40A:20-5 Urban renewal entities, qualification; provisions.

5. Any duly formed corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited partnership association, or other unincorporated entity may qualify as an urban renewal entity under P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.), if its certificate of incorporation, or other similar certificate or statement as may be required by law, shall contain the following provisions:

a. The name of the entity shall include the words "Urban Renewal."

b. The purpose for which it is formed shall be to operate under P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.) and to initiate and conduct projects for the redevelopment of a redevelopment area pursuant to a redevelopment plan, or projects necessary, useful, or convenient for the relocation of residents displaced or to be displaced by the redevelopment of all or part of one or more redevelopment areas, or low and moderate income housing projects, and, when authorized by financial agreement with the municipality, to acquire, plan, develop, construct, alter, maintain or operate housing, senior citizen housing, business, industrial, commercial, administrative, community, health, recreational, educational or welfare projects, or any combination of two or more of these types of improvement in a single project, under such conditions as to use, ownership, management and control as regulated pursuant to P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.).

c. A provision that so long as the entity is obligated under financial agreement with a municipality made pursuant to P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.), it shall engage in no business other than the ownership, operation and management of the project.

d. A declaration that the entity has been organized to serve a public purpose, that its operations shall be directed toward: (1) the redevelopment of redevelopment areas, the facilitation of the relocation of residents displaced or to be displaced by redevelopment, or the conduct of low and moderate income housing projects; (2) the acquisition, management and operation of a project, redevelopment relocation housing project, or low and moderate income housing project under P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.); and (3) that it shall be subject to regulation by the municipality in which its project is situated, and to a limitation or prohibition, as appropriate, on profits or dividends for so long as it remains the owner of a project subject to P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.).

e. A provision that the entity shall not voluntarily transfer more than 10% of the ownership of the project or any portion thereof undertaken by it under P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.), until it has first removed both itself and the project from all restrictions of P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.) in the manner required by P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.) and, if the project includes housing units, has obtained the consent of the Commissioner of Community Affairs to such transfer; with the exception of transfer to another urban renewal entity, as approved by the municipality in which the project is situated, which other urban renewal entity shall assume all contractual obligations of the transferor entity under the financial agreement with the municipality. The entity shall file annually with the municipal governing body a disclosure of the persons having an ownership interest in the project, and of the extent of the ownership interest of each. Nothing herein shall prohibit any transfer of the ownership interest in the urban renewal entity itself provided that the transfer, if greater than 10 percent, is disclosed to the municipal governing body in the annual disclosure statement or in correspondence sent to the municipality in advance of the annual disclosure statement referred to above.

f. A provision stating that the entity is subject to the provisions of section 18 of P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-18) respecting the powers of the municipality to alleviate financial difficulties of the urban renewal entity or to perform actions on behalf of the entity upon a determination of financial emergency.

g. A provision stating that any housing units constructed or acquired by the entity shall be managed subject to the supervision of, and rules adopted by, the Commissioner of Community Affairs.

If the entity shall not by reason of any other law be required to file a statement or certificate with the Secretary of State, then the entity shall file a certificate in the office of the clerk of the county in which its principal place of business is located setting forth, in addition to the matters listed above, its full name, the name under which it shall do business, its duration, the location of its principal offices, the name of a person or persons upon whom service may be effected, and the name and address and extent of each person having any ownership or proprietary interest therein.

A certificate of incorporation, or similar certificate or statement, shall not be accepted for filing with the Secretary of State or office of the county clerk until the certificate or statement has been reviewed and approved by the Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs.

L.1991,c.431,s.5; amended 2003, c.125, s.8.