Section 5:10-10 - Bonds or notes; issuance; termsa. 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, 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 agency incident to and necessary to carry out its corporate purposes and powers.b. Except as may be otherwise expressly provided in the act or by the authority, every issue of bonds or notes shall be general obligations payable out of any revenues or funds of the authority, subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds or notes pledging any particular revenues or funds. The authority may issue such types or bonds or notes as it may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) bonds or notes as to which the principal and interest are payable (1) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of the part of a project financed with the proceeds of such bonds or notes; (2) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of certain designated parts of a project, whether or not the same are financed in whole or in part from the proceeds of such bonds or notes; or (3) from its revenues and receipts generally. Any such bonds or notes may be additionally secured by a pledge of any grant, subsidy or contribution from the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof or the State or any agency, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, or any person, firm or corporation, a pledge of any income or revenues, funds or moneys of the authority from any source whatsoever or from the proceeds of any credit agreement.c. 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, New Jersey Statutes, the bonds and notes are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all the purposes of said Title 12A, subject only to the provisions of the bonds and notes for registration.d. 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, be subject to such terms of redemption (with or without premium) and contain such options or rights to tender bonds or notes for purchase or redemption as such resolution or resolutions may provide.e. 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. Except for any bonds of the authority which may hereafter be guaranteed by the State within the limitations of Section II of Article VIII of the Constitution, every bond shall mature and be paid not later than 40 years from the date thereof.f. Except as otherwise provided by any law authorizing the guaranty by the State of bonds of the authority hereafter submitted to the people pursuant to Section II of Article VIII of the Constitution and approved by a majority of the legally qualified voters of the State voting thereon, bonds or notes may be issued under the provisions of the act without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau or agency of the State, and without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or other things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by the act.g. Except as otherwise provided by any law authorizing the guaranty of the State of bonds of the authority hereafter submitted to the people pursuant to Section II of Article VIII of the Constitution and approved by a majority of the legally qualified voters of the State voting thereon, bonds and notes of the authority issued under the provisions of the act 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 the act. Except for bonds of the authority which may hereafter be guaranteed by the State, 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 or funds of the authority 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.h. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the act shall be payable solely from revenues or funds provided or to be provided under the provisions of the act and nothing in the act shall be construed to authorize the authority to incur any indebtedness or liability on behalf of or payable by the State or any political subdivision thereof except as otherwise provided by any law authorizing the guaranty of the State of any bonds of the authority hereafter submitted to the people pursuant to Section II of Article VIII of the Constitution and approved by a majority of the legally qualified voters of the State voting thereon.i. The authority shall have the power to purchase bonds or notes out of any funds available therefor. The authority may hold, cancel or resell such bonds or notes, subject to and in accordance with agreements with holders of its bonds and notes.j. The authority may issue temporary or interim bonds or notes, pending the preparation of definitive bonds, exchangeable for definitive bonds.k. The authority, in connection with the authorization of bonds or notes to be issued and sold from time to time, may delegate to such officer or agent of the authority as the authority selects the power to determine the time and manner of sale, public or private, the maturities and rate of interest, which may be fixed or vary at such time and in accordance with a specified formula or method of determination; provided, however, that the amounts and maturities of, and the interest rate on these bonds shall be within the limits prescribed by the authority in its resolution delegating to that officer or agent the power to authorize the sale and issuance of those bonds or notes.L.1971, c.137, s.10, eff. 5/10/1971; amended by L.1978, c.47, s.2, eff. 6/19/1978; L.1984, c.215, s.7, eff. 12/18/1984, operative 1/7/1985.