New Jersey Statutes Title 27. Highways 27 § 19-36.1

Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article to which this act is a supplement,  1 any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article may contract with any municipality within which any part of property acquired by such commission for bridge or project purposes is located, for the payment by such commission to such municipality, and may make payments to such municipality, of a fixed annual sum or sums of money in lieu of, or in reimbursement for, the loss of taxes upon such property; provided, however, that such annual sum or sums shall not be in excess of the amount of the municipal taxes upon such property for the year when last assessed prior to the time of its acquisition by the commission.

Any municipality wherein any such bridge property is located is authorized and empowered to enter into such contract with any such commission to accept the payment or payments which the commission is herein authorized and empowered to make.