Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:60-25.8

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
Any municipality in this State may purchase property exempt from local taxation because the owner enjoys the privilege of exemption from local taxation arising out of a contract with the State which the Legislature cannot abrogate or repeal without the owner’s consent, for the purpose of extinguishing in perpetuity, with the owner’s consent, the privilege, arising out of such contract with the State, of exemption from local taxation as to the property so acquired and as to any other property then or thereafter owned in the municipality by such owner, successors or assigns.

L.1944, c. 206, p. 729, s. 2, eff. April 21, 1944.