40:37A-83. Payments to municipalities or political subdivisions in lieu of taxes

Every authority and every municipality in which any property of the authority is located are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into agreements with respect to the payment by the authority to such municipality of annual sums of money in lieu of taxes on such property in such amounts as may be agreed upon between the authority and the municipality, and each such authority is empowered to make such payments and each such municipality is empowered to accept such payments and to apply them in the manner in which taxes may be applied in such municipality; provided, however, that no such annual payment with respect to any parcel of such property shall exceed the amount to be derived by applying the current general tax rate for the taxing district in which such property is located to the assessed and taxable value of such property for the taxable year immediately prior to the time of its acquisition by the authority. In the case of a new facility constructed and owned by the authority, the authority is empowered to enter into an agreement with the municipality to make payments in lieu of taxes on such facility, so long as such payments do not exceed the amount derived by applying the current local purposes tax rate for such taxing district to the actual cost of construction of the facility; provided, however, that in the first through fourth years of such payments they shall not exceed 40% of the amount so derived, in the fifth through eighth years 50% of the amount so derived, in the ninth through twelfth years 65% of the amount so derived, and in the thirteenth through sixteenth years 80% of the amount so derived, until in the seventeenth year and all subsequent years the payments shall not exceed the amount derived as hereinbefore described. Notwithstanding the aforesaid provisions of this section, whenever any person, pursuant to subsection e. or j. of section 11 of this act (C. 40:37A-54), shall occupy space within a public facility for a nongovernmental use which is not itself tax exempt, whether as lessee, vendee or otherwise, such person shall, as long as title thereto shall remain in the authority, pay to the political subdivision in which such facility is located a payment in lieu of taxes which shall equal the taxes on real and personal property, including water and sewer service charges or assessments, which such person would have been required to pay had it been the owner of such property or portion thereof during the period, and neither the authority nor its projects, properties, money or bonds and notes shall be obligated, liable or subject to lien of any kind for the enforcement, collection or payment thereof. Further, notwithstanding the aforesaid provisions of this section, during the time an authority is managing, operating and maintaining real property for a redevelopment project prior to actual rehabilitation, clearance, development, or redevelopment of such property or sale, lease or other disposal of such property pursuant to the provisions hereof, it may pay to the municipality in which the real property is situated out of the net income from the property, in lieu of taxes, an annual service charge for municipal services supplied to said property in an amount not exceeding the tax on the property for the year it was acquired by the authority. The amount of such annual service charge shall be as set forth in a written agreement to be entered into between the municipality and the authority.

L.1960, c. 183, p. 756, s. 40, eff. Jan. 18, 1961. Amended by L.1977, c. 80, s. 3, eff. May 2, 1977; L.1977, c. 109, s. 1, eff. June 1, 1977; L.1979, c. 275, s. 40, eff. Jan. 3, 1980; L.1982, c. 113, s. 12, eff. Aug. 14, 1982.