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Code · New Jersey · Title 40 — Animals and Livestock · Chapter 151

40:151-48. Fire districts created by legislature; assets and debts of old district distributed

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Whenever any fire district shall have been created by any act of the legislature defining the territory to be comprised in said fire district such fire district shall have and own all the property and assets used for fire purposes which at the time of its incorporation belonged to or was vested in any other fire district existing within its limits. It shall also be liable to pay its proportionate amount of property, assets or indebtedness which shall be ascertained in the manner hereinafter in sections 40:151-49 to 40:151-53 of this title provided.
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