12:3-27 - Enlarging or reducing tidewater basins; reclamation; leases and grants; limitations - New Jersey Statutes

12:3-27.  Enlarging or reducing tidewater basins;  reclamation;  leases and  grants;  limitations
    Whenever the state has, prior to March fourth, one thousand nine hundred and  eighteen, dedicated any lands under water to public use as a tidewater basin,  it shall be lawful for the board, on the application of the owners of all of  the lands abutting thereon, to either enlarge or reduce the area of said basin  or change the boundaries thereof, and said owners of lands adjoining and  abutting upon said tidewater basin are hereby authorized to fill up and reclaim  the same to such extent as the board in writing may confirm, and the board is  hereby authorized and empowered upon the payment of an adequate consideration  therefor, to grant or lease in the manner provided by law to the owners of  lands adjoining and abutting upon said tidewater basin, the state's rights in  any portion of said basin so filled up and reclaimed;  provided, however, that  no reclamation by any person of said lands and no grant or lease thereof by the  board shall be valid unless all of the owners of lands fronting and abutting on  said basin shall consent in writing thereto.

    Nothing in this section shall authorize the entire closing of any such basin  or its reduction in width to less than two hundred feet;  nor shall this  section apply to any lands of the Morris Canal and Banking Company, or operate  to relieve said company from any obligation imposed upon it by law.