§ 2050-t. Pledge by county; contracts with municipalities; powers of\nmunicipalities. 1. The county is hereby authorized to pledge to and\nagree with the holders of the bonds that the county will not limit or\nimpair the rights hereby vested in the agency to purchase, construct,\nmaintain, operate, repair, improve, increase, enlarge, extend,\nreconstruct, renovate, rehabilitate or dispose of any project, or any\npart or parts thereof, for which bonds of the agency shall have been\nissued, to establish and collect rates, rents, fees and other charges\nreferred to in this title and to fulfill the terms of any agreements\nmade with the holders of the bonds or with any public corporation or\nperson with reference to such project or part thereof, or in any way\nimpair the rights and remedies of the bondholders, until the bonds,\ntogether with interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments\nof interest and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or\nproceeding by or on behalf of the bondholders are fully met and\ndischarged.\n 2. The county and one or more municipalities within the county, or the\nagency and the county, shall have power to contract from time to time\nbetween or among themselves, or among themselves and with the agency, in\nrelation to the collecting, receiving, transporting, storage processing\nor disposal of solid waste or for the purchase or use of any materials,\nenergy, by-products or residue generated by or resulting from the\noperation of any solid waste management-resource recovery facility. Any\nsuch contract to which the county and any municipality within the county\nare parties may include provisions stipulating the maximum rates,\nrentals, fees and other charges to be collected for the use of\nfacilities. Any contract to which the agency and the county are parties\nmay include provisions (a) requiring the periodic delivery to the\nparticular facilities of minimum amounts of solid waste and providing\nfor specified minimum periodic payments whether or not such delivery is\nmade subject to such limitations, exceptions and provisions therein or\n(b) requiring the county to pay, within appropriations available\ntherefor, such amounts as shall be necessary to assure the continued\noperation and solvency of the agency, such payments to be determined and\npaid in such manner and at such times as may be provided in such\ncontract.\n 3. To further the governmental and public purposes of the agency,\nincluding the implementation of any contract or proposed contract\ncontemplated by this title, the county shall have the power to adopt and\namend local laws imposing appropriate and reasonable limitations on\ncompetition with respect to collecting, receiving, transporting,\ndelivering, storing, processing and disposing of solid waste or the\nrecovery by any means of any material or energy product or resource\ntherefrom, including, local laws requiring that all solid waste\ngenerated, originated or brought within their respective boundaries,\nsubject to such exceptions as may be determined to be in the public\ninterest, shall be delivered to a specified solid waste\nmanagement-resource recovery facility; provided, however, that any such\nlocal law enacted by the county shall take precedence over and shall\nsupersede any inconsistent provisions of any local law enacted by a\nmunicipality within the county. Any such local law shall be adopted in\naccordance with the procedure provided by the municipal home rule law,\nexcept that no such local law shall be subject to either mandatory or\npermissive referendum. For purposes of this subdivision, solid waste\nshall have the meaning specified in this title, but shall not include\nany scrap or other material of value separated from the waste stream and\nheld for purposes of materials recycling.\n 4. The county is hereby authorized to resell or otherwise dispose of\nall or any part of the materials, energy, by-products or residue\npurchased from the
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