In addition to any other powers provided in this article or conferred by any other law, and not in limitation thereof, any municipality owning or operating electrical generation facilities may, pursuant to ordinance of the governing body thereof, enter into a contract or contracts with any individual, copartnership, association, corporation or joint stock company constituting a public utility under the supervision, regulation, jurisdiction and control of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the State of New Jersey, providing for the joint acquisition or construction and ownership of real or personal property, including generating stations, buildings and structures, equipment, piping, instruments, control apparatus, transformers, transmission lines, appliances and appurtenances for or relating to the generation, storage, transmission or distribution of electricity within or without the territorial boundaries of such municipality, and the joint maintenance and operation of such facilities, in the manner set forth in such contract and within the limitations hereinafter provided. The ordinance authorizing any such contract need not set forth in full the text or terms thereof if a copy of such contract is placed on file in the office of the clerk of the municipality prior to the first publication of said ordinance and the fact and place of such filing is stated in said ordinance.

L.1973, c. 280, s. 1, eff. Nov. 29, 1973.