New Jersey Statutes 58:5-41. Sale of unused water by a commission
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 58:5-41
- 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
(b) Any such sale shall be made by an agreement in writing on such terms and for such periods as the commission shall determine, but not at a price lower than the cost of the water to the interested municipality unless such municipality shall consent thereto;
(c) No sale of unused water shall be made to any consumer without the consent of the municipality in which such water will be used, but such consent shall not unreasonably be withheld;
(d) No person and no municipality which is not a contracting municipality in a project shall have any right to require a commission to sell nor have any right to purchase any unused water available as a result of such project unless and until a party to a sale agreement and then only to the extent and upon the terms set forth therein.
L.1962, c. 167, s. 11.