52:14-32. Notes and bonds of certain municipalities; "local government board" defined; powers conferred as additional
All boards, commissions, officers of the State and heads of departments of the State Government authorized to invest moneys or funds may invest moneys or funds in their possession in the notes, bonds or other obligations of any municipality of the State which have heretofore been or shall hereafter be issued pursuant to a resolution or ordinance adopted by the proper officers of such municipality in a form certified, approved, indorsed or consented to by the local government board or issued with approval or consent in writing on behalf of such local government board.
The words "local government board" shall mean the Local Government Board of the Division of Local Government in the State Department of Taxation and Finance, or the commission referred to in section six hundred fifty-seven of the act entitled "An act to authorize and regulate the issuance of bonds and other obligations and the incurring of indebtedness by county, city, borough, town, township, village or any other municipality, other than a school district (Revision of 1935)," approved March twentieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five (P.L.1935, c. 77) or in section 40:1-67 of the Revised Statutes, or the commission referred to in section 52:27-1 of this Title and having and exercising with respect to such municipality the powers and duties prescribed by chapter twenty-seven of this Title (s. 52:27-1 et seq.), or any board, commission, officer or other agency of the State Government which may succeed to and exercise the powers and duties of such Local Government Board or either such commission.
The powers conferred by this section shall be in addition to the powers conferred by every other law, and notes, bonds and other obligations may be purchased hereunder notwithstanding the restrictions contained in any other laws.
Amended by L.1948, c. 94, p. 531, s. 1.