18A:7G-17 - Annual payment to financing authority by State - New Jersey Statutes

18A:7G-17  Annual payment to financing authority by State.

17.In each fiscal year the State Treasurer shall pay from the General Fund to the financing authority, in accordance with a contract between the State Treasurer and the financing authority as authorized pursuant to section 18 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-18), an amount equal to the debt service amount due to be paid in the State fiscal year on the bonds or refunding bonds of the financing authority issued or incurred pursuant to section 14 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-14) and any additional costs authorized pursuant to that section; provided that all such payments from the General Fund shall be subject to and dependent upon appropriations being made from time to time by the Legislature for those purposes, and provided further that all payments shall be used only to pay for the costs of school facilities projects and the costs of financing those projects.

In regard to the increase in the amount of bonds authorized to be issued by the financing authority pursuant to P.L.2008, c.39 for the State share of costs for school facilities projects, debt service on the bonds or refunding bonds issued or incurred by the financing authority pursuant to section 14 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-14) and any additional costs authorized pursuant to that section shall first be payable from revenues received from the gross income tax pursuant to the "New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act," P.L.1976, c.47 (C.54A:1-1 et seq.), except for debt service and additional costs for the administrative, insurance, operating, and other expenses of the financing authority and the development authority incurred in connection with school facilities projects.

L.2000, c.72, s.17; amended 2007, c.137, s.28; 2008, c.39, s.6.