New Jersey § 15:5-6

§ 15:5-6.

If the lands of a meadow company taking advantage of sections 15:5-3 to 15:5-7 abut on the lands of another meadow company, and it shall be necessary to erect a

cross bank to protect the adjoining meadow company from the overflow or the fill,

the managers of the meadow company so taking advantage of said sections 15:5-3 to 15:5-7 , or a majority of them, may apply to the Superior Court for the appointment of three judicious and disinterested persons well acquainted with banked meadows, as commissioners. The commissioners shall be appointed by the court after the giving of such notice

of the application as the court prescribes, and when appointed, after giving such

notice of the time and place of meeting as the court directs, shall view the premises,

hear the parties in interest, may adjourn from time to time, and shall lay out the

correct bank required to protect the adjoining meadows and cause the same to be constructed,

the cost thereof to be paid by each meadow company in accordance with the assessments

made by the commissioners. If the adjoining meadow company refuses to pay its proportion of the assessment,

the company taking advantage of said sections 15:5-3 to 15:5-7 shall, in the first instance, pay the cost thereof, and the amount assessed against

the adjoining company by the commissioners shall be returned in the report of the

commissioners to the Superior Court. The collection of the same by the managers of the company so taking advantage of

said sections 15:5-3 to 15:5-7 may be enforced by a civil action in any competent court or by a proceeding in lieu

of prerogative writ. The commissioners shall receive such compensation as said court may order, to be

paid by the plaintiffs.