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NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-73 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-73 - Service of notice; payment

40:37A-73. Service of notice; payment  Each authority shall cause notice of the filing of a declaration of taking of property as provided in this act and of the making of the deposit required by this act with respect thereto to be served upon each party to the action to fix the compensation to be paid who resides in the State, either personally or by leaving a copy thereof at his residence if known, and upon each such party who resides out of the State, by mailing a copy thereof to him at his residence if known. In the event that the residence of any such party or the name of such party is unknown, such notice shall be published at least once in a newspaper published or circulating in the county or counties in which the property is located. Such service, mailing or publication shall be made within 30 days after filing such declaration. Upon the application of any party in interest and after notice to other parties in interest, including the authority, the Superior Court may direct that the money deposited with the Clerk of the Superior Court or any part thereof be paid forthwith to the person or persons entitled thereto for or on account of the just compensation to be awarded in said action, provided that each such person shall have filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court a consent in writing that, in the event the award in the said action shall be less than the amount deposited, the court, after such notice as the court prescribes and hearing, may determine his liability, if any, for the return of the difference or any part thereof and enter judgment therefor. If the amount of the award as finally determined shall exceed the amount so deposited, the person or persons to whom the award is payable shall be entitled to recover from the authority the difference between the amount of the deposit and the amount of the award, with interest at the rate of 6% per annum thereon from the date of making the deposit. If the amount of the award as so determined shall be less than the amount so deposited, the Clerk of the Superior Court shall return the difference between the amount of the award and the deposit to the authority unless the deposit or any part thereof shall have theretofore been distributed, in which event the court, on application of the authority and notice to all persons interested in the award and affording them an opportunity to be heard, shall enter judgment in favor of the authority for the difference against the party or parties liable for the return thereof. L.1960, c. 183, p. 749, s. 30, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-74 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-74 - Abandonment of condemnation proceedings

40:37A-74. Abandonment of condemnation proceedings  The authority shall not abandon any condemnation proceeding subsequent to the date upon which it has taken possession of the land or property as provided in this act. L.1960, c. 183, p. 751, s. 31, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-75 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-75 - Additional powers

40:37A-75. Additional powers  In addition to the other powers conferred upon it by this act or by any other law and not in limitation thereof, every authority, in connection with construction or operation of any public facility, shall have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles or any other equipment and appliances (in this section called "works" ) of any public utility as defined in section 48:2-13 of the Revised Statutes, in, on, along, over or under any real property, including public lands or waters. Whenever in connection with construction or operation of any public facility, any authority shall determine that it is necessary that any such works, which now are or hereafter may be located in, on, along, over or under any such real property, should be relocated in such real property or should be removed therefrom, the public utility owning or operating such works shall relocate or remove the same in accordance with the order of the authority, provided, however, that the cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such works in a new location or new locations, and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands or any other rights acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, less the cost of any lands or any rights or interests in lands or any other rights of the public utility paid to the public utility in connection with the relocation or removal of such works, shall be paid by the authority and may be included in the cost of such public facility. In case of any such relocation or removal of works as aforesaid, the public utility owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns, may maintain and operate such works, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new location or new locations for as long a period, and upon the same terms and conditions, as it had the right to maintain and operate such works in their former location. L.1960, c. 183, p. 751, s. 32, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-76 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-76 - Actions by municipalities or county

40:37A-76. Actions by municipalities or county  33. For the purpose of aiding an authority and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any public facility, the county or any beneficiary county or any municipality in any such county may (a) acquire real property in its name for such public facility or for the widening of existing roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways or for new roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways to any such public facility, or partly for such purposes and partly for other county or municipal purposes, by purchase or condemnation in the manner provided by law for the acquisition of real property by such county or municipality, (b) furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan parks, streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, and (c) do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and co-operate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of any such public facility, and cause services to be furnished to the authority of any character which such county or municipality is otherwise empowered to furnish, and to incur the entire expense thereof.  L.1960,c.183,s.33; amended 1994,c.76,s.8.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-77 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-77 - Sale, lease, loan, grant or conveyance of, or permit to use, real or personal property of county or municipality

40:37A-77. Sale, lease, loan, grant or conveyance of, or permit to use, real or personal property of county or municipality  Any county by resolution of its governing body, municipality by ordinance of its governing body, governmental unit or person is hereby empowered, without any referendum or public or competitive bidding, to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to an authority, or to permit an authority to use, maintain or operate as part of any public facility, any real or personal property which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of the authority and accepted by the authority. Any such sale, lease, loan, grant, conveyance or permit may be made or given with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited period of time and under any agreement and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such county, municipality, governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds. Subject to any such contracts with the holders of bonds, the authority may enter into and perform any and all agreements with respect to property so purchased, leased, borrowed, received or accepted by it, including agreements for the assumption of principal or interest or both of indebtedness of such county, municipality, governmental unit or person or of any mortgage or lien existing with respect to such property or for the operation and maintenance of such property as part of any public facility. L.1960, c. 183, p. 752, s. 34, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-78 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-78 - Lease or other agreement with authority to use public facilities

40:37A-78. Lease or other agreement with authority to use public facilities  Any county, municipality, governmental unit or person is hereby empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with an authority for the lease to or use by such county, municipality, governmental unit or person of all or any part of any public facility or facilities. Any such lease or other agreement may provide for the payment to the authority by such county, municipality, governmental unit or persons annually or otherwise of such sum or sums of money, computed at fixed amounts or by any formula or in any other manner, as may be fixed in or pursuant thereto. Any such lease or other agreement may be made and entered into for a term beginning currently or at some future or contingent date and with or without consideration and for a specified or unlimited time and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such county, municipality, governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds, and shall be valid and binding on such county, municipality, governmental unit or person whether or not an appropriation is made thereby prior to authorization or execution of such lease or other agreement. Every such county, municipality, governmental unit or person is hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform any such lease or other agreement entered into by it and to provide for the payment or discharge of any obligation thereunder in the same manner as other obligations of such county, municipality, governmental unit or person. L.1960, c. 183, p. 753, s. 35, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-79 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-79 - Appropriations by county or municipality

40:37A-79. Appropriations by county or municipality  36. For the purpose of aiding an authority and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any public facility, the county or any beneficiary county by resolution of its governing body, or any municipality in the county or beneficiary county by ordinance of its governing body, shall have power from time to time and for such period and upon such terms, with or without consideration, as may be provided by such resolution or ordinance and accepted by the authority (a) to appropriate moneys for the purposes of the authority, and to loan or donate such money to the authority in such installments and upon such terms as may be agreed upon with the authority, (b) to covenant and agree with the authority to pay to or on the order of the authority annually or at shorter intervals as a subsidy for the promotion of its purposes not exceeding such sums of money as may be stated in such resolution or ordinance or computed in accordance therewith, (c) upon authorization by it in accordance with law of the performance of any act or thing which it is empowered by law to authorize and perform and after appropriation of the moneys (if any) necessary for such performance, to covenant and agree with the authority to do and perform such act or thing and as to the time, manner and other details of its doing and performance, and (d) to appropriate money for all or any part of the cost of acquisition or construction of such public facility, and, in accordance with the limitations and any exceptions thereto and in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed by the local bond law to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue its negotiable bonds for the purpose of financing such public facility and appropriation, and to pay the proceeds of such bonds to the authority.  L.1960,c.183,s.36; amended 1994,c.76,s.9.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-81 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-81 - Pledge or assignment of lease or other agreement to secure bonds of authority

40:37A-81. Pledge or assignment of lease or other agreement to secure bonds of authority  Any lease or other agreement, and any instruments making or evidencing the same, may be pledged or assigned by the authority to secure its bonds and thereafter may not be modified except as provided by the terms of such instrument or by the terms of such pledge or assignment. L.1960, c. 183, p. 756, s. 38, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-82 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-82 - Exemption of property of authority from levy and sale

40:37A-82. Exemption of property of authority from levy and sale  All property of an authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall any judgment against an authority be a charge or lien upon its property; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to or limit the rights of the holder of any bonds to pursue any remedy for the enforcement of any pledge, mortgage or lien given by an authority on its facility revenues or other moneys, or on its real or personal property. L.1960, c. 183, p. 756, s. 39, eff. Jan. 18, 1961. Amended by L.1977, c. 291, s. 4, eff. Dec. 12, 1977.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-84 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-84 - Bonds as legal investments

40:37A-84. Bonds as legal investments  Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all public officers, municipalities, counties, political subdivisions and public bodies, and agencies thereof, all banks, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries, may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds issued pursuant to this act, and such bonds shall be authorized security for any and all public deposits. L.1960, c. 183, p. 757, s. 41, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-85 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-85 - Tax exemptions

40:37A-85. Tax exemptions  All properties of an authority are hereby declared to be public property of a political subdivision of the State and those properties, and all public facilities, whether or not owned by the authority, are devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the State or any subdivision thereof. All bonds issued pursuant to this act are hereby declared to be issued by a political subdivision of this State and for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be a public instrumentality and such bonds, and the interest thereon and the income therefrom, and all facility charges, funds, revenues and other moneys pledged or available to pay or secure the payment of such bonds, or interest thereon, shall at all times be exempt from taxation except for transfer inheritance and estate taxes. L.1960, c. 183, p. 757, s. 42, eff. Jan. 18, 1961. Amended by L.1982, c. 113, s. 13, eff. Aug. 14, 1982.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-86 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-86 - Guarantee of vested rights of bondholders

40:37A-86. Guarantee of vested rights of bondholders  The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds issued pursuant to a bond resolution of an authority adopted pursuant to this act that the State will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to acquire, construct, maintain, reconstruct, operate, sell, lease or dispose of any public facility or to fix, establish, charge and collect its facility charges or other moneys and to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with the holders of such bonds or other obligations, so as to in any way impair the rights or remedies of such holders, and will not modify in any way the exemptions from taxation provided for in this act, until the bonds, together with interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully met and discharged or provided for. L.1960, c. 183, p. 757, s. 43. Amended by L.1962, c. 224, s. 9, eff. Jan. 14, 1963.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-87 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-87 - Undertakings for deposits of authority

40:37A-87. Undertakings for deposits of authority  All banks, trust companies, savings banks, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business are hereby authorized to give to any authority a good and sufficient undertaking with such sureties as shall be approved by the authority to the effect that such bank or banking institution as hereinbefore described shall faithfully keep and pay over to the order of or upon the warrant of the authority or its authorized agent all such funds as may be deposited with it by the authority and agreed interest thereon, at such times or upon such demands as may be agreed with the authority or in lieu of such sureties, deposit with the authority or its authorized agent or any trustee therefor or for the holders of any bonds, as collateral, such securities as the authority may approve. The deposits of the authority may be evidenced by a depository collateral agreement in such form and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the authority and such bank or banking institution. L.1960, c. 183, p. 758, s. 44, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-88 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-88 - Annual audit

40:37A-88. Annual audit  Each authority shall cause an annual audit of its accounts to be made, and for this purpose it shall employ a registered municipal accountant of New Jersey or a certified public accountant of New Jersey. The audit shall be completed and filed with the authority within 4 months after the close of the fiscal year of the authority and a certified duplicate copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the Division of Local Government in the Department of the Treasury and in the office of the treasurer of the county within 5 days after the original report is filed with the authority. L.1960, c. 183, p. 758, s. 45, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-89 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-89 - Filing of copy of bond resolution

40:37A-89. Filing of copy of bond resolution  Each authority shall file a certified copy of each bond resolution adopted by it in the office of the Division of Local Government in the Department of the Treasury, together with a certified summary of the dates, amounts, maturities and interest rates of all bonds to be issued pursuant thereto prior to the issuance of any such bonds. Upon the adoption of each annual budget of an authority or amendment thereof, a certified copy thereof shall be filed forthwith in the office of said Division of Local Government. L.1960, c. 183, p. 759, s. 46, eff. Jan. 18, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-90 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-90 - Construction of act

40:37A-90. Construction of act  47. This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and as complete and independent authority for the performance of each and every act and thing herein authorized, and an authority shall not constitute or be deemed to be a county or municipality or agency or component of a municipality for the purposes of any other law; provided, however, that no authority, other than an authority created in or performing services for a county of the second class having a population in excess of 265,000, but less than 350,000 inhabitants, in a county of the third class having a population not in excess of 70,000 inhabitants, or in a county of the fifth class having a population in excess of 150,000, but less than 300,000 inhabitants, shall exercise the powers of a common carrier in any such county, and, except as hereinabove in this section set forth, nothing contained in this act shall in any way affect or limit the jurisdiction, rights, powers or duties of any State regulatory agencies.  L.1960,c.183,s.47; amended 1968,c.66,s.6; 1977,c.154; 1994,c.76,s.11.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-91 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-91 - Severability

40:37A-91. Severability  If any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or to be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not adjudged unconstitutional or is not ineffective, it shall be valid and effective and no other section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall on account thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective, and the inapplicability or invalidity of any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act in any 1 or more instances or under any 1 or more circumstances shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its applicability or validity in any other instance or under any other circumstance. L.1960, c. 183, p. 759, s. 48, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:37A-92 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:37A-92 - Public transportation facility; employees; self-organization

40:37A-92. Public transportation facility; employees; self-organization  Employees of a public transportation facility operated by any county improvement authority shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. It shall be the obligation of such authority to recognize and bargain exclusively with a labor organization representing a majority of its employees in an appropriate unit with respect to wages, salaries, hours, working conditions and welfare and pension and retirement provisions, and, upon reaching agreement with such labor organization, to enter into and execute a written contract incorporating therein the agreements so reached. No agreement relating to hours of employment shall require or permit employees to work a number of hours per day or per week in excess of such hours as may be provided by Federal or State laws relating to similar employment in private industry. L.1968, c. 66, s. 7, eff. June 18, 1968.