52:30-4 - Action to adjudge value of and acquire rights and easements - New Jersey Statutes

52:30-4.  Action to adjudge value of and acquire rights and easements
    Whenever the United States or any officer thereof has or hereafter shall have, in pursuance of law, leased or purchased any lands within this State for government purposes, and it may be desirable that any street, highway or public  places laid out upon any map of said lands should be vacated, or that any  rights, ways, easements or servitudes in or upon said lands should be acquired  and extinguished, the Attorney-General, by direction of the Governor, shall on  request of said lessee, owner, officer or proper authority of the United  States, bring a civil action in the Superior Court to adjudge the true value of  any rights, ways, easements or servitudes in or upon said lands, and provide  for such acquisition and extinguishment. The court may proceed in the action  in a summary manner or otherwise.

     Amended by L.1953, c. 49, p. 888, s. 56.