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NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-16 - Exemptions from taxes; bonds; property

26:2I-16. Exemptions from taxes; bonds; property  The exercise of the powers granted by the this act will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of this State, for the increase of their commerce, welfare and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and as the operation and maintenance of a project by the authority or its agent will constitute the performance of an essential public function, neither the authority nor its agent shall be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon or in respect of a project or any property acquired or used by the authority or its agent under the provisions of this act or upon the income therefrom, and any bonds issued under the provisions of this act, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be exempt from taxation except for transfer, inheritance and estate taxes. L.1972, c. 29, s. 16.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-17 - State will not limit, alter, restrict rights of authority.

26:2I-17 State will not limit, alter, restrict rights of authority.  17. The State of New Jersey does pledge to and agree with the holders of the bonds issued pursuant to authority contained in this act, and with those parties who may enter into contracts with the authority pursuant to the provisions of this act, that the State will not limit, alter or restrict the rights hereby vested in the authority and the health care organization to maintain, construct, reconstruct and operate any project as defined in this act or to establish and collect such rents, fees, receipts or other charges as may be convenient or necessary to produce sufficient revenues to meet the expenses of maintenance and operation thereof and to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders of bonds authorized by this act, and with the parties who may enter into contracts with the authority pursuant to the provisions of this act, or in any way impair the rights or remedies of the holders of such bonds or such parties until the bonds, together with interest thereon, are fully paid and discharged and such contracts are fully performed on the part of the authority. The authority as a public body corporate and politic shall have the right to include the pledge herein made in its bonds and contracts. L.1972,c.29,s.17; amended 1997, c.435, s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-18 - Annual report and audit

26:2I-18. Annual report and audit  On or before March 31 in each year, the authority shall make an annual report of its activities for the preceding calendar year to the Governor and the Legislature. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the authority's operations during the year. The authority shall cause an audit of its books and accounts to be made at least once in each year by certified public accountants and cause a copy thereof to be filed with the Secretary of State and the Comptroller of the Treasury. L.1972, c. 29, s. 18.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-19 - Contracts; conflict of interest

26:2I-19. Contracts; conflict of interest  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, any member, officer, agent or employee of the authority, or member of the immediate family thereof, who is interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract or transaction of another with the authority, or in the purchase, sale or lease of any property, either real or personal, to or from the authority, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. L.1972, c. 29, s. 19.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-20 - Comptroller of Treasury; powers of examination

26:2I-20. Comptroller of Treasury; powers of examination  The Comptroller of the Treasury and his legally authorized representatives are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to examine the accounts, books and records of the authority, including its receipts, disbursements, contracts, sinking funds, investments and any other matters relating thereto and to its financial standing. L.1972, c. 29, s. 20.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-21 - Department may visit, examine, inspect authority, require reports.

26:2I-21 Department may visit, examine, inspect authority, require reports.  21. The Department of Health, or the commissioner or their representatives, may visit, examine into, and inspect, the authority and may require, as often as desired, duly verified reports therefrom giving such information and in such form as the department or commissioner shall prescribe. L.1972, c.29, s.21; amended 1997, c.435, s.8; 2012, c.17, s.261.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-22 - Services of State departments or agencies

26:2I-22. Services of State departments or agencies  The authority shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of such employees of any State department or agency as it may require and as may be available to it for said purpose. L.1972, c. 29, s. 22.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-23 - Power of State departments, agencies.

26:2I-23 Power of State departments, agencies.  23. In order to provide new health care organizations and to enable the construction and financing thereof, to refinance indebtedness hereafter created by the authority for the purpose of providing one or more health care organizations or additions or improvements thereto or modernization thereof or for any one or more of said purposes but for no other purpose unless authorized by law, each of the following bodies shall have the powers hereafter enumerated to be exercised upon such terms and conditions, including the fixing of fair consideration or rental to be paid or received, as it shall determine by resolution as to such property and each shall be subject to the performance of the duties hereafter enumerated, that is to say, the Department of Health as to such as are located on land owned by, or owned by the State and held for, any State institution or on lands of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health or of the Department of Human Services, or by the authority, the Commissioner of Human Services as to State institutions operated by that department, the board of trustees or governing body of any public health care organization, the board of governors of Rutgers, The State University, as to such as are located on land owned by the university, or by the State for the university, the State or by the particular public health care organization, respectively, namely: a. The power to sell and to convey to the authority title in fee simple in any such land and any existing health care facility thereon owned by the State and held for any department thereof or of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health or the power to sell and to convey to the authority such title as the State or the public health care organization, respectively, may have in any such land and any existing health care facility thereon. b. The power to lease to the authority any land and any existing health care facility thereon so owned for a term or terms not exceeding 50 years each. c. The power to lease or sublease from the authority, and to make available, any such land and existing health care facility conveyed or leased to the authority under subsections a. and b. of this section, and any new health care facility erected upon such land or upon any other land owned by the authority. d. The power and duty, upon receipt of notice of any assignment by the authority of any lease or sublease made under subsection c. of this section, or of any of its rights under any such lease or sublease, to recognize and give effect to such assignment, and to pay to the assignee thereof rentals or other payments then due or which may become due under any such lease or sublease which has been so assigned by the authority. L.1972, c.29, s.23; amended 1997, c.435, s.9; 2012, c.17, s.262; 2012, c.45, s.110.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-24 - Additional powers, duties relative to institutions, facilities.

26:2I-24 Additional powers, duties relative to institutions, facilities.  24. In addition thereto the Commissioner of Human Services as to institutions operated by that department, the chief executive officer and the board of trustees of other State institutions, and the board of trustees or governing body of county and municipal public health care organizations shall have the following powers and shall be subject to the following duties as to their lands and health care facilities: a. The power to pledge and assign all or any part of the revenues derived from the operation of a health care organization as security for the payment of rentals due and to become due under any lease or sublease of a new health care facility as provided under subsection c. of section 23 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-23). b. The power to covenant and agree in any lease or sublease of such new health care facilities made under subsection c. of section 23 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-23) to impose fees, rentals or other charges for the use and occupancy or other operation of such new health care facilities in an amount calculated to produce net revenues sufficient to pay the rentals due and to become due under such lease or sublease. c. The power to apply all or any part of the revenues derived from the operation of any health care organization to the payment of rentals due and to become due under any lease or sublease made under subsection c. of section 23 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-23). d. The power to pledge and assign all or any part of the revenues derived from the operation of any health care organization to the payment of rentals due and to become due under any lease or sublease made under subsection c. of section 23 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-23). e. The power to covenant and agree in any lease or sublease made under subsection c. of section 23 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-23) to impose fees, rentals or other charges for the use and occupancy of a health care facility or for the operation of a health care organization in an amount calculated to produce net revenues sufficient to pay the rentals due and to become due under such lease or sublease. L.1972,c.29,s.24; amended 1997, c.435, s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-25 - Powers relative to revenue producing facilities.

26:2I-25 Powers relative to revenue producing facilities.  25. In addition to the powers and duties with respect to health care organizations given under sections 23 and 24 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-23 and C.26:2I-24, respectively), the board of trustees or governing body of any State institution or public health care organization and the board of governors of Rutgers, The State University shall also have the same powers and be subject to the same duties in relation to any conveyance, lease or sublease made under subsection a., b., or c. of section 24 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-24), with respect to revenue producing facilities; that is to say, structures or facilities which produce revenues sufficient to pay the rentals due and to become due under any lease or sublease made under subsection c. of section 24 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-24), including, without limitation, extended care and parking facilities. L.1972, c.29, s.25; amended 1997, c.435, s.11; 2012, c.45, s.111.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-27 - Powers exercised by resolution of governing body, trustees.

26:2I-27 Powers exercised by resolution of governing body, trustees.  27. To the extent not otherwise expressly provided under existing law, all powers and duties conferred upon any State institution or Rutgers, The State University or any county, city or municipal health care organization pursuant to this act shall be exercised and performed by resolution of its governing body and all powers and duties conferred upon any of these health care organizations pursuant to this act shall be exercised and performed by resolution of its board of trustees or governing body. L.1972, c.29, s.27; amended 1997, c.435, s.12; 2012, c.45, s.112.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-29 - Additional powers of authority in respect to loans.

26:2I-29 Additional powers of authority in respect to loans.  29. The authority also shall have power: a. To make loans to any health care organization for the construction or acquisition of projects in accordance with a loan agreement. No such loan shall exceed the total cost of such project. Each such loan shall be promised upon an agreement between the authority and the health care organization as to payment, security, maturity, redemption, interest and other appropriate matters. b. To make loans to any health care organization to refund existing bonds, mortgages or advances given or made by the health care organization for the construction of projects to the extent that this will enable the health care organization to offer greater security for loans for new project construction. L.1972,c.29,s.29; amended 1997, c.435, s.14.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-30 - Power of health care organization to mortgage, pledge property, income

26:2I-30. Power of health care organization to mortgage, pledge property, income  30. For the purpose of obtaining and securing loans under section 29 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-29) or subsection s. of section 5 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-5), every health care organization shall have power to mortgage and pledge any of its real or personal property, and to pledge any of its income from whatever source to repay the principal of and interest on any loan made to it by the authority or to pay the interest on and principal and redemption premium, if any, of any bond or other evidence of indebtedness evidencing the debt created by any such loan; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to authorize actions in conflict with specific legislation, trusts, endowment, or other agreements relating to specific properties or funds. L.1972,c.29,s.30; amended 1997, c.435, s.15; 2000, c.98, s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-31 - Deposit of moneys received from health care organizations.

26:2I-31 Deposit of moneys received from health care organizations.  31. Moneys of the authority received from any health care organization in payment of any sum due to the authority pursuant to the terms of any loan or other agreement or any bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, shall be deposited in an account in which only moneys received from health care organizations shall be deposited and shall be kept separate and apart from and not commingled with any other moneys of the authority. Moneys deposited in such account shall be paid out on checks signed by the chairman of the authority or by such other person or persons as the authority may authorize, and countersigned by one other member of the authority. L.1972,c.29,s.31; amended 1997, c.435, s.16.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-32 - Responsibility of authority relative to projects.

26:2I-32 Responsibility of authority relative to projects.  32. a. Whenever the authority under section 28 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-28) undertakes to construct, acquire or otherwise provide and operate and manage a project, the authority shall be responsible for the direct operation and maintenance costs of such projects, but each health care organization in connection with which such a project is provided and operated and managed shall be responsible at its own expense for the overall supervision of each project, for the overhead and general administrative costs of the health care organization which are incurred because of such project and for the integration of each project operation into the health care organization's health care program. b. Whenever the authority under section 28 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-28) undertakes to construct, acquire or otherwise provide a project and to lease the same to a health care organization, the lessee shall be responsible for the direct operation and maintenance costs of such project and, in addition, shall be responsible for the overall supervision of each project, for the overhead and general administrative costs of the lessee which are incurred because of such project and for the integration of each project operation into the lessee's health care program. c. Whenever the authority under section 29 of P.L.1972, c.29 (C.26:2I-29) makes loans for the construction of a project, the health care organization at which such project is located shall be responsible for the direct operation and maintenance costs of such project and, in addition, shall be responsible for the overall supervision of each project, for the overhead and general administrative costs of the health care organization which are incurred because of such project and for the integration of each project operation into the health care organization's health care program. L.1972,c.29,s.32; amended 1997, c.435, s.17.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-33 - Pledges of health care organizations.

26:2I-33 Pledges of health care organizations.  33. Any pledge of moneys, earnings, income or revenues authorized with respect to health care organizations, pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The moneys, earnings, income or revenues so pledged and thereafter received by the pledgor shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act. The lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the pledgor irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. No instrument by which such a pledge is created need be filed or recorded in any manner. L.1972,c.29,s.33; amended 1997, c.435, s.18.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-34 - Participation in or acquisition of existing projects.

26:2I-34 Participation in or acquisition of existing projects.  34. a. Whenever any health care organization has constructed or acquired any work or improvement which would otherwise qualify as a project under the preceding portions of this act except for the fact that such construction or acquisition was undertaken and financed without assistance from the authority, the authority may purchase such work or improvement, and lease the same to the health care organization, or may lend funds to the health care organization for the purpose of enabling the latter to retire obligations incurred for such construction or acquisition, provided that the amount of any such purchase price or loan shall not exceed the project cost as herein defined, irrespective of such work or improvement. All powers, rights, obligations and duties granted to or imposed upon the authority, health care organizations, State departments and agencies or others by this act in respect to projects shall apply to the same extent with respect to transactions authorized by this section, provided that any action otherwise required to be taken at a particular time in the progression of a project may, where the circumstances so required in connection with a transaction under this section be taken nunc pro tunc. b. Acquisition of health care facilities from counties or municipalities. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the authority may authorize the acquisition, and any county or municipality by resolution or ordinance may authorize a private sale and conveyance or leasing to the authority, of any interest of the county or municipality in any lands and existing health care facilities which are then being operated by a health care organization upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the authority and the county and municipality. The authority may use its funds for the acquisition by providing for the retirement of obligations incurred for the acquisition of the land, and for the acquisition and construction of the existing health care facilities, provided that the amount of the purchase price shall not exceed the project costs. Upon acquisition of the lands and existing health care facilities, the authority may convey or lease the lands and existing health care facilities to a health care organization under such terms and conditions as the authority and health care organization may agree. L.1972,c.29,s.34; amended 1984, c.217; 1997, c.435, s.19.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-35 - Construction of act

26:2I-35. Construction of act  This act shall be liberally construed to effect the purpose thereof. L.1972, c. 29, s. 35.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-36 - No liability or pledge of credit of State

26:2I-36. No liability or pledge of credit of State  Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed or construed to create or constitute a debt, liability, or a loan or pledge of the credit, of the State. L.1972, c. 29, s. 36.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-37 - Powers supplemental and not derogatory

26:2I-37. Powers supplemental and not derogatory  The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing; provided, however, that the issuance of bonds or refunding bonds under the provisions of this act need not comply with the requirements of any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds. L.1972, c. 29, s. 37.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-38 - Inapplicability of inconsistent laws.

26:2I-38 Inapplicability of inconsistent laws.  38. All laws, or parts thereof, inconsistent with this act are hereby declared to be inapplicable to the provisions of this act, except as otherwise provided. L.1972,c.29,s.38; amended 1997, c.435, s.20.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2I-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2I-39 - Severability

26:2I-39. Severability  The provisions of this act shall be severable, and if any of the provisions hereof shall be held to be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of any of the remaining provisions of this act. L.1972, c. 29, s. 39.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2J-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2J-1 - Short title

26:2J-1. Short title  This act may be cited as the "Health Maintenance Organizations Act." L.1973, c. 337, s. 1, eff. Dec. 27, 1973.