13:13-12.5 - Contracts for sale of water; duration; repair and reconstruction - New Jersey Statutes

13:13-12.5.  Contracts for sale of water;  duration;  repair and reconstruction
    Without limiting the powers herein granted to the Department of Conservation  and Development it may, if it deems proper, enter into contracts for the sale,  for industrial purposes, of water from the said canal but such contracts shall  not exceed a duration of twenty-five years and which contracts may as a part  thereof provide that the purchaser of such industrial water may repair,  reconstruct, rehabilitate, improve and maintain certain parts of the canal and  likewise require when such purchaser shall return to the canal the water  developed for such industrial purposes in such condition as the department may  require or determine and may likewise contract for the sale of such water for  industrial purposes by the withdrawal from the canal either in pipeline,  viaduct or other means of transmission to any convenient point within the  Raritan basin;  provided, however, that no contract for the sale of industrial  water or the repair, rehabilitation, reconstruction, maintenance and  improvement of the said canal shall be entered into or let or awarded unless  and until the Governor shall have approved thereof in writing.

     L.1944, c. 272, p. 660, s. 5.