2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37D-10 - Additional powers of authority relative to bond covenants

40:37D-10. Additional powers of authority relative to bond covenants
10. In any resolution of the authority authorizing or relating to the issuance of any bonds or notes, the authority, in order to secure the payment of the bonds or notes and in addition to its other powers, shall have power by the resolutions which shall constitute covenants by the authority and contracts with the holders of the bonds or notes to:
a. Pledge all or any part of its rents, fees, tolls, revenues or receipts to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence, and the moneys derived therefrom, and the proceeds of any bonds or notes;
b. Pledge any lease or other agreement or the rents or revenues and their proceeds;
c. Mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or later acquired;
d. Covenant against pledging all or any part of its rents, fees, tolls, revenues or receipts or its leases or agreements or rents or other revenues from them or the proceeds of them, or against mortgaging all or any part of its real or personal property then owned or later acquired, or against permitting or suffering any lien on any of the foregoing;
e. Covenant with respect to limitations on any right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any project or its parts or any property of any kind;
f. Covenant as to any bonds and notes to be issued and their limitations, terms and conditions, and as to the custody, application, investment, and disposition of their proceeds;
g. Covenant as to the issuance of additional bonds or notes or as to limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or notes and on the incurring of other debts by it;
h. Covenant as to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or notes, or any other obligations, as to the sources and methods of the payment, as to the rank or priority of the bonds, notes or obligations with respect to any lien or security or as to acceleration of the maturity of the bonds, notes or obligations;
i. Provide for the replacement of lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated bonds or notes;
j. Covenant against extending the time for the payment of bonds or notes or interest on them;
k. Covenant as to the redemption of bonds or notes and privileges of their exchange for other bonds or notes of the authority;
l. Covenant as to the rates of toll and other charges to be established and charged, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by tolls or other revenues and as to the use and disposition to be made of them;
m. Covenant to create or authorize the creation of special funds or moneys to be held in pledge or otherwise for construction, operating expenses, payment or redemption of bonds or notes, reserves or other purposes and as to the use, investment, and disposition of the moneys held in the funds;
n. Establish the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract or covenant with or for the benefit of the holders of bonds or notes may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds or notes the holders of which shall consent thereto, and the manner in which the consent may be given;
o. Covenant as to the construction, improvement, operation or maintenance of its real and personal property, its replacement, the insurance to be carried on it, and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;
p. Provide for the release of property, leases or other agreements, or revenues and receipts from any pledge or mortgage and reserve rights and powers in, or the right to dispose of, property which is subject to a pledge or mortgage;
q. Provide for the rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach of any covenant, condition or obligation and prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which the bonds, notes or other obligations of the authority shall become or may be declared due and payable before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which any declaration and its consequences may be waived;
r. Vest in trustees within or without the State property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the authority may determine, including the right to foreclose any mortgage, and limit the rights, duties and powers of a trustee;
s. Execute mortgages, bills of sale, conveyances, deeds of trust and other instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of its powers or in the performance of its covenants or duties;
t. Pay the costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or notes or of the provisions of the resolution or of any covenant or agreement of the authority with the holders of its bonds or notes;
u. Limit the powers of the authority to construct, acquire or operate any structures, facilities or properties which may compete or tend to compete with the center;
v. Limit the rights of the holders of any bonds or notes to enforce any pledge or covenant securing bonds or notes; and
w. Make covenants other than in addition to the covenants herein expressly authorized, of like or different character, and to make covenants to do or refrain from doing acts and things as may be necessary, or convenient and desirable, in order to better secure bonds or notes or which, in the discretion of the authority, will tend to make bonds or notes more marketable, notwithstanding that the covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein.
L.1994, c.98, s.10.