Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 30:9-12.22

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • 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
  • population: when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The board of chosen freeholders of any county having a population not less than 265,000 and not more than 330,000 inhabitants, may establish, erect and maintain a county institution for disabled or aged persons, and for that purpose shall have power to:

Purchase and lease real property therefor or acquire such real property by condemnation pursuant to the provisions of chapter 1 of Title 20 of the Revised Statutes (Eminent Domain 20:1-1 et seq.);

Erect all necessary buildings and make all necessary improvements, plans and alterations;

Appropriate money for the purchase of a site and for the construction or reconstruction of all necessary buildings, including the furnishings and equipment therefor, and borrow funds therefor on the credit of the county and issue county obligations therefor in like manner as for other county purposes;

Accept and hold in trust for the county any grant or devise of land or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property or any donation and apply the same in accordance with the terms of the gift.

L.1966, c. 178, s. 1, eff. June 18, 1966.