[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township
of Denville by Ord. No. 12-76 (Ch.
15, Sec. 15-6, of the 1978 Revised General Ordinances). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
A.
Pursuant to the Sewerage Authorities Law constituting Chapter 138
of the Pamphlet Laws of 1946 of New Jersey, and the acts amendatory
thereof and supplemental thereto (herein called the "Act"),[1] the Rockaway Valley Regional Sewerage Authority has been
created by virtue of an ordinance of the Township of Denville, adopted
on September 15, 1971 by the Township Council thereof; and
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:14A-1 et seq.
B.
The Authority proposes to acquire or construct sanitary sewerage
facilities for collection, treatment and disposal of sewage and other
wastes arising within a part of the Township, and is ready to proceed
with plans and designs for a sanitary sewerage system and the acquisition
and construction of said system to provide for the collection, treatment
and disposal of sanitary sewage and other wastes in the remaining
parts of the Township as needs require, but cannot economically finance
the aforesaid under the law unless the Authority is aided and assisted
by the Township as provided in this Agreement; and
C.
The Township desires to aid and assist the authority in the establishment
of the sewerage system and to make it economically feasible for the
Authority to proceed with the financing, acquisition and construction
thereof so as to make available, at an early date, a sanitary sewerage
system for use of the residents and inhabitants of the Township and
the collection, treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage and other
wastes arising within the Township.
The Township Council as the governing body of the Township of
Denville, in the County of Morris, New Jersey, hereby finds and determines
that it will promote the public health and welfare and that it is
in the public interest and in the best interests of the Township and
of the inhabitants thereof to aid and assist the Rockaway Valley Regional
Sewerage Authority in the exercise and fulfillment of its corporate
and statutory purposes, and in the establishment by the authority
of a sanitary sewerage system in and for the Township sufficient for
the purposes of the Township, and in the operation and maintenance
of such system, and that it will be economical and otherwise advantageous
to the Township and the authority and to the residents and property
owners of the Township for the Township and the authority to enter
into a single contract providing for and relating to the treatment
and disposal of sewage and other wastes originating in the Township
by means of the sewerage system and the cost and expense of such treatment
and disposal. The Mayor of the Township be and he is hereby authorized
and directed on behalf of the Township to execute such agreement under
the corporate seal of the Township which shall be affixed and attested
by the Municipal Clerk, and to deliver such agreement to the authority
on behalf of the Township.
Copies of the contract are on file in the office of the Township
Clerk in the Township building and will be made available to the members
of the general public who shall request the same.
The Mayor, the Township Clerk and any and all officers or employees
of the Township are hereby empowered and directed to do all such acts
and things as may be necessary for the proper performance of such
agreement and for carrying into effect of all of the provisions or
matters set forth in this chapter.
