Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40:61-30. Commissioners; appointment; number The governing bodies of the several municipalities may, by resolution, appoint one person for each one thousand of population and fraction thereof over five hundred.

40:61-31. Commissioners; term and organization; vacancies The persons appointed under the provisions of section 40:61-30 of this title shall be known and designated as the (name to be chosen by the commissioners) intermunicipal park commission. Such commissioners shall hold offic…

40:61-32. Commission; general powers; bond issues; officers and employees The commissioners shall be a body politic and corporate and shall have power to sue and be sued, complain or defend in any court, use a common seal and shall have all such other corporate power as may be ne…

40:61-33. Condemnation proceedings If it shall become necessary to take condemnation proceedings to acquire any lands, lakes, ponds, streams, flowage and other rights the procedure shall be that provided in chapter 1 of the title Eminent Domain (s. 20:1-1 et seq.), and all such p…

40:61-34. Costs apportioned; annual report; money turned over to commission The cost of acquiring any lands, lakes, ponds, streams, flowage and other rights, as well as the cost of the maintenance thereof as a public park, shall be borne ratably by the municipalities adopting the…

40:61-35. Authority here conferred deemed additional The provisions of sections 40:61-28 to 40:61-34 of this title shall not repeal any other legislation or affect any proceedings thereunder for the purchase or condemnation of lands for park purposes, the improvement thereof or t…

40:61-36. Leasing of parks, etc. authorized; period of leases. 40:61-36. The governing body of every municipality bordering on the Atlantic Ocean may lease, rent or hire, the whole or any part of any public parks, recreation grounds or places of public resort, owned by it and not…

40:61-37. Leasing of privileges The governing body may let out to any person, any privileges in any public parks, recreation grounds or places of public resort, upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe.

40:61-38. Lease voided upon violation of terms Upon the violation of the terms upon which any lease or privilege is granted, the same shall become void and such governing body shall have power to so declare and may re-enter any place so leased and prevent the exercise of any priv…

40:61-39. Letting to highest bidder Any such letting shall be to the highest responsible bidder therefor.

40:61-4. Entertainments to raise funds for improvement and maintenance; no charge for children The body in control of any playground or place of public resort and recreation of any municipality, in order to provide funds for improving, maintaining and policing thereof, may hold o…

40:61-40. Advertisement for bids Any such letting shall be advertised in some newspaper circulating in the municipality at least ten days prior to the receipt of bids.

40:61-41. Power deemed additional The power conferred in this article is in addition to those given by any other law or laws.

40:61-5. Use by school children; admission fee; exceptions The body or authority having control of any public park, playground or other public place or property in any municipality may permit the same or part thereof to be used for athletic purposes or as playgrounds by the pupil…

40:61-6. Library, art gallery and museum in parks; site; control A public library, art gallery, or museum, may be constructed or maintained in any public park or square in any municipality. The board or body having control of such park or square shall designate the part thereof u…

40:61-7. Memorial buildings in parks; ordinance authorizing; referendum In case any municipality shall have heretofore acquired or shall hereafter acquire by purchase, gift, devise, dedication or otherwise any lands or property for the purposes of a public park and place of publi…

40:61-8. Referendum; notice and publication The municipal clerk shall give public notice of the time, place and object of the special election by advertisement set up at least ten days prior thereto, in at least ten public places in the municipality, and also by publishing it in …

40:61-9. Conduct of election The election shall be by ballot and shall be conducted by the election officers of the municipality at the regular polling places, and shall in all respects conform to the requirements of the general laws relating to elections.