New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 12 § 3-37(2)

1. Any city or other municipality which shall have received, or may hereafter receive, from the riparian commissioners of the state of New Jersey, a grant of lands under water in front of any public square or park in such city or other municipality, under and by virtue of an act of the legislature of New Jersey entitled “A further supplement to ‘An act to ascertain the rights of the state and of riparian owners in the lands lying under the waters of the bay of New York and elsewhere in this state,’ approved April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and the several supplements thereto,” and which said supplement was approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, may, when in the judgment of the governing body of said city or other municipality so to do, enter into a contract with the person or corporation owning the title to the fee of the soil embraced within such public square or park, or with any person or corporation to whom said owner of the fee of the soil thereof may have granted their rights in the said lands under water in front of said public square or park, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, whereby said lands under water in front of said square or park, or any part thereof, may be used by said owner of the fee, or person or corporation acquiring said rights of the owner of the fee for the purpose of docking, berthing, loading and unloading vessels, upon or over the said lands under water, from a dock adjacent to said lands under water for such period of time as in the judgment of such governing body may seem best for the interests of said city or other municipality; provided, that such contract shall contain a provision that no buildings or other structures shall be erected on the said lands under water in front of said public square or park which shall in any way obstruct or interrupt the view or public access to the water from any part of said square or park; and provided further, that a grant of said lands shall have first been made by the riparian commissioners of the state of New Jersey, with the privilege of using such waters for the purposes aforesaid.