[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Wrightstown
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted by Ord. No. 1975-4 as Sec. 10-1 of the Revised General
Ordinances]
A.
There are in and about the borough, waters which are
polluted and are subject to pollution, by sewage and industrial and other
wastes, arising from causes within the borough. The Council has ascertained
that there is imperative need to relieve such waters from pollution and thereby
to reduce and ultimately abate the menace to the public health resulting from
such pollution.
B.
There are also inadequate means of supplying and distributing
water in the borough. The Council has also ascertained that there is an imperative
need for the provision and distribution of an adequate supply of water for
the public and private uses of the borough and its inhabitants.
C.
The Municipal Utilities Authorities Law of the State
of New Jersey (P.L. 1957, C. 183) grants power to every municipality of the
state by means and through the agency of a municipal utility authority to
acquire, construct, maintain, operate or improve works for accumulation, supply
or distribution of water and works for the collection, treatment, purification
or disposal of sewage and other wastes.
D.
The Council has decided and hereby determines that it
is necessary and advisable and is in the best interests of the inhabitants
of the borough that there be created a municipal utility authority pursuant
to the Municipal Utilities Law as a public body corporate and politic and
an agency and instrumentality of the borough, for the purpose of the provision
and distribution of an adequate supply of water for the public and private
use of the borough and its inhabitants and the relief of the waters in and
bordering the state from pollution arising from causes within the borough
and the consequent improvement of conditions affecting the public health.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Utilities Authorities Law
of the State of New Jersey (P.L. 1957, C.183) there is hereby created a public
body corporate and politic under the name and style of the "Wrightstown Municipal
Utilities Authority."
The Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority hereby created is a municipal
authority as contemplated and provided for by the Municipal Utilities Authority
Law and shall have and exercise all of the powers and perform all of the duties
provided for by the Municipal Utilities Authorities Law, and any other statutes
heretofore or hereafter enacted and applicable thereto.
Members of the Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority may receive
from the Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority compensation for their
services as members, within the limitation hereby stated that no member shall
receive in excess of $600 per annum.
A copy of this chapter, duly certified by the Clerk, shall forthwith
be filed by the clerk in the office of the Secretary of State of the State
of New Jersey.
[Added by Ord. No. 1993-5]
A.
Subject to the annual approval of the governing body,
the Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority may annually appoint, at its
reorganizational meeting, from among its membership, an operations liaison
who shall have the following duties:
(1)
To conduct the administrative duties of the Wrightstown
Municipal Utilities Authority.
(2)
To coordinate necessary compliance documents as required
by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy.
(3)
To serve as a liaison between the Wrightstown Municipal
Utilities Authority and the local utility plants as to help foster efficient
operating utility plants and minimize potential disruptions in service.
B.
The annual compensation for the operations liaison shall
be an amount no greater than $5,000, to be determined annually by the governing
body at a regularly scheduled meeting next preceding the Wrightstown Utilities
Authority's Annual Reorganizational Meeting.
[Adopted by Ord. No. 1990-4 (Sec. 10-5 of the Revised General
Ordinances)]
A.
The Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority (the "authority")
is proceeding to design, finance, acquire, construct and place into operation
an expanded and refurbished sewerage system for the collection, treatment,
purification or disposal of sewage originating within the geographic boundary
of the Borough of Wrightstown (the "borough"); and the authority intends to
finance the cost of such sewerage system through the issuance of revenue bonds
and/or project notes; and the borough desires to aid and assist the authority
in proceeding with the design, financing, construction, acquisition and placing
into operation of the refurbished and expanded sewerage system.
B.
The borough and the authority have each determined that
it will be economical and otherwise advantageous to them and to the residents
of the borough to enter into a service agreement (the "service agreement")
providing for and relating to the collection, treatment, purification or disposal
of sewage and the supply and the distribution of water.
C.
The service agreement, among other things, shall obligate
the authority to proceed promptly with the design, construction, acquisition,
financing and placing in operation the refurbished and expanded sewerage system,
and shall obligate the borough to pay to the authority such sums of money
as provided therein, provided that said amounts subsequently shall be repaid
to the borough from revenues of the authority derived from its sewer system
and water system.
D.
The borough desires to enter into the service agreement
and to authorize its Mayor to execute the service agreement.
The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute the service agreement on behalf
of the borough, and the Clerk of the borough is hereby authorized to attest
to the validity of such signature.
