58:28-2. Contracts with private firms for water supply
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2. The provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, a single municipality which owns and operates a municipal water utility system may, within six months of the effective date of this act, enter into a contract not exceeding 40 years with a private firm for the acquisition of an equitable interest, not to exceed 50 percent, in a water supply facility for the provision of water supply services to those customers located exclusively within the boundaries of the contracting municipality or such other customers served by the contracting municipality as of the effective date of this act, which may include the financing, construction, operation or maintenance, or any combination thereof, of a water supply facility.
This act shall not apply to any contract entered into by more than one municipality. L.1993,c.381,s.2.