N.J. Stat. § 32:2-23.33 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-23.33
Cooperation and agreements with federal, state and local governments, agencies, etc.
Status: in_force

The port authority is authorized and empowered to cooperate with the States of New York and New Jersey, with any municipality thereof, with the Federal Government and any public authority, agency or commission of the foregoing or with any one or more of them or with any other person to the extent that it finds it necessary and desirable to do so in connection with the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, sale, transfer or other disposition of buses and ancillary bus facilities and to enter into an agreement or agreements, and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing the same, with said states, municipalities, Federal Government, public authorities, agencies, commissions and persons or with any one or more of them for or relating to such purposes. L.1979, c. 33, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-11.3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-11.3
State Highway Department defined
Status: in_force

As used herein the term "State Highway Department of the State of New Jersey" shall mean the State Highway Commissioner of the State of New Jersey. L.1951, c. 284, p. 1022, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:27-13 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-13
Meeting dates
Status: in_force

The board may establish regular meeting dates and hold such special meetings as it desires upon call of the chairman after at least 10 days' notice. L.1966, c. 149, Pt. I, Art. II, s. 6, eff. June 18, 1966.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-110 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-110
Repayment of state advances
Status: in_force

The obligations for moneys so raised by the port authority on its own obligations for the construction of the said bridge and purposes incidental thereto shall constitute a lien upon the revenues and tolls therefrom in accordance with the terms and conditions of law upon which such moneys are raised, and any right or claim of the state, including that arising out of the appropriation made hereby, shall be subordinated to such lien. The port authority shall, however, pay into the state treasury annually out of the revenues and tolls from the bridge, a sum equal to four per cent (4%) per annum upon the unpaid balance of the amount actually advanced to the port authority hereunder and applied to the bridge, as interest for that year, together with at least two per cent (2%) of the principal of such advance until the whole sum so advanced is repaid to the state; provided, that the port authority shall not make such payments until it shall have accumulated and only so long as and for the years in which it holds out of the tolls or revenues of such bridge or otherwise a reserve fund equal to ten per cent (10%) of its own obligations issued in relation to or for the construction of such bridge, over and above the sums required by the terms of such obligations to be set aside for amortization or a sinking fund, and unless in said year the tolls or revenues from the said bridge after the payment of all expenses for operation and maintenance are sufficient to satisfy the interest and other contractual requirements of said obligations; and provided, further, that such payment shall not be made into the state treasury unless there shall be available under the same conditions sufficient money to make payment on similar terms to the state of New York and that if there exists such surplus revenue, but insufficient to make complete payment on such terms or conditions to both the states of New York and New Jersey, then such surplus revenue shall be prorated in accordance with the respective unpaid balances of the advances made by the two states and such prorated sum shall be paid into the state treasury in place and stead of the amount above provided, to be applied first upon the interest for the current year and the balance, if any, in reduction of principal. The intent hereof is that the port authority shall be required to and shall pay interest to the state upon such advances, and/or make payments on account of principal, only for the years when, and to the extent that, there shall be available on the conditions herein provided a surplus from the revenues or tolls for the payment of such interest and/or principal. L.1927, c. 3, s. 4, p. 18.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-23.31 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-23.31
Indemnification; duties of lessees; use of revenues or other funds
Status: in_force

The two states covenant and agree with each other and with the holders of the present and future obligations of the port authority that (a) the lessee of buses or ancillary bus facilities leased, transferred or otherwise disposed of pursuant to this act shall be required to defend and to provide for indemnification, subject to appropriations or other funds, which are or become legally available for this purpose, of the port authority against any liability of whatsoever form or nature as may be imposed upon the port authority by reason of the ownership, development, operation, maintenance, repair or use thereof or arising otherwise out of the port authority's interest therein; (b) the lessee shall be required to provide for and be responsible for the proper operation, maintenance, repair, and use of such buses and ancillary bus facilities leased, transferred or otherwise disposed of pursuant to this act and the port authority shall have no responsibility as to such operation, maintenance, repair or use; and (c) neither the states nor the port authority will apply to any purpose in connection with or relating to the operation, maintenance, repair or use of such buses or ancillary bus facilities leased, transferred or otherwise disposed of pursuant to this act, other than purposes in connection with the utilization of other port authority facilities by such buses and passenger information purposes, any of the rentals, tolls, fares, fees, charges, revenues, reserves or other funds of the port authority which have been or shall be pledged in whole or in part as security for obligations as security for which there may be or shall be pledged, in whole or in part, the general reserve fund of the port authority. L.1979, c. 33, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-97 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-97
Annual independent audit
Status: in_force

(a) As soon as practical after the closing of the fiscal year, an audit shall be made of the financial accounts of the commission. The audit shall be made by qualified certified public accountants selected by the commission, who have no personal interest direct or indirect in the financial affairs of the commission or any of its officers or employees. The report of audit shall be prepared in accordance with accepted accounting practices and shall be filed with the chairman and such other officers as the commission shall direct. Copies of the report shall be distributed to each commissioner and shall be made available for public distribution. (b) Each signatory party by its duly authorized officers shall be entitled to examine and audit at any time all of the books, documents, records, files and accounts and all other papers, things or property of the commission. The representatives of the signatory parties shall have access to all books, documents, records, accounts, reports, files and all other papers, things or property belonging to or in use by the commission and necessary to facilitate the audit and they shall be afforded full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities held by depositaries, fiscal agents and custodians. (c) The financial transactions of the commission shall be subject to audit by the general accounting office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The audit shall be conducted at the place or places where the accounts of the commission are kept. (d) Any officer or employee who shall refuse to give all required assistance and information to the accountants selected by the commission or to the authorized officers of any signatory party or who shall refuse to submit to them for examination such books, documents, records, files, accounts, papers, things or property as may be requested shall forfeit his office. L.1961, c. 13, p. 83, s. 14.11.
N.J. Stat. § 32:17-5 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-5
Functions, jurisdiction, etc., of state boards transferred to commission; withdrawal or modification
Status: in_force

ARTICLE III. 1. There are hereby transferred to the commission all of the functions, jurisdiction, rights, powers and duties of the respective state boards, as now prescribed by the laws of the respective states, and the same shall hereafter be exercised and performed by the commission, subject to such modifications thereof as are contained in this compact. Either the state of New York or the state of New Jersey may by law applicable to parks or park commissions generally within such state, or by law specifically applicable to the commission or to any of the parks within such state under its jurisdiction, and without the concurrence of the other state, withdraw, modify, alter or amend any of the functions, jurisdiction, rights, powers and duties transferred to the commission by this article or confer additional functions, jurisdiction, rights, powers and duties on the commission, but such action by one state shall be effective only within the territorial limits of such state. The commission shall also have such additional functions, jurisdiction, rights, powers and duties as may be conferred upon it by both states.
N.J. Stat. § 32:13A-5 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 13A / Section 13A-5
Construction of tunnel
Status: in_force

The commission shall have power and authority, if it deems it expedient so to do, to provide for the construction of the tunnel and to enter into contracts for such construction in such manner as it may deem expedient and to take assignments of any contracts theretofore entered into for such construction and to assume all obligations under such contracts. The cost of such construction shall be paid solely by means of or with the proceeds of tunnel revenue bonds hereinafter authorized. The commission is hereby authorized to purchase within this state and within the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter, such lands, structures, rights of way, franchises, easements and other interests, including lands under water and riparian rights, of and from any person, copartnership, association, railroad or other corporation, or municipality or political subdivision, deemed necessary for the construction and operation of the tunnel, upon such terms and at such prices as may be considered by it to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of said county of Gloucester.
N.J. Stat. § 32:30-16 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 30 / Section 30-16
Application for assistance from insurance fund
Status: in_force

Within the meaning of Article VI(b) or VIII(a), a request or application for assistance from the insurance fund may be made by the compact administrator, whenever in his judgment the conditions qualifying this State for such assistance exist and it would be in the best interest of this State to make such request. L.1967, c. 176, s. 16, eff. July 25, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-119.2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-119.2
Parking facilities; addition and improvement to Lincoln Tunnel
Status: in_force

The additions and improvements to bridges and tunnels constructed or operated by it which the Port Authority is authorized to effectuate by the act supplemented hereby shall include but not be limited to parking facilities, by which is meant transportation facilities consisting of one or more areas, buildings, structures, improvements, or other accommodations or appurtenances necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the Port Authority for the parking or storage of motor vehicles of users of such bridges and tunnels and other members of the general public and for the transfer of the operators and passengers of such motor vehicles to and from omnibuses and other motor vehicles operated by carriers over or through such bridges or tunnels, and for purposes incidental thereto. Nothing contained herein or in the act supplemented hereby shall be deemed to prevent the Port Authority from establishing, levying and collecting tolls and other charges in connection with any parking facility in addition to and other than the tolls or charges established, levied and collected in connection with the bridge or tunnel to which such parking facility is an addition and improvement or any other bridge or tunnel. The Port Authority shall not proceed with the construction of any parking facility as an addition and improvement to any bridge or tunnel other than a parking facility in the township of North Bergen in the State of New Jersey at or in the vicinity of the Midtown Hudson Tunnel and its approaches and connections, except as heretofore or hereafter expressly authorized. L.1955, c. 51, p. 168, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-36 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-36
Location; Perth Amboy to Tottenville
Status: in_force

In partial effectuation of the comprehensive plan for the development of the port of New York, and of section four thereof, adopted by the states of New Jersey and New York by chapter 9, Laws of New Jersey, 1922, and chapter 43, Laws of New York, 1922, which was consented to and which the Port of New York Authority was authorized and empowered to carry out and effectuate by the congress of the United States by Public Resolution No. 66, 67th Congress, H.J.Res. 337, and of the port compact or treaty between the two states dated April thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, authorized and approved by chapter 151, Laws of New Jersey, 1921, and chapter 154, Laws of New York, 1921, and consented to by the congress of the United States by Public Resolution No. 17, 67th Congress, S.J.Res. 88, the Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the port authority) is authorized and empowered to construct, operate, maintain and own a bridge, with the necessary approaches thereto, across the Arthur Kill, between Perth Amboy on the New Jersey side and Tottenville on the New York side. L.1924, c. 125, s. 1, p. 233 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-26).
N.J. Stat. § 32:36-11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-11
Commission audits and financial statements.
Status: in_force

11. Commission audits and financial statements. a. The Commission shall prepare financial statements on an annual basis, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, known as GAAP, and the accounting standards issued by the governmental accounting standards board, known as GASB. b. The board shall arrange for an independent firm of certified public accountants to perform an audit of the financial statements of the Commission each year, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and standards referenced in subsection a. of this section. Each independent firm of certified public accountants that performs any audit required by this section shall timely report to the board: (1) all critical accounting policies and practices to be used; and (2) other material written communications, that is not privileged or confidential, between the independent firm of certified public accountants and the management of the Commission, including the management letter along with management's response or plan of corrective action, material corrections identified, or schedule of unadjusted differences. c. Every financial statement prepared pursuant to this section shall be approved by the board. As a condition to the issuance of the annual financial statements of the Commission, the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the Commission shall be required to make a written certification that, to the best of their knowledge and belief, the financial and other information in the consolidated financial statements is accurate in all material respects and has been reported in a manner designed to present fairly the Commission's net assets, changes in net assets, and cash flows, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and standards referenced in subsection a. of this section; and, that on the basis that the cost of internal controls should not outweigh their benefits, the Commission has established a comprehensive framework of internal controls to protect its assets from loss, theft, or misuse, and to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and standards referenced in subsection a. of this section. d. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Commission shall not contract with an independent firm of certified public accountants for audit services to the authority if the lead or coordinating audit partner having primary responsibility for the audit, or the audit partner responsible for reviewing the audit, has performed audit services for the two previous fiscal years of the Commission. e. The Commission shall not contract with the independent firm of certified public accountants performing the Commission's audit for any non-audit services to such Commission contemporaneously with the audit including: (1) bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of such Commission; (2) financial information systems design and implementation; (3) appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions, or contribution-in-kind reports; (4) actuarial services; (5) internal audit outsourcing services; (6) management functions or human services; (7) broker or dealer, investment advisor, or investment banking services; and (8) legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit. f. The Commission shall not contract with an independent firm of certified public accountants for any audit service if the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, or any other person serving in an equivalent position for the Commission, was employed by that independent firm of certified public accountants and participated in any capacity in the audit of the Commission during the one-year period preceding the date of the initiation of the audit. g. The Commission shall make accessible to the public via its website an executive summary of its most recent independent audit report unless such information is exempt from disclosure pursuant to either state's freedom of information laws. L.2019, c.195, s.11.
N.J. Stat. § 32:27-12 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-12
Officers
Status: in_force

The board shall elect a chairman, vice-chairman, a secretary and a treasurer from among its membership and may elect such other officers as it desires from among its membership. The vice-chairman, and either the secretary or treasurer, shall not reside in the same State as the chairman. The chairman or vice-chairman shall be elected from among the State officials or appointees of each party State. The remaining officers shall be selected from among the members representing the counties and municipalities. L.1966, c. 149, Pt. I, Art. II, s. 5, eff. June 18, 1966. Amended by L.1967, c. 223, s. 3, eff. Oct. 13, 1967; L.1967, c. 286, s. 7, eff. Jan. 23, 1968.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.56 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.56
Cooperation by port authority; agreements; financial assistance, loans and grants
Status: in_force

The port authority is authorized and empowered to co-operate with the States of New York and New Jersey, with any municipality, with the Federal Government and with any agency or commission of any 1 or more of the foregoing, or with any 1 or more of them, for and in connection with the acquisition, clearance, replanning, rehabilitation, reconstruction or redevelopment of the Hudson tubes-world trade center area or of any other area forming part of the port development project for the purpose of renewal and improvement of said area and for any of the purposes of this act, and to enter into an agreement or agreements (and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing the same) with any such municipality, commission or agency and with the States of New York and New Jersey and with the Federal Government, or with any 1 or more of them, for or relating to such purposes, including but not limited to agreements with respect to financial assistance, loans and grants as provided in title 1 of the housing act of 1949 and all Federal laws amendatory and supplemental thereto and with respect to occupancy of space in the port development project. The port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to apply for and accept financial assistance, loans and grants for such purposes under Federal, State or local laws, and to make application directly to the proper officials or agencies for and receive Federal, State or local loans or grants in aid of any of the purposes of this act. L.1962, c. 8, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-31 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-31
Location, system and character of improvements
Status: in_force

The determination of the exact location, system and character of each of the said tunnels, bridges, belt lines, approaches, classification yards, warehouses, terminals or other improvements shall be made by the port authority after public hearings and further study, but in general the location thereof shall be as indicated upon said map, and as herein described. L.1922, c. 9, s. 6, p. 32 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-22).
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-14 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-14
Compact to have force and effect of statute
Status: in_force

Upon its signature on behalf of the state of New Jersey and by the governor of Pennsylvania on behalf of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the aforesaid compact or agreement shall be and become binding and shall have the force and effect of a statute of the state of New Jersey, and the Delaware River Joint Commission shall thereupon become vested with all the powers, rights and privileges and be subject to the duties and obligations contained in said compact or agreement as though the same were specifically authorized and imposed by statute and the state of New Jersey shall be bound by all of the obligations assumed by it under said compact or agreement, and the New Jersey Interstate Bridge Commission shall transmit an original signed copy thereof to the secretary of state for filing in his office. L.1931, c. 391, s. 2, p. 1234.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-46 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-46
Effective date
Status: in_force

This act shall take effect immediately. L.1924, c. 125, s. 18, p. 242.
N.J. Stat. § 32:25-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 25 / Section 25-4
Requisites to regional or area agreements
Status: in_force

A regional or area agreement or any modification, extension or amendment thereof shall not become effective unless: (a) The commissioner finds that such agreement will serve the general public interest and will not substantially duplicate the services of any existing agreement and approves the provisions thereof; (b) The Attorney General certifies that the agreement complies with the laws and public policy of New Jersey and with the provisions of this act; and (c) A copy of the agreement or any modification, extension or amendment thereof is filed with the clerk of the governing body of each participating local unit. L.1962, c. 46, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-60 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-60
New Jersey appropriation; financing by port authority
Status: in_force

In aid of the prompt and economical construction of the bridges which the Port of New York Authority, hereinafter called the "port authority" , has been authorized to construct across the Arthur Kill between Perth Amboy on the New Jersey side and Tottenville on the New York side and between Elizabeth on the New Jersey side and Howland Hook on the New York side (by chapters 125 and 149, respectively, Laws of New Jersey, 1924, and chapters 230 and 186, respectively, Laws of New York, 1924), there is hereby appropriated, subject to the limitations and conditions hereinafter set forth, the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000.00), or so much thereof as may be requisitioned, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. The said sum shall be paid out by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller of the treasury to the said port authority upon requisitions signed by the chairman of the said port authority, in five annual installments of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000.00) each, the first installment to be available at any time during the fiscal year commencing in one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and one other installment to be available during each of the four succeeding fiscal years. If the requisitions made in any one fiscal year shall not in the aggregate equal such installment of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000.00), the balance not requisitioned shall be available in any subsequent year during or after the said five-year period and in addition to any installment available during each year; provided, however, that after the first installment of the appropriation hereby made has been paid over to the port authority no subsequent installments shall be paid until the port authority shall have raised on its own obligations and have available for the construction of said bridges an amount of money equal to six times the amount of installments previously paid pursuant to this act, the intent of this proviso being that before payment of any installment hereunder, other than the initial one, money shall have been made available for the construction of said bridges from the obligations of the port authority in an amount at least equal to three times the amount of money paid over to the port authority pursuant to this act and to the legislation complementary hereto of the state of New York. L.1925, c. 37, s. 1, p. 101.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-176 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-176
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 the provisions of this act; but if the state of New York shall have already enacted such legislation, then this act shall take effect immediately. L.1977, c. 363, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-11
Amendment of agreement authorized; preamble; power of commission
Status: in_force

ARTICLE X. (a) The commission may acquire, construct, rehabilitate, improve, maintain, repair and operate bridges for vehicular or pedestrian traffic across the Delaware river between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey at any location north of the boundary line between Bucks county and Philadelphia county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as extended across the Delaware river to the New Jersey shore of said river. The commission may also, subject to the approval of the State Highway Department of the State of New Jersey and the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, lease such bridges as lessor to, and contract for the operation of such bridges by, one or more public bodies, instrumentalities, commissions, or public agencies. Whenever any bridge north of the boundary line described above in this paragraph (a), proposed to be acquired by the commission pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, has been constructed pursuant to consent or authorization granted by Federal law, the acquisition of such bridge by the commission shall be by purchase or by condemnation in accordance with the provisions of such Federal law, or the acquisition of such bridge by the commission shall be pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of sections 48:5-22 and 48:5-23 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, and for all the purposes of said provisions and sections the commission is hereby appointed as the agency of the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania exercising the rights and powers granted or reserved by said Federal law or sections to the State of New Jersey and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania jointly or to the State of New Jersey acting in conjunction with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The commission shall have authority to so acquire such bridge whether the same be owned, held, operated or maintained by any private person, firm, partnership, company, association or corporation or by any instrumentality, public body, commission, public agency or political subdivision (including any county or municipality) of, or created by or in, the State of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or by any instrumentality, public body, commission or public agency of, or created by or in, a political subdivision (including any county or municipality) of the State of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition to other powers conferred upon it, and not in limitation thereof, the commission may acquire all right, title and interest in and to the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, across the Delaware river at Palmyra, New Jersey, together with any approaches and interests in real property necessary thereto. The acquisition of such bridge, approaches and interests by the commission shall be by purchase or by condemnation in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law consenting to or authorizing the construction of such bridge and approaches, or the acquisition of such bridge, approaches or interests by the commission shall be pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of sections 48:5-22 and 48:5-23 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, and for all the purposes of said provisions and sections the commission is hereby appointed as the agency of the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania exercising the rights and powers granted or reserved by said Federal law or sections to the State of New Jersey and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania jointly or to the State of New Jersey acting in conjunction with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The commission shall have authority to so acquire such bridge, approaches and interests, whether the same be owned, held, operated, or maintained by any private person, firm, partnership, company, association or corporation or by any instrumentality, public body, commission, public agency or political subdivision (including any county or municipality) of, or created by or in, the State of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or by any instrumentality, public body, commission or public agency of, or created by or in, a political subdivision (including any county or municipality) of the State of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The power and authority herein granted to the commission to acquire said Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, approaches and interests shall not be exercised unless and until the Governor of the State of New Jersey and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have filed with the commission their written consents to such acquisition. The word "bridge" as used in this Agreement shall include such approach highways and interests in real property necessary thereto in said Commonwealth or said State as may be determined by the commission to be necessary to facilitate the flow of traffic in the vicinity of any such bridge or to connect such bridge with the highway system or other traffic facilities in said Commonwealth or said State; provided, however, that the power and authority herein granted to the commission in connection with the 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. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any provision of law, State or Federal, to the contrary, the commission may combine for financing purposes any bridge or bridges hereafter constructed or acquired by it with any or all of the bridges described or referred to in any trust indenture securing bridge revenue bonds of the commission at the time outstanding, subject to any limitations or restrictions contained in such trust indenture. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit or impair any right or power granted or to be granted to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission or the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, acting alone or in conjunction with each other, to provide for the financing, construction, operation and maintenance of one bridge across the Delaware river south of the city of Trenton in the State of New Jersey; provided, that such bridge shall not be constructed within a distance of ten miles, measured along the boundary line between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey, from the bridge being constructed across the Delaware river by the commission between the borough of Morrisville in said Commonwealth and the city of Trenton in said State, so long as there are any outstanding bonds or obligations of the commission for which the tolls, rents, rates, or other revenues, or any part thereof, of said bridge now being constructed shall have been pledged; but such bridge may be constructed at any other location north of the boundary line described above in this paragraph (a). Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to authorize the commission to condemn any such bridge. (b) The commission may replace any one or more existing bridges across the Delaware river between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey north of said line with one or more new bridges at such locations as the commission may determine to be adequate and convenient for the traffic to be served thereby. (c) The commission may acquire by purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any existing ferry or bridge the acquisition of which the commission may determine to be necessary or advisable in connection with the construction of a new bridge, the cost of such acquisition to be deemed to be a part of the cost of such construction. (d) The commission may enter upon, use, occupy, enlarge, construct and improve any street, road or highway located within the limits of any municipality and deemed by the commission to be necessary in connection with the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance or operation of any bridge owned or operated by the commission or of any bridge approaches, bridge plazas or approach highways to any such bridge, subject, however, to the consent of the governing body of such municipality and to such reasonable police regulations as may be established by such governing body. (e) The commission may demolish and remove any bridge now operated by it when such bridge has been or is being replaced by a new bridge at the same or a different location which in the determination of the commission will serve substantially the same traffic as that served by such existing bridge, and the commission may sell or otherwise dispose of any ferry or other property of the commission deemed by it to be no longer useful or needed for the purposes of the commission. (f) The commission may acquire for the purposes of this article any real property which it shall find necessary or convenient to acquire for public use in the manner provided by Article III of this Agreement, or, in the alternative, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the same manner and with the same right of entry as the highway department of the Commonwealth may acquire lands by condemnation for highway purposes and in the State of New Jersey in the same manner and with the same right of entry as the highway department of the State may acquire lands by condemnation for highway purposes. (g) The commission may make and enforce such rules and regulations with respect to the use of any bridge operated by it as it shall deem proper and reasonable, including regulations limiting the loads permitted on any such bridge and closing to traffic any such bridge deemed by the commission to be unsafe. (h) The commission may provide, from time to time, for the issuance of its bridge revenue bonds for any one or more of the following purposes: (1) providing funds for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or improvement of any one or more bridges the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or improvement of which is herein authorized; (2) providing funds for the construction or improvement of approach facilities deemed by the commission to be necessary or desirable in connection with the acquisition, construction, maintenance or operation of any bridge owned or operated by the commission, including but without limitation bridge approaches, entrance plazas, overpasses, underpasses and approach highways; and (3) refunding any bridge revenue bonds or bridge revenue refunding bonds of the commission. The bridge or bridges (including any approach facilities) on account of which a single issue of bonds shall be issued as herein authorized shall constitute a single project for financing purposes. (i) The commission may fix, charge and collect tolls, rates, rents and other charges for the use of any bridge or bridges constituting a single project, such tolls to be fixed and adjusted, subject to any applicable Federal law, as to provide funds at least sufficient (1) to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing and operating such bridge or bridges, including the administrative expenses of the commission chargeable thereto, (2) to pay the bridge revenue bonds or the bridge revenue refunding bonds issued on account of such project and the interest on such bonds, and (3) to provide reserves for such purposes; provided, however, that no tolls shall be charged or collected for the use of any bridge now operated by the commission as a free bridge but only for the use of bridges constructed or acquired by the commission under the provisions of this compact or agreement. Subject to any applicable Federal law, the commission may pledge such tolls, rates, rents and other revenues or any part thereof for such purposes. The commission may establish separate schedules of tolls, rates and charges for use of any bridge on which tolls may be established hereunder by residents of areas adjacent to or served directly by such bridge under such conditions and on such terms as it shall determine to be proper and reasonable, including tolls, rates and charges for unlimited use of any such bridge. No member of the commission shall be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of any act or omission of the commission. Amended by L.1947, c. 283, p. 992, s. 1; L.1951, c. 284, p. 1017, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.20 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.20
Mass transportation to terminals; development
Status: in_force

The States of New York and New Jersey hereby find and determine that: (1) Each air terminal within the Port of New York district serves the entire district, and the problem of furnishing proper and adequate air terminal facilities within the district is a regional and interstate problem; (2) Access by land travel to the great airports serving the Port of New York district, particularly John F. Kennedy and Newark International Airports, is becoming increasingly difficult, and such access is necessary for the continued development of such airports which development is vital and essential to the preservation of the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New York Metropolitan area; (3) Additional highway construction to serve these great airports is not feasible and creates severe problems in terms of increased air pollution and the preemption of land which might otherwise be devoted to park purposes and other desirable uses; (4) Access to these airports by railroads or other forms of mass transportation must be undertaken if they are to maintain their preeminence and continue to serve the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New York Metropolitan area; (5) Such mass transportation facilities may properly be regarded as constituting a part of each air terminal, the development of which should be the responsibility of those charged with the duties of air terminal development; (6) It is the purpose of this act to authorize and direct the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to undertake one or more mass transportation access projects specifically with respect to John F. Kennedy and Newark International Airports in order to preserve and develop the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New york Metropolitan area, and such undertakings are found and determined to be in the public interest. L.1971, c. 245, s. 1. Amended by L.1972, c. 207, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:22B-16 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 22B / Section 22B-16
Adoption of amendments and supplements
Status: in_force

Amendments and supplements to this compact to implement the purposes thereof may be adopted by concurrent legislation of the party States. L.1965, c. 12, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.91 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.91
Minutes of meeting at which action taken in connection with purposes of act; filing; waiver of requirement
Status: in_force

The port authority shall file with the temporary President and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the Assembly of the State of New York and the President, Minority Leader and Secretary of the Senate and the Speaker, Minority Leader and Clerk of the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey a copy of the minutes of any action taken at any meeting of the port authority in connection with any of the purposes of this act. Such filing must be made at least 10 calendar days before such minutes are transmitted to the Governor of each state for review; and notice of such filing shall be provided to the Governor of each state at the same time. The temporary President and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the Assembly of the State of New York and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the General Assembly and the President and the Minority Leader of the Senate of the State of New Jersey, or their representatives designated by them in writing for this purpose, may by certificate filed with the secretary of the port authority waive the foregoing filing requirement with respect to any specific minutes. L.1978, c. 110, s. 20, eff. Aug. 24, 1978. Amended by L.1979, c. 154, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-25 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-25
Preamble
Status: in_force

Whereas, The states of New York and New Jersey, on the thirtieth of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, pursuant to chapter 154 of the Laws of 1921 of New York and chapter 151 of the Laws of 1921 of New Jersey, did enter into a compact or agreement which pledged the two states to faithful co-operation in the future planning and development of the port of New York, and which, furthermore, created the Port of New York District, as therein described, and the Port of New York Authority, a body politic and corporate, as an instrumentality or agency of the two states to effectuate such pledge of co-operation; and Whereas, The said compact or agreement provides in article X thereof that the "legislatures of the two states, prior to the signing of this agreement, or thereafter as soon as may be practicable, will adopt a plan or plans for the comprehensive development of the port of New York" ; Now, therefore (the state of New York by appropriate legislation concurring therein), the following be and it is hereby adopted as the comprehensive plan for the development of the port of New York, under and pursuant to said compact or agreement:
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.67 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.67
Severability
Status: in_force

If any section, part, phrase, or provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, so long as the act or remainder of the act shall nonetheless permit the effectuation, as a unified project, of the Hudson tubes, Hudson tubes extensions and the world trade center, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the section, part, phrase, 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.1962, c. 8, s. 18.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-8 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-8
Bonds of commission as legal investments
Status: in_force

ARTICLE VII. The bonds or obligations which may be issued by the commission for any of its authorized purposes, and as security for which tolls, rents, rates, and other revenues shall have been pledged, are hereby made securities in which all state and municipal officers and bodies of the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, or 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 now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state of New Jersey or of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital belonging to them or within their control; and said bonds or other obligations are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer, or agency of the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations, either of the state or of the commonwealth, is now or may hereafter be authorized.
N.J. Stat. § 32:4-7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-7
Construction; additional powers
Status: in_force

The powers vested in the Delaware River Port Authority by this act shall be construed as being in addition to and not in diminution of the powers heretofore vested in the Delaware River Port Authority. L.1957, c. 35, p. 65, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-165 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-165
Injunction suits against commissioners, officers or employees
Status: in_force

The commissioners, officers or employees of the Port Authority shall not be subject to suits, actions or proceedings for judgments, orders or decrees restraining, preventing or enjoining them in their official or personal capacities from committing or continuing to commit any act or acts on behalf of the Port Authority other than suits, actions and proceedings brought by the Attorney-General of New York or by the Attorney-General of New Jersey or by the Port Authority itself, each of said Attorneys-General being hereby authorized to bring such suits, actions or proceedings in his discretion on behalf of any person or persons whatsoever who requests him so to do except in the cases excluded by sections two, three and four of this act; provided, that in any such suit, action or proceeding brought by either Attorney-General, no judgment, order or decree shall be entered except upon at least two days' notice to the defendant of the proposed entry thereof. L.1951, c. 204, p. 743, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-75 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-75
Holding own bonds
Status: in_force

The commission shall have power out of any funds available therefor to purchase its bonds and may hold, cancel or resell such bonds. L.1961, c. 13, p. 72, s. 12.12.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-23.10 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-23.10
Pledging of funds
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 Narrows Bridge bonds issued by it from time to time 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 Narrows Bridge bonds, 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. In the event that at any time the balance of moneys theretofore paid into the General Reserve Fund and not applied therefrom shall exceed an amount equal to 1/10 of the par value of all bonds legal for investment, as defined and limited in the General Reserve Fund statutes, issued by the Port Authority and currently outstanding at such time, by reason of the retirement of Narrows Bridge bonds the par value of which had theretofore been included in the computation of said 1/10 , then the Port Authority may pledge or apply such excess for and only for the purposes for which it is authorized by the General Reserve Fund statutes to pledge the moneys in the General Reserve Fund, and such pledge may be made in advance of the time when such excess may occur. L.1956, c. 12, p. 42, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-112 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-112
Transfer of records, funds and properties
Status: in_force

All of the right, title and interest of the State of New Jersey in any records, funds and properties of the Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin are hereby transferred to the Delaware River Basin Commission to be held, used and applied for the purposes of the Delaware River Basin Compact. L.1964, c. 57, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:20-10 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20 / Section 20-10
Inapplicable to Delaware and Raritan canal or its feeders
Status: in_force

Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the Delaware and Raritan canal or its feeders. L.1939, c. 146, p. 489, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:37-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-2
Immunity from liability.
Status: in_force

29. The Commission shall be immune from liability in the State of New Jersey in the same manner and to the same extent as is the State of New Jersey under the provisions of the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act," N.J.S.59:1-1 et seq., and the "New Jersey Contractual Liability Act," N.J.S.59:13-1 et seq. L.2019, c.195, s.28.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.63 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.63
Property; public use; acquisition; condemnation
Status: in_force

If the port authority shall find it necessary, convenient or desirable to acquire (either directly or through a subsidiary corporation) from time to time any real property or any property other than real property (including but not limited to contract rights and other intangible personal property and railroad cars or other rolling stock, maintenance and repair equipment and parts, fuel and other tangible personal property), for any of the purposes of this act whether for immediate or future use (including temporary construction, rehabilitation or improvement), the port authority may find and determine that such property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, is required for a public use, and upon such determination the said property shall be and shall be deemed to be required for such public use until otherwise determined by the port authority, and such determination shall not be affected by the fact that such property has theretofore been taken for and is then devoted to a public use; but the public use in the hands of 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. The port authority may acquire and is hereby authorized so to acquire from time to time, for any of the purposes of this act, such property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser estate, by condemnation (including the exercise of the right of eminent domain) under and pursuant to the provisions of the condemnation law of the State of New York in the case of property located in or having its situs in such State, and Revised Statutes of New Jersey, Title 20:1-1 et seq., in the case of property located in or having its situs in such State, or, at the option of the port authority, as provided in section 15 of chapter 43 of the laws of New Jersey of 1947, as amended, in the case of property located in or having its situs in such State, and as provided in chapter 819 of the laws of New York of 1947 in the case of property located in or having its situs in such State, or pursuant to such other and alternate procedure as may be provided by law of the State in which such property is located or has its situs; and all of said statutes for the condemnation of real property shall, for any of the purposes of this act, be applied also to the condemnation of other property authorized by this section, except that such provisions as pertain to surveys, diagrams, maps, plans or profiles, assessed valuation, lis pendens, service of notice and papers, filing in the office of the clerk in which the real property affected is situated and such other provisions as by their nature cannot be applicable to property other than real property, shall not be applicable to the condemnation of such other property. In the event that any property other than real property is acquired by condemnation under this act then, with respect to such other property, notice of such proceeding and all subsequent notices or court processes shall be served upon the owners of such other property and upon the port authority by personal service or by registered or certified mail, except as may be otherwise directed by the court. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, any property to be acquired for any of the purposes of this act, which property shall not have been used by its owner or owners or any of his or their predecessors in connection with and shall not have been acquired by its owner or owners or any of his or their predecessors for use in connection with the effectuation by a railroad company or companies of the Hudson tubes or the Hudson tubes extensions prior to port authority acquisition, shall, if such property is personal property, be acquired only by agreement with the owner or owners and shall, if such property is not personal property and is to be acquired by condemnation, be acquired in an action or proceeding in the State in which such property is located or has its situs. Except as so provided, the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, from time to time to combine any property which is to be acquired as aforesaid by condemnation for any of the purposes of this act for acquisition in a single action or proceeding notwithstanding that part of the property so to be acquired is located or has its situs in New Jersey and part in New York or is personal property or mixed real and personal property or may be owned by more than 1 owner; and, except as hereinafter provided, each such single action or proceeding to acquire property located or having its situs part in New Jersey and part in New York shall be pursuant to the laws of whichever of the 2 said States the port authority shall estimate contains the greater part in value of all the property to be acquired in such action or proceeding (hereinafter sometimes called the forum State) and in the court or courts specified in the laws of the forum State for the condemnation by the port authority of property located or having its situs in the forum State pursuant to this act, in which event, notwithstanding the location or situs of said property, each of said 2 States hereby confers upon its said court or courts jurisdiction of such action or proceeding and the port authority and any subsidiary corporation so acquiring such property and the owners of such property shall be bound by the judgments, orders or decrees therein. In any such action or proceeding the court or courts of the forum State shall apply the laws of valuation of the other State (hereinafter sometimes called the nonforum State) to the valuation of the property which is located or has its situs in the nonforum State and shall include in the total compensation to be made to any owner of property in both States being acquired in such action or proceeding the increment, if any, in the value of such property in both States, by reason of its being in a single ownership. If a judgment, order or decree in such an action or proceeding shall vest title in or otherwise award to the condemnor the right to possession of property located or having its situs in the nonforum State, then the court or courts of the nonforum State shall grant full faith and credit to such judgment, order or decree and upon petition by the condemnor to the court or courts of the nonforum State specified in the laws thereof for the condemnation by the port authority of property located or having its situs in the nonforum State pursuant to this act, presenting a true copy of such judgment, order or decree and proof that it is in effect, that any conditions thereof have been met, that at least 5 days' notice of such petition has been served by registered or certified mail upon all owners of the property affected who appeared in the original action or proceeding in the forum State or who may be owners of record, and without further proof, a judgment, order or decree of such court or courts of the nonforum State shall be entered granting condemnor possession of the property located or having its situs in the nonforum State and confirming any title which shall have vested in the condemnor by the judgment, order or decree of the court or courts of the forum State. The owner of any property acquired by condemnation or the exercise of the right of eminent domain for any of the purposes of this act shall not be awarded for such property any increment above the just compensation required by the constitutions of the United States and of the State or States in which the property is located or has its situs by reason of any circumstances whatsoever. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the port authority from bringing any proceedings to remove a cloud on title or such other proceedings as it may, in its discretion, deem proper and necessary, or from acquiring any such property by negotiation or purchase. Where a person entitled to an award in the proceedings to condemn any property for any of the purposes of this act remains in possession of such property after the time of the vesting of title in the condemnor, the reasonable value of his use and occupancy of such property subsequent to such time, as fixed by agreement or by the court in such proceedings or by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be a lien against such award, subject only to liens of record at the time of the vesting of title in the condemnor. L.1962, c. 8, s. 14.
N.J. Stat. § 32:16-5 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-5
Procedure on condemnation
Status: in_force

The Palisades Interstate Park Commission may take by condemnation, within the limits specified in section 32:16-1 of this Title, a fee simple or lesser estate or right in all the necessary lands and rights in lands, upon ascertainment and payment of compensation as prescribed by law. The proceedings for such condemnation shall be under chapter one of Title 20, Eminent Domain, (s. 20:1-1 et seq). Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 567, s. 38; L.1953, c. 31, p. 569, s. 17.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11E-1.11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11E / Section 11E-1.11
Project in Gloucester County, certain, authorized.
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 in Gloucester County for the development of a building within the South Jersey Technology Park at Rowan University, including the leasing of a site for the project and the planning, development, financing, construction, operation, maintenance, improvement and purchase thereof, and the authority to lease and to sell 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.), P.L.2001, c.414 (C.32:11E-1 et seq.) and P.L.2003, c.192 (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 and Workforce Development pursuant to the provisions of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act," P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.). L.2004,c.135,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-4.10 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-4.10
Appeal for denial of rights
Status: in_force

6. Any person denied any right granted by sections 3 or 4 of this act may appeal the denial to the Superior Court of New Jersey, the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Pennsylvania, or any court of competent jurisdiction within one year of the date that the cause of action arises. L.1991,c.400,s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:33-6 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 33 / Section 33-6
Organization and management
Status: in_force

6. a. The commission shall: (1) Elect annually, from among its members, a chairman, a vice chairman and a treasurer, and select a secretariat, which shall provide an individual who shall serve as secretary of the commission. The commission shall fix and determine the duties and compensation of the secretariat. (2) Adopt a seal. (3) Adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations for the conduct of its business, and shall have the power to amend and rescind these bylaws, rules and regulations. (4) Establish and maintain an office at the same location as the office maintained by the secretariat for the transaction of its business and may meet at any time, but in any event must meet at least once a year. The chairman may call additional meetings and upon the request of a majority of the commissioners of three or more of the compacting states shall call an additional meeting. (5) Annually report to the governor and legislature of each compacting state regarding its activities for the preceding year. Any donation or grant accepted by the commission or services borrowed shall include the nature, amount and conditions, if any, of the donation, gift, grant or services borrowed and the identity of the donor or lender. The commission may make additional reports as it may deem desirable. b. The commissioners shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses from the funds of the commission. L.1991,c.457,s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-1
Short title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known and may be cited as the Delaware River Basin Compact. L.1961, c. 13, p. 44, s. 1.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.33 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.33
Partial invalidity; severability
Status: in_force

If any provisions 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. 288, p. 1063, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.80 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.80
Suits, actions or proceedings
Status: in_force

The States of New York and New Jersey hereby consent to suits, actions or proceedings by any municipality, public authority, agency or commission against the port authority upon, in connection with or arising out of any agreement, or any amendment thereof, entered into for any of the purposes of this act, as follows: a. For judgments, orders or decrees restraining or enjoining the port authority from transferring title to real property to other persons in cases where it has agreed with said municipality, public authority, agency, or commission for transfer of such title to the municipality, public authority, agency or commission; and b. For judgments, orders or decrees restraining or enjoining the port authority from committing or continuing to commit other breaches of such agreement or any amendment thereof; provided, that such judgment, order or decree shall not be entered except upon 2 days' prior written notice to the port authority of the proposed entry thereof; and provided further that upon appeal taken by the port authority from such judgment, order or decree the service of the notice of appeal shall perfect the appeal and stay the execution of such judgment, order or decree appealed from without an undertaking or other security. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to revoke, rescind or affect any consent to suits, actions, or proceedings against the port authority heretofore given by the two said states in chapter 301 of the laws of New York of 1950 and chapter 204 of the laws of New Jersey of 1951. L.1978, c. 110, s. 9, eff. Aug. 24, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-146.4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-146.4
Smoking
Status: in_force

The Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the "Port Authority" ) having duly adopted the following rule and regulation, hereinafter set forth in this section, in relation to smoking at, on, or in air terminals and marine terminals operated by it within the territorial limits of the State of New Jersey, the penalties and procedures for its enforcement prescribed in section two shall apply to violations thereof. (1) No person shall smoke, carry or possess a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, match or other lighted instrument capable of causing naked flame in or about any area, building or appurtenance of an air terminal, owned or operated by the Port Authority, or in or upon any area, bulkhead, dock, pier, wharf, warehouse, building, structure, or shed of a marine terminal, owned or operated by the Port Authority, where smoking has been prohibited by the Port Authority and where appropriate signs to that effect have been posted, or on the open deck of any ship, lighter, carfloat, scow or other similar floating craft or equipment when berthed or moored at such dock, wharf, pier or to a vessel made fast thereto. L.1953, c. 170, p. 1432, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-15 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-15
Comprehensive plan, program and budgets
Status: in_force

The commission shall, in accordance with Article 13 of this compact, formulate and adopt: (a) A comprehensive plan, after consultation with water users and interested public bodies, for the immediate and long range development and uses of the water resources of the basin; (b) A water resources program, based upon the comprehensive plan, which shall include a systematic presentation of the quantity and quality of water resources needs of the area to be served for such reasonably foreseeable period as the commission may determine, balanced by existing and proposed projects required to satisfy such needs, including all public and private projects affecting the basin, together with a separate statement of the projects proposed to be undertaken by the commission during such period; and (c) An annual current expense budget, and an annual capital budget consistent with the water resources program covering the commission's projects and facilities for the budget period. L.1961, c. 13, p. 50, s. 3.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:9-14 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-14
Equal payments of compensation, damages and costs to owners
Status: in_force

The value of all bridge properties or interests therein acquired by the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania as prescribed in this chapter, and all damages and costs arising from the taking of the same as aforesaid, shall be paid by the two states to the owners of said bridges as their interests may appear, in equal proportions as the interests of the states may appear.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-4
Condemnation
Status: in_force

The commission of the state of New Jersey may acquire any land, or interest in land, necessary for the construction of any such bridge, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 1 of the title Eminent Domain (s. 20:1-1 et seq.).
N.J. Stat. § 32:20B-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20B / Section 20B-1
Short title.
Status: in_force

1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the "Rockland-Bergen Watershed Flood Prevention and Protection Act." L.2011, c.177, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:20A-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20A / Section 20A-2
Findings, declarations relative to Greenwood Lake.
Status: in_force

2. The Legislature finds and declares that the States of New Jersey and New York and their respective citizens share a common concern to protect the quality of the environment through the preservation of natural and scenic resources and open space to the maximum extent possible along their common border; that the two states and their respective citizens also share the benefits of several environmentally significant waterbodies and watersheds that cross the interstate border region, including Greenwood Lake and its watershed; that, because of the geology and hydrology of the land in the border region, development, land use, and land management practices and patterns in each state necessarily impact, often negatively, upon the natural and scenic resources of, and the extent of open space and recreational opportunities within, both states; that Greenwood Lake is the largest lake in the Highlands region of northern New Jersey and southern New York and is a prime source of enjoyment and recreation for the people who live in or visit the bi-state border area; that Greenwood Lake is vital to the recreation and economy of the Highlands region of northern New Jersey and southern New York; and that there has been a long history of cooperation among state and local governmental entities and various private organizations and individuals in the vicinity of Greenwood Lake and its watershed to ensure the preservation of Greenwood Lake. The Legislature therefore determines that there is a need to endorse and formalize that bi-state cooperative effort to help ensure that the natural, scenic, and recreational resources of Greenwood Lake and its watershed are protected from despoliation due to environmental and other threats from both sides of the border, so that the pristine beauty of the area will be preserved and maintained for the enjoyment and recreation of present and future generations; and that the creation of a bi-state commission is an appropriate means to accomplish that very important goal. L.1999,c.402,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-23.39 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-23.39
Construction of public purposes, tax exemption and discretion of Port Authority
Status: in_force

Any declarations contained herein with respect to the governmental nature and public purposes of the facilities authorized by this act and to the exemption of such facilities and instruments relating thereto from taxation and to the discretion of the port authority with respect to said facilities shall not be construed to imply that other port authority facilities, property and operations are not of a governmental nature or do not serve public purposes, or that they are subject to taxation, or that the determinations of the port authority with respect thereto are not conclusive. L.1979, c. 33, s. 13.
N.J. Stat. § 32:6-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-1
Payment into general treasury fund of moneys received from Delaware River Joint Commission
Status: in_force

L.1931, c. 383, p. 1210, entitled "An act appropriating moneys paid or to be paid to the state of New Jersey from the Delaware River Joint Commission," approved June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, as amended by L.1931, c. 395, p. 1461, L.1932, c. 188, p. 317, and L.1933, c. 40, p. 81, saved from repeal. [By the last amendment, the moneys received from the Delaware River Joint Commission, except the sum required for sinking fund purposes, are appropriated to the general treasury fund.]
N.J. Stat. § 32:3A-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3A / Section 3A-2
Effective date
Status: in_force

This act shall take effect upon the enactment of substantially similar legislation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or, if such legislation shall already have been enacted, this act shall take effect immediately. L.1962, c. 209, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:12-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-3
Terms of commissioners; vacancies; compensation
Status: in_force

One commissioner from each of the counties shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and one from each county shall be appointed annually thereafter for a term of three years. The person appointed a commissioner, but who shall not reside in any of such counties, shall be appointed for a term of three years. Upon a vacancy occurring in the office of any commissioner for any reason, his successor shall be appointed for the unexpired term only. The commissioners shall serve without remuneration.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-12 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-12
Deposit of assessed valuation with clerk of Superior Court; payment by clerk
Status: in_force

Upon taking actual possession of the real property or any interest therein, the Port Authority shall deposit with the Clerk of the Superior Court a sum equal to the assessed valuation of the real property or interest therein, which sum shall be paid out by the clerk in accordance with the order or judgment of the court. Should said sum be insufficient to permit such payment in full, the Port Authority shall, within twenty days after the entry of the judgment, pay to the clerk such sum as may be necessary to provide for full payment. Any surplus left in the hands of the clerk after the judgment has been entered shall be repaid to the Port Authority. Amended by L.1953, c. 31, p. 563, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:30-6 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 30 / Section 30-6
Compact and insurance fund administration
Status: in_force

(a) In each party State there shall be a compact administrator, who shall be selected and serve in such manner as the laws of his State may provide, and who shall: 1. Assist in the co-ordination of activities pursuant to the compact in his State; and 2. Represent his State on the governing board of the insurance fund. (b) If the laws of the United States specifically so provide, or if administrative provision is made therefor within the Federal Government, the United States may be represented on the governing board of the insurance fund by not to exceed 3 representatives. Any such representative or representatives of the United States shall be appointed and serve in such manner as may be provided by or pursuant to Federal law, but no such representative shall have a vote on the governing board or on the executive committee thereof. (c) The governing board shall meet at least each year for the purpose of determining policies and procedures in the administration of the insurance fund and, consistent with the provisions of the compact, supervising and giving direction to the expenditure of moneys from the insurance fund. Additional meetings of the governing board shall be held on call of the chairman, the executive committee, or a majority of the membership of the governing board. (d) At such times as it may be meeting, the governing board shall pass upon applications for assistance from the insurance fund and authorize disbursements therefrom. When the governing board is not in session, the executive committee thereof shall act as agent of the governing board, with full authority to act for it in passing upon such applications. (e) The executive committee shall be composed of the chairman of the governing board and 4 additional members of the governing board chosen by it so that there shall be one member representing each of 4 geographic groupings of party States. The governing board shall make such geographic groupings. If there is representation of the United States on the governing board, one such representative may meet with the executive committee. The chairman of the governing board shall be chairman of the executive committee. No action of the executive committee shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which at least 4 members of such committee are present and vote in favor thereof. Necessary expenses of each of the 5 members of the executive committee incurred in attending meetings of such committee, when not held at the same time and place as a meeting of the governing board, shall be charges against the insurance fund. L.1967, c. 176, s. 6, eff. July 25, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-127 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-127
Approval by governor and municipality of connections with state or municipal highways
Status: in_force

The plans of the connections with State or municipal highways of any vehicular bridge or tunnel which the Port Authority may hereafter construct (including the plans of any additional connections of existing bridges or tunnels with State or municipal highways), shall be subject to the approval of the Governor of the State in which such connections shall be located. Either State may require by appropriate legislation that such connections shall be subject to the approval of the municipality of that State in which they shall be located; and in such event, the approval of such municipality shall be given as provided in article 12 of the said compact of April 30, 1921. Except as limited herein, the Port Authority shall determine all matters pertaining to such bridges and tunnels. L.1931, c. 4, s. 10, p. 23. Amended by L.1954, c. 11, p. 59, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-55 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-55
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.1924, c. 149, s. 15, p. 346 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-57).
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-44 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-44
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. 125, s. 16, p. 241 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-41).
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.28 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.28
Repeal
Status: in_force

Any provision of law heretofore enacted (except laws authorizing interstate compacts or agreements) which: (a) restricts, prohibits, or limits the acquisition by, or any right or power of acquisition of, this State, acting alone or in conjunction with any other State or public body, of any bridge over the Delaware river, or the necessary approaches or appurtenances thereto, owned, operated or maintained by any county or municipality of this State, or any bridge commission, bridge authority, public officer, board, commission or agency or other public body created by or in this State or any county or municipality thereof; or (b) restricts, prohibits, or limits the construction or acquisition of any bridge or tunnel over or under the Delaware river within any distance from any bridge at any time authorized, owned, held, operated or maintained by any county or municipality of this State, or any bridge commission, bridge authority, public officer, board, commission or agency or other public body created by or in this State or any county or municipality thereof; is hereby repealed. L.1951, c. 288, p. 1061, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.60 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.60
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.1964, c. 276, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-36 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-36
Flood lands acquisition
Status: in_force

The commission shall have power to acquire the fee or any lesser interest in lands and improvements thereon within the area of a flood plain for the purpose of restricting the use of such property so as to minimize the flood hazard, converting property to uses appropriate to flood plain conditions, or preventing unwarranted constrictions that reduce the ability of the river channel to carry flood water. Any such action shall be in accord with the standards adopted and promulgated pursuant to section 6.2. L.1961, c. 13, p. 60, s. 6.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-9
Alternates
Status: in_force

Each member of the commission shall appoint an alternate to act in his place and stead, with authority to attend all meetings of the commission, and with power to vote in the absence of the member. Unless otherwise provided by law of the signatory party for which he is appointed, each alternate shall serve during the term of the member appointing him, subject to removal at the pleasure of the member. In the event of a vacancy in the office of alternate, it shall be filled in the same manner as an original appointment for the unexpired term only. L.1961, c. 13, p. 48, s. 2.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-53 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-53
Withdrawal permits
Status: in_force

In any protected areas so determined and delineated, no person, firm, corporation or other entity shall divert or withdraw water for domestic, municipal, agricultural or industrial uses in excess of such quantities as the commission may prescribe by general regulation, except (i) pursuant to a permit granted under this article, or (ii) pursuant to a permit or approval heretofore granted under the laws of any of the signatory States. L.1961, c. 13, p. 64, s. 10.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:16-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-3
Copy of map filed with county clerk of Bergen county
Status: in_force

After the parkway has been completely constructed, a properly authenticated copy of the map on file in the office of Palisades Interstate Park Commission shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of Bergen county. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 566, s. 36.
N.J. Stat. § 32:36-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-4
Creation of the commission; purposes.
Status: in_force

4. Creation of the Commission; purposes. a. There is hereby created the Gateway Development Commission, a body corporate and politic established by the state of New Jersey and the state of New York, which shall be deemed to be acting in the public interest and exercising essential government functions in taking action hereunder and which shall be a public authority and a government sponsored authority. The purposes of the Commission shall include the following: (1) Facilitate the Project; (2) Coordinate activities of governmental entities, Amtrak, and private entities providing assistance to the Project or otherwise regulating the Project, with a view to achieving full funding, and encourage and enable such parties to participate in the effectuation of the Project; (3) act as a coordinating agency to arrange for cooperation among the federal government, 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 them (including by contract among the parties), for and in connection with the Facilitation of the Project for any of the purposes of this act, and to enter into an agreement or agreements (and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing the same) with the federal government, 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 them, for or relating to such purposes, including but not limited to agreements with respect to financial assistance, loans, grants or any other funding as may be available for the Project. The Commission is hereby intended to qualify for, authorized, and empowered to apply for and accept, financial assistance, loans, grants, or any other funding for such purposes under federal, state, or local laws, and to make application directly to the appropriate officials or agencies for the application for and receipt of federal, state or local assistance, loans, grants or any other funding in aid of any of the purposes of this act; (4) pursue efforts to assist federal or state agencies and other entities to fulfill their goals set forth in federal law or the laws of New York or New Jersey to further passenger rail transportation between states including 49 U.S.C. s.24901 et seq.; (5) take any and all actions authorized by this act which are or may be necessary or appropriate to constitute and maintain itself as an applicant eligible to qualify to apply for and be awarded financial assistance, loans, grants or other funding as may be available for the Project, including that awarded by federal, state, and local governments and the agencies thereof; and (6) facilitate the Project by making and enforcing such rules and regulations; and (a) accepting, collecting, and receiving funds pursuant to the provisions of the memorandum of understanding established pursuant to section 20 of this act, which may include bonded revenues, state appropriations, dedicated revenues, and any other funds or revenues made available pursuant to that memorandum of understanding, and using those funds to provide for the financing, construction or asset management of the project and the payment of, with interest upon, and the amortization and retirement of bonds or other securities or obligations issued or insured for Project purposes, including establishment of prudent reserves, in the same manner that all funds or revenues included in the memorandum of understanding established pursuant to section 20 of this act may be used for such purposes; and (b) establishing, levying, and collecting tolls and fees payable by entities using the Project or any portion thereof, as it may deem necessary or appropriate, provided that any such tolls or fees: (i) shall not be established at a rate greater than the amount determined by the commission to be necessary to meet the expenses of the financing, construction, or asset management of the Project, including the establishment of prudent reserves; (ii) shall be approved by an affirmative vote of the board, in accordance with the voting requirements provided pursuant to this act, at a meeting duly noticed and held, provided that the commission has complied with subparagraph (d) of this paragraph; (iii) may be used to provide for the payment of, with interest upon, and the amortization and retirement of bonds or other securities or obligations issued or insured for Project purposes, including establishment of prudent reserves, in the same manner that all funds or revenues included in the memorandum of understanding established pursuant to section 20 of this act may be used for such purposes; (iv) shall not conflict with applicable federal law and the laws of the state of New York and the state of New Jersey; and (v) that may be directly or indirectly levied or imposed on or payable by the New Jersey Transit Corporation shall be expressly and specifically authorized pursuant to the memorandum of understanding established pursuant to section 20 of this act, or any amendment thereto, and that the revenue from any toll or fee shall count toward the state share of funding pursuant to the memorandum of understanding. (c) The power of the commission to establish, levy, or collect tolls or fees that are payable by the New Jersey Transit Corporation shall be narrowly construed. (d) Not less than thirty days and not more than ninety days prior to any vote or action taken by the board to establish, levy, or collect a toll or fee imposed by the commission or relating to any increase in a toll or fee, the commission shall conduct at least three public hearings in the manner prescribed as follows: (i) Locations for public hearings shall be selected in such a way as to be geographically accessible to a majority of users of the facility or facilities to be impacted by the toll or fee, provided that at least one hearing shall be held in each state. (ii) At least seventy-two hours before the first hearing held pursuant to this section, the commission shall make the following information available to the public, including posting on the commission's official website: (A) a written explanation of why the toll or fee, or any increase in a toll or fee, is necessary; (B) the amount of revenue expected to be generated from the establishment of or increase in the toll or fee; and (C) a detailed explanation of how the revenues raised from the establishment of or increase in the toll or fee is expected to be spent. (iii) Each hearing shall be attended by at least two commissioners from New York and two commissioners from New Jersey in office at the time of the hearing. (iv) The commission shall hold no more than one public hearing in a single day, and each public hearing shall be scheduled to begin after 6:30 p.m., eastern standard time, on a weekday. (v) The commission shall ensure that each of the requirements set forth in this paragraph shall be complied with before placing on the meeting agenda of the board any item or matter establishing, levying, or collecting a toll or fee or relating to an increase in any toll or fee. b. Officers. The officers of the Commission shall include a chief executive officer, a general counsel, a chief financial officer, a chief ethics and compliance officer, and inspector general whom shall be appointed by the Commission. Such officers shall not be required to be established until the Commission is in receipt of necessary federal funding for purposes of facilitating the Project. L.2019, c.195, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.17 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.17
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 sections one to fourteen, inclusive, of this act; but if the State of New York shall have already enacted such legislation, then this act shall take effect immediately. L.1947, c. 43, p. 141, s. 17.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-73 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-73
Regulations; tolls; retirement of obligations
Status: in_force

The port authority is authorized to make and enforce such rules and regulations and to establish and levy such charges and tolls as it may deem convenient or necessary for the operation and maintenance of the said bridge and to insure at least sufficient revenue to meet the expenses of the construction, operation and maintenance thereof, and to make provision for the payment of the interest upon and amortization and retirement of such bonds or other securities or obligations as it may issue or incur for the purposes of this act, as hereinafter provided. There shall be allocated to the cost of construction, operation and maintenance of the bridge such proportion of the general expenses of the port authority as it shall deem properly chargeable thereto. L.1925, c. 41, s. 3, p. 111.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.25 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.25
Findings and determinations
Status: in_force

The states of New York and New Jersey hereby find and determine that: (i) Each air and marine terminal facility operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey within the Port of New York District serves the entire district, and the problem of furnishing proper and adequate air and marine terminal facilities is a regional and interstate problem; (ii) Improved highway access to certain of such air and marine terminal facilities is necessary for their continued development, which development is vital and essential to the preservation of the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New York metropolitan area; (iii) It is the purpose of this act to authorize the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to participate in the development of improved highway access projects specifically with respect to Newark International Airport, Port Newark and the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal as part of a unified plan and with the single object of preserving and developing the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New York metropolitan area, and such undertaking is found to be in the public interest. L.1977, c. 365, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-61 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-61
Reserved taxing powers of States
Status: in_force

Each of the signatory parties reserves the right to levy, assess and collect fees, charges and taxes on or measured by the withdrawal or diversion of waters of the basin for use within the jurisdictions of the respective signatory parties. L.1961, c. 13, p. 67, s. 11.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-108 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-108
Similar advance by New York state
Status: in_force

No part of the said appropriation made by the preceding section shall be payable unless and until the state of New York shall undertake to make available to the port authority an equal sum payable contemporaneously therewith, or earlier, the intent hereof being that each state shall cause to be paid over, or made available to the port authority in not more than five equal annual installments, one-half of a total fund of four million dollars ($4,000,000), to be available to the port authority as an advance for the construction of the said bridge, and that the appropriation of the state of New Jersey is conditioned upon the undertaking of the state of New York to provide its half of the said fund within such five-year period. L.1927, c. 3, s. 2, p. 17.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11AA-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11AA / Section 11AA-4
Construction of compact
Status: in_force

ARTICLE III This compact shall be construed as granting supplemental and additional powers to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and shall not be construed as being in derogation of any other powers of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and New Jersey Turnpike Authority; provided, however, that (a) all acts and proceedings of said commission with respect to such bridge and its location, construction, financing, operation and maintenance shall not be in conflict or inconsistent with statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania creating or granting powers to said commission; (b) all acts and proceedings of said authority with respect to such bridge and its location, construction, financing, operation and maintenance shall not be in conflict or inconsistent with statutes of the State of New Jersey creating or granting powers to said Authority; and (c) the construction of a bridge at the location selected shall not be in contravention of any applicable provision of any compact or agreement entered into by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey which shall be in force and effect at the time of the construction of such bridge. L.1951, c. 285, p. 1026, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-154.21 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-154.21
Violations; penalties; trial; proceedings
Status: in_force

4. Except as provided in sections two and three hereof, any violation within the State of any of the rules and regulations set forth in section one hereof, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such a violation shall be tried in a summary way and shall be within the jurisdiction of and may be brought in the Superior Court or municipal court of the municipality in which the offense was committed. The rules of the Supreme Court shall govern the practice and procedure in such proceedings. Proceedings under this section may be instituted on any day of the week, and the institution of the proceedings on a Sunday or a holiday shall be no bar to the successful prosecution thereof. Any process served on a Sunday or a holiday shall be as valid as if served on any other day of the week. L.1951,c.239,s.4; amended 1991,c.91,s.341.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-24.3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-24.3
Bonds issued to refund Series F and FF Bonds as legal investments
Status: in_force

Bonds issued by The Port of New York Authority to refund its Series F and FF Bonds are hereby made securities in which all State and municipal officers and bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, building and loan associations, 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 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.1939, c. 189, p. 547, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-100 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-100
Condemnation proceedings
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall have the power to acquire by condemnation the fee or any lesser interest in lands, lands lying under water, development rights in land, riparian rights, water rights, waters and other real or personal property within the basin for any project or facility authorized pursuant to this compact. This grant of power of eminent domain includes but is not limited to the power to condemn for the purposes of this compact any property already devoted to a public use, by whomsoever owned or held, other than property of a signatory party and any property held, constructed, operated or maintained in connection with a diversion authorized by a United States Supreme Court decree. Any condemnation of any property or franchises owned or used by a municipal or privately owned public utility, unless the affected public utility facility is to be relocated or replaced, shall be subject to the authority of such State board, commission or other body as may have regulatory jurisdiction over such public utility. (b) Such power of condemnation shall be exercised in accordance with the provisions of any Federal law applicable to the commission; provided that if there is no such applicable Federal law, condemnation proceedings shall be in accordance with the provisions of such general State condemnation law as may be in force in the signatory State in which the property is located. (c) Any award or compensation for the taking of property pursuant to this article shall be paid by the commission, and none of the signatory parties nor any other agency, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof shall be liable for such award or compensation. L.1961, c. 13, p. 85, s. 14.14.
N.J. Stat. § 32:10-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-1
Appointment of bridge police; oath
Status: in_force

The commission of the state of New Jersey appointed pursuant to section 32:9-1 of this title may appoint such policemen as may be found necessary to protect the public safety and preserve order upon the bridges acquired or constructed by such commission. Every such policeman shall take an oath faithfully to perform the duties of his office, which oath shall be administered by an officer of this state having power to administer oaths.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.14 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.14
Statutory provisions as supplementary agreement; construction
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 two States dated April thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and amendatory thereof, and shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes of said compact and of the comprehensive plan heretofore adopted by the two States, and the powers vested in the Port Authority hereby shall be construed to be in aid of and supplemental to and not in limitation of or in derogation of any of the powers heretofore conferred upon or delegated to the Port Authority. L.1947, c. 43, p. 128, s. 14.
N.J. Stat. § 32:15-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-3
Remaining lands not subject to eminent domain
Status: in_force

If on or before December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, the owner or owners of said parcel of land conveyed by a proper grant or deed of gift to said board of commissioners such part of said parcel of land as may be required for the construction and maintenance as a public highway of a southerly extension of the Henry Hudson drive, by metes and bounds mutually agreed upon by the owner or owners thereof and said board of commissioners, thereafter no commission or authority of the State, no municipality, and no corporation or individual acting under the authority of the State, shall take by eminent domain any of the remainder of said tract or parcel of land described in section 32:15-2 of this Title without express subsequent authority given by the Legislature of the State. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 564, s. 32.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-157 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-157
Consent to suits
Status: in_force

Upon the concurrence of the State of New York in accordance with section twelve hereof, the States of New York and New Jersey consent to suits, actions or proceedings of any form or nature at law, in equity or otherwise (including proceedings to enforce arbitration agreements) against the Port of New York Authority (hereinafter referred to as the "Port Authority" ), and to appeals therefrom and reviews thereof, except as hereinafter provided in sections two through five, inclusive, hereof. L.1951, c. 204, p. 740, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-162 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-162
Venue of suits; consent to liability for tortious acts
Status: in_force

The foregoing consent is granted upon the condition that venue in any suit, action or proceeding against the Port Authority shall be laid within a county or a judicial district, established by one of said States or by the United States, and situated wholly or partially within the Port of New York District. The Port Authority shall be deemed to be a resident of each such county or judicial district for the purpose of such suits, actions or proceedings. Although the Port Authority is engaged in the performance of governmental functions, the said two States consent to liability on the part of the Port Authority in such suits, actions or proceedings for tortious acts committed by it and its agents to the same extent as though it were a private corporation. L.1951, c. 204, p. 741, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:12-7 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-7
Transmission of plans, specifications and other information to counties
Status: in_force

After the preparation of such plans and specifications and estimate of cost, the commission shall transmit them, duly certified, to the governing bodies, respectively, of each county which has consented to the appointment of the commission, together with all the information and other data concerning the cost of construction and maintenance of the bridge or tunnel, which the commission has procured or has in its possession.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-104 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-104
Tort liability
Status: in_force

The commission shall be responsible for claims arising out of the negligent acts or omissions of its officers, agents and employees only to the extent and subject to the procedures prescribed by law generally with respect to officers, agents and employees of the government of the United States. L.1961, c. 13, p. 88, s. 14.18.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-154.2a — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-154.2a
Liability of vehicle owner for noncompliance with toll collection regulations
Status: in_force

1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law and in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of this act, an owner of a vehicle may be held liable for failure of an operator thereof to comply with the toll collection regulations of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (hereinafter called Port Authority). The owner of a vehicle shall be liable pursuant to this section if such vehicle was used or operated with the permission of the owner, express or implied, in violation of the toll collection regulations of the Port Authority, and such violation is evidenced by information obtained from a photo-monitoring system; provided, however, that no owner of a vehicle shall be liable where the operator of such vehicle has been convicted of a violation of those toll collection regulations for the same incident. L.1996,c.98,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:12-11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-11
Bonds
Status: in_force

Such counties may issue bonds to provide the necessary money to make the payments required by the commission as provided in section 32:12-10 of this title. The bonds shall be in such amounts, shall bear interest not exceeding five per cent per annum and shall be payable at such time and place as the governing bodies of the counties may, by resolution, fix and determine.
N.J. Stat. § 32:36-19 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-19
Authority, powers of comptrollers; reports.
Status: in_force

19. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special statutes, the comptroller of the state of New York and the comptroller of the state of New Jersey and their legally authorized representatives are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to examine the accounts books of the Commission, including their receipts, disbursements, contracts, leases, sinking fund, investments and such other items referring to their financial standing and receipts and disbursements as such comptroller may deem proper. Such examination may be made by either comptroller at any time or both comptrollers acting together. b. The comptrollers of the respective states acting individually or collectively shall report to the governors and the legislatures of the respective states the result of such examination. L.2019, c.195, s.19.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.36m — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.36m
Authorization for additional waterfront development project; approval by local government unit and legislature of all projects; report on all aspects of project
Status: in_force

In addition to the waterfront development projects authorized pursuant to P.L.1983, c. 9 (C. 32:1-35.36c et seq.) and this 1984 amendatory and supplementary act, it is the object of the two states that the Port Authority be, and it hereby is authorized to participate, as limited in section 7 of this 1984 amendatory and supplementary act, in the effectuation, establishment, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, improvement, maintenance or operation of one waterfront development project in the State of New York and one waterfront development project in the State of New Jersey, as defined in chapter 631 of the laws of New York in 1947, as amended; provided, however, that nothing in this act is intended to authorize the Port Authority to finance, construct, rehabilitate, improve, maintain or operate housing. The undertaking by the Port Authority of any waterfront development project in the State of New York or the State of New Jersey, or of any alternative to either of the two projects authorized pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1983, c. 9 (C. 32.1-35.36f) and by section 5 of this 1984 amendatory and supplementary act, shall be subject to the prior express approval of the project by the city, county, town or village of the State of New York in which the project is to be located, or by the city, county, town, borough or township of the State of New Jersey in which the project is to be located, with any approval to be given in the manner provided in article 22 of the compact of April 30, 1921 between the two states creating the Port Authority, except that as to towns in the State of New York, approval shall be authorized in the manner provided in the town law and as to counties in the State of New Jersey, approval shall be authorized in the manner as provided by law. No city, county, town, borough or township of the State of New Jersey shall give the approval referred to in this section unless approval of the site of the project in the city, county, town, borough or township has been given in a joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey. At least 30 days prior to the authorization by the Port Authority of a waterfront development project authorized by this section, the Port Authority shall submit to the temporary President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, minority leaders of the Senate and Assembly and the chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee of the Legislature of the State of New York, and the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, minority leaders of the Senate and the General Assembly, the chairman of the Senate State Government, Federal and Interstate Relations and Veterans' Affairs Committee, or its successor, and the chairman of the General Assembly Independent Authorities and Commissions Committee, or its successor, of the State of New Jersey, a complete and comprehensive report on all aspects of the proposed project, including summaries of: feasibility and marketing studies undertaken; engineering, design, environmental, financing, legal or other project-specific studies undertaken; construction and development cost estimates; estimates of project Port Authority share of total project costs and revenues; and such other relevant information which the temporary President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, minority leaders of the Senate and Assembly and chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee of the Legislature of the State of New York, and the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, minority leaders of the Senate and the General Assembly, the chairman of the Senate State Government, Federal and Interstate Relations and Veterans' Affairs Committee, or its successor, and the chairman of the General Assembly Independent Authorities and Commissions Committee, or its successor, of the State of New Jersey, deem appropriate, necessary and desirable. The Port Authority may not authorize a waterfront development project in the State of New York pursuant to this section unless and until approval of the site of the project in the State of New York has been given in a joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of the State of New York and the two projects authorized in section 5 of P.L.1983, c. 9 (C. 32:1-35.36f) and section 5 of this 1984 amendatory and supplementary act have been substantially completed. Additionally, the Port Authority may not authorize a waterfront development project in the State of New Jersey pursuant to this section unless and until the two projects authorized in section 5 of P.L.1983, c. 9 (C. 32:1-35.36f) and section 5 of this 1984 amendatory and supplementary act have been substantially completed. No waterfront development project authorized by this section may be undertaken by the Port Authority in the City of New York unless the mayor thereof requests it to do so, which request shall specify the borough in which such project is to be undertaken. The president of any borough within the City of New York in which such project is proposed to be undertaken shall receive notice of such request and may within 30 days of receipt of such notice, and after consulting with and considering any recommendation made by the borough board of that borough, notify the mayor of the City of New York that the Port Authority is not to undertake such requested project, in which event such project shall not be undertaken by the Port Authority. The Port Authority may agree with any municipality in the port district to study the feasibility of developing one or more specific waterfront development projects within that municipality. In undertaking such a study, the Port Authority shall consult with and consider any recommendation made by the governing body of such municipality. At least 10 days prior to the commencement by the Port Authority of any study undertaken pursuant to any such agreement and the authorization by the Port Authority of any waterfront development project in addition to the projects designated in section 5 of P.L.1983, c. 9 (C. 32:1-35.36f) and section 5 of this 1984 amendatory and supplementary act, the Port Authority shall notify the chief executive officer of each municipality in the port district for which the Port Authority has studied the feasibility of developing a waterfront development project of the proposed study or authorization of the project, shall seek their comments and shall include with the study or authorization any comments received from the municipality. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to limit or impair the power of the Governor of the State of New York and the Governor of the State of New Jersey to review the actions of the Commissioners of the Port Authority as provided for in Chapter 700 of the laws of New York of 1927, as amended and in Chapter 333 of the laws of New Jersey of 1927, as amended. L.1984, c. 107, s. 6, eff. Aug. 2, 1984.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-140 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-140
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.1931, c. 4, s. 23, p. 30.
N.J. Stat. § 32:22-14 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 22 / Section 22-14
Offices; employees
Status: in_force

Within the limit of appropriations therefor, the commission is authorized to establish offices at a location convenient to the members from both States, and to employ such administrative, technical, and clerical assistance as may be required, and to fix their compensation. L.1954, c. 44, p. 115, s. 4; per s.4.5 of 1959, c.13 as amended by 1959, c.24, expired May 4, 1959.
N.J. Stat. § 32:14-29 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-29
Expenditures of commission
Status: in_force

Palisades Interstate Park Commission shall have authority to spend such sum or sums as may be included in the annual appropriation bill for necessary expenses of the commission, and for carrying out the provisions of this chapter. All such expenditures shall be approved by the Governor and Comptroller before payment thereof. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 562, s. 28.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-140.5 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-140.5
Satisfaction of obligation to repay advances as to Bayonne bridge; termination of lien on tolls
Status: in_force

The first two million fifty thousand dollars ($2,050,000.00) paid to each State pursuant to this act and the concurrent act of the State of New York shall be deemed to be on account of the moneys advanced by such State for preliminary studies upon and in aid of the construction of the Bayonne bridge (formerly known as the Kill von Kull bridge); and from and after the date on which the Port Authority shall have delivered to each State pursuant to this act and the concurrent act of the State of New York, bonds or moneys or both in the aggregate principal amount of two million fifty thousand dollars ($2,050,000.00), the duty and obligation of the Port Authority to pay back to the two States the moneys advanced for preliminary studies upon and in aid of the construction of said bridge by chapter ninety-seven of the laws of New Jersey of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, chapter two hundred seventy-nine of the laws of New York of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, chapter three of the laws of New Jersey of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and chapter three hundred of the laws of New York of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, together with the claims of the two States and of each of them for such repayment, shall be and shall be deemed to be fully satisfied and discharged, and any lien or claim of the two States or either of them upon the tolls and revenues of the said bridge arising out of, under or because of the aforesaid statutes shall be and shall be deemed to be void and without force or effect. L.1946, c. 54, p. 127, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-4a — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-4a
Minutes delivered to Governor
Status: in_force

1. a. The minutes of every meeting of the Delaware River Port Authority, established under R.S.32:3-1 et seq., shall, as soon as possible after the meeting, be delivered, by and under the certification of the secretary of the authority, to the Governor of the State of New Jersey, at the State House, in Trenton. b. No action taken by a New Jersey commissioner at the meeting shall have force or effect for a period of 10 days, excepting Saturdays, Sundays and State public holidays, after the minutes have been delivered to the Governor under this section, unless the Governor approves the minutes, or any part thereof, in writing, by reciting the action approved, within this 10-day period. This veto power shall not be construed to affect the covenants contained in the bonds of the authority. L.1991,c.516,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-1
Construction and maintenance of free bridges by "joint commission"
Status: in_force

The commission of the state of New Jersey appointed pursuant to section 32:9-1 of this title may provide for the construction and maintenance of free bridges across the Delaware river between this state and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for that purpose may act in conjunction with a similar commission appointed for that purpose by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commission of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the state of New Jersey shall be known as the "joint commission" of such two states, whenever referred to in this chapter.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-166 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-166
Consents to suits previously given not 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 in chapter eight hundred and two of the laws of New York of one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, as amended, and chapter forty-three of the laws of New Jersey of one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, as amended; chapter six hundred and thirty-one of the laws of New York of one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, as amended; chapter forty-four of the laws of New Jersey of one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, as amended, and chapter five hundred and thirty-four of the laws of New York of one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight and chapter ninety-seven of the laws of New Jersey of one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight. L.1951, c. 204, p. 743, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11C-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11C / Section 11C-2
Notice to municipality; consent of municipality unnecessary
Status: in_force

Before entering upon, using, overpassing, underpassing, occupying, enlarging, constructing, improving or closing any easement, street, road, highway or property of any municipality, such commission shall, in writing, notify the chief administrative officer or governing body of the municipality of its intention so to do, together with the approximate time of the commencement of the work of the commission affecting such street, road, highway or property. It shall not be necessary for the commission to obtain the consent of the municipality or the governing body thereof for the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this act, any law or compact to the contrary notwithstanding. L.1952, c. 40, p. 132, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-11 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-11
Voting power
Status: in_force

Each member shall be entitled to 1 vote on all matters which may come before the commission. No action of the commission shall be taken at any meeting unless a majority of the membership shall vote in favor thereof. L.1961, c. 13, p. 49, s. 2.5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-106 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-106
Amendments and supplements
Status: in_force

Amendments and supplements to this compact to implement the purposes thereof may be adopted by legislative action of any of the signatory parties concurred in by all of the others. L.1961, c. 13, p. 88, s. 14.20.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-19 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-19
Rules and regulations
Status: in_force

ARTICLE XVIII. The port authority is hereby authorized to make suitable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States or of either state, and subject to the exercise of the power of congress, for the improvement of the conduct of navigation and commerce, which, when concurred in or authorized by the legislatures of both states, shall be binding and effective upon all persons and corporations affected thereby.
N.J. Stat. § 32:23-228 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-228
Effective date.
Status: in_force

3. This act shall take effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative until the enactment into law of legislation substantially similar to P.L.2013, c.216 (C.32:23-226 et seq.) by the State of New York, but if such legislation shall have been enacted prior to the enactment of this act, this act shall take effect immediately. L.2013, c.216, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-65 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-65
Contract between states and bondholders
Status: in_force

The state of New York by appropriate legislation concurring herein, the provisions of this act together with the provisions complementary thereto in the acts of the legislature of the state of New York, shall constitute a contract or agreement between the two states for the benefit of those lending money to the port authority for the construction of such bridges, and the said port authority on behalf of the state may include in the bonds or other evidences of its obligations issued by it for the construction of the said bridges or incidental purposes such part of this act as shall seem proper as and as evidence of the foregoing agreements made by the state with the holders of the said bonds or other obligations, and thereupon the said terms so included shall become a contract between the state and the holders of the said bonds or other obligations. L.1925, c. 37, s. 6, p. 105.
N.J. Stat. § 32:13A-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 13A / Section 13A-2
Issuance of tunnel revenue bonds
Status: in_force

The county of Gloucester, acting by and through the Gloucester county tunnel commission hereinafter provided for, is hereby authorized and empowered to provide for the construction, operation and maintenance of a vehicular tunnel under the Delaware river from a point in said county to a point opposite in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the location of such tunnel to be not less than ten miles from the existing bridge over the Delaware river between the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the city of Camden, New Jersey, measured along the boundary line between the said commonwealth and the said state, and, to pay the cost of such tunnel, to issue tunnel revenue bonds of said county, payable solely from earnings.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-77 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-77
Negotiability
Status: in_force

All bonds issued under the provisions of this compact are negotiable instruments, except when registered in the name of a registered owner. L.1961, c. 13, p. 73, s. 12.14.
N.J. Stat. § 32:15-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-4
Condemnation of right of way
Status: in_force

If the gift mentioned in section 32:15-3 of this Title was not made on or before December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, Palisades Interstate Park Commission may take by eminent domain a right-of-way over the lands hereinbefore described, sufficient for the completion of the southerly end of the Henry Hudson drive. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 565, s. 33.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-140.6 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-140.6
Satisfaction of obligation to repay advances as to Outerbridge crossing and Goethals bridge; termination of lien on tolls
Status: in_force

After the payment of the first two million fifty thousand dollars ($2,050,000.00) to each State, the further amounts paid to each State pursuant to this act and the concurrent act of the State of New York shall be deemed to be on account of the moneys advanced by such State for preliminary studies upon and in aid of the construction of the Outerbridge crossing (formerly known as the Perth Amboy-Tottenville bridge) and the Goethals bridge (formerly known as the Elizabeth-Howland Hook bridge); and from and after the date on which pursuant to this act and the concurrent act of the State of New York the Port Authority shall have delivered bonds or moneys, or both, to the State of New Jersey in the aggregate principal amount of two million one hundred thousand dollars ($2,100,000.00) and to the State of New York in the aggregate principal amount of two million ninety-nine thousand nine hundred eighteen dollars and twenty cents ($2,099,918.20), in each case in addition to the first two million fifty thousand dollars ($2,050,000.00) paid to such State under and pursuant to this act and the concurrent act of the State of New York, then the duty and obligation of the Port Authority to pay back to the two States the moneys advanced for preliminary studies upon and in aid of the construction of said two bridges by chapters one hundred twenty-five and one hundred forty-nine of the laws of New Jersey of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, chapters one hundred eighty-six and two hundred thirty of the laws of New York of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, chapter thirty-seven of the laws of New Jersey of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five and chapter two hundred ten of the laws of New York of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, together with the claims of the two States and of each of them for such repayment, shall be and shall be deemed to be fully satisfied and discharged, and any lien or claim of the two States or either of them upon the tolls and revenues of said bridges arising out of, under or because of the aforesaid statutes shall be and shall be deemed to be void and without force or effect. L.1946, c. 54, p. 128, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-6.4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-6.4
Port Authority deemed "agency," "public agency."
Status: in_force

2. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the Port Authority shall be deemed an "agency" and treated as such under the laws of New York, for all purposes under articles 6 and 6-A of the Public Officers Law, and shall be deemed a "public agency" and treated as such under New Jersey, P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.), pertaining to the disclosure of government records. L.2015, c.64, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:13A-9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 13A / Section 13A-9
Eligibility of bonds for investments
Status: in_force

Tunnel revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all state and municipal officers and bodies of the state of New Jersey, all banks, bankers, savings banks, trust companies, 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 now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the county, may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital belonging to them or within their control. And such tunnel revenue bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or agency of the state for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the county is now or may hereafter be authorized by law. Notwithstanding any provisions of this or any other law, tunnel revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be purchased by the sinking fund commission or the insurance or pension fund commissioners of any county or municipality or may be sold to any member, commission or officers of the state, authorized by law to purchase such bonds.
N.J. Stat. § 32:2-23.9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-23.9
Agreement with Triborough Authority; unified operation; consent to certain suits, actions or proceedings
Status: in_force

(a) The Port Authority is authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement with the Triborough Authority (and from time to time to enter into agreements amending the same) for the design, location, financing, construction, maintenance and operation of the Narrows Bridge and any other matters of like or different character with respect to the Narrows Bridge, and by which the Port Authority may grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer to the Triborough Authority or to the city of New York for the use and occupancy of the Triborough Authority any right, title or interest of the Port Authority in the Narrows Bridge and in any part or parts thereof, upon such terms as may be determined by the Port Authority and the Triborough Authority, including but not limited to agreement as to the method of fixing the tolls, rents, charges and other fees and the rules for the regulation of the use of the bridge. (b) So long as the Port Authority shall retain title to the Narrows Bridge, it shall, so far as it deems it practicable, treat as a single unified operation the effectuation of the Narrows Bridge, the interstate bridges and tunnels now operated by the Port Authority and any other bridges or tunnels which it may construct or operate, raising moneys for the construction thereof and for the making of additions and improvements thereto in whole or in part upon its own obligations, and, except as provided in such agreement or any amendment thereof, establishing and levying such tolls, rents, charges and other fees as it may deem necessary to secure from all of such bridges and tunnels as a group at least sufficient revenue to meet the expenses of the effectuation of such bridges and tunnels as a group, and to provide for the payment of the interest upon and amortization and retirement of and the fulfillment of the terms of all bonds which it may have issued in connection therewith. Except as provided in such agreement or any amendment thereof, no other agency or commission of either State shall have jurisdiction over the Narrows Bridge so long as the Port Authority shall retain title thereto, and, except as so provided, all details of the design, location, financing, construction, leasing, tolls, rents, charges and other fees, contracts, maintenance and operation of and rules for the regulation of the use of the Narrows Bridge so long as the Port Authority shall retain title thereto shall be within its sole discretion and its decision in connection with any and all matters concerning such bridge shall be controlling and conclusive. (c) The States of New York and New Jersey hereby consent to suits, actions or proceedings against the Port Authority upon, in connection with or arising out of such agreement or any amendment thereof, by the Triborough Authority, or by the city if and to the extent that such agreement or any amendment thereof shall create rights in the City of New York, as follows: (1) For judgments, orders or decrees restraining or enjoining the Port Authority from transferring title to real property to other persons in cases where it has agreed with the Triborough Authority to transfer such title to the Triborough Authority or to the city of New York for the use and occupancy of the Triborough Authority, and (2) For judgments, orders or decrees restraining or enjoining the Port Authority from committing or continuing to commit other breaches of such agreement or any amendment thereof; provided, that such judgment, order or decree shall not be entered except upon 2 days' prior written notice to the Port Authority of the proposed entry thereof; and provided further, that 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 and shall stay the execution of such judgment, order or decree appealed from, without an undertaking or other security. 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 2 said States in chapter 301 of the laws of New York of 1950 and chapter 204 of the laws of New Jersey of 1951. L.1956, c. 12, p. 40, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-3
Port district; legal name; boundaries
Status: in_force

ARTICLE II. To that end the two states do agree that there shall be created and they do hereby create a district to be known as the "Port of New York District" (for brevity hereinafter referred to as "the district" ) which shall embrace the territory bounded and described as follows: The district is included within the boundary lines located by connecting points of known latitude and longitude. The approximate courses and distances of the lines inclosing the district are recited in the description, but the district is determined by drawing lines through the points of known latitude and longitude. Beginning at a point A of latitude forty-one degrees and four minutes north and longitude seventy-three degrees and fifty-six minutes west, said point being about sixty-five hundredths of a mile west of the westerly bank of the Hudson river and about two and one-tenth miles northwest of the pier at Piermont, in the county of Rockland, state of New York; thence due south one and fifteen-hundredths miles more or less to a point B of latitude forty-one degrees and three minutes north and longitude seventy-three degrees and fifty-six minutes west; said point being about one and three-tenths miles northwest of the pier at Piermont, in the county of Rockland, state of New York; thence south fifty-six degrees and thirty-four minutes west six and twenty-six hundredths miles more or less to a point C of latitude forty-one degrees and no minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and two minutes west, said point being about seven-tenths of a mile north of the railroad station at Westwood, in the county of Bergen, state of New Jersey; thence south sixty-eight degrees and twenty-four minutes west nine and thirty-seven hundredths miles more or less to a point D of latitude forty degrees and fifty-seven minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and twelve minutes west, said point [being] about three miles northwest of the business center of the city of Paterson, in the county of Passaic, state of New Jersey; thence south forty-seven degrees and seventeen minutes west eleven and eighty-seven hundredths miles more or less to a point E of latitude forty degrees and fifty minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and twenty-two minutes west, said point being about four and five-tenths miles west of the borough of Caldwell, in the county of Morris [Essex], state of New Jersey; thence due south nine and twenty-hundredths miles more or less to a point F of latitude forty degrees and forty-two minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and twenty-two minutes west, said point being about one and two-tenths miles southwest of the passenger station of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in the city of Summit, in the county of Union, state of New Jersey; thence south forty-two degrees and twenty-four minutes, west seven and seventy-eight-hundredths miles more or less to a point G of latitude forty degrees and thirty-seven minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and twenty-eight minutes west, said point being about two and two-tenths miles west of the business center of the city of Plainfield, in the county of Somerset, state of New Jersey; thence due south twelve and sixty-five hundredths miles more or less on [to] a line passing about one mile west of the business center of the city of New Brunswick to a point H of latitude forty degrees and twenty-six minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and twenty-eight minutes west, said point being about four and five-tenths miles southwest of the city of New Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex, state of New Jersey; thence south seventy-seven degrees and forty-two minutes east ten and seventy-nine hundredths miles more or less to a point I of latitude forty degrees and twenty-four minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and sixteen minutes west, said point being about two miles southwest of the borough of Matawan, in the county of Middlesex [Monmouth], state of New Jersey; thence due east twenty-five and forty-eight hundredths miles more or less, crossing the county of Monmouth, state of New Jersey, and passing about one and four-tenths miles south of the pier of the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Atlantic Highlands to a point J of latitude forty degrees and twenty-four minutes north and longitude seventy-three degrees and forty-seven minutes west, said point being in the Atlantic ocean; thence north eleven degrees fifty-eight minutes east twenty-one and sixteen-hundredths miles more or less to a point K, said point being about five miles east of the passenger station of the Long Island Railroad at Jamaica and about one and three-tenths miles east of the boundary line of the city of New York, in the county of Nassau, state of New York; thence in a northeasterly direction, passing about one-half mile west of New Hyde Park and about one and one-tenth miles east of the shore of Manhasset bay at Port Washington, crossing Long Island sound to a point L, said point being the point of intersection of the boundary line between the states of New York and Connecticut and the meridian of seventy-three degrees thirty-nine minutes and thirty seconds west longitude, said point being also about a mile northeast of the village of Port Chester; thence northwesterly along the boundary line between the states of New York and Connecticut to a point M, said point being the point of intersection between said boundary line between the states of New York and Connecticut and the parallel of forty-one degrees and four minutes north latitude, said point also being about four and five-tenths miles northeast of the business center of the city of White Plains; thence due west along said parallel, of forty-one degrees and four minutes north latitude, the line passing about two and one-half miles north of the business center of the city of White Plains and crossing the Hudson river to the point A, the place of beginning. The boundaries of said district may be changed from time to time by the action of the legislature of either state concurred in by the legislature of the other.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-90 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-90
Meetings; public hearing; records, minutes
Status: in_force

(a) All meetings of the commission shall be open to the public. (b) The commission shall conduct at least 1 public hearing prior to the adoption of the comprehensive plan, water resources program, annual capital and current expense budgets, the letting of any contract for the sale or other disposition by the commission of hydroelectric energy or water resources to any person, corporation or entity, and in all other cases wherein this compact requires a public hearing. Such hearing shall be held upon at least 10 days public notice given by posting at the offices of the commission. The commission shall also provide forthwith for distribution of such notice to the press and by the mailing of a copy thereof to any person who shall request such notices. (c) The minutes of the commission shall be a public record open to inspection at its offices during regular business hours. L.1961, c. 13, p. 80, s. 14.4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-86 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-86
Use of moneys; tolls pledged; project self-sustaining; tolls
Status: in_force

The moneys appropriated by this act shall be applied by the port authority to the construction of the bridge hereinbefore mentioned and purposes incidental thereto and to no other purpose whatsoever. The balance of the money needed for the construction of the said bridge and incidental purposes shall be raised by the port authority on its own obligations secured by the pledge of the revenues and tolls arising out of the use of the said bridge, all in accordance with the provisions of the laws authorizing and governing the construction and operation of the said bridge. As security for obligations so issued and the moneys so appropriated, the revenues and tolls arising out of the use of the said bridge shall be pledged to the repayment of the entire issue of bonds and other securities for the construction thereof, together with the interest, and the repayment of the moneys appropriated by the state; it being the declared policy of the state that the said bridge, so far as the payment of the bonds or other securities issued for the construction thereof, together with the repayment of the moneys advanced by the state, shall in all respects be self-sustaining; and the port authority shall charge and maintain revenues and tolls for the use of the said bridge until all bonds and other securities issued for the construction thereof shall have been paid, and until the moneys so as aforesaid advanced by the states of New Jersey and New York shall have been repaid. L.1926, c. 6, s. 3, p. 23.
N.J. Stat. § 32:20B-8 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20B / Section 20B-8
Examination of accounts, books; report.
Status: in_force

8. The State Comptroller of New Jersey and the comptroller of the state of New York are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to examine the accounts and books of the commission, including its receipts, disbursements, and such other items referring to its financial standing as the comptroller may deem proper and to report the results of such examination to the Governors and Legislatures of the States of New Jersey and New York. Such report shall be submitted to the New Jersey Legislature in accordance with the requirements of section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1). L.2011, c.177, s.8.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.16 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.16
Election to exercise option regarding legislation applying to Federal aid
Status: in_force

The State of New Jersey hereby elects to exercise the option reserved to each State by section ten of this act (and by the corresponding section of the New York statute concurring herein); and accordingly, if by the effective date of this act, this State has adopted, or if thereafter it shall adopt general legislation governing applications for Federal aid for air terminals by municipalities of this State or the receipt or disbursement of such Federal aid by or on behalf of such municipalities, such legislation shall apply to applications by the Port Authority for Federal aid for air terminals located in this State in the same manner and to the same extent as other municipalities of this State; provided, that if such legislation shall require such applications for Federal aid to be approved by any officer, board, commission, department or other agency of this State or shall require the consent of any such agency of this State to the submission thereof to the Federal Government, or shall require any such agency of this State to be designated by municipalities as their agent to collect or disburse such Federal aid, or shall contain any other requirement vesting any such agency of this State with power or discretion with respect to the making of such applications for Federal aid or the receipt or disbursement thereof, then such officer, board, commission, department or other agency of this State shall have power to waive such requirement in whole or in part temporarily or permanently insofar as the Port Authority is concerned. L.1947, c. 43, p. 140, s. 16.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-3.8 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-3.8
Findings, declarations
Status: in_force

1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission was created by this State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with the consent of Congress, to provide an efficient means of carrying out the planning, construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of certain Delaware River crossings . b. The State and the Commonwealth rely upon the commission to competently execute the duties and powers delegated to it as well as carefully managing the not inconsiderable financial means available to the commission. c. Notwithstanding the delegation of power to the commission, it is incumbent upon the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to ensure that the commission carries out its duties in a manner which ensures prudent use of toll payer monies. d. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the public to supplement or limit the powers of the commission, as the case may be, to require the commission to competitively bid contracts in accordance with the public policies of the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. L.1994,c.177,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:14-1.1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-1.1
Findings, declarations relative to Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Status: in_force

1. The Legislature finds and declares that the Palisades Interstate Park constitutes a natural and historic resource of immeasurable value; that concern for the preservation of this resource resulted in the enactment, in 1937, of an interstate compact between New Jersey and New York; that this compact established the Palisades Interstate Park Commission as a separate agency charged with the responsibility of maintaining this interstate park; that the separation of this commission from all other agencies of State government has tended to impede, rather than facilitate, the discharging of this responsibility; that from time to time it may benefit the State of New Jersey to utilize the Palisades Interstate Park Commission as the administering agency for parkland that may be acquired in the Highlands or Skylands areas of Bergen, Hunterdon, Morris, Passaic, Somerset and Warren counties in the State of New Jersey, including lands in those areas lying within the North Jersey Water Supply District; and that, in order to insure the realization of the purpose of the interstate compact, it is necessary to alter the powers, functions and duties of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, all as hereinafter provided. L.1980,c.104,s.1; amended 1995,c.274,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11-8 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-8
Installation and leasing of public service facilities on bridges
Status: in_force

The joint commission in its discretion may provide and equip any such bridge and the approaches appurtenant thereto with such conduits, pipes, supplies and other appliances as may be necessary or convenient for the installation, maintenance and operation of telegraph, telephone, electric light or power, and other public service facilities. It may enter into leases or contracts with public service companies for the installation, maintenance, operation and use of such facilities, and fix and collect suitable charges, rents, rentals or tolls for the privilege of leasing, operating, using or maintaining such facilities.
N.J. Stat. § 32:13A-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 13A / Section 13A-4
Resolution of convenience and necessity; tunnel commission
Status: in_force

If the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Gloucester shall desire to take advantage of the provisions of this chapter, it shall first pass a resolution declaring that the construction of such tunnel will be a convenience, a necessity and a benefit to the county, and fixing the approximate location of such tunnel. The commission shall consist of five persons who shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate and who shall hold office for terms of five years, respectively, from the date or dates of their appointment, and until their successors are appointed and qualify, and any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve only for the unexpired term, and any member of the commission shall be eligible for reappointment. The members in office upon the effective date of this act shall continue to hold their respective offices until the expiration of their respective terms except that the term of office ex officio, as a member, of the chairman, that is to say the director, of the board of chosen freeholders shall terminate upon the effective date of this act. Each member of the commission, before entering upon his duties, shall take, subscribe and file an oath faithfully and impartially to perform the duties of his office. Before the issuance of any revenue bonds under the provisions of this chapter, each member shall give bond to the county of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey to be approved by the chairman of the board of chosen freeholders in the penalty of $ , conditioned upon the faithful and impartial performance of the duties of his office, which bond shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of said county of Gloucester. The commission shall elect one of its members as chairman, and shall also elect a secretary and treasurer who may not be a member of the commission. The commission so appointed shall be known as the "Gloucester county tunnel commission," and by that name the commission may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and have an official seal. The commission shall make necessary rules and regulations for its own government, and shall have power and authority to make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this chapter, and to employ engineering, architectural and construction experts and inspectors and attorneys, and such other employees as may be necessary in its judgment, and fix their compensation. The members of the commission shall receive no salary but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. All salaries and compensation shall be paid solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter, and the commission shall not proceed to exercise or carry out any authority or power herein given it to bind such commission beyond the extent to which money has been or may be provided under the authority of this chapter. The commission shall have power and authority to enter into such contracts and lease agreements as may be necessary to the complete utilization of every accessible and usable part or portion of the tunnel to be constructed hereunder; provided, however , that nothing contained in this chapter will be construed to permit the commission to delegate its authority either directly or indirectly over the management and operation of the vehicular traffic which will pass through said tunnel to any private interest or interests. Amended by L.1947, c. 388, p. 1227, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-25 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-25
Definitions
Status: in_force

2. As used in this act: "Board" means the Board of Commissioners of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission; "Commission" means the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission; "Meeting" means any gathering, whether corporeal or by means of communications equipment, which is attended by, or open to, the board, held with the intent, on the part of the board members present, to discuss or act as a unit upon the specific public business of the commission. "Meeting" does not mean a gathering: (1) attended by less than an effective majority of the commissioners; or (2) attended by or open to all the members of three or more similar public bodies at a convention or similar gathering; "News media" means major wire services, television news services, radio news services and newspapers, whether located in this State or in any other state, and personnel representing any such service. "Public business" means matters which relate in any way, directly or indirectly, to the performance of the functions of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission or the conduct of its business. L.1994,c.178,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-32 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-32
Changes in comprehensive plan
Status: in_force

The right to add to, modify or change any part of the foregoing comprehensive plan is reserved by each state, with the concurrence of the other. L.1922, c. 9, s. 7, p. 32 (1924 Suppl. s. 161-23).
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-4.9 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-4.9
Rules, regulations, approval
Status: in_force

5. Any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to section 3 of this act shall become a part of the minutes of the Port Authority and shall be subject to the approval of the Governor of New Jersey and the Governor of Pennsylvania. L.1991,c.400,s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.78 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.78
Cooperation by port authority; agreements; financial assistance, loans and grants
Status: in_force

The port authority is authorized and empowered to cooperate with the States of New York and New Jersey, with any municipality thereof, with any person, with the Federal Government and with any agency, public authority or commission of any one or more of the foregoing, or with any one or more of them, for and in connection with the acquisition, clearance, replanning, rehabilitation, reconstruction or redevelopment of any industrial development project or facility or of any other area forming part of any industrial development project or facility for the purpose of renewal and improvement of said area and for any of the purposes of this act, and to enter into an agreement or agreements, and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing the same, with any such person, municipality, commission, public authority or agency and with the States of New York and New Jersey and with the Federal Government, or with any one or more of them, for or relating to such purposes, including but not limited to agreements with respect to the dedication by the municipalities of the port district of refuse, solid waste or waste resulting from other treatment processes to resource recovery to permit the generation of lower priced energy and the recovery of useful materials; with respect to a commitment by such municipalities to pay fees to permit the delivery and removal after processing of such refuse or solid waste at rates and for periods of time at least sufficient to assure the continued availability of such energy and recovered materials; with respect to financial assistance, loans and grants pursuant to any Federal law now in effect or hereinafter enacted which would provide such financial assistance, loans and grants in connection with any of the purposes of this act, provided, that if either state shall have or adopt general legislation governing applications for such Federal aid by municipalities, public authorities, agencies or commissions of such state or the receipt or disbursement of such Federal aid by or on behalf of such municipalities, public authorities, agencies or commissions, then such legislation shall at the option of such state apply to applications by the port authority for such Federal aid in connection with an industrial development project or facility located in such state and to the receipt and disbursement of such Federal aid by or on behalf of the port authority, in the same manner and to the same extent as other municipalities, public authorities, agencies or commissions of such state; and, with respect to occupancy of space in any industrial development project or facility. The port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to apply for and accept financial assistance, loans and grants for such purposes under Federal, State or local laws, and to make application directly to the proper officials or agencies for and receive Federal, State or local loans or grants in aid for any of the purposes of this act. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to limit or impair the power of the Governor of the State of New York and the Governor of the State of New Jersey to review the actions of the commissioners of the port authority as provided for in chapter 700 of the laws of New York of 1927, as amended, and in chapter 333 of the laws of New Jersey of 1927, as amended, or to authorize the port authority to commence the effectuation of any industrial development project or facility unless and until the municipality in which such project or facility is to be located has consented to the commencement of such effectuation, with such consent to be provided for in the agreement authorized by section 11 or section 12 hereof. The port authority is authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement or agreements (and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing the same) with any public authority, agency or commission of either or both states to provide for the effectuation of any of the purposes of this act through a subsidiary corporation owned jointly by the port authority and any such public authority, agency or commission, and any such public authority, agency or commission is authorized and empowered to enter into such agreement or agreements with the port authority. L.1978, c. 110, s. 7, eff. Aug. 24, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-69 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-69
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. 37, s. 10, p. 106.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-57 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-57
Maintenance of records
Status: in_force

Each State shall provide for the maintenance and preservation of such records of authorized diversions and withdrawals and the annual volume thereof as the commission shall prescribe. Such records and supplementary reports shall be furnished to the commission at its request. L.1961, c. 13, p. 65, s. 10.7.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-5 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-5
Pledging credit of states, counties or municipalities prohibited
Status: in_force

ARTICLE IV. Notwithstanding any provision of this agreement, the commission shall have no power to pledge the credit of the state of New Jersey, or of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or of any county, city, borough, village, township and other municipality of said state or commonwealth, or to create any debt against said state or commonwealth or any such municipality.
N.J. Stat. § 32:8-20 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-20
Easton - Phillipsburg bridge
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the authority granted to the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission in its compact to construct bridges across the Delaware river, the Commissioner of Transportation in cooperation with the Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States Department of Transportation is authorized to construct as part of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways a bridge across the Delaware river in the vicinity of Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey within 10 miles of the existing toll bridge owned and operated by the commission. The Commissioner of Transportation is further authorized to enter into an agreement with the Department of Transportation of Pennsylvania, the United States Department of Transportation and the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission providing for the operation and maintenance or the construction, operation and maintenance of the proposed Easton-Phillipsburg bridge by the commission. The provisions of the commission's compact, and all amendments and supplements thereto, shall be applicable to the construction, operation and maintenance of the bridge facility, except as otherwise provided for by federal law or in the agreement between the parties. L. 1985, c. 342, s. 4, eff. Oct. 21, 1985, operative Oct. 21, 1985.
N.J. Stat. § 32:9-8 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-8
Filing of report; notice
Status: in_force

Within ten days thereafter the joint commission shall file in the office of the clerk of the county in which the land or other property so taken is situated, to remain of record therein, a written report thereof under the hands of the joint commission or a majority of them, together with a plan showing the location of the bridge or bridges so taken and the names of the corporation, stock company, partnership or persons to whom the compensation or damages are payable. Within ten days after the filing of the report, personal notice thereof shall be given to the owners and parties in interest, if resident in this state, and if not, by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the bridge is located.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-84 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-84
New Jersey appropriation; financing by port authority
Status: in_force

In aid of the prompt and economical construction of the bridge which the Port of New York Authority, hereinafter called the "port authority," has been authorized to construct across the Hudson river, between Fort Lee on the New Jersey side and Fort Washington on the New York side (by chapter 41, Laws of New Jersey, 1925, and chapter 211, Laws of New York, 1925) there is hereby appropriated, subject to the limitations and conditions hereinafter set forth, the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof as may be requisitioned, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. The said sum shall be paid out by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller of the treasury to the said port authority upon requisitions signed by the chairman of the said port authority, in five annual installments of one million dollars ($1,000,000) each, the first installment to be available at any time during the fiscal year commencing in one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and one other installment to be available at any time during each of the four succeeding fiscal years; provided, however, the state of New York shall, by appropriate legislation, agree and obligate itself to provide for the payment of five million dollars, either in installments of one million dollars, payable over the period and in the manner aforesaid, or by providing funds which shall be available to the port authority contemporaneously with the amounts available hereunder in equal annual amounts or earlier; but nothing herein contained shall preclude the state of New York from exercising the option of providing such funds either by appropriations and/or out of any bond issue or issues authorized under the constitution of the state of New York and/or by transfer of moneys subject to the control of the legislature of that state. If the requisitions made in any one fiscal year shall not in the aggregate equal such installment of one million dollars ($1,000,000), the balance not requisitioned shall be available in any subsequent year during or after the said five-year period and in addition to any installment available during each year; provided, however, that after the first installment of the appropriation hereby made has been paid over to the port authority no subsequent installments shall be paid until the port authority shall have raised on its own obligations and have available for the construction of said bridge an amount of money equal to six times the amount of installments previously paid pursuant to this act, the intent of this proviso being that before payment of any installment hereunder, other than the initial one, money shall have been made available for the construction of the bridge from the obligations of the port authority in an amount at least equal to three times the amount of money paid over to the port authority pursuant to this act and to the legislation complementary hereto of the state of New York. L.1926, c. 6, s. 1, p. 21.
N.J. Stat. § 32:15-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-2
Additional right of ways; authority to acquire
Status: in_force

Palisades Interstate Park Commission is authorized to accept by grant from the owners thereof, so far as at the time of the creation of the commission the board of commissioners of Palisades interstate park, a body politic created pursuant to an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection, location, appropriation and management of certain lands along the Palisades of the Hudson river for an interstate park, and thereby to preserve the scenery of the Palisades," approved March twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred, had not already accepted, lands necessary for highway purposes over and upon all that certain tract of land situate, lying and being in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the west bank of the Hudson river in the county of Bergen, State of New Jersey, where the same is intersected by the boundary line of the property formerly of said board and the property of John M. Goetchius and Henry K. Goetchius; thence running in a southerly direction eighteen hundred and fifty feet more or less to the intersection of the southerly line of the old Fort Lee dock or landing with the highwater line of the Hudson river; and running thence in a westerly direction to the east side of the river road running from Edgewater to Fort Lee in Bergen county; and running along the said road and the high cliffs in a northerly direction to the southerly boundary of property formerly owned by said board; thence along the said southerly boundary of the lands formerly owned by said board to the point or place of beginning. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 563, s. 31.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.77 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.77
Covenant with bondholders
Status: in_force

The two states covenant and agree with each other and with the holders of any bonds issued by the port authority for the purposes of this act, that so long as any of such bonds remain outstanding and unpaid and the holders thereof shall not have given their consent as provided in their contract with the port authority, the two states shall not diminish or impair the power of the port authority to establish, levy and collect rentals, fares, fees or other charges in connection with industrial development projects or facilities or any other facility owned or operated by the port authority the revenues of which have been or shall be pledged in whole or in part as security for such bonds, directly or indirectly, or through the medium of the general reserve fund or otherwise, or to determine the quantity, quality, frequency or nature of any services provided by the port authority in connection with the operation of each such project or facility. This section shall not affect or diminish the provisions of section 12 of this act. L.1978, c. 110, s. 6, eff. Aug. 24, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 32:26-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 26 / Section 26-3
The commission
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created an agency of the party States to be known as the "Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission" hereinafter called the commission. The commission shall be composed of one commissioner from each party State who shall be appointed, serve and be subject to removal in accordance with the laws of the State which he represents. If authorized by the laws of his party State, a commissioner may provide for the discharge of his duties and the performance of his functions on the commission, either for the duration of his membership or for any lesser period of time, by an alternate. No such alternate shall be entitled to serve unless notification of his identity and appointment shall have been given to the commission in such form as the commission may require. Each commissioner, and each alternate, when serving in the place and stead of a commissioner, shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the commission for expenses actually incurred in attending commission meetings or while engaged in the business of the commission. (b) The commissioners shall be entitled to one vote each on the commission. No action of the commission shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which a majority of the total number of votes on the commission are cast in favor thereof. Action of the commission shall be only at a meeting at which a majority of the commissioners, or their alternates, are present. (c) The commission shall have a seal. (d) The commission shall elect annually, from among its members, a chairman, a vice-chairman and a treasurer. The commission may appoint an executive director and fix his duties and compensation. Such executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the commission, and together with the treasurer shall be bonded in such amount as the commission shall determine. The executive director also shall serve as secretary. If there be no executive director, the commission shall elect a secretary in addition to the other officers provided by this subdivision. (e) Irrespective of the civil service, personnel or other merit system laws of any of the party States, the executive director with the approval of the commission, or the commission if there be no executive director, shall appoint, remove or discharge such personnel as may be necessary for the performance of the commission's functions, and shall fix the duties and compensation of such personnel. (f) The commission may establish and maintain independently or in conjunction with any one or more of the party States, a suitable retirement system for its full-time employees. Employees of the commission shall be eligible for social security coverage in respect of old age and survivor's insurance provided that the commission takes such steps as may be necessary pursuant to the laws of the United States, to participate in such program of insurance as a governmental agency or unit. The commission may establish and maintain or participate in such additional programs of employee benefits as may be appropriate. (g) The commission may borrow, accept or contract for the services of personnel from any party State, the United States, or any subdivision or agency of the aforementioned governments, or from any agency of 2 or more of the party States or their subdivisions. (h) The commission may accept for any of its purposes and functions under this compact any and all donations, and grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services, conditional or otherwise, from any State, the United States, or any other governmental agency and may receive, utilize and dispose of the same. (i) The commission may establish and maintain such facilities as may be necessary for the transacting of its business. The commission may acquire, hold, and convey real and personal property and any interest therein. (j) The commission shall adopt by-laws for the conduct of its business and shall have the power to amend and rescind these by-laws. The commission shall publish its by-laws in convenient form and shall file a copy thereof and a copy of any amendment thereto, with the appropriate agency or officer in each of the party States. The by-laws shall provide for appropriate notice to the commissioners of all commission meetings and hearings and the business to be transacted at such meetings or hearings. Such notice shall also be given to such agencies or officers of each party State as the laws of such party State may provide. (k) The commission annually shall make to the Governor and Legislature of each party State a report covering the activities of the commission for the preceding year, and embodying such recommendations as may have been issued by the commission. The commission may make such additional reports as it may deem desirable. L.1964, c. 54, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 32:27-21 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-21
Audits
Status: in_force

The fiscal affairs of the commission shall be subject to annual audits by the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in New Jersey and the Auditor General of Pennsylvania. In addition, any county or city may either singly or in co-operation with the party States perform or cause such audits of the fiscal affairs of the commission for any fiscal year in which it or its corporation counterparts, if any, have made contributions. L.1966, c. 149, Pt. I, Art. IV, s. 1, eff. June 18, 1966.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-88 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-88
Regulations; enforcement
Status: in_force

The commission may: (a) Make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the effectuation, application and enforcement of this compact; and it may adopt and enforce practices and schedules for or in connection with the use, maintenance and administration of projects and facilities it may own or operate and any product or service rendered thereby; provided that any rule or regulation, other than 1 which deals solely with the internal management of the commission, shall be adopted only after public hearing and shall not be effective unless and until filed in accordance with the law of the respective signatory parties applicable to administrative rules and regulations generally; and (b) Designate any officer, agent or employee of the commission to be an investigator or watchman and such person shall be vested with the powers of a peace officer of the State in which he is duly assigned to perform his duties. L.1961, c. 13, p. 79, s. 14.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:22-18 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 22 / Section 22-18
Appropriation
Status: in_force

There is hereby appropriated and made available for the use of the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission a sum not to exceed $50,000.00, when included in an annual or supplemental appropriation act. L.1954, c. 44, p. 115, s. 8; per s.4.5 of 1959, c.13 as amended by 1959, c.24, expired May 4, 1959.
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.56 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.56
Tolls, rates and charges; use of funds
Status: in_force

As provided in the compact and, in any event, not in derogation of any powers granted therein or in any manner heretofore, the authority is authorized to establish, levy, collect and combine tolls, rents, rates, and other charges and revenues in accordance with the compact and the Congressional consents thereto as it may deem convenient or necessary for the use of the new toll bridge and of other bridges, projects and other undertakings authorized by the compact and to use and pledge the same as provided in the compact and the Congressional consents thereto. The new toll bridge may be constructed, in whole or in part, with funds to be raised by the authority on bonds or other securities or obligations issued or incurred by it pursuant to the compact. L.1964, c. 276, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 32:15-1 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-1
Authority conferred upon park commission
Status: in_force

Palisades Interstate Park Commission shall have the authority and power heretofore conferred upon the board of commissioners of Palisades interstate park, a body politic created pursuant to an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection, location, appropriation and management of certain lands along the Palisades of the Hudson river for an interstate park, and thereby to preserve the scenery of the Palisades," approved March twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred, to lay out, construct and maintain a drive through the Palisades Interstate Park, known as the "Henry Hudson drive," and to lay out, construct and maintain suitable spurs to connect the drive with the Hudson river and top of the Palisades cliffs, with authority to receive and spend for such purpose gifts, contributions and bequests, granted and conferred by the act of April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, chapter one hundred and ten, pamphlet laws page one hundred and seventy-seven, and the act of April eighth, nineteen hundred and ten, chapter one hundred and twenty-four, pamphlet laws page two hundred and eight. Amended by L.1939, c. 191, p. 563, s. 30.
N.J. Stat. § 32:20-44 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20 / Section 20-44
Time of possession and use of property described in declaration of taking
Status: in_force

Six months after the filing of the said declaration as aforesaid and depositing with the Clerk of the Superior Court the amount of the estimated compensation stated in said declaration, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey, without other process or proceedings, shall be entitled to the exclusive possession and use of each tract of land or property described in said declaration and may forthwith enter into and take possession of said land or property, it being the intent of this provision that the proceedings for compensation or any other proceedings relating to the taking of said land or interest therein or other property shall not delay the taking of possession thereof and the use thereof by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey for the purpose or purposes for which the department is authorized by this act to acquire or condemn such land or other property or interest therein. L.1953, First Sp.Sess., c. 443, p. 2429, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-49 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-49
Development contracts
Status: in_force

The commission may after public notice and hearing enter into contracts on reasonable terms, consideration and duration under which public utilities or public agencies may develop hydroelectric power and hydroelectric energy through the use of dams, related facilities and other appurtenances. L.1961, c. 13, p. 63, s. 9.4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:31-4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-4
Rights and obligations
Status: in_force

Article III. Rights and Obligations A. There shall be provided within the region one or more regional facilities which, together with such other facilities as may be made available to the region, will provide sufficient capacity to manage all wastes generated within the region. (1) Regional facilities shall be entitled to waste generated within the region, unless otherwise provided by the commission. To the extent regional facilities are available, no waste generated within a party state shall be exported to facilities outside the region unless the exportation is approved by the commission and the affected host state(s). (2) After January 1, 1986, no person shall deposit at a regional facility waste generated outside the region, and further, no regional facility shall accept waste generated outside the region, unless approved by the commission and the affected host state(s). b. The rights, responsibilities and obligations of each party state to this compact are as follows: (1) Each party state shall have the right to have all wastes generated within its borders managed at regional facilities, and shall have the right of access to facilities made available to the region through agreements entered into by the commission pursuant to Article IV i. (11). The right of access by a generator within a party state to any regional facility is limited by the generator's adherence to applicable state and federal laws and regulations and the provisions of this compact. (2) To the extent not prohibited by federal law, each party state shall institute procedures which will require shipments of low-level waste generated within or passing through its borders to be consistent with applicable federal packaging and transportation regulations and applicable host state packaging and transportation regulations for management of low-level waste; provided, however, that these practices shall not impose unreasonable, burdensome impediments to the management of low-level waste in the region, Upon notification by a host state that a generator, shipper, or carrier within the party state is in violation of applicable packaging or transportation regulations, the party state shall take appropriate action to ensure that the violations do not recur. (3) Each party state may impose reasonable fees upon generators, shippers, or carriers to recover the cost of inspections and other practices under this compact. (4) Each party state shall encourage generators within its borders to minimize the volume of waste requiring disposal. (5) Each party state has the right to rely on the good faith performance by every other party state of acts which ensure the provision of facilities for regional availability and their use in a manner consistent with this compact. (6) Each party state shall provide, to the commission any data and information necessary for the implementation of the commission's responsibilities, and shall establish the capability to obtain any data and information necessary to meet its obligation as herein defined. (7) Each party state shall have the capability to host a regional facility in a timely manner and to ensure the post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any regional facility within its borders. (8) No nonhost party state shall be liable for any injury to persons or property resulting from the operation of a regional facility or the transportation of waste to a regional facility; however, if the host state itself is the operator of the regional facility, its liability shall be that of any private operator. c. The rights, responsibilities and obligations of a host state are as follows: (1) To the extent not prohibited by federal law, a host state shall ensure the timely development and the safe operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any regional facility within its borders. (2) In accordance with procedures established in Articles V and IX, the host state shall provide for the establishment of a reasonable structure of fees sufficient to cover all costs related to the development, operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of a regional facility. It may also establish surcharges to cover the regulatory costs, incentives, and compensation associated with a regional facility; provided, however, that without the express approval of the commission, no distinction in fees or surcharges shall be made between persons of the several states party to this compact. (3) To the extent not prohibited by federal law, a host state may establish requirements and regulations pertaining to the management of waste at a regional facility; provided, however, that the requirements shall not impose unreasonable impediments to the management of low-level waste within the region. Nor may a host state or a subdivision impose any restrictive requirements on the siting or operation of a regional facility that, alone or as a whole, they serve as unreasonable barriers or prohibitions to the siting or operation of the facility. (4) Each host state shall submit to the commission annually a report concerning each operating regional facility within its borders. The report shall contain projections of the anticipated future capacity and availability of the regional facility, a financial audit of its operation, and other information as may be required by the commission; and in the case of regional facilities in institutional control or otherwise no longer operating, the host states shall furnish information as may be required on the facilities still subject to their jurisdiction. (5) A host state shall notify the commission immediately if any exigency arises which requires the permanent, temporary, or possible closure of any regional facility located therein at a time earlier than projected in its most recent annual report to the commission. The commission may conduct studies, hold hearings, or take such other measures to ensure that the actions taken are necessary and compatible with the obligations of the host state under this compact. L.1983, c. 329, s. 2, Art. III, eff. Sept. 1, 1983.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11-3 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-3
General powers and duties of joint commission
Status: in_force

The joint commission may: a. Cause to be prepared the necessary and proper plans and specifications for the construction of any bridge across the Delaware river as shall be decided upon; b. Select the location for the same and determine the size, type and method of construction thereof; c. Plan and fix the boundaries of the bridge and the approaches thereto; d. Make all necessary estimates of the probable cost of its construction and the acquisition of ground for its site and approaches; e. Proceed to acquire the ground for the sites of the abutments and the approaches to such bridge in the manner hereinafter provided; f. Enter into necessary contracts to build and equip the bridge and its approaches; g. Obtain such consent as may be necessary of the government of the United States and the approval of the secretary of war; and h. Cause a survey and map to be made of all lands, structures, rights of way, franchises, easements and other interests in lands lying within the state, including lands under water and riparian land owned by any person, corporation or municipality, the acquisition of which may be deemed necessary for the construction of the bridge, and cause such maps and surveys to be filed in its office.
N.J. Stat. § 32:14-4.2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-4.2
Removal
Status: in_force

The commission may remove any person appointed pursuant to the provisions of this act after notice and an opportunity to be heard. L.1981, c. 93, s. 2, eff. March 31, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 32:17-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-2
Preamble; consideration of agreement
Status: in_force

Whereas, heretofore the states of New York and New Jersey have co-operated in the establishment and maintenance of an interstate park along the front of the Palisades in said states and in the mountainous lands in Rockland and Orange counties in the state of New York, by respectively enacting legislation creating in each state a body politic by the name and style of "commissioners of the Palisades Interstate park" , with power to acquire lands for such park, and improve and manage the same, and by respectively appointing, in practically all cases, the same persons as members of each of such state bodies politic; and Whereas, it is confidently believed that the creation, by interstate compact, of a joint corporate municipal instrumentality to hold and manage such interstate park will provide greater flexibility and harmony in the management of the park, Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual advantages and benefits to accrue to the peoples of the states of New York and New Jersey from this compact and in consideration of the mutual covenants of the parties hereto herein contained, the sovereign state of New York and the sovereign state of New Jersey do hereby agree as follows:
N.J. Stat. § 32:3-13.58 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-13.58
Powers as additional
Status: in_force

Any powers vested in the authority by this act shall be in addition to and not in diminution of the powers heretofore vested by law in the authority. L.1964, c. 276, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-16 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-16
Allocations, diversions and releases
Status: in_force

The commission shall have the power from time to time as need appears, in accordance with the doctrine of equitable apportionment, to allocate the waters of the basin to and among the States signatory to this compact and to and among their respective political subdivisions, and to impose conditions, obligations and release requirements related thereto, subject to the following limitations: (a) The commission, without the unanimous consent of the parties to the United States Supreme Court decree in New Jersey v. New York, 347 U.S. 995 (1954), shall not impair, diminish or otherwise adversely affect the diversions, compensating releases, rights, conditions, obligations, and provisions for the administration thereof as provided in said decree; provided, however, that after consultation with the river master under said decree the commission may find and declare a state of emergency resulting from a drought or catastrophe and it may thereupon by unanimous consent of its members authorize and direct an increase or decrease in any allocation or diversion permitted or releases required by the decree, in such manner and for such limited time as may be necessary to meet such an emergency condition. (b) No allocation of waters hereafter made pursuant to this section shall constitute a prior appropriation of the waters of the basin or confer any superiority of right in respect to the use of those waters, nor shall any such action be deemed to constitute an apportionment of the waters of the basin among the parties hereto; provided that this paragraph shall not be deemed to limit or restrict the power of the commission to enter into covenants with respect to water supply, with a duration not exceeding the life of this compact, as it may deem necessary for the benefit or development of the water resources of the basin. (c) Any proper party deeming itself aggrieved by action of the commission with respect to an out-of-basin diversion or compensating releases in connection therewith, notwithstanding the powers delegated to the commission by this compact may invoke the original jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court within 1 year after such action for an adjudication and determination thereof de novo. Any other action of the commission pursuant to this section shall be subject to judicial review in any court of competent jurisdiction. L.1961, c. 13, p. 50, s. 3.3.
N.J. Stat. § 32:20B-2 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 20B / Section 20B-2
Findings, declarations relative to a bistate river commission.
Status: in_force

2. The Legislature finds and declares that the States of New Jersey and New York and their respective citizens share a common concern to protect their personal safety and property through the identification and remediation of potential flood hazards along the Hackensack River, Sparkill Brook/Creek, Saddle River, Ramapo/Mahwah River, and their tributaries and watersheds; that because the Hackensack River, Sparkill Brook/Creek, Saddle River, Ramapo/Mahwah River, and their tributaries cross the interstate border region, the identification and remediation of potential flood hazards require a bistate comprehensive approach; that a bistate comprehensive flood prevention approach will also help ensure the preservation and maintenance of the environmental benefits of the Hackensack River, Sparkill Brook/Creek, Saddle River, Ramapo/Mahwah River, and their tributaries; that a bistate approach will encourage open space preservation and recreational opportunities along the Hackensack River, Sparkill Brook/Creek, Saddle River, Ramapo/Mahwah River, and their tributaries; and that there has been a long history of cooperation among state and local governmental entities and various private organizations and individuals in the vicinity of the Hackensack River, Sparkill Brook/Creek, Saddle River, Ramapo/Mahwah River, and their tributaries to ensure the preservation of those water bodies and watersheds. The Legislature therefore determines that there is a need to endorse and formalize that bistate cooperative effort to identify and remediate potential flood hazards and to protect the natural, scenic and recreational opportunities of the Hackensack River, Sparkill Brook/Creek, Saddle River, Ramapo/Mahwah River and their tributaries; and that the creation of a bistate commission is an appropriate means to accomplish these very important goals. L.2011, c.177, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-154.4 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-154.4
Traffic lights, signs, signals or orders
Status: in_force

All persons in or upon vehicular crossings 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. L.1950, c. 192, p. 430, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:11D-67 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 11D / Section 11D-67
Funding and refunding
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission deems it expedient, it may fund and refund its bonds and other obligations whether or not such bonds and obligations have matured. It may provide for the issuance, sale or exchange of refunding bonds for the purpose of redeeming or retiring any bonds (including the payment of any premium, duplicate interest or cash adjustment required in connection therewith) issued by the commission or issued by any other issuing body, the proceeds of the sale of which have been applied to any facility acquired by the commission or which are payable out of the revenues of any facility acquired by the commission. Bonds may be issued partly to refund bonds and other obligations then outstanding, and partly for any other purpose of the commission. All provisions of this compact applicable to the issuance of bonds are applicable to refunding bonds and to the issuance, sale or exchange thereof. L.1961, c. 13, p. 69, s. 12.4.
N.J. Stat. § 32:36-25 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-25
Amendment, alteration, supplementation, repeal.
Status: in_force

25. Section 1 through section 24 of this act establishing the "Gateway Development Commission Act" may be amended, altered, supplemented, or repealed from time to time through the enactment of law by one state concurred in through the enactment of law in the other state. L.2019, c.195, s.25.
N.J. Stat. § 32:17-10 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-10
Amendment of compact; jurat
Status: in_force

ARTICLE VIII. 1. This compact may be amended from time to time by the concurrent action of the two states who are parties hereto. In witness whereof, the sovereign states of New York and New Jersey, respectively, have caused this compact to be signed and sealed in triplicate by their respective commissioners thereunto duly authorized this day of , nineteen hundred thirty- . L.1937, c. 148, s. 1, pp. 364 to 371.
N.J. Stat. § 32:1-35.36 — NJ Code / Title 32 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-35.36
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 sections one to five, inclusive, of this act; but if the State of New York shall have already enacted such legislation, then this act shall take effect immediately. L.1947, c. 44, p. 157, s. 9.