New Jersey Statutes 32:22B-7. Powers and duties
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 32:22B-7
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- 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
- 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) The commission shall have power to apply for and receive and accept grants of property, money and services and other assistance offered or made available to it by any person, government, or agency whatever, which it may use to meet necessary expenses and for any other use within the scope of its functions, and to negotiate for the same upon such terms and conditions as may be necessary or advisable.
(c) The commission shall have power to hire, lease, acquire and dispose of property to the extent necessary to carry out its functions, powers and duties as the same may be constituted from time to time.
(d) Without diminution of its general power to contract, the commission shall have power to contract with any government or agency whatever, including the respective departments of the party states, for the performance of services by the commission which relate to its functions, powers and duties, and to accept compensation or reimbursement therefor.
(e) The commission shall have power to expend, or to authorize the expenditure of, funds appropriated to it or for its purposes by the party states, but such expenditures shall at all times be within the terms of an annual budget to be adopted by the commission, by resolution, in advance of each fiscal period of the commission, which budget may be amended or modified from time to time. Each of the party states reserves the right to require such audit or audits as such state may from time to time consider proper.
(f) The commission shall have such additional powers incidental to the express powers granted to it by this compact, as may be necessary or proper for the effective performance of its functions.
L.1965, c. 12, s. 1. Amended by L.1971, c. 161, s. 6.