A bill granting the consent of the Congress to a supplemental compact or agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey concerning the Delaware River Port Authority.
PL 102-544 (S.2964), enacted 10/27/1992

106 STAT. 3576 
PUBLIC LAW 102-544—OCT. 27, 1992 
Public Law 102-544 
102d Congress 
An Act 
Oct 27 1992 
Granting the consent of the Congress to a supplemental compact or agreement 
' 
between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey concem-
[S. 2964] 
ijjg tj^g Delaware River Port Authority. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
Congress consents to a supplemental compact or agreement between 
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey 
amending articles I, II, III, IV, XII, and XIII of the compact or 
agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the 
State of New Jersey entitled "Agreement Between The Common-
wealth 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". The supplemental com-
pact or agreement is substantially 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 pohtic and defining 
its powers and duties", as amended and supplemented, is amended 
to read as follows: 
"The body corporate and pohtic, heretofore created and known 
as the Delaware I^ver 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 Commonwegdth of Penn-
sylvania 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 2 States, across the Delaware River between the city of 
Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the city 
of Cgimden in the State of New Jersey, including its approaches, 
and the making of additions and improvements thereto. 
"(b) The effectuation, establishment, construction, acquisition, 
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 rail-
road or other facihties 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, 
maintenance, or operation of any and all projects for the improve-
ment and development of the Port District for port purposes, or 
directly related thereto, either directly by purchase, lease, or con-
tract, or by lease or agreement with any other public or private 
body or corporation 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 
Delaware River and the Port District. 
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"(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 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey, 
including approaches and the making of additions and improve-
ments 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 authori-
ties for the improvement of terminal, lighterage, wharfage, ware-
house 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, 
preferences, 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 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 commis-
sion. 
"(j) The establishment, maintenance, rehabilitation, construc-
tion 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 points in Penn-
sylvania within the Port District, and intermediate points. Such 
system may be established either by utilizing existing rapid transit 
systems, railroad facilities, highways, and bridges within the terri-
tory involved or by the construction or provision of new rail 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 private 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 develop-
ment 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 facil-
ity, terminal, terminal facility, and port improvement and develop-
ment purposes within the Port District as may hereafter be dele-
gated to or imposed upon it by the action of either State concurred 
in by legislation of the other. 
"(m) The unification of the ports of the Delaware River through 
(i) the acquisition or taking control of any terminal, terminal facility, 
transportation facility or marine terminal or port facility or associ-
ated property within the Port District through purchase, lease, 
or otherwise, or by the acquisition, merger, becoming the successor 
to or entering into contracts, agreements, or partnerships with 
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any other port corporation, port authority, or port related entity 
which is located within the Port District, all in accordeince with 
the applicable laws of the State in which the facility, corporation, 
or authority is located; (ii) the exercise of the other powers granted 
by this compact; or (iii) the establishment (whether solely or jointly 
with any other entity or entities) of such subsidiary corporation 
or corporations or maritime or port advisory committees as may 
be necessary or desirable to effectuate this purpose. 
"(n) The planning, financing, development, acquisition, con-
struction, purchase, lease, maintenance, marketing, improvement 
and operation of any project, including but not limited to any 
terminal, terminal facility, transportation facility, or any other facil-
ity of commerce or economic development activity; from funds avail-
able after appropriate allocation for maintenance of bridge and 
other capital facilities.". 
(2) Article II of the agreement is amended to read as follows: 
'The commission shall consist of sixteen commissioners, eight 
resident voters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and eight 
resident voters of the State of New Jersey, who shall serve without 
compensation. 
"The conmiissioners for the State of New Jersey sh£dl 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 Legislature, 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 £uid, after the end of the session, 
no ad interim appointment to the SEime vacancy shgdl be made 
unless the Governor shall have submitted to the Senate a nomina-
tion to the office during the session and the Senate shall have 
adjourned without confirming or rejecting it, and no person nomi-
nated for any such vacancy shall be eligible for an ad interim 
appointment to such office if the nomination shall have failed of 
confirmation by the Senate. 
"Six of the eight commissioners for the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvemia shall be appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania for 
terms of five years. The Auditor General and the State Treasurer 
of said Commonwealth shall be ex officio commissioners for said 
Commonwealth, each having the privilege of appointing a rep-
resentative to serve in his place at a meeting of the commission 
which he does not attend personally. Any commissioner who is 
an elected public official shall have the privilege of appointing 
a representative to serve and act in his place at any meeting 
of the commission which he does not attend personally. 
"All commissioners shall continue to hold office £ ^ r the expira-
tion of the terms for which they are appointed or elected until 
their respective successors are appointed and qualify, but a 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 III of the agreement is amended to read as follows: 
"The commissioners shall have charge of the commission's prop-
erty and affairs and shall for the purpose of doing business con-
stitute a board, but no action of the commissioners shall be binding 
unless a majority of the members of the conmiission from Pennsylva-
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nia and a majority of the members of the commission from New 
Jersey shall vote in favor thereof. 
"Notwithstanding the above, each State reserves the right to 
provide by law for the exercise of a veto power by the Governor 
of that State over any action of any commissioner from that State 
at any time within 10 days (Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays 
in the particular State excepted) after receipt at the Governor's 
office of a certified copy of the minutes of the meeting at which 
such vote was taken. Each State may provide by law for the manner 
of delivery of such minutes, and for notification of the action 
thereon.". 
(4) Article IV of the agreement is amended to read as follows: 
"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. 
"(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 members 
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 of its duties, by contract or otherwise, and 
fix and determine their qualifications, duties, and com-
pensation. 
"(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 improvements thereon. 
"(i) To grant by franchise, lease, or otherwise, the use 
of any property or facility owned or controlled by the commis-
sion 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 limitation of the fore-
going, covenants and agreements as to the management 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 application, use, and disposition of the pro-
ceeds 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 commission. 
"(k) To exercise the right of eminent domain within the 
Port District. 
"(1) To determine the exact location, system, and character 
of and all other matters in connection with any and all improve-
ments 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 
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imposed upon the aforesaid the Delaware River Joint Commis-
sion by the Conmionwealth of Pennsylvania or the State of 
New Jersey, or both of the said 2 States. 
"(n) To exercise aU other powers not inconsistent with 
the constitutions of the 2 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 prop-
erty and affairs. 
"(o) To acquire, purchase, construct, lease, operate, main-
tain, and undertake any project, including any terminal, termi-
nal fadlity, transportation facility, or any other facility of com-
merce ana 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 or consultants, and otherwise to do indirectly 
anything which the commission may do directly. 
"(q) To establish 1 or more operating divisions as deemed 
necessary to exercise the power and effectuate the purposes 
of this agreement. 
The conmiission 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 Legislature of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey that the 
powers granted by this article shall be so exercised that the Amer-
ican system of free competitive private enterprise is given full 
consideration and is maintained and furthered. In making its 
reports and recommendations to the Legislatures of the Conmion-
wealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey on the need 
for any facility or project which the commission beUeves 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.". 
(5) Article XII of the agreement is amended to read as follows: 
Reports. 
'The Commission shall, within 90 days after the end of each 
fiscal year, submit to the Grovemors and Legislatures of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey a complete 
and detailed report of the following: 
"(1) its operations and accomplishments during the com-
pleted fiscal year; 
"(2) its receipts and disbursements or revenues and 
expenses during ihat year in accordance with the categories 
and classifications estabUshed by the commission for its own 
operating and capital outlay purposes; 
"(3) its assets and liabilities at the end of the fiscal year, 
including the status of reserve, depreciation, special or other 
funds including debits and credits of^these funds; 
"(4) a schedule of bonds and notes outstanding at the 
end of tiie fiscal year; 
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"(5) a list of all contracts exceeding $100,000 entered into 
during the fiscal year; 
"(6) a business or strategic plan for the commission and 
for each of its operating divisions; and 
"(7) a five year capital plan. 
"Not less than once every five years, the commission shall 
cause a management audit of its operational effectiveness and effi-
ciency to be conducted by an independent consulting firm selected 
by the commission. The first management audit to be conducted 
shall commence within 3 years of the date of coming into force 
of the supplemental compact or agreement authorized by this 1991 
amendatory act. This audit is in addition to any other audit which 
the commission determines to conduct from time to time. 
"The commission shall, not later than 2 years after the date 
of the coming into force of the supplemental compact or agreement 
authorized by this 1991 amendatory act, prepare a comprehensive 
master plan for the development of the Port District. The plan 
shall include, but not be limited to, plans for the construction, 
financing, development, reconstruction, purchase, lease, improve-
ment, and operation of any terminal, terminal facility, transpor-
tation facility or any other facility of commerce or economic develop-
ment activity. The master plan shall include the general location 
of such projects and facilities as may be included in the master 
plan and shall to the maximum extent practicable include, but 
not be limited to, a general description of each such project and 
facility, the land use requirements necessary therefor, and estimates 
of project costs and of a schedule for commencement of each such 
project. Prior to adopting such master plan, the commission shall 
give written notice to, afford a reasonable opportunity for comment, 
consult with and consider any recommendations from States, county 
and municipal government, as well as commissions, public cor-
porations and authorities, and the private sector. The commission 
may modify or change any part of the plan in the same form 
and manner as provided for the adoption of the original plan. 
At the time the commission authorizes any project or facility, the 
commission shall promptly provide to the Grovemor and Legislature 
of each State a detailed report on the project including its status 
within the master plan. The commission shall include within the 
authorization a status of the project or facility in the master plan 
and any amendment thereof, and no project shall be authorized 
if not included in the master plan or amendment thereof Any 
project which has been commenced and approved by the commission 
prior to the adoption of the master plan shall be included, for 
informational purposes only, in the master plan. The commission 
shall provide notice of such on-going projects to those States, county 
and municipal governments, as well as entities in the private sector 
who would be entitled to such notice had the project not been 
commenced in anticipation of adopting the master plan, but there 
shall be no requirement that the project be delayed or deferred 
due to these provisions. 
"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 Palm3n"a, 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 provi-
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sions of the Federsil law consenting to or authorizing the construc-
tion of such bridge or approaches, or the acquisition of such bridge, 
approaches or interests by the commission 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 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, partner-
ship, 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. None of the provisions of the preceding paragraph 
shall be applicable with respect to the acquisition by the commis-
sion, pursuant to this paragraph, of said Tacony-Palmjra bridge, 
approaches and interests. The power and authority herein granted 
to the commission 
to acquire said Tacony-Palmyra 
bridge, 
approaches £uid interests shall not be exercised unless and until 
the (jovemor 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. 
"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 msdntain the Pennsylvania Turnpike System 
or any turnpike project of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, 
respectively, throughout the Port District, including the right and 
power, 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 10 miles, measured along the 
boundary Une between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and 
the State of New Jersey, fi*om the existing bridge, operated and 
maintained by the commission, 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, 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 Euiy part thereof, of said existing bridge shall have been pledged. 
Nothing contained in this agreement shml 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 
maintained by the commission across or under the Delaware River 
north of the boundary line between Bucks County and Philadelphia 
county in the Conunonwealth of Pennsylvania as extended across 
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106 STAT. 3583 
the Delaware 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 agree-
ment between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State 
of New Jersey. Except as may hereafter be otherwise provided 
in conformity with Article IX hereof with respect to specific prop-
erties designated by action of the Legislatures of both of the signa-
tory States, no property or faciUty owned or controlled by the 
commission shall be acquired from it by any exercise of powers 
of condemnation or eminent domain.". 
(6) Article XIII of the agreement is amended to read as follows: 
''As used herein, unless a different meaning clearly appears 
from the context: 
" Tort District' shall mean all the territory within the counties 
of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia in 
Pennsylvania, and all the territory within the counties of Atlantic, 
BurUngton, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean, 
and Ssdem in New Jersey. 
" 'Commission' shall me£ui the Delaware River Port Authority 
and, when 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. 
" 'Economic development activity or 'economic development' 
means any structure or facility or any development within the 
Port District in connection with manufactiuing, port-oriented devel-
opment, foreign trade zone site development or research, commer-
cial, industrial, or recreational purposes, or for purposes of 
warehousing or consumer and supporting services directly relating 
to £uiy of the foregoing or to any authority project or facility which 
are required for the sound economic development of the Port Dis-
trict. 
" Terminal' shall include any marine, motor truck, motorbus, 
railroad, and air terminal or garage, also any coal, grain, and 
lumber terminal and any union freight and other terminals used 
or to be used in connection with the transportation of passengers 
and freight, and equipment, materials, and suppUes therefor. 
" 'Transportation facility and 'facilities for transportation of 
passengers' shall include railroads operated by steam, electricity, 
or other power, rapid transit Hnes, motor trucks, motorbuses, tun-
nels, bridges, airports, boats, ferries, carfloats, Ughters, tugs, float-
ing elevators, barges, scows, or harbor craft of any kind, and air-
craft, and equipment, materials, and suppUes therefor. 
*
* "Terminal faciUty shall include wharves, piers, sUps, berths, 
ferries, docks, drydocks, ship repair yards, bi:Qkheads, dock walls, 
basins, carfloats, floatbridges, dredging equipment, radio receiving 
and sending stations, grain or other storage elevators, warehouses, 
cold storage, tracks, yards, sheds, switches, connections, overhead 
appUances, bunker coal, oil, and fresh water stations, markets, 
and every kind of terminal, storage, or supply faciUty now in use, 
or heresifter designed for use to faciUtate passenger transportation 
and for the handUng, storage, loading, or unloading of freight at 
terminals, and equipment, materials, and suppUes therefor. 
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" '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 
transportation of passengers, express mail, £ind 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 (d), 
(e),(g),(h),and(i). 
" 'Railroad' shall include railways, extensions thereof, tunnels, 
subways, bridges, elevated structures, tracks, poles, wires, conduits, 
powerhouses, substations, lines for the transmission of power, car-
barns, shops, yards, sidings, turnouts, switches, stations, and 
approaches thereto, cars, and motive equipment. 
" 'Bridge' £ind 'tunnel' shall include such approach highways 
and interests in real property necessary therefor in the Common-
wealth 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 Commonwealth or said State; provided, 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 Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania shall have filed with the commission its written 
approval as to approach highways to be located in said Common-
wealth 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, prop-
erty, appliances, and equipment, together with appurtenances nec-
essary and convenient for the proper construction, equipment, 
maintenance, £uid operation of a facility or faciUties or any 1 or 
more of them. 
" 'Personal property* shall include choses in action and all 
other property now commonly, or legally, defined as personal prop-
erty, or which may hereafter be so defined. 
" 'Lease' shall include rent or hire. 
" 'MunicipaUty shall include a county, city, borough, village, 
township, town, public agency, public authority, or political sub-
division. 
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"Words importing the singular number include the plural num-
ber 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.". 
Approved October 27, 1992. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 2964: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 138 (1992): 
Aug. 12, considered and passed Senate. 
Oct. 5, considered and passed House. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 28 (1992): 
Oct. 27, Presidential statement.