New Jersey § 58:16a-10

§ 58:16a-10.

The commissioner (a) may determine whether any property taken for any of the purposes

connected with flood control projects pursuant to this act may be leased, sold or

exchanged on terms beneficial to the State, and in all cases of such determination

he may lease, sell or exchange such property; in order to carry any such lease, sale

or exchange into effect the commissioner is hereby authorized to execute and deliver,

in the name of the people of the State, a quit-claim or lease of such property. (b) May also convey to the United States for flood control purposes all right, title

and interest of the State in and to any property heretofore or hereafter so taken

for any of such purposes for which reimbursement by the United States is made in accordance

with section 2 of the Federal Flood Control Act of 1938 being public, numbered 761,

Seventy-Fifth Congress, 1 and including improvements made thereon for such purposes. Such conveyance shall be by deed or instrument of quit-claim, executed by the commissioner

in the name of the people of the State, delivered to the Federal authority having

jurisdiction. This paragraph shall not prevent reservations, if any, in such a conveyance, agreed

to by such commissioner and Federal authority, to protect leases or easement, if any,

theretofore lawfully made or created by such commissioner. Whenever the United States, acting by and through said Federal authority having

jurisdiction, shall cause to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of this

State, a duplicate original of the deed or instrument of conveyance to the United

States of any such property for the purposes therein specified, such jurisdiction

as may be required for flood control purposes is thereupon ceded to the United States

over the property described in said deed or instrument of conveyance, during the time

that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof and shall use such property

for flood control purposes. (c) Is hereby authorized to agree with the United States as to the value of the property

taken and for legal damages caused by any such taking thereof, as and for reimbursement

by the United States and the commissioner is authorized to convey such property to

the United States, in the manner herein provided, specifying in such conveyance that

the consideration stated therein is the agreed value of such property and legal damages,

and is in full reimbursement thereof by the United States. 1

§ 701c-1 of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.