2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 32 - Interstate and Port Authorities and Commissions › Section 32:3-13.50 - Construction; operation and maintenance of new toll bridge for vehicular traffic

32:3-13.50. Construction; operation and maintenance of new toll bridge for vehicular traffic
The Delaware River Port Authority (hereinafter sometimes called the "authority" ), after investigation and study, having concluded plans, with estimates of cost and means of financing, for a new project for transportation across the Delaware river within the Port District, consisting of a new toll bridge for vehicular traffic across the Delaware river between a point or points within a one-mile radius of the intersection of Hedley street and Delaware avenue, in the city of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and a point or points within a one-mile radius of the intersection of Derousse avenue and River road in the township of Pennsauken, County of Camden, State of New Jersey, together with such approaches thereto and such highway connections as may be necessary or desirable (herein sometimes called collectively "new toll bridge" ), and the authority having made to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1963 and to the Legislature of the State of New Jersey in 1963 and again in 1964 a detailed report dealing only with said project and having requested of said Legislatures authority to proceed with the project described in said report, all pursuant to, in accordance with and as provided in the Compact or Agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey hereinafter mentioned, the authority is hereby authorized and empowered to finance, construct, erect, acquire, operate, maintain and own such a new toll bridge for vehicular traffic, together with such approaches thereto and highway connections as the authority may deem necessary or desirable, and to proceed with the said project outlined in said detailed report. The authority, in addition to other public purposes now or hereafter provided for it and other powers and duties now or hereafter conferred upon it and not in limitation thereof and notwithstanding any of the provisions of any act, shall have among its authorized purposes such financing, construction, erection, acquisition, operation, maintenance and ownership of such new toll bridge for vehicular traffic all pursuant to, in accordance with and as provided in this act and the agreement or compact as heretofore or hereafter amended or supplemented (herein sometimes called the "compact" ) between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey creating The Delaware River Port Authority as a body corporate and politic, and defining its powers and duties, which said compact as amended or supplemented to January 1, 1963 is duly authorized by the Acts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved June 12, 1931, Act No. 200, Pamphlet Laws 575, July 18, 1951, Act No. 214, Pamphlet Laws 1010, August 10, 1951, Act No. 274, Pamphlet Laws 1206; ^3^ and by the laws of the State of New Jersey, approved June 30, 1931, Chapter 391, Pamphlet Laws 1931, June 26, 1951, Chapter 287, Pamphlet Laws 1951, June 26, 1951, Chapter 288, Pamphlet Laws 1951, and has been duly consented to by the Congress of the United States by Public Resolution No. 26, Seventy-second Congress (S.J.Resolution 41) approved June 14, 1932, Public Law 573, Chapter 921, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, approved July 17, 1952, Public Law 574, Chapter 922, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, approved July 17, 1952.
L.1964, c. 276, s. 1.