Bill Text: NJ A2751 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Enhances eligibility for State Aid for municipalities co-extensive with historic districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee [A2751 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A2751-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Enhances eligibility for State Aid for municipalities co-extensive with historic districts.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning State aid for certain historic municipalities, and amending P.L.1977, c.260.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1977, c.260 (C.52:27D-162) is amended to read as follows:
1. The Legislature finds, determines and declares:
a. That within this State are many small municipalities, formerly centers of commerce, trade and cultural life in surrounding rural areas, and municipalities that have been registered as historic districts, which have suffered chronic economic decline because of changes in the patterns of transportation, commerce and land development;
b. That many of the said historic district municipalities, and municipalities with near-urban population densities in the midst of rural areas, have experienced and are experiencing declining property values, loss of tax ratables and potential tax ratables, diminishment of local commerce and increased unemployment and underemployment among their populations, so that they have become pockets of economic depression within the areas of which they were formerly centers;
c. That most such municipalities cannot, without external aid, maintain adequate municipal services by their own taxing capacity, nor have they the resources to expand and develop that taxing capacity;
d. That it is the purpose of this act to provide State aid supplementary to the taxing capacity of such municipalities, for the purpose of assisting them to maintain adequate municipal services.
(cf: P.L.1977, c.260, s.1)
2. Section 2 of P.L.1977, c.260 (C.52:27D-163) is amended to read as follows:
2. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Depressed Historic District and Rural Centers Aid Act."
(cf: P.L.1977, c.260, s.2)
3. Section 4 of P.L.1977, c.260 (C.52:27D-165) is amended to read as follows:
4. Such sums as are appropriated for distribution under [this act] P.L.1977, c.260 (C.52:27D-162 et seq.) shall be distributed annually, in the manner prescribed in sections 5 and 6 of [this act] P.L.1977, c.260 (C.52:27D-166 and C.52:27D-167), as State aid to each municipality which:
a. Has a population not exceeding 5,000; and
b. Has either
(1) a population density which is [:
(1) Not] not less than 1,000 per square mile [;] and
[ (2) Not] not less than four times the population density of its neighboring municipalities, unless within such neighboring municipality is a national cemetery, or housing built in accordance with or pursuant to Section 607 of the Lanham Act (National Defense Housing) P.L. 849, 76th Congress, 54 Stat. 1125, 42 U.S.C. 1521 et seq., as amended; or
(2) a historic district that is co-extensive in its entirety with the boundaries of the municipality and is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places; and
c. Has ratables per capita not exceeding 4/5 the ratables per capita of the county in which it is situate; and
d. Has either
(1) an effective tax rate for a municipality above the State average effective local tax rate, or
(2) a per capita personal income that does not exceed 0.8 times the State per capita personal income.
(cf: P.L.1978, c.13, s.2)
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill amends the "Depressed Rural Centers Aid Act," renaming it the "Depressed Historic District and Rural Centers Aid Act," to qualify municipalities co-extensive in their entirety with historic districts for aid under that law.
