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New Jersey Legislature (njleg.state.nj.us) Bill Room 609 292-4840 Eastern Environmental Law Center www.easternenvironmental.org - Legal councel 744 Broad Street, Suite 1525 Newark, NJ 07102 973.424.1166 Richard Webster 973.424.1492 rwebster@easternenvironmental.org NJ Sierra Club (newjersey.sierraclub.org) Chapter Director: Jeff Tittel, Jeff.Tittel@SierraClub.org 145 West Hanover St., Trenton, NJ 08618 609-656-7612 Chapter Leadership NJ Audubon (www.njaudubon.org) 9 Hardscrabble Road Bernardsville, NJ 07924 (908) 204-8998 Sherman Hoffman 908 766-5787 Laws: A2714 Provides that use for recreation and conservation purposes of lands included in certain adopted redevelopment plans does not subject those lands to Green Acres diversion requirements and process when they are eventually used for other purposes as designated in those plans. 12/12/2002 Approved P.L.2002, c.124. www.njleg.state.nj.us/2002/Bills/A3000/2714_I1.HTM An Act concerning the use for recreation and conservation purposes of lands included in certain redevelopment plans, and amending P.L.1975, c.155 and P.L.1999, c.152. 2. Section 32 of P.L.1999, c.152 (C.13:8C-32) is amended to read as follows: 32. a. Lands acquired or developed by a local government unit or a qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organization for recreation and conservation purposes using constitutionally dedicated moneys in whole or in part shall not be conveyed, disposed of, or diverted to a use for other than recreation and conservation purposes without the approval of the commissioner and the State House Commission and following a public hearing held at least one month prior to those approvals. Approval of the commissioner and the State House Commission shall not be given unless the local government unit or qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organization agrees to (1) replace the lands with lands of equal or greater fair market value and of reasonably equivalent size, quality, location, and usefulness for recreation and conservation purposes, as approved by the commissioner, or (2) pay an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the lands, as determined by the commission, into the Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund. Moneys so returned to that fund shall be deemed wholly a part of the portion of that fund available for grants or loans to local government units or grants to qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organizations for the acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes as provided pursuant to this act. Return to Environment
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