New Jersey § acts:saved-12 - (2)

§ acts:saved-12. (2)

1. Any city or other municipality which shall have received, or may hereafter receive,

from the riparian commissioners of the state of New Jersey, a grant of lands under

water in front of any public square or park in such city or other municipality, under

and by virtue of an act of the legislature of New Jersey entitled “A further supplement

to ‘An act to ascertain the rights of the state and of riparian owners in the lands

lying under the waters of the bay of New York and elsewhere in this state,’ approved

April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and the several supplements

thereto,” and which said supplement was approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred

and eighty-nine, may, when in the judgment of the governing body of said city or other

municipality so to do, enter into a contract with the person or corporation owning

the title to the fee of the soil embraced within such public square or park, or with

any person or corporation to whom said owner of the fee of the soil thereof may have

granted their rights in the said lands under water in front of said public square

or park, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, whereby said lands under water in

front of said square or park, or any part thereof, may be used by said owner of the

fee, or person or corporation acquiring said rights of the owner of the fee for the

purpose of docking, berthing, loading and unloading vessels, upon or over the said

lands under water, from a dock adjacent to said lands under water for such period

of time as in the judgment of such governing body may seem best for the interests

of said city or other municipality; provided, that such contract shall contain a

provision that no buildings or other structures shall be erected on the said lands

under water in front of said public square or park which shall in any way obstruct

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

park; and provided further, that a grant of said lands shall have first been made

by the riparian commissioners of the state of New Jersey, with the privilege of using

such waters for the purposes aforesaid.