An Act granting the consent of Congress to a further 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
PL 88-320 (H.R.7332), enacted 06/12/1964

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Public Law 88-320 
AN ACT 
June 13, 1964 
Granting the consent of Congress to a further supplemental compact or agree- 
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ment 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. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
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United States of America in Congress assenwled. That the consent of „ ^^^ Jersey-
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Congress is hereby given to the supplemental compact or agreement set terstate compact. 
forth below, and to each and every term and provision thereof: c<^°r^*"* °^ 
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 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 otherwise affected by 
the terms thereof: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall 
be construed as granting the consent of Congress in advance to the 
performance or effectuation of any purposes set forth in article I, 
paragraph (1) not now otherwise permitted or provided for under 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 power and duties, which 
was executed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by its 
Governor on July first, 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 July first, one thousand nine 
Imndred and thirty-one, and which was consented to by the Congress by 
Public Resolution Number twenty-six, being chapter two hundred 
fifty-eight of the Public Laws, Seventy-second Congress, approved 
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June fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, as hereto-
fore amended and supplemented and as amended and supplemented by 
the supplemental compact or agreement hereby consented to: 
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENN-
SYLVANIA A
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D THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY FURTHER AMENDING AND 
SUPPLEMENTING THE AGREEMENT ENTITLED "AGREEMENT BETWEEN 
THE 
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AND T H E STATE OF N E W 
JERSEY CREATING T H E DELAWARE RIVER JOINT COMMISSION AS A 
BODY CORPORATE AND POLITIC AND DEFINING ITS POWERS AND 
DUTIES" ENLARGING THE PUBLIC PURPOSES OF THE DELAWARE RIVER 
PORT AUTHORITY AND EXTENDING ITS JURISDICTION, POWERS AND 
DUTIES AND DEFINING SUCH ADDITIONAL PURPOSES, JURISDICTION, 
POWERS AND DUTIES. 
The Commonwealth 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 compact or agreement entitled "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 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by its Gov-
ernor on July first, 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 July first, one thousand nine hundred 
and thirty-one, and which was consented to by the Congress of the 
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United States by Public Resolution Number twenty-six, being chapter 
two hundred fifty-eight of the Public Laws, Seventy-second Congress, 
approved June fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, 
as heretofore amended and supplemented, is amended to read as 
follows: 
AHTICI.E I 
Delaware River 
'Yhe body corporate and politic, heretofore created and known as 
ut ority. 
ry^^ Delaware River Joint Commission, hereby is continued under 
the name of The Delaware River Port Authority (hereinafter in this 
agreement called the "commission""), which shall constitute the public 
corporate instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
and the States 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: 
Purposes. 
^g^^ ^]^g 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 l)istrict for port purposes, or directly related 
thereto, either directly by purchase, lease or contract, or by lease or 
agreement with any other public or private body or corporation, or 
i n any other manner. 
(d) Cooperation with all other bodies interested or concerned with, 
or affected by the promotion, development or use of the Delaware 
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 or the County of Delaware in the Common-
w^ealth of Pennsylvania, 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 com-
merce on the Delaware River and for such purpose the publication 
of literature 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, wharfage, warehouse and 
other facilities necessary for the promotion of commerce on the Dela-
ware River. 
(i) Institution through its counsel, or such other counsel as it shall 
designate, or intervention in, any litigation involving rates, prefer-
ences, rebates or other matters vital to the interest of the Port District: 
Provided, That notice of any such institution of or intervention in 
litigation shall be given promptly to the Attorney General of the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to the Attorney General of the 
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State of New Jersey, and provision for sucli notices shall be made in a 
resolution anthorizni^ an}' such intervention or litigation and shall be 
incorporated in the minutes of the commission. 
(j) The establishment, maintenance, rehabilitation, construction 
and operation of a rapid transit system for the transportation of 
passengers, express, mail, and baggage, or any of them, between points 
in New Jersey within the Port District and within ajthirty-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 utilizing existing rapid transit 
systems, railroad facilities, highways and bridges within the territory 
involved and by the construction or provision of new facilities where 
deemed necessary, and may be established either directly by purchase, 
lease or contract, or by lease or agreement with any other public or 
l)rivate body or corporation, or in any other manner. 
(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. 
(1) The performance or effectuation of such additional bridge, 
tunnel, railroad, rapid transit, transportation, transportation facility, 
terminal, terminal facility, and port improvement and development 
purposes within the Port District as may hereafter be delegated to or 
imposed upon it by the action of either State concurred in by legisla-
tion of the other. 
(2) Said compact or agreement is further amended and supple-
mented by adding thereto, as a part thereof, following Article X I I - A 
thereof, a new article reading as follows: 
AKTICLE XII-B 
Delaware River. 
Bridge construc-
(1) In addition to other public purposes provided for it and other 
powers and duties conferred upon it, and not in limitation thereof, tirnVau^hori^zation, 
and notwithstanding the provisions of any other article hereof, the 
Commission shall have among its authorized purposes, and it shall have 
the power to effectuate, the construction, operation and maintenance 
of a bridge for vehicular traffic across the Delaware River, between 
a point or points in the Township of Logan, New Jersey, and a point 
or points in the City of (liester, Pennsylvania, including approaches 
thereto. 
(2) In addition to other public purposes provided for it and other est^Tbifshmem"""' 
powers and duties conferred upon it, and not in limitation thereof, maintenance, etc. 
and notwithstanding the provisions of any other article hereof, the 
Commission shall have among its authorized purposes, and it shall have 
the power to effectuate, the establishment, rehabilitation, equipment, 
construction, maintenance and operation of ferries for passengers and 
vehicular traffic over and across the Delaware River within the Port 
District between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of 
New Jersey. 
Such ferries may be established either directly by 
purchase, lease or contract, or by lease or agreement with any other 
public or private body or corporation, or in any other manner, and 
may be established by utilizing any existing ferries within the Port 
District across the Delaware River between said Commonwealth and 
said State and by the construction or provision of new facilities where 
deemed necessary. Any such ferry may include such approach high-
ways and interests in land or other property necessary therefor in the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the State of New Jersey as may 
be determined by the (Commission to be necessary to facilitate the flow 
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of traffic in the vicinity of any such ferry or to connect any such ferry 
with the highway system or other traffic facilities in said Common-
wealth or said State. 
Landacquisi- 
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this article, the Commission is hereby granted, in addition to any 
other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it, power and au-
thority to acquire in its name by purchase or otherwise, on such terms 
and conditions and in such manner as it may deem proper, or by the 
exercise of the power of eminent domain, any such land and other 
property which it may determine is reasonably necessary to acquire 
for any of its purposes authorized by this article and any and all 
rights, title and interest in such land and other property, including 
public lands, parks, playgrounds, reservations, highways, or park-
ways, owned by or in which any county, city, borough, town, town-
ship, village, or other political subdivision of the State of New Jersey 
or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has any right, title or interest, 
or parts thereof or rights therein, and any fee simple absolute or any 
lesser interest in private property, and any fee simple absolute in, 
easements upon, or the benefit of restrictions upon, abutting property 
to preserve and protect such land and other property. 
I^pon the 
exercise of the power of eminent domain under this paragraph, the 
compensation to be paid with regard to property located in the State 
of New Jersey shall be ascertained and paid in the manner provided 
in Title 20 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey insofar as the pro-
visions thereof are applicable and not inconsistent \Vith the provisions 
contained in this paragraph, and with regard to property located in 
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall be ascertained and paid in 
the manner provided by the act approved the ninth day of July, one 
thousand nine hundred nineteen (Pamphlet Laws 814) and acts 
amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, insofar as the pro-
visions are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions con-
tained in this paragraph. The Commission may join in separate sub-
divisions in one petition or complaint the descriptions of any number 
of tracts or parcels of such land and other property to be condemned, 
and the names of any number of owners and other parties who may 
have an interest therein, and all such land and other property included 
in said petition or complaint may be condemned in a smgle proceed-
ing : Provided, however. That separate awards shall be made for each 
tract or parcel of such land or other property: And provided 
further. 
That each of said tracts or ])arcels of such land or other property lies 
wholly in or has a substantial part of its value lying wholly within 
the same county. 
(b) Whenever the Commission acquires under this paragraph (3) 
the whole or any part of the right of way of a public utility located in 
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Commission shall, at its 
own expense, provide a substitute right of way on another and favor-
able location. 
Such public utility shall thereupon provide for the 
transfer to, or reconstruction upon, in, under or above said substitute 
right of way of any structures and facilities of said public utility 
located upon, in, under or above said original right of w^ay at the time 
the same is so acquired. 
The Commission is hereby authorized to 
enter into agreements with such public utility to contribute toward the 
expense of such transfer or reconstruction, and in the event that they 
are unable to agree on the amount to be paid, the matter shall be 
referred to the Pennsylvania Public I'tility Commission which shall, 
after hearing thereon, make a finding of the amount to be paid to such 
public utility by the Commission. In case of failure of such public 
utility, within a reasonable time after notice so to do, to remove its 
facilities to such substitute right of way, the Pennsylvania Public 
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Utility (^oniniission sluill have jurisdiction, on petition of the Commis-
sion, to order such transfer or reconstruction. 
Any party to such 
proceedings shall have the right of appeal from the ruling of the Penn-
sylvania Public Utility Commission. 
The Delaware River Port 
Authority is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or by the exer-
cise of the power of eminent domain, any necessary land or right of way 
for the relocation of any such public utility right of way and facilities. 
The substitute right of way thus acquired shall be equal in estate to the 
original right of way acquired from the public utility, and the Com-
mission shall deliver to the public utility a deed, duly executed and 
acknowledged, conveying to it an estate in the substitute right of way 
at least equal to that owned by the public utility in the original right 
of way, or if such substitute right of way is to be acquired by purchase, 
the Commission shall procure and deliver to the public utility a deed 
conveying such estate to it from the owner of the land on which 
such substitute right of way is located. 
This sub-paragraph (b) shall have no application to the relocation of 
public utility facilities located in the beds of public streets, roads or 
highways. 
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by this article, shall have power to make reasonable regulations for the 
installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation 
and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, 
jjoles or any other equipment and appliances (in this sub-paragraph 
(c) called "works") located in the State of New Jersey of any public 
utility as defined in section 48:2-13 of the revised statutes of New 
Jersey, in, on, along, over or under any such project. Whenever in 
connection with the construction or operation of any such project 
the Commission shall determine that it is necessary that any such 
works, which now are or hereafter may be located in, on, along, over 
or under any such project should be relocated in such project, or 
should be removed therefrom, the public utility owning or operating 
such works shall relocate or remove the same in accordance with the 
order of the Commission, provided, however. That, except in the case 
of the relocation or removal of such works located in, on, along, over 
or under public streets, roads or highways, the cost and expenses of 
such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such works 
in a new location or new locations, and the cost of any lands or any 
rights or interest in lands or any other rights acquired to accomplish 
such relocation or removal, less the cost of any lands or any rights or 
interests in lands or any other rights of the public utility paid to the 
public utility in connection with the relocation or removal of such 
works, shall be paid by the Commission and shall be included in the 
cost of such project. 
In case of any such relocation or removal of 
works as aforesaid, the public utility owning or operating the same, 
its successors or assigns, may maintain and operate such works, with 
the necessary appurtenances, in the new location or new locations for 
as long a period, and upon the same terms and conditions, as it had the 
right to maintain and operate such works in their former location. 
In case of any such relocation or removal of works, as aforesaid, the 
Commission shall own and maintain, repair and renew structures with-
in the rights of way of railroad companies carrying any such project 
over railroads, and the Commission shall bear the cost of maintenance, 
repair and renewal of structures within the rights of way of railroad 
companies carrying railroads over any such project, but this provision 
shall not relieve any railroad company from responsibility for dam-
age caused to any authority or railroad structure by the operation of its 
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railroad. Such approaches, curbing, sidewalk paving, guard rails on 
approaches and surface paving on such projects as shall be within the 
rights of way of a railroad company or companies shall be owned and 
maintained, repaired and renewed by the Commission; rails, pipes 
and lines shall be owned and maintained, repaired and renew^ed by 
the railroad company or companies. 
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luissiou to coustruct nsw or additional approach highways shall not 
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be exercised unless and until the Department of Highways of the Com-
monwealth 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 
Xew Jersey shall have filed with the Commission its written approval 
as to approach highways to be located in said State. 
(5) The effectuation of any of the purposes authorized by this 
article, and the exercise or performance by the Commission of any 
of its powers or duties in connection with effectuation of any such 
purpose, shall not be subject to any restrictions, limitations or pro-
visions provided for or set forth in Article X I I hereof. The bridge or 
ferries referred to in this article may be established, constructed or 
erected by the Commission notwithstanding the terms and provisions 
of any other agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
jind the State of New Jersey. 
(6) The Commission shall not construct or erect the bridge referred 
to in this article unless and until the (jovernor of the State of New 
Jersey and the (lovernor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall 
have filed with the (Commission their written consents to such con-
struction or erection. 
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(7) The Commission is hereby granted the following power's in 
addition to any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it: 
(a) To abandon, close off, dismantle, sell or otherwise dispose of, 
any project or facility, or any part thereof, or any other property, 
which the Commission may determine to be no longer useful or neces-
sary for public use. 
(b) To effectuate any of its authorized purposes either directly or 
indirectly by or through wholly owned subsidiary corporations. Any 
such subsidiary corporation shall be a public corporate instrumen-
tality of the (5ommonw"ealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New 
Jersey for such purposes and shall be deemed to be exercising an 
essential governmental function in effectuating such purposes. 
Any 
such subsidiary corporation and any of its property, functions and 
activities shall have such of the privileges, immunities, tax and other 
exemptions of the Commission and of the Commission's property, 
functions and activities, and such of the rights, powers and duties of 
the Commission, as the (Commission shall determine. 
(8) The power of the Commission, which is hereby confirmed, to 
purchase, construct, lease, finance, operate, maintain and own a ter-
minal facility consisting in whole or in part of a parking area or place, 
garage, building, improvement, structure, or other accommodation 
for the parking or storage of motor or other vehicles, including all 
real or personal property necessary or desirable in connection there-
with, shall, notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement, 
be exercised only at such place, in the vicinity of and in connection 
with, or as a part of any bridge, tunnel, ferry, railroad, rapid transit 
system, transportation or terminal facility, as the Commission may 
determine to be necessary or desirable. 
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I N WITNESS WJIKUEOF. this 25th day of June, 1963, RICHARD J. 
HUGHES has affixed his signature hereto as Governor of the State of 
Xew Jersey and caused the great seal of the State to be attached 
hereto. 
S/ Richard J. Hughes 
GOVERNOR, 
STATE OF NEW JERSEY 
Attest: 
S/ Robert J. Burkhardt 
SECRETARY or STATE 
I N WITNESS WHEREOF, this 26th day of June, 1963, WILLIAM W . 
ScRANTON has affixed his signature hereto as Governor of the Com-
nionwealth of Pennsylvania and caused the great seal of the Common-
wealth to be attached hereto. 
S/ William W. Scranton 
GOVERNOR. 
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA 
Attest: 
S/ George I. Bloom 
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH 
SEC. 2. Public Laws 573 and 574, being respectively chapter 921 
continuation o
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and chapter 922 of the Public Laws, Eighty-second Congress, second P''°''^^'°"^-
session, both approved July 17, 1952, are hereby confirmed and con- 
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tinned and shall be construed to apply to the aforesaid supplemental 
compact or agreement as if the supplemental compact or agreement 
had been consented to by such Public Laws. 
SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved June 13, 1964. 
Public Law 88-321 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
June 24. 1964 
To increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for the work of the 
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President's Comniiittee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Refresentatwes 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint resolution 
entitled "Joint Resolution authorizing an appropriation for the work 
of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically 
Handicapped Week", approved July 11, 1949 (63 Stat. 409), as 
amended, is amended by striking out "$300,000'' and inserting in lieu 
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thereof "$400,000". 
Approved June 24, 1964.