52:27-45.2 - Warrants for funding or refunding indebtedness; ordinance or resolution; special fund for payment of warrants; form; interest
52:27-45.2. Warrants for funding or refunding indebtedness; ordinance or resolution; special fund for payment of warrants; form; interest Any such municipality may provide in any such plan or plans for the issuance of warrants for the purpose of funding or refunding all or any part of the principal of and interest on the indebtedness of such municipality including the principal of and interest on the indebtedness of such municipality to any school district coterminous with said municipality. Such warrants may be authorized by and issued, sold or exchanged pursuant to ordinance or resolution, which ordinance or resolution shall provide for the creation of a special fund or funds for the payment thereof in the manner hereinafter provided, and such warrants shall be payable solely from said fund or funds. Such warrants shall be in such form and tenor and executed in such manner and shall be dated at such time or times and shall bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding six per centum (6%) per annum, as the council or other governing body of such municipality shall determine. Such warrants may contain a reservation of an option of redemption at such time or times upon such terms and conditions and with such premiums as the council or other governing body of such municipality may elect. Said warrants shall state upon their face that they are payable solely from such special fund, naming the same, and shall be issued in registered form only. Payment of interest on said warrants shall be by check or bank draft and suitable provisions for the registration of said warrants and the transfers of same and provisions regarding the payment of interest shall be endorsed thereon. The ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of any such warrants shall specify the source of revenue for the special fund therein created for the payment thereof, which shall consist of all or a specified part of the proceeds of the sale and other liquidation of real estate or rights or interests therein, acquired by the municipality by virtue of the levy, collection and enforcement of taxes and special assessments theretofore levied or confirmed and the certificates of tax sale or tax and assessment title liens standing in the name of the municipality, theretofore acquired and subsequent taxes and assessments accruing thereto (sometimes hereinafter referred to collectively as "assets" ). Such ordinance or resolution shall pledge the assets to such special fund.
L.1939, c. 56, p. 83, s. 2.