Any such contract may be made by a municipality, notwithstanding any other provisions in this article contained, for a period not to exceed the anticipated useful life of said facilities for the financing which obligations of the municipality are issued as hereinafter provided, and the governing body of a municipality approving and executing such contract is hereby authorized to provide therein for the joint ownership, operation and maintenance of the facilities made the subject of such contract under such terms and conditions as it determines necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and effectuate the purposes of this act and the acts to which this act is a supplement, provided that neither the money nor credit of any municipality shall be given or loaned in any manner, directly or indirectly, to any State-regulated public utility which is a party to such contract, nor shall any municipality be liable for more than its proportionate share of the cost, damages, expenses, liabilities or other obligations incurred in the acquisition, construction, operation or maintenance of said facilities as set forth in such contract or otherwise arising in connection with such facilities, and every municipality shall own and control an interest in such facilities and the electrical output thereof at least equal or proportionate to the money, property or other consideration furnished or supplied in or with respect to the planning, acquisition, construction, operation or maintenance thereof by said municipality.

L.1973, c. 280, s. 2, eff. Nov. 29, 1973.