2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Municipalities and Counties › Section 40:37A-119 - Resolution authorizing issuance; provisions; inclusion in contract

40:37A-119. Resolution authorizing issuance; provisions; inclusion in contract
Any resolution or resolutions authorizing the issuance of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations or any issue thereof may contain provisions, except as expressly limited in this act, and except as otherwise limited by subsisting agreements with the holders of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations, which shall be a part of the contract with the holders thereof, as to the following:
a. The pledging of or creating a lien on, as security for the payment of the principal and redemption price of and interest on any bonds, bond anticipation notes, or other notes or obligations of the authority or of any issue thereof, all or any part of the revenues or assets of the authority to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence, and the moneys derived therefrom, including, but not limited to, loans to qualified housing sponsors, mortgages and other obligations securing same, the moneys received in payment of such loans and interest thereon, fees and charges payable from qualified housing sponsors, all or any part of any money, funds or property held in trust or otherwise by others for the payment of any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations of the authority, and all or any part of the proceeds of any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations, and covenanting against pledging all or any part of such revenues, assets, moneys, funds or property, or against permitting or suffering any lien thereon;
b. Other provisions for the custody, collection, securing, investment and payment of any revenues, assets, moneys, funds or property of the authority or with respect to which the authority may have any rights or interest;
c. The use and disposition of the gross income from, and the payments of principal or interest received by the authority with respect to loans to qualified housing sponsors, or any income or proceeds from investments held by the authority or other income, revenues or receipts of the authority;
d. The establishment and setting aside of reserves or sinking funds, the making of charges and fees to provide for the same, and the regulation and disposition thereof;
e. The custody, application and disposition of the proceeds of any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations;
f. Limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of sale of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations may be applied and pledging such proceeds to secure the payment of the bonds, bond anticipation notes, or other notes or obligations, or of any issue thereof;
g. Limitations on the issuance of additional bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations, the terms upon which additional bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations may be issued and secured, and on the refunding or purchase of outstanding bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations of the authority;
h. The rank or priority of any such bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations with respect to any lien or security or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any such bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations;
i. The creation of special funds or moneys to be held in trust or otherwise for operating expenses, payment or redemption of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations, or for other purposes, and provisions for the use and disposition of the moneys held in such funds;
j. The procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract or covenant with or for the benefit of the holders of any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations of the authority may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given;
k. The custody of any of its properties or investments, the safekeeping thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;
l . The time or manner of enforcement or restraint from enforcement of any rights of the authority arising by reason of or with respect to nonpayment of principal or interest with respect to loans to qualified housing sponsors, mortgages securing such loans;
m. The definition of those acts or omissions to act which shall constitute a default in the obligations and duties of the authority and providing for the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations in the event of such default; provided, however, that such rights and remedies shall not be inconsistent with the general laws of the State and other provisions of the act;
n. The vesting in a trustee or trustees within or without the State of such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the authority may determine, which may include any or all of the rights, powers and duties of any trustee appointed by the holders of any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations and limiting or abrogating the right of the holders of any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations of the authority to appoint a trustee under this act or limiting the rights, powers and duties of such trustee;
o . Provision for a trust agreement by and between the authority and a corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within the State, which agreement may provide for the pledging or assigning of any assets or income from assets to which or in which the authority has any rights or interest, and may further provide for such other rights and remedies exercisable by the trustee as may be proper for the protection of the holders of any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations of the authority and not otherwise in violation of law, and the said agreement may provide for the restriction of the rights of any individual holder of bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations of the authority. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of such trust agreement may be treated as a part of the cost of operation of the authority. The trust agreement may contain any further provisions which are reasonable to delineate further the respective rights, duties, safeguards, responsibilities and liabilities of authority, individual and collective holders of bonds, bond anticipation notes and other notes or obligations of the authority, and the trustees;
p. The appointment of and provisions for the duties and obligations of a paying agent or paying agents or such other fiduciaries within or without the State;
q. Covenants to do or refrain from doing such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to better secure any bonds, bond anticipation notes, or other notes or obligations of the authority, or which, in the discretion of the authority, will tend to make any bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations to be issued more marketable, not withstanding that such covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein;
r. Any other matters which in any way affect the security or protection of the bonds, bond anticipation notes or other notes or obligations.
L.1979, c. 275, s. 14, eff. Jan. 3, 1980.