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NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-18 - Construction of pipe lines and reservoirs; change of grade or location of streets, canals and railroads; condemnation

58:5-18. Construction of pipe lines and reservoirs; change of grade or location of streets, canals and railroads; condemnation  The commission may construct water mains or pipe lines for the purposes provided for in this chapter along, under and over any watercourse, or under, over, along or across any street, turnpike, road, railroad, highway or other way, or public park or grounds, and in or upon private or public land under water, in such way and manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct or impede travel or navigation. It may enter upon and dig up any street, highway or private or public land, for the purpose of constructing said work and appurtenances and for repairing and maintaining the same, and in a general way may do all other acts and things necessary, convenient and proper in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of said water supply. If any highway or public or private land is dug up and disturbed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the same shall be restored to its former condition as nearly as may be. The commission may also alter or change the grade of any highway or public street, or relocate such highway or street where necessary for the purpose of constructing any reservoirs to be built in accordance with contracts authorized to be made by this chapter. If it shall become necessary to change the location or gradient of any canal or railroad, or the appurtenances thereof, the corporation owning or operating such canal or railroad shall be required to relocate or change the same as far as needful and to acquire the property necessary for such change and, if possible, to agree with the commission upon the details of such change, the cost thereof to be paid by the commission as a part of the expense of such reservoir construction. If the corporation is unable to agree with the owner of any land, property or right required to be taken by it in order to make such change, the commission shall, for the benefit of the corporation, acquire the same by condemnation or otherwise, provided such acquisition shall not impair the operation of the railroad or canal.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-19 - Acquisition from canal corporations of water rights for reservoirs; condemnation

58:5-19. Acquisition from canal corporations of water rights for reservoirs; condemnation  If the commission decides to construct any reservoir which may intercept or interfere with the flow of waters that may be part of the feeder of any canal or which may be claimed by any canal corporation, the commission may acquire from the canal corporation the necessary water rights for the reservoir by agreement with the canal corporation; and if it shall prove impossible to make such agreement, the commission may acquire by condemnation the necessary water flowage or other rights from the canal corporation.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-21 - Conveyance of distribution or water plant to municipality

58:5-21. Conveyance of distribution or water plant to municipality  If the commission acquires any part or all of any distribution or water plant, it may convey the same to the municipality in which the same is situated or to whose use it is devoted, at the cost thereof as nearly as may be and upon such equitable terms as the commission may fix.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-22 - Payment by municipalities of cost of construction or acquisition of water supply

58:5-22. Payment by municipalities of cost of construction or acquisition of water supply  The cost of the construction or acquisition of said water supply shall be borne by the contracting municipalities in proportion to the amount of water contracted to be taken in the contract between each of the municipalities and the commission. The commission may call upon each of the contracting municipalities to pay from time to time an account of said costs such sums as the commission shall estimate to be needed for that purpose, and shall request payments from each of the municipalities in accordance with the contract until the total cost of the acquisition and construction of the water supply has been completed, and each municipality shall make such payments when so requested. Such cost shall include the salaries and expenses of the commission up to the time of the actual completion of the plant and the commencement of the actual supply of water therefrom.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-23 - Payment of cost of operation; apportionment; payment in advance

58:5-23. Payment of cost of operation; apportionment; payment in advance  After the actual completion of the plant and the commencement of the actual supply of water therefrom, the expenses of the commission and its agents and employees shall be charged to operation and properly proportioned as between the several water supply projects which may be operated by the commission. After the plant is completed or acquired the cost of operation shall be estimated yearly in advance and apportioned among the municipalities respectively in proportion to the amounts of water contracted to be used by each, and each of the municipalities shall pay said sums to the commission in advance when requested. At the end of each year the commission shall make an apportionment of the actual cost of the operation of the plant among the contracting municipalities upon the basis of the actual water consumed by each municipality, but such amount shall be in no event less than the quantity contracted for. In apportioning said cost, no municipality shall be charged with any item of interest or rental upon, or cost of operation of, any part of any water plant which is not used in supplying water to the municipality, but any municipality may contract to bear the proportionate cost of acquisition and operation of any water plant which may be devoted in whole or in part to the service of one or more municipalities. Each municipality shall be charged with the amounts so apportioned, and credited with the amount previously paid on account of the estimated operating expenses for such year.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-24 - Control of plant after completion

58:5-24. Control of plant after completion  Upon the completion of such water supply plant, works and appurtenances, the commission shall retain and have sole control and charge of the same, except such part thereof as it may convey to any one of the contracting municipalities as herein provided, in trust, however, for each of the contracting municipalities and such other municipalities as may be entitled to share in the water supply as provided in this chapter.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-25 - Petition of municipality for water; notice; hearing

58:5-25. Petition of municipality for water; notice; hearing  Any municipality desiring to take water from any plant constructed, acquired or operated, or which is in course of construction or acquisition, by any district water supply commission under the authority conferred by this chapter, may file a petition with the commission setting forth the amount of water that the municipality desires to take and the period at which it desires to commence such taking. The commission shall thereupon fix a time and place for a hearing of the application and give to each municipal corporation under contract with the commission in relation to said water supply at least thirty days' notice in writing mailed to the clerk or secretary of the board or body having charge of the water supply of the municipal corporation.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-26 - Contract with municipality applying for water; payments

58:5-26. Contract with municipality applying for water; payments  After such hearing, the commission, if the water supply under its control is adequate for the supply of the applying municipality, may contract with the municipality for the supply to it of water at such price as shall impose upon the municipality an equitable share of the cost of constructing, acquiring and operating such supply; or the commission may allow the municipality to become part owner of the water supply plant controlled by the commission, or such part thereof as is necessary for the supply of the municipality by means of a contract whereby the municipality shall agree to pay to the commission its proportionate share of the cost of acquisition, construction and operation of the plant. Any money so paid to the commission by the municipality shall be paid over to the municipalities which have heretofore contributed to the cost of the water supply plant, upon such terms and in such proportion as the contracting municipalities have heretofore mutually agreed or as they shall hereafter mutually agree, and as shall be approved by the commission. Amended by L.1941, c. 4, p. 15, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-26.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-26.1 - Customers of district water supply commission, electronic billing, payment permitted.

58:5-26.1 Customers of district water supply commission, electronic billing, payment permitted.  9. Upon the request of a customer, a district water supply commission may: a. offer the customer the ability to receive or access, in electronic format, any periodic bill for service sent by such district water supply commission to its customers and any additional information sent by the water commission to its customers as required by law, provided that any notice of disconnection, discontinuance or termination of water service shall be sent to a customer in written form at the customer's legal mailing address in addition to being sent or being made available in electronic format; and b. provide the customer of such district water supply commission the option of paying any such periodic bill via electronic means. L.2010, c.91, s.9.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-27 - Consent for obtaining new or additional water supply

58:5-27. Consent for obtaining new or additional water supply  No municipality within a water supply district for which a commission has been appointed as provided in this chapter shall, without the consent of the commission, obtain any new or additional water supply from any watershed, other than the watershed or watersheds from which the municipality obtains its existing supply.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-28 - Contracting municipalities may borrow money; issue of bonds and notes

58:5-28. Contracting municipalities may borrow money; issue of bonds and notes  Each municipality entering into a contract with a district water supply commission as provided in this chapter may borrow upon its bonds, or upon its notes or other temporary obligations, the money necessary to make the payments required by such contract. Such bonds or other obligations shall be issued under and in accordance with article 1 of chapter 1 of the title Municipalities and Counties (s. 40:1-1 et seq.).
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-29 - No state indebtedness authorized

58:5-29. No state indebtedness authorized  Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed to authorize any district water supply commission to incur any indebtedness on behalf of the state of New Jersey.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-30 - Repeal of certain laws; saving clause

58:5-30. Repeal of certain laws; saving clause  All acts and parts of acts passed prior to March sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, granting to the state water supply commission or its successors in authority the powers in this chapter granted to the boards of district water supply commissions, when created as herein provided, are hereby repealed, but nothing in this repealer contained shall be held to affect the powers of any municipality, by condemnation or otherwise, to develop, acquire, operate, enlarge or improve its water supply existing on March sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, from its then source of supply, nor the performance of any then existing contract relating to its water supply.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-31 - Short title

58:5-31. Short title  This act shall be known as and may be cited as the "water transmission facilities act." L.1962, c. 167, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-32 - Legislative findings

58:5-32. Legislative findings  The Legislature hereby finds that: (a) the State has heretofore acquired certain real property for the purpose of providing additional supplies of water which will be needed to meet the future requirements of the people of the State; (b) the State through the Commissioner of Conservation and Economic Development is establishing reservoirs and water supplies on real property acquired for said purpose pursuant to the New Jersey Water Supply Law of 1958; and (c) many millions gallons per day of water will soon become available from said reservoirs. L.1962, c. 167, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-33 - Public policy

58:5-33. Public policy  It is hereby declared to be in the public interest and to be the policy of the State to foster and promote by all reasonable means the prompt, efficient and economical transmission, treatment, filtration, distribution and use of the water supplies acquired and developed by the State. It is the purpose and object of this act further to implement such policy by, among other things, giving additional powers to certain public corporations heretofore authorized to supply and distribute water, to the end that such public corporations will be enabled to finance, construct and operate facilities necessary for the treatment, filtration, transmission and distribution of water made available by the State to municipalities and persons, pursuant to the provisions of the Water Supply Law. L.1962, c. 167, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-35 - Commissions public corporations

58:5-35. Commissions public corporations  The North Jersey district water supply commission shall continue to be, and the South Jersey district water supply commission when appointed shall be, a public body politic and corporate established as an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions and to provide for the public health and welfare. L.1962, c. 167, s. 5.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-36 - Powers

58:5-36. Powers  A commission shall have the power in its own name and on its own behalf, to acquire, hold, use and dispose of its revenues and other moneys and to provide for and secure the payment of any bonds or notes and the rights of the holders thereof and to carry out the purposes of this act, shall have the power in addition to all other powers granted to it by law: (a) to own, maintain, repair, reconstruct, operate and use water transmission facilities and, to that end, to acquire, by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise, and, to construct, maintain, repair, reconstruct, operate and use all plants, structures, equipment and other real and personal property, deemed necessary for, or incident to, any such facilities; and for said purposes may enter into any contracts or agreements, execute all instruments, and do all things necessary or convenient to carry out any power given in this act; provided, however, that a commission shall not have the power to condemn any waterworks, reservoir, transmission facility, water supply system, pipeline or any appurtenances thereto owned by a municipality or by a municipal or intermunicipal authority or commission; (b) to enter into contracts pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of the water supply law with the State to be executed on behalf of the State by the Commissioner of Conservation and Economic Development for the purchase of water from the State and determining the terms and conditions of such purchase; and (c) to enter into contracts with any municipality or person for the sale or exchange of water and determining the terms and conditions of such sale or exchange. L.1962, c. 167, s. 6. Amended by L.1962, c. 184, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-36.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-36.1 - Participation in Oakland Flood Protection Project.

58:5-36.1 Participation in Oakland Flood Protection Project.  1. The North Jersey district water supply commission shall have the authority to participate in the Oakland Flood Protection Project at the Pompton Lake Dam, under the direction and supervision of the Department of Environmental Protection and other governmental entities. L.2001,c.163,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-36.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-36.2 - Defense, indemnification of North Jersey district water supply commission.

58:5-36.2 Defense, indemnification of North Jersey district water supply commission.  2. The State of New Jersey shall defend and indemnify the North Jersey district water supply commission and any of its members, officers, or employees for any act or omission with respect to any claims or any cause of action arising out of its participation in the Oakland Flood Protection Project. Nothing in this section shall diminish or limit in any way any procedural or substantive protection or defense available to the North Jersey district water supply commission or to the State, or to any officer, agent, or employee of the commission or the State pursuant to the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act," N.J.S.59:1-1 et seq., or any other law. L.2001,c.163,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-37 - Contracts with municipalities relating to water transmission facilities

58:5-37. Contracts with municipalities relating to water transmission facilities  Subject to the provisions of the water supply law, but notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, a commission and any municipality or municipalities may enter into a contract or contracts providing for or relating to: the treatment, filtration, transmission or distribution of any supply of water made available by the State including the formulation of plans for a project, the necessary engineering, financial and other studies and investigations of the feasibility of such project and the method of payment of the costs of such studies and investigations; the acquisition and construction of a project and the financing of the costs thereof and of any additions, extensions and improvements thereof and the terms and conditions upon which such acquisition, construction and financing shall be undertaken; and the operation and maintenance of a project, the treatment, filtration, or transmission of water, and the apportionment and distribution of water among and to the municipalities participating in a project, and the payments to be made to the commission by the municipalities to meet the cost of purchase of water, operating and maintenance expenses and debt service including any payments into reserve or other funds for the security of bondholders and to meet or discharge other obligations to bondholders. Any such contract may provide for the payment to the commission by a municipality annually or at more frequent intervals of such sum or sums of money, computed at fixed amounts or by formula based on any pertinent factors or other matters or in any other manner as said contract may provide. Any such contract may be authorized on behalf of the municipality by ordinance and may be made with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited time and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such municipality and which may be agreed to by the commission in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds, and shall be valid whether or not an appropriation with respect thereto is made by such municipality prior to authorization or execution thereof. Such municipality is hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts or things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform every such contract and to provide for the payment or discharge of any obligation thereunder in the same manner as other obligations of such municipality. Subject to any such contracts with the holders of bonds, the commission is hereby authorized to do and perform any and all acts or things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform every such contract. L.1962, c. 167, s. 7.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-38 - Appropriation of funds by municipality

58:5-38. Appropriation of funds by municipality  Any municipality shall have power, in the discretion of its governing body, to appropriate moneys for the purposes of the commission, and to pay, lend or donate such moneys to the commission in such installments and upon such terms as may be agreed upon between such municipality and the commission. L.1962, c. 167, s. 8.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:5-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:5-39 - Property held by a commission under the original act not subject to certain claims

58:5-39. Property held by a commission under the original act not subject to certain claims  No trustee or receiver appointed under this act, and no holder of any bond or coupon or other obligation issued pursuant to this act, no contracting municipality or person having any right or interest in any project acquired or constructed under this act and no creditor or other claimant whose claim arises out of or in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation or ownership of any project by a commission under or pursuant to this act, shall acquire or have any rights whatsoever against any part of any water supply or water supply system acquired or operated by a commission for and on behalf of one or more participants pursuant to the provisions of the original act or any agreements thereunder. No moneys or other property received by a commission for payment of the costs of acquiring, constructing, maintaining or operating a particular water supply system shall be used for or in connection with any other water supply system or project. L.1962, c. 167, s. 9.