40:68A-14. Provisions of bond resolutions

Any bond resolution of a port authority providing for or authorizing the issuance of any bonds may contain provisions, and such port authority, in order to secure the payment of such bonds and in addition to its other powers, shall have power by provision in the bond resolution to covenant and agree with the several holders of such bonds, as to:

(1) The custody, security, use, expenditure or application of the proceeds of the bonds;

(2) The construction and completion, or replacement, of all or any part of the port facilities;

(3) The use, regulation, operation, maintenance, insurance or disposition of all or any part of the port facilities, or restrictions on the exercise of the powers of the port authority to dispose, or to limit or regulate the use, of all or any part of the port facilities;

(4) Payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, or any other obligations, and the sources and methods thereof, the rank or priority of any such bonds or obligations as to any lien or security, or the acceleration of the maturity of any such bonds or obligations;

(5) The use and disposition of any moneys of the port authority, including revenues derived or to be derived from the operation of all or any part of the port facilities, including any parts thereof theretofore constructed or acquired and any parts, extensions, replacements or improvements thereof thereafter constructed or acquired;

(6) Pledging, setting aside, depositing or trusteeing all or any part of the revenues or other moneys of the port authority to secure the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or any other obligations, or the payment of expenses of operation or maintenance of the port facilities, and the powers and duties of any trustee with regard thereto;

(7) The setting aside out of the revenues or other moneys of the port authority of reserves and sinking funds, and the source, custody, security, regulation, application and disposition thereof;

(8) The rents, rates, fees, or other charges for the services and use of the port facilities, including any parts thereof theretofore constructed or acquired and any parts, extensions, replacements or improvements thereof thereafter constructed or acquired, and the fixing, establishment, collection and enforcement of the same, the amount or amounts of revenues to be produced thereby, and the disposition and application of the amounts charged or collected;

(9) The assumption or payment or discharge of any indebtedness, liens or other claims relating to any part of the port facilities or any obligations having or which may have a lien on any part of the revenues;

(10) Limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or any other obligations or on the incurrence of indebtedness of the port authority;

(11) Vesting in a trustee or trustees such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the port authority may determine which may include any or all the rights, powers and duties of the trustee appointed by the holders of bonds pursuant to section seventeen of this act, and limiting or abrogating the right of such holders to appoint a trustee pursuant to section fifteen of this act or limiting the rights, duties and powers of such trustee;

(12) Payment of costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or of the provisions of the bond resolution or of any covenant or contract with the holders of the bonds;

(13) The procedure, if any, by which the terms of any covenant or contract with, or duty to, the holders of bonds may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given or evidenced; or

(14) Any other matter or course of conduct which, by recital in the bond resolution, is declared to further secure the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds.

All such provisions of the bond resolution and all such covenants and agreements shall constitute valid and legally binding contracts between the port authority and the several holders of the bonds, regardless of the time of issuance of such bonds, and shall be enforceable by any such holder or holders by mandamus or other appropriate action, suit, or proceeding at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction.

L.1948, c. 349, p. 1391, s. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1948.