N.J. Stat. tit. 32, ch. 15

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N.J. Stat. § 32:15-1 Authority conferred upon park commission

Palisades Interstate Park Commission shall have the authority and power heretofore conferred upon the board of commissioners of Palisades interstate park, a body politic created pursuant to an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection, location, appropriation and management of certain lands along the Palisades of the Hudson river for an interstate park, and thereby to preserve the scenery of the Palisades," approved March twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred, to lay out, construct and maintain a drive through the Palisades Interstate Park, known as the "Henry Hudson drive," and to lay out, construct and maintain suitable spurs to connect the drive with the Hudson river and top of the Palisades cliffs, with authority to receive and spend for such purpose gifts, contributions and bequests, granted and conferred by the act of April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, chapter one hundred and ten, pamphlet laws page one hundred and seventy-seven, and the act of April eighth, nineteen hundred and ten, chapter one hundred and twenty-four, pamphlet laws page two hundred and eight. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 563, s. 30.

N.J. Stat. § 32:15-2 Additional right of ways; authority to acquire

Palisades Interstate Park Commission is authorized to accept by grant from the owners thereof, so far as at the time of the creation of the commission the board of commissioners of Palisades interstate park, a body politic created pursuant to an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection, location, appropriation and management of certain lands along the Palisades of the Hudson river for an interstate park, and thereby to preserve the scenery of the Palisades," approved March twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred, had not already accepted, lands necessary for highway purposes over and upon all that certain tract of land situate, lying and being in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the west bank of the Hudson river in the county of Bergen, State of New Jersey, where the same is intersected by the boundary line of the property formerly of said board and the property of John M. Goetchius and Henry K. Goetchius; thence running in a southerly direction eighteen hundred and fifty feet more or less to the intersection of the southerly line of the old Fort Lee dock or landing with the highwater line of the Hudson river; and running thence in a westerly direction to the east side of the river road running from Edgewater to Fort Lee in Bergen county; and running along the said road and the high cliffs in a northerly direction to the southerly boundary of property formerly owned by said board; thence along the said southerly boundary of the lands formerly owned by said board to the point or place of beginning. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 563, s. 31.

N.J. Stat. § 32:15-3 Remaining lands not subject to eminent domain

If on or before December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, the owner or owners of said parcel of land conveyed by a proper grant or deed of gift to said board of commissioners such part of said parcel of land as may be required for the construction and maintenance as a public highway of a southerly extension of the Henry Hudson drive, by metes and bounds mutually agreed upon by the owner or owners thereof and said board of commissioners, thereafter no commission or authority of the State, no municipality, and no corporation or individual acting under the authority of the State, shall take by eminent domain any of the remainder of said tract or parcel of land described in section 32:15-2 of this Title without express subsequent authority given by the Legislature of the State. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 564, s. 32.

N.J. Stat. § 32:15-4 Condemnation of right of way

If the gift mentioned in section 32:15-3 of this Title was not made on or before December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, Palisades Interstate Park Commission may take by eminent domain a right-of-way over the lands hereinbefore described, sufficient for the completion of the southerly end of the Henry Hudson drive. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 565, s. 33.

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