New Jersey § 32:3-13

§ 32:3-13.

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, 1 July 18, 1951, Act No. 214, Pamphlet Laws 1010, 2 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, 4 June 26, 1951, Chapter 287, Pamphlet Laws 1951, 5 June 26, 1951, Chapter 288, Pamphlet Laws 1951, 6 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. 1

36 P.S. §§ 3503 to 3505. 2

36 P.S. § 3503. 3

36 P.S. § 3503. 4

N.J.S.A. § 32:3-1 et seq. 5

N.J.S.A. § 32:3-13.12 et seq. 6

N.J.S.A. § 32:3-2 et seq.