4:1B-13 - Conveyance of development easement; conditions
4:1B-13. Conveyance of development easement; conditions
No development easement purchased by the State pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be sold, given, transferred or otherwise conveyed in any manner and no lands within the agricultural preserve shall be diverted to a use other than conservation or recreation without the approval of the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, the Secretary of Agriculture and the State House Commission and following a public hearing at least 1 month prior to any such approvals. In the case of the conveyance of such development easements, such approvals shall not be given unless an amount equal to the value of such development easement, as determined by the State House Commission, shall be deposited in the State Recreation and Conservation Land Acquisition and Development Fund created pursuant to P.L.1974, c. 102. Money so returned to said fund shall be deemed wholly a part of the portion of that fund available for land acquisition or development by the State pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1974, c. 102 and P.L.1975, c. 155.
L.1976, c. 50, s. 13, eff. July 22, 1976.