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NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-13 - Interim certificates or bonds

40:14A-13. Interim certificates or bonds  After sale of any bonds pursuant to section eleven or section twelve of this act, the sewerage authority shall have power to authorize the execution and issuance to the purchasers, pending the preparation of the definitive bonds, of interim certificates therefor or of temporary bonds or other temporary instruments exchangeable for the definitive bonds when prepared, executed and ready for delivery. The holders of such interim certificates, temporary bonds or other temporary instruments shall have all the rights and remedies which they would have as holders of the definitive bonds. L.1946, c. 138, p. 655, s. 13, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-14 - Filing copy of bond resolution; publication of notice; objections

40:14A-14. Filing copy of bond resolution; publication of notice; objections  Any sewerage authority may cause a copy of any bond resolution adopted by it to be filed for public inspection in its office and in the office of clerk of the governing body of the local unit or units and may thereupon cause to be published in a newspaper published or circulating in the district a notice stating the fact and date of such adoption and the places where such bond resolution has been so filed for public inspection 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 sewerage authority, or the validity or proper authorization of bonds provided for by the bond resolution, or the validity of any covenants, agreements or contracts provided for by the 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 residents and taxpayers and owners of property in the district and users of the sewerage system and all other persons whatsoever shall be forever barred and foreclosed from instituting or commencing any action or proceeding in any court, or from pleading any defense to any action or proceedings, questioning the validity of the creation and establishment of the sewerage authority, the validity or proper authorization of such bonds, or the validity of any such covenants, agreements or contracts, and said bonds, covenants, agreements and contracts shall be conclusively deemed to be valid and binding obligations in accordance with their terms and tenor. L.1946, c. 138, p. 656, s. 14. Amended by L.1951, c. 127, p. 555, s. 6, eff. May 29, 1951.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-15 - Negotiability of bonds

40:14A-15. Negotiability of bonds  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 negotiable instruments law 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 negotiable instruments law. L.1946, c. 138, p. 656, s. 15, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-18 - Receiver; powers

40:14A-18. Receiver; powers  If a bond resolution of a sewerage authority authorizing or providing for the issuance of the bonds of any series shall contain the provision authorized by subsection (a) of section seventeen of this act and shall further provide in substance that any trustee appointed pursuant to said section shall have the powers provided by this section, then such trustee, whether or not all of the bonds of such series shall have been declared due and payable, shall be entitled as of right to the appointment of a receiver of the sewerage system, and such receiver may enter upon and take possession of the sewerage system and, subject to any pledge or contract with the holders of such bonds, shall take possession of all moneys and other property derived from or applicable to the acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance or reconstruction of the sewerage system and proceed with such acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance or reconstruction which the sewerage authority is under any obligation to do, and operate, maintain and reconstruct the sewerage system and fix, charge, collect, enforce and receive the service charges and all system revenues thereafter arising subject to any pledge thereof or contract with the holders of such bonds relating thereto and perform the public duties and carry out the contracts and obligations of the sewerage authority in the same manner as the sewerage authority itself might do and under the direction of the court. L.1946, c. 138, p. 661, s. 18, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-19 - Liability on bonds; exemptions

40:14A-19. Liability on bonds; exemptions  Neither the members of the sewerage authority 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, and bonds or other obligations issued by a sewerage authority pursuant to this act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the State or of any local unit or of any county or municipality and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the State or of any such local unit, county or municipality, either legal, moral or otherwise, and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize any sewerage authority to incur any indebtedness on behalf of or in any way to obligate the State or any county or municipality. L.1946, c. 138, p. 662, s. 19, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-22 - Sale or lease of property by county or municipality to sewerage authority

40:14A-22. Sale or lease of property by county or municipality to sewerage authority  Any county, by resolution of its governing body, or any municipality, by ordinance of its governing body, or any other person is hereby empowered, without any referendum and without the consent of any board, officer or other agency of the State, to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to any sewerage authority, or to permit any sewerage authority to use, maintain or operate as part of the sewerage system, any real or personal property owned by it, including all or any part of any system of main, lateral or other sewers or other sewerage facilities, which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of the sewerage authority and which may be accepted by the sewerage authority. Any such sale, lease, loan, grant, conveyance or permit may be made 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 or other person and which may be agreed to by the sewerage authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds. Subject to any such contracts with holders of bonds, the sewerage authority may enter into and perform any and all agreements with respect to property so accepted by it, including agreements for the assumption of principal or interest or both of indebtedness of such county, municipality or other 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 the sewerage system. L.1946, c. 138, p. 665, s. 22, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-24 - Sewage and industrial wastes

40:14A-24. Sewage and industrial wastes  In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, any sewerage authority, subject to its contracts with the holders of any bonds, is hereby empowered to provide, construct, maintain and operate facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewerage and industrial wastes originating within or without the district and to enter into a contract or contracts with any other sewerage authority or any municipality in an adjoining State which is authorized to enter into such a contract or any person on such terms and conditions as such contract or contracts may contain, providing for or relating to the treatment and disposal of any such sewerage and industrial wastes. Any such contract may contain any of the terms and provisions set forth in section 23 of this act and permitted by said section to be contained in contracts made thereunder. The sewerage authority and such other sewerage authority, municipality and person are 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 sewerage authority, other sewerage authority, municipality or person. L.1946, c. 138, p. 667, s. 24. Amended by L.1951, c. 127, p. 560, s. 9; L.1958, c. 135, p. 637, s. 1; L.1964, c. 31, s. 1, eff. May 4, 1964.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-25 - Connections with existing drains and pumping stations

40:14A-25. Connections with existing drains and pumping stations  (a) In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, every sewerage authority is hereby authorized to enter upon and use and connect with any existing public drains, sewers, conduits, pipe lines, pumping and ventilating stations and treatment plants or works or any other public property of a similar nature within the district and, if deemed necessary by the sewerage authority, close off and seal outlets and outfalls therefrom. No sewerage authority shall, however, take permanent possession or make permanent use of any such treatment plant or works unless it acquires the same. (b) In order to carry out and effectuate its purposes, every sewerage authority is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate its sewerage system along, over, under and in any streets, alleys, highways and other public places within or without the district, doing no unnecessary injury thereto and making no unnecessary interruption in or interference with the public use of such places and restoring the same to their former usefulness and condition within a reasonable time. L.1946, c. 138, p. 668, s. 25. Amended by L.1951, c. 127, p. 560, s. 10, eff. May 29, 1951.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-27 - Mortgage or sale of property of authority; limitations; exemption

40:14A-27. Mortgage or sale of property of authority; limitations; exemption  Neither the sewerage authority nor any local unit shall have power to mortgage, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any part of the sewerage system, except that the sewerage authority may dispose of such part or parts thereof as may be no longer necessary for the purposes of the sewerage authority. The provisions of this section shall be deemed to constitute a part of the contract with the holder of any bonds. All property of a sewerage 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 a sewerage 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 or lien given by a sewerage authority on its system revenues. L.1946, c. 138, p. 670, s. 27, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-28 - Pollution prohibited; prevention of violations

40:14A-28. Pollution prohibited; prevention of violations  (a) No county, municipality or person shall discharge, or suffer to be discharged, directly or indirectly into any waters in or bordering a district any sewage which may or will cause or contribute to the pollution of such waters; provided, that this prohibition shall be applicable only to such part or parts of such waters as are in an area of the district bounded and described in a notice, inserted at least once in a newspaper published in the district, to the effect that the sewerage authority has provided facilities reasonably sufficient in its opinion for the treatment and disposal of sewage which by discharge into such waters might cause or contribute to pollution of such waters, and that pollution of such waters is forbidden by law. Such a notice shall constitute prima facie evidence of the existence of facilities sufficient for the treatment and disposal of all such sewage. (b) No county, municipality or person shall discharge or suffer to be discharged directly or indirectly into the sewerage system of any sewerage authority any matter or thing which is or may be injurious or deleterious to such sewerage system, or to its efficient operation. (c) Any county, municipality or person may be restrained, enjoined or otherwise prevented from violating or continuing the violation of any provision of this section in a proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ, or other appropriate proceeding, or in an action for injunctive or other relief instituted by a sewerage authority or by any county prosecutor. (d) No violation of any provision of this section shall be deemed to have occurred by reason of the discharge of sewage from any boat or vessel while afloat or on a marine railway or in drydock. L.1946, c. 138, p. 670, s. 28. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 634, s. 12, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-29 - Construction of other disposal plants prohibited

40:14A-29. Construction of other disposal plants prohibited  No sewage disposal plant or other facilities for the collection, treatment or disposal of sewage arising within a district shall be constructed unless the sewerage authority shall give its consent thereto and approve the plans and specifications therefor. Each sewerage authority is hereby empowered to give such consent and approval, subject, however, to the terms and provisions of any agreement with the holders of bonds. L.1946, c. 138, p. 671, s. 29, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-30 - Investments in sewerage authority bonds authorized

40:14A-30. Investments in sewerage authority bonds authorized  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.1946, c. 138, p. 671, s. 30, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-31 - Taxation exemption

40:14A-31. Taxation exemption  Every sewerage system and all other property of a sewerage authority 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 service 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 and taxes on transfers by or in contemplation of death. L.1946, c. 138, p. 672, s. 31, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-31.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-31.1 - Eligibility for annual host municipality benefit; calculation

40:14A-31.1. Eligibility for annual host municipality benefit; calculation  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a municipality with a population greater than 6,150 persons but less than 6,600 persons, according to the latest federal decennial census, located in a county of the fifth class with a population exceeding 500,000 persons, according to the latest federal decennial census, and in which is located a wastewater treatment facility, sludge dewatering facility and sludge incineration facility, owned or operated by a regional sewerage authority pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1946, c.138 (C.40:14A-1 et seq.), and which facilities serve more than one municipality, shall be entitled to an annual host municipality benefit in an amount determined by multiplying $0.06 times each 1,000 gallons of sewerage processed at the wastewater treatment plant per year that was generated by the municipality which hosts the facilities, according to the calculations as prepared by the consulting engineer to the regional sewerage authority. The total amount of each year's benefit shall be rounded to the nearest $1.00. L.1995,c.358,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-31.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-31.2 - Payment of benefit

40:14A-31.2. Payment of benefit  2. a. An authority subject to the provisions of this act shall annually pay the appropriate municipality the full amount of the benefit provided for in this act, and a recipient municipality may anticipate this amount for the purposes of preparing its annual budget. All cash payments shall be appropriated by the municipality in accordance with the provisions of the "Local Budget Law," N.J.S.40A:4-1 et seq. The authority responsible for paying the benefit specified under this act may, subject to the prior agreement of the recipient municipality, provide such benefit to the municipality in the following manner: (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 31 of P.L.1946, c.138 (C.40:14A-31), as payment in lieu of taxes on the land on which the wastewater treatment plant, dewatering plant and sludge incineration facility are situated, and such payment shall be due and owing at the same time as the third quarterly payment of property taxes is due and owing pursuant to R.S.54:4-66; (2) As an exemption of all or part of the fees and charges for the treatment of all wastewater generated within the boundaries of the municipality; (3) As a lump sum cash payment or payments, according to a schedule established by the governing body of the recipient municipality; or (4) Any combination thereof. b. The payment of a host community benefit under this section shall be included as a cost of operation and maintenance for which rents, rates, fees or other charges are collected by the authority pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1946, c.138 (C.40:14A-8). L.1995,c.358,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-31.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-31.3 - Benefit constitutes personal obligation of authority

40:14A-31.3. Benefit constitutes personal obligation of authority  3. The host municipality benefit provided for under this act shall constitute a personal obligation of the appropriate authority, and shall be enforced through civil action pursuant to the New Jersey Court Rules. L.1995,c.358,s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-32 - Pledge of State to bondholders

40:14A-32. Pledge of State to 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 a sewerage authority that the State will not authorize or permit the construction or maintenance of any system of sewers or sewage disposal plants which will be competitive with the sewerage system of the sewerage authority, and will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the sewerage authority to acquire, construct, maintain, reconstruct and operate its sewerage system, and to fix, establish, charge and collect its service charges 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. L.1946, c. 138, p. 672, s. 32, eff. April 23, 1946.
NJ Rev Stat § 40:14A-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties|Section 40:14A-33 - Depositary bonds required of banking institutions

40:14A-33. Depositary bonds required of banking institutions  All banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business are hereby authorized to give to any sewerage authority a good and sufficient undertaking with such sureties as shall be approved by the sewerage 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 sewerage authority or its authorized agent all such funds as may be deposited with it by the sewerage authority and agreed interest thereon, at such times or upon such demands as may be agreed upon with the authority or, in lieu of such sureties, deposit with the sewerage authority or its authorized agent or any trustee therefor or for the holders of any bonds, as collateral, such securities as the sewerage authority may approve; provided, such securities shall consist of obligations in which public officers and bodies of the State and its municipal subdivisions, savings institutions, including savings and loan associations, insurance companies and associations, executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries in the State may properly and legally invest the funds within their control, in such principal amount, market value or other description as may be approved by the sewerage authority. The deposits of the sewerage 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 sewerage authority and such bank or banking institution. L.1946, c. 138, p. 673, s. 33, eff. April 23, 1946.