2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 55 - Tenement Houses and Public Housing › Section 55:19-6 - Powers of the corporation

55:19-6. Powers of the corporation
6. Except as otherwise limited in this act, the corporation shall have power:
a. to sue and be sued;
b. to have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
c. to make and execute contracts and all other instruments necessary or convenient for the exercise of its powers and functions under this act;
d. to make and alter bylaws for its organization and internal management and, subject to agreements with noteholders or bondholders, to make rules and regulations with respect to its projects, operations, properties and facilities;
e. to acquire, hold and dispose of real or personal property for its corporate purposes;
f. to appoint officers, agents and employees, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation;
g. to acquire or contract to acquire from any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation, or any public agency, by grant, purchase or otherwise, real or personal property or any interest therein; to own, hold, clear, improve, rehabilitate and develop, and to sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of or encumber the same;
h. to create subsidiary corporations as provided in section 7 of this act;
i. to acquire, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, improve, alter or repair or provide for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, alteration or repair of any project;
j. to arrange or contract with a municipality for the planning, replanning, opening, grading or closing of streets, roads, roadways, alleys or other places, or for the furnishing of facilities or for the acquisition by a municipality of property or property rights or for the furnishing of property or services, in connection with a project;
k. to sell, lease, assign, transfer, convey, exchange, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of or encumber any project, and in the case of the sale of any project, to accept a purchase money mortgage in connection therewith; and to lease, repurchase or otherwise acquire and hold any project which the corporation has theretofore sold, leased or otherwise conveyed, transferred or disposed of;
l. to grant options to purchase any project or to renew any leases entered into by it in connection with any of its projects, on such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable;
m. to prepare or cause to be prepared plans, specifications, designs and estimates of costs for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, alteration or repair of any project, and from time to time to modify such plans, specifications, designs or estimates;
n. to manage any project, whether then owned or leased by the corporation, and to enter into agreements with any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation, or with any public agency, for the purpose of causing any project to be managed;
o. to provide advisory, consultative, training and educational services, technical assistance and advice to any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation, or to any public agency, in order to carry out the purposes of this act;
p. to issue, purchase, pledge and sell stock in projects of the corporation and to purchase, sell or pledge the shares, or other obligations or securities of any subsidiary corporation, on such terms and conditions as the corporation may deem advisable;
q. subject to the provisions of any contract with noteholders, to consent to the modification, with respect to rate of interest, time of payment or any installment of principal or interest, security, or any other terms, of any loan, mortgage, commitment, contract or agreement of any kind to which the corporation is a party;
r. in connection with any property on which it has made a mortgage loan, to foreclose on the property or commence any action to protect or enforce any right conferred upon it by any law, mortgage, contract or other agreement, and to bid for or purchase the property at any foreclosure or at any other sale, or acquire or take possession of the property; and in such event the corporation may complete, administer, pay the principal of and interest on any obligations incurred in connection with the property, dispose of and otherwise deal with the property, in such manner as may be necessary or desirable to protect the interests of the corporation therein;
s. to invest any funds held in reserve or sinking funds, or any moneys not required for immediate use and disbursement, at the discretion of the corporation, in obligations of this State or of the United States, or obligations the principal and interest of which are guaranteed by this State or the United States;
t. to procure insurance against any loss in connection with its property and other assets and operations, in such amounts and from such insurers as it deems desirable;
u. to engage the services of consultants on a contract basis for rendering professional and technical assistance and advice;
v. to contract for and to accept any gifts or grants or loans of funds or property or financial or other aid in any form from the federal government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from the State or a municipality or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from any other source, and, subject to the provisions of this act and any other applicable law, to comply with the terms and conditions thereof;
w. to establish, levy and collect, in connection with any civic project or utilities project managed or operated by the corporation, whether then owned or leased by the corporation, user fees and facility charges;
x. to do any and all things necessary or convenient to carry out its purposes and exercise the powers given and granted in this act;
y. to borrow money or secure credit against the assets of the corporation on a temporary, short-term, interim or long-term basis;
z. to make short-term loans or advances to developers for construction in anticipation of the issuance of permanent loans;
a.a. to exercise sole authority for investment, reinvestment or expenditure of its revenues, fund balances and appropriations consistent with the purposes of this act on projects and investments utilizing revenues from the sale of government obligation bonds, which projects shall be subject to the approval of the State Treasurer, and the Treasurer's actions shall be based solely on his fiduciary role to ensure that all applicable federal and State tax laws are adhered to regarding the investment of bond funds;
b.b. notwithstanding any law to the contrary, and upon resolution of the municipal governing body, to act as the local redevelopment agency of any municipality in which there is not established a local redevelopment agency pursuant to P.L.1949, c.306 (C.40:55C-1 et seq.) and which is not precluded from establishing such an agency by the provisions of section 9 of P.L.1949, c.306 (C.40:55C-9); and
c.c. to act as a district agent pursuant to P.L.1991, c.228 (C.55:19-3 et al.).
L.1985,c.227,s.6; amended 1991,c.228,s.2.