If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of retaining said lands with said conditions, limitations and restrictions thereon, the said lands shall be so retained; but, if a majority of the votes so cast shall be against so retaining said lands, the governing body of said municipality shall offer to convey all the right, title and interest of the municipality to the person who conveyed said lands to the municipality or to his or her heirs or assigns or to such person or persons who may then have the reversionary interest in the same. The word "person" as used in this paragraph and in the succeeding paragraph hereof shall be construed to include the heirs-at-law, next of kin, devisees, administrators, executors, successors and assigns of the individual or individuals who conveyed said lands to the municipality, and where the grantor to the municipality was a corporation, the word "person" shall include such corporation, its successors and assigns.
N.J.S. § 40:60-36.3