Opinion No. Oag 29-92, (1992)

WALTER KUNICKI, Chairperson Assembly Organization Committee

The Assembly Committee on Organization (Committee) has requested my formal opinion on the question of whether a county may "make a gift of county-owned property to . . . [a] private corporation in return for the company's agreement to construct a plant and commence operations on the property."

The Committee's question asks whether the county may make a "gift" of land to a private corporation, but then qualifies this by stating that the conveyance is in exchange for a promise to construct a plant and begin operations on the property. In…