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· 4/25/1980

City of Paterson v. Fargo Realty Inc.

Citations

  • 415 A.2d 1210
  • 174 N.J. Super. 178

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that there is “no constitutional impediment to making a landowner personally responsible for the reasonable cost of abating hazardous conditions existing on his property”
  • finding, where vacant property held value and plaintiff was not constrained by city from rebuilding demolished structure, that he was not deprived of “all economically beneficial use”
  • not unconstitutional to require owner to reimburse city for expenses incurred in razing structure that was public nuisance
  • not unconstitutional to require owner to reimburse city for expenses incurred in razing structure that was public nuisance
  • \It has long been recognized that a right to reimbursement will accrue to a municipality for its expenses in rightfully demolishing a building constituting a public nuisance.\
  • demolition of a fire damaged building

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Judges: Saunders

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