New Jersey § 40a:10-38
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 40a:10-38, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 40a:10-38.
A joint insurance fund, in order to secure the payment of its bonds shall have the
power by provision in the bond resolution to covenant and agree with the several holders
of a bond, as to: a. the custody, security, use, expenditure or application of the proceeds of a bond; b. payment of the principal of or interest on a bond and the sources and methods thereof,
the rank or priority of a bond obligation as to a lien or security, or the acceleration
of the maturity of a bond; c. the use and disposition of any moneys of the joint insurance fund; d. pleading, setting aside, depositing or trusteeing all or any moneys of the joint
insurance fund to secure the payment of the principal of or interest on the bond or
the payment of expenses of operation of the fund, and the powers and duties of a trustee
with regard thereto; e. the setting aside out of the moneys of the joint insurance fund of reserves and
sinking funds, and the source, custody, security, regulation, application and disposition
thereof; f. determination or definition of the moneys of the joint insurance fund or of the
expenses of its operation; g. the assessments or other charges imposed by the joint insurance fund and the fixing,
establishment, collection and enforcement of same, the amount to be raised thereby,
and the disposition and application of the amount charged or collected; h. the assumption or payment of any indebtedness, lien or other claim against the
joint insurance fund or any obligation having or which may have a lien on any moneys
of the fund; i. limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or on the incurrence of indebtedness
of the joint insurance fund; j. vesting in a trustee or trustees within or without the State the rights, powers
and duties in trust determined by the joint insurance fund, which powers and duties
may include any or all of the rights, powers and duties of the trustee appointed by
the holders of bonds pursuant to section 10 of this act, 1 and limiting or abrogating the right of the holders to appoint a trustee pursuant
to section 10 of this act or limiting the rights, duties and powers of the trustee; k. payment of costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or of the
provisions of the bond resolution or of any covenant or contract with the holders
of the bonds; l. the procedure, if any, by which the terms of a covenant or contract with, or duty
to, the holders of bonds may be amended or abrogated, which holders of bonds are required
to consent to such an amendment or abrogation before it can be enforced, and the manner
in which the consent may be given or evidenced; or m. any other matter or course of conduct which, by recital in the bond resolution,
is declared to further secure the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds. All provisions of the bond resolution and all covenants and agreements shall constitute
valid and legally binding contracts between the joint insurance fund and the several
holders of the bonds, regardless of the time of issuance of the bonds, and shall be
enforceable by any holder by appropriate action, suit or proceeding in lieu of prerogative
writ. 1
N.J.S.A. § 40A:10-38.10.
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