Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 4:1C-22

  • assessor: when used in relation to the assessment of taxes or water rents or other public assessments, includes all officers, boards or commissions charged with the duty of making such assessments, unless a particular officer, board or commission is specified. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
The creation of a municipally approved program shall be documented in the following manner:

a. The petition in its final form shall be filed and recorded, in the same manner as a deed, with the county clerk and shall be filed with the municipal clerk;

b. The petition, the municipal ordinance of adoption and the county resolution or ordinance of adoption, as the case may be, shall be filed with the committee; and

c. The petition in its final form shall be filed with the municipal tax assessor for the purpose of qualifying for the exemption from property taxation on new farm structures and improvements within the municipally approved program, as authorized and provided in the Constitution.

The documentation of the creation of the municipally approved program as prescribed herein shall in no way be construed to constitute or in any other way authorize exclusive agricultural zoning.

L.1983, c. 32, s. 15, eff. Jan. 26, 1983, operative Jan. 26, 1983.