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NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.7 - Use of intercepting sewer in excess of allotted capacity; restraining or permitting; rental for excess use

58:14-34.7. Use of intercepting sewer in excess of allotted capacity; restraining or permitting; rental for excess use  Whenever any contracting agency is using said intercepting sewer in excess of its allotted capacity, the commissioners may, in addition to the right to restrain such excess use, by application to the court having jurisdiction over the same, in their judgment, permit such excess use whenever they ascertain and determine that such excess use will not interfere with the use of said intercepting sewer to the extent of its allotted capacity by any other contracting agency, and that the capacity of said intercepting sewer is sufficient to carry such excess, permit such contracting agency to continue to use said intercepting sewer for such excess and charge the municipality using such excess at an annual rental at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) annually per million gallons of average daily flow, in addition to its proportionate share of the annual costs of maintenance, repairs and operation of the intercepting sewer with respect to its total discharge of sewage into such intercepting sewer. The said rental collected by the commissioners shall be disbursed by the commissioners to the contracting agencies in the same manner as provided herein for the disbursement and distribution of the rentals arising from leases between the commissioners and lessees. L.1943, c. 76, p. 293, s. 7.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.8 - Repeal

58:14-34.8. Repeal  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. L.1943, c. 76, p. 294, s. 8.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.9 - Lease with minimum annual rental

58:14-34.9. Lease with minimum annual rental  Notwithstanding the restrictions and limitations prescribed by the act to which this act is a supplement, the commissioners may enter into a lease with a lessee at such minimum annual rental and with such other terms as to the flow and discharge to be received and the computation of the quantities thereof as may be approved by the commissioners; provided, such lessee shall be a municipality, or a sewer district created under the provisions of section 40:63-32 of the Revised Statutes, which for more than ten years past shall have had a contract or arrangement with a contracting agency for the discharge of sewage into the intercepting sewer of not more than one hundred thousand gallons average daily flow. L.1944, c. 214, p. 752, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.10 - Legislative declaration as to need for repair, replacement and improvement

58:14-34.10. Legislative declaration as to need for repair, replacement and improvement  It has been ascertained by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey and is hereby declared: (a) that there is imperative need for repair, replacement and improvement of the sewerage system (hereinafter defined) operated by the commissioners (hereinafter defined), including particularly immediate enlargement and betterment of the sewage treatment and disposal works thereof; (b) that the existence of such need threatens the waters of the Passaic river and Newark bay with pollution, and failure or delay in meeting such need will jeopardize the health, safety and welfare of residents of the State and impair property and other economic values and, by reason of discharge of effluent from the sewerage system in waters of New York bay, will harm the relations of the State with other States and with public health agencies; (c) that such need arises principally from the long, continuous and heavy use made and being made of the sewerage system since its operation began in one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, the impracticability during such use of making on an annual or any other periodic basis the alterations and improvements required in order to provide for the increase of population and the rise in acceptable standards for sewage treatment and disposal, and the damage, wear and tear, depreciation and obsolescence incident to such use; (d) that the expense of meeting such need and providing such repair, replacement and improvement, together with any amortization or interest charges in connection with such expense, is in substance and effect part of the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system; (e) that the provisions of the statutes and of contracts made or to be made pursuant thereto whereby the contracting municipalities (hereinafter defined) or the commissioners could raise funds to meet such expense in the amounts required are not sufficiently flexible and are impracticable, and application thereof would result in oppressive or inequitable taxation to meet such expense; and (f) that it is necessary, as in this act provided, to afford a practical means of relief in the premises and to permit and require the contracting municipalities as users of the sewerage system to meet and pay the expense of meeting such need on an economical and reasonable basis over a reasonable number of years. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2008, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.11 - Definitions

58:14-34.11. Definitions  As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Original act" shall mean chapter 14 of Title 58 of the Revised Statutes (section 58:14-1, et seq.) and the acts continued thereby and the acts heretofore adopted amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto; (b) "Commissioners" shall mean the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, the body politic and corporate of the State of New Jersey appointed, organized, created and existing pursuant to the original act; (c) "Sewerage system" shall mean the Passaic Valley intercepting sewer together with its branches and appurtenances and all plants, structures and other real and tangible personal property acquired, constructed or operated by the commissioners and such other plants, structures and other real and tangible personal property as may be acquired or constructed by the commissioners pursuant to this act; (d) "Municipality" shall mean any city of any class, any borough, village, town, township, or any other municipality other than a county or a school district; (e) "Contracting municipality" shall mean any municipality entitled to rights in and use of the sewerage system by virtue of contributions heretofore made by it to the commissioners toward the costs of construction of the sewerage system pursuant to the provisions of the original act and any contract heretofore made between the commissioners and one or more municipalities with respect to such construction and contributions; (f) "Governing body" shall mean the commission, council, board or body, by whatever name it may be known, having charge of the finances of a municipality; (g) "Project" shall mean any or all sewers, conduits, pipe lines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations, sewage or other water-borne waste treatment or disposal systems, plants, works or apparatus, connections or outfalls deemed by the commissioners to be necessary or desirable as part of the sewerage system, including equipment or appurtenances thereof and any real or tangible personal property necessary or desirable therefor and including also all improvements necessary to relieve or prevent pollution of the Passaic river and Newark bay; (h) "Bonds" shall mean bonds or other obligations of the commissioners issued pursuant to this act; and (i) "System revenues" shall mean the moneys paid or required to be paid by any contracting municipality or any other user of the sewerage system to the commissioners on account of the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2009, s. 2. Amended by L.1971, c. 141, s. 1, eff. May 12, 1971.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.12 - Additional powers of commissioners

58:14-34.12. Additional powers of commissioners  For the purpose of carrying out any of said projects the commissioners shall have the power, in addition to the powers granted by the original act, to own, maintain, repair, reconstruct, operate and use the sewerage system 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 facilities, and other real and personal property, deemed necessary for, or incident to, any of said projects; and for said purpose only the commissioners may enter into any contracts, execute all instruments, and do all things necessary or convenient to carry out any power expressly given in this act. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2011, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.13 - Continuation of status of commissioners

58:14-34.13. Continuation of status of commissioners  The commissioners shall be or continue to be a public body politic and corporate established as an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions to provide for the public health and welfare and shall have the power, in its own name and on its own behalf, to acquire, hold, use and dispose of its system revenues and other moneys, and to provide for and secure the payment of any bonds and the rights of the holders thereof. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2011, s. 4.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.15 - Notice limiting time for questioning validity; bar of actions and defenses

58:14-34.15. Notice limiting time for questioning validity; bar of actions and defenses  After the taking effect of a bond resolution, the commissioners may cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city of Newark the title of said bond resolution together with a notice stating the date of its adoption and also the date of the first publication of such notice and also that any action or proceeding of any kind or nature in any court questioning the validity of the creation and establishment of the commissioners, or the validity or proper authorization of the bonds provided for by said bond resolution, or the validity of this act or of any obligations, covenants, agreements or contracts provided for by this act or said bond resolution shall be commenced within twenty days after the first publication of such notice. If no such action or proceeding shall be commenced or instituted within twenty days after the first publication of such notice, then all contracting municipalities and residents and taxpayers and owners of property therein and all other persons whatsoever shall be forever barred and foreclosed from instituting or commencing any action or proceeding in any court, and from pleading in any action or proceeding any defense, questioning the validity of the creation and establishment of the commissioners, the validity or proper authorization of such bonds, or the validity of this act or of any such obligations, covenants, agreements or contracts, and all such bonds, obligations, covenants, agreements and contracts shall be conclusively deemed to be valid and binding obligations in accordance with their terms and tenor. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2013, s. 6.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.16 - Negotiability of bonds, obligations and coupons

58:14-34.16. Negotiability of bonds, obligations and coupons  Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or other obligation issued pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the uniform commercial code of the State, and each holder or owner of such a bond or other obligation, or of any coupon appurtenant thereto, by accepting such bond or coupon shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed that such bond, obligation or coupon is and shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of said uniform commercial code. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2014, s. 7. Amended by L.1971, c. 141 s. 3, eff. May 12, 1971.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.17 - Contractual provisions of bond resolution

58:14-34.17. Contractual provisions of bond resolution  Any bond resolution of the commissioners authorizing the issuance of any bonds may contain provisions, which regardless of the time of issuance thereof shall be a part of the contract with the holders thereof, as to: (a) the custody, security, use expenditure or application of the proceeds of the bonds; (b) payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, or any other obligations, and the sources and methods thereof, the rank or priority of any such bonds or obligations as to any lien or security; (c) the use and disposition of any moneys of the commissioners; (d) pledging, setting aside, depositing or trusteeing all or any part of the system revenues or other moneys or any contracts of the commissioners to secure the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or any other obligations, or the payment of expenses of operation or maintenance of the sewerage system, and the powers and duties of any trustee with regard thereto; (e) the setting aside out of the system revenues or other moneys of the commissioners of reserves and sinking funds, and the source, custody, security, regulation, application and disposition thereof; (f) System revenues and the rents, rates, fees, or other charges for connection with or the use or services of the sewerage system; (g) vesting in a trustee or trustees such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the commissioners may determine which may include any or all of the rights, powers and duties of the trustee appointed by the holders of bonds pursuant to section ten of this act, and limiting or abrogating the right of such holders to appoint a trustee pursuant to section ten of this act or limiting the rights, duties and powers of such trustee; (h) payment of costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or of the provisions of the bond resolution or of any covenant or contract with the holders of the bonds; (i) the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any covenant or contract with, or duty to, the holders of bonds may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given or evidenced. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2014, s. 8.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.19 - Exemptions from liability

58:14-34.19. Exemptions from liability  Neither the members of the commission nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. Bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the State or of any county or municipality and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the State or of any such county or municipality, either legal, moral or otherwise, and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize the commissioners to incur any indebtedness on behalf of or in any way to obligate the State or any county or municipality. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2017, s. 10.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.20 - Interest on indebtedness as cost of system

58:14-34.20. Interest on indebtedness as cost of system  11. For all purposes of the original act, and of any contract made or hereafter made thereunder or for the purposes thereof, the cost and expense of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system for any year shall be deemed to include, and shall include, in addition to all other items heretofore included, all interest becoming due prior to the end of such year on bonds or other obligations of the commissioners issued pursuant to this act, plus the principal or redemption premium of any such bonds or obligations becoming due prior to the end of such year, plus such sums as the commissioners may determine or by the terms of any contract be required to set aside during such year as a reserve for payment or security of principal of or interest on any such bonds or obligations or be by the terms of any contract required to set aside during such year as a reserve for any other purpose. The contracting municipalities and other users of the sewerage system are hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary, convenient or desirable to pay to the commissioners annually the total cost and expense (as herein referred to and described) of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system apportioned as above provided. If any payment on account of the cost and expense (as herein referred to and described) of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system, or any part thereof, due to the commissioners under the original act or any such contract from a contracting municipality or other user shall remain unpaid for 30 days after the commissioners have notified such contracting municipality or other user by mail of the amount due and the due date, such contracting municipality or other user shall be charged with and shall pay to the commissioners interest on the amount unpaid from 30 days after such notice of the commissioners was mailed until paid, at a rate equal to two percentage points over the average prime rate for the 30-day period beginning on the date the notice of the commissioners was mailed. Every obligation assumed by or imposed upon any contracting municipality or other user by the original act or any such contract or this act shall be enforceable by the commissioners by appropriate action, suit or proceeding, and the commissioners may have and pursue any and all remedies provided by law for the enforcement of such obligation. L.1953,c.388,s.11; amended 1971,c.141,s.4; 1983,c.150; 1993,c.54.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.21 - Mortgage, pledge, encumbrance or disposal of system; exemption from judicial process

58:14-34.21. Mortgage, pledge, encumbrance or disposal of system; exemption from judicial process  Neither the commissioners nor any municipality shall have power to mortgage, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any part of the sewerage system, except that the commissioners may dispose of such part or parts thereof as may be no longer necessary for the purposes of the commissioners. The provisions of this section shall be deemed to constitute a part of the contract with the holder of any bonds. All property of the commissioners 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 the commissioners be a charge or lien upon its property; provided, however, 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 or lien given by the commissioners on its system revenues or other moneys. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2021, s. 12.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.22 - Investments in bonds; security for deposits

58:14-34.22. Investments in bonds; security for deposits  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, bankers, 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, and such bonds shall be authorized security for any and all public deposits. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2021, s. 13.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.23 - Exemption from taxation

58:14-34.23. Exemption from taxation  The sewerage system and all other property of the commissioners are hereby declared to be public property of a political subdivision of the State and 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 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 funds, income, system 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 estate and transfer inheritance taxes and taxes on transfers by or in contemplation of death. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2022, s. 14.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.24 - Pledge, covenant and agreement with bondholders

58:14-34.24. Pledge, covenant and agreement with bondholders  The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds that the State will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, reconstruct and operate the sewerage system and to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with the holders of such bonds or other obligations, and will not 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; provided that such pledge to and covenant and agreement with the holders of any bonds issued on or after January 1, 1971 does not prohibit authorization hereafter for the commissioners, notwithstanding any other provision of this act or of the original act or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, to apportion the cost and expense of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system (as in section 11 hereof referred to and described) among the contracting municipalities and other users thereof, upon any basis or bases in addition to or other than the proportion of the amount of sewage by them delivered and discharged into the sewerage system. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2022, s. 15. Amended by L.1971, c. 141, s. 5, eff. May 12, 1971.
NJ Rev Stat § 58:14-34.25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply|Section 58:14-34.25 - Powers and duties cumulative and additional

58:14-34.25. Powers and duties cumulative and additional  The powers granted and duties imposed by this act are cumulative and are granted or imposed in addition to and not in substitution for existing powers or duties of the commissioners or any municipality, and are not subject to any limitation or restriction prescribed by any other laws. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2023, s. 16.