Title 13, Title 13: CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT--PARKS AND RESERVATIONS

13:17-56. Installment payments The commission may by resolution provide that the owner of any land upon which any assessments for any improvement shall have been made may pay such assessments in such equal yearly installments, for such number of years as may be provided by rules …

13:17-57. Enforcement of lien When any unpaid assessment, interest thereon or other charges for collection thereof, remains in arrears on July 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year when the same became in arrears, the appropriate officer of the commission shall enfor…

13:17-58. Deposit of funds in improvement assessment account All assessments as collected shall be immediately placed in an account to be known as "improvement assessment account." Such moneys shall be used only to pay the cost of such improvements or indebtedness incurred for su…

13:17-59. Appeal from assessment or award; enforcement of order or judgment The owner of any property assessed for benefits or awarded damages incident to any improvement under this act may, within 30 days after confirmation of such assessment or award, appeal from the same to th…

13:17-6. Powers The commission shall have perpetual succession and shall have the following powers: (a) To adopt and from time to time amend and repeal suitable by-laws for the management of its affairs; (b) To adopt and use an official seal and alter the same at its pleasure; (c…

13:17-6.1 Purchases, contracts, or agreements over threshold amount; public bids. 6. a. All purchases, contracts, or agreements where the cost or contract price exceeds the sum of $25,000 or, after the effective date of P.L.1999, c.440, the amount determined pursuant to subsectio…

13:17-6.2. Consultation with governing body 1. Whenever the commission prepares plans for the development, improvement, redevelopment or rezoning of, or for the construction or reconstruction of buildings or structures on, land in the district, the commission shall notify within …

13:17-60. Purpose; report to legislature (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that a vital component of any comprehensive plan for the development of the meadowland district, is a program whereby the financial benefits and liabilities of each constituent municipality, ar…

13:17-61 Definitions As used in this article, unless the context indicates another meaning or intent: (a) "Adjustment year" means the year in which the respective obligations of the intermunicipal account and the constituent municipalities of the district are due and payable. (b)…

13:17-62. Applicability of laws relating to assessment and taxation of real and personal property The laws relating to the assessment and taxation of real and personal property shall apply to all constituent municipalities unless otherwise specifically provided in this act. L.196…

13:17-63. Assessor's list (a) In preparing the list of owners of taxable property pursuant to Revised Statutes 54:4-24, the assessor of each constituent municipality shall indicate in the list for each parcel of property whether or not it is located within the district boundaries…

13:17-65. Resident enrollment certification On or before November 15, 1969, and on or before November 15 of each year thereafter, the secretary, superintendent or a person designated by the school board of each school district of each constituent municipality shall certify to the…

13:17-66. Establishment of intermunicipal account; computation of amount payable by or due to each constituent municipality In the adjustment year 1973, and in each adjustment year thereafter, the commission shall establish an intermunicipal account and shall compute the amount p…

13:17-67. Aggregate true value (a) As used in this section, except as otherwise specifically provided: (1) The increase or decrease in aggregate true value of taxable real property for any adjustment year shall be the difference between: (i) The aggregate true value of that porti…

13:17-67.1. Adjustment payment exclusion Notwithstanding the provision of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, no constituent municipality shall pay out or receive a meadowlands adjustment payment for any adjustment year in which its municipal equalized valuation per capi…

13:17-68. Computation of guarantee payment payable by intermunicipal account to each constituent municipality (a) The guarantee payment payable by the intermunicipal account to each constituent municipality in any adjustment year shall be computed as follows: (1) If there is a de…

13:17-7. Establishment and organization (a) There is hereby established a Hackensack Meadowlands Municipal Committee, the membership of which shall consist of the mayor or elected chief executive, or his designated alternate, of each constituent municipality. (b) A majority of th…

13:17-70. School district services; determination of service payment For school district services, the service payment payable by the intermunicipal account to any constituent municipality in any adjustment year shall be found by dividing: (a) The total local school tax levy, as …

13:17-72. Apportionment of balance among constituent municipalities; prohibition of payments to commission (a) If, in any adjustment year, the amount payable to the constituent municipalities by the intermunicipal account for guarantee payments and school district service payment…

13:17-73. Payment of excessive funds to constituent municipalities; reduction of service payments If, in any adjustment year, the amount payable to the constituent municipalities by the intermunicipal account for guarantee payments and service payments exceeds the amount payable …

13:17-74. Meadowlands adjustment payment; determination and payment. 72. (a) On or before February 1, 1973 and on or before February 1 of each year thereafter, the commission shall certify to the chief financial officer of each constituent municipality an amount, known as the mea…

13:17-74.1. Hackensack Meadowlands Tax Sharing Stabilization Fund established 2. There is established the Hackensack Meadowlands Tax Sharing Stabilization Fund in the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission. The fund shall be comprised of revenues made available from intere…

13:17-75. Comparable services; withholding of payments to noncomplying municipalities (a) Services provided in the district shall be comparable to those provided elsewhere in each constituent municipality. (b) If, after public hearing, the commission shall determine that a consti…

13:17-76. Appeal or review by constituent municipalities An appeal or review may be taken by any constituent municipality regarding any alleged arithmetical or typographical error in the calculation and payment of the meadowlands adjustment payment. L.1968, c. 404, s. 74.

13:17-77. Annual budget; items of expenditure On or before February 25 of each year the commission shall adopt an annual budget for the year, which shall include the following items of expenditure: (a) An operating budget covering administrative operating and maintenance expenses…

13:17-78. Annual audit of commission accounts The commission shall cause an annual audit of its accounts to be made, and for this purpose it shall employ a registered municipal accountant of New Jersey or a certified public accountant of New Jersey. The audit shall be completed a…

13:17-79. Aid and cooperation by public bodies For the purpose of aiding and co-operating with the commission; the planning, undertaking construction or operation of its activities, any public body may upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: (a) Dedic…

13:17-8. Powers (a) The commission shall submit to the committee for review, prior to final action thereon, codes and standards formulated by the commission, the district master plan and amendments thereto, development and redevelopment plans, and improvement plans. The commissio…

13:17-80. Contracts with municipalities or public agencies for operation of public works, improvements, facilities, etc. (a) The commission may enter into, from time to time, contract with one or more municipalities, counties or other public agencies for the operation of public i…

13:17-81. Examination of accounts and books of commission by state auditor The State Auditor and his legally authorized representatives are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to examine the accounts and books of the commission, including its receipts, disbursements…

13:17-82. Assistance to commission by employees of state departments and agencies The commission shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of such employees of any State department or agency as it may require and as may be available to it for sa…

13:17-83. Supplemental and additional provisions The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other la…

13:17-84. Liberal construction This act, being necessary for the welfare of the State and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purpose thereof. L.1968, c. 404, s. 82.

13:17-85. Severability If the provisions of any article, section or clause of this act or the application thereof to any person shall be judged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such order or judgment shall be confined in its operation to the controversy in which it w…

13:17-86. Payment of expenses All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be payable from funds provided the commission therefor, and no liability or obligation shall be incurred by the commission hereunder beyond the extent to which moneys shall have b…

13:17-87 Short title. 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the "Meadowlands Conservation Trust Act." L.1999,c.31,s.1.

13:17-88 Definitions relative to Meadowlands Conservation Trust. 2. As used in this act: "Board" means the board of trustees of the Meadowlands Conservation Trust established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1999, c.31 (C.13:17-90); "Convey" means to sell, transfer, lease, or donate …

13:17-89 Meadowlands Conservation Trust. 3. There is created in but not of the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, established pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1968, c.404 (C.13:17-5), a body corporate and politic with corporate succession, to be known as the Meadowlands C…

13:17-9. Master plan; preparation and adoption; contents; amendments; considerations; consultations with state and federal agencies (a) The commission shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and, after public hearing and pursuant to the procedures hereinafter provided, shall adop…

13:17-90 Powers, duties of trust; board of trustees. 4. a. The powers and duties of the trust shall vest in and be exercised by a board of trustees, comprised of seven voting members, of whom four shall be private citizens appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of…

13:17-91 Powers of trust. 5. The Meadowlands Conservation Trust shall have the power to: a. Sue and be sued in its own name; b. Adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure; c. Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business, and adopt rules and regulation…

13:17-92 "Meadowlands Conservation Trust Fund." 6. a. There is established in the Meadowlands Conservation Trust a trust fund, to be known as the "Meadowlands Conservation Trust Fund," and the moneys therein are to be held in those depositories as the State Treasurer may select. …

13:17-93 Attorney General to provide legal services. 7. The trustees may request, and upon such request shall receive, from the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, all legal counsel and services necessary to further the purposes of the trust. L.1999,c.31,s.7.

13:17-94 Annual report. 8. The trust shall report annually to the Governor and the Legislature of the State of New Jersey as to its activities during the preceding year, together with any recommendations or requests the trustees deem appropriate to further the purposes of the tru…