NJ Rev Stat § 18A:24-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:24-24 - Form of ordinance, proposition for confirmation of ordinance or proposal for issuance of bonds under section 18A:24-23

18A:24-24. Form of ordinance, proposition for confirmation of ordinance or proposal for issuance of bonds under section 18A:24-23  Every ordinance, and every proposition confirming an ordinance, and every proposal, authorizing the issuance of bonds under section 18A:24-23, except such a proposal authorizing the issuance of bonds of a regional school district shall, after stating any other matters or things required by law, disclose the effect of such ordinance or proposal contained in such resolution on the borrowing margin of every municipality comprised within the school district, and such disclosure shall include and state the amount, if any, of such borrowing margin before final approval of the ordinance or proposal and the amount of such borrowing margin, if any, which would be used up by final approval thereof and the amount, if any, of net debt, in excess of the measure of such borrowing margin, which would result after the final approval of the ordinance or resolution, and such disclosure shall be sufficient if in substantially the following form with appropriate figures inserted: a. In the case of an ordinance-- The authorization of the $ (insert amount of bonds to be issued) bonds provided for by this ordinance uses up all of the $ (insert amount of borrowing margin before adoption of ordinance), or, in an appropriate case, increases the existing deficit in the borrowing margin of the (insert name of municipality) previously available for other improvements and raises its net debt to $ (insert amount, after adoption of ordinance, of net debt of the municipality in excess of 3 1/2 % of the amount stated in the supplemental debt statement required by this article to be filed prior to the authorization of the bonds to be issued as the average of the 3 last preceding equalized valuations of the taxable real estate (together with improvements) of the municipality, as stated in the annual debt statement of the municipality or revision thereof last filed) beyond such borrowing margin; b. In the case of a proposition confirming such an ordinance-- Shall the ordinance of the (insert name of municipality) adopted on (insert date of adoption) authorizing the issuance of $ (insert amount of bonds to be issued) bonds for school purposes and using up all of the $ (insert amount of borrowing margin before adoption of ordinance), or, in an appropriate case, increasing the existing deficit in the borrowing margin of the (insert name of municipality) previously available for other improvements and raising its net debt to $ (insert amount, after adoption of ordinance, of net debt of the municipality in excess of 3 1/2 % of the amount stated in the supplemental debt statement required by this article to be filed prior to the authorization of the bonds to be issued as the average of the 3 last preceding equalized valuations of the taxable real estate (together with improvements) of the municipality, as stated in the annual debt statement of the municipality or revision thereof last filed) beyond such borrowing margin, be approved; c. In the case of a proposal contained in a resolution-- Resolved that the board of education does hereby determine, subject to the approval of the legal voters of the district: To * * *; and To issue bonds of the school district for said purpose (or purposes) in the principal amount of $ (insert amount of bonds to be issued), thus using up all of the $ (insert amount of borrowing margin before adoption of resolution), or in an appropriate case, increasing the existing deficit in the borrowing margin of the (insert name of municipality) previously available for other improvements and raising its net debt to $ (insert amount, after adoption of resolution, of net debt of the municipality in excess of 3 1/2 % of the amount stated in the supplemental debt statement required by this article to be filed prior to the authorization of the bonds to be issued as the average of the 3 last preceding equalized valuations of the taxable real estate (together with improvements) of the municipality, as stated in the annual debt statement of the municipality or revision thereof last filed) beyond such borrowing margin, and (if there be other municipality or municipalities comprised within such school district) using up all (or, in an appropriate case, an amount) of the $ (insert amount of borrowing margin before adoption of resolution), or, in an appropriate case, increasing the existing deficit in the borrowing margin of the (insert name of municipality) previously available for other improvements and (in every case where all borrowing margin is used) raising its net debt to $ (insert amount after adoption of proposal, of net debt of the municipality in excess of 3 1/2 % of the amount stated in the supplemental debt statement required by this article to be filed prior to the authorization of the bonds to be issued as the average of the 3 last preceding equalized valuations of the taxable real estate (together with improvements) of the municipality, as stated in the annual debt statement of the municipality or revision thereof last filed) beyond such borrowing margin, et cetera, et cetera. L.1967, c.271; amended by L.1968, c. 295, s. 11, eff. Sept. 9, 1968.