Section 52:18A-78.14 - Issuance of bonds, notesa. The authority may from time to time issue its bonds or notes in such principal amounts as in the opinion of the authority shall be necessary to provide sufficient funds for any of its corporate purposes, including the payment, funding or refunding of the principal of, or interest or redemption premiums on, any bonds or notes issued by it whether the bonds or notes or interest to be funded or refunded have or have not become due, the establishment or increase of such reserves to secure or to pay the bonds or notes or interest thereon and all other costs or expenses of the authority incident to and necessary to carry out its corporate purposes and powers.b. Whether or not the bonds and notes are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under the terms of Title 12A, Commercial Transactions, of the New Jersey Statutes, the bonds and notes are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all the purposes of Title 12A, subject only to the provisions of the bonds and notes for registration.c. Bonds or notes of the authority shall be authorized by a resolution or resolutions of the authority and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates of interest per annum, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable from such sources; in such medium of payment; at such place or places within or without the State, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution or resolutions may provide.d. Bonds or notes of the authority may be sold at public or private sale at such price or prices and in such manner as the authority shall determine. Every bond shall mature and be paid not later than 35 years from the date thereof.e. Bonds or notes may be issued under the provisions of this act without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau or agency of the State, and without any other proceeding or the happening of any other conditions or other things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by this act.f. Bonds or notes of the authority issued under the provisions of this act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the State or of any political subdivision thereof other than the authority and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the State or of any political subdivision or be or constitute a pledge of the faith and credit of the State or of any political subdivision but all such bonds and notes, unless funded or refunded by bonds or notes of the authority, shall be payable solely from revenues or funds pledged or available for their payment as authorized in this act. Each bond and note shall contain on its face a statement to the effect that the authority is obligated to pay the principal thereof or the interest thereon only from its revenues, receipts or funds pledged or available for their payment as authorized in this act and that neither the State nor any political subdivision thereof is obligated to pay the principal or interest and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or any political subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds or notes.g. Each issue of bonds or notes of the authority may, if it is determined by the authority, be general obligations thereof payable out of any revenues, receipts or funds of the authority subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds or notes pledging any particular revenues or funds, and shall be secured by one or more of the following:(1) Pledge of rentals, receipts and other revenues to be derived from leases, sales agreements, service contracts or similar contractual arrangements with one or more State agencies, or one or more persons, firms, partnerships or corporations, whether or not the same relate to the project or part thereof financed with the bonds or notes, or a pledge or assignment of the leases, sales agreements, service contracts or instruments evidencing similar arrangements and the rights and interests of the authority; provided that such leases, sales agreements, service contracts or similar contractual arrangements shall be in effect at the time of the issuance of the bonds or notes;(2) Pledge of grants, subsidies, contributions or other payments to be received from the United States of America or any instrumentality thereof or from the State or any State agency;(3) A first mortgage on all or any part of the property, real or personal, of the authority then owned or thereafter to be acquired; provided that the property so mortgaged as improved and developed by application of the proceeds of the bonds or notes shall be appraised as at least equal to the amount of the bonds or notes;(4) Pledge of the revenues and receipts estimated to be thereafter derived from the ownership or operation of the project or part thereof or from the lease or sale thereof, including any income from investment of the funds and moneys held in connection therewith and pledged to the payment of the bonds or notes and the interest thereon or a pledge of any lease, sales agreement, service contract or instrument evidencing similar arrangements to be entered into subsequent to the issuance of the bonds or notes;(5) Pledge of all moneys, funds, accounts, securities and other funds, including the proceeds of the bonds or notes.L.1981, c.120, s.14; amended 1983, c.138, s.9; 1992, c.174, s.4.