12:3-16 Fixing of purchase price or rentals for lands below high-water mark or formerly under tidewater; lease or conveyance.
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It shall be lawful for the Tidelands Resource Council, together with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, to fix and determine within the limits prescribed by law, the price or purchase money or annual rental to be paid by any applicant for so much of lands below high-water mark, or lands formerly under tidewater belonging to the State, as may be described in any application therefor duly made according to law, and the council, with the approval of the commissioner, shall, in the name and under the great seal of the State, grant or lease said lands to such applicant accordingly, and all such conveyances or leases shall be prepared by the council or its agents at the cost and expense of the grantee or lessee therein and shall be subscribed by the commissioner and the Attorney General and the council and attested by the Secretary of State.
Amended 2009, c.40, s.4.