40:67-19 - Vacation of streets and places dedicated but not accepted; ordinance; notice and hearing - New Jersey Statutes

40:67-19.  Vacation of streets and places dedicated but not accepted; ordinance;  notice and hearing
    Whenever there shall have been a dedication of lands as a public street or highway or a public square or public place, and the same has not been accepted or opened by the municipality, and it shall appear to the governing body that the public interest will be better served by releasing those lands or any part thereof from such dedication, the governing body may by ordinance release and extinguish the public right arising from said dedication as to the whole or any  part of those lands, and thereupon said lands or the part thereof so released  shall be effectually discharged therefrom as though the dedication had not  taken place;  but only after notice of the intention of the governing body to  consider any such ordinance, and a hearing thereon, shall have been given as  provided in section 40:49-6 of this title concerning ordinances for the  vacation of streets.