2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:11A-12 - Payment of bonds and notes

12:11A-12. Payment of bonds and notes
(a) In order to secure the payment of its bonds or notes, the corporation shall have power in the resolution authorizing the issuance thereof (which shall constitute a contract with the holders thereof):
(i) to pledge all or any part of its rents, tolls, fees or revenues to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence, and the moneys derived therefrom, and the proceeds of bonds or notes;
(ii) to covenant against pledging all or any part of its rents, tolls, fees or revenues, 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 such rents, tolls, fees, revenues or property; to covenant with respect to limitations on any right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any marine terminal or any part thereof, or any property of any kind;
(iii) to covenant as to the bonds and notes to be issued and the limitations thereon and the terms and conditions thereof and as to the custody, application and disposition of the proceeds thereof, and to 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;
(iv) to 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 such payment, as to the rank or priority of any such bonds, notes or obligations with respect to any lien or security or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any such bonds, notes or obligations;
(v) to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed or mutilated bonds or notes;
(vi) to covenant against extending the time for the payment of bonds or notes or interest thereon;
(vii) to covenant as to the redemption of bonds or notes and privileges of exchange thereof or other bonds or notes of the corporation;
(viii) to covenant as to the rates of rents, tolls, fees and other charges to be established and charged, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by rents, tolls, fees or other revenues and as to the use and disposition to be made thereof; 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 to covenant as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in such funds;
(ix) 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 or notes may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds or notes the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given;
(x) to covenant as to the maintenance of its real and personal property, the replacement thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;
(xi) to provide for the rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach of any covenant, condition or obligation; to prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds or notes 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;
(xii) to vest in a trustee or trustees such property, rights, powers and duties in trust for the holders of bonds or notes as the corporation may determine; to limit or abrogate the rights of the holders of such bonds or notes to appoint such trustee, or to limit the rights, duties and powers of such trustee;
(xiii) to limit the rights of the holders of bonds or notes to enforce any pledge or covenant securing the bonds or notes; and
(xiv) to make covenants other than and in addition to the covenants herein expressly authorized, of like or different character; and to make such covenants to do or refrain from doing such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to better secure the bonds or notes or which, in the absolute discretion of the corporation will tend to make the bonds or notes more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein.
(b) Any pledge of rents, tolls, fees or other revenues or other moneys made by the corporation shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made; the rents, tolls, fees or other revenues or other moneys so pledged and thereafter received by the corporation shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the corporation irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be filed or recorded except in the records of the corporation. Resolutions providing for the issuance of bonds or notes shall not convey or mortgage any project or any part thereof.
(c) Bonds or notes may be issued under the provisions of this act without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau or agency of the State, and without any other proceeding or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by this act.
(d) The corporation shall not have power to mortgage real property.
(e) Moneys of the corporation or moneys held in pledge or otherwise for the payment of bonds or notes or in any way to secure bonds or notes and deposits of such moneys may be secured in such manner as the corporation may require and all banks and trust companies are authorized to give such security therefor.
(f) Neither the members of the corporation nor any person executing bonds or notes shall be liable personally on the bonds or notes or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof.
(g) The corporation shall have the power to purchase bonds or notes out of any funds available therefor. The corporation may hold, cancel or resell such bonds or notes subject to and in accordance with agreements with holders of its bonds and notes.
L.1968, c. 60, s. 12, eff. June 13, 1968.