Whelan v. New Jersey Power & Light Co.

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• noting that although Legislature likely did not contemplate type of agreement at issue, the Court ought not assume that Legislature intended its grant of authority to enter such agreements to be constrained by the state of technology at the time of enactment
• ‘We are enjoined by the Constitution ... to interpret statutes liberally in favor of the existence of local power to deal with local needs.”

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