2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:1B-10 - Bonds; resolution; covenants by authority and contracts with holders

58:1B-10. Bonds; resolution; covenants by authority and contracts with holders
In any resolution of the authority empowering or relating to the issuance of any bonds the authority, in order to secure the payment of such bonds and in addition to its other powers, shall have power, by provisions therein which shall constitute covenants by the authority and contracts with the holders of the bonds:
a. To 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.
b. To pledge any lease or other agreement or the rents or other revenues thereunder and the proceeds thereof.
c. To mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter to be acquired.
d. To 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 thereunder or the proceeds thereof, or against mortgaging all or any part of its real or personal property then owned or thereafter acquired, or against permitting or suffering any lien on any of the foregoing.
e. To covenant with respect to limitations on any right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any project or any part thereof or any property of any kind.
f. To covenant as to any bonds to be issued and the limitations thereon and the terms and conditions thereof and as to the custody, application, investment, and disposition of the proceeds thereof.
g. To covenant as to the issuance of additional bonds or as to limitations on the issuance of additional bonds and on the incurring of other debts by it.
h. To covenant as to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, or any other obligations, as to the sources and methods of payment, as to the rank or priority of the bonds with respect to any lien or security or as to the acceleration of the maturity of the bonds.
i. To provide for the replacement of lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated bonds.
j. To covenant against extending the time for the payment of bonds or interest thereon.
k. To covenant as to the redemption of bonds and privileges of exchange thereof for other bonds of the authority.
l . To 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 thereof.
m. To 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, reserves or other purposes and as to the use, investment, and disposition of the moneys held in those funds.
n. To establish the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract or covenant with or for the benefit of 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 the consent may be given.
o . To covenant as to the construction, improvement, or maintenance of its real and personal property, the replacement thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance moneys.
p. To provide for the release of property, leases or other agreements, or revenues and receipts from any pledge or mortgage and to reserve rights and powers in, or the right to dispose of, property which is subject to a pledge or mortgage.
q. To provide for the rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach of any covenant, condition or obligation and to prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds of the authority shall become or may be declared due and payable before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which any such declaration and its consequences may be waived.
r. To vest in a trustee or trustees within or without the State such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the authority may determine, including the right to foreclose any mortgage, and to limit the rights, duties and powers of the trustee.
s. To execute all 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. To pay the costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of such bonds or of the provisions of the resolution or of any covenant or agreement of the authority with the holders of its bonds; and
u. To limit the rights of the holders of any bonds to enforce any pledge or covenant securing bonds.
L.1981, c. 293, s. 10, eff. Oct. 7, 1981.