Bill Text: NJ A4468 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-15 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee [A4468 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4468-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4468

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE CHAPARRO

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  WILLIAM B. SAMPSON, IV

District 31 (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 and preserve the 21.5 acre Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.  Caven Point Peninsula is the estuarine ecosystem for plants and animals, critical bird breeding habitat, and urban environmental education resource.  The peninsula 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.