{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-54-23","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 40:54-23","heading":"Municipalities may furnish site where buildings are offered; amount","body":"When any person has offered or hereafter may offer to the board of trustees  of the free public library of any municipality which shall hereafter establish  a library under the provisions of this article or has heretofore established a  free public library pursuant to law, or has offered or hereafter may offer to  the council or other governing body of any such municipality, to provide or  erect a building to be used as a free public library upon condition that the  municipality, or the trustees of the free public library therein, or the  council or governing body thereof, provide a site for the building, the council  or other governing body of the municipality, by resolution adopted by the votes  of a majority of all the members thereof, may appropriate for the purpose of  purchasing a suitable site upon which to erect such library building, a sum of  money not exceeding three mills in all municipalities except cities, and in  cities a sum not exceeding three-fourths of one mill, on every dollar of  assessable property according to the last preceding levy for the purposes of  annual taxation therein.","path":["TITLE 40 MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"487c0af9838d636593405a0f5c3364a898cbbc4794e11d4210f153ae2822986e","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-54-22","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-40-54-24"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}