58:14-23 - Contracting municipalities may borrow money and issue bonds; limit of indebtedness
58:14-23. Contracting municipalities may borrow money and issue bonds; limit of indebtedness
For the purpose of defraying the cost and expense of the construction of any such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and the appurtenances thereof, and of making the payments which shall be designated and required to be made by such joint contract, the governing body or board in charge of the finances of each contracting municipality may borrow the money necessary to make such payments upon the notes or other temporary obligations of such municipality, which notes or obligations may be renewed from time to time until permanent bonds shall have been issued by such municipality to take up and pay for the same. Each contracting municipality may, from time to time, issue its bonds for the purpose of raising money necessary to pay its notes or other temporary obligations, including interest, issued and outstanding for the purpose hereinbefore stated, or to make any of the payments required by said contract, which said bonds shall be in such amounts and bear interest at such rate, not exceeding six per cent per annum, and shall be payable at such time and place, as the governing body or board having charge of the finances of such municipality shall by resolution duly adopted determine. The total amount of indebtedness incurred and of bonds issued by any municipality under the authority of this chapter shall not exceed five per cent of the tax ratables within such municipality, as shown by its official books of the last assessment for taxes therein, but said indebtedness and bonds shall be held to be authorized in addition to the amount of indebtedness and bonds fixed by the charter or any general law as a limitation beyond which the municipality may not incur indebtedness or issue bonds, and said indebtedness and bonds authorized by this chapter shall not be taken to be included within or governed by any such limitation; nor shall the method of issuing bonds authorized by this chapter be governed or determined by any provisions of any other special or general law.