[Second Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 274

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblymen BATEMAN and KAVANAUGH

An Act concerning the use of certain State-owned land and supplementing ¹[P.L.1989, c.79 (C.4:1C-44 et seq.)] chapter 1C of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes¹ .

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. a. For any land owned by the State of New Jersey and (1) farmed by a State agency, or (2) deemed suitable for agricultural production ¹[pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1989, c.79 (C.4:1C-44 et seq.)] by the Department of Agriculture¹ , the State shall execute a restrictive covenant that the land shall be used only for agricultural production. Any such restrictive covenant shall run with the land in perpetuity and shall be attached to and recorded with the deed for the land.

    b. This section shall not apply to any land owned or administered by the Department of Environmental Protection ¹or by any public institution of higher education^{1 2}, or any State right-of-way held by the Department of Transportation² .

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Requires that certain State-owned farmland be deed-restricted for farming use only.