The board of education of each local district proposing to create or to join in the creation of the regional district or the board of education of any regional district and of each local district proposing to unite to enlarge the regional district may adopt identical resolutions authorizing the issuance of bonds of such proposed or enlarged regional district, in such amount or amounts, and for such of the purposes described in section 18A:24-5 as they shall determine upon and there may be submitted, as part of the proposal for the creation or enlargement of the regional district the approval of the authorization of the issuance of such bonds. If the provisions of sections 18A:24-24 through 18A:24-27 are applicable to such issuance of bonds, a copy of such resolutions shall be submitted, prior to such election, for consideration by the commissioner and the local finance board under and for all the purposes of said sections and no such authorization shall be submitted in any such case except it be approved for submission as provided in said sections. If the proposal containing such authorization shall be approved by referendum in each of such districts such resolutions shall after such vote be authority for the issuance of bonds of such regional district to the amount and for the purpose or purposes set forth therein, and from and after the date of, such vote, shall for all purposes of any provisions of this title, be deemed to constitute resolutions duly approved on said date by the local voters of such regional district authorizing the board of education thereof to issue bonds of such regional district for the purpose or purposes and in the amount or amounts set forth in such proposal.

If the regional district so created or enlarged is a limited purpose regional district, no school debt statement in relation to the issuance of such bonds need be prepared and filed prior to the authorization of the issuance thereof.

L.1967, c.271.