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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 52, STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS
Chapter 27: Local Government Board to be constituted the "Municipal Finance Commission"
Section: 52:27-57: Default in payment of interest, salaries, etc.; limitation on expenditures
Whenever such school district, or the municipality with which such school district is coterminous, has been or shall be in default for twelve months in the payment of interest on any of its bonds or notes or other written evidence of indebtedness (except where the same is under litigation as to its validity, or where the validity thereof has been denied by formal notice given by the school district or municipality, and no suit, action or proceeding to enforce the same has been commenced by the holder); or whenever any such school district or municipality has been or shall be in default for six months in the payment of any part of its regular pay roll, or, in the case of the municipality, in the payment of any sums due from the annual tax levy to the state, county or school district, then in any event no action taken by the legal voters of the school district shall be effective in so far as it purports to raise by tax in any year any sum or sums for any purpose or purposes, except to provide for the payment of the interest on or principal of any debt or obligation of such school district or for the setting aside of necessary reserve or sinking funds therefor, in excess of such limits as may be fixed by the commission.
This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2012-09-26 13:37:55.
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