An Act granting the consent of Congress to a supplemental compact or agreement between the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania concerning the Delaware River Port Authority, formerly the Delaware River Joint Commission, and for other purposes
PL 82-573 (H.R.8315), enacted 07/17/1952

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July 17,1952 
[H. R. 8315] 
Public Law 573 
CHAPTER 921 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent of Congress to a supplemental compact or agreement 
between the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
concerning the Delaware River Port Authority, formerly the Delaware River 
Joint Commission, and for other purposes. 
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Consent of Con-
gress. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Pwf AuttTority!^*' United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent 
Supplementary of Congress is hereby given to the supplemental compact or agree-
compac , ennsy - ^^^^^ g^^ forth below, and to eacli and every term and provision 
thereof: Provided, That nothing therein contained shall be construed 
to affect, impair, or diminish any right, power, or jurisdiction of the 
United States or of any court, department, board, bureau, officer, or 
official of the United States, over or in regard to any navigable waters, 
or any commerce between the States or w^ith foreign countries, or any 
bridge, railroad, highway, pier, wharf, or other facility or improve-
ment, or any other person, matter, or thing, forming the subject matter 
of said supplemental compact or agreement or otherwise affected by 
the terms thereof: Provided further, That the consent of Congress 
hereby given shall not be construed to affect in any manner w^hatsoever 
the application of the internal-revenue laws of the United States to 
the bonds or other securities or obligations issued by the commission, 
their transfer and the income therefrom (including any profits made 
on the sale thereof): 
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF 
PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY 
47 Stat. 308. 
AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING THE AGREEMENT ENTITLED "AGREEMENT 
B E T W E E N T H E COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AND T H E STATE OF 
N E W JERSEY CREATING THE DELAWARE RIVER J O I N T COMMISSION AS A 
BODY CORPORATE AND POLITIC AND DEFINING ITS POWERS AND DUTIES," 
CHANGING T H E NAME OF T H E DELAWARE RIVER J O I N T COMMISSION TO 
T H E DELAWARE RIVER PORT AUTHORITY, CHANGING T H E 
METHOD OF 
APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMISSIONERS, EXTENDING T H E 
JURISDICTION, 
POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID T H E DELAWARE RIVER PORT AUTHORITY, 
AND DEFINING SUCH ADDITIONAL JURISDICTION, POWERS AND DUTIES 
The Commonw^ealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey 
do hereby solemnly covenant and agree each with the other, as follows: 
(1) Article I of the "Agreement between the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey creating the Delaware 
River Joint Commission as a body corporate and politic and defining 
its powers and duties," which was executed on behalf of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania by its Governor on the first day of July, one 
thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and on behalf of the State of 
New Jersey by the New Jersey Interstate Bridge Commission by its 
members on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and 
thirty-one, and which was consented to by the Congress of the United 
States by Public Resolution Number Twenty-six, being chapter two 
hundred fifty-eight of the Public Laws, Seventy-second Congress, 
approved the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and 
thirty-two, is amended to read as follows: 
Delaware R iver 
Port Auliiority. 
ARTICLE I 
The body corporate and politic, heretofore created and known as 
the Delaware River Joint Commission hereby is continued under 
the name of the Delaware River Port Authority (hereinafter in this 
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agreement called the "commission"), which shall constitute the public 
corporate instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and 
the State of New Jersey for the following public purposes, and 
which shall be deemed to be exercising an essential governmental 
function in effectuating such purposes, to wit: 
(a) The operation and maintenance of the bridge, owned jointly 
by the two States across the Delaware river between the city of 
Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the city of 
Camden in the State of New Jersey, including its approaches, and 
the making of additions and improvements thereto. 
(b) The effectuation, establishment, construction, operation and 
maintenance of railroad or other facilities for the transportation of 
passengers across any bridge or tunnel owned or controlled by the 
commission, including extensions of such railroad or other facilities 
within the city of Camden and the city of Philadelphia necessary 
for efficient operation in the Port District. 
(c) The improvement and development of the Port District for 
port purposes by or through the acquisition, construction, mainte-
nance or operation of any and all projects for the improvement and 
development of the Port District for port purposes, or directly re-
lated thereto, either directly by purchase, lease or contract, or by 
lease or agreement with any other public or private body or corpora-
tion or in any other manner. 
(d) Co-operation with all other bodies interested or concerned 
with, or affected by the promotion, development or use of the Dela-
ware river and the Port District. 
(e) The procurement from the government of the United States 
of any consents which may be requisite to enable any project within 
its powers to be carried forward. 
(f) The construction, acquisition, operation and maintenance of 
other bridges and tunnels across or under the Delaware river, between 
the city of Philadelphia and the State of New Jersey, including 
approaches and the making of additions and improvements thereto. 
(g) The promotion as a highway of commerce of the Delaware 
river, and the promotion of increased passenger and freight commerce 
on the Delaware river and for such purpose the publication of litera-
ture and the adoption of any other means as may be deemed 
appropriate. 
(h) To study and make recommendations to the proper authorities 
for the improvement of terminal, lighterage, w^harfage, warehouse 
and other facilities necessary for the promotion of commerce on the 
Delaware river. 
(i) Institution through its counsel, or such other counsel as it shall 
designate, or intervention in, any litigation involving rates, pref-
erences, rebates or other matters vital to the interest of the Port 
District; provided, that notice of any such institution of or inter-
vention in litigation shall be given promptly to the Attorney General 
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to the Attorney General 
of the State of New Jersey, and provision for such notices shall be 
made in a resolution authorizing any such intervention or litigation 
and shall be incorporated in the minutes of the commission. 
(j) The establishment, maintenance, rehabilitation, construction _..^^fJP ^ *
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and operation of a rapid transit system for the transportation of 
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passengers, express, mail, and baggage between points in New Jersey 
communities within the Port District and within a thirty-five (35) 
mile radius of the city of Camden, New Jersey, and points within 
the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and intermediate points. 
Such system may be established by either utilizing existing rapid 
transit systems, railroad facilities, highways and bridges within the 
system. 
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territory involved or by the construction or provision of new facilities 
where deemed necessary. 
(k) The performance of such other functions which may be of 
mutual benefit to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State 
of New Jersey insofar as concerns the promotion and development of 
the Port District for port purposes and the use of its facilities by 
commercial vessels. 
(2) Article I I of said agreement is amended to read as follows: 
ARTICLE II 
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^^^ commissiou shall consist of sixteen commissioners, eight resi-
sioji. 
dent voters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and ei^ht resident 
voters of the State of New Jersey, who shall serve without com-
pensation. 
I ' 
The present members of the commission, including ex-officio mem-
bers, shall continue to serve, respectively, as commissioners until the 
expiration of their terms or the terms of office by virtue of the holding 
of which they are members of the commission and until succeeding 
commissioners shall be appointed and qualify, except that the terms 
of the present members of the commission for the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania shall expire as of the date of the coming into force of 
the supplemental compact or agreement authorized by the Act of the 
1951 General Assembly of said Commonwealth providing for amend-
ment of this article. 
The commissioners for the State of New Jersey shall be appointed 
by the Governor of New Jersey with the advice and consent of the 
Senate of New Jersey, for terms of five years, and in case of a vacancy 
occurring in the office of commissioner during a recess of the Legis-
lature, it may be filled by the Governor by an ad interim appointment 
which shall expire at the end of the next regular session of the Senate 
unless a successor shall be sooner appointed and qualify and, after 
the end of the session, no ad interim appointment to the same vacancy 
shall be made unless the Governor shall have submitted to the Senate 
a nomination to the office during the session and the Senate shall have 
adjourned without confirming or rejecting it, and no person nominated 
for any such vacancy shall be eligible for an ad interim appointment 
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to such office if the nomination shall have failed of confirmation by 
the Senate. 
Six of the eight commissioners for the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania shall be appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania for terms 
of five years. The Auditor General and the State Treasurer of said 
Commonwealth shall ex-officio be commissioners for said Common-
wealth, each having the privilege of appointing a representative to 
serve in his place at any meeting of the commission which he does not 
attend personally. 
All commissioners shall continue to hold office after the expiration 
^ 
of the terms for which thej^ are appointed or elected until their 
respective successors are appointed and qualify, but no period during 
which any commissioner shall hold over shall be deemed to be an 
extension of his term of office for the purpose of computing the date 
on which his successor's term expires. 
(3) Article IV of said agreement is amended to read as follows: 
ARTICLE IV 
For the effectuation of its authorized purposes the commission is 
hereby granted the following powers: 
(a) To have perpetual succession. 
(b) To sue and be sued. 
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(c) To adopt and use an official seal. 
(d) To elect a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer, 
and to adopt suitable bylaws for the management of its affairs. 
The 
secretary and treasurer need not be jnembers of the commission. 
(e) To appoint, hire, or employ counsel and such other officers and 
such agents and employees as it may require for the performance xjf 
its duties, by contract or otherwise, and fix and determine their quali-
fications, duties, and compensation. 
(f) To enter into contracts. 
(g) To acquire, own, hire, use, operate and dispose of personal 
property. 
(h) To acquire, own, use, lease, operate, mortgage and dispose of 
real property and interests in real property, and to make improve-
ments thereon. 
(i) To grant by franchise, lease or otherwise, the use of any prop-
erty or facility owned or controlled by the commission and to make 
charges therefor. 
(j) To borrow money upon its bonds or other obligations, either 
with or without security, and to make, enter into and perform any and 
all such covenants and agreements with the holders of such bonds or 
other obligations as the commission may determine to be necessary or 
desirable for the security and payment thereof, including without lim-
itation of the foregoing, covenants and agreements as to the manage-
ment and operation of any property or facility owned or controlled by 
it, the tolls, rents, rates or other charges to be established, levied, made 
and collected for any use of any such property or facility, or the ap-
plication, use and disposition of the proceeds of any bonds or other 
obligations of the commission or the proceeds of any such tolls, rents, 
rates or other charges or any other revenues or moneys of the com-
mission. 
(k) To exercise the right of eminent domain within the Port Dis-
trict. 
(1) To determine the exact location, system and character of and 
all other matters in connection with any and all improvements or 
facilities which it may be authorized to own, construct, establish, 
effectuate, operate or control. 
(m) In addition to the foregoing, to exercise the powers, duties, 
authority and jurisdiction heretofore conferred and imposed upon 
the aforesaid the Delaware River Joint Commission by the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania or the State of New Jersey, or both of the 
said two States; 
(n) To exercise all other powers not inconsistent with the consti-
tutions of the two States or of the United States, which may be 
reasonably necessary or incidental to the effectuation of its authorized 
purposes or to the exercise of any of the foregoing powers, except 
the power to levy taxes or assessments, and generally to exercise in 
connection with its property and affairs, and in connection with 
property within its control, any and all powers which might be 
exercised by a natural person or a private corporation in connection 
with similar property and affairs. 
(o) To acquire, purchase, construct, lease, operate, maintain and 
undertake any project, including any terminal, terminal facility, 
transportation facility, or any other facility of commerce and to 
make charges for the use thereof. 
(p) To make expenditures anywhere in the United States and 
foreign countries, to pay commissions, and hire or contract with 
experts and consultants, and otherwise to do indirectly anything 
which the commission may do directly. 
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The commission shall also have such additional powers as may 
hereafter be delegated to or imposed upon it from time to time by 
the action of either State concurred in by legislation of the other. 
It is the policy and intent of the Legislatures of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey that the powers granted 
by this article shall be so exercised that the American system of free 
competitive private enterprise is given full consideration and is main-
tained and furthered. 
In making its reports and recommendations 
to the Legislatures of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the 
State of New Jersey on the need for any facility or project which 
the commission believes should be undertaken for the promotion and 
development of the Port District, the commission shall include therein 
its findings which fully set forth that the facility or facilities operated 
by private enterprise within the Port District and which it is intended 
shall be supplanted or added to are not adequate. 
(4) Article X I of said agreement is amended to read as follows: 
ARTICLE XI 
The effectuation of its authorized purposes by the commission is 
and will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey, for the increase 
of their commerce and prosperity and for the improvement of their 
health and living conditions; and since . the commission will be 
performing essential governmental functions in effectuating said 
purposes, the commission shall not be required to pay any taxes or 
assessments upon any property acquired or used by it for such purposes, 
and the bonds or other securities or obligations issued by the com-
mission, their transfer and the income therefrom (including any 
profits made on the sale thereof) shall at all times be free from 
taxation within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State 
of New Jersey. 
To the end that municipalities may not suffer undue loss of tax 
revenue by reason of the acquisition and ownership of property therein 
by the commission, the commission is hereby authorized and empow-
ered, in its discretion, to enter into a voluntary agreement or agree-
ments with any municipality, whereby it will undertake to pay a fair 
and reasonable sum or sums to compensate the said municipality for 
any loss of tax revenue in connection with any property acquired by 
the commission after one thousand nine hundred and fifty other than 
property acquired for bridge, tunnel or passenger transportation pur-
poses. Any such payment or payments which the commission is hereby 
authorized and empowered to make may be made on an annual basis, 
in which case the payment or payments shall not be in excess of the 
amount of the taxes upon the property when last assessed prior to the 
time of its acquisition by the commission, or such payment or pay-
ments may be made in a lump sum or sums, or over a stated period of 
years, as shall be agreed upon by and between the commission and such 
municipality. 
Every municipality wherein the property shall be 
acquired by the commission is authorized and empowered to enter into 
such agreement or agreements with the commission to accept the pay-
ment or payments which the commission is herein authorized and 
empowered to make. 
(5) Article X I I of said agreement is amended to read as follows: 
ARTICLE 
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The commission shall make annual reports to the Governors and 
Legislatures of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of 
New Jersey, setting forth in detail its operations and transactions, and 
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may make such additional reports from time to time to the Governors 
and Legislatures as it may deem desirable. 
Copies thereof shall be 
available for public information and use. 
Whenever the commission after investigation and study shall have 
concluded plans, with estimates of cost and means of financing, for any 
new project for a purpose other than any described in Article I, sub-
divisions (b) or (j) hereof, for transportation across or under the 
Delaware river within the Port District or improvement of the Dela-
ware river's port facilities, the commission shall make to the Legis-
latures of each State a detailed report dealing only with the contem-
plated project and shall request of said Legislatures authority to 
proceed with the project described and it shall not be within the power 
of the commission to construct, erect or otherwise acquire any new^ 
facility or project, for a purpose other than any described in Article I, 
subdivisions (b) or (j) hereof, unless and until the Legislatures of 
both States shall have authorized the commission to proceed with the 
project outlined in its special report thereon. 
In addition to other powers conferred upon it, and not in limitation ^J^cony-Paimyra 
thereof, the commission may acquire all right, title and interest in and 
Acquisition, 
to the Tacony-Palmyra bridge, across the Delaware river at Palmyra, 
New Jersey, together with any approaches and interests in real prop-
erty necessary thereto. The acquisition of such bridge, approaches 
an^ interests by the commission shall be by purchase or by condemna-
tion 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 com-
mission shall be pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions 
of section 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 Common-
wealth 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 instru-
mentality, public body, commission, public agency or political sub-
division (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. None of the provisions of the preceding paragraph 
shall be applicable with respect to the acquisition by the commission, 
pursuant to this paragraph, of said Tacony-Palmyra 
bridge, 
approaches and interests. 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. 
It shall not be within the power of the commission to construct, 
erect, or otherwise acquire any new facility or project for a purpose 
described in Article I, subdivision (j) hereof, unless and until the com-
mission shall have made to the Legislature and Governor of the State 
of New Jersey and to the Legislature and Governor of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania a detailed report dealing only with such 
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contemplated facility or project, and the Governor of said State and 
the Governor of said Commonwealth shall have filed with the com-
mission their written consents to such construction, erection or 
acquisition. 
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, to finance, construct, operate 
and maintain the Pennsylvania Turnpike System or any turnpike 
project of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, respectively, through-
out the Port District, including the right and power, acting alone or 
in conjunction with each other, to provide for the financing, construc-
tion, 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 existing bridge, 
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operated and maintained by the commission, across the Delaware 
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river between the city of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania and the city of Camden in the State of New Jersey, so long 
as there are any outstanding bonds or other securities or obligations 
of the commission for which the tolls, rents, rates, or other revenues, 
or any part thereof, of said existing bridge shall have been pledged. 
Nothing contained in this agreement shall be construed to authorize 
the commission to condemn any such bridge. 
Anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, no 
bridge or tunnel shall be constructed, acquired, operated or main-
tained by the commission across or under the Delaware river north 
of the boundary line between Bucks county and Philadelphia county 
, 
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as extended across the Dela-
ware river to the New Jersey shore of said river, and any new bridge 
or tunnel authorized by or pursuant to this compact or agreement 
to be constructed or erected by the commission may be constructed or 
erected at any location south of said boundary line notwithstanding 
the terms and provisions of any other agreement between the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey. 
Except as may 
hereafter be otherwise provided in conformity with Article I X hereof 
with respect to specific properties designated by action of the Legis-
latures of both of the signatory States, no property or facility owned 
or controlled by the commission shall be acquired from it by any exer-
cise of powers of condemnation or eminent domain. 
(6) Said agreement is further amended by adding thereto, follow-
ing the last article thereof, a new article reading as follows: 
ARTICLE XIII 
Definitions. 
^g ^sed herein, unless a different meaning clearly appears from 
the context: 
"Port District" shall mean all the territory within the counties of 
Delaware and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and all the territory 
within the counties of Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cum-
berland, Gloucester, Ocean and Salem in New Jersey. 
"Commission" shall mean the Delaware River Port Authority and, 
w^hen required by the context, the board constituting the governing 
body thereof in charge of its property and affairs. 
"Commissioner" shall mean a member of the governing body of the 
Delaware River Port Authority. 
"Terminal" shall include any marine, motor truck, railroad and 
air terminal, also any coal, grain and lumber terminal and any union 
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freight and other terminals used or to be used in connection with 
the transportation of passengers and freight, and equipment, mate-
rials and supplies therefor. 
"Transportation facility" and "facilities for transportation of pas-
sengers" shall include railroads operated by steam, electricity or other 
power, rapid transit lines, motor trucks, tunnels, bridges, airports, 
boats, ferries, carfloats, lighters, tugs, floating elevators, barges, 
scows, or harbor craft of any kind, and aircraft, and equipment, mate-
rials and supplies therefor. 
"Terminal facility" shall include wharves, piers, slips, ferries, docks, 
drydocks, ship repair yards, bulkheads, dock walls, oasins, carfloats, 
float-bridges, 
dredging equipment, radio receiving and sending sta-
tions, grain or other storage elevators, warehouses, cold storage, tracks, 
yards, sheds, switches, connections, overhead appliances, bunker coal, 
oil and fresh water stations, markets, and every kind of terminal, 
storage or supply facility now in use, or hereafter designed for use 
to facilitate passenger transportation and for the handling, storage, 
loading or unloading of freight at terminals, and equipment, mate-
rials and supplies therefor. 
"Transportation of passengers" and "passenger transportation" 
shall mean the transportation of passengers by railroad or other 
facilities. 
"Rapid transit system" shall mean a transit system for the trans-
portation of passengers, express, mail and baggage by railroad or 
other facilities, and equipment, materials and supplies therefor. 
"Project" shall mean any improvement, betterment, facility or 
structure authorized by or pursuant to this compact or agreement 
to be constructed, erected, acquired, owned or controlled or other-
wise undertaken by the commission. 
"Project" shall not include 
undertakings for purposes described in Article I, subdivisions (a), 
( d ) , ( e ) , ( g ) , ( h ) a n d ( i ) . 
"Railroad" shall include railways, extensions thereof, tunnels, 
subways, bridges, elevated structures, tracks, poles, wires, con-
duits, powerhouses, substations, lines for the transmission of power, 
carbarns, shops, yards, sidings, turnouts, switches, stations and 
approaches thereto, cars and motive equipment. 
"Bridge" and "tunnel" shall include such approach highways and 
interests in real property necessary therefor in the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania or the State of New Jersey as may be determined 
by the commission to be necessary to facilitate the flow of traffic 
in the vicinity of a bridge or tunnel or to connect a bridge or tunnel 
with the highway system or other traffic facilities in said Common-
wealth or said State; promded^ however^ that the power and authority 
herein granted to the commission to construct new or additional 
approach highways shall not be exercised unless and until the Depart-
ment of Highways of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall have 
filed with the commission its written approval as to approach high-
ways 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. 
"Facility" shall include all works, buildings, structures, property, 
appliances, and equipment, together with appurtenances necessary 
and convenient for the proper construction, equipment, maintenance 
and operation of a facility or facilities or any one or more of them. 
"Personal property" shall include choses in action and all other 
property now commonly, or legally, defined as personal property, 
or which may hereafter be so defined. 
"Lease" shall include rent or hire. 
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60 Stat. 847. 
33 u s e 525. 
30 Stat. 1151. 
Tolls. 
60 Stat. 848. 
33 u s e 529. 
"Municipality" shall include a county, city, borough, village, town-
ship, town, public agency, public authority or political subdivision. 
Words importing the singular number include the plural number 
and vice versa. 
Wherever legislation or action by the Legislature of either signatory 
State is herein referred to it shall mean an act of the Legislature duly 
adopted in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of such 
State. 
I N WITNESS WHEREOF, this 23rd 
day of August, 1951, ALFRED E . 
DRISCOLL has affixed his signature 
hereto as Governor of the State of 
New Jersey and caused the great 
seal of the State to be attached 
thereto. 
ALFRED E , DRISCOLL 
Governor, 
State of New Jersey 
(Great Seal) 
Attest: 
I N WITNESS WHEREOF, this 30th 
day of August, 1951, JOHN S. 
FINE has affixed his signature 
hereto as Governor of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania and 
caused the great seal of the 
Commonwealth to be attached 
thereto. 
JOHN S. F I N E 
Governor, 
Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania 
(Great Seal) 
LLOYD B . MARSH 
Lloyd B. Marsh 
Secretary of State 
Attest: 
GENE D . SMITH 
Gene D. Smith 
Secretary of the 
Commonwealth 
SEC. 2. Subject to the provisions of the compact or agreement 
between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New 
Jersey creating the Delaware River Joint Commission, as amended 
and supplemented, the Delaware River Port Authority (herein called 
the "commission"), formerly the Delaware River Joint Commission, 
is hereby authorized to construct, acquire, finance, operate, maintain 
and own bridges and tunnels across or under the Delaware River, 
including any bridge heretofore constructed under the authority or 
with the consent of the Congress, with such approaches thereto and 
highway connections as may be necessary or desirable, in accordance 
with the applicable provisions of section 502 (b) of the General 
Bridge Act of 1946 and section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 
March 3, 1899 (33 U. S. C , sec. 403), and is further authorized to 
effectuate, establish, maintain, rehabilitate, construct and operate rail-
road or other facilities for the transportation of passengers across 
any such bridge or tunnel owned or controlled by the commission and 
a rapid transit system for passengers, express, mail, and baggage 
between points within the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 
points within the State of New Jersey, and intermediate points. 
SEC. 3. Notwithstanding any limitation on the collection of tolls 
as prescribed by section 506 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as 
amended, or as prescribed by any Act heretofore enacted by the 
Congress authorizing or consenting to the construction or acquisition 
of any bridge' constructed or acquired by the commission, the com-
mission is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect tolls or other 
charges for the use of any bridge or tunnel heretofore or hereafter 
established, controlled, constructed, or acquired by the commission, 
and to combine any two or more of such bridges or tunnels, or combine 
any one or more of such bridges or tunnels, with any railroad, rapid-
transit system, or other properties or facilities for transportation, 
terminal or port improvement purposes (each such bridge, tunnel, 
railroad, system, or other property or facility being hereinafter 
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referred to as "facility") heretofore or hereafter established, con-
trolled, constructed or acquired by the commission, and combine the 
tolls or revenues therefrom, and to fix, charge, and collect tolls or 
other charges for the use of such facilities so combined, and to use 
or pledge any such tolls or other charges for purposes of financing, 
acquiring, constructing, operating or maintaining any facility or 
facilities, all to the extent provided by and in accordance with the 
provisions of the aforesaid compact or agreement as amended and 
supplemented, as consented to by the Congress, and the laws of the 
State of New Jersey and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with respect 
thereto or to said commission: Provided^ That, as a specific exemption 
from the provisions of section 506 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, 
as amended, the collection of tolls for the use of any bridge hereafter 
constructed or acquired by the commission, in excess of amounts 
reasonably required for the operation and maintenance thereof under 
economical management, shall cease at the expiration of fifty years 
from the date of the opening to traffic by the commission of the bridge 
latest constructed or acquired by said commission after the effective 
date of this Act, and the rate of such tolls shall be subject to the pro-
visions of section 503 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as amended. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
60 Stat. 847. 
33 u s e 526. 
Public Law 574 
CHAPTER 922 
July 17, 1952 
[H. R. 8316] 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent of Congress to a supplemental compact or agreement 
between the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
authorizing the Delaware River Joint Commission to construct, finance, 
operate, maintain and own a vehicular tunnel or tunnels under, or an addi-
tional bridge across, the Delaware River and defining certain functions, 
powers, and duties of said Commission, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the consent 
Delaware River 
of Congress is hereby given to the supplemental compact or agree- 
"suppiem'^i"VTi 
ment set forth below, and to each and every term and provision valJI^^a^ NeJTjeJ-
thereof: Provided^ That nothing therein contained shall be construed ^ev- ^ 
to affect, impair, or diminish any right, power, or jurisdiction of the gress.^* 
United States or of any court, department, board, bureau, officer, or 
official of the United States, over or in regard to any navigable waters, 
or any commerce between the States or with foreign countries, or 
any bridge, railroad, highway, pier, wharf, or other facility or 
improvement, or any other person, matter, or thing, forming the 
subject matter of said supplemental compact or agreement or other-
wise affected by the terms thereof: Provided further^ That the consent 
of Congress hereby given shall not be construed to affect in any 
manner w^hatsoever the application of the internal-revenue laws of 
the United States to the bonds or other securities or obligations 
issued by the commission, their transfer and the income therefrom 
(including any profits made on the sale thereof) : 
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF 
PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY 
A M E N D I N G A N D S U P P L E M E N T I N G T H E A G R E E M E N T E N T I T L E D 
A G R E E M E N T 
B E T W E E N T H E C O M M O N W E A L T H O F PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF