New Jersey Statutes 52:27H-41.2. Covenants, contracts between authority, holders of bonds, notes
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:27H-41.2
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
a. Secure the bonds or notes as provided in section 24 of P.L.2008, c.47 (C. 52:27H-41.12);
b. Covenant against pledging all or any part of its revenues or receipts or its leases, sales agreements, service contracts or other security instruments, or its mortgages or other agreements, or the revenues or receipts under any of the foregoing or the proceeds thereof, or against mortgaging or leasing all or any part of its real or personal property then owned or thereafter acquired, or against permitting or suffering any lien on any of the foregoing;
c. Covenant with respect to limitations on any right to sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of any project or any part thereof or any property of any kind;
d. Covenant as to any bonds and notes to be issued and the limitations thereon and the terms and conditions thereof and as to the custody, application, investment, and disposition of the proceeds thereof;
e. Covenant as to the issuance of additional bonds or notes or as to limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or notes and on the incurring of other debts by it;
f. Covenant as to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or notes, or any other obligations, as to the sources and methods of such payment, as to the rank or priority of any such bonds, notes or obligations with respect to any lien or security or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any such bonds, notes or obligations;
g. Provide for the replacement of lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated bonds or notes;
h. Covenant against extending the time for the payment of bonds or notes or interest thereon;
i. Covenant as to the redemption of bonds or notes and privileges of exchange thereof for other bonds or notes of the authority;
j. Covenant as to the fixing and collection of rents, fees, rates and other charges, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by rents, fees, rates and other charges, and as to the use and disposition to be made thereof;
k. Covenant to create or authorize the creation of special funds or monies to be held in pledge or otherwise for construction, operating expenses, payment or redemption of bonds or notes, reserves or other purposes and as to the use, investment, and disposition of the monies held in such funds;
l. Establish the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract or covenant with or for the benefit of the holders of bonds or notes may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds or notes the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given;
m. Covenant as to the construction, improvement, operation or maintenance of any project and its other real and personal property, the replacement thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance monies;
n. Provide for the release of property, leases or other agreements, or revenues and receipts from any pledge or mortgage and to reserve rights and powers in, or the right to dispose of, property which is subject to a pledge or mortgage;
o. Provide for the rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach of any covenant, condition or obligation and to prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds, notes or other obligations of the authority shall become or may be declared due and payable before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which any such declaration and its consequences may be waived;
p. Vest in a trustee or trustees within or without the State such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the authority may determine, including the right to foreclose any mortgage, which may include any or all of the rights, powers and duties of any trustee appointed by the holders of any bonds or notes pursuant to P.L.2008, c.47 (C. 52:27H-31.1 et al.) and to limit or abrogate the right of the holders of any bonds or notes of the authority to appoint a trustee under P.L.2008, c.47 (C. 52:27H-31.1 et al.) and to limit the rights, duties and powers of such trustee;
q. Execute all mortgages, leases, sales agreements, service contracts, bills of sale, conveyances, deeds of trust and other instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of its powers or in the performance of its covenants or duties;
r. Pay the costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of such bonds or notes or of the provisions of such resolution or of any covenant or agreement of the authority with the holders of its bonds or notes;
s. Limit the rights of the holders of any bonds or notes to enforce any pledge or covenant securing bonds or notes; and
t. Make covenants other than, or in addition to, the covenants herein expressly authorized by P.L.2008, c.47 (C. 52:27H-31.1 et al.), of like or different character, and to make such covenants to do or refrain from doing such acts and things as may be necessary, or convenient and desirable, in order to better secure bonds or notes or which, in the absolute discretion of the authority, will tend to make bonds or notes more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein.
L.2008, c.47, s.13.