40A:7-24 - Annexation of adjacent municipally-owned unoccupied land - New Jersey Statutes

40A:7-24.  Annexation of adjacent municipally-owned unoccupied land
    Whenever any municipality has acquired or shall acquire lands situated in another municipality for public use, consisting of one or more tracts which together comprise one plot of land bounded in part by the division line between  such municipalities, and said lands are unoccupied, the land may be annexed to  the municipality holding title thereto, if desired by the municipality and  consented to by the municipalities in which the lands have their situs.  The  annexation shall be effected by the passage of an ordinance by the governing  body of the municipality in which the lands are situated, upon the petition of  the governing body of the municipality owning them.

    The provisions of N.J.S. 40A:7-14 to 40A:7-22 and of N.J.S. 40A:7-25 shall be observed in effecting the annexation of land under this section, and the annexation shall be subject thereto, insofar as such provisions are applicable.

     L.1979, c. 181, s. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1979.