Title 52, Title 52: STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS

52:27I-19 Findings, declarations relative to Fort Monmouth economic revitalization. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The closure and revitalization of Fort Monmouth is a matter of great concern for the host municipalities of Eatontown, Oceanport, and Tinton Falls; f…

52:27I-20 Definitions relative to Fort Monmouth economic revitalization. 3. The following words or terms as used in this act shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: "Act" means the "Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Author…

52:27I-21 Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority. 4. There is hereby established in, but not of, the Department of the Treasury a public body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority as the succe…

52:27I-22 Powers, rights, assets, duties assumed by authority. 5. Effective and automatically upon the first meeting of the authority: a. The authority shall assume all of the powers, rights, assets, and duties of the predecessor authority to the extent provided by this act, and …

52:27I-23 Office established in the EDA. 6. a. There is hereby established in the EDA an office which shall be staffed by employees of the EDA which shall remain under the supervision and control of the EDA. The office shall be responsible for carrying out the policies set forth …

52:27I-24 Purpose of authority. 7. It shall be the purpose of the authority to oversee, administer, and implement the plan as provided in this act, in a manner that will promote, develop, encourage, and maintain employment, commerce, economic development, and the public welfare; …

52:27I-25 Members, appointment, terms. 8. a. The authority shall consist of 13 members to be appointed and qualified as follows: (1) Three voting members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, for staggered terms of five years, one of whom shall be a…

52:27I-26 Powers of authority. 9. The authority shall have the following powers: a. To enter into a designated redevelopment agreement as set forth in subsection a. of section 16 of this act; b. As designated and empowered as the "local redevelopment authority" for Fort Monmouth …

52:27I-27 Appointment of committees. 10. The authority shall appoint an historical preservation advisory committee and an environmental advisory committee to assist in its activities in such areas, and any other advisory committee as it deems appropriate. The membership of the co…

52:27I-28 Cooperation with State departments, agencies. 11. All State departments and agencies, to the extent not inconsistent with law and within budget constraints, shall cooperate with the authority and respond to requests for such information and assistance as are necessary t…

52:27I-29 Property exempt from levy, sale. 12. All property of the authority or EDA shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall any judgment against the authority or EDA be a charge…

52:27I-30 Taxes, assessments, payment not required; payments in lieu of taxes. 13. a. The authority and the EDA shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon or in respect of a project or any property or moneys of the authority and the EDA, and the authority and EDA,…

52:27I-31 Prevailing wage rate. 14. Each worker employed on any project to which the authority is a party, shall be paid not less than the prevailing wage rate for the worker's craft or trade, as determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development pursuant to P.L.19…

52:27I-32 Awarding of purchases, contracts, agreements. 15. a. All purchases, contracts, or agreements made pursuant to this act shall be made or awarded directly by the authority, except as otherwise provided in this act, only after public advertisement for bids therefor in the …

52:27I-33 Designated redeveloper. 16. a. Upon the acceptance by the federal government of the revitalization plan adopted by the predecessor authority pursuant to section 14 of P.L.2006, c.16 (C.52:27I-14), the EDA is hereby designated as a designated redeveloper for any property…

52:27I-34 Development and design guidelines, land use regulations; variances. 17. a. The authority shall propose and adopt development and design guidelines and land use regulations consistent with and in furtherance of the plan. Provisions may be made by the authority for the wa…

52:27I-35 Adoption of amendment to plan. 18. Prior to the adoption of any amendment to the plan, the authority shall transmit a copy of the proposed plan amendment to the governing body of each host municipality. Within 45 days after referral, each governing body may transmit to …

52:27I-36 Procedure relative to changing location of public highway, public utility facility. 19. a. If the authority or the EDA, as a designated redeveloper, shall find it necessary in connection with the undertaking of any of its projects to change the location of any portion o…

52:27I-37 Business plan. 20. The authority is directed to prepare and complete a business plan which comprises all issues related to the closure, conversion, revitalization, and future use of Fort Monmouth. Further, this business plan shall: include a validation review of any ext…

52:27I-38 Redevelopment agreement. 21. Redevelopment within the project area shall be implemented pursuant to a redevelopment agreement between the authority and the redeveloper, or between the authority and the EDA as a designated redeveloper, or between the EDA as a designated …

52:27I-39 Fort Monmouth special improvement district. 22. a. For the purposes of this section: "Affected municipality" means a municipality that is located within, in whole or in part, a Fort Monmouth special improvement district established pursuant to subsection b. of this sect…

52:27I-40 Fort Monmouth Transportation Planning District. 23. a. There is established the Fort Monmouth Transportation Planning District which shall consist of those lands which comprise the project area. The authority shall administer and manage the transportation planning distr…

52:27I-41 Creation of infrastructure district. 24. a. The authority may adopt a resolution creating an infrastructure district whenever the authority determines that the improvement of the infrastructure of the property within the infrastructure district will promote the health a…

52:27I-8.1 Additional powers of authority. 1. In addition to the powers granted the authority pursuant to section 8 of P.L.2006, c.16 (C.52:27I-8), the authority shall have the power to enter into any legally binding agreements with representatives of persons who are homeless tha…

52:27I-8.2 Actions required prior to submission of plan for closure of Fort Monmouth. 2. Prior to the submission to the appropriate agency or agencies of the federal government of the comprehensive plan for the conversion and revitalization of Fort Monmouth prepared and adopted b…

52:27J-1 Findings, declarations relative to food insecurity. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Over one million people are estimated to be food insecure in New Jersey and more than one-third of them are children; (b) The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic is projecte…

52:27J-2 Definitions. 2. As used in P.L.2021, c.242 (C.52:27J-1 et seq.): "Emergency food organization" means a food bank which receives funding for Food and Hunger Programs pursuant to an annual State appropriations act. "Food insecurity program" means a nutrition program in thi…

52:27J-3 Office of the Food Security Advocate created; duties of office. 3. There is created in the Executive Branch of the State Government the Office of the Food Security Advocate. For the purpose of complying with the provisions of Article V, Section IV, paragraph 1 of the New…

52:27J-4 Appointment of food security advocate. 4. The administrator and chief executive officer of the office is the food security advocate, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office. The food security advocate shall be appoin…

52:27J-5 Duties of food security advocate. 5. The food security advocate, as administrator and chief executive officer of the office, shall: a. administer and organize the work of the office and establish therein such administrative subdivisions as the food security advocate may …

52:27J-6 Rules, regulations. 6. Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the food security advocate and the Commissioners of Agriculture, Education, Health, and Human Services may adopt any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate…

52:27J-7 Monies appropriated, emergency food organizations, funding allocations; report, Office of the Food Security Advocate. 2. a. Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, of the monies appropriated to emergency food organizations pursuant to an annua…

52:28-1. Preamble Whereas, commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New York, and commissioners duly appointed on the part of New Jersey, for the purpose of agreeing upon, and settling the jurisdiction and territorial limits of the two states, have executed certai…

52:28-10. Agreement confirmed by New Jersey The aforesaid agreement, and every article, clause, matter and thing therein contained, shall be and the same is hereby fully and amply ratified and confirmed on the part of the state of New Jersey. Rev.1877, p. 1179, s. 10 (C.S. p. 536…

52:28-11. Preamble Whereas, Henry R. Pierson, Elias W. Leavenworth and Chauncey M. Depew, commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New York, and Abraham Browning, Thomas N. McCarter and George H. Cook, commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New J…

52:28-12. Location of boundary line First. The line extending from the Hudson river on the east to the Delaware on the west, as the same was laid down and marked with monuments in seventeen hundred and seventy-four, by William Wickham and Samuel Cale, commissioners on the part of…

52:28-13. Monumental marks of boundary line Second. The monumental marks by which said boundary line shall hereafter be known and recognized are hereby declared to be; first, the original monuments of stone erected in seventeen hundred and seventy-four, along said line by the com…

52:28-14. Permanent and authentic record of boundary line Third. The field-books of said surveyors, containing the descriptions of the locations of the several monuments erected by them, and of the witness marks thereto, the report of said surveyors containing the account of thei…

52:28-15. Agreement binding when confirmed by legislatures of both states and by congress Fourth. This agreement shall become binding on the two states when confirmed by the legislatures thereof, respectively, and when confirmed by the congress of the United States. "In witness w…

52:28-16. Agreement ratified by New Jersey The aforesaid agreement, and every article, clause, matter and thing therein contained, shall be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed on the part of the state of New Jersey. L.1884, c. 83, s. 1, p. 122 (C.S. p. 5365, s. 23).

52:28-17. Preamble Whereas, commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New York and commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New Jersey, for the purpose of locating and marking out by proper buoys the boundary line between the two states in lands und…

52:28-18. From Great Beds lighthouse north First. From the "Great Beds lighthouse" in Raritan bay, north, twenty degrees and sixteen minutes west, true, to a point in the middle of the waters of Arthur Kill or Staten Island sound, equi-distant between the southwesterly corner of …

52:28-19. From Great Beds lighthouse south Second. From "Great Beds lighthouse" south, sixty-four degrees and twenty-one minutes east, true, in line with the center of Waackaack or Wilson's beacon, in Monmouth county, New Jersey, to a point at the intersection of said line with a…

52:28-2. Location of boundary line Article I. The boundary line between the states of New York and New Jersey, from a point in the middle of Hudson river, opposite the point on the west shore thereof, in the forty-first degree of north latitude, as heretofore ascertained and mark…

52:28-20. Monumental marks of boundary line Third. The monumental marks by which said boundary line shall be hereafter known and recognized are hereby declared to be as follows: I. The "Great Beds lighthouse" ; II. A permanent monument marked "state boundary line New York and New…

52:28-21. Maps to furnish authentic records of boundary line Fourth. The maps accompanying and filed with this agreement, showing the location of the above-described boundary line between the state of New York and the state of New Jersey in Raritan bay to the main sea, and the mo…