58:5-41. Sale of unused water by a commission
(a) A commission shall have power to sell any unused water to any municipality or person for the account of any contracting municipality or municipalities having the right to use such water (herein called "interested municipality" ). Any such sale shall be subject however to the prior right of the interested municipality to use such water;
(b) Any such sale shall be made by an agreement in writing on such terms and for such periods as the commission shall determine, but not at a price lower than the cost of the water to the interested municipality unless such municipality shall consent thereto;
(c) No sale of unused water shall be made to any consumer without the consent of the municipality in which such water will be used, but such consent shall not unreasonably be withheld;
(d) No person and no municipality which is not a contracting municipality in a project shall have any right to require a commission to sell nor have any right to purchase any unused water available as a result of such project unless and until a party to a sale agreement and then only to the extent and upon the terms set forth therein.
L.1962, c. 167, s. 11.
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