New Jersey Statutes Title 58. Waters and Water Supply 58 § 14-34.11

(a) “Original act” shall mean chapter 14 of Title 58 of the Revised Statutes (section 58:14-1, et seq.) and the acts continued thereby and the acts heretofore adopted amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto;

(b) “Commissioners” shall mean the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, the body politic and corporate of the State of New Jersey appointed, organized, created and existing pursuant to the original act;

(c) “Sewerage system” shall mean the Passaic Valley intercepting sewer together with its branches and appurtenances and all plants, structures and other real and tangible personal property acquired, constructed or operated by the commissioners and such other plants, structures and other real and tangible personal property as may be acquired or constructed by the commissioners pursuant to this act;

(d) “Municipality” shall mean any city of any class, any borough, village, town, township, or any other municipality other than a county or a school district;

(e) “Contracting municipality” shall mean any municipality entitled to rights in and use of the sewerage system by virtue of contributions heretofore made by it to the commissioners toward the costs of construction of the sewerage system pursuant to the provisions of the original act and any contract heretofore made between the commissioners and one or more municipalities with respect to such construction and contributions;

(f) “Governing body” shall mean the commission, council, board or body, by whatever name it may be known, having charge of the finances of a municipality;

(g) “Project” shall mean any or all sewers, conduits, pipe lines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations, sewage or other water-borne waste treatment or disposal systems, plants, works or apparatus, connections or outfalls deemed by the commissioners to be necessary or desirable as part of the sewerage system, including equipment or appurtenances thereof and any real or tangible personal property necessary or desirable therefor and including also all improvements necessary to relieve or prevent pollution of the Passaic river and Newark bay;

(h) “Bonds” shall mean bonds or other obligations of the commissioners issued pursuant to this act; and

(i) “System revenues” shall mean the moneys paid or required to be paid by any contracting municipality or any other user of the sewerage system to the commissioners on account of the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of the sewerage system.