N.J. Stat. tit. 58, ch. 14

N.J. Stat. tit. 58, ch. 14
in effect

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-1 Boundaries of Passaic Valley Sewerage District

58:14-1. All portions of Essex, Union, Passaic, Bergen and Hudson counties, beginning in the center of Newark Bay where the boundary line between the cities of Newark and Elizabeth also being the boundary line between the counties of Essex and Union meets the boundary of Hudson County; thence running westerly along the boundary line between the city of Newark and the city of Elizabeth, including the area of Newark International Airport in the city of Elizabeth with flows tributary to the airport, to the point where it meets the boundary line of the township of Hillside; thence running northerly along the boundary line between the city of Newark and the township of Hillside until it intersects Bergen Street; thence running southwesterly along Bergen Street and Bergen Street extended to a point halfway between Bailey Avenue and Williamson Avenue in the township of Hillside; thence running northwesterly and halfway between Bailey Avenue and Williamson Avenue to Maple Avenue; thence running northwesterly and approximately 150 feet north of and parallel to the center line of Williamson Avenue to a point halfway between Bayview Avenue and Summit Avenue; thence running northeasterly and halfway between Bayview Avenue and Summit Avenue in the township of Hillside, and this line extended, to a point which is halfway between Weequahic Avenue and Lyons Avenue and approximately 500 feet west of the center line of Aldine Street in the city of Newark; thence running southeasterly and halfway between Weequahic Avenue and Lyons Avenue to a point which is approximately 125 feet east of Aldine Street; thence running northeasterly and halfway between Aldine Street and Clinton Place to a point on Bragaw Avenue which is again halfway between Aldine Street and Clinton Place; thence running northwesterly to a point on Aldine Street which is halfway between Bragaw Avenue and Demerest Street; thence running northerly to the intersection of Demerest Street and Nye Avenue; thence running westerly along Nye Avenue to a point halfway between Hobson Street and Dewey Street; thence running southerly and halfway between Hobson Street and Dewey Street to a point approximately 300 feet south of Nye Avenue; thence running westerly to a point on Leslie Street which is approximately 400 feet south of Nye Avenue; thence running southwesterly to the intersection of Wainright Street and Bragaw Avenue; thence running northerly to the intersection of Nye Avenue and Schley Street; thence running westerly along Nye Avenue to the boundary line between the city of Newark and the township of Irvington; thence running northerly along the boundary line between the city of Newark and the township of Irvington to a point which is approximately 600 feet north of Hopkins Place at the extension of Madison Avenue from the township of Irvington; thence running northerly to the intersection of Montgomery Street and South 20th Street in the city of Newark; thence running northeasterly to a point on Avon Avenue which is halfway between South 19th Street and South 20th Street; thence running northerly, and halfway between South 19th Street and South 20th Street to a point which is approximately 400 feet north of Springfield Avenue; thence running easterly and perpendicular to South 19th Street to a point halfway between South 19th Street and South 18th Street; thence running northerly, and halfway between South 19th Street and South 18th Street to a point which is approximately 400 feet north of 19th Avenue; thence running easterly and perpendicular to South 18th Street to a point halfway between South 18th Street and South 17th Street; thence running northerly and halfway between South 18th Street and South 17th Street to a point which is approximately 350 feet north of 18th Avenue; thence running easterly and perpendicular to South 17th Street to a point approximately 150 feet east of South 17th Street; thence running northerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet east of South 17th Street to a point approximately 100 feet south of 15th Avenue; thence running easterly, parallel to and approximately 100 feet south of 15th Avenue to a point which is halfway between South 16th Street and South 15th Street; thence running northerly and halfway between South 16th Street and South 15th Street to a point which is approximately 200 feet north of 14th Avenue; thence running northeasterly to a point which is halfway between South 14th Street and Ashland Street and approximately 350 feet north of 14th Avenue; thence running northeasterly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet west of Ashland Street to a point which is approximately 150 feet north of South Orange Avenue; thence running northwesterly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet north of South Orange Avenue to a point which is approximately 150 feet east of South 18th Street; thence running northerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet east of South 18th Street to a point approximately 350 feet south of 12th Avenue; thence running westerly to a point on South 20th Street which is approximately 250 feet south of 12th Avenue; thence running southerly on South 20th Street to a point which is approximately 150 feet north of Grain Street; thence running westerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet north of Grain Street to a point which is halfway between South 20th Street and Grove Street; thence running northerly, and halfway between Grove Street and South 20th Street for approximately 300 feet to a point; thence running westerly and perpendicular to Grove Street to a point approximately 100 feet west of Grove Street; thence running northeasterly, parallel to and approximately 100 feet west of Grove Street to the boundary line between the city of Newark and the city of East Orange; thence running westerly along the boundary between the city of Newark and the city of East Orange for approximately 500 feet to a point; thence running northerly to a point which is halfway between Hawthorne Place and Birchwood Avenue and approximately 150 feet south of Garfield Place, all in the city of East Orange; thence running northerly and halfway between Hawthorne Place and Birchwood Avenue to a point on Central Avenue; thence running westerly along Central Avenue to its intersection with South Oraton Parkway; thence running northerly along South Oraton Parkway for approximately 150 feet to a point; thence running westerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet north of Central Avenue to a point which is approximately 150 feet east of South Munn Avenue; thence running southerly parallel to South Munn Avenue and then halfway between South Munn Avenue and Watson Avenue to a point on this line approximately 150 feet south of Elmwood Avenue extended; thence running westerly, parallel to and 150 feet south of Elmwood Avenue to a point halfway between South Munn Avenue and Freeman Avenue; thence running southerly halfway between South Munn Avenue and Freeman Avenue to a point which is approximately 150 feet north of Rhode Island Avenue; thence running westerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet north of Rhode Island Avenue to a point which is halfway between Freeman Avenue and Oak Street; thence running northerly and halfway between Oak Street and Freeman Avenue to the intersection of Elmwood Avenue and South Arlington Avenue; thence running northerly along South Arlington Avenue to a point which is approximately 100 feet south of Central Avenue; thence running westerly, parallel to and 100 feet south of Central Avenue to Nassau Place; thence running northerly along Nassau Place to its intersection with Central Avenue; thence running westerly along Central Avenue to a point approximately 150 feet east of Shepard Avenue; thence running northerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet east of Shepard Avenue to a point approximately 150 feet south of Carnegie Avenue; thence running westerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet south of Carnegie Avenue to a point approximately 150 feet west of Shepard Avenue; thence southerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet west of Shepard Avenue to a point which is halfway between Carnegie Avenue and Central Avenue; thence running westerly and halfway between Carnegie Avenue and Central Avenue to a point which is approximately 150 feet east of South Burnet Street; thence running southerly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet east of South Burnet Street to a point which is approximately 150 feet north of Central Avenue to a point halfway between South Burnet Street and South Clinton Street; thence running southerly and halfway between South Burnet Street and South Clinton Street to a point which is approximately 400 feet south of Central Avenue; thence running westerly to a point which is halfway between Amherst Street and Halsted Street and approximately 700 feet south of Central Avenue; thence running northerly and halfway between Amherst Street and Halsted Street to a point which is approximately 100 feet south of Freeway Drive East; thence running westerly, parallel to and approximately 100 feet south of Freeway Drive East to a point which is halfway between Evergreen Place and South Harrison Street; thence running southerly and halfway between Evergreen Place and South Harrison Street for a distance of approximately 650 feet; thence running westerly to a point on the boundary line between the city of East Orange and the township of the City of Orange, said point being approximately 200 feet south of Berwin Street along said boundary; thence running southwesterly along the boundary line between the township of the City of Orange and city of East Orange to where it meets the boundary line of the village of the Township of South Orange; thence running southerly to the intersection of South Center Street and Sterling Avenue, both being in the village of the Township of South Orange; thence running westerly to the corner boundary between the township of the City of Orange and the village of the Township of South Orange which is approximately 200 feet south of Stirling Avenue; thence running northwesterly along said boundary between the township of the City of Orange and the village of the Township of South Orange to an angle point which is halfway between Mosswood Avenue and Irving Terrace; thence running northerly to the intersection of Irving Terrace and Lawn Ridge Road; thence running westerly to where Berkeley Avenue intersects the boundary line between the township of the City of Orange and the village of the Township of South Orange; thence running northwesterly along the boundary line between the township of the City of Orange and the village of the Township of South Orange for a distance of approximately 100 feet; thence running northeasterly, parallel to and approximately 100 feet west of Berkeley Avenue to Lawn Ridge Road; thence running southeasterly along Lawn Ridge Road to a point approximately 100 feet east of Berkeley Avenue; thence running northeasterly, parallel to and approximately 100 feet east of Berkeley Avenue to Heywood Avenue; thence running northwesterly along Heywood Avenue to a point approximately 150 feet west of Berkeley Avenue; thence running northeasterly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet west of Berkeley Avenue to a point which is approximately 150 feet south of Tremont Avenue; thence running northwesterly, parallel to and approximately 150 feet south of Tremont Avenue to Scotland Road; thence running northeasterly along Scotland Road to its intersection with Glebe Street; thence running northwesterly along Glebe Street to its intersection with South Jefferson Street; thence running northerly to a point on the center line of Interstate Highway Route 280 in the township of West Orange being approximately 100 feet west of the boundary line between the township of West Orange and the township of the City of Orange; thence running northerly, parallel to and approximately 100 feet west of said boundary between township of West Orange and the township of the City of Orange to a point which is approximately 200 feet south of White Street; thence running northwesterly to the intersection of Main Street and White Street; thence running northerly and halfway between Main Street and Ashland Avenue to the intersection of Main Street and Park Avenue; thence running northerly along Main Street to its intersection with Babcock Place; thence running northerly to the intersection of Main Street and William Street with the district boundary to include the properties on Babcock Place, Kling Street, Washington Street and William Street but exclude the property along Main Street; thence running easterly to the intersection of Whittesley Avenue and Ridge Avenue; thence running northerly and halfway between Whittesley Avenue and Watson Avenue to the intersection of Watson Avenue and Samuel Street; thence running northerly, crossing the boundary between the township of West Orange and the township of Montclair to the intersection of High Street and Amelia Street in the township of Montclair; thence running northwesterly to the intersection of Virginia Avenue and Fremont Street; thence running westerly to where Nishuane Road intersects the boundary line between the township of Montclair and the township of West Orange; thence running northwesterly along said boundary line between the township of West Orange and township of Montclair to an angle; thence running northerly further along said boundary line between the township of West Orange and township of Montclair to its intersection with the boundary line of the township of Verona; thence running northerly along the boundary line between the township of Montclair and the township of Verona to where it intersects the boundary line of Cedar Grove Township; thence running northerly along the boundary line between the township of Montclair and Cedar Grove Township to its intersection with the boundary line of the township of Little Falls; thence running northwesterly along the boundary line between Cedar Grove Township and the township of Little Falls to where it intersects Lindsley Road; thence running northwesterly along Lindsley Road within Cedar Grove Township to where it intersects with New Jersey State Highway Route Number 23; thence running southerly along New Jersey State Highway Route Number 23 for a distance of approximately 1,200 feet; thence running westerly for approximately 1,200 feet to the boundary between Cedar Grove Township and the township of North Caldwell, said point being approximately 1,000 feet south of an angle in said boundary near Lindsley Road; thence running northerly for approximately 1,000 feet along said boundary between Cedar Grove Township and the township of North Caldwell to an angle; thence running northwesterly in said boundary between Cedar Grove Township and the township of North Caldwell to another angle; thence running northwesterly in said boundary between Cedar Grove Township and the township of North Caldwell to where it intersects the water transmission line of the Jersey City Water Company; thence running westerly along said water transmission line of the Jersey City Water Company within the township of North Caldwell to where it intersects Grandview Place; thence running northeasterly along the center line of Grandview Place and then Grandview Avenue to a point approximately 175 feet south of Fairfield Road; thence running northwesterly and then northeasterly along and encompassing Lot Number 3, Block Number 105 on the North Caldwell Tax Map to a point where Lot Number 3 intersects Fairfield Road; thence running northwesterly along Fairfield Road for approximately 85.61 feet to a point; thence running southwesterly and then northwesterly along and encompassing Lot Numbers 4, 7 and 8 in Block Number 105 on the North Caldwell Tax Map to a point where it intersects Fairfield Road and the boundary line between the township of North Caldwell and the township of Fairfield; thence running northeasterly along the boundary line between the township of Fairfield and the township of North Caldwell to a point in the center of the Passaic River and the intersection with the boundary lines of the township of Little Falls and the township of Wayne; thence running downstream along the Passaic River in a northeasterly and then southeasterly direction, the river being the boundary line between the township of Little Falls and the township of Wayne, to where it intersects with the boundary line of the borough of Totowa; thence running northwesterly along the boundary line between the township of Wayne and the borough of Totowa to the intersection with the northerly right-of-way limit with U.S. Interstate Highway Route 80; thence running westerly along the U.S. Interstate Highway Route 80 right-of-way for a distance of approximately 1,200 feet and thence in a northerly and westerly direction to a point in the center line of Singac Brook and thence northeasterly to the boundary line between the township of Wayne and the borough of Totowa to encompass Lot 1 in Block 402 on the Wayne tax map; thence running northerly and then northeasterly along the boundary line between the township of Wayne and the borough of Totowa to where it intersects the boundary line of the borough of Haledon; thence running northerly along the boundary line between the township of Wayne and the borough of Haledon to where it intersects the boundary line of the borough of North Haledon; thence running northerly along the boundary line between the township of Wayne and the borough of North Haledon to where it intersects the boundary line of the borough of Franklin Lakes; thence running easterly along the boundary line between the borough of Franklin Lakes and the borough of North Haledon to where it intersects the boundary line of the township of Wyckoff; thence running easterly along the boundary line between the township of Wyckoff and the borough of North Haledon to the boundary line of the borough of Hawthorne; thence running northerly along the boundary line of the township of Wyckoff and the borough of Hawthorne to an angle on Goffle Hill Road; thence running southeasterly along said boundary line between the township of Wyckoff and the borough of Hawthorne to the boundary line of the village of the Township of Ridgewood; thence running southeasterly along the boundary line between the village of the Township of Ridgewood and the borough of Hawthorne to the boundary line of the borough of Glen Rock; thence running northeasterly along the boundary line between the village of the Township of Ridgewood and the borough of Glen Rock for 2,730 feet to an angle; thence running easterly along said boundary line between the village of the Township of Ridgewood and the borough of Glen Rock for 3,230 feet to an angle; thence running along said boundary line between the village of the Township of Ridgewood and the borough of Glen Rock for the 12 angles, courses and distances until it intersects Grove Street and the center line of Hohokus Brook; thence running southerly still along said boundary line between the village of the Township of Ridgewood and the borough of Glen Rock, it being the center line of Hohokus Brook, to its intersection with the center line of the Saddle River which is also where the boundary lines of the borough of Fair Lawn and the borough of Paramus meet; thence running southerly along the boundary line between the borough of Fair Lawn and the borough of Paramus which is generally the center line of the Saddle River to its intersection with the boundary lines of the township of Saddle Brook and the township of Rochelle Park; thence running southerly along the boundary line between the township of Saddle Brook and the township of Rochelle Park which is generally the center line of the Saddle River to its intersection with the boundary line of the borough of Lodi; thence running southeasterly along the boundary line between the borough of Lodi and the township of Rochelle Park to its intersection with the boundary line of the borough of Maywood; thence running southeasterly along the boundary line between the borough of Lodi and the borough of Maywood being the center line of Essex Street to the center line of New Jersey State Highway Route Number 17; thence running southerly along New Jersey State Highway Route Number 17 southbound within the borough of Lodi to the boundary line of the city of Hackensack; thence running southerly along the boundary line between the borough of Lodi and the city of Hackensack to a point which is approximately 620 feet north of the center line of West Pleasantview Avenue along said boundary line; thence running south 52 degrees, 51 minutes, 11 seconds east and within the city of Hackensack for 533.97 feet to a point; thence running south 36 degrees, 36 minutes, 34 seconds west for 384.60 feet to a point; thence running north 52 degrees, 50 minutes west for 15.00 feet to a point; thence running south 36 degrees, 36 minutes, 34 seconds west for approximately 198 feet to the center line of West Pleasantview Avenue; thence running northwesterly along West Pleasantview Avenue to where it intersects the boundary line between the city of Hackensack and the borough of Lodi; thence running southerly along the boundary line between the borough of Lodi and the city of Hackensack to the boundary line of the borough of Hasbrouck Heights; thence running southerly along the boundary line between the borough of Lodi and the borough of Hasbrouck Heights through angles at Church Street, Williams Avenue, Oak-Grove Avenue and between Paterson Avenue and Ottawa Street in a northwesterly direction to Woodside Avenue; thence running southwesterly along Woodside Avenue within the borough of Hasbrouck Heights to where it intersects the boundary line between the borough of Hasbrouck Heights and the borough of Lodi, between LaSalle Avenue and Hunter Street; thence running southwesterly along the boundary line between the borough of Lodi and the borough of Hasbrouck Heights to the boundary line of the borough of Wood-Ridge; thence running southeasterly along the boundary line between the borough of Hasbrouck Heights and the borough of Wood-Ridge to an angle on Passaic Avenue; thence running southwesterly along said boundary line between the borough of Hasbrouck Heights and the borough of Wood-Ridge to an angle between Lincoln Avenue and Sussex Road; thence running southwesterly within the borough of Wood-Ridge in prolongation of the line above and along the property line of Curtis-Wright Inc. to Highland Avenue; thence running northwesterly along the property line of Curtis-Wright Inc. which is a prolongation of Highland Avenue extended northwesterly to where it intersects the boundary line between the borough of Wood-Ridge and the borough of Wallington; thence running southerly along the boundary line between the borough of Wood-Ridge and the borough of Wallington to where it meets the boundary line of the borough of Carlstadt; thence running southerly along the boundary line between the borough of Wallington and the borough of Carlstadt to where it meets the boundary line of the borough of East Rutherford; thence running northwesterly along the boundary line between the borough of Wallington and the borough of East Rutherford to a point halfway between Shepard Terrace and Atkins Terrace; thence running southwesterly within the borough of East Rutherford and halfway between Shepard Terrace and Atkins Terrace with an angle to the south and another to the southwest to a point on the boundary line between the borough of Rutherford and the borough of East Rutherford which is halfway between Atkins Terrace and Willow Street; thence running southerly to a point on Erie Avenue in the borough of Rutherford which is halfway between Walnut Street and Carmita Avenue; thence running southwesterly and halfway between Walnut Street and Carmita Avenue to the center of Washington Avenue; thence running southeasterly along Washington Avenue to the intersection of Washington Avenue and Carmita Avenue; thence running southwesterly along Carmita Avenue for a distance of approximately 130 feet to a point; thence running southeasterly parallel to and approximately 130 feet south of Washington Avenue to a point which is halfway between Carmita Avenue and Prospect Place; thence running southwesterly and halfway between Carmita Avenue and Prospect Place to a point which is approximately 127 feet north of the center line of Union Avenue; thence running southeasterly parallel to and approximately 127 feet north of Union Avenue to the center of Prospect Place; thence running southwesterly along Prospect Place to the intersection of Union Avenue; thence running northwesterly along Union Avenue to a point halfway between Carmita Avenue and Prospect Place; thence running southwesterly and halfway between Carmita Avenue and Prospect Place to a point approximately 150 feet north of the center line of Alwyn Terrace; thence running southeasterly to a point which is approximately 165 feet east of Prospect Place and in a prolongation of the center line of Circle Lane; thence running southwesterly parallel to and approximately 165 feet east of Prospect Place to a point which is approximately 170 feet north of Fairview Avenue; thence running southeasterly, parallel to and approximately 170 feet north of Fairview Avenue to the center of Montross Avenue; thence running southwesterly along Montross Avenue to a point which is approximately 170 feet south of the center of Fairview Avenue; thence running southeasterly, parallel to and approximately 170 feet south of Fairview Avenue for approximately 230 feet to a point; thence running southwesterly, parallel to and approximately 230 feet east of Montross Avenue to the center of Passaic Avenue; thence running southeasterly along Passaic Avenue for approximately 250 feet to a point; thence running southwesterly and parallel to Montross Avenue to a point halfway between Passaic Avenue and Donaldson Avenue; thence running southeasterly and halfway between Passaic Avenue and Donaldson Avenue for approximately 306 feet; thence running southwesterly and parallel to Montross Avenue to a point halfway between Donaldson Avenue and Woodward Avenue; thence running southeasterly and halfway between Donaldson Avenue and Woodward Avenue to the center of Mortimer Avenue; thence running southwesterly along Mortimer Avenue to the center of Park Place; thence running southeasterly along Park Place a distance of approximately 131 feet to a point; thence running southwesterly, parallel to and approximately 131 feet east of Mortimer Avenue for a distance of approximately 150 feet; thence running southeasterly, parallel to and approximately 151 feet south of Park Place to the center of Park Avenue; thence running southwesterly along Park Avenue to a point halfway between Newell Avenue and Addison Avenue; thence running southeasterly and halfway between Newell Avenue and Addison Avenue to a point approximately 130 feet west of the center line of Lincoln Avenue; thence running southwesterly, parallel to and approximately 130 feet west of Lincoln Avenue to a point which is approximately 170 feet north of the center of Pierrepont Avenue; thence running southeasterly, parallel to and approximately 170 feet north of Pierrepont Avenue to a point which is approximately 190 feet west of the center of Ridge Road; thence running southwesterly, parallel to and approximately 190 feet west of Ridge Road to a point which is approximately 200 feet north of Woodland Avenue; thence running southeasterly, parallel to and approximately 200 feet north of Woodland Avenue to a point halfway between Ridge Road and Sylvan Street; thence running southwesterly and halfway between Ridge Road and Sylvan Street and this line extended to the boundary line between the borough of Rutherford and the township of Lyndhurst; thence running southeasterly along the boundary line between the borough of Rutherford and the township of Lyndhurst which is Rutherford Avenue and Rutherford Avenue extended to the center line of Berry's Creek; thence running southerly along the center line of Berry's Creek, being said boundary line between the borough of Rutherford and the township of Lyndhurst to where it intersects the boundary line of the town of Secaucus at the center of the Hackensack River; thence running southerly along the center line of the Hackensack River being the boundary line between the township of Lyndhurst and the town of Secaucus to where it intersects the boundary line of the town of Kearny at Sawmill Creek; thence running southerly still along the center line of the Hackensack River being the boundary line between the town of Kearny and the town of Secaucus to where it intersects the boundary line of the city of Jersey City at Penhorn Creek; thence running northeasterly along the center of Penhorn Creek being the boundary line between the town of Secaucus and the city of Jersey City to where it intersects the boundary line of the township of North Bergen at Secaucus Road; thence running southwesterly along the center of Secaucus Road being the boundary line between the city of Jersey City and the township of North Bergen to where it intersects the boundary of the city of Union City at J.F. Kennedy Boulevard; thence running northerly along J.F. Kennedy Boulevard being the boundary line between the township of North Bergen and the city of Union City to 18th Street; thence running easterly along 18th Street within the city of Union City to Summit Avenue; thence running southerly along Summit Avenue to 17th Street; thence running easterly along 17th Street to Central Avenue; thence running southerly along Central Avenue to 16th Street; thence running easterly on 16th Street to Palisade Avenue; thence running southerly on Palisade Avenue to Paterson Plank Road which is the boundary line between the city of Jersey City and the city of Union City; thence running easterly along Paterson Plank Road being the boundary line between the city of Union City and the city of Jersey City until it intersects the boundary line of the city of Hoboken; thence running southwesterly between the city of Hoboken and the city of Jersey City to a point just crossing over Hoboken Avenue; thence running easterly and parallel to Hoboken Avenue along said boundary line between the city of Hoboken and the city of Jersey City to Henderson Street; thence running easterly along said boundary line between the city of Hoboken and the city of Jersey City to a point in the Hudson River being the modified Pierhead Line of January 12, 1931; thence running southerly along the modified Pierhead Line of January 12, 1931 10,250 feet to a point; thence running southwesterly for 935 feet to a point; thence continuing in a southwesterly direction for 2,354 feet to a point which is on the west side of Ellis Island; thence running southwesterly for 1,945 feet to a point which is on the southwest side of Ellis Island; thence running southerly for 557 feet to a point; thence running easterly 984 feet to a point; thence running southerly for 1,363 feet to a point north of Liberty Island; thence running westerly for 300 feet to the Pierhead and Bulkhead Line adopted March 6, 1939; thence running southwesterly for 1,525 feet to the south side of Morris Pesin Drive if projected eastwardly 1,650 feet; thence running in a southerly direction along the Pierhead and Bulkhead Line for 9,500 feet to a point that intersects the boundary line between the city of Jersey City and the city of Bayonne; thence running southeasterly along the boundary line between the city of Jersey City and the city of Bayonne to where it intersects with the boundary line between the State of New Jersey and the State of New York; thence running southerly and westerly along the boundary line between the states of New York and New Jersey through New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull and Newark Bay to where it intersects the boundary line between Union County and Hudson County; thence running northerly along the boundary between Union County and Hudson County, being the boundary line between the city of Elizabeth and the city of Bayonne in Newark Bay to its intersection with the boundary line of the county of Essex to the point or place of the beginning, constituted a sewerage district under the name and title of Passaic Valley Sewerage District by the act entitled "An act to create a sewerage district to be called Passaic Valley Sewerage District," approved March 27, 1902 (L.1902, c.48, p.190), as supplemented by the act approved April 14, 1914 (L.1914, c.160, p.294), and by the act approved March 8, 1924 (L.1924, c.94, p.184), hereinafter in this chapter designated as the "district" and the commission appointed thereunder, are continued, and it shall be entitled to all the authority and be subject to all the laws of this State concerning sewerage districts so created. < Amended 1964,c.139; 1979,c.426; 1991,c.212,s.1; 1995,c.122,s.1.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-1.9 Passaic Valley Sewerage District to include part of borough of Franklin Lakes

2. The boundary lines of the sewerage district known as the Passaic Valley sewerage district, created pursuant to P.L.1902, c.48, as supplemented and continued pursuant to R.S.58:14-1, are altered, amended and extended to include that portion of the borough of Franklin Lakes as hereinafter described: Beginning at the center point of the intersection of High Mountain Road and Franklin Lake Road within the borough of Franklin Lakes and proceeding: south 8 degrees, 13 minutes, 12 seconds east distant 2.47 feet along the centerline of High Mountain Road to an angle point; thence south 23 degrees, 43 minutes, 17 seconds east distant 1,030.48 feet along the same to a point of curvature; thence southeasterly an arc distance of 99.99 feet along the same on a curve to the left having a radius of 2,447.04 feet to a point of tangency; thence south 26 degrees, 3 minutes, 45 seconds east distant 167.07 feet along the same to a point of curvature; thence southeasterly an arc distance of 35.45 feet along the same on a curve to the right having a radius of 4,256.20 feet to a point in the same; thence on a line radial to the centerline of High Mountain Road south 64 degrees, 24 minutes, 53 seconds west distant 16.5 feet to a point in the westerly right-of-way line of said road; thence; south 65 degrees, 17 minutes, 1 second west distant 216.01 feet along the southerly line of Lot 1, Block 2203 to a monument designated as No. 80 on a map filed in the Bergen County Clerk's Office on March 22, 1960 as Map No. 5505; thence south 65 degrees, 36 minutes, 56 seconds west distant 522.32 feet along said southerly line of Lot 1 Block 2203 and of Lot 2, Block 2101.01 being also the rear property lines of the lots on the northerly side of the Osage Lane which were created on the aforesaid Filed Map No. 5505 to an angle point; thence south 78 degrees, 17 minutes, 46 seconds east distant 192.25 feet along the southerly line of said Lot 2 Block 2101.01 and said rear property lines of the northerly lots on Osage Lane and crossing the northerly terminus of Wyandotte Drive (50 feet wide) which was also created on said Filed Map No. 5505 to a point in the westerly right-of-way line of said Wyandotte Drive at its northerly terminus; thence southwesterly an arc distance of 17.35 feet along the westerly right-of-way line of Wyandotte Drive on a curve to the right having a radius of 875.00 to a point in the same; thence north 77 degrees, 9 minutes, 37 seconds west distant 228.74 feet still along the southerly line of Lot 2 Block 2101.01 being also on the northerly line of Lot 30 Block 2101.08 (which was created as Lot 30 Block 2101-C by a minor subdivision approved by the Franklin Lakes Planning Board on July 28, 1980) to an angle point; thence south 12 degrees, 50 minutes, 23 seconds west distant 176.76 feet along the southerly line of said Lot 2 Block 2101.01 being the rear line of said Lot 30 Block 2101.08 to a angle point; thence south 72 degrees, 2 minutes, 39 seconds west distant 203.69 feet along said southerly line of Lot 2 Block 2101.01 and being also the rear property line of a lot on the westerly side of Wyandotte Drive created on said Filed Map No. 5505 to an angle point; thence south 64 degrees, 8 minutes, 9 seconds west distant 165.79 feet still along the southerly line of Lot 2 Block 2101.01, being also the rear property lines of lots on the northerly and northwesterly side of Scioto Drive which were created on a map filed in the Bergen County Clerk's Office on October 8, 1958 as Map No. 5298 to an angle point; thence north 82 degrees, 50 minutes, 44 seconds west distant 258.83 feet along the same to an angle point; thence south 81 degrees, 21 minutes, 52 seconds west distant 286.59 feet along the same to an angle point; thence north 30 degrees, 16 minutes, 41 seconds west distant 25 feet more or less leaving the rear property lines of said lots on Scioto Drive but still along the southerly line of Lot 2 Block 2101.01 to a point in the easterly shoreline of Franklin Lake; thence returning to the point of the Beginning and running thence; north 8 degrees, 13 minutes, 12 seconds west distant 543.99 feet along the centerline of High Mountain Road to a point of curvature; thence northwesterly an arc distance of 119.18 feet along the same on a curve to the left having a radius of 416.99 feet to a point of tangency; thence north 24 degrees, 35 minutes, 46 seconds west distant 64.40 feet along the same to a point in the same; thence south 65 degrees, 24 minutes, 14 seconds west distant 30.00 feet to a point in the westerly right-of-way line of said High Mountain Road and at the northeasterly corner of a lot now known as Lot 2 Block 2201.08 on the Franklin Lakes Assessment Map and which lot was created as Lot 2 Block 2201 on a map filed in the Bergen County Clerk's Office on January 17, 1973, as Map No. 7146; thence south 56 degrees, 7 minutes, 37 seconds west distant 211.39 feet along the outside boundary of said Lot 2 Block 2201 (now known as Lot 2 Block 2201.08) as laid out on said Filed Map No. 7146 to an angle point; thence south 68 degrees, 19 minutes, 25 seconds west distant 288.21 feet continuing along said outside boundary of said lot now known as Lot 2 Block 2201.08 to an angle point; thence south 21 degrees, 29 minutes, 49 seconds west distant 191.87 feet along the same to an angle point; thence south 44 degrees, 35 minutes, 20 seconds west distant 135.00 feet along the same to an angle point; thence south 19 degrees, 55 minutes, 18 seconds west distant 75.69 feet along the same to an angle point; south 57 degrees, 25 minutes, 39 seconds west distant 196.05 feet along the same to an angle point; thence south 18 degrees, 10 minutes, 1 second east distant 200.87 feet along the same to a point in the northerly right-of-way line of Franklin Lake Road (35 feet wide from centerline); thence south 11 degrees, 1 minute, 56 seconds east distant 35.00 feet to a point in the centerline of said Franklin Lake Road; thence south 78 degrees, 58 minutes, 4 seconds west distant 102.28 feet along the centerline of Franklin Lake Road to a point of curvature; thence southwesterly an arc distance of 199.42 feet along the same on a curve to the right having a radius of 1,066.17 feet to a point of tangency; thence south 89 degrees, 41 minutes, 4 seconds west distant 203.66 feet along the same to an angle point; thence south 84 degrees, 59 minutes, 18 seconds west distant 338.79 feet along the same to a point of curvature; thence southwesterly an arc distance of 199.68 feet along the same on a curve to the left having a radius of 1,436.33 feet to a point of tangency; thence south 72 degrees, 1 minute, 23 seconds west distant 107.69 feet along the same to an angle point; thence south 72 degrees, 17 minutes, 57 seconds west distant 161.67 feet along the same to a point in the same; thence south 17 degrees, 42 minutes, 3 seconds east distant 25.00 feet to a point in the southerly right-of-way line of Franklin Lake Road at the Point of Beginning of a lot designated as Lot 1.01 Block 2203 as recorded in the Bergen County Clerk's Office in Deed Book 7019, Page 677; thence south 17 degrees, 42 minutes, 3 seconds east distant 86 feet more or less along the boundary line between said Lot 1.01 Block 2203 on the east and Lot 1.05 Block 2101 (lands now or formerly of Myron and Elaine Adler) as described in Deed Book 7019 , Page 677 to a point in the northerly shoreline of the aforesaid Franklin Lake; thence northeasterly, easterly, southeasterly, southerly, and southwesterly along the northerly, northeasterly, and easterly shoreline of Franklin Lake the various courses thereof and along Lots 1.01 and 1.03 in Block 2203 and Lot 2 in Block 2101.01 distant 2,102 feet more or less to a point at the end of the above described 17th course and there to close. Amended 1991,c.212,s.2.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-1.10 Boundary lines of Passaic Valley sewerage district, altered, amended, extended

1. The boundary lines of the sewerage district known as the Passaic Valley sewerage district, created pursuant to P.L.1902, c.48, as supplemented and continued pursuant to R.S.58:14-1, are altered, amended and extended to include that portion of the Village of Ridgewood, the Borough of Midland Park, the Borough of Waldwick, the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus and the Township of Washington, as hereinafter described: Beginning at the point of the intersection of the center lines of the Saddle River and the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, said point being also the point of common boundary between the Village of Ridgewood, the Borough of Glen Rock, the Borough of Fair Lawn and the Borough of Paramus; thence running northerly along the centerline of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, said centerline also being the boundary line between the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Glen Rock to an angle point at the centerline of Grove Street; thence running along said boundary line between the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Glen Rock for the various courses and distances to an angle point at the southeasterly line of South Broad Street; thence running westerly along the boundary line between the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Glen Rock to an angle point at the centerline of Lincoln Avenue; thence running southwesterly along the centerline of Lincoln Avenue also being the boundary line between the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Glen Rock to an angle point being the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood, the Borough of Glen Rock and the Borough of Hawthorne; thence running northwesterly along the boundary line between the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Hawthorne to the centerline of the Goffle Brook; thence northerly along the centerline of the Goffle Brook to the point of intersection of the centerline of the Goffle Brook and the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park; thence southeasterly along the mutual municipal line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park a distance of approximately 340 feet to the westerly property line of Lot 1, Block 2.01, Midland Park; thence north 32 degrees, 50 minutes east along the westerly line of Lot 1, Block 2.01, Midland Park, a distance of 156.80 feet to the centerline of Lake Avenue; thence easterly along the centerline of Lake Avenue a distance of 260.36 feet to an angle point on the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park; thence northerly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park, said boundary line being within the Cottage Street R.O.W. a distance of 475.20 feet to the centerline of Godwin Avenue; thence easterly along the centerline of Godwin Avenue a distance of 39.49 feet to a point on the center line of Godwin Avenue; thence northerly along the extension of the westerly line of Lot 28, Block 4, Midland Park a distance of 119.01 feet to the southerly line of Lot 3, Block 4, Midland Park; thence along the various courses of Lot 3 and Lot 28, Block 4, Midland Park, north 47 degrees, 26 minutes east a distance of 59.63 feet, north 33 degrees, 00 minutes west a distance of 60.00 feet, south 48 degrees, 02 minutes, 50 seconds east a distance of 72.22 feet, north 45 degrees, 04 minutes east a distance of 54.00 feet, south 43 degrees, 56 minutes, 50 seconds east a distance of 50.00 feet, south 45 degrees, 04 minutes west a distance of 225.01 feet to a point on the centerline of Godwin Avenue; thence easterly along the centerline of Godwin Avenue, also being the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park a distance of 125.01 feet to an angle point in the municipal boundary, also being the centerline of Maltbie Avenue; thence northerly along the centerline of Maltbie Avenue, also being the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park a distance of 325.01 feet to the extension of the southerly line of Lot 24, Block 4, Midland Park; thence along the various courses of Lot 24, Block 4, Midland Park, north 52 degrees west a distance of 152.62 feet, north 36 degrees, 00 minutes, 50 seconds east a distance of 50.00 feet, south 52 degrees east a distance of 152.62 feet to the centerline of Maltbie Avenue and the municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park; thence northerly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park, also being the centerline of Maltbie Avenue a distance of 687.55 feet to an angle point in the municipal boundary line; thence northerly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park a distance of approximately 3,362 feet to the centerline of West Glen Avenue; thence north 75 degrees, 53 minutes, 39 seconds west along the center line of West Glen Avenue a distance of 134.21 feet to the point of intersection of West Glen Avenue and Morningside Road; thence north 53 degrees, 29 minutes, 21 seconds east along the centerline of Morningside Road a distance of 256.69 feet to a point on the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park; thence northwesterly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park a distance of 935.24 feet to the westerly line of Farview Avenue; thence along the various courses of Lot 3.02, Block 9.02, Midland Park, south 23 degrees, 58 minutes west, a distance of approximately 80 feet, north 65 degrees, 04 minutes west a distance of 70.00 feet, north 23 degrees, 58 minutes west a distance of approximately 80 feet to a point on the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park; thence northwesterly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park a distance of 555.20 feet to an angle point in the mutual municipal boundary line; thence northerly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park a distance of 2,825.56 feet to an angle point on the mutual municipal boundary line, also being the centerline of North Monroe Street; thence northerly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Midland Park, also being the centerline of North Monroe Street, a distance of 1,223.28 feet to the point of intersection of the boundary lines of the Village of Ridgewood, the Borough of Midland Park, and the Borough of Waldwick; thence north 8 degrees, 46 minutes east along the centerline of North Monroe Street a distance of 88.20 feet to an angle point on the centerline of North Monroe Street; thence north 24 degrees, 47 minutes east along the centerline of North Monroe Street a distance of 504.11 feet to the extension of the northerly line of Lot 34, Block 120.01, Waldwick; thence south 65 degrees 13 minutes east along the northerly line of Lot 34, Block 120.01, Waldwick, a distance of 160.00 feet to the easterly line of Lot 34, Block 120.01; thence south 24 degrees, 47 minutes west along the easterly lines of Lot 34 and Lot 33, Block 120.01, Waldwick, a distance of 117.37 feet to the northerly line of Lot 24, Block 120.01; thence north 79 degrees, 23 minutes, 05 seconds east along the northerly lines of Lot 24 and Lot 22, Block 120.01, and the extension easterly of said lines, a distance of 221.95 feet to the centerline of Salrit Avenue, Waldwick; thence northerly along the centerline of Salrit Avenue, Waldwick, on a curve to the right having a radius of 279.05 feet an arc distance of 64.70 feet to the extension westerly of the southerly line of Brearly Crescent, Waldwick; thence south 87 degrees, 20 minutes, 50 seconds east along the southerly line of Brearly Crescent, Waldwick, and the Brearly Crescent southerly line westerly extension a distance of 138.00 feet to the easterly line of Lot 19, Block 120, Waldwick; thence south 16 degrees, 35 minutes, 50 seconds east along the easterly lines of Lot 19 and Lot 20, Block 120, Waldwick a distance of 148.18 feet to a point on the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Waldwick; thence north 67 degrees, 10 minutes, 50 seconds east along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Waldwick a distance of 26.69 feet to an angle point on the mutual municipal boundary; thence north 23 degrees, 54 minutes, 30 seconds east along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Waldwick a distance of 34.95 feet to an angle point on the mutual municipal boundary line; thence south 66 degrees, 48 minutes, 30 seconds east along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Waldwick a distance of approximately 20 feet to the centerline of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, said centerline also being the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Waldwick; thence southerly along the centerline of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, said centerline also being the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Waldwick, to the point of intersection of the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood, the Borough of Waldwick, and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus; thence southerly along the centerline of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, said centerline being the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, to an angle point in the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus; thence southerly along the mutual boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, a distance of approximately 2,795 feet to an angle point in the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus; thence easterly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, a distance of approximately 140 feet to the westerly line of Lot 1, Block 7, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence northerly along the westerly line of Lot 1, Block 7, a distance of approximately 665 feet to the southerly line of Brookside Avenue (50 feet wide), Ho-Ho-Kus; thence north approximately 40 degrees east a distance of 25.00 feet to the centerline of Brookside Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence southeasterly along the centerline of Brookside Avenue a distance of approximately 695 feet to the centerline of Cliff Street, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence southerly along the centerline of Cliff Street, Ho-Ho-Kus, a distance of approximately 225 feet to the extension westerly of the northerly line of Lot 17, Block 21, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence south approximately 75 degrees east along the northerly line of Lot 17, Block 21, Ho-Ho-Kus and said westerly extension, a distance of approximately 125 feet to the westerly line of Lot 16, Block 21; thence north approximately 16 degrees east along the westerly line of Lot 16, Block 21, Ho-Ho-Kus, a distance of 108.59 feet to the northerly line of Lot 16, Block 21; thence south approximately 79 degrees east along the northerly lines of Lot 16, Lot 15, and Lot 14, Block 21, Ho-Ho-Kus a distance of 151.93 feet to the easterly line of Lot 14, Block 21; thence north approximately 16 degrees east along the westerly lines of Lot 7.01, Lot 7, and Lot 6, Block 21, Ho-Ho-Kus a distance of 100.00 feet to the southerly line of Brookside Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence south approximately 79 degrees east along the southerly line of Brookside Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus, and the extension easterly of the southerly line of Brookside Avenue a distance of approximately 122 feet to the centerline of Maple Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence southerly along the centerline of Maple Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus a distance of approximately 353 feet to the centerline of the easterly part of First Street, said centerline also being the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus; thence easterly along the centerline of First Street a distance of approximately 355 feet to the centerline of Barnett Place; thence northerly along the centerline of Barnett Place a distance of approximately 310 feet to the centerline of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook; thence southerly along the centerline of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook to the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus; thence easterly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus to an angle point on the mutual municipal boundary; thence northerly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus to the centerline of Franklin Turnpike, said centerline also being the mutual municipal boundary line; thence easterly along the mutual municipal boundary line of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, also being the centerline of Franklin Turnpike to the centerline of Race Track Road, also being the mutual municipal boundary; thence easterly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, also being the centerline of Race Track Road to the centerline of West Saddle River Road; thence easterly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus on a many varied course to the centerline of East Saddle River Road; thence northerly along the centerline of East Saddle River Road a distance of 258.95 feet to the northerly line of Lot 27, Block 93, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence northerly and easterly along the lines of Lot 27, Lot 26, and Lot 28, Block 93.01, Ho-Ho-Kus, north 69 degrees, 05 minutes, 00 seconds east a distance of 314.14 feet; north 7 degrees, 48 minutes, 30 seconds east a distance of 99.20 feet, south approximately 82 degrees east a distance of 161.19 feet, north approximately 10 degrees east a distance of 268.72 feet, north approximately 80 degrees east a distance of approximately 288 feet to the centerline of Deerhill Drive, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence northerly along the centerline of Deerhill Road, Ho-Ho-Kus a distance of approximately 48 feet to the extension westerly of the northerly line of Lot 4, Block 93.03, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence easterly along the northerly lines of Lot 4, Lot 5, Lot 6, Lot 7, and Lot 8, Block 93.03, Ho-Ho-Kus, south 68 degrees, 16 minutes, 20 seconds east a distance of approximately 500 feet, north 21 degrees, 43 minutes, 40 seconds east a distance of 154.60 feet, south 38 degrees, 27 minutes, 34 seconds east a distance of 230.50 feet, south 21 degrees, 43 minutes, 40 seconds west a distance of 40.00 feet, south 68 degrees, 16 minutes, 20 seconds east a distance of approximately 382 feet to the centerline of East Gate Road, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence southerly along the centerline of East Gate Road, Ho-Ho-Kus, a distance of approximately 132 feet to the westerly extension of the northerly line of Lot 7, Block 93.02, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence easterly along the northerly line of Lot 7, Block 93.02 and its extension a distance of 235.00 feet to the westerly line of Lot 15, Block 93.02, Ho-Ho-Kus; thence north 9 degrees, 50 minutes, 23 seconds west along the westerly line of Lot 15, Block 93.02, Ho-Ho-Kus, a distance of 600.00 feet to the northerly line of Lot 15, Block 93.02; thence south approximately 66 degrees east along the northerly line of Lot 15, Block 93.02 a distance of approximately 516 feet to the mutual municipal boundary of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus and the Township of Washington; thence easterly along the northerly line of Lot 1, Block 1302, Township of Washington south approximately 66 degrees east a distance of approximately 795 feet to the centerline of Van Emburgh Avenue, Township of Washington; thence southwesterly along the centerline of Van Emburgh Avenue, Township of Washington, a distance of 200.00 feet to the extension westerly of the northerly line of Lot 1.01, Block 1305, Township of Washington; thence easterly along the northerly line of Lot 1.01, Block 1305, Township of Washington and the extension of the northerly line of Lot 1.01, Block 1305, south approximately 66 degrees east a distance of 373.58 feet to the westerly line of Lot 2, Block 1305, Township of Washington; thence southerly along the westerly line of Lot 2, Block 1305, Township of Washington, south approximately 23 degrees east a distance of 467.98 feet to the southerly line of Lot 2, Block 1305, Township of Washington; thence easterly along the southerly line of Lot 2, Block 1305, Township of Washington, south approximately 78 degrees east a distance of approximately 298 feet to the westerly line of the Garden State Parkway; thence southerly along the westerly line of the Garden State Parkway a distance of approximately 1,185 feet to the southerly line of Lot 1, Block 1401, Township of Washington; thence northwesterly along the southerly line of Lot 1, Block 1401, Township of Washington, north approximately 77 degrees west a distance of 518.27 feet to the centerline of Douglas Drive, Township of Washington; thence southerly along the centerline of Douglas Drive, Township of Washington, a distance of approximately 106 feet to the centerline of Barry Drive, Township of Washington; thence westerly along the centerline of Barry Drive, Township of Washington, a distance of approximately 193 feet to the northerly extension of the easterly line of Lot 6, Block 1404.01, Township of Washington; thence southerly along the extension of the easterly line of Lot 6, Block 1404.01, Township of Washington, and the easterly line of Lot 6, Lot 7, Lot 8, Lot 9, Lot 10, Lot 11, and Lot 13, Block 1404.01, Township of Washington, south approximately 22 degrees east a distance of approximately 835 feet, north approximately 88 degrees east a distance of 10.52 feet, south approximately 22 degrees east a distance of 86.69 feet, south approximately 4 degrees west a distance of 224.38 feet to the centerline of Hampshire Road, Township of Washington; thence westerly along the centerline of Hampshire Road a distance of 158.29 feet to the extension of the easterly line of Lot 11, Block 1403.01, Township of Washington; thence southerly along the extension of the easterly line of Lot 11, Block 1403.01, Township of Washington, and the easterly line of Lot 11, Block 1403.01, south approximately 3 degrees west a distance of 245.14 feet to the southerly line of Lot 11; Block 1403.01, Township of Washington; thence westerly along the southerly lines of Lot 11, Lot 12, Lot 13, and Lot 14, Block 1403.01, Township of Washington, north approximately 78 degrees west a distance of 370.78 feet to the easterly line of Lot 2, Block 1403, Township of Washington; thence southerly along the easterly line of Lot 2, Block 1403, Township of Washington, south approximately 17 degrees west a distance of 414.06 feet to the northerly line of Lot 5, Block 2505, Township of Washington; thence easterly along the northerly lines of Lot 5 and Lot 1, Block 2505, Township of Washington, south approximately 77 degrees east a distance of 79.65 feet to the easterly line of Lot 1, Block 2505, Township of Washington; thence southerly along the easterly line of Lot 1, Block 2505, Township of Washington, south approximately 9 degrees west a distance of 406.55 feet to the centerline of East Glen Avenue, Township of Washington; thence southerly along the extension northerly of the easterly line of Lot 2, Block 2501, Township of Washington and the easterly line of Lot 2, Lot 5, Lot 6, Lot 7, Lot 8, Lot 9, and Lot 10, Block 2501, and Lot 1 and Lot 2, Block 2502, Township of Washington, south approximately 9 degrees west a distance of 740.74 feet, south approximately 76 degrees east a distance of 70.59 feet, south approximately 15 degrees west a distance of 541.19 feet to the centerline of Linwood Avenue, said centerline also being the mutual municipal boundary line of the Township of Washington and the Borough of Paramus; thence westerly along the centerline of Linwood Avenue a distance of 120.16 feet to the mutual municipal boundary point of the Village of Ridgewood, the Township of Washington, and the Borough of Paramus; thence westerly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Paramus a distance of approximately 2,540 feet to the extension southerly of the easterly line of Lot 3, Block 4807, Ridgewood; thence northerly along the extension southerly and the easterly line of Lot 3, Block 4807, Ridgewood, north 24 degrees, 02 minutes east a distance of 288.90 feet to the northerly line of Lot 3, Block 4807; thence westerly and southerly along the northerly and westerly lines of Lot 3, Block 4807, Ridgewood, north 65 degrees, 45 minutes west a distance of 70.00 feet, south 24 degrees, 02 minutes west a distance of 290.40 feet to the centerline of Linwood Avenue, said centerline also being the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Paramus; thence westerly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Paramus a distance approximately 1,005 feet to the centerline of the Saddle River; thence southerly along the mutual municipal boundary of the Village of Ridgewood and the Borough of Paramus; also being the centerline of the Saddle River to the confluence of the Saddle River and the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook; said confluence being the mutual municipal boundary point of the Village of Ridgewood, the Borough of Paramus, the Borough of Fair Lawn and the Borough of Glen Rock, and the principle point or place of beginning. L.1993,c.53.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-2 Passaic valley sewerage commissioners; body corporate; general powers

The board of commissioners known as the Passaic valley sewerage commissioners, the first members of which were appointed under the act entitled "An act authorizing the appointment and defining the powers and duties of commissioners in sewage and drainage districts created for the purpose of relieving the streams and rivers therein from pollution, and to provide a plan for the prevention thereof and providing for the raising, expenditure and payment of moneys necessary for this purpose," approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand nine hundred and two (L.1902, c. 49, p. 195), is continued as a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession under said name of Passaic valley sewerage commissioners, hereinafter in this chapter designated as the "commissioners" , with power to sue and be sued and to adopt and use a corporate seal, and with the right, power and authority to acquire, hold, use and dispose of all such property, real and personal, as may be proper or necessary, and with all other power and authority proper or necessary to carry out and effectuate the purposes for which the board is created.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-3 Appointment of commissioners; removal; vacancies

58:14-3. The board shall consist of nine members who shall be appointed by the Governor in the following manner. Each county in the district shall be represented on the board by two members, of different political parties, both of whom shall reside in the district and in the county they represent. At least one of the two members from each county must reside in a contracting municipality as defined in R.S.58:14-34.11 or in a leasing municipality. Not more than five of the nine members of the board shall be from the same political party. The ninth member shall be an at-large member appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall serve during the term of office of the Governor. As used in this section, "at-large member" means a resident of the Passaic Valley Sewerage District as defined in R.S.58:14-1. Upon the expiration of the term of office of a commissioner, his successor shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of five years, except that the term of the at-large member shall be concurrent with the term of office of the Governor. The Governor may remove any commissioner from office for cause. Each commissioner shall hold his office until his successor has been appointed, and any vacancy in the membership of the commission because of death, resignation or removal, shall be filled for the unexpired term in the manner provided for on original appointment. In making any appointment hereunder, either for a full term or to fill a vacancy, regard shall be had to ability and fitness, and also locality, so that each section of the district may be represented as far as practicable. Amended 1941,c.99; 1975,c.151; 1991,c.145,s.1.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-4 $10,000 salary

58:14-4. Each of the commissioners shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully and impartially execute and perform the duties imposed upon him by law, and shall cause the same to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The commissioners shall each receive for service under this chapter an annual salary of $10,000.00, payable in equal monthly installments, and they shall receive no other compensation than that herein provided. Amended by L. 1953,c.370; 1975,c.153; 1987,c.337.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-5 Commissioners not to be interested in contracts; removal of offender; contracts void

No commissioner shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract awarded under the provisions of this chapter, nor in furnishing materials or supplies therefor to any contractor, nor in furnishing security for the performance of any contract. If at any time it shall appear to the satisfaction of the governor that any commissioner is or has been so interested, or is or has been a stockholder in any corporation furnishing material or supplies to any contractor for work done or to be done under the provisions of this chapter, or that he is the owner of any lands or water or water rights taken or to be taken or used in or for the construction of any work under the provisions of this chapter, or a stockholder in any corporation owning or leasing any such lands or waters or water rights, the governor shall remove such commissioner from office forthwith, and all contracts made by the commissioners wherein any such commissioner shall have been interested, directly or indirectly, as aforesaid, or otherwise, shall thereupon become and be null and void, and no further payments on account thereof shall be made by the commissioners.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-6 Annual organization; officers, agents and employees

The commissioners shall annually on the first Tuesday in May organize by the choice of a chairman and a vice chairman, who shall be members of the board, and a treasurer and a clerk, who may or may not be members of the board. The commissioners may, from time to time, appoint such other officers, attorneys, agents, engineers, employees and assistants as they may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and may prescribe their duties, fix their compensation and remove them at pleasure.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-6.1 Group hospital service; deductions

Whenever the employees of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners shall have formed themselves into a group for the purpose of obtaining the advantages of a group plan for any hospital service and have filed with said commissioners written petition and authorizations signed by the employees, said commissioners may by resolution authorize the deductions specified in the written petition and authorizations of the payment thereof. L.1956, c. 103, p. 478, s. 1.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-6.2 Premium payments by Commissioners permissive

Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners may pay as additional compensation to the individual members of the group a part or all of the premium or charge for such hospital service plan provided, however, that anything herein contained shall not be construed as compelling Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to pay such premium or part thereof. L.1956, c. 103, p. 478, s. 2.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-7 Discharge of sewage or other polluting matter into certain waters prohibited; enforcement

No sewage or other polluting matter shall be discharged, directly or indirectly, into the waters of the Passaic river at any point between the Great falls in the city of Paterson and the mouth of said river at Newark bay, or into the waters of any of the tributaries of said river which empty into it between said points, and the commissioners may enforce the provisions of this chapter over and throughout all municipalities which may, or the inhabitants of which may, directly or indirectly, discharge sewage or other polluting matter into said waters. The commissioners may institute in their corporate name such civil actions as may be deemed necessary or appropriate to enforce the provisions of this section, and the Superior Court is hereby vested with jurisdiction to enforce said provisions by such actions brought by the commissioners. The court may proceed in such actions in a summary manner or otherwise. Amended by L.1953, c. 54, p. 963, s. 32.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-8 Discharge of sewage or certain other matter, articles or substances into enumerated waters prohibited; penalty

No sewage, waste matter, article or substance, liquid or solid, of any kind which creates odors, gases or fumes, due to the putrefaction of organic matter or the presence of chemicals, or results in the presence of oil or grease on the surface of the waters of the Passaic river, or its tributaries, shall be placed or discharged, or be permitted to be placed or discharged, into the waters of said river between the points designated in section 58:14-7 of this title, or into its tributaries so designated. Whoever, other than a municipal corporation, after not less than ten days' nor more than six months' notice by the commissioners, violates the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, and a further penalty of twenty-five dollars a day for each day the offense is continued, to be sued for and recovered by and in the name of the commissioners.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-9 Municipalities may request commissioners to prepare plans and estimates for construction of intercepting sewers

The governing body or board having charge of finances of any municipality, lying in whole or in part within the district may, by resolution, determine that it is advisable and to the interest of the municipality, in order to comply with the provisions of this chapter, to cause the sewage and other polluting matter discharging or which may be discharged into the waters of the Passaic river from its territory within the district to be intercepted by a trunk or main intercepting sewer or sewers and to be conducted to a safe and proper place for discharge and disposal thereat, and may, by said resolution, request the commissioners to prepare and submit maps, plans and specifications for the construction of a joint trunk or main intercepting sewer or sewers and the necessary works for the conduct, discharge and disposal of sewage and other polluting matter as aforesaid, together with an estimate of the probable cost of such construction, and the operation and maintenance thereof, and of obtaining the necessary property rights for said construction, and an estimate of the sewage capacity in said trunk sewer or sewers required by each municipality lying in whole or in part within the district, and also an estimate of the proportion of said cost of construction, as near as may be, which would be apportioned to each of said municipalities, upon the basis expressed in section 58:14-13 of this title.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-10 Payment of preliminary expenses by municipality

The municipality making such request shall, in and by said resolution, agree to pay the commissioners the cost, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, of preparing the maps, plans, specifications and estimates so requested, and shall, at the time of making such request, pay as part of said expenses the sum of five thousand dollars to the commissioners. Such municipality, acting by the body or board having charge of its finances, may, at its discretion, by resolution, agree also to advance and pay to the commissioners for their use in making further investigations and preparing detail plans and specifications, moneys in installments or otherwise, not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, and if more than one municipality lying in whole or in part within the district agree to advance and pay moneys to the commissioners for said purposes, the amount of moneys so to be advanced and paid by said municipalities shall not exceed, in the aggregate, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Money so to be paid by a municipality may be appropriated and paid from any fund or balance not otherwise appropriated, and may be raised by temporary loans, notes or bonds, and shall be repaid to it, with interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, when the contract shall have been entered into for the building of said sewer, plant or works as hereinafter provided.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-11 Preparation and delivery of plans and estimates to municipalities; records

Upon receiving a copy of such resolution authenticated by the clerk or other like officer of one or more of such municipalities, the commissioners shall forthwith prepare the maps, plans, specifications and estimates so requested, and copies thereof shall be delivered by the clerk of the commissioners to each of the clerks or other like officers of all the municipalities lying in whole or in part within the district. An accurate record of the time and manner of the delivery by him of such copies to the clerks of such municipalities shall be made by the clerk of the commissioners and entered upon the minutes of the commissioners. A like record shall be kept by the clerks of the municipalities and be entered upon the minutes of the boards or bodies having charge of the finances in such municipalities respectively. The commissioners, in preparing the maps, plans and specifications as herein provided, and in making the estimate of the sewage capacity required for each municipality, shall have regard both to the area and population to be provided for, making provision, however, for not more than ten per cent of the factory waste and excluding all waste from gas works and all substances or discharges which may injuriously affect the integrity of the sewer when constructed.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-12 Contracts for construction, maintenance and operation of intercepting sewer; contents

Any two or more of said municipalities, at any time after the expiration of three months from the date of the delivery of copies of the maps, plans, specifications and estimates as aforesaid, may, by resolution of their governing bodies or boards having charge of their finances, enter into a contract in writing with each other and with the commissioners, in their corporate capacities, for the construction, maintenance and operation of said sewer, plant and works, with the appurtenances, or of so much thereof as may be necessary and appropriate for the contracting municipalities, together with works, machinery, appliances and other things requisite or useful for the purposes to be accomplished by the intercepting sewer, and for the purchase of lands, rights in lands and other property requisite or useful therefor. The contract herein authorized shall generally describe the route, line, size and capacity of such intercepting sewer and shall fix the percentage of the capacity therein, to the use of which each of the contracting municipalities shall be entitled, together with the percentage of the cost and expense of construction, repair, maintenance and operation of the same to be paid by each of the contracting municipalities.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-13 Apportionment of cost of construction; valuation of taxable property

The cost of the construction of said sewer, plant and works shall in the contract be apportioned to the respective contracting municipalities in such proportion as the taxable property, real and personal, within so much of the municipality so contracting as is embraced in the sewerage district bears to the total amount of taxable property, real and personal, within so much of all the municipalities so contracting as is embraced within the sewerage district, as returned and certified by the respective taxing boards and taxing officers of the municipalities for the year one thousand nine hundred and seven. For said purpose, all taxable property, real and personal, shall be assessed at its true value and each assessor, taxing board and taxing officer for the several municipalities so contracting shall examine, compute and determine, and certify to the commissioners on or before the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the amount of taxable property, real and personal, assessed for the year one thousand nine hundred and seven to and upon persons and property within so much of the several municipalities so contracting as lie within the district. The books of each of said assessors, taxing boards and taxing officers shall at all times be open for examination to the commissioners and to the contracting municipalities, and their officers and agents, for the purpose of examining, checking and verifying said certificates.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-14 Provision for increase of sewer capacity

In case any contracting municipality shall request sewage capacity in excess of what would be allotted to it for sewage, including ten per cent of factory waste, provision may be made in the contract for the enlargement of the sewer, plant and works, in order to accommodate and dispose of a larger quantity of factory waste, such increase in accommodation to be made at the expense of the municipality making requisition therefor.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-15 Annual apportionment of cost of maintenance, repair and operation

The cost of maintenance, repair and operation of said sewer, plant and works shall, by the terms of the contract, be apportioned annually to the respective municipalities entering into the contract, according to the amount of sewage delivered or discharged by them respectively into any sewer or other receptacle provided or constructed by the commissioners for the reception of the same. Included in the cost of operation shall be an amount to compensate any municipality for the loss of real estate taxes which would be due otherwise on the land exempted from taxation for the location thereon of a sewer plant serving other municipalities. The annual lost real estate taxes shall be calculated by applying the general tax rate of the municipality to the assessed value of the lands so exempted. The assessed value of such exempt lands shall be determined by multiplying the number of acres and the average assessed value per acre of taxable lands contiguous to the exempt land. The moneys received by the commissioners for this purpose shall be paid annually by them to the municipality in which the sewer plant is located. Amended by L.1975, c. 254, s. 1, eff. Nov. 25, 1975; L.1979, c. 40, s. 1, eff. March 14, 1979.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-15.1 Installment payments for cost of maintenance, repair and operation

Payments by municipalities to the commissioners pursuant to any contract entered into for the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of a sewer, plant or works constructed by the commissioners, shall be made in equal quarterly installments on February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year. L.1982, c. 92, s. 1, eff. July 28, 1982.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-16 Contract provisions as to construction, repair and operation; purchase of lands

The contract shall provide for the construction by the commissioners of an intercepting sewer or sewers, plant and works, reasonably sufficient in size and capacity to intercept and dispose of sewage and other polluting matter of the contracting municipalities for the present, and, so far as can be estimated and foreseen, for the future, and the sewer or sewers, plant and works may differ substantially in details from the preliminary maps, plans, specifications and estimates submitted to the municipalities as hereinbefore directed. The several contracting municipalities and the commissioners are hereby vested with absolute discretion in the determination of the size and capacity of each such intercepting sewer, plant and works. The contract shall also provide for the building, repair, operation, maintenance and cleaning of any such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and for the purchase of the necessary lands, rights in land and other property by the commissioners, and for the payment of the cost and expense thereof by the several contracting municipalities to the commissioners.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-17 Items included in cost of construction

The total cost and expense of constructing said intercepting sewer, plant and works shall include the expenses of the commissioners incurred prior to March eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and not otherwise provided for, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, also the cost of preliminary maps, plans, specifications and estimates herein referred to, also the salary or other compensation of the commissioners up to the completion of such intercepting sewer, plant and works, together with all incidental expenses of maintaining their corporate organization and of clerical and engineering services, and the reasonable compensation of counsel which they are hereby authorized to employ.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-18 Items included in cost of maintenance, repairs and operation

The cost and expense of maintaining, repairing and operating said intercepting sewer, works and plant, shall include the salaries or other compensation of the commissioners, also charges for clerical and engineering services, compensation of counsel and incidental expenses of maintaining their corporate organization.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-19 Contracting municipalities to exercise powers of eminent domain

In all the contracts to be made between the municipalities and the commissioners pursuant to the terms of this chapter, the several municipalities so contracting shall undertake and agree, upon the request of the commissioners, to exercise and put in operation all their powers of eminent domain for the condemnation of lands, rights in lands and other property for the benefit of such joint enterprise, either within or outside the territory of such contracting municipalities.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-20 Commissioners may acquire and condemn lands; construction and operation of sewer

Upon the making of the contract hereby authorized, the commissioners may, in their own corporate name, purchase and acquire all lands, and rights and interest in lands, either within or outside the territory of the joint contracting municipalities, which may be necessary for the construction of such intercepting sewer and its appurtenances, and for this purpose may condemn the same in the manner provided by the general laws of this state relating to the condemnation of lands for public use, and may construct, maintain and operate such intercepting sewer and its appurtenances, together with all works, machinery, appliances and other things requisite or useful for the purposes to be accomplished by the same.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-21 Location of sewer; entry upon and digging up of streets, etc.

The commissioners, in the execution of said works, may construct said intercepting sewer and the necessary appurtenances thereto to the point or points of discharge and disposal determined by the contract, and for this purpose may pass through or partly through territory situated within the bounds of any municipality, whether or not it is one of those contracting with it for the construction of said works, and they may construct any such intercepting sewer and its appurtenances along, under and over any watercourse, or under or over or along or across any street, turnpike, road, railroad, highway or other way, or public park or grounds, and in or upon private or public land under water, in such way and manner, however, as not unnecessarily to obstruct or impede travel or navigation, and may enter upon and dig up any street, highway or private or public land for the purpose of constructing said works and appurtenances and for repairing and maintaining the same, and in a general way may do all other acts and things necessary, convenient and proper in connection with the making and maintaining of the improvement contemplated by the provisions of this chapter. The highways dug up and disturbed shall be restored to their former condition as near as may be.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-22 $7,500 bid threshold

a. Whenever any work to be performed or any material to be furnished shall involve an expenditure of money exceeding the sum of $7,500.00 or, after June 30, 1985, the amount determined pursuant to subsection b. of this section, the commissioners shall designate the time when they will meet at their usual place of meeting to receive proposals in writing for doing the work and furnishing the material, and the commissioners shall order their clerk to give notice by advertisement, inserted in at least two newspapers printed and circulating, respectively, in two of the counties of the district, at least 10 days before the time of such meeting, of the work to be done and the material to be furnished, particular specifications of which they shall cause to be filed in their office at the time of such order. All proposals received shall be publicly opened by the commissioners or the chief administrative officer of the commission and the commissioners shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. All contractors shall be required to give bond satisfactory in amount and security to the commissioners. b. Commencing January 1, 1985, the Governor, in consultation with the Department of the Treasury, shall, no later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year, adjust the threshold amount set forth in subsection a. of this section, or subsequent to 1985, the threshold amount resulting from any adjustment under this subsection, in direct proportion to the rise or fall of the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers in the New York City and Philadelphia areas, as reported by the United States Department of Labor. The Governor shall, no later than June 1 of each odd-numbered year, notify the commissioners about the adjustment. The adjustment shall become effective on July 1 of each odd-numbered year. c. Nothing in this act shall prohibit the commissioners from entering into a joint agreement pursuant to section 10 of P.L. 1971, c. 198 (C. 40A:11-10) for the purchase of work related to sewage sludge disposaL. All such agreements shall be entered into by resolution of the commissioners and shall be subject to the requirements of P.L. 1971, c. 198 (C. 40A:11-1 et seq.). Amended by L. 1980, c. 85, s. 1, eff. Aug. 21, 1980; L. 1984, c. 220, s. 1, eff. Dec. 20, 1984; L. 1985, c. 452, s. 3, eff. Jan. 14, 1986.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-23 Contracting municipalities may borrow money and issue bonds; limit of indebtedness

For the purpose of defraying the cost and expense of the construction of any such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and the appurtenances thereof, and of making the payments which shall be designated and required to be made by such joint contract, the governing body or board in charge of the finances of each contracting municipality may borrow the money necessary to make such payments upon the notes or other temporary obligations of such municipality, which notes or obligations may be renewed from time to time until permanent bonds shall have been issued by such municipality to take up and pay for the same. Each contracting municipality may, from time to time, issue its bonds for the purpose of raising money necessary to pay its notes or other temporary obligations, including interest, issued and outstanding for the purpose hereinbefore stated, or to make any of the payments required by said contract, which said bonds shall be in such amounts and bear interest at such rate, not exceeding six per cent per annum, and shall be payable at such time and place, as the governing body or board having charge of the finances of such municipality shall by resolution duly adopted determine. The total amount of indebtedness incurred and of bonds issued by any municipality under the authority of this chapter shall not exceed five per cent of the tax ratables within such municipality, as shown by its official books of the last assessment for taxes therein, but said indebtedness and bonds shall be held to be authorized in addition to the amount of indebtedness and bonds fixed by the charter or any general law as a limitation beyond which the municipality may not incur indebtedness or issue bonds, and said indebtedness and bonds authorized by this chapter shall not be taken to be included within or governed by any such limitation; nor shall the method of issuing bonds authorized by this chapter be governed or determined by any provisions of any other special or general law.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-24 Commissioners may borrow money; security

Upon the making of any such contract as is herein provided for, the commissioners may borrow upon their corporate notes, or other obligations, any moneys which may be required by them in the performance of said contract, and for the payment of moneys so borrowed, the contract with the several municipalities executing the same shall be security.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-25 Contracts with certain municipalities and persons for use of sewers, etc.

At any time after the making of a contract in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the commissioners may, with the consent of each of the municipalities which have contracted with them, evidenced by resolution of the body or board having charge of its sewer system or authorized to construct sewers therein, enter into a contract with any municipality lying in whole or in part within the drainage area of the Passaic river between the Great falls at the city of Paterson and Newark bay, and including the boroughs of Totowa, West Paterson and North Haledon in Passaic county, for the following purposes: a. The use of said intercepting sewer and its appurtenances and for participation in the benefits and in the cost of the construction, operation and maintenance of the same. b. To permit any municipality already a party to the original contract to allot a portion of its capacity in said sewer to any other municipality within the drainage area for the purpose of providing an outlet for the sewage of such other municipality. The commissioners may, with like consent, enter into a contract with any person owning or occupying lands in said drainage area for the use of said intercepting sewer and appurtenances, and for participation in the benefits and in the cost of construction and maintenance of the same. All of said contracts shall be entered into by the commissioners upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon in any such contract, and any moneys paid in accordance with the terms of such further contract by such municipality or person may be used and applied by the commissioners to the cost of the completion of the intercepting sewer and appurtenances, or to the payment of the cost of the operation and maintenance of the same, or to the reduction of the amount which any contracting municipality may be called upon to pay to the commissioners by virtue of its said contract, as may be agreed upon in any such contract. Amended by L.1975, c. 18, s. 1, eff. Feb. 27, 1975.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-26 Municipalities contracting under section 58:14-25 may borrow money

Every municipality which shall have contracted with the commissioners under the authority of section 58:14-25 of this title shall have as full power to borrow money and make an issue of notes or other temporary obligations and bonds for the purpose of making the payments designated and required to be made under any such contract as is given by this chapter to the municipalities first entering into contract with the commissioners for the purpose of defraying the cost and expense of the construction of such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and the appurtenances thereof, and of making the payments designated and required to be made by and under such contracts.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-27 Contract with certain municipalities to pay their portion of cost of operation and maintenance

Where any municipality party to the original contract has made an agreement to allot a portion of its capacity in said sewer to another municipality as provided by section 58:14-25 of this title, and such other municipality has a population of not less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand, the commissioners may enter into a contract with the latter municipality to pay its portion of the cost of operation and maintenance of said sewer, based on the amount of use thereof by the municipality. Upon the execution of such a contract, the municipality shall have the right to participate in the use and benefit of said sewer, but not in excess of the capacity allotted to it under said agreement, as provided for in said section 58:14-25, and the rights to the use and benefits of the sewer by the municipality making the allotment shall be decreased to the extent of the allotment so made. It shall not be necessary to have the consent of the municipalities that were parties to the original contract with the commissioners for the execution of such contract as is authorized by this section.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-28 Contracts by municipalities with others for use of reserve sewer capacity

One or more of the municipalities which are parties to the contract with the commissioners, or to contracts supplementary thereto, as authorized by this chapter, may enter into a contract with any municipality or person, or any two or more of them, whether within or without the district, for the use of any reserve or unused sewer capacity owned by any such municipality in the intercepting sewer, plant and works constructed and operated by the commissioners, for the disposal of sewage or other polluting matter originating in the territory tributary to the Passaic river between the Great falls and Newark bay, either by a continuous or an intermittent flow to the extent and for so long only as such flow shall not interfere with the capacity of such sewer, plant or works belonging to such municipality, upon such annual rental or compensation for such use as may be agreed upon and the payment of the annual cost of maintenance, repair and operation upon the same basis as the municipalities who are parties to the contract with the commissioners or contracts supplementary thereto authorized by this chapter. A copy of any such contract shall be filed with the commissioners and approved by them before becoming operative. Any such contract as hereby authorized shall terminate and all rights thereunder shall cease upon one year's written notice given by either of the parties thereto or by the commissioners.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-29 Annual statement of reserve sewer capacity

The commissioners shall prepare annually a statement showing the maximum sewage flows and sewer capacity requirements for each municipality participating in the use of said sewer, plant and works and determine the difference between the capacity allotments and the sewer capacity requirements for each municipality for the ensuing year, which shall be known as "reserve sewer capacity" .

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-30 Supplementary contracts

The commissioners and the municipalities contracting with them for the construction and operation of an intercepting sewer and its appurtenances in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, may enter into further contract or contracts supplementary to or amendatory of any such existing contract, relating to any matter embodied in such existing contract.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-31 Control of sewers; payment by municipalities of cost of maintenance and operation

Upon the completion of any such intercepting sewer, plant and works, and the appurtenances thereof, the commissioners shall retain and have the sole control and charge thereof, and every municipality using the same shall pay annually to the commissioners, on demand, its proportion of the cost of maintenance and operation thereof, as the same may be certified to it from time to time by the commissioners pursuant to the terms of said contract, which cost of maintenance and operation shall be raised and provided for by said municipalities by taxation, or by the issuance of temporary loan bonds in anticipation of taxation.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-32 Audit of accounts of commissioners; financial report; liability of commissioners

The state comptroller shall cause the accounts of the commissioners to be annually audited at the expense of the commissioners, and the result of such audit shall be printed with the financial report of the commissioners. The commissioners shall at all times keep full and accurate account of their receipts and expenditures and liabilities, and shall annually cause a detailed statement thereof to be published and a copy thereof mailed to the clerk of each of the contracting municipalities. The commissioners shall be liable for any unlawful act the same as members or officers of any public body.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-33 Suits to enforce provisions of chapter

Any municipality, corporation or individual injured by the discharge, directly or indirectly, of any sewage or other polluting matter into the waters of the Passaic river at any point between the limits in which such discharge is prohibited by this chapter may institute and prosecute in the name of the commissioners such suit or suits at law or in equity as may be necessary or appropriate to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the same as the commissioners could or might do, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to take from, deprive, or otherwise limit any right of action which any such municipality, corporation or individual might have in its or his own name to secure or obtain the abatement of, or damages for any injuries sustained as the result of, the discharge of sewage or polluting matter in violation of the provisions of this chapter. Whenever any prosecution shall be instituted under the provisions of this section, the name and address of the municipality, corporation or individual instituting or prosecuting the same shall be set forth in the pleadings therein.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34 Lease of lands to municipalities maintaining joint sewers; contracts for disposal of sludge; use of moneys received

The Passaic valley sewerage commissioners are hereby given the right, power and authority to lease unto any two or more municipalities in this state, organized in joint meeting, under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to authorize two or more municipalities in this state to jointly construct and maintain outlet or trunk sewers," approved March fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and the supplements thereto and amendments thereof, or under the provisions of article 2 of chapter 63 of the title Municipalities and Counties (s. 40:63-68 et seq.), for such period of years as may be agreed upon, any portion of its lands deemed necessary by the contracting parties for the purpose of constructing and maintaining on and in such leased lands, pipe lines and sewage storage tanks with appurtenances, and to enter into any agreements concerning the same, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon; and shall further have the right, power and authority to enter into a contract or contracts with such municipalities, organized in joint meeting as aforesaid, for the disposal of sludge by barge to sea or otherwise. All moneys received by the commissioners pursuant to any such lease and contract or contracts shall be applied first to all costs and expenses in connection with said lease and contract or contracts, and the balance of the moneys, if any, shall be applied toward the payment of the cost of operation and maintenance of the intercepting sewer and appurtenances operated and maintained by the commissioners.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.1 Definitions

Certain terms as used in this act or any amendment of, or supplement to, this act, are defined as follows: "Intercepting sewer" means the "Passaic Valley intercepting sewer" together with its branches and appurtenances, as constructed, maintained and operated by the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners. "Commissioners" means the "Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners." "Contracting agency" means any municipality entitled to the rights in and use of the intercepting sewer by virtue of contributions made by it to the commissioners toward the costs of the construction of the intercepting sewer, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 14 of Title 58 of the Revised Statutes (s. 58:14-1 et seq.), as amended, and the original and supplemental contracts between the commissioners and the various municipalities in the Passaic Valley Sewerage District. "Lessee" means any municipality, governmental agency, person, firm or corporation, entering into a lease agreement under the provisions of this act. "District" means the "Passaic Valley Sewerage District" as defined in section 58:14-1 of the Revised Statutes and chapter 151 of the laws of 1942. "Sewage" means sanitary sewage, trade wastes, storm waters and any other liquids and substances which customarily and regularly flow through sewers. L.1943, c. 76, p. 289, s. 1. Amended by L.1962, c. 31, s. 1.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.2 Leases for use of intercepting sewer authorized

At any time hereafter, the commissioners may enter into a lease with any municipality, governmental agency, person, firm or corporation, for the use of the intercepting sewer for the disposal of additional sewage originating from a drainage area of the Passaic river below the Great Falls in the city of Paterson. L.1943, c. 76, p. 290, s. 2.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.3 Determination of capacity before making lease; hearing; notice

Before entering into any such lease, the commissioners shall determine that the intercepting sewer has sufficient capacity at the proposed point of intake of such additional sewage and at all other points of the intercepting sewer, after taking into consideration the estimated rate of flow and hours of discharge of such additional sewage, without preventing or interfering with the actual use being made of said intercepting sewer by any contracting agency therein or lessee. The commissioners shall hold a public hearing at which time opportunity shall be afforded the contracting agencies and all interested parties to present objections and suggestions with reference to the proposed lease, and if it shall appear that contracting agencies representing more than seventy-five per centum (75%) of allotted capacity in said intercepting sewer, object to said lease, the commissioners shall not enter into it. Notice of said public hearing, with all relative information and data, shall be mailed to each contracting agency, at least twenty days before the date set for the hearing. L.1943, c. 76, p. 290, s. 3.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.4 Required provisions in lease

The said lease shall provide as follows: that (a) the lessee shall bear his proportionate share of the annual cost of maintenance, repairs and operation of the intercepting sewer in the same manner and on the same terms as the contracting agencies; (b) the lessee shall, in addition, pay to the commissioners, an annual rental at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per million gallons of average daily flow or discharge received into the intercepting sewer as a result of said lease; said annual rental to be not less than fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00); (c) the lease shall terminate on December thirty-first of the year in which made and thenceforth renew itself annually for calendar year periods, unless either party shall give six months' notice prior to the renewal date of his or its intention not to renew; (d) the flow or discharge to be received under such lease shall be received during prescribed hours of the day or night and at a prescribed rate of flow per minute and per day with a right or privilege in the commissioners to vary such prescribed hours or rates of flow at any time during the term of the lease or any of its renewals; (e) the lessee shall at all times be subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioners governing the use of said intercepting sewer, and the lessee shall not discharge or permit to be discharged into the intercepting sewer any substances or liquids containing oils, gasoline or any explosive or inflammable materials, or acids or other substances or liquids which alone or in combination with other substances or liquids in the sewer, may or might, directly or indirectly, cause or threaten or tend to cause, injury to the sewer structures or to the life and health of persons. Such prohibited substances or liquids shall also include live steam and excessively hot liquids, as well as any other substances or liquids which directly or indirectly, alone or in combination with other liquids or substances, may or might generate or tend to generate explosive or dangerous gases; (f) the flow or discharge to be received under a lease shall be metered by an approved measuring device or meter, to be approved by the commissioners, but to be erected by and at the sole expense of the lessee. Said measuring device or meter, however, shall be under the exclusive control of the commissioners; all expenditures for installations and connections made necessary by the lease, including the construction of a shut-off or closing valve under the control of the commissioners shall be borne by the lessee and said lessee shall be required to maintain in a good state of repair and operation, such measuring device, meter, installations and connections at its own costs and expenses; provided, that the lessee shall not be required to bear the expense of reading the meter or the general expense of maintaining, repairing and operating the intercepting sewer except as above provided; (g) the commissioners and the contracting agencies shall not be responsible in damages for any stoppage in the flow or discharge received under the terms of the lease; (h) where the lessee shall find it necessary in order to connect up with the intercepting sewer to construct lines over the property or through the streets or make use of the sewer lines, of any municipality, or of any individual, firm or private corporation, then said lessee shall be obligated to make such arrangements or contracts with said parties as may be necessary, as a condition to the making of the lease with the commissioners; (i) the lessee shall conform to such other conditions, terms, requirements and safeguards as the commissioners may deem necessary and provide for in said lease; (j) for breach in any of the provisions of the lease, the commissioners may give notice to the lessee and, unless such breach is corrected, the commissioners may forthwith terminate the lease. L.1943, c. 76, p. 291, s. 4.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.5 Distribution of rentals

The said annual rentals, exclusive of charges for maintenance, repairs and operations, paid by such lessees for the use of the intercepting sewer for any calendar year or portion of the same, shall be distributed proportionately among the contracting agencies according to their unused capacity in the intercepting sewer for such year. L.1943, c. 76, p. 293, s. 5.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.6 Lessees' use not to interfere with use by contracting agencies

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit or abridge the right of any contracting agency to make use of the intercepting sewer to the full extent of its allotted capacity, and if it shall appear that the actual use of such intercepting sewer by any contracting agency is being or probably will be impaired, lessened or destroyed, then the commissioners shall take action to curtail or bring to an end the use of said intercepting sewer by any lessee whose use of the same is, in actual operation, impairing, lessening or destroying or tending to impair, lessen or destroy the actual use of the intercepting sewer by such contracting agency. L.1943, c. 76, p. 293, s. 6.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.7 Use of intercepting sewer in excess of allotted capacity; restraining or permitting; rental for excess use

Whenever any contracting agency is using said intercepting sewer in excess of its allotted capacity, the commissioners may, in addition to the right to restrain such excess use, by application to the court having jurisdiction over the same, in their judgment, permit such excess use whenever they ascertain and determine that such excess use will not interfere with the use of said intercepting sewer to the extent of its allotted capacity by any other contracting agency, and that the capacity of said intercepting sewer is sufficient to carry such excess, permit such contracting agency to continue to use said intercepting sewer for such excess and charge the municipality using such excess at an annual rental at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) annually per million gallons of average daily flow, in addition to its proportionate share of the annual costs of maintenance, repairs and operation of the intercepting sewer with respect to its total discharge of sewage into such intercepting sewer. The said rental collected by the commissioners shall be disbursed by the commissioners to the contracting agencies in the same manner as provided herein for the disbursement and distribution of the rentals arising from leases between the commissioners and lessees. L.1943, c. 76, p. 293, s. 7.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.8 Repeal

All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. L.1943, c. 76, p. 294, s. 8.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.9 Lease with minimum annual rental

Notwithstanding the restrictions and limitations prescribed by the act to which this act is a supplement, the commissioners may enter into a lease with a lessee at such minimum annual rental and with such other terms as to the flow and discharge to be received and the computation of the quantities thereof as may be approved by the commissioners; provided, such lessee shall be a municipality, or a sewer district created under the provisions of section 40:63-32 of the Revised Statutes, which for more than ten years past shall have had a contract or arrangement with a contracting agency for the discharge of sewage into the intercepting sewer of not more than one hundred thousand gallons average daily flow. L.1944, c. 214, p. 752, s. 1.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.10 Legislative declaration as to need for repair, replacement and improvement

It has been ascertained by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey and is hereby declared: (a) that there is imperative need for repair, replacement and improvement of the sewerage system (hereinafter defined) operated by the commissioners (hereinafter defined), including particularly immediate enlargement and betterment of the sewage treatment and disposal works thereof; (b) that the existence of such need threatens the waters of the Passaic river and Newark bay with pollution, and failure or delay in meeting such need will jeopardize the health, safety and welfare of residents of the State and impair property and other economic values and, by reason of discharge of effluent from the sewerage system in waters of New York bay, will harm the relations of the State with other States and with public health agencies; (c) that such need arises principally from the long, continuous and heavy use made and being made of the sewerage system since its operation began in one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, the impracticability during such use of making on an annual or any other periodic basis the alterations and improvements required in order to provide for the increase of population and the rise in acceptable standards for sewage treatment and disposal, and the damage, wear and tear, depreciation and obsolescence incident to such use; (d) that the expense of meeting such need and providing such repair, replacement and improvement, together with any amortization or interest charges in connection with such expense, is in substance and effect part of the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system; (e) that the provisions of the statutes and of contracts made or to be made pursuant thereto whereby the contracting municipalities (hereinafter defined) or the commissioners could raise funds to meet such expense in the amounts required are not sufficiently flexible and are impracticable, and application thereof would result in oppressive or inequitable taxation to meet such expense; and (f) that it is necessary, as in this act provided, to afford a practical means of relief in the premises and to permit and require the contracting municipalities as users of the sewerage system to meet and pay the expense of meeting such need on an economical and reasonable basis over a reasonable number of years. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2008, s. 1.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.11 Definitions

As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Original act" shall mean chapter 14 of Title 58 of the Revised Statutes (section 58:14-1, et seq.) and the acts continued thereby and the acts heretofore adopted amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto; (b) "Commissioners" shall mean the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, the body politic and corporate of the State of New Jersey appointed, organized, created and existing pursuant to the original act; (c) "Sewerage system" shall mean the Passaic Valley intercepting sewer together with its branches and appurtenances and all plants, structures and other real and tangible personal property acquired, constructed or operated by the commissioners and such other plants, structures and other real and tangible personal property as may be acquired or constructed by the commissioners pursuant to this act; (d) "Municipality" shall mean any city of any class, any borough, village, town, township, or any other municipality other than a county or a school district; (e) "Contracting municipality" shall mean any municipality entitled to rights in and use of the sewerage system by virtue of contributions heretofore made by it to the commissioners toward the costs of construction of the sewerage system pursuant to the provisions of the original act and any contract heretofore made between the commissioners and one or more municipalities with respect to such construction and contributions; (f) "Governing body" shall mean the commission, council, board or body, by whatever name it may be known, having charge of the finances of a municipality; (g) "Project" shall mean any or all sewers, conduits, pipe lines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations, sewage or other water-borne waste treatment or disposal systems, plants, works or apparatus, connections or outfalls deemed by the commissioners to be necessary or desirable as part of the sewerage system, including equipment or appurtenances thereof and any real or tangible personal property necessary or desirable therefor and including also all improvements necessary to relieve or prevent pollution of the Passaic river and Newark bay; (h) "Bonds" shall mean bonds or other obligations of the commissioners issued pursuant to this act; and (i) "System revenues" shall mean the moneys paid or required to be paid by any contracting municipality or any other user of the sewerage system to the commissioners on account of the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2009, s. 2. Amended by L.1971, c. 141, s. 1, eff. May 12, 1971.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.12 Additional powers of commissioners

For the purpose of carrying out any of said projects the commissioners shall have the power, in addition to the powers granted by the original act, to own, maintain, repair, reconstruct, operate and use the sewerage system and, to that end, to acquire, by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise, and, to construct, maintain, repair, reconstruct, operate and use all plants, structures, equipment and facilities, and other real and personal property, deemed necessary for, or incident to, any of said projects; and for said purpose only the commissioners may enter into any contracts, execute all instruments, and do all things necessary or convenient to carry out any power expressly given in this act. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2011, s. 3.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.13 Continuation of status of commissioners

The commissioners shall be or continue to be a public body politic and corporate established as an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions to provide for the public health and welfare and shall have the power, in its own name and on its own behalf, to acquire, hold, use and dispose of its system revenues and other moneys, and to provide for and secure the payment of any bonds and the rights of the holders thereof. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2011, s. 4.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.14 Bond issue authorized; resolution; notice and hearing; issuance and sale; bond anticipation notes

(a) For the purpose of raising funds to pay the cost of any of the projects, as defined in section 1 of this act, or any part of said projects, the commissioners shall have power from time to time to authorize and provide for the issuance of its bonds pursuant to this act. Such bonds shall be authorized by and be issued pursuant to a resolution or resolutions (in this act sometimes referred to as "bond resolution" ) of the commissioners which shall (1) describe the project or projects in brief and general terms sufficient for reasonable identification, and (2) state the amount of bonds authorized thereby for or with respect to said project or projects. There shall be included in such cost of such project or projects such amounts as the commissioners shall deem necessary or advisable to provide for the cost of issuance of bonds and of financial, legal and accounting services and advice, for discount on bonds, for engineering, inspection and professional costs, and for all such other expenses as may be necessary and incident to the financing, acquisition, construction and completion of such project or projects and the placing of the same in operation, and also such provision or reserves for working capital, operating, maintenance or replacement expenses, or payment or security of principal of or interest on any bonds or notes of the commissioners during or after such financing, acquisition, construction and completion as the commissioners may determine to be necessary or advisable. (b) After adoption of a bond resolution, the commissioners shall (1) cause copy thereof, certified by its secretary, and a notice of the date, time and place of the hearing hereinafter mentioned to be mailed to the governing body of each contracting municipality; (2) cause such notice to be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city of Newark, New Jersey; and (3) not sooner than 30 days after such publication and after such mailing, hold a public hearing in the Passaic Valley Sewerage District on said bond resolution at which any contracting municipality may appear in person or by agent or attorney and be heard with respect thereto. Said bond resolution shall take effect on the thirtieth day after the conclusion of such public hearing unless prior to such thirtieth day the governing bodies of contracting municipalities shall have caused to be filed with the secretary of the commissioners copies, certified by their respective clerks of resolutions adopted by such governing bodies respectively objecting to said bond resolution and it shall appear that the contracting municipalities on behalf of which such objecting resolutions were adopted paid 25% or more of the total amount of moneys received by the commissioners, exclusive of moneys received because of lease arrangements or because of surcharges or default payments, from contracting municipalities during the calendar year ending on the last day of December next preceding the date of such public hearing. (c) Upon the taking effect of a bond resolution, the commissioners shall have power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue its bonds for the purpose or respective purposes described therein. Such bonds shall be authorized by the bond resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times not exceeding 40 years from the date thereof, bear interest at such rate or rates and payable at such times, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable from such sources in such medium of payment at such place or places within or without the State, and be subject to such terms of redemption (with or without premium) as the bond resolution may provide or as may be determined by the commissioners in such other manner as the bond resolution may authorize. (d) Bonds of the commissioners shall be sold by the commissioners at public sale not less than 6 nor more than 40 days after notice of such sale has been published at least once in a newspaper published in the city of Newark and in a financial newspaper published and circulating in New York City, which shall state the terms of sale as determined by the commissioners. The bonds of each issue sold by the commissioners shall be offered at such public sale by the commissioners on the basis of the interest cost to maturity of the money received for such issue (computed according to standard tables of bond values) and at such public sale, unless all proposals for the bonds are rejected, shall be awarded upon the proposal offering the lowest such interest cost. (e) After adoption of a bond resolution, the commissioners, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, shall have power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue negotiable notes. Any such note shall be designated "bond anticipation note" and shall contain a recital that it is issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds. Such notes may be issued for a period of not exceeding 1 year and may be renewed from time to time for periods of not exceeding 1 year, but all such notes, including renewals thereof, shall mature and be paid not more than 5 years from the date of the original notes. Such notes may be sold at public or private sale, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, and be payable at such place or places within or without the State as a resolution of the commissioners may provide. Bond anticipation notes may be sold at private sale pursuant to resolution of the commissioners, or by its treasurer expressly designated by resolution to sell such notes. The treasurer making any such sale shall report in writing to the commissioners at the next meeting thereof as to the principal amount, interest rate, and maturities of the notes sold, the price obtained and the name of the purchaser. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2011, s. 5. Amended by L.1969, c. 235, s. 1, eff. Dec. 17, 1969; L.1971, c. 141, s. 2, eff. May 12, 1971.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.15 Notice limiting time for questioning validity; bar of actions and defenses

After the taking effect of a bond resolution, the commissioners may cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city of Newark the title of said bond resolution together with a notice stating the date of its adoption and also the date of the first publication of such notice and also that any action or proceeding of any kind or nature in any court questioning the validity of the creation and establishment of the commissioners, or the validity or proper authorization of the bonds provided for by said bond resolution, or the validity of this act or of any obligations, covenants, agreements or contracts provided for by this act or said bond resolution shall be commenced within twenty days after the first publication of such notice. If no such action or proceeding shall be commenced or instituted within twenty days after the first publication of such notice, then all contracting municipalities and residents and taxpayers and owners of property therein and all other persons whatsoever shall be forever barred and foreclosed from instituting or commencing any action or proceeding in any court, and from pleading in any action or proceeding any defense, questioning the validity of the creation and establishment of the commissioners, the validity or proper authorization of such bonds, or the validity of this act or of any such obligations, covenants, agreements or contracts, and all such bonds, obligations, covenants, agreements and contracts shall be conclusively deemed to be valid and binding obligations in accordance with their terms and tenor. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2013, s. 6.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.16 Negotiability of bonds, obligations and coupons

Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or other obligation issued pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the uniform commercial code of the State, and each holder or owner of such a bond or other obligation, or of any coupon appurtenant thereto, by accepting such bond or coupon shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed that such bond, obligation or coupon is and shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of said uniform commercial code. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2014, s. 7. Amended by L.1971, c. 141 s. 3, eff. May 12, 1971.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.17 Contractual provisions of bond resolution

Any bond resolution of the commissioners authorizing the issuance of any bonds may contain provisions, which regardless of the time of issuance thereof shall be a part of the contract with the holders thereof, as to: (a) the custody, security, use expenditure or application of the proceeds of the bonds; (b) payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, or any other obligations, and the sources and methods thereof, the rank or priority of any such bonds or obligations as to any lien or security; (c) the use and disposition of any moneys of the commissioners; (d) pledging, setting aside, depositing or trusteeing all or any part of the system revenues or other moneys or any contracts of the commissioners to secure the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or any other obligations, or the payment of expenses of operation or maintenance of the sewerage system, and the powers and duties of any trustee with regard thereto; (e) the setting aside out of the system revenues or other moneys of the commissioners of reserves and sinking funds, and the source, custody, security, regulation, application and disposition thereof; (f) System revenues and the rents, rates, fees, or other charges for connection with or the use or services of the sewerage system; (g) vesting in a trustee or trustees such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the commissioners may determine which may include any or all of the rights, powers and duties of the trustee appointed by the holders of bonds pursuant to section ten of this act, and limiting or abrogating the right of such holders to appoint a trustee pursuant to section ten of this act or limiting the rights, duties and powers of such trustee; (h) payment of costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or of the provisions of the bond resolution or of any covenant or contract with the holders of the bonds; (i) the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any covenant or contract with, or duty to, the holders of bonds may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given or evidenced. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2014, s. 8.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.18 Remedies of bond holders

(a) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to a series of bonds authorized or issued under this act only if the bond resolution of the commissioners authorizing or providing for the issuance of such bonds, or an amendment thereof, shall provide in substance that the holders of the bonds of such series shall be entitled to the benefits, and be subject to the provisions of this section. (b) In the event that there shall be a default in the payment of principal of or interest on any bonds of such series after the same shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and such default shall continue for a period of thirty days, or in the event that the commissioners shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act or shall fail or refuse to carry out and perform the terms of any contract with the holders of any of such bonds, and such failure or refusal shall continue for a period of ninety days after written notice to the commissioners of its existence and nature, the holders of twenty-five per centum (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of such series then outstanding by instrument or instruments filed in the office of the Secretary of State and proved or acknowledged in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint a trustee to represent the holders of the bonds of such series for the purposes provided in this section. (c) Such trustee may and upon written request of the holders of twenty-five per centum (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of such series then outstanding shall, in his or its own name: (1) By action, suit or proceeding in the nature of mandamus, injunction, certiorari or otherwise, enforce all rights of the holders of such bonds, including the right to require the commissioners to charge and collect system revenues and other charges adequate to carry out any contract as to, or pledge of, such moneys, and to require the commissioners to carry out and perform the terms of any contract with the holders of such bonds or its duties under this act; (2) Bring action upon all or any part of such bonds or interest coupons or claims appurtenant thereto; (3) By action, suit or other proceeding, as if in equity, require the commissioners to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such bonds; (4) By action, suit or other proceeding, as if in equity, enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of such bonds. (d) Such trustee shall, in addition to the foregoing, have and possess all of the powers necessary or appropriate for the exercise of the functions specifically set forth herein or incident to the general representation of the holders of bonds of such series in the enforcement and protection of their rights. (e) In any action, suit or other proceeding by such trustee, the fees, counsel fees and expenses of the trustee shall constitute taxable costs and disbursements, and all costs and disbursements, allowed by the court, shall be a first charge upon any system revenues of the commissioners pledged for the payment or security of bonds of such series. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2016, s. 9.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.19 Exemptions from liability

Neither the members of the commission nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. Bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the State or of any county or municipality and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the State or of any such county or municipality, either legal, moral or otherwise, and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize the commissioners to incur any indebtedness on behalf of or in any way to obligate the State or any county or municipality. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2017, s. 10.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.20 Interest on indebtedness as cost of system

11. For all purposes of the original act, and of any contract made or hereafter made thereunder or for the purposes thereof, the cost and expense of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system for any year shall be deemed to include, and shall include, in addition to all other items heretofore included, all interest becoming due prior to the end of such year on bonds or other obligations of the commissioners issued pursuant to this act, plus the principal or redemption premium of any such bonds or obligations becoming due prior to the end of such year, plus such sums as the commissioners may determine or by the terms of any contract be required to set aside during such year as a reserve for payment or security of principal of or interest on any such bonds or obligations or be by the terms of any contract required to set aside during such year as a reserve for any other purpose. The contracting municipalities and other users of the sewerage system are hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary, convenient or desirable to pay to the commissioners annually the total cost and expense (as herein referred to and described) of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system apportioned as above provided. If any payment on account of the cost and expense (as herein referred to and described) of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system, or any part thereof, due to the commissioners under the original act or any such contract from a contracting municipality or other user shall remain unpaid for 30 days after the commissioners have notified such contracting municipality or other user by mail of the amount due and the due date, such contracting municipality or other user shall be charged with and shall pay to the commissioners interest on the amount unpaid from 30 days after such notice of the commissioners was mailed until paid, at a rate equal to two percentage points over the average prime rate for the 30-day period beginning on the date the notice of the commissioners was mailed. Every obligation assumed by or imposed upon any contracting municipality or other user by the original act or any such contract or this act shall be enforceable by the commissioners by appropriate action, suit or proceeding, and the commissioners may have and pursue any and all remedies provided by law for the enforcement of such obligation. L.1953,c.388,s.11; amended 1971,c.141,s.4; 1983,c.150; 1993,c.54.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.21 Mortgage, pledge, encumbrance or disposal of system; exemption from judicial process

Neither the commissioners nor any municipality shall have power to mortgage, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any part of the sewerage system, except that the commissioners may dispose of such part or parts thereof as may be no longer necessary for the purposes of the commissioners. The provisions of this section shall be deemed to constitute a part of the contract with the holder of any bonds. All property of the commissioners shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall any judgment against the commissioners be a charge or lien upon its property; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall apply to or limit the rights of the holder of any bonds to pursue any remedy for the enforcement of any pledge or lien given by the commissioners on its system revenues or other moneys. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2021, s. 12.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.22 Investments in bonds; security for deposits

Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all public officers, municipalities, counties, political subdivisions and public bodies, and agencies thereof, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries, may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds, and such bonds shall be authorized security for any and all public deposits. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2021, s. 13.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.23 Exemption from taxation

The sewerage system and all other property of the commissioners are hereby declared to be public property of a political subdivision of the State and devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the State or any subdivision thereof. All bonds are hereby declared to be issued by a political subdivision of this State and for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be a public instrumentality and such bonds, and the interest thereon and the income therefrom, and all funds, income, system revenues and other moneys pledged or available to pay or secure the payment of such bonds, or interest thereon, shall at all times be exempt from taxation except for estate and transfer inheritance taxes and taxes on transfers by or in contemplation of death. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2022, s. 14.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.24 Pledge, covenant and agreement with bondholders

The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds that the State will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, reconstruct and operate the sewerage system and to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with the holders of such bonds or other obligations, and will not in any way impair the rights or remedies of such holders, and will not modify in any way the exemptions from taxation provided for in this act, until the bonds, together with interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully met and discharged; provided that such pledge to and covenant and agreement with the holders of any bonds issued on or after January 1, 1971 does not prohibit authorization hereafter for the commissioners, notwithstanding any other provision of this act or of the original act or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, to apportion the cost and expense of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system (as in section 11 hereof referred to and described) among the contracting municipalities and other users thereof, upon any basis or bases in addition to or other than the proportion of the amount of sewage by them delivered and discharged into the sewerage system. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2022, s. 15. Amended by L.1971, c. 141, s. 5, eff. May 12, 1971.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.25 Powers and duties cumulative and additional

The powers granted and duties imposed by this act are cumulative and are granted or imposed in addition to and not in substitution for existing powers or duties of the commissioners or any municipality, and are not subject to any limitation or restriction prescribed by any other laws. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2023, s. 16.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.26 Partial invalidity

If any section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or to be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not adjudged unconstitutional or is not ineffective it shall be valid and effective and no other section, subsection, clause or provision of this act shall on account thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective, and the inapplicability or invalidity of any section, subsection, clause or provisions of this act in any one or more instances or under any one or more circumstances shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its applicability or validity in any other instance or under any other circumstance. L.1953, c. 388, p. 2023, s. 17.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.27 Agreement with contracting agency for use of pumping station and treatment facilities

At any time hereafter the commissioners may enter into an agreement with any contracting agency solely for the use of the commissioners' pumping station and treatment facilities for the disposal of sewage originating from within the municipal boundaries of the contracting agency. No sewage presently being discharged into the commissioners' system may be received under these sections. L.1962, c. 31, s. 2.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.28 Hearing on proposed agreement

Before entering into any such agreement the commissioners shall hold a public hearing at which time opportunity shall be afforded the remaining contracting agencies to present objections and suggestions with reference to the proposed agreement, and if it shall appear that the contracting agencies, representing more than 75% of the remaining allowed capacity in the commissioners' facilities, object to said agreement, the commissioners shall not enter into it. Notice of said public hearing with the relative information and data shall be mailed to each contracting agency at least 20 days before the date set for the hearing. L.1962, c. 31, s. 3.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.29 Contents of agreement

The said agreement shall provide as follows: A. The contracting agency entering into said agreement shall pay to the commissioners for this sewage at a rate which shall be a specified percentage, but in no event less than 75%, of the rate which all contracting agencies pay for the use of the commissioners' facilities including the intercepting sewer. B. The agreement shall commence upon signing and shall terminate on December 31, of an agreed upon year, but not later than 25 years after the date of entry, after which time the said agreement shall renew itself annually for calendar year periods, unless either party shall give 6 months notice prior to the renewal date of its intention not to renew. C. The involved contracting agency shall at all times be subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioners governing the use of said intercepting sewer, and the involved contracting agency shall not discharge or permit to be discharged into the commissioners' facilities any substances or liquids containing oils, gasoline or any explosive or inflammable materials, or acids or other substances or liquids which alone or in combination with other substances or liquids in the sewer, may or might, directly or indirectly, cause or threaten or tend to cause, injury to the sewer structures or to the life and health of persons. Such prohibited substances or liquids shall also include live steam and excessively hot liquids, as well as any other substances or liquids which directly or indirectly, alone or in combination with other liquids or substances, may or might generate or tend to generate explosive or dangerous gases; D. The flow or discharge to be received under an agreement shall be metered by an approved measuring device or meter, to be approved by the commissioners, but to be erected by and at the sole expense of the involved contracting agency. Said measuring device or meter, however, shall be under the conclusive control of the commissioners; all expenditures for installations and connections made necessary by the agreement, including the construction of a shut-off or closing valve under the control of the commissioners shall be borne by the involved contracting agency and said involved contracting agency shall be required to maintain in a good state of repair and operation, such measuring device, meter, installations and connections at its own costs and expenses; provided, that the involved contracting agency shall not be required to bear the expense of reading the meter or the general expense of maintaining, repairing and operating the commissioners' facilities except as above provided; E. The commissioners and the contracting agencies shall not be responsible in damages for any stoppage in the flow or discharge received under the terms of the agreement; F. Where the involved contracting agency shall find it necessary in order to connect up with the commissioners' facilities to construct lines over the property or through the streets or make use of the sewer lines, of any municipality, or of any individual, firm or private corporation, then said involved contracting agency shall be obligated to make such arrangements or contracts with said parties as may be necessary, as a condition to the making of the agreement with the commissioners; G. The involved contracting agency shall conform to such other conditions, terms, requirements and safeguards as the commissioners may deem necessary and provide for in said agreement; H. For breach in any of the provisions of the agreement, the commissioners may give notice to the involved contracting agency and, unless such breach is corrected, the commissioners may forthwith terminate the agreement. L.1962, c. 31, s. 4.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-34.30 Agreements limited by capacity of facilities

No contracting agency shall be permitted to enter into any agreement for the discharge of a quantity of sewage, which, in addition to any other sewage discharged to the commissioners' facilities, shall exceed its allotted capacity. In no event shall the peak flow under this agreement exceed twice the capacity permitted hereunder. L.1962, c. 31, s. 5.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-35 Rules and regulations; civil penalty for violations

The commissioners shall have the power to adopt rules and regulations in conformity with requirements imposed by the federal government as a condition of federal assistance, which shall be binding upon all contracting municipalities and lessees delivering or discharging sewage into the system of the commissioners. Such rules and regulations may include pretreatment requirements, requirements for the adoption of sewer use ordinances and of user charge and industrial cost recovery systems in accordance with applicable federal statutes and the implementing regulations promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and requirements concerning infiltration-inflow, as well as such other rules and regulations as the commissioners may deem to be necessary or proper for the operation of the system or to apply for and receive financial assistance from the federal government or any agency thereof for the construction, acquisition or rehabilitation of waste treatment works as part of the system, and to enter any agreement with the federal government for the purpose of obtaining such financial assistance. Any person who violates any provision of any rule or regulation adopted by the commissioners pursuant to this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to $50,000.00 per day for each violation, and each day's continuance of the violation shall constitute a separate violation. Penalties imposed under this section may be recovered with costs in a summary proceeding pursuant to "the penalty enforcement law" (N.J.S.2A:58-1 et seq.). The commissioners may institute a civil action in the Superior Court for injunctive relief to prevent or restrain any act or activity which adversely affects or threatens to adversely affect public health or safety or the operation of the system. L.1976, c.125, s.1; amended 1989,c.237,s.1.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-36 Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, establishment of reduced rates for certain affordable housing projects.

6. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 of P.L.1976, c.125 (C.58:14-35) or any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners shall establish within its leases, contracts, rates or schedules, as appropriate, a 50% reduction in the connection fee or tapping fee assessed for new connections to the sewerage system which are to be charged to public housing authorities and to non-profit organizations building affordable housing projects. b. For units previously connected to the sewerage system that were demolished or refurbished to allow for new affordable housing units and for which a connection fee was previously paid, the commissioners shall establish within its leases, contracts, rates or schedules, as appropriate, a credit against the connection fee or tapping fee to be assessed for connection with the sewerage system to public housing authorities and non-profit organizations building affordable housing projects. The credit shall be the connection fee or tapping fee previously assessed and paid for connection with the sewerage system for units previously connected to the sewerage system. c. The connection fee or tapping fee assessable against a public housing authority or non-profit organization, for units previously connected to the sewerage system that were demolished or refurbished to allow for new affordable housing units, shall be the lesser of the reduced rate provided for in subsection a. of this section, or the current non-reduced rate applicable to other types of housing developments minus the credit provided under subsection b. of this section for units for which a connection fee or tapping fee was previously paid, provided that said public housing authority or non-profit organization can establish that the connection fee or tapping fee was previously assessed and paid for connection with the system. If the same cannot be established, the reduced rate provided for in subsection a. of this section shall be assessed. L.2005,c.29,s.6.

N.J. Stat. § 58:14-37 Customers of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, electronic billing, payment permitted.

10. Upon the request of a customer, the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners may: a. offer the customer the ability to receive or access, in electronic format, any periodic bill for service sent by such commissioners to their customers and any additional information sent by the commissioners to their customers as required by law, provided that any notice of disconnection, discontinuance or termination of water service shall be sent to a customer in written form at the customer's legal mailing address in addition to being sent or being made available in electronic format; and b. provide the customer the option of paying any such periodic bill of the commissioners via electronic means. L.2010, c.91, s.10.
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