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2A:62-23.  Action by attorney general
    When a grant or conveyance in fee of riparian lands or lands under water, or  both, has been or shall be made by the state, the riparian commission, the board of commerce and navigation, the division of navigation, in the department  of conservation or the division of planning and development in the department  of conservation and economic development to any person, who, or whose lessee or  grantee under an unexpired lease or an estate for years not terminated is in  possession of the lands, or any part thereof, and the state denies the validity  of the grant or conveyance of the fee and desires to contest it, the attorney  general may maintain an action in the superior court on behalf of the state to  determine and settle the title to the affected lands and to clear up all doubts  concerning the same.
 
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.