[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of Cedar
Grove 12-2-1974 by Ord. No. 74-26. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Administration of government — See Ch. 3.
Garbage, rubbish and refuse — See Ch. 146.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY
Creation of authority — See N.J.S.A. 40:66A-35.
Pursuant to the provisions of Title 40 of the Annotated Statutes of
New Jersey, as amended, and in particular the provisions of an Act of the
Legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled the "Solid Waste Management
Law," P.L. 1968, c. 249, effective August 16, 1968 (N.J.S.A. 40:66A-32 et
seq.), the Township of Cedar Grove hereby creates, together with such other
municipalities of the County of Essex who adopted within the 1974 calendar
year a substantially similar ordinance, a public body corporate and politic
under the name and style of the "West Essex Solid Waste Management Authority,"
hereinafter referred to as the "Authority."
The Authority shall acquire, construct, maintain and operate a solid
waste disposal system for the use and benefit of the municipalities who are
members of the Authority and for the use of such other municipalities and
other persons as may be authorized by the Authority. Such solid waste disposal
system shall include all improvements, works, facilities and property, real
and personal, and rights therein, and appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient
for the treatment, deposit and disposal, including incineration, recycling
or other reduction processes, of solid waste, garbage, ashes, trash or any
solid refuse matter not usually collected, carried away and disposed of by
a sewerage system.
The solid waste disposal system of the Authority shall be jointly operated
by the members of the Authority as provided in the aforesaid Act of the Legislature
of the State of New Jersey, and such Authority shall be authorized and empowered
by the terms and provisions of a joint contract to be entered into by all
of the municipal members to have and exercise all of the powers and authority
of the Authority as provided in said Act of the Legislature of the State of
New Jersey, except as said statutory powers may be limited by the joint contract.
The joint contract shall provide that the initial costs and expenses
of the Authority shall be shared by the contracting municipalities proportional
to their population in the most recent census.
Each municipality who is a member of the Authority and a party to such
joint contract shall appoint by resolution one representative to the Authority
and one alternate representative to serve in the event of the absence or inability
to act of the representative. The terms of the representatives and alternates
of the respective municipalities shall be three years.
The joint contract shall be subject to approval by resolution by the
Township Council of this municipality after holding two public hearings on
said contract prior to its execution by the Mayor and Clerk.
