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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:12A-37 - Annual budget request by DEP for implementation and staffing

58:12A-37. Annual budget request by DEP for implementation and staffing
12. a. Notwithstanding any provision of section 11 of P.L.1983, c.443 (C.58:12A-21) or any other law to the contrary, there is appropriated from the "Safe Drinking Water Fund," established pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1983, c.443 (C.58:12A-21), to the Department of Environmental Protection the sum of $1,000,000 to pay the initial costs of (1) implementing this act, including but not limited to the costs of hiring any new employees needed to implement this act and of establishing and administering the data base required by this act, and (2) providing grants to county health departments, health agencies, and designated health officers to pay for any costs incurred by those entities resulting from implementation of this act.
b. For each State fiscal year after the State fiscal year in which this act is enacted, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall include in the annual budget request of the Department of Environmental Protection submitted for the annual appropriations act a sufficient sum to meet the costs, as set forth in subsection a. of this section and in section 11 of this act, for the particular State fiscal year.
L.2001,c.40,s.12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:12A-38 - Findings, declarations relative to entry onto property to perform lead service line replacements.

58:12A-38 Findings, declarations relative to entry onto property to perform lead service line replacements.
1. The Legislature finds and declares that:
a. Lead service lines are the primary source of lead in drinking water;
b. It is estimated that there are between 160,000 and 350,000 lead service lines throughout the State;
c. Lead in drinking water poses a serious health and safety risk to the public, particularly infants and children;
d. A municipality in the State, pursuant to R.S.40:48-2, may enact such ordinances as it deems necessary and proper for the preservation of the public health, safety, and welfare of the municipality and its inhabitants; and
e. It is the intent of the Legislature to clarify that a municipality may enact an ordinance to enter properties to perform lead service line replacements as part of its powers to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its residents.
L.2019, c.291, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:12A-39 - Adoption of ordinance to enter property to perform a lead service line replacement.

58:12A-39 Adoption of ordinance to enter property to perform a lead service line replacement.
2. a. A municipality may adopt an ordinance that allows the municipality or municipal water system, or any agent thereof, to enter a property within the municipality to perform a lead service line replacement, provided that the municipality provides the owner and any residents of the property with notice at least 72 hours before entering the property, unless in the case of an emergency as determined by the Department of Environmental Protection. A municipality may not enter into a part of the property that is not directly related to performing a lead service line replacement.
b. For the purposes of this section, notice to the owner and any residents of the property shall include an attempt to inform the owner and any residents in person of the date and time of the lead service line replacement, and if the owner or a resident is unable to be reached in person, the municipality shall send, by certified mail, a letter to the owner and any residents or post a written notice in a prominent location on the property which shall include:
(1) the scheduled date and time of the lead service line replacement and who will be performing the replacement;
(2) the likely extent of water service disruption;
(3) nearby locations where the municipality or a public water system is distributing supplementary drinking water, if any ; and
(4) any remedies that the municipality shall take if the municipality or municipal water system, or an agent thereof, is unable to access the property.
In a municipality in which the primary language of 10 percent or more of the residents is a language other than English, a letter or written notice sent or posted pursuant to this subsection shall be provided in English and any other such primary language.
c. In addition to the notice requirements of subsection b. of this section, a municipality shall send, by certified mail, the owner a letter after the completion of the replacement stating the approximate time that the replacement occurred, and providing a brief summary of the work performed.
d. As used in this section:
"Municipal water system" means a municipal utilities authority, water district, waterworks, water commission, joint meeting or any other political subdivision of the State authorized pursuant to law to operate or maintain a public water system or to construct, rehabilitate, operate, or maintain water supply facilities or otherwise provide water for human consumption.
"Service line" means the pipe, tubing, and fittings connecting a municipal water main to a building or structure, and also includes the water meter for the property.
L.2019, c.291, s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:12A-40 - Findings relative to presence of lead in drinking water.

58:12A-40 Findings relative to presence of lead in drinking water.
1. The Legislature finds that the presence of lead in drinking water represents a threat to the public health, especially the health and development of New Jersey's children; that pipes containing lead that connect water mains to homes and other buildings, often called lead service lines, are a primary source of lead in drinking water; and that, due in part to the age of New Jersey's housing, there does not exist a full and complete inventory of all lead service lines in the State.
The Legislature therefore declares that public water systems should fully inventory all service lines and gradually replace all lead service lines, portions of which may exist on private property; and that, given the risk to public health and the resulting social costs that lead exposure imposes upon society as a whole, it is in the public interest that each public water system be obligated to replace lead service lines, including those that exist on private property, and be authorized to recoup the costs of lead service line replacements from all subscribers of the public water system.
L.2021, c.183, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:12A-46 - Report detailing progress in replacing lead service lines.

58:12A-46 Report detailing progress in replacing lead service lines.
7. No later than December 31 of each year, a public community water system shall submit to the department, in a form and manner to be determined by the department, a report detailing the public community water system's progress in replacing lead service lines pursuant to this act. A public community water system shall make its report available on its Internet website. If an Internet website is not available, the public community water system shall make its report available in another publicly accessible location. If the department determines, based on the information provided by the public community water system pursuant to this section, that the system has completed the replacement of all lead service lines within the system's service area, the system shall no longer be required to submit a report pursuant to this section.
L.2021, c.183, s.7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:12A-47 - Rules, regulations.

58:12A-47 Rules, regulations.
8. a. The Department of Environmental Protection may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
b. The Board of Public Utilities may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
c. The Department of Environmental Protection and the Board of Public Utilities shall consult with one another and with the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs when adopting rules and regulations pursuant to this section.
L.2021, c.183, s.8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-2 - Passaic valley sewerage commissioners; body corporate; general powers

58:14-2. Passaic valley sewerage commissioners; body corporate; general powers
The board of commissioners known as the Passaic valley sewerage commissioners, the first members of which were appointed under the act entitled "An act authorizing the appointment and defining the powers and duties of commissioners in sewage and drainage districts created for the purpose of relieving the streams and rivers therein from pollution, and to provide a plan for the prevention thereof and providing for the raising, expenditure and payment of moneys necessary for this purpose," approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand nine hundred and two (L.1902, c. 49, p. 195), is continued as a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession under said name of Passaic valley sewerage commissioners, hereinafter in this chapter designated as the "commissioners" , with power to sue and be sued and to adopt and use a corporate seal, and with the right, power and authority to acquire, hold, use and dispose of all such property, real and personal, as may be proper or necessary, and with all other power and authority proper or necessary to carry out and effectuate the purposes for which the board is created.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-3 - Appointment of commissioners; removal; vacancies

58:14-3. Appointment of commissioners; removal; vacancies
58:14-3. The board shall consist of nine members who shall be appointed by the Governor in the following manner. Each county in the district shall be represented on the board by two members, of different political parties, both of whom shall reside in the district and in the county they represent. At least one of the two members from each county must reside in a contracting municipality as defined in R.S.58:14-34.11 or in a leasing municipality. Not more than five of the nine members of the board shall be from the same political party. The ninth member shall be an at-large member appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall serve during the term of office of the Governor. As used in this section, "at-large member" means a resident of the Passaic Valley Sewerage District as defined in R.S.58:14-1. Upon the expiration of the term of office of a commissioner, his successor shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of five years, except that the term of the at-large member shall be concurrent with the term of office of the Governor. The Governor may remove any commissioner from office for cause. Each commissioner shall hold his office until his successor has been appointed, and any vacancy in the membership of the commission because of death, resignation or removal, shall be filled for the unexpired term in the manner provided for on original appointment. In making any appointment hereunder, either for a full term or to fill a vacancy, regard shall be had to ability and fitness, and also locality, so that each section of the district may be represented as far as practicable. Amended 1941,c.99; 1975,c.151; 1991,c.145,s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-4 - $10,000 salary

58:14-4. $10,000 salary
58:14-4. Each of the commissioners shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully and impartially execute and perform the duties imposed upon him by law, and shall cause the same to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The commissioners shall each receive for service under this chapter an annual salary of $10,000.00, payable in equal monthly installments, and they shall receive no other compensation than that herein provided. Amended by L. 1953,c.370; 1975,c.153; 1987,c.337.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-5 - Commissioners not to be interested in contracts; removal of offender; contracts void

58:14-5. Commissioners not to be interested in contracts; removal of offender; contracts void
No commissioner shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract awarded under the provisions of this chapter, nor in furnishing materials or supplies therefor to any contractor, nor in furnishing security for the performance of any contract. If at any time it shall appear to the satisfaction of the governor that any commissioner is or has been so interested, or is or has been a stockholder in any corporation furnishing material or supplies to any contractor for work done or to be done under the provisions of this chapter, or that he is the owner of any lands or water or water rights taken or to be taken or used in or for the construction of any work under the provisions of this chapter, or a stockholder in any corporation owning or leasing any such lands or waters or water rights, the governor shall remove such commissioner from office forthwith, and all contracts made by the commissioners wherein any such commissioner shall have been interested, directly or indirectly, as aforesaid, or otherwise, shall thereupon become and be null and void, and no further payments on account thereof shall be made by the commissioners.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-6 - Annual organization; officers, agents and employees

58:14-6. Annual organization; officers, agents and employees
The commissioners shall annually on the first Tuesday in May organize by the choice of a chairman and a vice chairman, who shall be members of the board, and a treasurer and a clerk, who may or may not be members of the board. The commissioners may, from time to time, appoint such other officers, attorneys, agents, engineers, employees and assistants as they may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and may prescribe their duties, fix their compensation and remove them at pleasure.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-6.1 - Group hospital service; deductions

58:14-6.1. Group hospital service; deductions
Whenever the employees of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners shall have formed themselves into a group for the purpose of obtaining the advantages of a group plan for any hospital service and have filed with said commissioners written petition and authorizations signed by the employees, said commissioners may by resolution authorize the deductions specified in the written petition and authorizations of the payment thereof. L.1956, c. 103, p. 478, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-6.2 - Premium payments by Commissioners permissive

58:14-6.2. Premium payments by Commissioners permissive
Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners may pay as additional compensation to the individual members of the group a part or all of the premium or charge for such hospital service plan provided, however, that anything herein contained shall not be construed as compelling Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to pay such premium or part thereof. L.1956, c. 103, p. 478, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-7 - Discharge of sewage or other polluting matter into certain waters prohibited; enforcement

58:14-7. Discharge of sewage or other polluting matter into certain waters prohibited; enforcement
No sewage or other polluting matter shall be discharged, directly or indirectly, into the waters of the Passaic river at any point between the Great falls in the city of Paterson and the mouth of said river at Newark bay, or into the waters of any of the tributaries of said river which empty into it between said points, and the commissioners may enforce the provisions of this chapter over and throughout all municipalities which may, or the inhabitants of which may, directly or indirectly, discharge sewage or other polluting matter into said waters. The commissioners may institute in their corporate name such civil actions as may be deemed necessary or appropriate to enforce the provisions of this section, and the Superior Court is hereby vested with jurisdiction to enforce said provisions by such actions brought by the commissioners. The court may proceed in such actions in a summary manner or otherwise. Amended by L.1953, c. 54, p. 963, s. 32.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-8 - Discharge of sewage or certain other matter, articles or substances into enumerated waters prohibited; penalty

58:14-8. Discharge of sewage or certain other matter, articles or substances into enumerated waters prohibited; penalty
No sewage, waste matter, article or substance, liquid or solid, of any kind which creates odors, gases or fumes, due to the putrefaction of organic matter or the presence of chemicals, or results in the presence of oil or grease on the surface of the waters of the Passaic river, or its tributaries, shall be placed or discharged, or be permitted to be placed or discharged, into the waters of said river between the points designated in section 58:14-7 of this title, or into its tributaries so designated. Whoever, other than a municipal corporation, after not less than ten days' nor more than six months' notice by the commissioners, violates the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, and a further penalty of twenty-five dollars a day for each day the offense is continued, to be sued for and recovered by and in the name of the commissioners.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-9 - Municipalities may request commissioners to prepare plans and estimates for construction of intercepting sewers

58:14-9. Municipalities may request commissioners to prepare plans and estimates for construction of intercepting sewers
The governing body or board having charge of finances of any municipality, lying in whole or in part within the district may, by resolution, determine that it is advisable and to the interest of the municipality, in order to comply with the provisions of this chapter, to cause the sewage and other polluting matter discharging or which may be discharged into the waters of the Passaic river from its territory within the district to be intercepted by a trunk or main intercepting sewer or sewers and to be conducted to a safe and proper place for discharge and disposal thereat, and may, by said resolution, request the commissioners to prepare and submit maps, plans and specifications for the construction of a joint trunk or main intercepting sewer or sewers and the necessary works for the conduct, discharge and disposal of sewage and other polluting matter as aforesaid, together with an estimate of the probable cost of such construction, and the operation and maintenance thereof, and of obtaining the necessary property rights for said construction, and an estimate of the sewage capacity in said trunk sewer or sewers required by each municipality lying in whole or in part within the district, and also an estimate of the proportion of said cost of construction, as near as may be, which would be apportioned to each of said municipalities, upon the basis expressed in section 58:14-13 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-10 - Payment of preliminary expenses by municipality

58:14-10. Payment of preliminary expenses by municipality
The municipality making such request shall, in and by said resolution, agree to pay the commissioners the cost, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, of preparing the maps, plans, specifications and estimates so requested, and shall, at the time of making such request, pay as part of said expenses the sum of five thousand dollars to the commissioners. Such municipality, acting by the body or board having charge of its finances, may, at its discretion, by resolution, agree also to advance and pay to the commissioners for their use in making further investigations and preparing detail plans and specifications, moneys in installments or otherwise, not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, and if more than one municipality lying in whole or in part within the district agree to advance and pay moneys to the commissioners for said purposes, the amount of moneys so to be advanced and paid by said municipalities shall not exceed, in the aggregate, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Money so to be paid by a municipality may be appropriated and paid from any fund or balance not otherwise appropriated, and may be raised by temporary loans, notes or bonds, and shall be repaid to it, with interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, when the contract shall have been entered into for the building of said sewer, plant or works as hereinafter provided.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-11 - Preparation and delivery of plans and estimates to municipalities; records

58:14-11. Preparation and delivery of plans and estimates to municipalities; records
Upon receiving a copy of such resolution authenticated by the clerk or other like officer of one or more of such municipalities, the commissioners shall forthwith prepare the maps, plans, specifications and estimates so requested, and copies thereof shall be delivered by the clerk of the commissioners to each of the clerks or other like officers of all the municipalities lying in whole or in part within the district. An accurate record of the time and manner of the delivery by him of such copies to the clerks of such municipalities shall be made by the clerk of the commissioners and entered upon the minutes of the commissioners. A like record shall be kept by the clerks of the municipalities and be entered upon the minutes of the boards or bodies having charge of the finances in such municipalities respectively. The commissioners, in preparing the maps, plans and specifications as herein provided, and in making the estimate of the sewage capacity required for each municipality, shall have regard both to the area and population to be provided for, making provision, however, for not more than ten per cent of the factory waste and excluding all waste from gas works and all substances or discharges which may injuriously affect the integrity of the sewer when constructed.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-12 - Contracts for construction, maintenance and operation of intercepting sewer; contents

58:14-12. Contracts for construction, maintenance and operation of intercepting sewer; contents
Any two or more of said municipalities, at any time after the expiration of three months from the date of the delivery of copies of the maps, plans, specifications and estimates as aforesaid, may, by resolution of their governing bodies or boards having charge of their finances, enter into a contract in writing with each other and with the commissioners, in their corporate capacities, for the construction, maintenance and operation of said sewer, plant and works, with the appurtenances, or of so much thereof as may be necessary and appropriate for the contracting municipalities, together with works, machinery, appliances and other things requisite or useful for the purposes to be accomplished by the intercepting sewer, and for the purchase of lands, rights in lands and other property requisite or useful therefor. The contract herein authorized shall generally describe the route, line, size and capacity of such intercepting sewer and shall fix the percentage of the capacity therein, to the use of which each of the contracting municipalities shall be entitled, together with the percentage of the cost and expense of construction, repair, maintenance and operation of the same to be paid by each of the contracting municipalities.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-13 - Apportionment of cost of construction; valuation of taxable property

58:14-13. Apportionment of cost of construction; valuation of taxable property
The cost of the construction of said sewer, plant and works shall in the contract be apportioned to the respective contracting municipalities in such proportion as the taxable property, real and personal, within so much of the municipality so contracting as is embraced in the sewerage district bears to the total amount of taxable property, real and personal, within so much of all the municipalities so contracting as is embraced within the sewerage district, as returned and certified by the respective taxing boards and taxing officers of the municipalities for the year one thousand nine hundred and seven. For said purpose, all taxable property, real and personal, shall be assessed at its true value and each assessor, taxing board and taxing officer for the several municipalities so contracting shall examine, compute and determine, and certify to the commissioners on or before the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the amount of taxable property, real and personal, assessed for the year one thousand nine hundred and seven to and upon persons and property within so much of the several municipalities so contracting as lie within the district. The books of each of said assessors, taxing boards and taxing officers shall at all times be open for examination to the commissioners and to the contracting municipalities, and their officers and agents, for the purpose of examining, checking and verifying said certificates.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-14 - Provision for increase of sewer capacity

58:14-14. Provision for increase of sewer capacity
In case any contracting municipality shall request sewage capacity in excess of what would be allotted to it for sewage, including ten per cent of factory waste, provision may be made in the contract for the enlargement of the sewer, plant and works, in order to accommodate and dispose of a larger quantity of factory waste, such increase in accommodation to be made at the expense of the municipality making requisition therefor.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-15 - Annual apportionment of cost of maintenance, repair and operation

58:14-15. Annual apportionment of cost of maintenance, repair and operation
The cost of maintenance, repair and operation of said sewer, plant and works shall, by the terms of the contract, be apportioned annually to the respective municipalities entering into the contract, according to the amount of sewage delivered or discharged by them respectively into any sewer or other receptacle provided or constructed by the commissioners for the reception of the same. Included in the cost of operation shall be an amount to compensate any municipality for the loss of real estate taxes which would be due otherwise on the land exempted from taxation for the location thereon of a sewer plant serving other municipalities. The annual lost real estate taxes shall be calculated by applying the general tax rate of the municipality to the assessed value of the lands so exempted. The assessed value of such exempt lands shall be determined by multiplying the number of acres and the average assessed value per acre of taxable lands contiguous to the exempt land. The moneys received by the commissioners for this purpose shall be paid annually by them to the municipality in which the sewer plant is located. Amended by L.1975, c. 254, s. 1, eff. Nov. 25, 1975; L.1979, c. 40, s. 1, eff. March 14, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-15.1 - Installment payments for cost of maintenance, repair and operation

58:14-15.1. Installment payments for cost of maintenance, repair and operation
Payments by municipalities to the commissioners pursuant to any contract entered into for the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of a sewer, plant or works constructed by the commissioners, shall be made in equal quarterly installments on February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year. L.1982, c. 92, s. 1, eff. July 28, 1982.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-16 - Contract provisions as to construction, repair and operation; purchase of lands

58:14-16. Contract provisions as to construction, repair and operation; purchase of lands
The contract shall provide for the construction by the commissioners of an intercepting sewer or sewers, plant and works, reasonably sufficient in size and capacity to intercept and dispose of sewage and other polluting matter of the contracting municipalities for the present, and, so far as can be estimated and foreseen, for the future, and the sewer or sewers, plant and works may differ substantially in details from the preliminary maps, plans, specifications and estimates submitted to the municipalities as hereinbefore directed. The several contracting municipalities and the commissioners are hereby vested with absolute discretion in the determination of the size and capacity of each such intercepting sewer, plant and works. The contract shall also provide for the building, repair, operation, maintenance and cleaning of any such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and for the purchase of the necessary lands, rights in land and other property by the commissioners, and for the payment of the cost and expense thereof by the several contracting municipalities to the commissioners.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-17 - Items included in cost of construction

58:14-17. Items included in cost of construction
The total cost and expense of constructing said intercepting sewer, plant and works shall include the expenses of the commissioners incurred prior to March eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and not otherwise provided for, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, also the cost of preliminary maps, plans, specifications and estimates herein referred to, also the salary or other compensation of the commissioners up to the completion of such intercepting sewer, plant and works, together with all incidental expenses of maintaining their corporate organization and of clerical and engineering services, and the reasonable compensation of counsel which they are hereby authorized to employ.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-18 - Items included in cost of maintenance, repairs and operation

58:14-18. Items included in cost of maintenance, repairs and operation
The cost and expense of maintaining, repairing and operating said intercepting sewer, works and plant, shall include the salaries or other compensation of the commissioners, also charges for clerical and engineering services, compensation of counsel and incidental expenses of maintaining their corporate organization.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-19 - Contracting municipalities to exercise powers of eminent domain

58:14-19. Contracting municipalities to exercise powers of eminent domain
In all the contracts to be made between the municipalities and the commissioners pursuant to the terms of this chapter, the several municipalities so contracting shall undertake and agree, upon the request of the commissioners, to exercise and put in operation all their powers of eminent domain for the condemnation of lands, rights in lands and other property for the benefit of such joint enterprise, either within or outside the territory of such contracting municipalities.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-20 - Commissioners may acquire and condemn lands; construction and operation of sewer

58:14-20. Commissioners may acquire and condemn lands; construction and operation of sewer
Upon the making of the contract hereby authorized, the commissioners may, in their own corporate name, purchase and acquire all lands, and rights and interest in lands, either within or outside the territory of the joint contracting municipalities, which may be necessary for the construction of such intercepting sewer and its appurtenances, and for this purpose may condemn the same in the manner provided by the general laws of this state relating to the condemnation of lands for public use, and may construct, maintain and operate such intercepting sewer and its appurtenances, together with all works, machinery, appliances and other things requisite or useful for the purposes to be accomplished by the same.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-21 - Location of sewer; entry upon and digging up of streets, etc.

58:14-21. Location of sewer; entry upon and digging up of streets, etc.
The commissioners, in the execution of said works, may construct said intercepting sewer and the necessary appurtenances thereto to the point or points of discharge and disposal determined by the contract, and for this purpose may pass through or partly through territory situated within the bounds of any municipality, whether or not it is one of those contracting with it for the construction of said works, and they may construct any such intercepting sewer and its appurtenances along, under and over any watercourse, or under or over or along or across any street, turnpike, road, railroad, highway or other way, or public park or grounds, and in or upon private or public land under water, in such way and manner, however, as not unnecessarily to obstruct or impede travel or navigation, and may enter upon and dig up any street, highway or private or public land for the purpose of constructing said works and appurtenances and for repairing and maintaining the same, and in a general way may do all other acts and things necessary, convenient and proper in connection with the making and maintaining of the improvement contemplated by the provisions of this chapter. The highways dug up and disturbed shall be restored to their former condition as near as may be.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-22 - $7,500 bid threshold

58:14-22. $7,500 bid threshold
a. Whenever any work to be performed or any material to be furnished shall involve an expenditure of money exceeding the sum of $7,500.00 or, after June 30, 1985, the amount determined pursuant to subsection b. of this section, the commissioners shall designate the time when they will meet at their usual place of meeting to receive proposals in writing for doing the work and furnishing the material, and the commissioners shall order their clerk to give notice by advertisement, inserted in at least two newspapers printed and circulating, respectively, in two of the counties of the district, at least 10 days before the time of such meeting, of the work to be done and the material to be furnished, particular specifications of which they shall cause to be filed in their office at the time of such order. All proposals received shall be publicly opened by the commissioners or the chief administrative officer of the commission and the commissioners shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. All contractors shall be required to give bond satisfactory in amount and security to the commissioners. b. Commencing January 1, 1985, the Governor, in consultation with the Department of the Treasury, shall, no later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year, adjust the threshold amount set forth in subsection a. of this section, or subsequent to 1985, the threshold amount resulting from any adjustment under this subsection, in direct proportion to the rise or fall of the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers in the New York City and Philadelphia areas, as reported by the United States Department of Labor. The Governor shall, no later than June 1 of each odd-numbered year, notify the commissioners about the adjustment. The adjustment shall become effective on July 1 of each odd-numbered year. c. Nothing in this act shall prohibit the commissioners from entering into a joint agreement pursuant to section 10 of P.L. 1971, c. 198 (C. 40A:11-10) for the purchase of work related to sewage sludge disposaL. All such agreements shall be entered into by resolution of the commissioners and shall be subject to the requirements of P.L. 1971, c. 198 (C. 40A:11-1 et seq.). Amended by L. 1980, c. 85, s. 1, eff. Aug. 21, 1980; L. 1984, c. 220, s. 1, eff. Dec. 20, 1984; L. 1985, c. 452, s. 3, eff. Jan. 14, 1986.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-23 - Contracting municipalities may borrow money and issue bonds; limit of indebtedness

58:14-23. Contracting municipalities may borrow money and issue bonds; limit of indebtedness
For the purpose of defraying the cost and expense of the construction of any such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and the appurtenances thereof, and of making the payments which shall be designated and required to be made by such joint contract, the governing body or board in charge of the finances of each contracting municipality may borrow the money necessary to make such payments upon the notes or other temporary obligations of such municipality, which notes or obligations may be renewed from time to time until permanent bonds shall have been issued by such municipality to take up and pay for the same. Each contracting municipality may, from time to time, issue its bonds for the purpose of raising money necessary to pay its notes or other temporary obligations, including interest, issued and outstanding for the purpose hereinbefore stated, or to make any of the payments required by said contract, which said bonds shall be in such amounts and bear interest at such rate, not exceeding six per cent per annum, and shall be payable at such time and place, as the governing body or board having charge of the finances of such municipality shall by resolution duly adopted determine. The total amount of indebtedness incurred and of bonds issued by any municipality under the authority of this chapter shall not exceed five per cent of the tax ratables within such municipality, as shown by its official books of the last assessment for taxes therein, but said indebtedness and bonds shall be held to be authorized in addition to the amount of indebtedness and bonds fixed by the charter or any general law as a limitation beyond which the municipality may not incur indebtedness or issue bonds, and said indebtedness and bonds authorized by this chapter shall not be taken to be included within or governed by any such limitation; nor shall the method of issuing bonds authorized by this chapter be governed or determined by any provisions of any other special or general law.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-24 - Commissioners may borrow money; security

58:14-24. Commissioners may borrow money; security
Upon the making of any such contract as is herein provided for, the commissioners may borrow upon their corporate notes, or other obligations, any moneys which may be required by them in the performance of said contract, and for the payment of moneys so borrowed, the contract with the several municipalities executing the same shall be security.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-25 - Contracts with certain municipalities and persons for use of sewers, etc.

58:14-25. Contracts with certain municipalities and persons for use of sewers, etc.
At any time after the making of a contract in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the commissioners may, with the consent of each of the municipalities which have contracted with them, evidenced by resolution of the body or board having charge of its sewer system or authorized to construct sewers therein, enter into a contract with any municipality lying in whole or in part within the drainage area of the Passaic river between the Great falls at the city of Paterson and Newark bay, and including the boroughs of Totowa, West Paterson and North Haledon in Passaic county, for the following purposes: a. The use of said intercepting sewer and its appurtenances and for participation in the benefits and in the cost of the construction, operation and maintenance of the same. b. To permit any municipality already a party to the original contract to allot a portion of its capacity in said sewer to any other municipality within the drainage area for the purpose of providing an outlet for the sewage of such other municipality. The commissioners may, with like consent, enter into a contract with any person owning or occupying lands in said drainage area for the use of said intercepting sewer and appurtenances, and for participation in the benefits and in the cost of construction and maintenance of the same. All of said contracts shall be entered into by the commissioners upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon in any such contract, and any moneys paid in accordance with the terms of such further contract by such municipality or person may be used and applied by the commissioners to the cost of the completion of the intercepting sewer and appurtenances, or to the payment of the cost of the operation and maintenance of the same, or to the reduction of the amount which any contracting municipality may be called upon to pay to the commissioners by virtue of its said contract, as may be agreed upon in any such contract. Amended by L.1975, c. 18, s. 1, eff. Feb. 27, 1975.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-26 - Municipalities contracting under section 58:14-25 may borrow money

58:14-26. Municipalities contracting under section 58:14-25 may borrow money
Every municipality which shall have contracted with the commissioners under the authority of section 58:14-25 of this title shall have as full power to borrow money and make an issue of notes or other temporary obligations and bonds for the purpose of making the payments designated and required to be made under any such contract as is given by this chapter to the municipalities first entering into contract with the commissioners for the purpose of defraying the cost and expense of the construction of such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and the appurtenances thereof, and of making the payments designated and required to be made by and under such contracts.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-27 - Contract with certain municipalities to pay their portion of cost of operation and maintenance

58:14-27. Contract with certain municipalities to pay their portion of cost of operation and maintenance
Where any municipality party to the original contract has made an agreement to allot a portion of its capacity in said sewer to another municipality as provided by section 58:14-25 of this title, and such other municipality has a population of not less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand, the commissioners may enter into a contract with the latter municipality to pay its portion of the cost of operation and maintenance of said sewer, based on the amount of use thereof by the municipality. Upon the execution of such a contract, the municipality shall have the right to participate in the use and benefit of said sewer, but not in excess of the capacity allotted to it under said agreement, as provided for in said section 58:14-25, and the rights to the use and benefits of the sewer by the municipality making the allotment shall be decreased to the extent of the allotment so made. It shall not be necessary to have the consent of the municipalities that were parties to the original contract with the commissioners for the execution of such contract as is authorized by this section.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-28 - Contracts by municipalities with others for use of reserve sewer capacity

58:14-28. Contracts by municipalities with others for use of reserve sewer capacity
One or more of the municipalities which are parties to the contract with the commissioners, or to contracts supplementary thereto, as authorized by this chapter, may enter into a contract with any municipality or person, or any two or more of them, whether within or without the district, for the use of any reserve or unused sewer capacity owned by any such municipality in the intercepting sewer, plant and works constructed and operated by the commissioners, for the disposal of sewage or other polluting matter originating in the territory tributary to the Passaic river between the Great falls and Newark bay, either by a continuous or an intermittent flow to the extent and for so long only as such flow shall not interfere with the capacity of such sewer, plant or works belonging to such municipality, upon such annual rental or compensation for such use as may be agreed upon and the payment of the annual cost of maintenance, repair and operation upon the same basis as the municipalities who are parties to the contract with the commissioners or contracts supplementary thereto authorized by this chapter. A copy of any such contract shall be filed with the commissioners and approved by them before becoming operative. Any such contract as hereby authorized shall terminate and all rights thereunder shall cease upon one year's written notice given by either of the parties thereto or by the commissioners.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-29 - Annual statement of reserve sewer capacity

58:14-29. Annual statement of reserve sewer capacity
The commissioners shall prepare annually a statement showing the maximum sewage flows and sewer capacity requirements for each municipality participating in the use of said sewer, plant and works and determine the difference between the capacity allotments and the sewer capacity requirements for each municipality for the ensuing year, which shall be known as "reserve sewer capacity" .
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-30 - Supplementary contracts

58:14-30. Supplementary contracts
The commissioners and the municipalities contracting with them for the construction and operation of an intercepting sewer and its appurtenances in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, may enter into further contract or contracts supplementary to or amendatory of any such existing contract, relating to any matter embodied in such existing contract.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 58 - Waters and Water Supply › Section 58:14-31 - Control of sewers; payment by municipalities of cost of maintenance and operation

58:14-31. Control of sewers; payment by municipalities of cost of maintenance and operation
Upon the completion of any such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and the appurtenances thereof, the commissioners shall retain and have the sole control and charge thereof, and every municipality using the same shall pay annually to the commissioners, on demand, its proportion of the cost of maintenance and operation thereof, as the same may be certified to it from time to time by the commissioners pursuant to the terms of said contract, which cost of maintenance and operation shall be raised and provided for by said municipalities by taxation, or by the issuance of temporary loan bonds in anticipation of taxation.