The Authority is authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect
rates, rents, fees and charges for the use of and for the services
furnished or to be furnished by each project and to contract with any
person, partnership, association or corporation or other body, public
or private, in respect to thereof. Such rates, rents, fees and charges
shall be fixed and adjusted in respect of the aggregate of rates,
rents, fees and charges from such project so as to provide funds
sufficient with other revenues or moneys available therefor, if any,
(1) to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing and operating the project
and each and every portion thereof, to the extent that the payment of
such cost has not otherwise adequately been provided for, (2) to pay
the principal of and the interest on outstanding bonds of the Authority
issued in respect of such project as the same shall become due and
payable and (3) to create and maintain reserves required or provided
for in any resolution authorizing, or trust agreement securing such
bonds of the Authority. Such rates, rents, fees and charges shall not
be subject to supervision or regulation by any department, commission,
board, body, bureau or agency of this State other than the Authority. A
sufficient amount of the revenues derived in respect of a project,
except such part of such revenues as may be necessary to pay the cost
of maintenance, repair and operation and to provide reserves and for
renewals, replacements, extensions, enlargements and improvements as
may be provided for in the resolution authorizing the issuance of any
bonds of the Authority or in the trust agreement securing the same,
shall be set aside at such regular intervals as may be provided in such
resolution or trust agreement in a sinking or other similar fund which
is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the payment of the principal of
and the interest on such bonds as the same shall become due, and the
redemption price or the purchase price of bonds retired by call or
purchase as therein provided. Such pledge shall be valid and binding
from the time when the pledge is made; the rates, rents, fees and
charges and other revenues or other moneys so pledged and thereafter
received by the Authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of
such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and
the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all
parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise
against the Authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice
thereof. Neither the resolution nor any trust agreement nor any other
agreement nor any lease by which a pledge is created need be filed or
recorded except in the records of the Authority. The use and
disposition of moneys to the credit of such sinking or other similar
fund shall be subject to the provisions of the resolution authorizing
the issuance of such bonds or of such trust agreement. Such sinking or
other similar fund may be a fund for all such bonds issued to finance
projects at a particular institution for higher education or
noncollegiate educational institution or a particular hospital without
distinction or priority of one over another; provided the Authority in
any such resolution or trust agreement may provide that such sinking or
other similar fund shall be the fund for a particular project at an
institution for higher education or noncollegiate educational
institution or a hospital and for the bonds issued to finance a
particular project and may, additionally, permit and provide for the
issuance of bonds having a subordinate lien in respect of the security
herein authorized to other bonds of the Authority and, in such case,
the Authority may create separate sinking or other similar funds in
respect of such subordinate lien bonds.
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