Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:66A-17

  • 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.
  • 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
17. Every incinerator or environmental services authority is hereby empowered, in its own name but for the local unit or units, to acquire by purchase, gift, grant or devise and to take for public use real property, within or without the district, which may be deemed by the incinerator or environmental services authority necessary for its purposes. Such incinerator or environmental services authority is hereby empowered to acquire and take such real property by condemnation, in the manner provided by chapter one of Title 20, Eminent Domain, of the Revised Statutes (R.S., section 20:1-1 et seq.) and, to that end, may invoke and exercise in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed in said chapter, either in its own name or in the name of any local unit or units, all of the powers of such local unit or units to acquire or take property for public use.

L.1948, c.348, s.17; amended 2012, c.31, s.18.