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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-5a

  • taxing district: when used in a law relating to the assessment or collection of taxes, assessments or water rates or water rents, include every political division of the State, less than a county, whose inhabitants, governing body or officers have the power to levy taxes, assessments or rates. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Any taxing district in which there has been located a county institution, other than an educational institution or parklands, regardless of whether such lands are owned and occupied by a park commission or by any other department, division, agency or instrumentality of the county government, which occupies more than 200 acres, and which constitutes at least 5% of the total land area of the taxing district, shall have remitted or rebated by the county treasurer a sum equal to a percentage of the county tax rate applied to the entire amount of ratables remaining subject to taxation, according to the following schedule:

1982 45%

1983 40%

1984 30%

1985 15%

1986 15%

1987 and thereafter 0%

L.1982, c. 36, s. 1.