It shall be lawful for the governing body of any municipality in this State, by resolution, to compromise, adjust or cancel, any past due assessments with the accrued interest thereon, levied against any cemetery owned by a religious society or sect, used for the interment of its own members, where the assessment was levied for the sole reason that the religious society or sect was an unincorporated cemetery association.
N.J.S. § 54:4-122