Title 40, Title 40: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40:61-22.20 Municipal control over beaches, etc., fees. 1. a. The governing body of any municipality bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, tidal water bays or rivers which owns or shall acquire, by any deed of dedication or otherwise, lands bordering on the ocean, tidal water bays or …

40:61-22.21. Swimming pools and other recreational facilities The governing body of any municipality may acquire, establish, construct, own or lease, control, equip, improve, maintain, operate and regulate one or more public swimming pools and such other recreational, playground,…

40:61-22.22. Acquisition of property The governing body of any municipality may lease, or may acquire, in fee or less estate, by gift, devise, grant or purchase, any land or real estate and rights therein, improved or unimproved, within the county in which such municipality is lo…

40:61-22.23. Taxation and bonds The money necessary to pay for the lands, rights, or interest therein acquired for a public swimming pool and for such other recreational, playground, or public entertainment purposes and activities as the governing body of the municipality may det…

40:61-22.24. Supervision, maintenance, operation and regulation The governing body of any municipality may assign the general supervision and control over the maintenance, operation and regulation of any such public swimming pool and all forms of recreation, playground, and publi…

40:61-22.25. Annual appropriation The governing body of any municipality may annually appropriate money to be raised by taxation to develop, maintain and operate a public swimming pool and all forms of recreation, playground, and public entertainment activities carried on in conn…

40:61-22.26. Fees, rents or other charges The governing body of any municipality may establish, charge, and collect reasonable fees, rents or other charges for admission to, use or enjoyment of any property now or hereafter developed or used in whole or in part for a public swimm…

40:61-22.27. Rules and regulations The governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance, make, alter, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the supervision, regulation and control of all activities carried on, conducted, sponsored, arranged or provided for in connection …

40:61-22.28. Violations of rules and regulations The magistrate having jurisdiction over actions for the violation of other municipal ordinances shall have jurisdiction in actions for the violation of any such rule or regulation. The rules and regulations shall be enforced by the…

40:61-22.29. Fines or penalties, disposition All moneys collected either as fines or penalties for violation of a rule or regulation shall become part of the funds of the municipality. L.1957, c. 166, p. 598, s. 9, eff. July 22, 1957.

40:61-22.3. Public sale to highest bidder; advertisement; minimum price; adjournment All such sales shall be by public sale to the highest bidder, after public advertisement thereof in a newspaper circulating in the municipality in which such lands are situated, by two insertions…

40:61-22.30. Agreements for construction of facilities; approval of plans, specifications and location The body or authority having control of any public park, playground or other public place or property in any municipality may enter into an agreement with any person for the con…

40:61-22.4. Lease of lands when fixed minimum price not bid In the event that there shall be no bids or the amount bid at such public sale shall not equal the minimum price fixed by resolution of the governing body, then the municipality in lieu of making sale thereof is authoriz…

40:61-22.5. Use of proceeds of sale or lease The proceeds of the sale or leasing of any property under this act shall be used for the retiring of any bonds issued for the purchase or improvement of such property or to reduce taxes. L.1938, c. 87, p. 206, s. 4, eff. April 4, 1938.…

40:61-22.6. Public golf course and other recreational facilities; acquisition of property 1. The governing body of any municipality may lease, or may acquire, in fee or less estate, by gift, devise, grant or purchase any land or real estate and rights therein, improved or unimpro…

40:61-22.7. Maintenance, improvement and operation; buildings, structures and equipment The governing body of any municipality may preserve, care for, lay out, construct, maintain, improve, and operate any land or real estate it may acquire for use as a public golf course and for…

40:61-22.8. Taxes and bonds The money necessary to pay for the lands, rights, or interest therein acquired for a public golf course and for such other recreational, playground, or public entertainment purposes and activities as the governing body of the municipality may determine…

40:61-22.9. Commission to supervise and control The governing body of any municipality may provide by ordinance for the appointment of a board of commissioners to consist of not more than five residents of the municipality who shall have general supervision and control over the m…

40:61-23. Sale or lease of park lands to adjoining municipalities; joint ownership Any municipality owning park lands adjoining park lands of another municipality, may convey to such other municipality any or all of its lands so adjoining, for such consideration and upon such ter…

40:61-24. Contracts relative to contiguous parks In case any part of any park, heretofore or hereafter established by any municipality under this chapter, shall be or shall become contiguous to any part of any park, heretofore or hereafter so established by any other municipality…

40:61-25. Parks wholly or partly within other municipalities; regulation of Should any park or place of public resort and recreation, now or hereafter established by any municipality under this chapter, be situated partly within and partly without, or wholly without the municipal…

40:61-26. Power of police to arrest Every police official of any municipality, whether a park policeman or otherwise, shall have the same powers of arrest in all parts of any park or place of public resort and recreation of such municipality, or in the joint park or place of publ…

40:61-27. Joint parks on banks of streams; joint contract Any municipality may contract with any other municipality for the improvement of the banks and shores of waters as places of public resort and recreation. Such contracts shall specify the portion of the work to be done by …

40:61-28. Joint parks along lakes; establishment Any two or more municipalities lying within adjacent counties, may acquire by lease, gift, purchase, condemnation or otherwise, lands, lakes, ponds, streams, rights of flowage and other rights and may erect, construct and maintain …

40:61-29. Adopting ordinance In order to acquire lands, lakes, ponds, streams, rights of flowage and other rights for use for public park purposes, the governing bodies of the several municipalities may, by a majority vote, pass an ordinance adopting the provisions of sections 40…

40:61-3. Return of certain unused lands to municipality by park commissions Whenever any municipality has, prior to April seventh, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, transferred to any park commission the care, custody and control of any land which has been acquired subjec…

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.

40:62-1. Accounts; supervision by board of public utility commissioners Every municipality operating any form of public utility service shall keep the accounts thereof in the manner prescribed by the board of public utility commissioners for the accounting of similar public utili…

40:62-10. Establishment; appropriation; lands, buildings and equipment Any municipality may, after making the necessary appropriation therefor, acquire by purchase, gift, condemnation or lease, such lands and buildings as may be needed for the establishment, maintenance and opera…