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1. Whenever the banks, waterworks or watercourses along or within the bounds of any meadow company, formed under the act to which this is a supplement or any act supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof, shall have been or shall be laid off to the respective owners or possessors to maintain, uphold or repair, and at any annual or special meeting of said company the owners or possessors of more than one-half of such meadow shall vote in favor of defraying the expenses of laying out, erecting, making, maintaining and repairing the banks, dams, sluices, floodgates and other works, and all the general watercourses and every other necessary expense for the benefit of the company by a general tax, laid, enforced and collected in accordance with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, the expenses aforesaid shall thereafter be defrayed by a tax, laid, enforced and collected as aforesaid, and it shall thereupon become the duty of the managers of said company, in addition to the duties theretofore required of such managers by law, to cause or procure the making, maintaining and repair of the banks, dams, sluices, floodgates and other works, and all general watercourses to be made or done under the supervision of such managers and the cost and expense thereof to be assessed, enforced and collected as aforesaid.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 15 § 5-8(56) - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nj/acts-saved-from-repeal/nj-st-sect-acts-saved-15-5-8-56/
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