40:62-113 - Negotiations; contract served on each municipality - New Jersey Statutes

40:62-113.  Negotiations;  contract served on each municipality    Immediately after organization the commission shall proceed to negotiate for  the purchase of the entire waterworks supplying water in the municipalities  making the application for its appointment, and in the other municipalities, if  any, supplied with water by said waterworks and may enter into a contract to  purchase said waterworks for compensation to be agreed upon or fixed by  condemnation proceedings as hereinafter provided. A copy of every contract to  purchase said waterworks shall forthwith be served by the commission on each of  the municipalities that made and joined in the application for the appointment  of the commission and the contract shall become binding only as to such two or  more of the municipalities that made the application for the appointment of the  commission, and joined therein, as shall by resolution of their governing  bodies file with the commission their assent thereto.  Such assents shall be so  filed within three months after the copies of the contract have been served on  the municipalities by the commission, as hereinbefore provided.

    In all applications, orders, reports and proceedings a general description of the property to be condemned shall be sufficient.