Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40:60-25.24. Terms and conditions of leases or sales of plants; approval of contracts The commission may from time to time negotiate the terms, covenants, provisions and conditions of leases or sales, which sales may be in part for cash and in part on purchase money bond and mort…

40:60-25.25. Employment of manager, engineers, etc.; civil service applicable to employees The commission may employ a general manager, engineers, a secretary, counsel, and such other engineering, clerical, legal, accounting and other assistants as it may deem necessary to carry …

40:60-25.26. Partial invalidity The sections and parts of sections included in this act are hereby declared to be independent sections and parts of sections; if any such section or part of section shall be held invalid, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this act, nor…

40:60-25.27. Autobus terminals; power to establish; leases; conditions The governing body of any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation or in any other lawful manner, lands and interest therein for autobus terminal purpos…

40:60-25.28. Use of municipal property The governing body of any municipality in this State is hereby authorized to acquire, establish, construct, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, operate and regulate autobus terminals for the use of autobusses within the limits of …

40:60-25.29. Lands declared to be acquired and used for a public purpose; eminent domain Any lands acquired, owned, controlled or occupied by such municipality for the purposes enumerated in sections one and two hereof shall and are hereby declared to be acquired, owned, controll…

40:60-25.3. Improvement and maintenance; employees The governing body of any municipality may provide, by resolution, for the lighting, improvement and maintenance of any lands devoted to the public parking of vehicles, the entrances thereto and exits therefrom, and for the emplo…

40:60-25.30. Private property; purchase or condemnation; bonds; construction cost a municipal charge; fees; rules and regulations Private property needed by any municipality for an autobus terminal shall be acquired by purchase if the municipality is able to agree with the owners…

40:60-25.31. Property acquired to be self-supporting and taxable To the end that affected taxing authorities may not suffer undue loss of taxes and assessments by reason of the acquisition and ownership of property therein by such a municipality, all property hereafter acquired b…

40:60-25.32. Annual appropriations The governing body of any municipality to which this act is applicable having power to appropriate money therein may annually appropriate and cause to be raised by taxation in such municipality a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of thi…

40:60-25.33. Cemeteries which are public nuisances; acquisition by municipalities and boards of education Wherever there exists in any municipality of this State a burying ground or cemetery, owned and controlled by any church or other corporation, which church or corporation is …

40:60-25.34. Cemeteries detrimental to public health or morals; possession by municipality Wherever there exists in any municipality of this State any burying ground or cemetery, owned or controlled by a church or other corporation, which has neglected to care for the same, so th…

40:60-25.35. Investigation Upon receiving such request from such corporation or such board of health, the board or body having charge or control of the finances of such municipality shall investigate whether or not the said burying ground or cemetery is so located that it is inco…

40:60-25.36. Use for park, school purposes or other public uses If such board or body having charge or control of the finances of such municipality should determine for the reasons aforesaid that the bodies aforesaid should be removed from any such old burying ground or cemetery,…

40:60-25.37. Proceedings where church or other corporation controlling cemetery is unable or refuses to convey In case the application is made by the board of health, as provided in section two, and the church or other corporation controlling such burying ground or cemetery shall…

40:60-25.39. Determination Upon good cause shown, the court may adjudge that the said burying ground or cemetery has become a public nuisance or is a detriment to the health or morals of the people of said municipality, and that the bodies therein should be disinterred and remove…

40:60-25.4. Operating expenses; parking fees The rents and other costs and expenses incident to the improvement, lighting, maintenance and operation of any such public parking areas may be raised by general taxation, but it shall be lawful for the municipality to accept from any …

40:60-25.40. Removal of bodies and reburial; records and maps Upon the execution of the deed referred to in section four or upon the making of the said adjudication, it shall be lawful for the said board or body having charge or control of the finances or the board of education, …

40:60-25.41. Taking of possession After the completion of the removal of said bodies the said municipality by any board or body therein by authority of the board or body having charge or control of the finances of said municipality or the said board of education by any agent or a…

40:60-25.42. Commissioners to appraise land; notice In case of the neglect or refusal or inability of such church or other corporation to convey such burying ground or cemetery in whole or in part and free of outstanding interests therein, to such municipality or board of educati…

40:60-25.43. Cost of removal of bodies and of new site; lien; payment of difference to lot owners The said commission shall further ascertain the cost of the removal of the bodies from each of said lots and the cost of securing the new site and the cost of such disinterment and r…

40:60-25.44. Report; objections; notice The said commissioners shall report to said court the appraised value of each of said lots or plots and other lands within said burying ground or cemetery, and the amounts charged against each of said lots or plots for the removal of said b…

40:60-25.45. Objections to report In case the owner of any lot or plot or other lands within said burying ground or cemetery shall feel aggrieved by the report of said commissioners he may object thereto to the court in the proceeding or by action within twenty days after the con…

40:60-25.46. Borrowing money; bonds The board or body having charge or control of the finances of such municipality or the board of education, as the case may be, may from time to time borrow the money necessary for the acquisition of said burying grounds or cemeteries as aforesa…

40:60-25.5. Liability of municipality for damages No municipality shall, by virtue of its operation or maintenance of any such public parking area, be liable in damages to any person, firm, corporation or association for the loss of or for any damage to any vehicle while parked i…

40:60-25.51. Acquisition of land and buildings for use by municipality, county, State or United States; courts; lease The governing body of any municipality, in the name and on behalf of the municipality, may acquire, by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, or as lessee may le…

40:60-25.52. Financing of acquisition and improvement; acquisition of facilities for use by county or courts The governing body of the municipality may finance the acquisition and improvement of real estate for the purposes of this act by the adoption of a bond ordinance or other…

40:60-25.53. Historic sites; acquisition and maintenance Any municipality may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation, and maintain and improve any real estate or any interest therein, together with any and all buildings thereon, located within the municipality, as a historic s…

40:60-25.54. Acquisition of lands for future school sites; approval The governing body of any municipality may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation lands for use as future sites for public schools provided that such lands shall have theretofore been designated with the appro…

40:60-25.55. Future school sites; use for public purpose pending conveyance to board of education Any lands acquired by a municipality pursuant to section 1 may, pending subsequent conveyance to a board of education, be used for any public purpose. L.1966, c. 298, s. 2, eff. Dec.…

40:60-25.56. Consideration for conveyance to board of education The governing body may convey such lands to the board of education of the school district for such nominal or other consideration as shall be agreed upon between the governing body and the board of education. L.1966,…

40:60-25.57. Acquisition of real property for use by State-operated college of medicine or college of medicine and dentistry Any municipality in which a State-operated college of medicine or college of medicine and dentistry, is located, or proposed to be located, is hereby empow…

40:60-25.58. Declaration of taking; filing; deposit of estimated value; surrender of possession; notice; amount of compensation On or after the institution of an action by the municipality for condemnation of property and to fix the compensation to be paid for such property, the …

40:60-25.59. Relocation assistance program; services (a) Any municipality which acquires, or seeks to acquire, real property pursuant to the provisions of this act for the purposes authorized herein shall do any and all things necessary to assure that a workable relocation assist…

40:60-25.6. Validation All leases for the purpose of providing areas for the public parking of vehicles, the acquisition of lands by gift, devise, condemnation or purchase, for such purpose, all expenditures incident thereto for the payment of rents or the cost of lighting, impro…

40:60-25.60. Payments to displaced persons, business concern or nonprofit organization Any municipality which acquires, or seeks to acquire, real property pursuant to the provisions of this act for the purposes authorized herein shall provide for: (a) the payment by the municipal…

40:60-25.61. Abandoned burying ground or cemetery; application for order vesting title in municipality The governing body of a municipality may apply, in accordance with the provisions of this act, to the Superior Court for an order vesting title in the municipality to any abando…

40:60-25.62. Inquiry to locate owner; certification An application for an order vesting title to the abandoned burying ground or cemetery in the municipality shall include a certification by the clerk of the municipality that a diligent inquiry has been conducted to locate the pe…

40:60-25.63. Vesting of title in municipality The Superior Court may vest title to the burying ground or cemetery in the municipality upon its satisfaction that the person owning or controlling the burying ground or cemetery cannot be located through diligent inquiry for the purp…

40:60-25.64. Maintaining and preserving burying ground or cemetery; interments; disinterments This act shall apply only to the acquisition of an abandoned burying ground or cemetery for the purpose of restoring, maintaining and preserving it as a burying ground or cemetery. No fu…

40:60-25.7. Definitions The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Governing body" shall mean that governmental board or body of a municipality havi…

40:60-25.8. Municipality may purchase property exempt from taxation because of state contract Any municipality in this State may purchase property exempt from local taxation because the owner enjoys the privilege of exemption from local taxation arising out of a contract with the…

40:60-25.9. Other property may also be purchased In order to effect the purchase of the tax exempt property and, with the owner's consent, the extinguishment in perpetuity of the owner's privilege of exemption from local taxation as provided in section one of this act, any munici…

40:60-28. Sale of vacated street land; advertisement unnecessary Whenever any road, street, highway, lane or alley has been or shall hereafter be lawfully altered or relocated in such manner as to leave a portion of the original road, street, highway, lane or alley not needed for…

40:60-28.1. Riparian lands purportedly dedicated as street; sale when not needed Whenever any municipality has received, or shall hereafter receive, title to riparian lands of which there has been a purported dedication as a public street and said lands have not been dedicated or…

40:60-32. Vacation of lands dedicated to public use other than a public street; referendum Whenever within any municipality any lands dedicated or devoted, wholly or partially, to public use other than a public street, highway, lane, alley, square or place shall be considered by …