New Jersey § 32:2-18

§ 32:2-18.

If for the purposes of establishing a steamship terminal or purposes incidental thereto,

including temporary construction purposes, in connection with the development or improvement

of the Little Basin of the Morris canal in Jersey City, the port authority shall find

it necessary or convenient to acquire any real property, in addition to the Little

Basin property, whether or not contiguous therewith and whether for immediate or future

use, in Jersey City within the area bounded on the north by York street, on the west

by Jersey avenue and a southerly extension thereof, on the south by the Tidewater

Basin and on the east by the state line, the port authority may find and determine

that such property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, is required

for public use, and upon such determination said property shall be deemed to be required

for such public use until otherwise determined by the port authority. With the exceptions hereinafter specifically noted, said determination shall not

be affected by the fact that the property has theretofore been taken for, or is then

devoted to, a public use, but the public use in the hands of or under the control

of the port authority shall be deemed to be superior to the public use in the hands

of any other person.