New Jersey § 40:60-51.5 Waiver, release or modification of covenants, conditions or limitations as to erection of buildings or use of land in conveyances

New Jersey Statutes

§ 40:60-51.5 — Waiver, release or modification of covenants, conditions or limitations as to erection of buildings or use of land in conveyances

New Jersey § 40:60-51.5

Title 40MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

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N.J. Stat. Ann. § 40:60-51.5 (2026).

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Any municipality is authorized and empowered, by resolution of the governing body thereof, to waive, release or modify any covenants, conditions or limitations as to the erection of buildings or any other use to be made of land heretofore imposed by said municipality in sales and conveyances of land by such municipality at public or private sale made prior to the effective date of this act, but only after public hearing held before such governing body, of the holding of which notice describing the lands in question and the covenants, conditions or limitations to be waived, released or modified and, if to be modified, describing the manner in which the same shall be modified, shall first have been given by advertisement published once each week for two weeks in a newspaper published in said

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Any municipality is authorized and empowered, by resolution of the governing body thereof, to waive, release or modify any covenants, conditions or limitations as to the erection of buildings or any other use to be made of land heretofore imposed by said municipality in sales and conveyances of land by such municipality at public or private sale made prior to the effective date of this act, but only after public hearing held before such governing body, of the holding of which notice describing the lands in question and the covenants, conditions or limitations to be waived, released or modified and, if to be modified, describing the manner in which the same shall be modified, shall first have been given by advertisement published once each week for two weeks in a newspaper published in said municipality or, if no newspaper be published therein, then in a newspaper circulating in such municipality; provided, however, that the power herein granted shall not be exercised to impair any vested or contractual rights of third parties. L.1953, c. 403, p. 2040, s. 1, eff. Sept. 16, 1953.