A conservation restriction or an historic preservation restriction may be acquired by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection in the name of State, or by any local unit, or by any charitable conservancy in the same manner as other interest in land may be acquired by gift, purchase or devise and, in the case of the State or local unit, by condemnation. Such restrictions may be enforced in the same manner as other interests in land, and shall entitle representatives of the holder of such restriction to enter the land or water area involved in a reasonable manner and at reasonable times so as to assure compliance with the provisions of said restriction.
N.J.S. § 13:8B-3