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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 40, MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

    Chapter 37: Shade tree commission; freeholders' powers

      Section: 40:37-101.1: Counties over 200,000 having park commission; annual appropriation for maintenance of parks in certain cases; limitation

           In any county having a population of more than two hundred thousand and having a county park commission, the members of which shall be appointed, or shall have been appointed under the provisions of section 40:37-97 of the Revised Statutes; and having established a county park system and having acquired the funds for the establishment of such county park system by public bond issue approved by the voters of said county; and said park commission shall not have funds for the maintenance of said county park system and the voters of said county shall have rejected the adoption of sections 40:37-12, 40:37-13, 40:37-14 and 40:37-15 of the Revised Statutes; the board of chosen freeholders in said county, upon the written request of the county park commission, signed by its president, vice-president and secretary, for funds for the maintenance of said county park system, after a public hearing on said request, and after determining in their discretion that funds for the maintenance of said county park system are necessary, may hereafter annually appropriate funds for the maintenance of said county park system; provided, however, that the funds raised and appropriated shall not exceed one-half of one mill on the dollar on the assessed valuation on the total ratables and taxables in said county, the minimum authorized by section 40:37-14 of the Revised Statutes.

Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 657, s. 81, eff. March 19, 1953.



This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2012-09-26 13:37:51.






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