New Jersey § 32:1-23

§ 32:1-23.

Definitions.--The following words as herein used shall have the following meaning:

“Transportation facility” shall include railroads, steam or electric, motor truck

or other street or highway vehicles, tunnels, bridges, boats, ferries, carfloats,

lighters, tugs, floating elevators, barges, scows or harbor craft of any kind, aircraft

suitable for harbor service, and every kind of transportation facility now in use

or hereafter designed for use for the transportation or carriage of persons or property. “Terminal facility” shall include wharves, piers, slips, ferries, docks, dry docks,

bulkheads, dockwalls, basins, carfloats, floatbridges, grain or other storage elevators,

warehouses, cold storage, tracks, yards, sheds, switches, connections, overhead appliances,

and every kind of terminal or storage facility now in use or hereafter designed for

use for the handling, storage, loading or unloading of freight at steamship, railroad

or freight terminals. “Railroads” shall include railways, extensions thereof, tunnels, subways, bridges,

elevated structures, tracks, poles, wires, conduits, power houses, substations, lines

for the transmission of power, car barns, shops, yards, sidings, turnouts, switches,

stations and approaches thereto, cars and motive equipment. “Facility” shall include all works, buildings, structures, appliances and appurtenances

necessary and convenient for the proper construction, equipment, maintenance and operation

of such facility or facilities or any one or more of them. “Real property” shall include land under water, as well as uplands, and all property

either now commonly or legally defined as real property or which may hereafter be

so defined. “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. “To lease” shall include to rent or to hire. “Rule or regulation”, until and unless otherwise determined by the legislatures

of both states, shall mean any rule or regulation not inconsistent with the constitution

of the United States or of either state, and, subject to the exercise of the power

of congress, for the improvement of the conduct of navigation and commerce within

the district, and shall include charges, rates, rentals or tolls fixed or established

by the port authority; and until otherwise determined as aforesaid, shall not include

matters relating to harbor or river pollution. Wherever action by the legislature of either state is herein referred to, it shall

mean an act of the legislature duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of the

constitution of the state. Plural or singular.--The singular wherever used herein shall include the plural. Consent, approval or recommendation of municipality. How given.--Wherever herein the consent, approval or recommendation of a “municipality”

is required, the word “municipality” shall be taken to include any city or incorporated

village within the port district, and in addition in the state of New Jersey any borough,

town, township or any municipality governed by an improvement commission within the

district. Such consent, approval or recommendation whenever required in the case of the city

of New York shall be deemed to have been given or made whenever the board of estimate

and apportionment of said city or any body hereafter succeeding to its duties shall

by majority vote pass a resolution expressing such consent, approval or recommendation;

and in the case of any municipality now or hereafter governed by a commission, whenever

the commission thereof shall by a majority vote pass such a resolution; and in all

other cases whenever the body authorized to grant consent to the use of the streets

or highways of such municipality shall by a majority vote pass such a resolution.