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NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-26 - County bridge commission; general powers; "bridge" defined

27:19-26. County bridge commission; general powers; "bridge" defined  Every county through its board of chosen freeholders may, if it determines so to do, create a bridge commission. Each bridge commission so created shall have power from time to time and be authorized to: a. Prepare the necessary and proper plans and specifications for the construction, acquisition, improvement or replacement of such bridge or bridges as may be approved by said board of chosen freeholders; b. Select the location for same, determine the size, type and method of construction thereof; c. Plan and fix their boundaries and approaches; d. Make any necessary estimates of the probable costs of construction, acquisition or improvement thereof including the said approaches and the acquisition of the land and rights for the sites of the abutments and approaches to the bridge or bridges; e. Enter into the necessary contracts to construct, acquire, improve, equip or demolish such bridge or bridges and approaches thereto, or any part thereof; f. Build or acquire the superstructures and substructures and all parts thereof; g. Obtain and exercise such consents or approvals as may be necessary from officials or agencies of the government of the United States or the State of New Jersey; h. Borrow money and incur indebtedness, and issue its negotiable bonds or notes for any of the purposes provided for in this article and for the purpose of funding or refunding its bonds, notes or other indebtedness, and provide for the rights and security of the holders of such bonds, notes or other indebtedness; i. Maintain, improve, reconstruct, manage, control and operate such bridge or bridges and approaches, and with the consent of said board of chosen freeholders, by resolution, but subject to and in compliance with every contract or agreement of the commission, demolish or dispose of any such bridges other than a bridge or bridges extending within the limits of any other State; and j. Acquire, hold and dispose of any and all property, real or personal, make, and carry out and perform any and all contracts and agreements, execute any and all instruments, and do and perform any and all acts and things, necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers expressly given in this article or in the performance of the duties required in or undertaken pursuant to this article. As used in this article, the term "bridge" shall mean and include a bridge, trestle, viaduct, tunnel, cut or any other structure or device for the passage of persons or vehicles over, under or around an obstacle, and the term "approach" shall mean and include an approach to a bridge of a commission or any road or highway connecting therewith or contributing vehicular traffic thereto or connecting 2 or more such bridges. Amended by L.1946, c. 318, p. 1031, s. 1; L.1963, c. 101, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-26.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-26.1 - Definitions relative to county bridge commission projects, certain.

27:19-26.1 Definitions relative to county bridge commission projects, certain.  1. As used in this article: "Facility charges" mean tolls, rents, rates, fares, fees or other charges in connection with, or for the use or services of, or otherwise relating to, any project owned, leased or controlled by the commission. "Governmental unit" means the United States of America or the State of New Jersey or any county or municipality or any subdivision, department, agency or instrumentality heretofore or hereafter created, designated or established by or for the United States of America or the State of New Jersey or any county or municipality. "Person" means any person, partnership, association, corporation, or entity other than a governmental unit. "Project" means any project authorized by section 2 of P.L.2001, c.301 (C.27:19-26.2). L.2001,c.301,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-26.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-26.2 - Additional powers of county bridge commission.

27:19-26.2 Additional powers of county bridge commission.  2. In addition to the powers set forth in R.S.27:19-26 et seq., a bridge commission established prior to the effective date of P.L.2001, c.301 (C.27:19-26.1 et al.) by a county of the second class shall have the power from time to time and be authorized to: a. Plan, finance, develop, acquire, construct, purchase, lease, maintain, market, improve and operate any project within the county, including but not limited to, any terminal, terminal facility, transportation facility or any other facility of commerce or economic development activity; b. Extend credit or make loans to any governmental unit or person for the planning, design, acquisition, construction, improvement, equipping, and furnishing of any project; and c. Mortgage, pledge, assign or otherwise encumber all or any portion of its revenues and other income, real and personal property, projects and facilities and fix and collect facility charges for the use of any project for the purpose of securing its bonds, notes, and other obligations or otherwise in furtherance of the purposes of this article. L.2001,c.301,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-26.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-26.3 - Empowerment to enter into lease, agreement.

27:19-26.3 Empowerment to enter into lease, agreement.  10. Any governmental unit or person is hereby empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with the commission for the lease to or use by such governmental unit or person of all or any part of any project. Any such lease or other agreement may provide for the payment to the commission by such governmental unit or persons annually or otherwise of such sum or sums of money, computed at fixed amounts or by any formula or in any other manner, as may be fixed in or pursuant thereto. Any such lease or other agreement may be made and entered into for a term beginning currently or at some future or contingent date and with or without consideration and for a specified or unlimited time and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the commission in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds, and shall be valid and binding on such governmental unit or person whether or not an appropriation is made thereby prior to authorization or execution of such lease or other agreement. Every such governmental unit or person is hereby authorized and directed to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform any such lease or other agreement entered into by it and to provide for the payment of discharge of any obligation thereunder in the same manner as other obligations of such governmental unit or person. L.2001,c.301,s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-26.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-26.4 - Powers of county, municipality.

27:19-26.4 Powers of county, municipality.  11. For the purpose of aiding a commission and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any project, the county or any municipality in any such county may: a. acquire real property in its name for such project or for the widening of existing roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways or for new roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways to any such project, or partly for such purposes and partly for other county or municipal purposes, by purchase or condemnation in the manner provided by law for the acquisition of real property by such county or municipality; b. furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan parks, streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake; c. in consultation with the Department of Transportation, review and coordinate the development of improvement projects involving the department or New Jersey Transit Corporation transportation facilities that the commission may undertake; and d. do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and co-operate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of any such project, and cause services to be furnished to the commission of any character which such county or municipality is otherwise empowered to furnish, and to incur the entire expense thereof. L.2001,c.301,s.11.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-26.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-26.5 - Empowerment to convey land to commission.

27:19-26.5 Empowerment to convey land to commission.  12. Any county by resolution of its governing body, municipality by ordinance of its governing body, governmental unit or person is hereby empowered, without any referendum or public or competitive bidding, to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to a commission, or to permit a commission to use, maintain or operate as part of any project, any real or personal property which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of the commission and accepted by the commission. Any such sale, lease, loan, grant, conveyance or permit may be made or given with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited period of time and under any agreement and on any terms, and conditions which may be approved by such county, municipality, governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the commission in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds. Subject to any such contracts with the holders of bonds, the commission may enter into and perform any and all agreements with respect to property so purchased, leased, borrowed, received or accepted by it, including agreements for the assumption of principal or interest or both of indebtedness of such county, municipality, governmental unit or person or of any mortgage or lien existing with respect to such property for the operation and maintenance of such property as part of any project. L.2001,c.301,s.12.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-27 - Entry upon and condemnation of lands

27:19-27. Entry upon and condemnation of lands  The commission, its agents, officers, engineers or others in its employ, may enter at all times upon all lands or waters for the purpose of exploring, surveying, leveling and laying out the route or routes of any such bridge, with the proper approaches, and locating the same, and locate all necessary buildings, appurtenances and conveniences, doing no unnecessary injury to private or other property. When the commission shall have determined upon the construction or acquisition of any particular bridge or approach, the commission may proceed to condemn and take the land or waters, or rights therein, and structures, necessary therefor in accordance with chapter one of the Title Eminent Domain (section 20:1-1 et seq.), and, to that end, may invoke and exercise in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed in said chapter, either in its own name or in the name of any county which created such commission or consented to the acquisition or construction of such bridge or approach, all of the powers of such county to acquire property for public uses, and may also proceed to acquire, purchase, take and hold such voluntary grants of real estate, riparian rights, and other property, above or under water, as may be necessary for the construction, operation, maintenance and accommodation of its bridge or bridges and approaches thereto. Amended by L.1946, c. 318, p. 1032, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-28 - Power to acquire or construct approaches and bridges

27:19-28. Power to acquire or construct approaches and bridges  The commission may acquire or construct approaches to any such bridge, and may acquire or construct any such bridge or bridges over any channel or channels, thoroughfare or thoroughfares, small streams, creeks or rivers, or bodies of water, within the limits of the county or counties for which such commission is created and also within the limits of any other contiguous county which may, by resolution of its board of chosen freeholders, consent thereto. When any such commission shall have adopted a resolution authorizing the construction or acquisition of a bridge over, under or around any obstacle other than a bridge extending within the limits of any other State, neither the State or any agency or subdivision thereof nor any other person, partnership or corporation shall thereafter construct or acquire any bridge over, under or around such obstacle unless, (1) such bridge and every part thereof is not less than ten miles distant from every part of the bridge so authorized by such commission, or (2) such commission shall, by resolution adopted subject to and in compliance with every contract or agreement of the commission, undertake or permit and consent to the construction or acquisition of such bridge. Amended by L.1946, c. 318, p. 1033, s. 3; L.1948, c. 288, p. 1198, s. 2; L.1963, c. 101, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-29 - Tolls, facility charges.

27:19-29 Tolls, facility charges.  27:19-29. a. The commission may at all times take, demand, and receive of and from any person who shall pass over or use its bridge or bridges and approaches, when such person shall enter upon or attempt to use the same, such rate of toll as may be fixed by it from time to time, for persons, automobiles, wagons, carts or other vehicles or for horses, cows or other animals, or for things not herein enumerated, entering on, passing over or using any such bridge and the approaches thereto. Any toll gatherer of the commission may stop any person with automobiles, wagons, carts, or other vehicles or things not herein enumerated, and all horses, cows, cattle or other animal or animals, from entering upon, passing over or using any such bridge and the approaches thereto until the toll herein provided for shall have been paid. b. The commission is authorized to charge and collect tolls, rents, rates, fares, fees or other charges (sometimes in this article referred to as "facility charges") in connection with, or for the use or services of, or otherwise relating to, any project owned, leased or controlled by the commission. Such facility charges may be charged to and collected from any governmental unit or person and such governmental unit or person shall be liable for and shall pay such facility charges to the commission at the time when and place where such facility charges are due and payable. Amended 2001, c.301, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-30 - Total cost; what to include

27:19-30. Total cost; what to include  For all purposes of financing, the total cost of any improvement authorized by this article may include every item of expense in connection with the project, and among other items shall also include the cost of constructing or purchasing the superstructure, roadway and substructure of any bridge, the approaches and avenues or rights of way of access thereto and necessary real estate in connection therewith, toll houses and equipment thereof and of the bridge, franchises, easements, rights or damages incident to or consequent upon the complete project, expenses preliminary to construction, including investigation and expenses incident thereto, and prior to purchase or prior to and during construction the proper traffic estimates, interest upon bonds and all such other expenses as after the beginning of operation would be chargeable as cost of operation, maintenance and repairs.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-32.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-32.1 - Covenant of State with bondholders.

27:19-32.1 Covenant of State with bondholders.  11. The State of New Jersey does hereby covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued by any bridge commission that it will not in any manner limit or alter the power and obligation vested by this article in the commission to fix, establish and collect such tolls or facility charges and revise the same from time to time whenever necessary, as will be sufficient to always comply fully with and fulfill the terms of all agreements and covenants made with the holders of such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, and will not in any manner impair, alter or abrogate any other power or obligation vested by this article in the commission or the rights and remedies of holders of such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness until all such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, together with interest thereon and all costs and expenses in connection with any actions or proceedings by or on behalf of the holders thereof, are fully paid and discharged or adequate provision made for the payment or discharge thereof. L.1946,c.318,s.11; amended 2001, c.301, s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-32.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-32.2 - Legal investments, evidences of indebtedness of commission as

27:19-32.2. Legal investments, evidences of indebtedness of commission as  The bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of such commissions are hereby made securities in which, notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all public officers, municipalities, counties, political subdivisions and public bodies, and agencies thereof, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries, may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control, and any such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall be authorized security for any and all public deposits. L.1948, c. 288, p. 1198, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-33 - Creation of commission; corporate powers; members; terms and vacancies; property exempt from taxation and execution; bonds tax exempt

27:19-33. Creation of commission; corporate powers; members; terms and vacancies; property exempt from taxation and execution; bonds tax exempt  When it has been determined by the governing body of any such county, by resolution in the exercise of its discretion that in the exercise of the powers conferred by this article it is expedient to create a bridge commission, the board of chosen freeholders of such county shall pass a resolution creating such commission and appointing three persons who shall constitute a bridge commission, which shall be a public body corporate and politic of the State, under the name of (insert name of county) bridge commission, and shall have perpetual succession and power to contract, to sue and be sued and to adopt a seal and alter same at pleasure, but shall not have power to pledge the credit or taxing power of the county. No officer or employee of the county, whether holding a paid or unpaid office, shall be eligible for membership on the commission. Such appointees shall be originally appointed for terms of one year, two years, three years, respectively. Upon the expiration of such terms appointments shall be made in like manner except that the terms of the three appointees shall be for three years. Not more than two of such appointees shall be members of the same political party. Vacancies shall be filled for any unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. Each bridge and all approaches and other property of any commission are hereby declared to be public property of a public body corporate and politic and political subdivision of the State and devoted to an essential public and governmental purpose and shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments by the State or any subdivision thereof and exempt from any lien, levy, sale or other charge by virtue of any judgment, execution or other process except in favor of the holder or holders of any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness outstanding pursuant to a resolution adopted by the commission under authority of section 27:19-32 of this article. All such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of such commission are hereby declared to be issued by a public body corporate and politic and political subdivision of the State, and for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be public instrumentalities and, together with the interest thereon and any income therefrom, shall be exempt from taxes. Amended by L.1941, c. 71, p. 158, s. 1; L.1946, c. 318, p. 1038, s. 6.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-34 - Organization of commission; officers and employees; compensation

27:19-34. Organization of commission; officers and employees; compensation  The commission shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from its members, and a secretary and treasurer who need not be a member. The members of the commission shall receive such annual compensation from the commission as may be determined by the commission not exceeding, however, such maximum amounts as may be fixed from time to time by the governing body of the county, and such members shall give such bond as may be required from time to time by the governing body of the county. The commission shall fix the compensation of the secretary and treasurer in its discretion. The commission shall have power to establish by-laws, rules and regulations for its own government and to make and enter into all contracts or agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers. The commission may employ engineering, architectural, and construction experts and inspectors and attorneys, and such other employees as may be necessary in its opinion, and fix their compensation, all of whom shall do such work as the commission shall direct. All salaries and compensation shall be obligations against and be paid solely from funds provided under the authority of this article. The office, records, books and accounts of the bridge commission shall always be maintained in the county which the commission represents. Amended by L.1946, c. 318, p. 1039, s. 7.
NJ Rev Stat § 27:19-34.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 27 - Highways|Section 27:19-34.1 - Contracts for hospitalization, medical, surgical, etc., benefits; validation and confirmation of payments

27:19-34.1. Contracts for hospitalization, medical, surgical, etc., benefits; validation and confirmation of payments  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any county bridge commission created under the article to which this act is a supplement and owning or controlling any bridge or bridges extending within the limits of another state may enter into contracts of insurance with carriers licensed to operate in this State providing hospital, surgical, obstetrical, medical and major medical expense benefits covering employees of the commission and their dependents, including retired employees of the commission and their dependents. Payments heretofore made by such a county bridge commission under contracts providing any of the benefits in this act authorized are validated and confirmed. L.1970, c. 24, s. 1, eff. April 3, 1970.