New Jersey S 3227: Appropriates $3,763,625 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.

Bill Text

S3227 

SENATE, No. 3227 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 2, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Greenstein

SYNOPSIS

���� Authorizes municipal assessment of development impact 
fees following State guidelines and makes an appropriation. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act 
authorizing the assessment of development impact fees, amending and 
supplementing P.L.1975, c.291, supplementing P.L.1975, c.212 (C.18A:7A-1 et 
seq.), amending P.L.1975, c.217, and making an appropriation.

���� Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� (New section)� Sections 
1, 2, 6 through 9, 11, 14 through 16 and 19 through 22 shall be known and may 
be cited as the "Municipal Development Impact Fee Authorization Act."

���� 2.��� (New section)� The 
Legislature finds and declares that:

���� a.���� Over the past number of 
years, the State of New Jersey has experienced unprecedented economic growth 
which has resulted in substantial building and development activity throughout 
the State;

���� b.��� While the building boom 
of the 1980's was a positive phenomenon to the extent that it was associated 
with the growth of jobs and a higher standard of living, the rapid rate of 
development in those years also created major public policy challenges, in particular, 
upgrading the existing infrastructure to support that growth and allow for 
future development;

���� c.���� Of the considerable 
impacts associated with new development, the burden it places on an older, and 
often inadequate infrastructure is one which the Legislature views with 
particular concern in light of the potential dangers associated with 
deteriorating water supply facilities and sewer systems and the pressure which 
that development places on a long-neglected road network which already handles 
dangerously high levels of traffic;

���� d.��� The burden placed on 
older and often inadequate public school facilities is also one which the 
Legislature views with particular concern.� The increased number of students 
generated by new development has a considerable impact on the ability of local 
school districts to provide a thorough and efficient education for their 
students; and

���� e.���� It is therefore a valid 
public policy of the State and in the public interest that municipalities be 
enabled to levy impact fees on new development in order to make those 
improvements in the local infrastructure or to build new or expand existing 
school facilities which are necessary to accommodate the new development.

���� 3.��� Section 3 of P.L.1975, 
c.291 (C.40:55D-3) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� For the purposes of this 
act, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

���� The term "shall" 
indicates a mandatory requirement, and the term "may" indicates a 
permissive action.

���� "Administrative 
officer" means the clerk of the municipality, unless a different municipal 
official or officials are designated by ordinance or statute.

���� "Agricultural 
restriction" means an "agricultural deed restriction for farmland 
preservation purposes" as defined in section 3 of P.L.1983, c.32 
(C.4:1C-13).

���� "Agricultural land" 
means "farmland" as defined pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1999, c.152 
(C.13:8C-3).

���� "Applicant" means a 
developer submitting an application for development.

���� "Application for 
development" means the application form and all accompanying documents 
required by ordinance for approval of a subdivision plat, site plan, planned 
development, cluster development, conditional use, zoning variance or direction 
of the issuance of a permit pursuant to section 25 or section 27 of P.L.1975, 
c.291 (C.40:55D-34 or C.40:55D-36).

���� "Approving 
authority" means the planning board of the municipality, unless a 
different agency is designated by ordinance when acting pursuant to the 
authority of P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-1 et seq.).

���� "Board of 
adjustment" means the board established pursuant to section 56 of 
P.L.1975, c.291 (C.40:55D-69).

���� "Building" means a 
combination of materials to form a construction adapted to permanent, 
temporary, or continuous occupancy and having a roof.

���� "Cable television 
company" means a cable television company as defined pursuant to section 3 
of P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-3).

���� "Capital 
improvement" means [a 
governmental acquisition of real property or major construction project] any 
facility for the provision of public services with a life expectancy of five or 
more years, owned and operated or leased and operated by or on behalf of the 
State or a political subdivision thereof.

���� "Circulation" means 
systems, structures and physical improvements for the movement of people, 
goods, water, air, sewage or power by such means as streets, highways, 
railways, waterways, towers, ai