N.J. Stat. Ann. § 40A:2-46

Any municipal public utility shall be deemed to be self-liquidating during the period of construction or acquisition and until it shall have been in operation for at least 1 fiscal year if the local government board or, in the case of a project consisting of acquisition of land areas needed for a redevelopment housing project, the Division of Planning and Development in the Department of Conservation and Economic Development shall have determined by order on the basis of a project report that the said municipal public utility will have an income sufficient to make it a self-liquidating purpose.