58:1B-3. Definitions

As used in this act:

a. "Authority" means the New Jersey Water Supply Authority created by this act;

b. "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or other obligations issued or authorized pursuant to this act;

c. "Compensating reservoir" means the structures, facilities and appurtenances for the impounding, transportation and release of water for the replenishment in periods of drought or at other necessary times of all or a part of waters in or bordering the State diverted into a project;

d. "Cost" as applied to a project means the cost of acquisition and construction thereof, the cost of acquisition of lands, rights-of-way, property rights, easements, and interests required by the authority for acquisition and construction, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of acquiring or constructing and equipping an office of the authority, the cost of machinery, furnishings, and equipment, financing expenses, reserves, interest prior to and during construction and for no more than 6 months after completion of construction, engineering, expenses of research and development with respect to any project, legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, working capital, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of acquiring or constructing a project, administrative expense, and such other expense as may be necessary or incident to the acquisition or construction of the project;

e. "Construct" and "construction" means and includes acts of construction, reconstruction, replacement, extension, improvement and betterment of a project;

f. "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection;

g. "Governmental agency" means any municipality, county, or any agency thereof, the State Government and any instrumentality or subdivision thereof;

h. "Project" means a water system or any part thereof;

i. "Real property" means lands both within or without the State, and improvements thereof or thereon, or any rights or interests therein;

j. "Revenue" means all rents, fees and charges for water sold from, or for the use and services of any project of the authority and payments in respect of any loans or advances made to governmental agencies pursuant to this act;

k. "Service charges" means water service charges established or collected by the authority pursuant to this act;

l . "Water system" means the plants, structures and other real and personal property financed, acquired, constructed or operated or to be financed, acquired, constructed or operated by the authority under this act or additions and improvements thereto, including reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts, standpipes, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping stations, water transmission systems, compensating reservoirs, waterworks or sources of water supply, wells, purification or filtration plants or other plants, equipment and works, connections, rights of flowage or diversion, and other plants, structures, boats, conveyances, and other real and personal property and rights therein, and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the accumulation, supply, treatment or transmission of water.

L.1981, c. 293, s. 3, eff. Oct. 7, 1981.