Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:32-7.6

  • 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
The board of chosen freeholders of any county in which a park commission shall not have been established may lease, or may acquire, in fee or less estate, by gift, devise, grant, purchase or condemnation any land or real estate and rights therein, improved or unimproved, within the county for use as a public golf course, and for such other recreational playground, or public entertainment purposes and activities as it may determine to provide in connection therewith; provided, however, that the power herein conferred upon a board of chosen freeholders to acquire by condemnation any land or real estate or rights therein shall not be exercised to acquire, for any of the purposes of this act, any land or real estate or rights therein owned, used, or to be used by a public utility, as defined in section 48:2-13 of the Revised Statutes, in furnishing any commodity or service which by law it is authorized to furnish.

L.1958, c. 94, p. 538, s. 1. Amended by L.1963, c. 47, s. 1, eff. May 27, 1963.