5:12-162.1 Issuance of bond, notes, other obligations.

4. a. In addition to the authorization contained in any other statutory provisions relating to the issuance or sale of bonds, notes or other obligations by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, the authority may, upon written approval from the State Treasurer, from time to time issue bonds, notes or other obligations which are to be payable in all or part from any present or future funds, moneys, income or revenues of the authority from any source whatsoever. At least 14 days before the members of the authority approve the issuance or sale of bonds, notes or other obligations, the authority shall submit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly a proposed plan of finance for such sale or issuance. The authority is authorized to issue its bonds, notes or other obligations in such principal amounts as shall be necessary to provide sufficient funds to finance eligible projects of the authority, and to pay, fund, or refund any bonds, notes or other obligations issued by it, whether the bonds, notes or other obligations to be funded or refunded have or have not become due or to pay for the administrative costs of the authority.

b. The bonds or notes or other obligations may be additionally secured by a pledge of any grant or contribution from the federal government or any State or any agency or public subdivision thereof or any person or a pledge of any other funds, moneys, income or revenues of the authority from any source whatsoever. The authority may also enter into bank loan agreements, lines of credit or bond insurance, bond purchase agreements and other security agreements and obtain for or on its behalf letters of credit in each case for the purpose of securing its bonds, notes or other obligations or to provide direct payment of any costs which the authority is authorized to pay by this act and to secure repayment of any borrowings under the loan agreement, line of credit, letter of credit, bond insurance or other security agreement by its bonds, notes or other obligations or the proceeds thereof or by any or all of the moneys, income or revenues of the authority pledged to the payment of the bonds or by any appropriation, grant or reimbursement to be received by the authority and other moneys or funds as the authority shall determine.

c. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or note issued pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the negotiable instruments law of the State, and each holder or owner of a bond or note, or of any coupon appurtenant thereto, by accepting the bond, note or coupon shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed that the bond, note or coupon is and shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the negotiable instruments law.

d. Bonds or notes or other obligations of the authority shall be authorized by resolution of the authority and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear the date or dates, mature at the time or times not exceeding 50 years from the date thereof, bear interest at a rate or rates, as shall be determined by the authority, shall be in the denomination or denominations, be in the form, either bearer or registered, carry the conversion or registration privileges, have the rank or priority, be executed in the manner, be payable from the sources in the medium of payment at the place or places within or without the State, and be subject to the terms of redemption, with or without premium, as the resolution or resolutions may provide.

e. Bonds or notes of the authority may be sold at public or private sale at the price or prices as the authority shall determine.

f. Any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds or refunding bonds pursuant to this section may also provide for the authority to enter into any revolving credit agreement, agreement establishing a line of credit or letter of credit, reimbursement agreement, interest rate exchange agreement, currency exchange agreement, interest rate floor or cap, options, puts or calls to hedge payment, currency, rate, spread or similar exposure or similar agreements, float agreements, forward agreements, insurance contracts, surety bonds, commitments to purchase or sell bonds, purchase or sale agreements, or commitments or other contracts or agreements and other security agreements approved by the authority in connection with the issuance of the bonds or refunding bonds pursuant to this section. The authority's payment obligations under any such agreements may be secured by and payable from any or all of the moneys, income or revenues of the authority pledged to the payment of the bonds or by any appropriation, grant or reimbursement to be received by the authority and other moneys or funds as the authority shall determine.

g. The authority is authorized to engage the services of financial advisors and experts, placement agents, underwriters, appraisers, and other advisors, consultants and agents as may be necessary to effectuate the financing of eligible projects of the authority.

h. Bonds and refunding bonds issued by the authority pursuant to this section shall be special and limited obligations of the authority payable from, and secured by, the funds, moneys, income or revenues of the authority so specified in accordance with this section. Neither the members of the authority nor any other person executing the bonds or refunding bonds shall be personally liable with respect to payment of principal, interest or redemption premium on the bonds or refunding bonds. Bonds or refunding bonds issued pursuant to this section shall not be a debt or liability of the State or any political subdivision thereof, other than the authority, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, except as otherwise provided by this subsection, either legal, moral or otherwise, and nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize the authority to incur any indebtedness on behalf of or in any way to obligate the State or any political subdivision thereof, and all bonds and refunding bonds issued by the authority shall contain a statement to that effect on their face.

i. The State of New Jersey hereby covenants with the purchasers, holders and owners, from time to time, of any bonds, notes or other obligations secured in all or part from any funds, moneys, income or revenues of the authority that it shall not repeal or reduce any fees, charges or other sources of revenue securing such bonds while bonds entitled to benefits from such fees, charges or other sources of revenue so imposed are outstanding, and shall not modify or amend the provisions of any law, so as to create any lien or charge on, or any pledge, assignment, diversion, withholding payment or otherwise of or deduction from the funds, moneys, income or revenues of the authority securing such bonds which is prior in time or superior in right to any payments required to be made pursuant to any bond covenants entered into with the purchasers, holders and owners of the bonds so secured.

j. In any resolution of the authority authorizing or relating to the issuance of bonds or notes or other obligations pursuant this act, the authority, in order to secure the payment of the bonds or notes or other obligations and in addition to its other powers, shall have power by provisions therein which shall constitute covenants by the authority and contracts with the holders of the bonds or notes or other obligations:

(1) To pledge to any payment or purpose all or any part of its revenues to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence, and the moneys derived therefrom and the proceeds of any bonds or notes or other obligations.

(2) To covenant against pledging all or any part of its revenues, or against mortgaging all or any part of its real or personal property then owned or thereafter acquired, or against permitting or suffering any lien on its revenues or property.

(3) To covenant with respect to limitations on any right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any project or any part thereof or any property of any kind.

(4) To covenant as to any bonds and notes to be issued and the limitations thereon and the terms and conditions thereof and as to the custody, application, investment and disposition of the proceeds thereof.

(5) To covenant as to the issuance of additional bonds or notes or other obligations or as to limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or notes and on the incurring of other debts by the authority.

(6) To covenant as to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or notes or any other obligations, as to the sources and methods of that payment, as to the rank or priority of any bonds, notes or other obligations with respect to any lien or security or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any bonds, notes or obligations.

(7) To provide for the replacement of lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated bonds or notes.

(8) To covenant against extending the time for the payment of bonds or notes or interest thereon.

(9) To covenant as to the redemption of bonds or notes or other obligations and privileges of exchange thereof for other bonds or notes or other obligations of the authority.

(10) To covenant to create or authorize the creation of special funds or moneys to be held in pledge or otherwise for construction, operating expenses, payment or redemption of bonds or notes or other obligations, reserves or other purposes and as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in the funds.

(11) To establish the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract or covenant with or for the benefit of the holders of bonds or notes or other obligations may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds or notes the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which the consent may be given.

(12) To covenant as to the construction, operation or maintenance of real property and personal property, the replacement thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance moneys.

(13) To provide for the release of property, leases or other agreements, or revenues and receipts from any pledge or mortgage and to reserve rights and powers in, or the right to dispose of, property which is subject to a pledge or mortgage.

(14) To mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter to be acquired.

(15) To provide for the rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach of any covenant, condition or obligation and to prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds, notes or other obligations of the authority shall become or may be declared due and payable before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which any declaration and its consequences may be waived.

(16) To vest in a trustee or trustees within or without the State such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the authority may determine and to limit the rights, powers and duties of the trustee.

(17) To pay the costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or notes or other obligations or of the provisions of the resolution or of any covenant or agreement of the authority with the holders of its bonds or notes.

(18) To limit the rights of the holder of any bonds or notes to enforce any pledge or covenant securing bonds or notes.

(19) To make covenants other than and in addition to the covenants herein expressly authorized, of like or different character, and to make the covenants to do or refrain from doing any acts and things as may be necessary, or convenient and desirable, in order to better secure bonds or notes or other obligations or which, in the absolute discretion of the authority, will tend to make bonds or notes or other obligations more marketable, notwithstanding that the covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein.

L.2004, c.129, s.4.