections, and the county clerk shall file a tabulated statement of the number of votes so cast together with his certificate thereon, in his office, there to remain of record.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-246 - Clerk to deliver copy to freeholders; appointment of commissioners

40:37-246. Clerk to deliver copy to freeholders; appointment of commissioners
If the provisions of sections 40:37-195 to 40:37-247 of this title shall have been adopted at such election the county clerk shall, within five days after the filing of his tabulated statement and certificate, deliver a certified copy thereof to the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders, and within ten days thereafter the board shall at a regular or special meeting appoint the park commissioners herein provided for.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-247 - Election expenses; payment by county

40:37-247. Election expenses; payment by county
All expenses incident to the election, properly certified by the county judge or if there are two or more county judges by all or a majority of them, of the county shall be paid by the county wherein the election is held in the same manner as other election expenses therein are paid.
Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 664, s. 97, eff. March 19, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-248 - Petition for submission

40:37-248. Petition for submission
When in any county there has or shall have been submitted to the voters thereof at any election, the question of the establishment of a county park system or county park commission under the provisions of any law, and the question shall have failed of adoption as provided by the law under the terms of which the same was submitted, no proposition for the establishment of a county park system or county park commission shall thereafter be submitted to the voters of that county unless and until there shall have been filed with the board of chosen freeholders of that county, at least sixty days prior to the next following general election, a petition signed by at least two per cent of the persons who were qualified to vote at the last preceding general election.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-249 - Petition; contents

40:37-249. Petition; contents
The petition shall request the board of chosen freeholders to submit again to the voters of the county, a proposition for the establishment of a county park system or county park commission in that county, and shall further request the board of chosen freeholders to cause such proposition to be printed upon the ballots to be used at the next following general election.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-250 - Freeholders choose law to be submitted; notice to county clerk

40:37-250. Freeholders choose law to be submitted; notice to county clerk
If the board of chosen freeholders shall find the petition to be in proper form and signed by the required number of legal voters of the county, it shall determine what law for the establishment of a county park system or county park commission applicable to the county shall be submitted at the referendum requested, and the fact that the provisions of any law may have been submitted and rejected at a previous referendum shall not prevent the board from again submitting that law. Not later than forty-five days preceding the next general election, the board of freeholders shall certify to the county clerk the question to be submitted to the voters of the county.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-251 - Ballot; law applicable

40:37-251. Ballot; law applicable
The county clerk shall cause to be printed on the sample and official ballots to be used at such general election in the manner required by Title 19, Elections, the public question in relation to the establishment of a county park system or county park commission as determined upon and certified to him by the board of chosen freeholders.
The county clerk or any other public official or board shall not be required to submit to the voters of the county any proposition for the establishment of a county park system or county park commission in and for the county except in the manner herein provided.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-252 - Maintenance; annual appropriation

40:37-252. Maintenance; annual appropriation
In any county of the second class in which county lands have been or may be developed or improved for use as a public park or public recreation place with funds made available by the federal government or any instrumentality thereof, the board of chosen freeholders may maintain, preserve, and care for such lands as a public park or parks or recreation place or recreation places and make annual appropriations therefor.
Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to apply to any county of the second class, which has adopted the provisions of any other law for the establishment and maintenance of a county park commission.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-253 - Acquisition and improvement of other lands

40:37-253. Acquisition and improvement of other lands
In any county of the second class wherein lands have been acquired, developed or improved, the board of chosen freeholders may acquire, in fee or otherwise, by gift, grant or devise, other lands and rights in lands for public parks and recreation grounds and develop, improve, maintain, preserve and care for the same as a public park or parks and recreation ground or recreation grounds.
Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to apply to any county of the second class, which has adopted the provisions of any other law for the establishment and maintenance of a county park commission.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-254 - Purchase and condemnation of contiguous lands

40:37-254. Purchase and condemnation of contiguous lands
The board of chosen freeholders of any such county wherein land has been acquired, improved, maintained and developed, as provided in this article, may, if such board shall so determine it to be proper and necessary for the convenience, accommodation and benefit of the inhabitants of the county, acquire, in fee or otherwise, by purchase, gift, grant, devise or by the exercise of eminent domain, additional lands contiguous to any property developed and maintained as a public park or recreation ground.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-255 - Surveys and maps

40:37-255. Surveys and maps
The board of chosen freeholders before proceeding to acquire by purchase or condemnation lands contiguous to any such public park or recreation ground shall first determine the quantity of land to be acquired and shall cause a survey and map to be made thereof embracing the park or recreation ground which the lands so to be acquired adjoin, as well as the land to be acquired, which survey and map shall be a public record and kept in the office of the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-256 - General powers

40:37-256. General powers
The board of chosen freeholders of any such county wherein lands have been improved, developed and maintained as aforesaid, may:
a. Take or acquire in fee or otherwise by gift, grant, purchase, devise or condemnation, any lands or rights in lands, or easements or interest in lands, within any such county, although the lands so taken or any part thereof, be a public street or way;
b. Construct and maintain along, across, upon and over the same, roads, parkways and boulevards;
c. Grade and improve the same;
d. Regulate the width of streets, roadways, bicycle paths and bridle paths;
e. Plant trees or shrubbery; and
f. Construct and maintain sidewalks and roadways in any part thereof in such manner and of such materials as the board of chosen freeholders shall determine.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-257 - Condemnation procedure; assessments for benefits; award of damages

40:37-257. Condemnation procedure; assessments for benefits; award of damages
When the board of chosen freeholders shall deem it proper and necessary to acquire lands or rights in lands for the extension or enlargement of any developed park or recreation ground or site for such proposed park or recreation ground, which has been acquired as herein provided, or for the laying out of any boulevard or roadway leading to any public park or recreation ground from an established public highway, and the board of chosen freeholders cannot agree with the owner or owners of such lands, or rights or interest therein, as to the price or terms of purchase thereof, or when, by the legal incapacity or absence of the owner or owners, or for any other reason, no agreement as to the purchase thereof can be made, the compensation shall be determined and paid agreeably to the provisions of chapter 1 of the title Eminent Domain (s. 20:1-1 et seq.).
In any such proceedings the commissioners appointed shall ascertain, fix and determine the amount of special benefits for the laying out or maintaining of any boulevard or roadway or the improvement thereof, as will confer upon any owner property benefits. In all such cases where damages are assessed under the provisions of this article, in favor of the owner of any land or interest therein and benefits are likewise assessed against such owner, the board of chosen freeholders, when both the award of damages and the assessment of benefits shall have been confirmed, may deduct the amount of the benefits assessed from the damages awarded and set off such benefits against any such damages by proper charges and credits in order that the excess of damages, if any, shall be paid, and the excess of benefits, if any, be collected.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-258 - Construction of casino, stadium and other structures

40:37-258. Construction of casino, stadium and other structures
Every such board of chosen freeholders authorized and empowered by the provisions of this article to acquire, develop, care for and maintain any public park or recreation ground, may construct and maintain a pavilion, casino, stadium or other structure to be used by the public as a recreation building and may make necessary rules and regulations for the government thereof.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-259 - Rules and regulations; penalties

40:37-259. Rules and regulations; penalties
Every such board of chosen freeholders may make rules and regulations for the government and supervision of all such parks and recreation grounds and all boulevards, parkways and roadways located therein or leading thereto and may prescribe and enforce penalties not exceeding fifty dollars for the violation of any such rule or regulation and may prosecute all persons offending against the same, as disorderly persons. Such rules and regulations shall be plainly printed and conspicuously posted within such parks and public places as well as on the roads, highways and boulevards leading thereto.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-260 - Bond issues

40:37-260. Bond issues
To defray any expense incurred under the provisions of this article the board of chosen freeholders of any such county may, from time to time, borrow money by issuing bonds of the county, which bonds shall run for a term not exceeding twenty years and bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum (6%) per annum.
All such bonds shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of article one of chapter one of this Title (s. 40:1-1 et seq.).
Amended by L.1951, c. 329, p. 1165, s. 1, eff. July 17, 1951.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-261 - Establishment of park police system; composition; rules and regulations

40:37-261. Establishment of park police system; composition; rules and regulations
The board of chosen freeholders of any county having control of a public park or public recreation place which is governed by the provisions of article 6 of chapter 37 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes, may appoint and establish a constabulary to preserve order in the parks and parkways under its control, and to secure the enforcement of the rules and regulations adopted by it, and may organize the constabulary into a police system to be known as "the park police of the county of ."
The police system shall consist of a chief and such subordinate officers as may be deemed necessary and proper for the enforcement of the rules and regulations of the board of freeholders within the parks and parkways, and the proper protection of public property therein.
The board of freeholders may establish proper rules and regulations for the appointment, control and management of the members of the constabulary, and for the securing of proper discipline and efficiency among the members thereof.
L.1960, c. 135, p. 649, s. 1, eff. Oct. 5, 1960.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37-262 - Powers of park police.

40:37-262 Powers of park police.
2. The members and officers of the park police may arrest on view and without warrant, and conduct before the municipal court of the municipality in which the arrest is made, or the municipal court of a neighboring municipality, any persons found violating the rules and regulations adopted by the board of chosen freeholders for the protection, preservation, regulation and control of the parks and parkways, and all property and other things therein, and in addition while on or off duty anywhere within the territorial limits of the State, shall have the same powers for the enforcement of the laws of this State and the apprehension of violators thereof as are conferred by law upon police officers or constables.
L.1960,c.135,s.2; amended 1969, c.166; 1997, c.308, s.4.