52:27H-41.1 - Power of authority relative to issuance of bonds, notes
52:27H-41.1 Power of authority relative to issuance of bonds, notes.
12. a. The authority shall have the power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its bonds or notes in such principal amounts as in the opinion of the authority shall be necessary to provide sufficient funds for any of its corporate purposes, including the payment, funding or refunding of the principal of, or interest or redemption premiums on, any bonds or notes issued by it whether the bonds or notes or interest to be funded or refunded have or have not become due, and the establishment or increase of such reserves to secure or to pay such bonds or notes or interest thereon and all other costs or expenses of the authority incident to and necessary to carry out its corporate purposes and powers.
b.Whether or not the bonds and notes are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under the terms of Title 12A, Commercial Transactions, of the New Jersey Statutes, the bonds and notes are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all the purposes of that Title 12A, subject only to the provisions of the bonds and notes for registration.
c.Bonds or notes of the authority shall be authorized by a resolution or resolutions of the authority and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date, or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates of interest per annum which may be fixed or may change at such time and in accordance with a specified formula or method of determination, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable from such sources in such medium of payment at such place or places within or without the State, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution or resolutions may provide.
d.Bonds or notes of the authority may be sold at public or private sale at such price or prices and in such manner as the authority shall determine. Every bond shall mature and be paid not later than 35 years from the date thereof.
e.Bonds or notes may be issued under the provisions of P.L.2008, c.47 (C.52:27H-31.1 et al.) 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 other things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by the provisions of P.L.2008, c.47 (C.52:27H-31.1 et al.).
f.Bonds and notes of the authority issued under the provisions of P.L.2008, c.47 (C.52:27H-31.1 et al.) shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the State or of any political subdivision thereof other than the authority and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the State or of any such political subdivision or be or constitute a pledge of the faith and credit of the State or of any such political subdivision but all such bonds and notes, unless funded or refunded by bonds or notes of the authority, shall be payable solely from revenues or funds pledged or available for their payment as authorized in P.L.2008, c.47 (C.52:27H-31.1 et al.). Each bond and note shall contain on its face a statement to the effect that the authority is obligated to pay the principal thereof or the interest thereon only from revenues, receipts or funds pledged or available for their payment as authorized in P.L.2008, c.47 (C.52:27H-31.1 et al.) and that neither the State nor any political subdivision thereof is obligated to pay such principal or interest and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or any political subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on such bonds or notes.
L.2008, c.47, s.12.