A local unit may adopt a resolution authorizing special emergency appropriations to cover the cost of extraordinary expense for the repair, reconstruction of streets, roads or bridges, or other public property damaged by flood or hurricane where such expense was not foreseen at the time of the adoption of the budget. A municipality may adopt a resolution authorizing special emergency appropriations to cover the cost of extraordinary expense for the repair and reconstruction of private property damaged by flood or hurricane in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Community Affairs for a Municipal Natural Disaster Relief Grant Program authorized pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1999, c.366 (C.40:48-9.15).
Amended 1999, c.366, s.1.