§ 18A:72A-26 — Powers and duties of treasurer; institutions under State jurisdiction.

18A:72A-26. In order to provide new dormitories and to enable the construction and financing thereof, to refinance indebtedness hereafter created by the authority for the purpose of providing a dormitory or dormitories or additions or improvements thereto, or for any one or more of said purposes, but for no other purpose unless authorized by law, each of the following bodies shall have the powers hereafter enumerated to be exercised upon such terms and conditions, including the fixing of any consideration or rental to be paid or received, as it shall determine by resolution as to such property and each shall be subject to the performance of the duties hereafter enumerated, that is to say, the treasurer as to such as are located on land owned by the State or by the authority, the board of governors of the university, the board of trustees of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rowan University, Montclair State University, or Kean University, the board of trustees of a State college, the board of trustees of a county college, or the governing body of an affiliate of a public institution of higher education as to such as are located on land owned by the university or by the particular public institution of higher education respectively, namely: a. The power to sell and to convey to the authority title in fee simple in any such land and any existing dormitories thereon owned by the State or owned by the board of trustees of a county college or the power to sell and to convey to the authority such title as the university or the college respectively may have in any such land and any existing dormitories thereon. b. The power to lease to the authority or any other entity which is a participating institution any land and any existing dormitories thereon so owned for a term or terms not exceeding 50 years each. c. The power to lease or sublease from the authority or any other entity which is a participating institution, and to make available, any such land and existing dormitories conveyed or leased to the authority or entity under subsections a. and b. of this section, and any new dormitories erected upon such land or upon any other land owned by the authority or entity, any rentals to be payable, as to the university or as to any such college from available funds other than moneys appropriated to it by the State. d. The power and duty, upon receipt of notice of any assignment by the authority or any other entity which is a participating institution of any lease or sublease made under subsection c. of this section, or of any of its rights under any such lease or sublease, to recognize and give effect to such assignment, and to pay to the assignee thereof rentals or other payments then due or which may become due under any such lease or sublease which has been so assigned by the authority or entity. e. The power to enter into loan agreements with the authority in connection with the financing or refinancing of a project upon terms and conditions deemed necessary to effect the financing by the authority and the participating public institution of higher education or affiliate thereof. amended 1971, c.77, s.1; 1994, c.48, s.238; 2012, c.45, s.104; 2017, c.178, s.61; 2021, c.282, s.63; 2021, c.415, s.9.