New Jersey § 52:18a-66
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§ 52:18a-66.
(a) The Authority shall have the power and is hereby authorized from time to time
to issue its negotiable bonds for any of its corporate purposes and, whenever it deems
refunding expedient to refund any bonds issued by it by the issuance of refunding
bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and may issue bonds
partially to refund bonds then outstanding and partially for any other of its corporate
purposes. The refunding bonds may be exchanged for the bonds to be refunded with such cash
adjustments as may be agreed, or may be sold and the proceeds applied to the purchase,
redemption or payment of the bonds to be refunded, including interest thereon and
any redemption premium payable thereon. (b) Except as may be otherwise expressly provided by the Authority, every issue of
bonds shall be general obligations payable out of any moneys or revenues of the Authority,
subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds pledging any particular
moneys or revenues. (c) Whether or not bonds issued by the Authority are of such form and character as
to be negotiable instruments, such bonds shall be fully negotiable within the meaning
and for all the purposes of the Negotiable Instruments Law 1 subject only to any provisions of the bonds for registration. (d) The Authority may issue temporary or interim bonds, pending the preparation of
definitive bonds, exchangeable for definitive bonds. (e) Bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the Authority and shall bear such date
or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding
six per centum (6%) per annum, be in such denominations, be in such form either coupon
or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be
payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, and be subject to such
terms of redemption with or without premium as such resolution or resolutions may
provide. Bonds may be sold at public or private sale, for such price or prices as the Authority
shall determine. (f) Any resolution of the Authority authorizing the issuance of bonds may appoint
a trustee or trustees, a paying agent or paying agents, or such other fiduciaries
as such resolution may provide. Any trustee, paying agent and other fiduciary so appointed may be any trust company
or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the State. (g) In order to secure the payment of its bonds, the Authority shall have power in
the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds (which shall constitute a contract
with the bondholders); (i) to pledge all or any part of its rents or revenues to which its right then exists
or may thereafter come into existence, and the moneys derived therefrom, and the proceeds
of bonds; (ii) to covenant against pledging all or any part of its rents or revenues, or against
mortgaging all or any part of its real or personal property then owned or thereafter
acquired, or against permitting or suffering any lien or such rents, revenues or property;
to covenant with respect to limitations on its right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose
of any project or any part thereof, or any property of any kind; (iii) to covenant as to the bonds to be issued and the limitations thereon and the
terms and conditions thereof and as to the custody, application and disposition of
the proceeds thereof, and to covenant as to the issuance of additional bonds or as
to limitations on the issuance of additional bonds and on the incurring of other debts
by it; (iv) to covenant as to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, or
any other obligations, as to the sources and methods of such payment, as to the rank
or priority of any such bonds or obligations with respect to any lien or security
or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any such bonds or obligations; (v) to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed or mutilated bonds; (vi) to covenant against extending the time for the payment of bonds or interest thereon; (vii) to covenant as to the redemption of bonds and to provide for the redemption
premiums and other terms and conditions thereof; (viii) to covenant as to the rates of rents and other charges to be established and
charged, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by rents or other
revenues and as to the use and disposition to be made thereof; to create or authorize
the creation of special funds or moneys to be held in pledge or otherwise for construction,
operating expenses, payment or redemption of bonds, reserves or other purposes and
to covenant as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in such funds; (ix) to establish the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract or covenant
with or for the benefit of the bondholders may be amended or abrogated, the amount
of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent
may be given; (x) to covenant as to the maintenance of its real and personal property, the replacement
thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance
moneys; (xi) to provide for the rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the
breach of any covenant, condition or obligation; to prescribe the events of default
and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds shall become or may
be declared due and payable before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which
any such declaration and its consequences may be waived; (xii) to vest in a trustee or trustees such property, rights, powers and duties in
trust for the bondholders, as the Authority may determine, which may include any or
all of the rights, powers and duties of the statutory trustee appointed by the holders
of bonds pursuant to paragraph (b) of the next following section of this act; 2 to limit or abrogate the rights of the holders of such bonds to appoint such statutory
trustee, or to limit the rights, duties and powers of such statutory trustee; (xiii) to limit the rights of the bondholders to enforce any pledge or covenant securing
the bonds; and (xiv) to make covenants other than and in addition to the covenants herein expressly
authorized, of like or different character; and to make such covenants to do or refrain
from doing such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in
order to better secure the bonds or which, in the absolute discretion of the Authority,
will tend to make the bonds more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants,
acts or things may not be enumerated herein; (h) Any pledge of rents or other revenues or other moneys made by the Authority shall
be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made; the rents or other revenues
or other moneys so pledged and thereafter received by the Authority shall immediately
be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further
act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties
having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the Authority, irrespective
of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need
be filed or recorded except in the records of the Authority. (i) Bonds may be issued under the provisions of this act without obtaining the consent
of any department, division, commission, board, bureau or agency of the State, and
without any other proceeding or the happening of any other conditions or things than
those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by this act. (j) The Authority shall not have power to mortgage real property. (k) Moneys of the Authority or moneys held in pledge or otherwise for the payment
of bonds or in any way to secure bonds and deposits of such moneys may be secured
in such manner as the Authority may require and all banks and trust companies are
authorized to give such security therefor. ( l ) Neither the members of the Authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be
liable personally on the bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability
by reason of the issuance thereof. (m) The Authority shall have the power to purchase bonds out of any funds available
therefor. The Authority may hold, cancel or resell such bonds subject to and in accordance
with agreements with bondholders. 1
Repealed; see, now, N.J.S.A. § 12A:3-101 et seq. 2
N.J.S.A. § 52:18A-67, par. (b).
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