Any department or agency and any instrumentality of the State by proper resolution or act, or acting by or through its director or other chief executive officer, may enter into any lease with the Authority for any project or part thereof, or any contract with the Authority for the use of any space in any project, or any contract with the Authority for the services to be rendered by the Authority in connection with any project, for such period of time, specified or unlimited, and upon such terms and conditions as are deemed necessary in order to provide the space or service contemplated by such lease or contract. Any such lease or contract may provide for the payment by the department, agency, or instrumentality of the State, of any rents or other charges to the Authority and may be made for a specified or an unlimited time and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by the department, agency, or instrumentality of the State, and which may be agreed to by the Authority. Such department, agency or instrumentality of the State is hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts or things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform every such contract and to provide for the payment or discharge of any obligation thereunder in the same manner as other obligations of such department, agency, or instrumentality of the State. Any such contract shall be valid and binding upon the department, agency, or instrumentality of the State, notwithstanding that no appropriation was made or provided to cover the cost or estimated cost of the contract.
N.J.S. § 52:18A-61