N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.51 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.51
Definitions
Status: in_force

The following terms as used in this act shall have the following meanings: "Bonds" shall mean bonds, notes, securities or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness; "Effectuation" of a project or any facility or part of a facility constituting a portion of a project shall include but not be limited to its establishment, acquisition, construction, development, maintenance, operation, improvement (by way of betterments, additions or otherwise) and rehabilitation; "Exchange place terminal area" shall mean the area in the city of Jersey City, State of New Jersey, bounded generally by Exchange place and Montgomery street, by Warren street, by Pearl street, by Greene street, and by Morgan street as extended to the bulkhead line and by said bulkhead line, together with such additional contiguous area as may be agreed upon from time to time between the port authority and the said city; "General reserve fund statutes" shall mean chapter 48 of the laws of New York of 1931 as amended, and chapter 5 of the laws of New Jersey of 1931 as amended, and "general reserve fund" shall mean the general reserve fund of the port authority authorized by said statutes; "Hudson tubes" shall mean that portion of the port development project constituting a railroad facility consisting of the four interstate rail tunnels under the Hudson river now or heretofore owned or operated by the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company, the rail transit lines of the Hudson tubes, the balance of the interurban electric railway system in and through said tunnels and over said lines and incidental thereto (including but not limited to the portion of such lines and system now or heretofore operated jointly by said railroad company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company), terminals, including but not limited to terminals in the Hudson tubes-world trade center area, in the Journal square terminal area and in the Exchange place terminal area, and other related railroad property; "Hudson tubes extensions" shall mean those portions of the port development project constituting passenger railroad facilities (1) extending directly from the rail transit lines of the Hudson tubes, over new rail transit lines or on or over the existing rail transit lines of other railroads, to transfer facilities in the rail passenger transfer area, for the transfer of passengers of the Hudson tubes to and from other railroads, and (2) extending from Pennsylvania Station in the city of Newark, State of New Jersey, over new rail transit lines or on or over the existing rail transit lines of other railroads, to the vicinity of the city of Plainfield, State of New Jersey, including construction, reconstruction and improvement of necessary stations in and between the city of Newark and the vicinity of the city of Plainfield, together with such additional rail or other mass transportation, terminal, station, parking, storage and service facilities as operations may require, and shall include a connection to provide improved access to Newark International Airport if and to the extent such connection shall not be otherwise provided by the port authority as air terminal facilities for said airport, and (3) consisting of the following improvements to passenger railroad lines connecting with the Hudson tubes: (i) direct track connections between the rail transit lines of the Morris & Essex Division of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad and the Penn Central Transportation Company in the vicinity of the town of Kearny in the State of New Jersey, (ii) replacement of the railroad bridge (known as the "Portal Bridge" ) operated by the Penn Central Transportation Company across the Hackensack River, (iii) direct track connections between the rail transit lines of the Bergen Branch and the Main Line of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in the vicinity of the town of Secaucus in the State of New Jersey and between the new joint line resulting from such connections and the rail transit lines of the Penn Central Transportation Company in the vicinity of the town of Secaucus in the State of New Jersey, (iv) a new railroad yard in the vicinity of the town of Secaucus in the State of New Jersey for the accommodation of railroad passenger equipment, (v) improvements to Pennsylvania Station in the city of New York, State of New York, and to its railroad approaches from the State of New Jersey, as necessary or desirable to improve operations and to increase train and passenger handling capacity, and (vi) such additional rail or other mass transportation, terminal, station, parking, storage and service facilities as operations may require with respect to any of the projects identified in this clause (3); or any of the foregoing or any portion thereof;and, in addition thereto, other related railroad property. "Hudson tubes-world trade center area" shall mean the area in the borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, bounded generally by the east side of Church street on the east, the south side of Liberty street and the south side of Liberty street extended on the south, the Hudson river on the west, and on the north by a line beginning at the point of intersection of the Hudson river and the north side of Vesey street extended, running along the north side of Vesey street extended and the north side of Vesey street to the west side of Washington street, then along the west side of Washington street to the north side of Barclay street, then along the north side of Barclay street to the east side of West Broadway, then along the east side of West Broadway to the north side of Vesey street, then along the north side of Vesey street to the east side of Church street, together with such additional contiguous area as may be agreed upon from time to time between the port authority and the said city; "Journal square terminal area" shall mean the area in the city of Jersey City, State of New Jersey, bounded generally by Journal square, Hudson boulevard, Pavonia avenue, Summit avenue and Sip avenue, together with such additional contiguous area as may be agreed upon from time to time between the port authority and the said city; "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, borough, village, town, township or other similar political subdivision of New York or New Jersey; "Parking facilities" forming a part of the Hudson tubes or Hudson tubes extensions shall mean one or more areas, buildings, structures, improvements or other accommodations or appurtenances at or in the vicinity of any terminal or station of the Hudson tubes or Hudson tubes extensions and necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the port authority for the parking of motor vehicles of users of the Hudson tubes or the Hudson tubes extensions and of members of the general public and for the parking and storage of omnibuses and railroad cars serving users of the Hudson tubes or the Hudson tubes extensions and for the transfer of the operators and passengers of such motor vehicle, omnibuses and railroad cars to and from the railroad cars of the Hudson tubes or the Hudson tubes extensions, and for purposes incidental thereto; "Purposes of this act" shall mean the effectuation of the port development project and of each facility constituting a portion thereof and of each part of each such facility, and purposes incidental thereto; "Rail passenger transfer area" shall mean the area in the State of New Jersey bounded as follows: beginning on the west bank of the Hudson river at the southerly side of the right-of-way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey easterly of the Communipaw station in the city of Jersey City, thence northwestwardly along said southerly side of the right-of-way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey through the cities of Jersey City and Kearney to Broad street in the city of Newark; thence northwardly along Broad street to Clay street, thence eastwardly along Clay street to the boundary between the counties of Hudson and Essex in the Passaic river, thence northwardly along said boundary to its intersection with the boundary line between the counties of Bergen and Hudson, thence eastwardly and northwardly along said boundary to New Jersey State Highway Route 3, thence eastwardly along said Route 3, the Lincoln tunnel viaduct and a line in continuation of said viaduct and tunnel to the west bank of the Hudson river, thence southwardly along said west bank to the point and place of beginning; "Rail transit lines" shall mean right-of-way and related trackage, and the "rail transit lines of the Hudson tubes" shall mean the rail transit lines beginning at the Market street station of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the city of Newark, State of New Jersey and extending generally (i) eastwardly along the joint service and operating route now or heretofore used by the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the point of connection thereof with the tracks now or formerly of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company in or about the Journal square terminal area; thence (ii) continuing eastwardly along the tracks and right-of-way now or heretofore used by the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company through the city of Jersey City, State of New Jersey and through the tunnels under the waters of the Hudson river and through Cortlandt and Fulton streets in the borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York to the Hudson terminal in the Hudson tubes-world trade center area; with a branch from the aforesaid route from a point located between the Grove street and Exchange place stations in said city of Jersey City northwardly and eastwardly to the Hoboken terminal station in the City of Hoboken, State of New Jersey and with a second branch from said first branch eastwardly and through the tunnels under the waters of the Hudson river to the said borough of Manhattan passing through or adjacent to Morton street, Greenwich street, Christopher street and the avenue of the Americas (formerly Sixth avenue) to the West Thirty-third street terminal in said borough of Manhattan; and rail transit lines of the Hudson tubes and of the Hudson tubes extensions shall in each case include such rail transit lines as the port authority may deem necessary, convenient or desirable to and from parking facilities, storage yards, maintenance and repair shops and yards forming part thereof; "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and interests in land, waters, lands under water and riparian rights and any and all things and rights included within said term, and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser interests, including but not limited to easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years, and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise; "Related railroad property" shall mean any property, real, personal or mixed, necessary, convenient or desirable, in the opinion of the port authority, to the effectuation of a railroad facility which is a portion of the port development project and shall include but not be limited to rail transit lines; terminals and stations; power, fuel, communication, signal and ventilation systems; cars and other rolling stock; storage yards; repair and maintenance shops, yards, equipment and parts; parking facilities; transfer facilities for transfer of passengers between such railroad facility and other railroads or omnibuses; offices; and other buildings, structures, improvements, areas, equipment or supplies, and, in the case of buildings, structures, improvements or areas in which any one or more of such railroad functions are accommodated shall include all of such buildings, structures, improvements or areas notwithstanding that portions thereof may not be devoted to any of the purposes of the port development project other than the production of incidental revenue available for the expenses of all or part of the port development project, except that in the Hudson tubes-world trade center area the portions of such buildings, structures, improvements or areas constructed or established pursuant to this act which are not devoted primarily to railroad functions, activities or services or to functions, activities or services for railroad passengers shall be deemed a part of the world trade center and not related railroad property; "Surplus revenues" from any facility shall mean the balance of the revenues from such facility (including but not limited to the revenues of any subsidiary corporation incorporated for any of the purposes of this act) remaining at any time currently in the hands of the port authority after the deduction of the current expenses of the operation and maintenance thereof, including a proportion of the general expenses of the port authority as it shall deem properly chargeable thereto, which general expenses shall include but not be limited to the expense of protecting and promoting the commerce of the port district, and after the deduction of any amounts which the port authority may or shall be obligated or may or shall have obligated itself to pay to or set aside out of the current revenues therefrom for the benefit of the holders of any bonds legal for investment as defined in the general reserve fund statutes; "Surplus revenues of the port development project" shall mean the surplus revenues of the Hudson tubes, the Hudson tubes extensions and the world trade center; and "World trade center" shall mean that portion of the port development project constituting a facility of commerce consisting of one or more buildings, structures, improvements and areas necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the port authority for the centralized accommodation of functions, activities and services for or incidental to the transportation of persons, the exchange, buying, selling and transportation of commodities and other property in world trade and commerce, the promotion and protection of such trade and commerce, governmental services related to the foregoing and other governmental services, including but not limited to custom houses, customs stores, inspection and appraisal facilities, foreign trade zones, terminal and transportation facilities, parking areas, commodity and security exchanges, offices, storage, warehouse, marketing and exhibition facilities and other facilities and accommodations for persons and property and, in the case of buildings, structures, improvements and areas in which such accommodation is afforded, shall include all of such buildings, structures, improvements and areas other than portions devoted primarily to railroad functions, activities or services or to functions, activities or services for railroad passengers, notwithstanding that other portions of such buildings, structures, improvements and areas may not be devoted to purposes of the port development project other than the production of incidental revenue available for the expenses of all or part of the port development project. L.1962, c. 8, s. 2. Amended by L.1972, c. 208, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.46 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.46
State Highway Department defined
Status: in_force

As used herein, the term State Highway Department of the State of New Jersey means the State Highway Commissioner of the State of New Jersey. L.1963, c. 92, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.42 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.42
Additional purposes and powers and duties of commission
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XII-B (1) In addition to other public purposes provided for it and other powers and duties conferred upon it, and not in limitation thereof, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other article hereof, the commission shall have among its authorized purposes, and it shall have the power to effectuate, the construction, operation and maintenance of a bridge for vehicular traffic across the Delaware river, between a point or points in the township of Logan, New Jersey, and a point or points in the city of Chester, Pennsylvania, including approaches thereto. (2) In addition to other public purposes provided for it and other powers and duties conferred upon it, and not in limitation thereof, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other article hereof, the commission shall have among its authorized purposes, and it shall have the power to effectuate, the establishment, rehabilitation, equipment, construction, maintenance and operation of ferries for passengers and vehicular traffic over and across the Delaware river within the Port District between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey. Such ferries may be established either directly by purchase, lease or contract, or by lease or agreement with any other public or private body or corporation, or in any other manner, and may be established by utilizing any existing ferries within the Port District across the Delaware river between said Commonwealth and said State and by the construction or provision of new facilities where deemed necessary. Any such ferry may include such approach highways and interests in land or other property necessary therefor in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the State of New Jersey as may be determined by the commission to be necessary to facilitate the flow of traffic in the vicinity of any such ferry or to connect any such ferry with the highway system or other traffic facilities in said Commonwealth or said State. (3)(a) For the effectuation of any of its purposes authorized by this article, the commission is hereby granted, in addition to any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it, power and authority to acquire in its name by purchase or otherwise, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as it may deem proper, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any such land and other property which it may determine is reasonably necessary to acquire for any of its purposes authorized by this article and any and all rights, title and interest in such land and other property, including public lands, parks, playgrounds, reservations, highways, or parkways, owned by or in which any county, city, borough, town, township, village, or other political subdivision of the State of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has any right, title or interest, or parts thereof or rights therein and any fee simple absolute or any lesser interest in private property, and any fee simple absolute in, easements upon, or the benefit of restrictions upon, abutting property to preserve and protect such land and other property. Upon the exercise of the power of eminent domain under this paragraph, the compensation to be paid with regard to property located in the State of New Jersey shall be ascertained and paid in the manner provided in Title 20 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey insofar as the provisions thereof are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions contained in this paragraph, and with regard to property located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall be ascertained and paid in the manner provided by the act approved July 9, 1919 (Pamphlet Laws 814) and acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, insofar as the provisions are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions contained in this paragraph. The commission may join in separate subdivisions in one petition or complaint the descriptions of any number of tracts or parcels of such land and other property to be condemned and the names of any number of owners and other parties who may have an interest therein and all such land and other property included in said petition or complaint may be condemned in a single proceeding; provided, however, that separate awards shall be made for each tract or parcel of such land or other property; and provided further, that each of said tracts or parcels of such land or other property lies wholly in or has a substantial part of its value lying wholly within the same county. (b) Whenever the commission acquires under this paragraph (3) the whole or any part of the right of way of a public utility located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the commission shall, at its own expense, provide a substitute right of way on another and favorable location. Such public utility shall thereupon provide for the transfer to or reconstruction upon, in, under or above said substitute right of way of any structures and facilities of said public utility located upon, in, under or above said original right of way at the time the same is so acquired. The commission is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with such public utility to contribute toward the expense of such transfer or reconstruction, and in the event that they are unable to agree on the amount to be paid, the matter shall be referred to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, which shall, after hearing thereon, make a finding of the amount to be paid to such public utility by the commission. In case of failure of such public utility, within a reasonable time after notice so to do, to remove its facilities to such substitute right of way, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission shall have jurisdiction, on petition of the commission, to order such transfer or reconstruction. Any party to such proceedings shall have the right of appeal from the ruling of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. The Delaware River Port Authority is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, any necessary land or right of way for the relocation of any such public utility right of way and facilities. The substitute right of way thus acquired shall be equal in estate to the original right of way acquired from the public utility, and the commission shall deliver to the public utility a deed, duly executed and acknowledged, conveying to it an estate in the substitute right of way, at least equal to that owned by the public utility in the original right of way, or if such substitute right of way is to be acquired by purchase, the commission shall procure and deliver to the public utility a deed conveying such estate to it from the owner of the land on which such substitute right of way is located. This subparagraph (b) shall have no application to the relocation of public utility facilities located in the beds of public streets, roads or highways. (c) In addition to any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it, the commission, in connection with construction or operation of any project for the effectuation of any of its purposes authorized by this article, shall have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles or any other equipment and appliances (in this subparagraph (c) called "works" ) located in the State of New Jersey of any public utility as defined in section 48:2-13 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, in, on, along, over or under any such project. Whenever in connection with the construction or operation of any such project the commission shall determine that it is necessary that any such works, which now are or hereafter may be located in, on, along, over or under any such project should be relocated in such project, or should be removed therefrom, the public utility owning or operating such works shall relocate or remove the same in accordance with the order of the commission, provided, however, that, the cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such works in a new location or new locations, and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands or any other rights acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, less the cost of any lands or any rights or interests in lands or any other rights of the public utility paid to the public utility in connection with the relocation or removal of such works, shall be paid by the commission and shall be included in the cost of such project. In case of any such relocation or removal of works as aforesaid, the public utility owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns, may maintain and operate such works, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new location or new locations for as long a period, and upon the same terms and conditions, as it had the right to maintain and operate such works in their former location. In case of any such relocation or removal of works, as aforesaid, the commission shall own and maintain, repair and renew structures within the rights of way of railroad companies carrying any such project over railroads, and the commission shall bear the cost of maintenance, repair and renewal of structures within the rights of way of railroad companies carrying railroads over any such project, but this provision shall not relieve any railroad company from responsibility for damage caused to any authority or railroad structure by the operation of its railroad. Such approaches, curbing, sidewalk paving, guardrails on approaches and surface paving on such projects as shall be within the rights of way of a railroad company or companies shall be owned and maintained, repaired and renewed by the commission; rails, pipes and lines shall be owned and maintained, repaired and renewed by the railroad company or companies. (4) The power and authority granted in this article to the commission to construct new or additional approach highways shall not be exercised unless and until the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall have filed with the commission its written approval as to approach highways to be located in said Commonwealth and the State Highway Department of the State of New Jersey shall have filed with the commission its written approval as to approach highways to be located in said State. (5) The effectuation of any of the purposes authorized by this article, and the exercise or performance by the commission of any of its powers or duties in connection with effectuation of any such purpose, shall not be subject to any restrictions, limitation or provisions provided for or set forth in Article XII hereof. The bridge or ferries referred to in this article may be established, constructed or erected by the commission notwithstanding the terms and provisions of any other agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey. (6) The commission shall not construct or erect the bridge referred to in this article unless and until the Governor of the State of New Jersey and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall have filed with the commission their written consents to such construction or erection. (7) The commission is hereby granted the following powers in addition to any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it: (a) To abandon, close off, dismantle, sell or otherwise dispose of, any project or facility, or any part thereof, or any other property, which the commission may determine to be no longer useful or necessary for public use. (b) To effectuate any of its authorized purposes either directly or indirectly by or through wholly owned subsidiary corporations. Any such subsidiary corporation shall be a public corporate instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey for such purposes and shall be deemed to be exercising an essential governmental function in effectuating such purposes. Any such subsidiary corporation and any of its property, functions and activities shall have such of the privileges, immunities, tax and other exemptions of the commission and of the commission's property, functions and activities, and such of the rights, powers and duties of the commission, as the commission shall determine. (8) The power of the commission, which is hereby confirmed, to purchase, construct, lease, finance, operate, maintain and own a terminal facility consisting in whole or in part of a parking area or place, garage, building, improvement, structure, or other accommodation for the parking or storage of motor or other vehicles, including all real or personal property necessary or desirable in connection therewith, shall, notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement, be exercised only at such place, in the vicinity of and in connection with, or as a part of any bridge, tunnel, ferry, railroad, rapid transit system, transportation or terminal facility, as the commission may determine to be necessary or desirable. L.1963, c. 92, s. 1. Amended by L.1964, c. 124, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:23-224 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-224
Repealer.
Status: in_force

18. Section 3 of Part II (C.32:23-75) and section 10 of Part III (C.32:23-82) chapter 202 of the laws of 1953, as amended; sections 5 and 6 of chapter 14 of the laws of 1954 (C.32:23-89 and 32:23-90); section 2 of chapter 19 of the laws of 1956 (C.32:23-100) are hereby repealed.
L.1970, c.58, s.18.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-28 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-28
Tunnels and bridges to form part of the plan
Status: in_force

Tunnels and Bridges to Form Part of the Plan. a. A tunnel or tunnels connecting the New Jersey shore and the Brooklyn shore of New York to provide through line connection between the transcontinental railroads now having their terminals in New Jersey with the Long Island Railroad and the New York Connecting Railroad on Long Island, and with the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the Bronx, and to provide continuous transportation of freight between the Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx sections of the port to and from all parts of the westerly section of the port for all of the transcontinental railroads. b. A bridge and/or tunnel across or under the Arthur Kill, and/or the existing bridge enlarged, to provide direct freight carriage between New Jersey and Staten Island. c. The location of all such tunnels or bridges to be at the shortest, most accessible and most economical points practicable, taking account of existing facilities now located within the port district, and providing for and taking account of all reasonably foreseeable future growth in all parts of the district. L.1922, c. 9, s. 3, p. 27 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-19).
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-26 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-26
Claims, etc., released and discharged upon payment of $500,000 by port authority to New Jersey
Status: in_force

Whereas, By chapter six of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, the state of New Jersey made an appropriation to the Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the authority) in aid of the construction of the George Washington bridge, of which a balance is due and unpaid; and Whereas, Under date of June twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, the state of New Jersey, acting by its state highway commission, entered into an agreement with the authority for the effectuation of the New Jersey approach to said bridge, whereby the state agreed to perform certain construction work in connection with said approach and the authority agreed to pay the state therefor, and pursuant to which certain moneys will become due and payable to the state from the authority when the traffic over said bridge amounts to ten million (10,000,000) vehicles per year, subject, however, to the deduction of certain moneys advanced by the authority to the state under said agreement; and Whereas, Pursuant to Article XV of the compact between the state of New Jersey and the state of New York creating the authority, certain moneys are due and payable from the state to the authority ending during the fiscal year, 1933-1934; and Whereas, The authority has offered to pay the state five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) and to release and discharge the state from all of its claims for the payment of the moneys due it from the state as aforesaid, in consideration of the release of the authority by the state of all of the state's claims for moneys due it from the authority as aforesaid; now, therefore, Upon the payment of the sum of five hundred thousand dollars by the port authority to the state of New Jersey, pursuant to this section, the state and the authority shall each be and be deemed to be released and discharged of and from all action and actions, cause and causes of action, damages, claims and demands whatsoever of the other arising out of, under or in connection with the aforesaid agreement, dated June twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, between the state and the authority, and in addition thereto, the state shall be and be deemed to be released and discharged of and from all action and actions, cause and causes of action, damages, claims and demands whatsoever of the authority arising out of, under or in connection with the appropriations made by chapter six, of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and arising out of, under or in connection with any appropriations made or to be made to the authority pursuant to Article XV of the aforesaid compact between the states of New York and New Jersey.
N.J. Stat. § 32:20A-5.1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20A / Section 20A-5.1
Greenwood Lake Commission, authority to charge certain fees.
Status: in_force

1. a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2011, c.8). b. (1) In addition to any other registration or fee required by the State, the Greenwood Lake Commission may require the owner of any mechanically propelled boat or vessel with 10 or more horsepower, and any non-mechanically propelled boat or vessel 18 or more feet in length, used on Greenwood Lake to obtain and possess an annual permit issued by the commission, and assess a fee therefor as follows: (a) for boats or vessels 20 feet or less in length overall -- $30; (b) for boats or vessels 21 to 25 feet in length overall and for rowing shells 21 feet in length or more -- $37.50; (c) for boats or vessels over 25 feet in length overall -- $37.50 plus an additional $7.50 for each foot by which the length overall exceeds 25 feet; and (d) for boats or vessels over 25 feet in length overall outfitted for overnight use -- $37.50 plus an additional $30 for each foot by which the overall length exceeds 25 feet. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection to the contrary, the commission may establish a one week use permit for $11.25 and a one-day use permit for $7.50 for any mechanically propelled boat or vessel or non-mechanically propelled boat or vessel subject to the annual fee established in paragraph (1) of this subsection. c. The Greenwood Lake Commission may charge a fee to an applicant for a permit issued pursuant to this section in order to recover the costs incurred in reviewing and acting upon an application for such permit. d. The Greenwood Lake Commission shall establish a separate, nonlapsing, dedicated account to be known as the "Greenwood Lake Commission Fund." All fees and other monies collected by the Greenwood Lake Commission pursuant to this section, or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, shall be deposited into this fund. Any investment earnings on monies in the fund shall accrue to the fund and shall be available subject to the same terms and conditions as other monies in the fund. The moneys in the fund shall be used by the Greenwood Lake Commission for the purposes set forth in P.L.1999, c.402 (C.32:20A-1 et seq.). L.2009, c.310, s.1; amended 2011, c.8, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-70 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-70
Effective date
Status: in_force

This act shall take effect immediately. L.1925, c. 37, s. 11, p. 106.
N.J. Stat. § 32:18-12 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 18 / Section 18-12
Enforcement of compact pledged; commission to compel enforcement
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XI. 1. Each of the signatory states agrees that it will prohibit the pollution of the said waters within the district in accordance with the several articles of this compact, and that it will enact suitable and adequate legislation which will accomplish effectively the objects of this compact and which will enable its officers, departments, boards and agents to accomplish satisfactorily the obligations and duties assumed by the state under the terms of this compact, and it is further agreed that the courts of the several states shall have jurisdiction to enforce as against any person, corporation, municipality or other entity or any employee, department or subdivision of the respective signatory states any and all provisions of this compact. The commission shall have authority to investigate and determine if the requirements of the compact and/or the orders of the commission pursuant thereto are complied with and if satisfactory progress has not been made, to bring action in its own name in the proper court or courts to compel the enforcement of any and all of the provisions of this compact, and/or the orders of the commission pursuant thereto.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-154.18 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-154.18
Rules and regulations governing traffic on highways in air terminals and marine terminals; definitions
Status: in_force

The Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the "Port Authority" ) having duly adopted the following rules and regulations governing traffic on air terminal highways and marine terminal highways in the air terminals and marine terminals operated by it within the territorial limits of the State of New Jersey, hereinafter set forth in this section, the penalties and procedures for their enforcement prescribed in sections two, three and four shall apply to violations thereof. RULES AND REGULATIONS Governing Traffic on Highways in Port Authority Air and Marine Terminals (1) The following terms as used herein shall have the indicated meanings: "Air terminals" shall mean developments operated by the Port Authority consisting of runways, hangars, control towers, ramps, wharves, bulkheads, buildings, structures, parking areas, improvements, facilities or other real property necessary, convenient or desirable for the landing, taking off, accommodation and servicing of aircraft of all types, including but not limited to airplanes, airships, dirigibles, helicopters, gliders, amphibians, seaplanes, or any other contrivance now or hereafter used for the navigation of or flight in air or space, operated by carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or cargo, or for the loading, unloading, interchange or transfer of such passengers or their baggage, or such cargo, or otherwise for the accommodation, use or convenience of such passengers, or such carriers or their employees, or for the landing, taking off, accommodation and servicing of aircraft owned or operated by persons other than carriers. "Air terminal highway" shall mean and include those portions of an air terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently by the Port Authority to the public for general or limited highway use. "Marine terminals" shall mean developments operated by the Port Authority consisting of one or more piers, wharves, docks, bulkheads, slips, basins, vehicular roadways, railroad connections, side tracks, sidings or other buildings, structures, facilities or improvements, necessary or convenient to the accommodation of steamships or other vessels and their cargoes or passengers. "Marine terminal highway" shall mean and include those portions of a marine terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently by the Port Authority to the public for general or limited highway use. "Traffic" shall mean and include pedestrians, animals and vehicles. (2) No vehicle shall be operated on any air terminal highway or marine terminal highway carelessly or negligently, or in disregard of the rights or safety of others, or without due caution and circumspection, or at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger unreasonably or to be likely to endanger unreasonably persons or property, or while the operator thereof is under the influence of intoxicating liquors or any narcotic or habit-forming drug, nor shall any vehicle be operated thereon if it is so constructed, equipped or loaded as to endanger unreasonably or to be likely to endanger unreasonably persons or property. (3) All persons on any air terminal highway or marine terminal highway must at all times comply with any lawful order, signal or direction by voice or hand of any member of the Port Authority police force. When traffic is controlled by traffic lights, signs or by mechanical or electrical signals, such lights, signs and signals shall be obeyed unless a Port Authority police officer directs otherwise. (4) Unless otherwise directed, all vehicles on any air terminal highway or marine terminal highway shall at all times stay to the right of the center of the roadway, except in the case of one-way roadways; slow-moving vehicles shall remain as close as possible to the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway; and where a roadway is marked with traffic lanes vehicles shall not cross markings. (5) No person shall operate a motor vehicle on an air terminal highway or marine terminal highway unless he is duly authorized to operate such vehicle on State and municipal highways in the State in which such air terminal highway or marine terminal highway is located, or unless he is especially authorized by the Port Authority to operate motor vehicles on such air terminal highway or marine terminal highway. No motor vehicle shall be permitted on any air terminal highway or marine terminal highway unless it is registered in accordance with the provisions of the law of the State in which such air terminal highway or marine terminal highway is located, or unless it is especially authorized by the Port Authority to be operated on such air terminal highway or marine terminal highway. (6) The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident on an air terminal highway or marine terminal highway which results in injury or death to any person or damage to any property shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of the accident, render such assistance as may be needed, and give his name, address, and operator's license and registration number to the person injured or to any officer or witness of the injury. The operator of such vehicle shall make a report of such accident in accordance with the law of the State in which such accident occurred. (7) No person shall transport on any air terminal highway or marine terminal highway any dynamite, nitroglycerine, black powder, fireworks, blasting caps or other explosives, gasoline, alcohol, ether, liquid shellac, kerosene, turpentine, formaldehyde or other inflammable or combustible liquids, ammonium nitrate, sodium chlorate, wet hemp, powdered metallic magnesium, nitrocellulose film, peroxides or other readily inflammable solids or oxidizing materials, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid or other corrosive liquids, prussic acid, phosgene, arsenic, carbolic acid, potassium cyanide, tear gas, lewisite, or any other poisonous substances, liquids or gases, or any compressed gas, or any radioactive article, substance or material, at such time or place or in such manner or condition as to endanger unreasonably or as to be likely to endanger unreasonably persons or property; nor shall any person park any vehicle, or permit the same to remain halted on any air terminal highway or marine terminal highway containing any of the foregoing, at such time or place or in such manner or condition as to endanger unreasonably or as to be likely to endanger unreasonably persons or property. (8) No person shall park a vehicle or permit the same to remain halted on any air terminal highway or marine terminal highway except at such places and for such periods of time as may be prescribed or permitted by the Port Authority. L.1951, c. 239, p. 854, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:25-7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 25 / Section 25-7
Authority to accept grants
Status: in_force

An advisory council is hereby authorized to accept gifts, grants and contributions from public and private sources, provided, however, that it may not apply for or accept grants from the Federal Government or any agency thereof, until such grant has been approved by the commissioner and is otherwise authorized by the laws of the respective States of which the participating local units shall be a part thereof. L.1962, c. 46, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 32:30-17 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 30 / Section 30-17
Reimbursement for expenditure for control or eradication program
Status: in_force

The department, agency, or officer expending or becoming liable for an expenditure on account of a control or eradication program undertaken or intensified pursuant to the compact shall have credited to his account in the State treasury the amount or amounts of any payments made to this State to defray the cost of such program, or any part thereof, or as reimbursement thereof. L.1967, c. 176, s. 17, eff. July 25, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-146.1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-146.1
Each state may prescribe or rescind penalties for violations within its territorial limits
Status: in_force

Upon the concurrence of the State of New York as provided in section three hereof, the States of New Jersey and New York agree that each State, in the discretion of its Legislature, and without further consent or concurrence by the other State, may from time to time prescribe, amend, modify or rescind penalties for violations within its territorial limits of any rule or regulation, otherwise authorized, of the Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the "Port Authority" ), and procedures for the enforcement of such penalties. L.1951, c. 205, p. 744, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:12-6 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-6
Plans, specifications and estimates
Status: in_force

The commission shall select the location of the proposed bridge or tunnel, procure and have made and prepared the necessary plans and specifications thereof, and make the necessary and proper estimates of the cost of construction of the same. It may employ such engineers, counsel, clerks and other assistants as may be necessary to have the plans and specifications prepared.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-72 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-72
Interest
Status: in_force

Bonds shall bear interest at a rate determined by the commission, payable annually or semiannually. L.1961, c. 13, p. 71, s. 12.9. Amended by L.1970, c. 266, s. 1; L.1983, c. 526, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:5A-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 5A / Section 5A-3
Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO), route schedule.
Status: in_force

7. a. The Delaware River Port Authority shall develop a route schedule for each Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) route operated by the authority or by any subsidiary company owned by the authority. b. The authority shall publish the route schedule, developed pursuant to subsection a. of this section, on the port authority’s website and at each transportation facility, station, stop, or stand providing service to the PATCO route operated by the authority or by any subsidiary company of the authority. c. In the event that the route schedule, developed pursuant to subsection a. of this section, is changed by the authority, the authority shall update its website to reflect the changes and post the new route schedule at each transportation facility, station, stop, or stand providing service to the PATCO route, within 30 days of the changes to the route schedule taking effect. L.2025, c260, s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 32:23-229 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-229
Findings, declarations.
Status: in_force

1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Port of New York and New Jersey (port) has been one of the backbones of the region's economy for decades. When ranked by tonnage, the port is the largest port complex on the East coast of North America and the third largest in the United States. When ranked by the value of shipments passing through it, the port is the second busiest freight gateway in the United States. The port's strategic location, within one day's drive of a significant percentage of the national market and developed transportation infrastructure, are key assets that have made the region a gateway for international trade. Since the birth of containerization in 1956, the marine terminals on the New Jersey side of the port have grown significantly in comparison to the New York terminals. Today more than 82 percent of the cargo and 82 percent of the work hours are on the New Jersey side of the port. The port and freight industry in New Jersey alone supports more than 143,000 direct jobs and 250,000 total jobs, nearly $14.5 billion in personal income, over $20 billion in business income, and nearly $4.9 billion in federal, State, and local taxes, of which State and local taxes account for $1.6 billion. b. The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (commission) was created through a compact between the states of New Jersey and New York and approved by Congress in 1953. The commission's mission is to ensure fair hiring and employment practices and investigate, deter, and combat criminal activity and influence in the port. The commission has itself been tainted by corruption in recent years and, moreover, has exercised powers that do not exist within the authorizing compact, by dictating the terms of collective bargaining agreements of organized labor, and by requiring stevedoring companies to hire and retain independent inspectors to examine company operations in order for those companies to continue to operate in the port. Further, the commission, despite changes in the industry to drive out organized crime's influence, has over-regulated the businesses at the port in an effort to justify its existence as the only waterfront commission in any port in the United States. As a result, the commission has become an impediment to future job growth and prosperity at the port. c. While there is a continued need to regulate port-located business to ensure fairness and safety, there are numerous federal, State, and local taxpayer funded agencies that have jurisdiction that the commission lacks to regulate port operations, including, but not limited to: the United States Department of Homeland Security; United States Customs and Border Protection; the United States Coast Guard; the Transportation Security Administration; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the United States Department of Labor's Division of Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation; the National Labor Relations Board; the Food and Drug Administration; the United States Environmental Protection Agency; the United States Department of Transportation; the Federal Maritime Commission; the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department; depending on the particular location of the facility in New Jersey, the City of Newark Police Department, City of Elizabeth Police Department, City of Bayonne Police Department, City of Jersey City Police Department, and the New Jersey State Police; and, in matters of fair hiring and employment discrimination, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights. d. Abolishing the commission and transferring the New Jersey portion of the commission's law enforcement responsibilities to the New Jersey State Police would be practical and efficient, as the State Police is suited to undertake an investigation of any criminal activity in the ports of northern New Jersey without impeding economic prosperity. L.2017, c.324, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.82 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.82
Taxes and assessments; approval of municipality of purchaser or lessee
Status: in_force

The port authority shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any of the property acquired and used by it for any of the purposes of this act or upon any deed, mortgage or other instrument affecting such property or upon the recording of any such instrument. However, to the end that no taxing jurisdiction shall suffer undue loss of taxes and assessments by reason of the acquisition and ownership of property by the port authority for any of the purposes of this act, the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to enter into a voluntary agreement or agreements with any city, town, township or village whereby the port authority will undertake to pay in lieu of taxes a fair and reasonable sum, if any, or sums annually in connection with any real property acquired and owned by the port authority for any of the purposes of this act and to provide for the payment as a rental or additional rental charge by any person occupying any portion of any industrial development project or facility either as lessee, vendee or otherwise of such reasonable sum, if any, or sums as hereinafter provided. Such sums in connection with any real property acquired and owned by the port authority for any of the purposes of this act shall not be more than the sum last paid as taxes upon such real property prior to the time of its acquisition by the port authority; provided, however, that in connection with any portion of any industrial development project or facility, which is owned by the port authority or another governmental entity and improved pursuant to this act with buildings, structures or improvements greater in value than the buildings, structures or improvements in existence at the time of its acquisition, development or improvement by the port authority, any person occupying such portion of such industrial development project or facility either as lessee, vendee or otherwise shall, as long as title thereto shall remain in the port authority or in another governmental entity, pay as a rental or additional rental charge an amount in lieu of taxes, if any, not in excess of the taxes on such improvements and on personal property, including water and sewer service charges or assessment, which such person would have been required to pay had it been the owner of such property during the period for which such payment is made; provided further, however, that neither the port authority nor any of its projects, facilities, properties, moneys or bonds and notes shall be obligated, liable or subject to lien of any kind whatsoever for the enforcement, collection or payment thereof. Each such city, town, township or village is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into such agreement or agreements with the port authority, which agreement or agreements may also include provisions with respect to the joint review of categories of tenants proposed as occupants for industrial development projects or facilities with the cities, towns, townships or villages in which they are proposed to be located, and to accept the payment or payments which the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to make or which are paid by a person occupying any such portion of such industrial development project or facility as rental or as additional rental in lieu of taxes, and the sums so received by such city, town, township or village shall be devoted to purposes to which taxes may be applied in all affected taxing jurisdictions unless and until otherwise directed by law of the state in which such city, town, township or village is located. At least 10 days prior to the authorization by the port authority of any agreement provided for in this section 11, the port authority shall notify the chief executive officer of each city in the port district within which an industrial development project or facility has been included in the master plan provided for in paragraph b. of section 3 hereof of the proposed authorization of such agreement, shall seek their comments and shall include with such authorization any comments received from such city. The port authority shall not sell or lease substantially all of an industrial development project or facility to a proposed purchaser or lessee without the prior approval by the municipality wherein the project or facility is located of such purchaser or lessee. L.1978, c. 110, s. 11, eff. Aug. 24, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 32:5-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-1
Construction of subway and rail system connecting with bridge
Status: in_force

a. L.1931, c. 7, p. 33 entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act authorizing and providing for the appointment of an interstate bridge commission and defining its powers and duties,' approved May sixth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine," approved March third, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, saved from repeal. [This act authorizes the New Jersey Interstate Bridge Commission (which commission has been superseded by the Delaware River Joint Commission) to construct a subway extending to the New Jersey side of the Camden-Philadelphia bridge and to construct and operate a railroad system through said subway and connecting with the rail system on the bridge, either through lease or contract, or in its own name. The subway and transportation system is to be deemed an approach to the bridge structure and shall be under the jurisdiction of the commission.] b. L.1931, c. 9, p. 37 entitled "An act appropriating five million dollars to the New Jersey Interstate Bridge Commission," approved March third, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, as amended by L.1931, c. 266, p. 675, saved from repeal. [Appropriated $5,000,000 when included in an appropriation bill, for the construction of a subway and rail system as authorized by L.1931, c. 7, p. 33.]
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-172 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-172
Consents heretofore given not revoked or affected
Status: in_force

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to revoke, rescind or affect any consents to suits, actions or proceedings against the Port Authority heretofore given by the two said States or the terms and conditions upon which such consents are given. L.1953, c. 172, p. 1437, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11B-10 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11B / Section 11B-10
Application of act
Status: in_force

The provisions of this act shall not apply to any trust fund where the deed of trust, or will, or any court having jurisdiction of the same, specially directs that said trust fund shall be invested in other securities. L.1948, c. 179, p. 924, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-50 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-50
Rates and charges
Status: in_force

Rates and charges fixed by the commission for power which is produced by its facilities shall be reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and just. L.1961, c. 13, p. 63, s. 9.5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.52a — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.52a
Findings, declarations relative to remains of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Status: in_force

1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The unprovoked attack on the United States carried out by international terrorists on September 11, 2001 against targets in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people, injury to countless others, and the disruption of innumerable lives. b. Among the victims of this depraved act were civilian and government workers, military personnel, airline passengers and crew members, police officers, firefighters and paramedics, many of whom resided in this State. c. The remains of many victims of the World Trade Center attacks were never located. d. The ash from the World Trade Center site, which contains remains of the victims of September 11, 2001, has been held at Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York. e. This ash should be covered and placed in containers to eventually be transported to the World Trade Center site to become a part of the memorial that will be built at this location. f. It is fitting and proper for the State to honor the victims of September 11, 2001 by returning their ashes to the site of a memorial at the World Trade Center in their honor. L.2003,c.198,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-15 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-15
Organization of commission
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XIV. The port authority shall elect from its number a chairman, vice chairman, and may appoint such officers and employees as it may require for the performance of its duties, and shall fix and determine their qualifications and duties.
N.J. Stat. § 32:16-7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-7
Conveyance of lands to United States
Status: in_force

In addition to the powers conferred by this subtitle, Palisades Interstate Park Commission may grant and convey for a nominal consideration to the United States Government or any appropriate agency thereof, such parcels of any land or rights therein in this State, now owned by the commission or hereafter acquired by them on top of the Palisades, as may in its opinion be proper and necessary for the purpose of laying out and constructing a parkway on top of the Palisades. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 568, s. 40.
N.J. Stat. § 32:31-5 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-5
Commission
Status: in_force

Article IV. The Commission a. There is created the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. The commission shall consist of one member from each party state to be appointed by the Governor according to procedures of each party state, except that a host state shall have two members during the period that it has an operating regional facility. The Governor shall notify the commission in writing of the identity of the member and one alternate, who may act on behalf of the member only in the member's absence. b. Each commission member shall be entitled to one vote. No action of the commission shall be binding unless a majority of the total membership cast their vote in the affirmative. c. The commission shall elect annually from among its members a presiding officer and such other officers as it deems appropriate. The commission shall adopt and publish, in convenient form, rules and regulations as are necessary for due process in the performance of its duties and powers under this compact. d. The commission shall meet at least once a year and shall also meet upon the call of the presiding officer, or upon the call of a party state member. e. All meetings of the commission shall be open to the public with reasonable prior public notice. The commission may, by majority vote, close a meeting to the public for the purpose of considering sensitive personnel or legal matters. All commission actions and decisions shall be made in open meetings and appropriately recorded. A roll call vote may be required upon request of any party state or the presiding officer. f. The commission may establish such committees as it deems necessary. g. The commission may appoint, contract for, and compensate limited staff as it determines necessary to carry out its duties and functions. The staff shall serve at the commission's pleasure irrespective of the civil service, personnel or other merit laws of any of the party states or the federal government and shall be compensated from funds of the commission. h. The commission shall adopt an annual budget for its operations. i. The commission shall have the following duties and powers: (1) The commission shall receive and act on the application of a nonparty state to become an eligible state in accordance with Article VII e. (2) The commission shall receive and act on the application of an eligible state to become a party state in accordance with Article VII b. (3) The commission shall submit an annual report to and otherwise communicate with the governors and the presiding officer of each body of the legislature of the party states regarding the activities of the commission. (4) Upon request of party states, the commission shall mediate disputes which arise between the party states regarding this compact. (5) The commission shall develop, adopt and maintain a regional management plan to ensure safe and effective management of waste within the region, pursuant to Article V. (6) The commission may conduct legislative or adjudicatory hearings, and require reports, studies, evidence and testimony as are necessary to perform its duties and functions. (7) The commission shall establish by regulation, after public notice and opportunity for comment, procedural regulations as deemed necessary to ensure efficient operation, the orderly gathering of information, and the protection of the rights of due process of affected persons. (8) In accordance with the procedures and criteria set forth in Article V, the commission shall accept a host state's proposed facility as a regional facility. (9) In accordance with the procedures and criteria set forth in Article V, the commission may designate, by a two-thirds vote, host states for the establishment of needed regional facilities. The commission shall not exercise this authority unless the party states have failed to voluntarily pursue the development of these facilities. (10) The commission may require of and obtain from party states, eligible states seeking to become party states, and non-party states seeking to become eligible states, data and information necessary for the implementation of commission responsibilities. (11) The commission may enter into agreements with any person, state, regional body, or group of states for the importation of waste into the region and for the right of access to facilities outside the region for waste generated within the region. This authorization to import requires a two-thirds majority vote of the commission, including an affirmative vote of the representatives of the host state in which any affected regional facility is located. This shall be done only after the commission and the host state have made an assessment of the affected facilities' capability to handle these wastes and of relevant environmental, economic, and public health factors, as defined by the appropriate regulatory authorities. (12) The commission may, upon petition, grant an individual generator or group of generators in the region the right to export wastes to a facility located outside the region. A grant of right shall be for a period of time and amount of waste and on such other terms and conditions as determined by the commission and approved by the affected host states. (13) The commission may appear as an intervenor or party in interest before any court of law, federal, state or local agency, board or commission that has jurisdiction over the management of wastes. The authority to intervene or otherwise appear shall be exercised only after a two-thirds vote of the commission. In order to represent its views, the commission may arrange for any expert testimony, reports, evidence or other participation as it deems necessary. (14) The commission may impose sanctions, including but not limited to, fines, suspension of privileges or revocation of the membership of a party state in accordance with Article VII. The commission shall have the authority to revoke, in accordance with Article VII g., the membership of a party state that creates unreasonable barriers to the siting of a needed regional facility or refuses to accept host state responsibilities upon designation by the commission. (15) The commission shall establish by regulation criteria for and shall review the fee and surcharge systems in accordance with Articles V and IX. (16) The commission shall review the capability of party states to ensure the siting, operation, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any facility within its borders. (17) The commission shall review the compact legislation every five years prior to federal congressional review provided for in the act, and may recommend legislative action. (18) The commission has the authority to develop and provide to party states rules, regulations and guidelines as it deems appropriate for the efficient, consistent, fair and reasonable implementation of the compact. j. There is hereby established a commission operating account. The commission is authorized to expend moneys from the account for the expenses of any staff and consultants designated under section g. of this article and for official commission business. Financial support for the commission account shall be provided as follows: (1) Each eligible state, upon becoming a party state, shall pay $70,000.00 to the commission, which shall be used for administrative costs of the commission. (2) The commission shall impose a "commission surcharge" per unit of waste received at any regional facility as provided in Article V. (3) Until such time as at least one regional facility is in operation and accepting waste for management, or to the extent that revenues under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this section are unavailable or insufficient to cover the approved annual budget of the commission, each party state shall pay an apportioned amount of the difference between the funds available and the total budget in accordance with the following formula: (a) 20% in equal shares; (b) 30% in the proportion that the population of the party state bears to the total population of all party states, according to the most recent United States census; (c) 50% in the proportion that the waste generated for management in each party state bears to the total waste generated for management in the region for the most recent calendar year in which reliable data are available, as determined by the commission. k. The commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. An independent certified public accountant shall annually audit all receipts and disbursements of commission accounts and funds and submit an audit report to the commission. The audit report shall be made a part of the annual report of the commission required by Article IV i.(3). l. The commission may accept, receive, utilize and dispose for any of its purposes and functions any donations, loans, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services, conditional or otherwise, from any state or the United States or any subdivision or agency thereof, or interstate agency, or from any institution, person, firm or corporation. The nature, amount and condition, if any, attendant upon any donation, loan, or grant accepted pursuant to this paragraph, together with the identity of the donor, grantor, or lender, shall be detailed in the annual report of the commission. The commission shall by rule establish guidelines for the acceptance of donations, loans, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services. This shall provide that no donor, grantor or lender may derive unfair or unreasonable advantage in any proceeding before the commission. m. The commission herein established is a body corporate and politic, separate and distinct from the party states and shall be so liable for its own actions. Liabilities of the commission shall not be deemed liabilities of the party states, nor shall members of the commission be personally liable for action taken by them in their official capacity. (1) The commission shall not be responsible for any costs or expenses associated with the creation, operation, closure, postclosure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any regional facility, or any associated regulatory activities of the party states. (2) Except as otherwise provided herein, this compact shall not be construed to alter the incidence of liability of any kind for any act, omission, or course of conduct. Generators, shippers and carriers of wastes, and owners and operators of sites shall be liable for their acts, omissions, conduct, or relationships in accordance with all laws relating thereto. n. The United States district courts in the District of Columbia shall have original jurisdiction of all actions brought by or against the commission. Any such action initiated in a state court shall be removed to the designated United States district court in the manner provided by Act of June 25, 1948 as amended (28 U.S.C. s. 1446). This section shall not alter the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the final administrative decisions of the commission as set forth in the paragraph below. o . The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shall have jurisdiction to review the final administrative decisions of the commission. (1) Any person aggrieved by a final administrative decision may obtain review of the decision by filing a petition for review within 60 days after the commission's final decision. (2) In the event that review is sought of the commission's decision relative to the designation of a host state, the Court of Appeals shall accord the matter an expedited review, and, if the court does not rule within 90 days after a petition for review has been filed, the commission's decision shall be deemed to be affirmed. (3) The courts shall not substitute their judgment for that of the commission as to the decisions of policy or weight of the evidence on questions of fact. The court may affirm the decision of the commission or remand the case for further proceedings if it finds that the petitioner has been aggrieved because the finding, inferences, conclusions or decisions of the commission are: (a) In violation of the Constitution of the United States; (b) In excess of the authority granted to the commission by this compact; (c) Made upon unlawful procedure to the detriment of any person; (d) Arbitrary or capricious or characterized by abuse of discretion or clearly unwarranted exercise of discretion. (4) The commission shall be deemed to be acting in a legislative capacity except in those instances where it decides, pursuant to its rules and regulations, that its determinations are adjudicatory in nature. L.1983, c. 329, s. 2, Art. IV, eff. Sept. 1, 1983.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.26 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.26
Access improvement projects; participation in effectuation
Status: in_force

In furtherance of the aforesaid findings and determinations and in partial effectuation of the Comprehensive Plan heretofore adopted by the two states for the development of terminal and transportation facilities in the Port of New York District, it is the intent of the two states to authorize the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to participate as limited in section 5 of this act in the effectuation of one or more separate access improvement projects as hereinafter defined pursuant to chapter 43 of the laws of New Jersey of 1947 as amended, and chapter 802 of the laws of New York, 1947, as amended, and chapter 44 of the laws of New Jersey 1947, as amended, and chapter 631 of the laws of New York, 1947, as amended or any of the foregoing. Highway access improvement project relating to Newark International Airport and the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal. Construction of that portion of New Jersey Route 81 in the city of Elizabeth, State of New Jersey, extending generally northwestward from and including a new interchange with the New Jersey Turnpike, across and connecting with North Avenue, to and including a new interchange with U.S. Route 1. L.1977, c. 365, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:21-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-3
Powers of commission and commissioners; duties of state officers and others in carrying out compact
Status: in_force

There is hereby granted to the commission and the commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the said compact and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular. All officers of the State of New Jersey are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective provinces and jurisdiction necessary or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular; it being hereby declared to be the policy of the State of New Jersey to perform and carry out the said compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof. All officers, bureaus, departments and persons of and in the State government or administration of the State of New Jersey are hereby authorized and directed at convenient times and upon request of the said commission to furnish the said commission with information and data possessed by them or any of them and to aid said commission by loan of personnel or other means lying within their legal rights respectively. L.1941, c. 169, p. 541, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-82 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-82
Concurrent legislation by New York state
Status: in_force

Neither the construction of such bridge, the approaches or highway connections, nor any preliminary work, authorized by this act, shall be begun, nor shall any moneys be expended hereunder by the port authority, until the state of New York by appropriate legislation concurs therein, and appropriates an equivalent amount. L.1925, c. 41, s. 12, p. 114.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.86 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.86
Entry upon property for purpose of surveys, etc.
Status: in_force

The port authority and its duly authorized agents, and all persons acting under its authority and by its direction, may enter in the daytime into and upon any real property for the purpose of making such surveys, diagrams, maps, plans, soundings or borings as the port authority may deem necessary, convenient or desirable for any of the purposes of this act. L.1978, c. 110, s. 15, eff. Aug. 24, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11AA-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11AA / Section 11AA-3
Authority to make agreement
Status: in_force

ARTICLE II The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement or agreements, not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of Articles I and III hereof, setting forth in detail the location for such bridge and by whom and in what manner the bridge shall be financed, constructed, operated and maintained, including the manner of fixing and collecting tolls, and providing for joint action by said commission and authority where such joint action is deemed by them to be necessary or advisable and setting forth the manner in which any such joint action may be effected. L.1951, c. 285, p. 1026, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-69 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-69
Bonds; resolutions and indentures generally
Status: in_force

The commission may determine and enter into indentures providing for the principal amount, date or dates, maturities, interest rate, denominations, form, registration, transfer, interchange and other provisions of the bonds and coupons and the terms and conditions upon which the same shall be executed, issued, secured, sold, paid, redeemed, funded and refunded. The resolution of the commission authorizing any bond or any indenture so authorized under which the bonds are issued may include all such covenants and other provisions other than any restriction on the regulatory powers vested in the commission by this compact as the commission may deem necessary or desirable for the issue, payment, security, protection or marketing of the bonds, including without limitation covenants and other provisions as to the rates or amounts of fees, rents and other charges to be charged or made for use of the facilities; the use, pledge, custody, securing, application and disposition of such revenues, of the proceeds of the bonds, and of any other moneys of the commission; the operation, maintenance, repair and reconstruction of the facilities and the amounts which may be expended therefor; the sale, lease or other disposition of the facilities; the insuring of the facilities and of the revenues derived therefrom; the construction or other acquisition of other facilities; the issuance of additional bonds or other indebtedness; the rights of the bondholders and of any trustee for the bondholders upon default by the commission or otherwise; and the modification of the provisions of the indenture and of the bonds. Reference on the face of the bonds to such resolution or indenture by its date of adoption or the apparent date on the face thereof is sufficient to incorporate all of the provisions thereof and of this compact into the body of the bonds and their appurtenant coupons. Each taker and subsequent holder of the bonds or coupons, whether the coupons are attached to or detached from the bonds, has recourse to all of the provisions of the indenture and of this compact and is bound thereby. L.1961, c. 13, p. 70, s. 12.6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-19 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-19
Condemnation
Status: in_force

If the port authority is unable to agree for the acquisition of any such real property, it may acquire the real property by condemnation pursuant to article 3 of this chapter (s. 32:2-10 et seq.), and chapter 1 of the title Eminent Domain (s. 20:1-1 et seq.), except as other provision is made by this article.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-14 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-14
Concurrent legislation by Pennsylvania
Status: in_force

This act shall become effective immediately upon its signing by the governor and the passage by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania of a substantially similar act, embodying the agreement between the two states herein set forth, and making a like appropriation. L.1934, c. 215, s. 3, p. 510.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-7
Commission created
Status: in_force

The Delaware River Basin Commission is hereby created as a body politic and corporate, with succession for the duration of this compact, as an agency and instrumentality of the governments of the respective signatory parties. L.1961, c. 13, p. 48, s. 2.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:9-6 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-6
Meeting to view property; notice
Status: in_force

The joint commission shall appoint a time, not less than twenty nor more than thirty days therefrom, when they shall meet upon the property and view the same and the premises affected thereby. It shall give at least ten days' personal notice of the time and place of the first meeting to the attorney general of this state, and to the president, secretary or director of any corporation or stock company or to any partnership or person affected, if a resident of this state, and if not, by advertisement for two consecutive weeks in two newspapers published in the county in which the bridge is located and by handbills posted upon the premises.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-40 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-40
Fish and wildlife
Status: in_force

The commission may acquire, sponsor or operate projects and facilities for the maintenance and improvement of fish and wildlife habitats related to the water resources of the basin. L.1961, c. 13, p. 61, s. 7.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:22B-21 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 22B / Section 22B-21
Severability.
Status: in_force

If any part or provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this act or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances and the 2 States hereby declare that they would have entered into this act or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such provision or application thereof been apparent. L.1956, c. 194, p. 722, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 32:17-11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-11
Filling vacancies
Status: in_force

If by death, resignation or otherwise, a vacancy occurs among those appointed hereunder as commissioners to enter into the aforesaid compact upon behalf of the state of New Jersey, the governor is hereby authorized to fill such vacancy. L.1937, c. 148, s. 2, p. 372.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-130 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-130
Bonds as legal investments
Status: in_force

The bonds or other securities or obligations which may be issued or incurred by the Port Authority pursuant to this act or as security for which there may be pledged the tolls and other revenues or any part thereof of any vehicular bridge or tunnel (including the said Holland Tunnel and the said Midtown Hudson Tunnel) now or hereafter authorized by the 2 said States or both so issued or incurred and so secured, are hereby made securities in which all State and municipal officers and bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the State, may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital, belonging to them or within their control; and said bonds or other securities or obligations are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and shall be received by any State or municipal officer or agency for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of this State is now or may hereafter be authorized. L.1931, c. 4, s. 13, p. 25. Amended by L.1956, c. 156, p. 631, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.29 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.29
Consent of municipality to acquisition of property; existing indebtedness
Status: in_force

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the Port Authority to acquire any marine terminal owned or operated by any municipality or any other property now or hereafter vested in or held by any municipality, without the authority or consent of such municipality as provided in the compact of April thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, between the States of New Jersey and New York, nor shall anything herein impair or invalidate in any way any bonded indebtedness of the State, or any municipality, nor impair the provisions of law regulating the payment into sinking funds of revenue derived from municipal property, or dedicating the revenues derived from municipal property to a specific purpose. L.1947, c. 44, p. 141, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:36-20 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-20
State commitment.
Status: in_force

20. State commitment. The state of New Jersey and the state of New York shall provide equal funding for phase one of the Project. To the extent that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey provides support for debt service obligations incurred by the Commission for phase one, the value of that support will be ascribed one-half each to the state of New York and the state of New Jersey in determining their total funding for the state commitment to phase one. The governor of New Jersey, the governor of New York and the executive director of the Port Authority shall execute a memorandum of understanding detailing the timing and source of funding for their commitment to phase one of the Project, and if agreed to in an amendment to a memorandum, for phase two of the Project or portions thereof. For any toll or fee imposed on an instrumentality of either state, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding executed pursuant to this section, the revenue generated from that toll or fee shall count toward that state's share for purposes of any memorandum of understanding established pursuant to this section. L.2019, c.195, s.20.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-29 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-29
General powers
Status: in_force

The commission may undertake investigations and surveys, and acquire, construct, operate and maintain projects and facilities to control potential pollution and abate or dilute existing pollution of the water resources of the basin. It may invoke as complainant the power and jurisdiction of water pollution abatement agencies of the signatory parties. L.1961, c. 13, p. 57, s. 5.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:36-22 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-22
Cooperation with commission.
Status: in_force

22. Notwithstanding any other provision of law of New York or New Jersey, general, special, charter or local, each state and local government, any agency, instrumentality, department, commission or authority thereof, and any bi-state agency are hereby authorized and empowered to cooperate with, aid and assist the Commission in effectuating the provisions of this act, as it may be amended or supplemented hereafter. L.2019, c.195, s.22.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-42 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-42
Definition of "real property"
Status: in_force

The term real property as used in this act is defined to include lands, structures, franchises and interest in land, including lands under water and riparian rights, and any and all other things and rights usually included within the said term, and includes also any and all interests in such property less than full title, such as easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgage or otherwise, and also all claims for damage for such real estate. L.1924, c. 125, s. 14, p. 241 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-39).
N.J. Stat. § 32:18-16 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 18 / Section 18-16
Constitutionality of compact
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XV. 1. Should any part of this compact be held to be contrary to the constitution of any signatory state or of the United States, all other severable objects of this compact shall continue to be in full force and effect.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-170 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-170
Conditions
Status: in_force

The foregoing consent is granted upon the condition that in suits, actions or proceedings, thereunder for judgments, orders or decrees restraining or enjoining the Port Authority from committing or continuing to commit breaches of such written contract, no such judgment, order or decree shall be entered except upon at least two days' prior written notice to the Port Authority of the proposed entry thereof; and upon an appeal taken by the Port Authority from such judgment, order or decree, the service of the notice of appeal shall perfect the appeal, without an undertaking or other security. L.1953, c. 172, p. 1436, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-42 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-42
Development
Status: in_force

The commission shall provide for the development of water related public sports and recreational facilities. The commission on its own account or in cooperation with a signatory party, political subdivision or any agency thereof may provide for the construction, maintenance and administration of such facilities, subject to the provisions of section 8.2 hereof. L.1961, c. 13, p. 62, s. 8.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11E-1.9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11E / Section 11E-1.9
Authorization for Renewable Energy and Agribusiness Park
Status: in_force

1. For the purposes of complying with the provisions of section 1 of P.L.1989, c.191 (C.32:11E-1.1), the Delaware River and Bay Authority created pursuant to the "Delaware-New Jersey Compact," enacted pursuant to 53 Laws of Delaware, Chapter 145 (17 Del. C.s.1701 et seq.) and P.L.1961, c.66 (C.32:11E-1 et seq.) with the consent of the Congress of the United States in accordance with Pub.L.87-678 (1962), is authorized, pursuant to the procedures set forth in section 1 of P.L.1989, c.191 (C.32:11E-1.1), to undertake a project for the development of a Renewable Energy and Agribusiness Park in Gloucester County or Salem County, including the acquisition of a site for the project and the planning, development, financing, construction, operation, maintenance, and improvement thereof, and the authority to lease the same, which shall be considered a project of the authority as defined pursuant to Article II of the "Delaware-New Jersey Compact," P.L.1961, c.66, as amended by P.L.1989, c.192 (C.32:11E-1 et seq.) and P.L.2001, c.414 (C.32:11E-1 et seq.). Not less than the prevailing wage rate shall be paid to workers employed in the performance of any construction contract undertaken in connection with a project authorized pursuant to this section. The prevailing wage rate shall be the rate determined by the Commissioner of Labor pursuant to the provisions of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act," P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.). L.2003,c.62.
N.J. Stat. § 32:13A-7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 13A / Section 13A-7
Tunnel revenue bonds
Status: in_force

The commission is hereby authorized to provide by resolution, at one time or from time to time, for the issuance of tunnel revenue bonds of the county of Gloucester for the purpose of paying the cost as herein above defined of the tunnel, which resolution shall recite an estimate of such cost. The principal and interest of such bonds shall be payable solely from the special fund herein provided for such payment. The bonds shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable semiannually, shall mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their date, as may be determined by the commission, and may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the commission, at such price or prices, not exceeding the par value thereof and a premium of five per cent, and under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the commission prior to the issuance of the bonds. The commission shall determine the form of the bonds, including the interest coupons to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and the place or places of payment of principal and interest thereof, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state. The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board of chosen freeholders of the county and by the chairman of the commission, under the official seal of the commission, attested by the secretary and treasurer of the commission, and the coupons attached thereto shall bear the facsimile signature of the chairman of the commission. All bonds issued under this chapter shall contain a statement on their face that the county shall not be obligated to pay the same or the interest thereon except from the revenues of the tunnel. In case any officer whose signature shall appear upon the bonds and coupons shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had remained in office until such delivery. All tunnel revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall have and are hereby declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the negotiable instruments law of the state. Provision may be made for the registration of any of the bonds in the name of the owner as to principal alone and also as to both principal and interest. The commission may sell such bonds in such manner and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interests of the county, taking into consideration the financial responsibility of the purchaser and the terms and conditions of the purchase, and especially the availability of the proceeds of the bonds when required for payment of the cost of the tunnel, but no such sale shall be made at a price so low as to require the payment of interest on the money received therefor at more than six per cent per annum, computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds in accordance with standard tables of bond values. The proceeds of such bonds shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the tunnel and shall be checked out by the chairman of the commission under such restrictions, if any, as the commission may provide. If the proceeds of such bonds, by error of calculation or otherwise, shall be less than the cost of the tunnel, additional bonds may in like manner be issued to provide the amount of such deficit, and unless otherwise provided in the trust indenture hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed to be of the same issue and shall be entitled to payment from the same fund without preference or priority of the bonds first issued for the tunnel. If the proceeds of the bonds shall exceed the cost of the tunnel, the surplus shall be paid into the fund hereinafter provided for the payment of principal and interest of such bonds. Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the commission may, under like restrictions, issue temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds upon the issuance of the latter. The commission may also provide for the replacement of any bond which shall become mutilated or be destroyed or lost. Such tunnel revenue bonds may be issued without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions and things which are specified and required by this chapter, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding.
N.J. Stat. § 32:19-9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 19 / Section 19-9
Accounts; annual report; recommendations
Status: in_force

The commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements, and shall report to the governor and the legislature of each signatory state on or before the twenty-fifth day of January in each year, setting forth in detail the transactions conducted by it, and shall make recommendations for any legislative action deemed by it advisable, including amendments to the statutes of the signatory states which may be necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of the compact between the signatory states.
N.J. Stat. § 32:24-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 24 / Section 24-1
Forest fire protection compact
Status: in_force

The Governor is hereby authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of this State with any one or more of the states of Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, who may, by their legislative bodies, so authorize a compact, in form substantially as follows: MIDDLE ATLANTIC INTERSTATE FOREST FIRE PROTECTION COMPACT ARTICLE I The purpose of this compact is to promote effective prevention and control of forest fires in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States by the development of integrated forest fire plans, by the maintenance of adequate forest fire fighting services by the member states, and by providing for mutual aid in fighting forest fires among the compacting states of the region and with states which are party to other regional forest fire protection compacts or agreements. ARTICLE II This compact shall become operative immediately as to those states ratifying it whenever any two or more of the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia which are contiguous have ratified it and Congress has given consent thereto. ARTICLE III In each state the officer who is responsible for forest fire control shall act as compact administrator for that state and shall consult with like officials of the other member states and shall implement co-operation between such states in forest fire prevention and control. The compact administrators of the member states shall organize to co-ordinate the services of the member states and provide administrative integration in carrying out the purposes of this compact. The compact administrators shall formulate and, in accordance with need, from time to time revise a regional forest fire plan for the member states. It shall be the duty of each member state to formulate and put into effect a forest fire plan for that state and take such measures as may be necessary to integrate such forest fire plan with the regional forest fire plan formulated by the compact administrators. ARTICLE IV Whenever the state forest fire control agency of a member state requests aid from the state forest fire control agency of any other member state in combating, controlling or preventing forest fires, it shall be the duty of the state forest fire control agency of that state to render all possible aid to the requesting agency which is consonant with the maintenance of protection at home. ARTICLE V Whenever the forces of any member state are rendering outside aid pursuant to the request of another member state under this compact, the employees of such state shall, under the direction of the officers of the state to which they are rendering aid, have the same powers (except the power of arrest), duties, rights, privileges and immunities as comparable employees of the state to which they are rendering aid. No member state or its officers or employees rendering outside aid pursuant to this compact shall be liable on account of any act or omission on the part of such forces while so engaged or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection therewith. All liability, except as otherwise provided hereinafter, that may arise either under the laws of the requesting state or under the laws of the aiding state or under the laws of a third state on account of or in connection with a request for aid shall be assumed and borne by the requesting state. Any member state rendering outside aid pursuant to this compact shall be reimbursed by the member state receiving such aid for any loss or damage to or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment answering a request for aid, and for the cost of all materials, transportation, wages, salaries and maintenance of employees and equipment incurred in connection with such request; provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any assisting member state from assuming such loss, damage, expense or other cost, or from loaning such equipment, or from donating such services to the receiving member state without charge or cost. Each member state shall provide for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured employees and the representatives of deceased employees in case employees sustain injuries or are killed while rendering outside aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within such state. For the purposes of this compact, the term employee shall include any volunteer or auxiliary legally included within the forest fire fighting forces of the aiding state under the laws thereof. The compact administrators shall formulate procedures for claims and reimbursement under the provisions of this article in accordance with the laws of the member states. ARTICLE VI Nothing in this compact shall be construed to authorize or permit any member state to curtail or diminish its forest fire fighting forces, equipment, services or facilities, and it shall be the duty and responsibility of each member state to maintain adequate forest fire fighting forces and equipment to meet demands for forest fire protection within its borders in the same manner and to the same extent as if this compact were not operative. Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit or restrict the powers of any state ratifying the same to provide for the prevention, control and extinguishment of forest fires, or to prohibit the enactment or enforcement of state laws, rules or regulations intended to aid in such prevention, control and extinguishment in such state. Nothing in this compact shall be construed to affect any existing or future co-operative relationship or arrangement between the United States Forest Service and a member state or states. ARTICLE VII The compact administrators may request the United States Forest Service to act as the primary research and co-ordinating agency of the Middle Atlantic Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact in co-operation with the appropriate agencies in each state, and the United States Forest Service may accept the initial responsibility in preparing and presenting to the compact administrators its recommendations with respect to the regional fire plan. Representatives of the United States Forest Service may attend meetings of the compact administrators. ARTICLE VIII The provisions of articles IV and V of this compact which relate to mutual aid in combating, controlling or preventing forest fires shall be operative as between any state party to this compact and any other state which is party to a regional forest fire protection compact in another region; provided, that the Legislature of such other state shall have given its assent to such mutual aid provisions of this compact. ARTICLE IX This compact shall continue in force and remain binding on each state ratifying it until the Legislature or the Governor of such state takes action to withdraw therefrom. Such action shall not be effective until six months after notice thereof has been sent by the chief executive of the state desiring to withdraw to the chief executives of all states then parties to the compact. L.1955,c.224,s.1; amended 1990,c.133,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:26-16 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 26 / Section 26-16
Cooperation and assistance by New Jersey departments, agencies and officers
Status: in_force

Within appropriations available therefor, the departments, agencies and officers of the government of this State may co-operate with and assist the Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission within the scope contemplated by Article III(h) of the compact. The departments, agencies and officers of the government of this State are authorized generally to co-operate with said commission. L.1964, c. 54, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 32:13A-2.1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 13A / Section 13A-2.1
Contract with Delaware County Pennsylvania Authority
Status: in_force

Gloucester County Tunnel Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to such other powers of which it is now legally possessed, to enter into a contract or contracts with Delaware County Pennsylvania Authority, an Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the construction, operation and maintenance of a tunnel under the Delaware river and to issue tunnel revenue bonds for such purpose, payable solely from earnings jointly with said Delaware County Pennsylvania Authority. L.1938, c. 379, p. 949, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.73 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.73
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this act: a. "Bonds" means bonds, notes, securities or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness; b. "Effectuation" of any project or facility or part of any such project or facility includes but is not limited to its establishment, acquisition, construction, development, maintenance, operation, improvement by way of betterments, additions or otherwise and rehabilitation by the port authority or any other person and the provision of funds therefor through the issuance of obligations, the making or granting of loans or otherwise; c. "General reserve fund statutes" shall mean chapter 48 of the laws of New York of 1931 as amended, and chapter 5 of the laws of New Jersey of 1931 as amended, and "general reserve fund" shall mean the general reserve fund of the port authority authorized by said statutes; d. "Governing body" means the board or body vested with the general legislative powers of the municipality in which an industrial development project or facility will be financed or effectuated pursuant to this act; e. "Industrial development project or facility" or "port district industrial development project or facility" means any equipment, improvements, structure or facility or any land, and any building, structure, facility or other improvement thereon, or any combination thereof, and all real and personal property, located within the New York portion of the port district or within a municipality in the New Jersey portion of the port district which qualified for State aid under the provisions of P.L.1971, c. 64 as most recently supplemented by P.L.1978, c. 14 or which may hereafter qualify for such aid, including but not limited to, machinery, equipment and other facilities deemed necessary or desirable in connection therewith, or incidental thereto, whether or not now in existence or under construction, which shall be considered suitable by the port authority for manufacturing, research, non-retail commercial or industrial purposes within an industrial park, or for purposes of warehousing or consumer and supporting services directly related to any of the foregoing or to any other port authority project or facility; and which may also include or be an industrial pollution control facility or a resource recovery facility; provided that no such industrial development project or facility may include or be a facility used for the storage of chemicals, fuel or liquified natural gas unless incidental to the effectuation of such industrial development project or facility; f. "Industrial pollution control facility" means any equipment, improvement, structure or facility or any land, and any building, structure, facility or other improvement thereon, or any combination thereof, and all real and personal property, located within the port district, including, but not limited to, machinery, equipment and other facilities deemed necessary or desirable in the opinion of the port authority in connection therewith, or incidental thereto, whether or not now in existence or under construction, having to do with or the end purpose of which is the control, abatement or prevention of land, sewer, water, air, noise or general environmental pollution deriving from the operation of industrial, manufacturing, warehousing, commercial and research facilities, including, but not limited to any air pollution control facility, noise abatement facility, water management facility, waste water collecting system, waste water treatment works, sewage treatment works system, sewage treatment system or solid waste disposal facility or site, provided that no such industrial pollution control facility may include or be used as a site for organic landfill or be of a character or nature generally furnished or supplied by any other governmental entity where such industrial pollution control facility is located without the consent of such governmental entity; g. "Municipality" means a city, county, town or village all or any part of which is located within the New York portion of the port district, or a city, county, town, borough or township all or any part of which is located within the New Jersey portion of the port district; h. "Person" means any person, including an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, trust, public utility, public or private corporation, or other legal entities, including public or governmental body which may include the port authority, as well as natural person; i. "Port authority" means the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and subsidiary corporation now or hereafter incorporated for any of the purposes of this act; provided, however, as used in sections 4 and 5 of this act it shall not include any such subsidiary corporation; j. "Purposes of this act" means the effectuation of industrial development projects and facilities and of each project or facility constituting a portion thereof and of each part of each project or facility, and purposes incidental thereto; k. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises and interests in land, including air space and air rights, waters, lands under water, wetlands and riparian rights, and any and all things and rights included within the said term, and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser interests, including but not limited to easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise; l. "Resource recovery facility" means any equipment, improvement, structure or facility or any land, and any building, structure, facility or other improvement thereon, or any combination thereof, and all real and personal property located within the port district, including, but not limited to, machinery, equipment and other facilities deemed necessary or desirable in the opinion of the port authority in connection therewith, or incidental thereto, whether or not now in existence or under construction, for the disposal of refuse or other solid wastes or wastes resulting from other treatment processes and for the recovery and sale or use of energy and other resources from such refuse or other solid wastes or wastes resulting from other treatment processes, provided that no such resource recovery facility may include or be used as a site for organic landfill; m. "Surplus revenues" from any facility means the balance of the revenues from such facility including but not limited to the revenues of any subsidiary corporation incorporated for any of the purposes of this act remaining at any time currently in the hands of the port authority after the deduction of the current expenses of the operation and maintenance thereof, including a proportion of the general expenses of the port authority as it shall deem properly chargeable thereto, which general expenses shall include but not be limited to the expense of protecting and promoting the commerce of the port district, and after the deduction of any amounts which the port authority may or shall be obligated or may or shall have obligated itself to pay to or set aside out of the current revenues therefrom for the benefit of the holders of any bonds legal for investment as defined in the general reserve fund statutes; n. "Surplus revenues of port district industrial development projects or facilities" means the surplus revenues of all industrial development projects or facilities effectuated pursuant to the terms of this act. L.1978, c. 110, s. 2, eff. Aug. 24, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-11
Port Authority may take possession upon filing complaint and map
Status: in_force

Immediately after the filing of the complaint in the action for condemnation, with the map annexed, the Port Authority shall have the exclusive right to possession of the real property shown upon the map to the extent of the interests specified in the complaint, and may forthwith and without other process enter into and take possession of such real property to that extent; it being the intent of this article that no proceedings for compensation or otherwise involved in the taking of such real property or interests therein shall delay the taking thereof and their use by the Port Authority for the purpose or purposes for which the Port Authority may be authorized by law to acquire or condemn such real property or interests therein. As amended L.1953, c. 31, p. 563, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-22 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-22
Withdrawal from agreement
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XXI. Either state may by its legislature withdraw from this agreement in the event that a plan for the comprehensive development of the port shall not have been adopted by both states on or prior to July 1, 1923; and when such withdrawal shall have been communicated to the governor of the other state by the state so withdrawing, this agreement shall be thereby abrogated.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-40 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-40
Acquisition of property by agreement or condemnation
Status: in_force

If, for any of the purposes hereunder, the port authority shall find it necessary or convenient for it to acquire title to or any lesser interest in real property as herein defined, in this state, then the port authority may find and determine that such property is required for a public use, and upon such due determination, the said property shall be and shall be deemed to be required for such a public use; and with the exceptions hereinafter specifically noted the said determination or fact shall not be affected by the fact that such property has theretofore been taken for, or is now devoted to, a public use; but the public use in the hands or under the control of the port authority shall be deemed superior to the public use in the hands of any other person, association or corporation. If the port authority is unable to agree for the purchase of any such property, or if the owner thereof shall be incapable of selling the same, or if, after diligent search and inquiry, the name and residence of any such owner cannot be ascertained, or if title to any such property has been acquired or attempted to be acquired and has been found to be invalid or defective, the port authority may acquire title to all such property by condemnation under and pursuant to the provisions of this act. L.1924, c. 125, s. 5, p. 235 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-30).
N.J. Stat. § 32:16-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-4
Alteration in location or boundary lines of parkway; changes shown on original map
Status: in_force

Before the completion of the parkway Palisades Interstate Park Commission may, from time to time, make such alterations in the location or boundary lines of the parkway as may be found expedient and necessary. The map on file in the office of the commission shall record all such changes and alterations. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 566, s. 37.
N.J. Stat. § 32:26-13 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 26 / Section 26-13
Violation of regulations adopted pursuant to compact; penalty
Status: in_force

Any person who shall violate any rule, regulation or code adopted by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles pursuant to the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact shall, upon conviction, suffer and pay a penalty not exceeding $50.00, or suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom such conviction is had. L.1964, c. 54, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-6 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-6
By-laws
Status: in_force

ARTICLE V. The commissioners shall, for the purpose of doing business, constitute a board and may adopt suitable by-laws for its management.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.66 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.66
Act as agreement supplementing compact; construction of powers
Status: in_force

This section and the preceding sections hereof constitute an agreement between the States of New York and New Jersey supplementary to the compact between the 2 States dated April 30, 1921 and amendatory thereof, and shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes of said compact and of the comprehensive plan heretofore adopted by the 2 States, and the powers granted to the port authority shall be construed to be in aid of and not in limitation or in derogation of any other powers heretofore conferred upon or granted to the port authority. L.1962, c. 8, s. 17.
N.J. Stat. § 32:27-16 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-16
Executive Committee; meetings, powers and duties
Status: in_force

(a) The Executive Committee of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission shall consist of the following commissioners: The 4 ex officio members or their alternates, The 2 appointees of the Governors, One representative to be chosen by the 4 New Jersey county members of the commission, One representative to be chosen by the 4 Pennsylvania county members of the commission, The representatives of the cities of Camden and Philadelphia. (b) A quorum of the executive committee for the purpose of transacting business at any committee meeting shall exist only when there are present, in person, at least 3 members or alternates from each of the party States including at least 2 of the 3 State officials or appointees or their alternates from each State. No action of the committee shall be effective or binding unless a majority of each party State's representatives who are present at such meeting, including at least 2 of the 3 State's officials or appointees or their alternates, shall vote in favor thereof. Certified copies of the minutes of each committee meeting shall be sent to each of the Governors of the party States within 20 days of said meeting. (c) The executive committee may elect a chairman, vice-chairman and a secretary from among its membership and may elect such other officers as it desires from among its members. The chairman and vice-chairman shall not reside in the same State. The chairman or vice-chairman shall be elected from among the State officials or appointees of each party State. The remaining officer shall be selected from among the members representing the counties and municipalities. The executive committee shall establish regular meeting dates and may call special meetings upon call of its chairman after 10 days' notice. In addition to the powers and duties conferred upon the executive committee by this act, it shall have such other duties as the board shall from time to time delegate to it. L.1966, c. 149, Pt. I, Art. II, s. 9, eff. June 18, 1966. Amended by L.1967, c. 223, s. 4, eff. Oct. 13, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 32:12-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-2
Appointment of commission; resolutions of counties
Status: in_force

Upon the filing in the office of the secretary of state of the consent and request of any three or more of such counties, expressed and declared by resolution duly passed at a regular meeting of the governing bodies of such counties, after such notice and in such form as is required to obligate a county to enter into a legal contract for the payment of money, the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three suitable persons from each of said counties, and one person a resident of the state but not a resident of any of such counties, who shall be known as "The river bridge and tunnel commission" (inserting in the blank space the name of the stream or river).
N.J. Stat. § 32:18-23 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 18 / Section 18-23
Other standards of purity and classifications of waters
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XVII (1) In addition to, or in substitution for, the classifications of waters set forth in Articles VI and VII of this compact and the effluent standards made applicable thereto, the commission may develop and, after public hearing place in force other classifications of waters and effluent standards within the district. Such classifications shall be on the basis of present or intended uses of the waters in question and shall be accompanied by requirements governing the quality of effluents, receiving waters, or both, as the public interest may make appropriate. Classifications, standards, and requirements adopted pursuant to this article shall be developed and may be revised with due consideration for uniformity of requirements relating to the quality of effluents and receiving waters within the same classification in all parts of the district. Classifications made pursuant to this article shall be governed by and shall implement any water and related land resource plans, water use plans or pollution control plans adopted by appropriate agencies of the signatory states, acting singly or in concert, or through joint intergovernmental agencies. Any exercise of authority by the commission pursuant to this article shall be subject to any procedural requirements, if applicable, that may be contained in Federal law. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to abridge or limit any power otherwise existing of a signatory state to make and enforce classifications, standards, and requirements for effluents and receiving waters. L.1970, c. 212, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-80 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-80
Effect of partial invalidity
Status: in_force

If any term or provision of this act shall be declared unconstitutional or ineffective in whole or in part by a court of competent jurisdiction, then to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective such term or provision shall be enforced and effectuated; nor shall such determination be deemed to invalidate the remaining terms or provisions hereof. L.1925, c. 41, s. 10, p. 114.
N.J. Stat. § 32:21-11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-11
Effective date
Status: in_force

This act shall become effective immediately upon its approval by the Governor and the passage by any one or more of the said States of a substantially similar act embodying the supplemental compact between the said States hereinabove set forth. L.1950, c. 275, p. 933, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-83 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-83
Effective date
Status: in_force

This act shall take effect immediately. L.1925, c. 41, s. 13, p. 114.
N.J. Stat. § 32:22B-15 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 22B / Section 22B-15
Duration of commission
Status: in_force

The commission shall continue in existence until revoked by one or more of the party states. L.1965, c. 12, s. 1. Amended by L.1969, c. 11, s. 1, eff. April 2, 1969; L.1970, c. 14, s. 1; L.1970, c. 50, s. 1; L.1971, c. 161, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.52b — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.52b
Remains to be used in memorial.
Status: in_force

2. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shall cover the site of the remains of the victims of September 11, 2001 and transport those remains in containers to be used in a memorial at the World Trade Center site that will be built in their honor. L.2003,c.198,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.61 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.61
Administration of details by port authority; local laws and regulations; jurisdiction; subsidiary corporations
Status: in_force

All details of the effectuation, including but not limited to details of financing, leasing, rentals, tolls, fares, fees and other charges, rates, contracts and service, of the world trade center, the Hudson tubes and the Hudson tubes extensions by the port authority shall be within its sole discretion and its decision in connection with any and all matters concerning the world trade center, the Hudson tubes and the Hudson tubes extensions shall be controlling and conclusive. The local laws, resolutions, ordinances, rules and regulations of the city of New York shall apply to such world trade center if so provided in any agreement between the port authority and the city and to the extent provided in any such agreement. So long as any facility constituting a portion of the port development project shall be owned, controlled or operated by the port authority (either directly or through a subsidiary corporation incorporated for any of the purposes of this act), no agency, commission or municipality of either or both of the 2 States shall have jurisdiction over such facility nor shall any such agency, commission or municipality have any jurisdiction over the terms or method of effectuation of all or any portion thereof by the port authority (or such subsidiary corporation) including but not limited to the transfer of all or any portion thereof to or by the port authority (or such subsidiary corporation). Nothing in this act shall be deemed to prevent the port authority from establishing, acquiring, owning, leasing, constructing, effectuating, developing, maintaining, operating, rehabilitating or improving all or any portion of the port development project through wholly owned subsidiary corporations of the port authority or from transferring to or from any such corporations any moneys, real property or other property for any of the purposes of this act. If the port authority shall determine from time to time to form such a subsidiary corporation it shall do so by executing and filing with the Secretary of State of New York and the Secretary of State of New Jersey a certificate of incorporation, which may be amended from time to time by similar filing, which shall set forth the name of such subsidiary corporation, its duration, the location of its principal office, and the purposes of the incorporation which shall be one or more of the purposes of establishing, acquiring, owning, leasing, constructing, effectuating, developing, maintaining, operating, rehabilitating or improving all or any portion of the port development project. The directors of such subsidiary corporation shall be the same persons holding the offices of commissioners of the port authority. Such subsidiary corporation shall have all the powers vested in the port authority itself for the purposes of this act except that it shall not have the power to contract indebtedness. Such subsidiary corporation and any of its property, functions and activities shall have all of the privileges, immunities, tax exemptions and other exemptions of the port authority and of the port authority's property, functions and activities. Such subsidiary corporation shall be subject to the restrictions and limitations to which the port authority may be subject, including, but not limited to the requirement that no action taken at any meeting of the board of directors of such subsidiary corporation shall have force or effect until the Governors of the 2 States shall have an opportunity, in the same manner and within the same time as now or hereafter provided by law for approval or veto of actions taken at any meeting of the port authority itself, to approve or veto such action. Such subsidiary corporation shall be subject to suit in accordance with section 9 of this act and chapter 301 of the laws of New York of 1950 and chapter 204 of the laws of New Jersey of 1951 as if such subsidiary corporation were the port authority itself. Such subsidiary corporation shall not be a participating employer under the New York Retirement and Social Security law or any similar law of either State and the employees of any such subsidiary corporation, except those who are also employees of the port authority, shall not be deemed employees of the port authority. Whenever any State, municipality, commission, agency, officer, department, board or division is authorized and empowered for any of the purposes of this act to co-operate and enter into agreements with the port authority or to grant any consent to the port authority or to grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer any property to the port authority or to execute any document, such State, municipality, commission, agency, officer, department, board or division shall have the same authorization and power for any of such purposes to co-operate and enter into agreements with such subsidiary corporation and to grant consents to such subsidiary corporation and to grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer property to such subsidiary corporation and to execute documents for such subsidiary corporation. L.1962, c. 8, s. 12.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-169 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-169
Scheduled transportation by aircraft; suits to enforce contracts for use of space or facilities
Status: in_force

Upon the concurrence of the State of New York in accordance with section six hereof, the States of New York and New Jersey consent to suits, actions or proceedings (including proceedings to enforce arbitration agreements and to enter judgments upon awards resulting therefrom) of any form or nature, at law, in equity or otherwise by any person or corporation engaged in the business of scheduled transportation by aircraft, against The Port of New York Authority (hereinafter referred to as the "Port Authority" ), and to appeals therefrom and reviews thereof, upon or for the enforcement of any written contract for the use or occupancy of space, premises or facilities at New York International Airport, in the County of Queens, City of New York, State of New York, executed on or after January first, one thousand nine hundred fifty-three, between the Port Authority and any such person or corporation, or by any such person or corporation so contracting with the Port Authority upon any cause of action arising out of such use or occupancy pursuant to any such written contract. L.1953, c. 172, p. 1436, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-41 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-41
Property of municipalities; nonimpairment of bonded debt or sinking fund; use of state lands
Status: in_force

Anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding, no property now or hereafter vested in or held by any county, city, borough, village, township or other municipality shall be taken by the port authority, without the authority or consent of such county, city, borough, village, township or other municipality, nor shall anything herein impair or invalidate in any way any bonded indebtedness of the state, or such county, city, borough, village, township or other municipality, nor impair the provisions of law regulating the payment into sinking funds of revenues derived from municipal property, or dedicating the revenues derived from any municipal property to a specific purpose. The port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire from such county, city, borough, village, township, or other municipality by agreement therewith, and such county, city, borough, village, township or other municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to grant and convey for such consideration as it may deem wise, any real property which may be necessary for the construction, operation and maintenance of the bridge and the approaches thereto, including such lands, structures or interests therein as have already been devoted to a public use. The state of New Jersey hereby consents to the use and occupation of the lands of the state necessary for the construction, operation and maintenance of the said bridge and the approaches thereto, including lands of the state lying under the waters of the Arthur Kill. L.1924, c. 125, s. 6, p. 235 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-31).
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-2
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this compact, and of any supplemental or concurring legislation enacted pursuant thereto, except as may be otherwise required by the context: (a) "Basin" shall mean the area of drainage into the Delaware river and its tributaries, including Delaware bay; (b) "Commission" shall mean the Delaware River Basin Commission created and constituted by this compact; (c) "Compact" shall mean this act. (d) "Cost" shall mean direct and indirect expenditures, commitment, and net induced adverse effects, whether or not compensated for, used or incurred in connection with the establishment, acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of a project; (e) "Facility" shall mean any real or personal property, within or without the basin, and improvements thereof or thereon, and any and all rights of way, water, water rights, plants, structures, machinery and equipment, acquired, constructed, operated or maintained for the beneficial use of water resources or related land uses including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any and all things and appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient for the control, collection, storage, withdrawal, diversion, release, treatment, transmission, sale or exchange of water; or for navigation thereon, or the development and use of hydroelectric energy and power, and public recreational facilities; or the propagation of fish and wildlife; or to conserve and protect the water resources of the basin or any existing or future water supply source, or to facilitate any other uses of any of them; (f) "Federal Government" shall mean the government of the United States of America, and any appropriate branch, department, bureau or division thereof, as the case may be; (g) "Project" shall mean any work, service or activity which is separately planned, financed, or identified by the commission, or any separate facility undertaken or to be undertaken within a specified area, for the conservation, utilization, control, development or management of water resources which can be established and utilized independently or as an addition to an existing facility, and can be considered as a separate entity for purposes of evaluation; (h) "Signatory party" shall mean a State or Commonwealth party to this compact, and the Federal Government; (i) "Water resources" shall include water and related natural resources in, on, under, or above the ground, including related uses of land, which are subject to beneficial use, ownership or control. L.1961, c. 13, p. 44, s. 1.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-115 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-115
Interpretation
Status: in_force

Any powers herein granted to the port authority shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case as a limitation upon any of the powers vested in it by the states of New Jersey and New York and/or by congress. L.1927, c. 3, s. 9, p. 21.
N.J. Stat. § 32:21-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-1
Governor authorized to execute Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact; form
Status: in_force

The Governor of this State is hereby authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of New Jersey with any one or more of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida and with such other States as may enter into the compact, legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: ATLANTIC STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT The contracting States solemnly agree: Article I The purpose of this compact is to promote the better utilization of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard by the development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries, and by the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. It is not the purpose of this compact to authorize the States joining herein to limit the production of fish or fish products for the purpose of establishing or fixing the price thereof, or creating and perpetuating monopoly. Article II This agreement shall become operative immediately as to those States executing it whenever any two or more of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida have executed it in the form that is in accordance with the laws of the executing State and the Congress has given its consent. Any State contiguous with any of the aforementioned States and riparian upon waters frequented by anadromous fish, flowing into waters under the jurisdiction of any of the aforementioned States, may become a party hereto as hereinafter provided. Article III Each State joining herein shall appoint three representatives to a commission hereby constituted and designated as the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. One shall be the executive officer of the administrative agency of such State charged with the conservation of the fisheries resources to which this compact pertains or, if there be more than one officer or agency, the official of that State named by the Governor thereof. The second shall be a member of the Legislature of such State designated by the commission or Committee on Interstate Co-operation of such State, or if there be none, or if said Commission on Interstate Co-operation cannot constitutionally designate the said member, such legislator shall be designated by the Governor thereof; provided, that if it is constitutionally impossible to appoint a legislator as a commissioner from such State, the second member shall be appointed by the Governor of said State in his discretion. The third shall be a citizen who shall have a knowledge of and interest in the marine fisheries problem to be appointed by the Governor. This commission shall be a body corporate with the powers and duties set forth herein. Article IV The duty of the said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing about the conservation and the prevention of the depletion and physical waste of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard. The commission shall have power to recommend the co-ordination of the exercise of the police powers of the several States within their respective jurisdictions to promote the preservation of those fisheries and their protection against overfishing, waste, depletion or any abuse whatsoever and to assure a continuing yield from the fisheries resources of the aforementioned States. To that end the commission shall draft and, after consultation with the advisory committee hereinafter authorized, recommend to the governors and legislatures of the various signatory States legislation dealing with the conservation of the marine, shell and anadromous fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard. The commission shall, more than one month prior to any regular meeting of the Legislature in any signatory State, present to the Governor of the State its recommendations relating to enactments to be made by the Legislature of that State in furthering the intents and purposes of this compact. The commission shall consult with and advise the pertinent administrative agencies in the States party hereto with regard to problems connected with the fisheries and recommend the adoption of such regulations as it deems advisable. The commission shall have power to recommend to the States party hereto the stocking of the waters of such States with fish and fish eggs or joint stocking by some or all of the States party hereto and when two or more of the States shall jointly stock waters the commission shall act as the co-ordinating agency for such stocking. Article V The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and a vice chairman and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove or discharge such officers and employees as may be required to carry the provisions of this compact into effect and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications and compensation. Said commission shall adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its business. It may establish and maintain one or more offices for the transaction of its business and may meet at any time or place but must meet at least once a year. Article VI No action shall be taken by the commission in regard to its general affairs except by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of compacting States present at any meeting. No recommendation shall be made by the commission in regard to any species of fish except by the affirmative vote of a majority of the compacting States which have an interest in such species. The commission shall define what shall be an interest. Article VII The Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior of the Government of the United States shall act as the primary research agency of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission co-operating with the research agencies in each State for that purpose. Representatives of the said Fish and Wildlife Service shall attend the meetings of the commission. An advisory committee to be representative of the commercial fishermen and the salt water anglers and such other interests of each State as the commission deems advisable shall be established by the commission as soon as practicable for the purpose of advising the commission upon such recommendations at it may desire to make. Article VIII When any State other than those named specifically in Article II of this compact shall become a party thereto for the purpose of conserving its anadromous fish in accordance with the provisions of Article II the participation of such State in the action of the commission shall be limited to such species of anadromous fish. Article IX Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit the powers of any signatory State or to repeal or prevent the enactment of any legislation or the enforcement of any requirement by any signatory State imposing additional conditions and restrictions to conserve its fisheries. Article X Continued absence of representation or of any representative on the commission from any State party hereto shall be brought to the attention of the Governor thereof. Article XI The States party hereto agree to make annual appropriations to the support of the commission in proportion to the primary market value of the products of their fisheries, exclusive of cod and haddock, as recorded in the most recent published reports of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior, provided no State shall contribute less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) per annum and the annual contribution of each State above the minimum shall be figured to the nearest one hundred dollars ($100.00). The compacting States agree to appropriate initially the annual amounts scheduled below, which amounts are calculated in the manner set forth herein, on the basis of the catch record of 1938. Subsequent budgets shall be recommended by a majority of the commission and the cost thereof allocated equitably among the States in accordance with their respective interests and submitted to the compacting States. SCHEDULE OF INITIAL ANNUAL STATE CONTRIBUTIONS Maine ...................................... $ 700 New Hampshire .............................. 200 Massachusetts .............................. 2,300 Rhode Island .............................. 300 Connecticut ................................ 400 New York ................................... 1,300 New Jersey ................................ 800 Delaware ................................... 200 Maryland ................................... 700 Virginia ................................... 1,300 North Carolina ............................. 600 South Carolina ............................ 200 Georgia .................................... 200 Florida .................................... 1,500 Article XII This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each compacting State until renounced by it. Renunciation of this compact must be preceded by sending six months' notice in writing of intention to withdraw from the compact to the other States party hereto. L.1941, c. 169, p. 534, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-27 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-27
Maps of bridges, tunnels and belt lines
Status: in_force

The bridges, tunnels and belt lines forming the comprehensive plan are generally and in outline indicated on maps filed by the Port of New York Authority in the offices of the secretaries of the states of New York and New Jersey, and are hereinafter described in outline. L.1922, c. 9, s. 2, p. 27 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-18).
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-43 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-43
Co-operative planning and operation
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall co-operate with the appropriate agencies of the signatory parties and with other public and private agencies in the planning and effectuation of a co-ordinated program of facilities and projects authorized by this article. (b) The commission shall not operate any such project or facility unless it has first found and determined that no other suitable unit or agency of government is available to operate the same upon reasonable conditions, in accordance with the intent and purpose expressed in section 1.5 of this compact. L.1961, c. 13, p. 62, s. 8.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:33-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 33 / Section 33-2
Definitions
Status: in_force

2. As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: "Commission" means the Interstate Industrialized/Modular Buildings Commission. "Industrialized/modular building" means any building which is of closed construction; that is, constructed in such a manner that concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be inspected at the site without disassembly, damage or destruction, and which is made or assembled in manufacturing facilities off the building site for installation, or assembly and installation on the building site. "Industrialized/modular building" includes, but is not limited to, modular housing which is factory-built single-family and multifamily housing, including closed wall panelized housing, and other modular nonresidential buildings. "Industrialized/modular building" does not include any structure subject to the requirements of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. s.5401 et seq.). "Interim reciprocal agreement" means a formal reciprocity agreement between a noncompacting state wherein the noncompacting state agrees that labels evidencing compliance with the model rules and regulations for industrialized/modular buildings, as authorized in Article VIII, section 8, shall be accepted by the state and its subdivisions to permit installation and use of industrialized/modular buildings. Further, the noncompacting state agrees that by legislation or regulation, and appropriate enforcement by uniform administrative procedures, the noncompacting state requires all industrialized/modular building manufacturers within that state to comply with the model rules and regulations for industrialized/modular buildings. "Model rules and regulations for industrialized/modular buildings" means the construction standards adopted by the commission, after consideration of any recommendations from the rules development committee, which govern the design, manufacture, handling, storage, delivery and installation of industrialized/modular buildings and building components. The construction standards and any amendments thereof shall conform insofar as practicable to model building codes and referenced standards generally accepted and in use throughout the United States. "State" means a state of the United States, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. "Uniform administrative procedures" means the procedures adopted by the commission, after consideration of any recommendations from the rules development committee, which state and local officials and other parties in one state will utilize to assure state and local officials and other parties in other states of the substantial compliance of industrialized/modular building construction with the construction standard of requirements of those other states; to assess the adequacy of building systems; and to verify and assure the competency and performance of evaluation and inspection agencies. L.1991,c.457,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:27-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-2
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purpose of this compact, and of any supplemental or concurring legislation enacted pursuant thereto, except where such meaning is obviously inapplicable, the following words and phrases shall mean: (a) The commission--The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission; (b) Delaware Valley Urban Area--The area included within the counties of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer in the State of New Jersey, and the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery and the city of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; (c) Area--The Delaware Valley Urban Area; (d) Commissioners--The members of the commission; (e) Board--The body composed of the members of the commission; (f) Federal Government--The Government of the United States of America and any branch, department, bureau or division thereof, as the case may be; (g) Federal Representative--Any individual duly authorized to represent the Federal Government. L.1966, c. 149, Pt. I, Art. I, s. 2, eff. June 18, 1966.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.60 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.60
Taxes and assessments
Status: in_force

The port authority shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any of the property acquired or used by it for any of the purposes of this act or upon any deed, mortgage or other instrument affecting such property or upon the recording of any such instrument. However, to the end that no municipality shall suffer undue loss of taxes and assessments by reason of the acquisition and ownership of property by the port authority for any of the purposes of this act, the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to enter into a voluntary agreement or agreements with any municipality whereby the port authority will undertake to pay in lieu of taxes a fair and reasonable sum or sums annually in connection with any real property acquired and owned by the port authority for any of the purposes of this act. Such sums in connection with any real property acquired and owned by the port authority for any of the purposes of this act shall not be more than the sum last paid as taxes upon such real property prior to the time of its acquisition by the port authority; provided, however, that in connection with any portion of the Hudson tubes-world trade center area acquired and owned by the port authority for any of the purposes of this act, after such property is improved pursuant to this act with world trade center buildings, structures or improvements greater in value than the buildings, structures or improvements on such Hudson tubes-world trade center area at the time of its acquisition by the port authority, then, with regard to such greater value, such sum or sums may be increased by such additional sum or sums annually as may be agreed upon between the port authority and the city of New York which will not include any consideration of the exhibit areas of the world trade center or of any areas which would be tax exempt in their own right if title were in the governmental occupants or of other areas accommodating services for the public or devoted to general public use. Each such municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into such agreement or agreements with the port authority and to accept the payment or payments which the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to make, and the sums so received by such municipality shall be devoted to purposes to which taxes may be applied unless and until otherwise directed by law of the State in which such municipality is located. L.1962, c. 8, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-99 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-99
Grants, loans or payments by States or political subdivisions
Status: in_force

(a) Any or all of the signatory parties or any political subdivision thereof may: (1) Appropriate to the commission such funds as may be necessary to pay preliminary expenses such as the expenses incurred in the making of borings, and other studies of subsurface conditions, in the preparation of contracts for the sale of water and in the preparation of detailed plans and estimates required for the financing of a project; (2) Advance to the commission, either as grants or loans, such funds as may be necessary or convenient to finance the operation and management of or construction by the commission of any facility or project; (3) Make payments to the commission for benefits received or to be received from the operation of any of the projects or facilities of the commission. (b) Any funds which may be loaned to the commission either by a signatory party or a political subdivision thereof shall be repaid by the commission through the issuance of bonds or out of other income of the commission, such repayment to be made within such period and upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the commission and the signatory party or political subdivision making the loan. L.1961, c. 13, p. 84, s. 14.13.
N.J. Stat. § 32:33-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 33 / Section 33-3
Creation of commission
Status: in_force

3. The compacting states hereby create the Interstate Industrialized/Modular Buildings Commission. The commission shall be a body corporate of each compacting state and an agency thereof. The commission shall have all the powers and duties set forth herein and such additional powers as may be conferred upon it by subsequent action of the respective legislatures of the compacting states. L.1991,c.457,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:33-10 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 33 / Section 33-10
Entry into force and withdrawal
Status: in_force

10. a. This compact shall enter into force when enacted into law by any three states. Therefore, this compact shall become effective as to any other state upon its enactment thereof. The commission shall arrange for notification of all compacting states whenever there is a new enactment of the compact. b. Any compacting state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same. No withdrawal shall affect any liability already incurred by or chargeable to a compacting state prior to the time of that withdrawal. L.1991,c.457,s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 32:31-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-2
Agreement; policy and purpose
Status: in_force

The State of New Jersey enacts and enters into the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact with all jurisdictions legally joining therein, which compact is substantially as follows: Article I. Policy and Purpose There is created the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party states recognize that the Congress has declared that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity, either within or outside its borders, for disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of atomic energy defense activities of the federal government, as defined in the "Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act," Pub. L. 96-573 (42 U.S.C. s. 2021 b. et seq.), hereinafter referred to as "the act," or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most efficiently on a regional basis. The party states further recognize that the Congress of the United States, by enacting the act has provided for and encouraged the development of regional low-level radioactive waste compacts to manage such waste. The party states recognize that the long-term, safe and efficient management of low-level radioactive waste generated within the region requires that sufficient capacity to manage the waste be properly provided. In order to promote the health and safety of the region, it is the policy of the party states to: enter into a regional low-level radioactive waste management compact as a means of facilitating an interstate cooperative effort, provide for proper transportation of low-level waste generated in the region, minimize the number of facilities required to effectively and efficiently manage low-level radioactive waste generated in the region, encourage the reduction of the amounts of low-level waste generated in the region, distribute the costs, benefits, and obligations of proper low-level radioactive waste management equitably among the party states, and ensure the environmentally sound and economical management of low-level radioactive waste. L.1983, c. 329, s. 2, Art. I, eff. Sept. 1, 1983.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-118 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-118
Declaration as to vehicular traffic across interstate waters within port district; bridges and tunnels unified under port authority
Status: in_force

The state of New York by appropriate legislation concurring herein, the states of New Jersey and New York hereby declare and agree that the vehicular traffic moving across the interstate waters within the Port of New York District, created by the compact of April thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, between the said states (which said phrase "interstate waters" as used in this act shall include the portion of the Hudson river within the said Port of New York District north of the New Jersey state line), constitutes a general movement of traffic which follows the most accessible and practicable routes, and that the users of each bridge or tunnel over or under the said waters benefit by the existence of every other bridge or tunnel since all such bridges and tunnels as a group facilitate the movement of such traffic and relieve congestion at each of the several bridges and tunnels. Accordingly, the two said states, in the interest of the users of such bridges and tunnels and the general public, hereby agree that the construction, maintenance, operation and control of all such bridges and tunnels, heretofore or hereafter authorized by the two said states, shall be unified under the Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the port authority), to the end that the tolls and other revenues therefrom shall be applied so far as practicable to the costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of said bridges and tunnels as a group and economies in operation effected, it being the policy of the two said states that such bridges and tunnels shall as a group be in all respects self-sustaining. L.1931, c. 4, s. 1, p. 18.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.36 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.36
Legislative authority or approval
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or of the compact or agreement being supplemented by this act, no additional legislative authority or approval shall be deemed to be necessary or required before the Delaware River Port Authority may proceed with the projects authorized by section 1 of this act. (b) In effectuating the purposes authorized by this act, the Delaware River Port Authority shall have all of the powers granted to it by the compact or agreement hereby supplemented by this act. L.1962, c. 2, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:36-8 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-8
Powers of the commission.
Status: in_force

8. Powers of the Commission. The Commission shall have the power to undertake the following: a. Facilitate the project, including, but not limited to, through contracts and agreements and other documents and instruments which the Commission is otherwise authorized to make, enter into, execute, and deliver; provided, however, that the Commission shall not have the authority to operate or directly engage in transportation services such that the Commission would be subject to the jurisdiction of the federal Surface Transportation Board; b. Sue and be sued in its own name in federal and state courts in Mercer county, New Jersey and New York county, New York, it being understood that the commissioners shall have no obligation or liability for the acts or omissions of the commission; c. Accept, receive, disburse, encumber and expend funds from whatever source derived, including, without limitation, federal assistance, grants and loans; state and local government assistance, grants and loans; single state or bi-state agency assistance, grants and loans; and revenues received from the disposition of property; private sources, grants and loans; and Amtrak grants and loans, in each case as may be necessary to accomplish any lawful purpose which the commissioners determine will Facilitate the Project and achieve long-term stability and Full Funding; d. Acquire (including, without limitation, by gift, purchase, exchange or condemnation in accordance with the requirements of this act), subdivide, lease, license, take, and hold property of every description and to manage such property and develop any undeveloped property owned, leased, or controlled by it in a manner necessary or appropriate to Facilitate the Project; e. Make, procure, enter into, execute and deliver contracts and agreements and other documents and instruments as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out any power of the Commission under this act and to otherwise accomplish any lawful purpose which the commissioners determine will Facilitate the Project, including, without limitation, with the federal government, the state of New Jersey, any local government thereof, the state of New York, with any local government thereof, with any agency, instrumentality, department, commission or authority of any one or more of the foregoing, any bi-state agency, Amtrak, any individual or private firm, entity or corporation, or with any one or more of them; f. Make applications for and accept funding, permits, authorizations and approvals as may be necessary or appropriate to accomplish any lawful purpose which the commissioners determine will Facilitate the Project, including, without limitation, with the federal government, the state of New Jersey, any local government thereof, the state of New York, any local government thereof, with any agency, instrumentality, department, commission or authority of any one or more of the foregoing, any bi-state agency, Amtrak, any individual or private firm, entity or corporation, or with any one or more of them; g. Grant public and private entities the use of the Project or a portion thereof by way of franchise, concession, license, lease, or otherwise, provide for payments to and accept payments from such entities in exchange for value received from such use, work, or services performed or otherwise and to establish with Project users revenue sharing agreements for the use of the Project, through which the Commission may accept a portion of tolls, fees, rates, charges, and rentals established, levied, and collected by a Project user, provided that such tolls, fees, rates, charges, and rentals do not conflict with applicable federal law, the laws of the state of New Jersey and the state of New York, and paragraph (6) of subsection a. of section 4 of this act, and provided further that the Commission shall not have the authority to set passenger fares for Amtrak or any publicly owned and operated passenger service utilizing the Project; h. In accordance with section 16 of this act, adopt its own public procurement rules and guidelines that the Commission deems necessary or appropriate to Facilitate the Project through any combination of means and methods otherwise available to the Commission under this act, regardless of whether such combination is generally available to the state of New Jersey, any local government thereof, the state of New York, any local government thereof, any agency, instrumentality, department, commission or authority of any one or more of the foregoing, or any bi-state agency, and engage and contract with third parties in accordance with such procurement rules and guidelines; i. In accordance with section 18 of this act, dispose of, convey or transfer all or any portion of the Project for value as may be expeditious for the Facilitation of the Project, so long as it has determined that the transferee has or is provided with a sufficient source of financing to acquire, operate, maintain and own the Project; j. Issue and guarantee bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness, enter into loan agreements and otherwise borrow funds, or incur indebtedness or other future payment obligations for any corporate purpose, including to effectuate Full Funding, and to assign, pledge, mortgage, secure, encumber and use its funds, assets, properties, and revenues for repayment thereof, to be payable out of the funds, assets, properties, and revenues of the Commission without recourse to taxation, provided that the Commission shall have no power to pledge the full faith and credit of the federal government, the state of New Jersey, any local government thereof, the state of New York, any local government thereof or of Amtrak or the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in connection with the project, or to impose any obligation for payment of the bonds upon the federal government, the state of New Jersey, any local government thereof, the state of New York, any local government thereof or of Amtrak or the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in each case except as set forth in a binding agreement, or to otherwise commit any party to incur any liability in excess of its contractual obligations in connection with the Project, and provided further that neither the commissioners nor any person executing any bonds issued or guaranteed by the Commission shall be liable personally on such bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof; k. Acquire and hold securities for investment purposes or in connection with the Facilitation of the Project; l. Appoint, employ, contract with, and compensate such officers, employees and agents, including engineers, attorneys, consultants, financial advisors, and such other persons or entities as the business of the Commission may require and to engage and dismiss such officers, employees, and agents at will, and fix and provide for the qualification, appointment, removal, term, tenure, compensation, pension, and retirement rights of its officers and employees; m. Obtain insurance as the Commission may deem advisable and to create a captive insurer to self-insure risk as deemed appropriate by the Commission; n. Cooperate with the federal government, the state of New Jersey, any local government thereof, the state of New York, any local government thereof, with any agency, instrumentality, department, commission or authority of any one or more of the foregoing, any bi-state agency, Amtrak, any individual or private firm, entity or corporation, or with any one or more of them, in connection with the Project, and to enter into an agreement or agreements, notwithstanding any other provision of law of the states, general, special, charter or local, with the federal government, with the state of New Jersey, any local government thereof, the state of New York, any local government thereof, any agency, instrumentality, department, commission, or authority of any one or more of the foregoing, any bi-state agency, Amtrak, any individual or private firm, entity, or corporation, or with any one or more of the same for or relating to the Project; o. Indemnify individuals and entities to the extent required to facilitate the project; p. Establish or acquire subsidiaries as required to Facilitate the Project; q. Utilize the existing labor force in the states and foster labor harmony in allowing for adoption of efficient labor work rules and practices during construction of the Project; and r. Exercise all other powers as may be necessary or appropriate in furtherance of, and consistent with, the purposes of this act. L.2019, c.195, s.8.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-158 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-158
Suits accruing before effective date of act
Status: in_force

The foregoing consent does not extend to suits, actions or proceedings upon any causes of action whatsoever accruing before the effective date of this act, other than causes of actions upon, in connection with, or arising out of notes, bonds or other obligations or securities secured by a pledge of the general reserve fund of the Port Authority. L.1951, c. 204, p. 740, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-15.1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-15.1
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey not to issue badge to commissioner which may be mistaken for law enforcement badge.
Status: in_force

2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shall not issue a law enforcement badge or badge that may be mistaken as a law enforcement badge to any commissioner of the port authority. L.2019, c.221, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:26-12 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 26 / Section 26-12
Continuation of New Jersey vehicle equipment requirements; supersedure
Status: in_force

Any provision of Title 39 of the New Jersey Revised Statutes and any rule or regulation of the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles prescribing vehicle equipment requirements shall continue to be of force and effect until superseded by a rule, regulation or code adopted by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles by and with the approval of the Attorney General pursuant to the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact. Any such rule, regulation or code shall specify the provision or provisions of existing statute being superseded in accordance with and as required by this act. Any such provision or provisions are hereby repealed, effective on the date when the rule, regulation or code superseding such provision or provisions becomes effective pursuant to the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact and such other provisions of this act as may be applicable. L.1964, c. 54, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:26-17 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 26 / Section 26-17
Filing of documents; giving of notices
Status: in_force

Filing of documents as required by Article III(j) of the compact shall be with the Secretary of State and State Librarian. Any and all notices required by commission by-laws to be given pursuant to Article III(j) of the compact shall be given to the commissioner of this State, his alternate, if any, and the Attorney General. L.1964, c. 54, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-39 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-39
Soil conservation and forestry
Status: in_force

The commission may acquire, sponsor or operate facilities and projects to encourage soil conservation, prevent and control erosion, and to promote land reclamation and sound forestry practices. L.1961, c. 13, p. 61, s. 7.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-90 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-90
Object of bridge; tax exemption
Status: in_force

The construction, maintenance and operation of said bridge is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the two states, for the increase of their commerce and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and the port authority shall be regarded as performing a governmental function in undertaking the said construction, maintenance and operation and in carrying out the provisions of law relating to the said bridge and shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any of the property acquired by it for the construction, operation and maintenance of such bridge. L.1926, c. 6, s. 7, p. 26.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-114 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-114
Obligations legal for investment
Status: in_force

The obligations which may be issued by the port authority for the construction of said bridge and for purposes incidental thereto are hereby made securities in which all state and municipal officers and bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, saving banks, saving and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries, may properly and legally invest any funds belonging to them, including capital, or within their control; and said obligations are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or agency for any purpose for which bonds or other obligations of this state may be deposited. L.1927, c. 3, s. 8, p. 20.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.27d — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.27d
Agreements with any legal entity; scope
Status: in_force

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is authorized to enter into an agreement or agreements upon such terms or conditions as it may deem in the public interest with the United States, the State of New York, the State of New Jersey, or any agency, department, commission, public authority, board or division of any of the foregoing, or any municipality or other public corporation in either state, or any person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation, or other legal entities, or any two or more of the foregoing, to effectuate any railroad freight project pursuant to this act. An agreement or agreements relating to any railroad freight project pursuant to this act may provide for the construction, reconstruction, ownership, improvement, maintenance or operation of any portion or portions of the project by either State, or by any agency, department, commission, public agency, board or division of either State, or by any one or more of the foregoing. Either State or any agency, department, commission, public authority, board or division thereof, or any municipality or other public corporation thereof, or any two or more of the foregoing, is authorized to enter into an agreement or agreements with the port authority, the United States or any department, agency or instrumentality thereof, or any person, firm, association, company or corporation, or any two or more of the foregoing, to effectuate any railroad freight project pursuant to this act. L.1980, c. 157, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-78 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-78
Legal investments
Status: in_force

Bonds of the commission shall be legal investments for savings banks, fiduciaries and public funds in each of the signatory States. L.1961, c. 13, p. 73, s. 12.15.
N.J. Stat. § 32:14-21 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-21
Park patrolmen; number; appointment; uniforms; powers, duties and liabilities; compensation
Status: in_force

Palisades Interstate Park Commission may appoint such patrolmen as it may deem necessary for the purpose of keeping order and enforcing the laws and the provisions of this chapter. The patrolmen so appointed shall be provided with uniforms by the commission and shall have, within such portions of Palisades interstate park as lie within the boundaries of this State, and such parts of any State, county or other public highways as lie within the limits of such portions of the park and all the lands, parks and parkways in this State under the jurisdiction of the commission, all the powers, duties and liabilities of police officers in cities in the making of arrests and the execution of criminal process and the enforcement of all the laws of the State and the provisions of this chapter. The commission may appoint such patrolmen to hold office at the pleasure of the commission or for such term as the commission may determine and may determine the duties of such patrolmen and make all reasonable rules and regulations respecting the same. Such patrolmen shall receive such compensation as from time to time may be fixed and determined by the commission. Each of such patrolmen shall be a resident of either this State or the State of New York, and if a resident of the State of New York he shall not be disqualified to act as a patrolman in this State by reason of non-residence in this State, anything in the statutes of this State to the contrary notwithstanding. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 560, s. 22.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-56 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-56
Effect of partial invalidity
Status: in_force

If any term or provision of this act shall be declared unconstitutional or ineffective in whole or in part by a court of competent jurisdiction, then to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective such term or provision shall be enforced and effectuated; nor shall such determination be deemed to invalidate the remaining terms or provisions hereof. L.1924, c. 149, s. 16, p. 346 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-58).
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-6.3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-6.3
Rules, regulations
Status: in_force

3. The board shall adopt and promulgate appropriate rules and regulations concerning the right of the public to be present at meetings of the authority. The board may incorporate in its rules and regulations conditions under which it may exclude the public from a meeting or a portion thereof. Any rules or regulations adopted hereunder shall become a part of the minutes of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and shall be subject to the approval of the Governor of New Jersey and the Governor of New York. L.1991,c.395,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-146.3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-146.3
Effective date
Status: in_force

This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the State of New York of legislation having an identical effect with this act, but if the State of New York shall have already enacted such legislation, this act shall take effect immediately. L.1951, c. 205, p. 745, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-24 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-24
Generally
Status: in_force

The commission shall have power to develop, implement and effectuate plans and projects for the use of the waters of the basin for domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial water supply. To this end, without limitation thereto, it may provide for, construct, acquire, operate and maintain dams, reservoirs and other facilities for utilization of surface and ground water resources, and all related structures, appurtenances and equipment on the river and its tributaries and at such off-river sites as it may find appropriate, and may regulate and control the use thereof. L.1961, c. 13, p. 55, s. 4.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-146.9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-146.9
Violations; penalties
Status: in_force

2. Any violation in the State of the rules and regulations set forth in section 1 of this act shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $50.00 or imprisonment for not more than 30 days or both. The Superior and municipal court shall have jurisdiction to enforce and collect in summary proceedings any such penalty if the violation occurs within the territorial jurisdiction of the court. The rules of the Supreme Court shall govern the practice and procedure in such proceedings. The institution of a proceeding on Sunday or a holiday shall be no bar to the successful prosecution of the same and any process issued or served on Sunday or a holiday shall be as valid as if issued or served on any other day. L.1964,c.64,s.2; amended 1991,c.91,s.339.
N.J. Stat. § 32:20-34 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20 / Section 20-34
Storage dam across Delaware river; authority conferred upon Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions of this act, authority is given to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or, through it, to any commission or other public body or municipality singly or collectively designated by the Legislature of said Commonwealth to construct and maintain a storage dam across the Delaware river at or near the area known as Wallpack Bend, but above the confluence with Flatbrook, and including the works and appurtenances of said dam and to maintain the reservoir above said dam for the purpose of impounding the waters of said river to provide a supply of water for domestic, commercial and industrial purposes and compensation flow. Such construction and maintenance shall be deemed to be a public project for the benefit of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The authority to construct such reservoir hereby conferred shall expire, unless sooner exercised, fifty years after the effective date of this act. L.1953, First Sp.Sess., c. 443, p. 2424, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.6 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.6
General Reserve Fund, use of
Status: in_force

The moneys in the General Reserve Fund of the Port Authority may be pledged in whole or in part by the Port Authority as security for or applied by it to the repayment with interest of any moneys which it may raise upon bonds issued by it from time to time to provide funds for air terminal purposes; and the moneys in said General Reserve Fund may be applied by the Port Authority to the fulfillment of any other undertakings which it may assume to or for the benefit of the holders of any such bonds. Subject to prior liens and pledges (and to the obligation of the Port Authority to apply revenues to the maintenance of its General Reserve Fund in the amount prescribed by the General Reserve Fund Statutes), the revenues of the Port Authority from facilities established, constructed, acquired or effectuated through the issuance or sale of bonds of the Port Authority secured by a pledge of its General Reserve Fund may be pledged in whole or in part as security for or applied by it to the repayment with interest of any moneys which it may raise upon bonds issued by it to provide funds for air terminal purposes, and said revenues may be applied by the Port Authority to the fulfillment of any other undertakings which it may assume to or for the benefit of the holders of such bonds. L.1947, c. 43, p. 120, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-108 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-108
Effective date; execution
Status: in_force

This compact shall become binding and effective 30 days after the enactment of concurring legislation by the Federal Government, the States of Delaware, New Jersey and New York, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The compact shall be signed and sealed in 6 duplicate original copies by the respective chief executives of the signatory parties. One such copy shall be filed with the Secretary of State of each of the signatory parties or in accordance with the laws of the State in which the filing is made, and 1 copy shall be filed and retained in the archives of the commission upon its organization. The signatures shall be affixed and attested under the following form: "In Witness Whereof, and in evidence of the adoption and enactment into law of this compact by the Congress and Legislatures, respectively, of the signatory parties, the President of the United States and the respective Governors do hereby, in accordance with authority conferred by law, sign this compact in 6 duplicate original copies, as attested by the respective Secretaries of State, and have caused the seals of the United States and of the respective States to be hereunto affixed this day of , 19 ." L.1961, c. 13, p. 88, s. 14.22.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-4
Condemnation of real property; entry upon lands; municipal consents and conveyances; "real property" defined
Status: in_force

ARTICLE III. If for any of its authorized purposes (including temporary purposes) the commission shall find it necessary or convenient to acquire for public use any real property in the state of New Jersey or the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whether for immediate or future use, the commission may, by resolution, determine to acquire such property by a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, and the said determination shall not be affected by the fact that such property has theretofore been taken for or is then devoted to a public use, but the public use in the hands or under the control of the commission shall be deemed superior to the public use in the hands or under the control of any other person, association, or corporation. If the commission is unable to agree with the owner or owners thereof upon terms for the acquisition of any such real property, in the state of New Jersey, for any reason whatsoever, then the commission may acquire such property by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, in the manner provided by an act entitled "An act authorizing the acquisition and maintaining by the state of New Jersey, in conjunction with the state of Pennsylvania, of toll bridges across the Delaware river, and providing for free travel across the same," approved the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve (chapter two hundred ninety-seven), and the various acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, relating to the acquisition of interstate toll bridges over the Delaware river. If the commission is unable to agree with the owner or owners thereof upon terms for the acquisition of any such real property, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for any reason whatsoever, then the commission may acquire such real property by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, in the manner provided by the act approved the eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen (pamphlet laws, one hundred forty-eight), entitled "An act providing for the joint acquisition and maintenance by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the state of New Jersey of certain toll bridges over the Delaware river," and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, relating to the acquisition of interstate toll bridges over the Delaware river. The power of the commission to acquire real property by condemnation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain in the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall be a continuing power and no exercise thereof shall be deemed to exhaust it. The commission and its duly authorized agents and employees may enter upon any land, in the state of New Jersey or the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of making such surveys, maps, or other examinations thereof as it may deem necessary or convenient for its authorized purposes. However, anything to the contrary contained in this compact notwithstanding, no property, now or hereafter vested in or held by any county, city, borough, village, township or other municipality, shall be taken by the commission without the consent of such municipality, unless expressly authorized so to do by the state or commonwealth in which such municipality is located. All counties, cities, boroughs, villages, townships and other municipalities, and all public agencies and commissions of the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, are hereby authorized and empowered to grant and convey to the commission upon its request, but not otherwise, upon reasonable terms and conditions, any real property which may be necessary or convenient to the effectuation of its authorized purposes, including real property already devoted to public use. The state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby consent to the use and occupation by the commission of any real property of the said two states, or of either of them, which may be or become necessary or convenient to the effectuation of the authorized purposes of the commission, including lands lying under water and lands already devoted to public use. The term "real property" as used in this compact includes lands, structures, franchises, and interests in land, including lands under water and riparian rights, and any and all things and rights usually included within the said term, and includes not only fees simple and absolute, but also any and all lesser interests, such as easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses, and all other incorporated [incorporeal] hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms of years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages, or otherwise, and also claims for damage to real estate.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-47 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-47
Power generation
Status: in_force

The commission may develop and operate, or authorize to be developed and operated, dams and related facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of generating hydroelectric power and hydroelectric energy. L.1961, c. 13, p. 63, s. 9.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-7
Powers of commission not to be impaired; restriction on additional bridge or tunnel
Status: in_force

ARTICLE VI. The state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby covenant and agree with each other and with the holders of any bonds or other obligations of the commission, for which tolls, rents, rates, or other revenues have been pledged, that, so long as any of said bonds or obligations remain outstanding and unpaid (unless adequate provision is otherwise made by law for the protection of those advancing moneys upon such bonds or obligations), the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania will not diminish or impair the power of the commission to own, operate and control said properties and facilities, or to establish, levy and collect tolls, rents, rates, and other charges in connection with such properties and facilities. The state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby covenant and agree with each other and with the holders of any bonds or obligations of the commission for which tolls, rents, rates or other revenues shall have been pledged, that the said state and commonwealth will not authorize or permit the construction, operation and maintenance of any additional bridge or tunnel for the transportation of passengers by vehicles over the Delaware river by any other person or body, than the commission, within a distance of ten miles in either direction from any such toll bridges, measured along the boundary line between the said state and the said commonwealth.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-30 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-30
Policy and standards
Status: in_force

The commission may assume jurisdiction to control future pollution and abate existing pollution in the waters of the basin, whenever it determines after investigation and public hearing upon due notice that the effectuation of the comprehensive plan so requires. The standard of such control shall be that pollution by sewage or industrial or other waste originating within a signatory state shall not injuriously affect waters of the basin as contemplated by the comprehensive plan. The commission, after such public hearing may classify the waters of the basin and establish standards of treatment of sewage, industrial or other waste, according to such classes including allowance for the variable factors of surface and ground waters, such as size of the stream, flow, movement, location, character, self-purification, and usage of the waters affected. After such investigation, notice and hearing the commission may adopt and from time to time amend and repeal rules, regulations and standards to control such future pollution and abate existing pollution, and to require such treatment of sewage, industrial or other waste within a time reasonable for the construction of the necessary works as may be required to protect the public health or to preserve the waters of the basin for uses in accordance with the comprehensive plan. L.1961, c. 13, p. 57, s. 5.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-2
Six commissioners from New Jersey
Status: in_force

There shall be six commissioners of the port authority from this state, as provided by Article IV of the compact of April 30, 1921 between the states of New York and New Jersey, as amended.
N.J. Stat. § 32:9A-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 9A / Section 9A-1
Property no longer needed for joint State-owned bridges across Delaware river
Status: in_force

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, subject to the approval of the State Highway Commissioner, is hereby authorized and empowered to sell or otherwise dispose of any property, other than bridges and approaches, which was acquired by the State in connection with the acquisition of the joint State-owned bridges across the Delaware river between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey and which is deemed by the commission to be no longer useful or needed for the purposes of administering, operating or maintaining such bridges, but the proceeds of any such sale shall be paid to the State Treasurer who shall deposit the same into the General State Fund. L.1952, c. 219, p. 752, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-91 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-91
Officers generally
Status: in_force

(a) The officers of the commission shall consist of an executive director and such additional officers, deputies and assistants as the commission may determine. The executive director shall be appointed and may be removed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the full membership of the commission. All other officers and employees shall be appointed by the executive director under such rules of procedure as the commission may determine. (b) In the appointment and promotion of officers and employees for the commission, no political, racial, religious or residence test or qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such appointments and promotions shall be solely on the basis of merit and fitness. Any officer or employee of the commission who is found by the commission to be guilty of a violation of this section shall be removed from office by the commission. L.1961, c. 13, p. 81, s. 14.5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-18 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-18
Incurring obligations
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XVII. Unless and until otherwise determined by the action of the legislatures of the two states, the port authority shall not incur any obligations for salaries, office or other administrative expenses, within the provisions of Article XV prior to the making of appropriations adequate to meet the same.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-10 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-10
Municipal powers not impaired
Status: in_force

ARTICLE IX. Nothing contained in this agreement shall impair the powers of any municipality to develop or improve port and terminal facilities.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-4.7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-4.7
Public meetings; rules, regulations
Status: in_force

3. a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of any general or special law, all meetings of the Port Authority are declared to be public meetings and shall be open to the public and members of the news media, individually and collectively, for the purpose of observing the full details of all phases of the deliberation, policy-making and decision-making of the board. b. The board shall adopt within six months of the effective date of this act, appropriate rules and regulations concerning proper notice to the public and the news media of its meetings and the right of the public and the news media to be present at its meetings. The rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this section shall provide for the same notice and right of the public and news media to be present as well as any other rights and duties provided in the "Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.) and the "Sunshine Act," number 84 of the laws of Pennsylvania of 1986. To the extent these laws conflict, the Port Authority shall incorporate into the rules and regulations the provisions of that law which provides for the greatest rights to the public and the news media. L.1991,c.400,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11AA-9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11AA / Section 11AA-9
Partial invalidity; severability
Status: in_force

If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable. L.1951, c. 285, p. 1029, s. 5.