40:14-3. Whenever any one or more counties and municipalities shall have flowing through their respective boundaries and borders, any inland waterways or navigable stream, and it shall be deemed to the advantage of any two or more of said counties and municipalities, to improve such inland waterways or streams by increasing their depth or width or both, they may, acting together advertise for bids for the doing of such work, and enter into a joint contract therefor. The improvement of inland waterways or navigable streams includes the raising, recovery, towing, removal, storage, destruction, and disposal of vessels that have been abandoned in an inland waterway or navigable stream, as appropriate, pursuant to the procedures applicable to municipal waterways in the “Abandoned or Sunken Vessels Disposition Law,” P.L.1975, c.369 (C. 12:7C-7 et seq.). A vessel that has been abandoned at a public or private marina, pier, or boat dock located in an inland waterway or navigable stream is considered abandoned in that inland waterway or navigable stream.

Amended 2008, c.52, s.18.