Contracts with municipalities; powers of municipalities

§ 2049-u. Contracts with municipalities; powers of municipalities. 1. The town and one or more municipalities within the town, or the authority and the town, shall have power to contract from time to time between or among themselves, or among themselves and with the authority in relation to the collecting, receiving, transporting, storage, processing or disposal of solid waste or for the purchase or use of any materials, energy, by-products or residue generated by or resulting from the operation of any solid waste management facility. Any such contract to which the authority and any municipality are parties may include provisions stipulating the maximum rates, rentals, fees and other charges to be collected for the use of facilities. To further the governmental and public purposes of the authority, including the implementation of any contract or proposed contract contemplated by this title, the authority and all other municipalities within the town shall have power to adopt and amend local laws imposing appropriate and reasonable limitations on competition including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, local laws requiring that all solid waste generated or originated within their respective boundaries, subject to such exceptions as may be determined to be in the public interest, shall be delivered to a specified solid waste management facility. The town shall be empowered under this section to adopt any such local law requiring the delivery of solid waste to a specified solid waste management facility. Any such local law shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure provided by the municipal home rule law, except that no such local law shall be subject to either mandatory or permissive referendum.

2. The town is hereby authorized to resell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the materials, energy, by-products or residue purchased, received or obtained from the authority pursuant to subdivision one of this section. Any resale or other disposition may be made in such manner as the town may deem proper and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto.

3. The town and all other municipalities shall have power to perform such other acts, to enter into such other contracts, including contracts between or among themselves, execute such instruments and to undertake such future proceedings as shall be determined necessary or desirable to effectuate the purpose of this title, including the making of gifts, grants, loans or contributions to the authority.

4. Notwithstanding any other law, general, special or local, any contract entered into by a municipality in connection with, or in any manner relating to, any project or facility pursuant to this section may be for such term or duration, not to exceed twenty years, as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto, except that any such contract may provide that the same shall remain in full force and effect so long as the bonds issued for or in connection with such project, including any renewals thereof, shall remain outstanding or until adequate provision has been made for the payment or satisfaction thereof.

5. Any contract entered into pursuant to this section to which the authority shall be a party may be pledged by the authority as security for any issue of bonds, and may be assigned, in whole or in part, by the authority to any public corporation or person which shall construct, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any solid waste management facility, or part thereof, financed in whole or in part by the authority.