Bill Text: NJ A4058 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment, Natural Resources, and Solid Waste Committee [A4058 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4058-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOHN ALLEN
District 32 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning Liberty State Park, and supplementing P.L.1983, c.324 (C.13:1L-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of P.L.1983, c.324 (C.13:1L-6) or any other law, or rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, to the contrary, the 21.5-acre Caven Point Peninsula, the estuarine ecosystem for plants and animals, and critical bird breeding habitat, which stretches into the Upper New York Bay, and is identified on the tax maps of Jersey City, in Hudson County, as Block Number 27601, Lot Number 1, Block Number 24307, Lot Number 10, Block Number 27701, Lot Number 1, Block Number 27601, Lot Number 2, and Block Number 24306, Lot Number 7, shall be designated, and permanently preserved, as natural habitat.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would designate as natural habitat and preserve the 21.5 acre Caven Point Peninsula. Caven Point Peninsula is an estuarine ecosystem for plants and animals, critical bird breeding habitat, and urban environmental education resource. The peninsula is located in Liberty State Park, in Jersey City, Hudson County, and stretches into the Upper New York Bay.
