Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12:11A-10

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, any municipality located within the port district is authorized and empowered to consent to the use by the port corporation of any marine terminal owned by such municipality or of any real or personal property owned by such municipality and necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the port corporation for marine terminal purposes, including such real property as has already been devoted to a public use and as an incident to such consent, to grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer to the port corporation any such marine terminal or real or personal property upon such terms as may be determined by the port corporation and such municipality. Every such municipality is also authorized and empowered to vest in the port corporation the control, operation, maintenance, rents, tolls, charges and any and all other revenues of any marine terminal now owned by such municipality, the title to such marine terminal remaining in such municipality.

L.1968, c. 60, s. 10, eff. June 13, 1968.