Title 40A, Title 40A: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

40A:31-11.1 Additional fees for municipally-operated water supply system. 10. a. For a property connected to the water supply system for less than 20 years, a local unit operating a county or municipal water supply facility may charge an additional connection or tapping fee for a…

40A:31-11.2 Credit toward connection, tapping fee for certain water supply facilities. 11. a. A local unit operating a county or municipal water supply facility shall provide a credit applicable toward a connection or tapping fee to be charged for a reconnection of a disconnected…

40A:31-11.3 Reduction in fees for locally-run water supply facility. 12. a. A local unit operating a county or municipal water supply facility shall establish within its rates or schedules a 50% reduction in the connection fee or tapping fee assessed pursuant to N.J.S.40A:31-11 f…

40A:31-12 Rates, rentals, connection fees, or other charges as lien on real property; discontinuance of service. 40A:31-12. a. Rates, rentals, connection fees or other charges levied in accordance with N.J.S.40A:31-10 and 40A:31-11, shall be a first lien or charge against the pro…

40A:31-13. Improvements financed by means of local improvement assessments If the governing body of one or more local units determines that all or any part of the cost of construction of water supply facilities acquired or constructed pursuant to this act should be financed by lo…

40A:31-14. Local improvement assessments; procedures for and manner of assessment and collection Upon completion of the improvements made pursuant to N.J.S.40A:31-13, the governing body or governing bodies shall assess the costs and expenses of the water supply facilities on the …

40A:31-15. Bonds issued by one or more units; debt service payments A local unit, pursuant to an agreement with one or more other local units or the State, may bear the entire cost of the acquisition or construction of water supply facilities and issue bonds therefor, or may shar…

40A:31-16. Water facilities deemed a self-liquidating purpose under certain circumstances a. Principal and interest payments on bonds issued in accordance with subsection c. of N.J.S.40A:31-9 and operating and maintenance costs for the water supply facilities, shall not be includ…

40A:31-17. Payments by local unit to another local unit The chief fiscal officer of another government having entered into a contract pursuant to this act, shall cause to be paid to the local unit such amounts of money at such times as shall be stipulated in the contract and cert…

40A:31-18. Contracts entered into prior to appropriations therefor A local unit shall have the power to authorize, by resolution, officials to enter into and execute a contract pursuant to this act for such periods of time and under such terms and conditions as are deemed proper …

40A:31-19. Right of entry onto private property to make surveys and investigations; interference therewith A local unit or local units may authorize officials or other agents of the local unit or units to enter upon any land or water for the purpose of making surveys, studies, in…

40A:31-2. Legislative purpose The Legislature finds and declares it to be in the public interest and to be the policy of this State to foster and promote by all reasonable means the collection, storage and distribution of an adequate supply of water for the inhabitants and busine…

40A:31-20. Payments owing by private water companies A private water company or industry which shall have entered into a contract with a local unit or local units pursuant to this act, shall pay at such time as may be provided in the contract, the sum of money certified to it on …

40A:31-21. Municipal extension to water supply facilities of a public utility; financing of the extension; and its sale or lease A municipality in which water supply facilities are furnished by a private water company may, in accordance with the provisions of this act, provide fo…

40A:31-22. Bonds as legal investments Notwithstanding any restrictions contained in any other law, the State and all public officers, local units, political subdivisions and public bodies, or agencies thereof, banks, trust companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, …

40A:31-23 Nonimpairment of obligations for provision of water supply services, facilities; BPU jurisdiction. 40A:31-23. a. Nothing contained in this act shall in any way impair the obligations previously assumed by any other public or private agency for the provision of water sup…

40A:31-24. Statutes repealed The following acts are repealed: P.L.1979, c.451 (C.40:14C-1 through 40:14C-15); R.S.40:62-47 through 40:62-59; R.S.40:62-62 through 40:62-95; and P.L.1981, c.497, s. 1-4 (C.40:62-61.2 through 40:62-61.5); and P.L.1975, c.184, s.1 (C.40:62-85.2). L.19…

40A:31-3 Definitions. 40A:31-3. As used in the "County and Municipal Water Supply Act," N.J.S.40A:31-1 et seq.: a. "Bonds" means bond anticipation notes or bonds issued in accordance with the "Local Bond Law," N.J.S.40A:2-1 et seq. b. "Cost" as applied to water supply facilities …

40A:31-4. Acquisition, construction or operation of water supply facilities by one or more local units A local unit may, either separately or in combination with one or more other local units, a private water company subject to regulation by the Board of Public Utilities as a pub…

40A:31-5 Powers. 40A:31-5. One or more local units adopting an ordinance or resolution in accordance with N.J.S.40A:31-4 are authorized and empowered: a. Alone or in combination with a private water company or the State, to acquire, construct, improve, extend, enlarge or reconstr…

40A:31-5.1 Residency requirements for employees of local unit operating certain water system. 4. Any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order, or directive establishing, as may be permitted by law, a residency requirement for employees of a local unit operating a water syst…

40A:31-6. Surveys, maps and other costs; reimbursement from bond funds a. Whenever a local unit pursuant to N.J.S.40A:31-4 chooses to exercise powers granted hereunder, the local unit shall make or cause to be made such surveys, investigations, studies, borings, maps, plans, draw…

40A:31-7. Property damaged; repair, restoration or compensation All public or private property damaged or destroyed in carrying out the powers granted by this act shall be restored or repaired and, as nearly as practicable, placed in its original condition, or adequate compensati…

40A:31-8. Relocation of public utility property Whenever the local unit or units determine that it is necessary that any public utility facilities such as tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles and other equipment and appliances of any public utility, as def…

40A:31-9. Bonds and security therefor A local unit having adopted an ordinance or resolution pursuant to N.J.S.40A:31-4 may issue bonds pursuant to the provisions of the "Local Bond Law," N.J.S.40A:2-1 et seq. for all or part of the cost of water supply facilities. Proceeds from …