52:18A-78.10. Municipalities; limitations on powers; provision of services; contractual agreements with local governmental agencies

a. No municipality shall modify or change the drawings, plans or specifications for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration or improvement of any project of the authority, or the construction, plumbing, heating, lighting or other mechanical branch of work necessary to complete the work in question, nor to require that any person, firm or corporation employed on any such work shall perform the work in any other or different manner than that provided by the drawings, plans and specifications, nor to require that any person, firm or corporation obtain any other or additional authority, approval, permit or certificate from the municipality in relation to the work being done, and the doing of the work by any person, firm or corporation in accordance with the terms of the drawings, plans, specifications or contracts shall not subject the person, firm or corporation to any liability or penalty, civil or criminal, other than as may be stated in the contracts or incidental to the proper enforcement thereof; nor shall any municipality require the authority or any State agency which leases or purchases the project, or any person, firm, partnership or corporation which leases or purchases the project for lease or purchase to a State agency, to obtain any other or additional authority, approval, permit, certificate or certificate of occupancy from the municipality as a condition of owning, using, maintaining, operating or occupying any project acquired, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, altered or improved by the authority or by any subsidiary thereof. The foregoing provisions shall not preclude any municipality from exercising the right of inspection for the purpose of requiring compliance by any project with local requirements for operation and maintenance, affecting the health, safety and welfare of the occupants thereof, provided that the compliance does not require changes, modifications or additions to the original construction of the project.

b. Each municipality in which any project of the authority is located shall provide for the project, whether then owned by the authority, any subsidiary, any State agency or any person, firm, partnership or corporation, police, fire, sanitation, health protection and other municipal services of the same character and to the same extent as those provided for other residents of the municipality.

c. In carrying out any project, the authority may enter into contractual agreements with local governmental agencies with respect to the furnishing of any community, municipal or public facilities or services necessary or desirable for the project, and any local governmental agency may enter into these contractual agreements with the authority and do all things necessary to carry out its obligations under the same.

L.1981, c. 120, s. 10, eff. April 16, 1981. Amended by L.1983, c. 138, s. 7, eff. April 14, 1983.