Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:27D-325

  • 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
  • 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
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality may purchase, lease or acquire by gift or through the exercise of eminent domain, real property and any estate or interest therein, which the municipal governing body determines necessary or useful for the construction or rehabilitation of low and moderate income housing or conversion to low and moderate income housing.

The municipality may provide for the acquisition, construction and maintenance of buildings, structures or other improvements necessary or useful for the provision of low and moderate income housing, and may provide for the reconstruction, conversion or rehabilitation of those improvements in such manner as may be necessary or useful for those purposes.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law regarding the conveyance, sale or lease of real property by municipalities, the municipal governing body may, by resolution, authorize the private sale and conveyance or lease of a housing unit or units acquired or constructed pursuant to this section, where the sale, conveyance or lease is to a low or moderate income household or nonprofit entity and contains a contractual guarantee that the housing unit will remain available to low and moderate income households for a period of at least 30 years.

L.1985,c.222,s.25; amended 1990,c.109,s.1.