40:32-2.1 - Acquisition and maintenance of lands and interests for park, recreation, welfare and hospital purposes - New Jersey Statutes

40:32-2.1.  Acquisition and maintenance of lands and interests for park, recreation, welfare and hospital purposes
    The board of chosen freeholders of any county is authorized and empowered to  acquire by gift, grant, contribution, devise, bequest or condemnation, lands  and interests therein, within their respective counties, and to hold, develop,  control, maintain and regulate the same for public park, public recreation,  public welfare and hospital purposes; provided, however, that the power herein  conferred upon a board of chosen freeholders to acquire by condemnation lands  and interests therein shall not be exercised to acquire, for any of the  purposes of this act, any lands or interests therein owned, used, or to be used  by a public utility, as defined in section 48:2-13 of the Revised Statutes, in  furnishing any commodity or service which by law it is authorized to furnish.

     L.1940, c. 33, p. 115, s. 1.  Amended by L.1963, c. 48, s. 2, eff. May 27, 1963.