New Jersey § acts:saved-12 - (1)

§ acts:saved-12. (1)

1. That whenever any public square or park now dedicated in any city or other municipality

shall front upon any tidewaters in this state, the city or other municipality may

apply through its legislative body to the commissioners appointed under the acts to

which this is a further supplement for a grant or conveyance to such city or municipality

of the lands under water in front of such public square or park; such grant to contain

provisions that the same shall be kept and maintained as an open public square forever

fronting on such tidewater; and that no buildings or other structures shall be erected

on such square or park, or on the lands under water, which shall in any way obstruct

or interrupt the view or public access to the water from any part of the said square

or park; that said commissioners shall make said grant or conveyance, at a consideration

of one dollar, upon receiving a written assent to such grant or conveyance of the

person or corporation owning the title to the fee of the soil embraced within such

public square or park; that such grant or conveyance shall contain the above provisions,

and a copy of such assent, and shall also contain a provision that if at any time

after the grant aforesaid such public square or park shall cease to be used as such,

the lands under water granted as aforesaid shall at once revert to this state.