52:27-29.2. Acceptance of municipal or school district bonds in payment of tax or assessment title liens authorized; refunding bonds; tax payment certificates

Any municipality in which the commission is functioning may, with the approval of the commission, accept its own bonds and the bonds of the board of education of a coterminous school district, in payment of all or any part of the purchase price of tax title liens and assessment title liens held by such municipality or in payment of all or any part of the purchase price of real property acquired by such municipality through the foreclosure of such tax title liens and assessment title liens and may exchange such tax title liens and assessment title liens and such real property for such bonds at such times and for such prices as the governing body of such municipality shall determine, subject to the approval of the commission. Such municipalities and boards of education may issue refunding bonds in the manner now or hereafter provided in this chapter or any other law for the purpose of refunding all or any part of the balance due to the holders of the bonds presented in payment of such tax title liens and assessment title liens or such real property, and such municipalities and boards of education may also issue nontransferable, noninterest-bearing tax payment certificates in such denominations as may be determined by such municipalities and such boards of education for the purpose of refunding all or any part of the balance due to the holders of the bonds presented in payment of such tax title liens and assessment title liens or such real property, which tax payment certificates shall not be payable in cash but shall be acceptable at their face value in payment of future taxes levied by the state, county or municipality and school district for state, county, local municipal and school district purposes; provided, that such tax payment certificates shall recite on their face that they are nontransferable and noninterest-bearing and not payable in cash but acceptable at their face value only in payment of such future taxes, and provided further that the issuance of such refunding bonds and of such tax payment certificates be approved by the commission. It is the intention of this section that such municipalities and boards of education may issue both refunding bonds and tax payment certificates as herein above provided in such proportions as may be determined by them, or may issue such refunding bonds only or such tax payment certificates only, as may be determined by them, in payment of all or any part of the balance due to the holders of the bonds presented in payment of the purchase price of such tax title liens and assessment title liens or such real property.

Tax payment certificates issued under this section shall be authorized and issued in accordance with the procedure for the issuance of refunding bonds, and may be in such form as shall be determined by the governing body of the municipality, and shall be signed by such officers as may be designated by such governing body.

No municipality may avail itself of the authority contained in this section for the acceptance of bonds in payment of the purchase price of real property and tax title liens and assessment title liens except that the sale of such property and liens shall be an integral part of the comprehensive refunding program, which program shall have received the consent of the holders of at least eighty-five per cent of the amount of bonds outstanding.