40:10B-3 - Historic cemeteries; restoration, maintenance or preservation by county or municipality; appropriations - New Jersey Statutes

40:10B-3.  Historic cemeteries;  restoration, maintenance or preservation by  county or municipality;  appropriations
    The governing body of any county or municipality may provide for the restoration, maintenance and preservation of any historic cemetery located within its borders.  As used in this act  "historic cemetery"  means a cemetery  not owned by the State, a county, municipality, or religious corporation or  association, in which are interred the remains of prominent citizens or  residents of the State or of the Colony of East Jersey or the Colony of West  Jersey, or veterans of the Colonial Wars, the War of Independence, the War of  1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, or  World War I, in which not more than 10% of the interments have been made after  1880, in which no interment has been made for 50 years, and for which no funds  are available for regular maintenance or preservation.

    a.  The governing body of a county may annually appropriate an amount not to  exceed $10,000.00 for the restoration, maintenance and preservation of historic  cemeteries located within its borders;  provided, however, that no governing  body shall expend annually an amount in excess of $500.00 to restore, maintain  or preserve any one cemetery.

    b.  The governing body of a municipality may annually appropriate an amount  not to exceed $3,000.00 for the restoration, maintenance and preservation of  historic cemeteries located within its borders;  provided, however, that no  governing body shall expend annually an amount in excess of $500.00 to restore,  maintain or preserve any one cemetery.

     L.1983, c. 294, s. 3, eff. Aug. 4, 1983.