An Act appropriating $11,500,000 from constitutionally dedicated corporation business tax revenues to the State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. There is appropriated to the State Agriculture Development Committee the sum of $11,500,000 from dedicated corporation business tax revenues pursuant to Article VIII, Section II, paragraph 6 of the State Constitution in the “Preserve New Jersey Farmland Preservation Fund,” established pursuant to section 8 of the “Preserve New Jersey Act,” P.L.2016, c.12 (C.13:8C-50), for the purpose of providing municipal planning incentive grants pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1999, c.180 (C.4:1C-43.1) and approved as eligible for such funding pursuant to this section.
b. The following municipalities are eligible for funding, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Agriculture Development Committee providing for a municipal planning incentive grant program, with the monies appropriated pursuant to subsection a. of this section:
Municipality County Amount of Grant
Upper Deerfield Twp Cumberland $500,000
Franklin Twp Gloucester $500,000
Woolwich Twp Gloucester $1,000,000
Alexandria Twp Hunterdon $500,000
Pilesgrove Twp Salem $1,000,000
Pittsgrove Twp Salem $500,000
Upper Pittsgrove Twp Salem $1,000,000
Blairstown Twp Warren $500,000
Frelinghuysen Twp Warren $500,000
Knowlton Twp Warren $500,000
TOTAL 6,500,000
c. (1) The following municipalities are eligible for funding, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Agriculture Development Committee providing for a municipal planning incentive grant program competitive grant fund, with the monies appropriated pursuant to subsection a. of this section:
Municipality County
Hopewell Twp Cumberland
Upper Deerfield Twp
Franklin Twp Gloucester
Woolwich Twp
Alexandria Twp Hunterdon
Delaware Twp
East Amwell Twp
Franklin Twp
Holland Twp
Kingwood Twp
Readington Twp
Tewksbury Twp
Union Twp
West Amwell Twp
Hopewell Twp Mercer
Colts Neck Twp Monmouth
Holmdel Twp
Howell Twp
Manalapan Twp
Marlboro Twp
Millstone Twp
Upper Freehold Twp
Alloway Twp Salem
Mannington Twp
Pilesgrove Twp
Pittsgrove Twp
Upper Pittsgrove Twp
Bedminster Twp \ Somerset
Franklin Twp
Hillsborough Twp
Montgomery Twp
Peapack - Gladstone Boro
Frankford Twp Sussex
Green Twp
Blairstown Twp Warren
Franklin Twp
Frelinghuysen Twp
Greenwich Twp
Harmony Twp
Hope Twp
Knowlton Twp
White Twp
(2) The maximum grant award a municipality identified in this subsection may receive pursuant to this section is $500,000.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the “Preserve New Jersey Farmland Preservation Fund,” established pursuant to section 8 of the “Preserve New Jersey Act,” P.L.2016, c.12 (C.13:8C-50), the sum of $11,500,000 to implement the provisions of this act.
3. The expenditure of the sums appropriated by this act is subject to the provisions and conditions of P.L.2016, c.12 (C.13:8C-43 et seq.), P.L.1999, c.180 (C.4:1C-43.1), P.L.1999, c.152 (C.13:8C-1 et seq.), and P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et seq.), as appropriate.
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved December 23, 2020.