New Jersey § 13:17-89
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 13:17-89, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 13:17-89.
There is created in but not of the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission,
established pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1968, c. 404 ( C.13:17-5 ), a body corporate and politic with corporate succession, to be known as the Meadowlands
Conservation Trust. The trust is hereby constituted as an instrumentality exercising public and essential
government functions and the exercise by the trust of the powers conferred by this
act shall be deemed and held to be an essential government function of the State. The purposes of the trust shall be to acquire and hold, or acquire and convey to
other governmental entities or to qualified nonprofit organizations, environmentally
important, valuable, or sensitive lands located in the Hackensack meadowlands or within
the Hackensack river watershed, which lands shall be permanently preserved and managed
in their natural state or in a largely natural or undeveloped state for the purposes
of conserving and enhancing natural resources, protecting elements of natural diversity,
providing open space, or providing public outdoor passive recreational opportunities.
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