40A:66-15 Provisions, covenants with bond holders.

15. Any bond resolution of the municipal shared services energy authority providing for or authorizing the issuance of any bonds may contain provisions, and the municipal shared services energy authority shall, in order to secure the payment of the bonds in addition to its other powers, have the power by the provisions in the bond resolution to covenant and agree with the several holders of the bonds, as to:

a. The custody, security, use, expenditure, or application of the proceeds of the bonds;

b. The construction and completion, or replacement, of all or any part of an electric supply project of the municipal shared services energy authority or its system;

c. The use, regulation, operation, maintenance, insurance, or disposition of all or any part of an electric supply project of the municipal shared services energy authority, or its system, or restrictions on the exercise of the powers of the municipal shared services energy authority to dispose of, limit, or regulate the use of all or any part of the electric supply project or system;

d. The 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 the bonds or obligations as to any lien or security, or the acceleration of the maturity of the bonds or obligations;

e. The use and disposition of any monies of the municipal shared services energy authority, including any of the authority's revenues, derived or to be derived from the operation of all or any part of one or more electric supply projects of the municipal shared services energy authority or systems thereof, including any parts thereof that are thereafter constructed or acquired as any of the project's parts, extensions, replacements, or improvements thereafter constructed or acquired;

f. The pledging, setting aside, depositing, or acting as trustee for all or any part of the system revenues or other monies of the municipal shared services energy 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 one or more electric supply projects of the municipal shared services energy authority or its system, and the powers and duties of any trustee with regard thereto;

g. The setting aside out of the system revenues or other monies of the municipal shared services energy authority including its reserves and sinking funds, and the source, custody, security, regulation, application, and disposition thereof;

h. The determination or definition of the system revenues or of the expenses of operation and maintenance of the system or one or more of its electric supply projects;

i. The rents, rates, fees, or other charges in connection with the use, products, or services of one or more electric supply projects of the municipal shared services energy authority or its system, including any of the parts, extensions, replacements, or improvements of the project or its system thereafter constructed or acquired, and the fixing, establishment, collection, and enforcement of those charges, the amount of electric supply project revenues or system revenues to be produced thereby, and the disposition and application of the amounts charged or collected;

j. The assumption or payment or discharge of any indebtedness, liens, or other claims relating to the whole or any part of one or more electric supply projects of the municipal shared services energy authority or of its system for any obligations having or which may have a lien on any part of the system of the municipal shared services energy authority;

k. The limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or any other obligations or on the incurrence of indebtedness of the municipal shared services energy authority;

1. The limitations on the powers of the municipal shared services energy authority to construct, acquire or operate, or to permit the construction, acquisition, or operation of, any plants, structures, facilities, or properties which may compete or tend to compete with one or more of the municipal shared services energy authority's electric supply projects or any part of its system;

m. The vesting in a trustee or trustees within or without the State any property, rights, powers, and duties in trust as the municipal shared services energy authority may determine, which may include any or all of the rights, powers, and duties of the trustee appointed by the holders of bonds, and limiting or abrogating the right of the holders to appoint a trustee or limiting the rights, duties, and powers of the trustee;

n. The payment of costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or of the provisions of the bond resolutions or of any covenant or contract with the holders of the bonds;

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

p. 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.

The provisions of the bond resolution and the covenants and agreements relative thereto shall constitute valid and legally binding contracts between the municipal shared services energy authority and the several holders of the bonds, regardless of the time of issuance of the bonds, and shall be enforceable by any holder or holders by appropriate suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction, or by proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ.

L.2015, c.129, s.15.