40:32-7.6 - Counties not having park commission;  acquisition of golf course  and other recreational facilities

40:32-7.6.  Counties not having park commission;  acquisition of golf course  and other recreational facilities
The board of chosen freeholders of any county in which a park commission shall not have been established may lease, or may acquire, in fee or less estate, by gift, devise, grant, purchase or condemnation any land or real estate and rights therein, improved or unimproved, within the county for use as  a public golf course, and for such other recreational playground, or public  entertainment purposes and activities as it may determine to provide in  connection therewith;  provided, however, that the power herein conferred upon  a board of chosen freeholders to acquire by condemnation any land or real  estate or rights therein shall not be exercised to acquire, for any of the  purposes of this act, any land or real estate or rights therein owned, used, or  to be used by a public utility, as defined in section 48:2-13 of the Revised  Statutes, in furnishing any commodity or service which by law it is authorized  to furnish.

L.1958, c. 94, p. 538, s. 1.  Amended by L.1963, c. 47, s. 1, eff. May 27, 1963.