§ 2049-tt. Pledge by counties; contracts with municipalities; powers\nof municipalities. 1. The counties are hereby authorized to pledge to\nand agree with the holders of any bonds that the counties will not limit\nor impair the rights hereby vested in the authority to purchase,\nconstruct, own and operate, maintain, repair, improve, increase,\nenlarge, extend, reconstruct, renovate, rehabilitate or dispose of any\nproject, or any part or parts thereof, for which bonds of the authority\nshall have been issued, to establish and collect rates, rents, fees and\nother charges referred to in this title and to fulfill the terms of any\nagreements made with the holders of the bonds or with any public\ncorporation or person with reference to such project or part thereof, or\nin any way impair the rights and remedies of the bondholders, until the\nbonds, together with interest thereon, including interest on any unpaid\ninstallments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with\nany action or proceeding by or on behalf of the bondholders are fully\nmet and discharged.\n 2. The counties and one or more municipalities within the area of\noperation, or the authority and the counties, shall have power to\ncontract from time to time between or among themselves, or among\nthemselves and with the authority, in relation to the collecting,\nreceiving, transporting, storage, processing or disposal of recyclables\nand/or solid waste or for the purchase or use of any materials, energy,\nby-products or residue generated by or resulting from the operation of\nany solid waste management-resource recovery facility. Any such contract\nto which the authority, the counties or any municipality within the area\nof operation are parties may include provisions stipulating the minimum\nand/or maximum rates, rentals, fees and other charges to be collected\nfor the use and availability of facilities. Any contract may also\ninclude provisions: (a) requiring any such county or municipality to\ndeliver, or cause to be delivered, periodically to a specified facility\nor facilities all or any portion of the solid waste generated,\noriginated or brought within such county or municipality or minimum\namounts of solid waste and providing for specified minimum periodic\npayments whether or not such delivery of any such solid-waste is made;\n(b) reserving to any such county or municipality, and granting by the\nauthority to any such county or municipality, a portion of or the\nentirety of the capacity of a solid waste management-resource recovery\nfacility as any such county or municipality determines is reasonably\nnecessary to meet its present and reasonably anticipated needs and\nproviding for specified minimum periodic payments in consideration\nthereof, or (c) requiring the counties to pay such amounts as shall be\nnecessary to assure the continued operation and solvency of the\nauthority, all such payments to be determined and paid in such manner\nand at such times as may be provided in such contract.\n 3. To further the governmental and public purposes of the authority,\nincluding the implementation of any contract or proposed contract\ncontemplated by this title, and in recognition of the public policy of\nthe state in the area of the control and management of solid waste and\nsolid waste disposal activities to displace competition with regulation\nor monopoly public control, the counties and all other municipalities\nwithin the area of operation, as instrumentalities of the state, shall\nhave the power to adopt and amend local laws, ordinances and regulations\nimposing appropriate and reasonable limitations on competition with\nrespect to collecting, receiving, transporting, delivering, storing,\nprocessing and disposing of solid waste or the recovery by any means of\nany material or energy product or resource therefrom, including, without\nlimiting the generality of the foregoing, local laws requiring that all\nsolid waste generated, originated or
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