New Jersey Statutes Title 27. Highways 27 § 1C-11

The commissioner may, subject to the availability of appropriations for this purpose and pursuant to a project agreement entered into under section 9 of this act,  1 make loans to a party to a project agreement for the purpose of undertaking and completing a State-owned transportation project. In this event, the project agreement shall include the obligation of the governing body of the county to make payments to the commissioner for repayment of the loan according to an agreed upon schedule of payments. The commissioner may receive monies from a county for repayment of a loan and pay these monies, or assign his right to receive them, to the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, created pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1984, c.73 (C.27:1B-4), in reimbursement of funds paid to him by that authority for the purpose of making loans pursuant to this section.