40:14A-23 - Contracts for collection, treatment or disposal of sewage; powers of sewage authority - New Jersey Statutes

40:14A-23.  Contracts for collection, treatment or disposal of sewage; powers of sewage authority    Any sewerage authority, for the carrying out and effectuation of its purposes, and (a) any of the local units or (b) any other municipality whether within or without the district, and (c) any other sewerage authority, any municipal authority or any other public body of the State empowered to treat or  dispose of sewage (all such local units, municipalities, other sewerage authorities, municipal authorities and other public bodies being hereinafter referred to individually as a "governmental unit" ) for fostering the relief of waters in, bordering or entering the territorial area of the governmental unit from pollution or threatened pollution or assisting the sewerage authority  in carrying out and effectuating its purposes may enter into a contract or  contracts providing for or relating to the collection, treatment and disposal  of sewage originating in the district or received by the sewerage authority, or originating in the territorial area of or collected by the governmental unit,  by means of the sewerage system or any sewage facilities of the governmental  unit or both, and the cost and expense of such collection, treatment and  disposal.  Such contract or contracts may provide for the payment to the  sewerage authority by the governmental unit annually or otherwise of such sum  or sums of money, computed at fixed amounts or by a formula based on any  factors or other matters described in subsection (b) of section 8 of this act  or in any other manner, as said contract or contracts may provide, and the sum  or sums so payable may include provision for all or any part or a share of the  amounts necessary (1) to pay or provide for the expenses of operation and  maintenance of the sewerage system, including without limitation insurance,  extension, betterments and replacements and the principal of and interest on  any bonds, and (2) to provide for any deficits resulting from failure to  receive sums payable to the sewerage authority by such governmental unit, any  other governmental unit or county, or any person, or from any other cause, and  (3) to maintain such reserves or sinking funds for any of the foregoing as may  be required by the terms of any contract of the sewerage authority or as may be  deemed necessary or desirable by the sewerage authority.  Any such contract may provide that the sum or sums so payable to the sewerage authority shall be in  lieu of all or any part of the service charges which would otherwise be charged  and collected by the sewerage authority with regard to persons or real property  within the territorial area of the governmental unit.  Such contract or  contracts may also contain provisions as to the financing and payment of  expenses to be incurred by the sewerage authority and determined by it to be  necessary for its purposes prior to the placing in operation of the sewerage  system and may provide for the payment by the governmental unit to the sewerage  authority for application to such expenses or indebtedness therefor such sum or  sums of money, computed as said contract or contracts may provide and as the governing body (hereinafter described) of the governmental unit shall, by virtue of its authorization of and entry into said contract or contracts, determine to be necessary for the purposes of the sewerage authority.  Every such contract shall be authorized and entered into under and pursuant to a resolution adopted by the authority in the case of a sewerage or other authority, an ordinance of the governing body in the case of a municipality, a resolution of the governing body in the case of a county, and, in the case of any other public body, a resolution of the commission, council, board or body by whatever name it may be known (in this section sometimes referred to as "governing body" ) having charge of the finances of such public body, but the terms or text of said contract need not be set forth in full or stated in any such resolution or ordinance if the form of said contract is on file in the office of the clerk or other recording officer of the governmental unit or its governing body and the place and fact of such filing is described in the resolution or ordinance.  Any such contract may be made with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited time and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by or on behalf of the governmental unit and which may be agreed to by the sewerage authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds, and shall be valid whether or not an appropriation with respect thereto is made by the governmental unit prior to authorization or execution thereof.  Any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into pursuant to authority of this section shall be valid and shall be binding upon the parties thereto whether or not the terms or text of said contract had been set forth in full or stated in any ordinance or resolution authorizing such contract provided the form of such contract had been filed as aforesaid and the place and fact of such filing was described in such ordinance.  Every such governmental unit is hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts or things necessary, convenient or desirable to  carry out and perform every such contract and to provide for the payment or  discharge of any obligation thereunder in the same manner as other obligations  of such governmental unit.  Subject to any such contracts with the holders of  bonds, the sewerage authority is hereby authorized to do and perform any and  all acts or things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform  every such contract and, in accordance with any such contract, to waive,  modify, suspend or reduce the service charges which would otherwise be charged  and collected by the sewerage authority with regard to persons or real property within the territorial area of the governmental unit, but nothing in this section or any such contract shall prevent the sewerage authority from charging  and collecting, as if such contract had not been made, service charges with  regard to such persons and real property sufficient to meet any default or  deficiency in any payments agreed in such contract to be made by the  governmental unit.

     L.1946, c. 138, p. 666, s. 23.  Amended by L.1951, c. 127, p. 558, s. 8; L.1952, c. 277, p. 945, s. 3, eff. May 23, 1952;  L.1970, c. 37, s. 1, eff. May 1, 1970;  L.1971, c. 27, s. 1, eff. Feb. 11, 1971;  L.1974, c. 165, s. 1, eff. Dec. 6, 1974.