New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-26. Connections with drains serving county and other property; service charges
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:14A-26
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(b) Each county, municipality and other public body shall promptly pay to any sewerage authority all service charges which the sewerage authority may charge to it, as owner or occupant of any real property, in accordance with section eight of this act, and shall provide for the payment thereof in the same manner as other obligations of such county, municipality or public body.
(c) Each county, municipality and other person owning or operating any sewer or drain which serves three or more parcels of real property in the district and which discharges sewage into waters in or bordering the State shall, upon notice from the sewerage authority of its availability and a proposed point of connection with the sewerage system, cause such sewer or drain to be connected with the sewerage system at such point and in such manner as the sewerage authority may specify and shall thereafter cause said sewer or drain to discharge into the sewerage system.
(d) Each county, municipality and other person owning or operating any system of water distribution serving three or more parcels of real property in the district shall, from time to time after request therefor by the sewerage authority, deliver to the sewerage authority copies of the records made by it in the regular course of business of the amount of water supplied by it to every such parcel of real property in the district. Such copies shall be delivered to the sewerage authority within sixty days after the making of such records, and the sewerage authority shall pay the reasonable cost of preparation and delivery of such copies.
(e) Each county and municipality owning or operating any system of water distribution serving three or more parcels of real property in the district shall, and every other person owning or operating any such system may, and is hereby authorized to enter into and perform a contract with the sewerage authority that it will, upon request by the sewerage authority specifying a parcel of real property in the district with regard to which a service charge under section eight of this act is unpaid, cause the supply of water from its system to such parcel of real property to be stopped or restricted, as the sewerage authority may request, until such service charge and any subsequent service charge with regard to such parcel and the interest accrued thereon shall be fully paid or until the sewerage authority directs otherwise. No such county, municipality or other person shall be liable for any loss, damage or other claim based on or arising out of the stopping or restricting of such supply, and the sewerage authority shall pay the reasonable cost of so stopping or restricting such supply and of restoring the same and may agree to indemnify such county, municipality or other person from all loss or damage by reason of such stopping or restriction, including loss of profits.
L.1946, c. 138, p. 668, s. 26, eff. April 23, 1946.