N.J. Stat. § 58:22-15
Any county, municipality or other political subdivision, or any public agency or body of the State of New Jersey, or any other person, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to the State of New Jersey at the request of the department, or to permit the department at its request to relocate, use, maintain or operate as part of its water supply facility without the necessity for any advertisement, order of court or other action or formality other than the authorizing resolution of the governing body of the county or municipality concerned or the regular and formal action of any authority or other person concerned, any real or personal property owned by it or him, including all or any part of any public highway or water supply facility, which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of this act and which may be accepted by the department. Any such sale, lease, loan, grant, conveyance or permit may be made with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited period of time. The department may enter into and perform any and all agreements with respect to property so accepted by it, including agreements for relocation of any public highway or for the assumption of principal or interest or both of indebtedness of such county, municipality, political subdivision, agency, or body, or person or of any mortgage or lien existing with respect to such property or for the operation and maintenance of such property as part of a water supply facility.
N.J.S. § 58:22-15