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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 54, TAXATION

    Chapter 4: Property subject to taxation.

      Section: 54:4-1.17: Construction of 1997 utility tax act.

          
70. a. Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit municipal taxation of real estate pursuant to R.S.54:4-1 of current or former remitters of the transitional energy facility assessment, or of a corporate or non-corporate legal successor or assignee of a current or former remitter of the transitional energy facility assessment whether through any reorganization, sale, bankruptcy, consolidation, merger or other transaction or occurrence of any kind without limitation. As used in this section, "real estate" means lands and buildings, but shall not include items of the type as set forth in the list of scheduled property for gas systems and electric light, heat and power systems in section 10 of P.L.1940, c.5 (C.54:30A-58) prior to January 1, 1998. As provided in that list, railways, tracks, ties, lines, wires, cables, poles, pipes, conduits, bridges, viaducts, dams and reservoirs (except that the lands upon which dams and reservoirs are situated shall be included as real estate), machinery, apparatus or equipment, notwithstanding any attachment thereof to lands or buildings owned by current or former remitters of the transitional energy facility assessment, or of a corporate or non-corporate legal successor or assignee of a current or former remitter of the transitional energy facility assessment whether through any reorganization, sale, bankruptcy, consolidation, merger or other transaction or occurrence of any kind without limitation, are not real estate.

b. No municipality, regional or county governmental agency shall directly or indirectly tax as real property, or include within the assessment of real property, the public utility owned electrical interconnect, water lines or gas lines, or any value thereof, which were set forth in the list of scheduled property for gas systems and electric light, heat and power systems in section 10 of P.L.1940, c.5 (C.54:30A-58), prior to enactment of this act whether or not on the real estate of current or former remitters of the transitional energy facility assessment.

L.1997,c.162,s.70.



This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2012-09-26 13:37:56.






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