New Jersey Statutes 12:3-27. Enlarging or reducing tidewater basins; reclamation; leases and grants; limitations
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12:3-27
- 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
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Whenever the state has, prior to March fourth, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, dedicated any lands under water to public use as a tidewater basin, it shall be lawful for the board, on the application of the owners of all of the lands abutting thereon, to either enlarge or reduce the area of said basin or change the boundaries thereof, and said owners of lands adjoining and abutting upon said tidewater basin are hereby authorized to fill up and reclaim the same to such extent as the board in writing may confirm, and the board is hereby authorized and empowered upon the payment of an adequate consideration therefor, to grant or lease in the manner provided by law to the owners of lands adjoining and abutting upon said tidewater basin, the state’s rights in any portion of said basin so filled up and reclaimed; provided, however, that no reclamation by any person of said lands and no grant or lease thereof by the board shall be valid unless all of the owners of lands fronting and abutting on said basin shall consent in writing thereto.
Nothing in this section shall authorize the entire closing of any such basin or its reduction in width to less than two hundred feet; nor shall this section apply to any lands of the Morris Canal and Banking Company, or operate to relieve said company from any obligation imposed upon it by law.