13:17-48 - Payment of funds into court in event of uncertainty or dispute - New Jersey Statutes

13:17-48.  Payment of funds into court in event of uncertainty or dispute    When owners of any property have been or shall have been awarded damages as  incidental to any improvement undertaken pursuant to this act, and such award  has been or shall have been duly confirmed, the amount thereof shall be tendered to the person or persons entitled thereto.  If there is uncertainty as  to the person entitled to receive the award or if the party entitled to receive  the amount awarded shall refuse upon tender thereof to receive the same, or  shall be out of the State or under any legal disability, or if several parties  interested in the fund shall not agree as to the distribution thereof, or the  lands damaged are encumbered by any mortgage, judgment or other lien, or if for  any other reason the commission cannot safely pay the amount awarded to any  person, in all such cases the amount awarded may, with leave of the Superior  Court, be paid into said court and shall there be distributed according to law,  on the application of any person interested therein.

     L.1968, c. 404, s. 47.