New Jersey § 32:4-6

§ 32:4-6.

The Delaware River Port Authority, a body corporate and politic, functioning under

the legislation enacted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey,

and the express consent of the Congress of the United States, and its wholly-owned

subsidiary corporations through which it is effectuating its authorized purposes,

shall have the power and authority to appoint such number of police officers as may

be found necessary to keep in safety and preserve order upon such bridges and tunnels

and approaches thereto, and upon the rapid transit systems, ferries, facilities and

other property as the Delaware River Port Authority or subsidiary corporations do

or may hereafter own, lease or operate; to administer to the police officers an oath

or affirmation faithfully to perform the duties of their respective positions or offices;

and to provide for the payment of the police officers from the tolls, fares, charges

and other revenue of the Delaware River Port Authority or subsidiary corporations. The police officers so appointed shall have the power and authority to make arrests

for any crimes, misdemeanors, and the offenses committed under the laws of the State

of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, upon said bridges or within said

tunnels or approaches thereto, on the rapid transit systems, ferries, facilities or

other property owned, leased or operated by the Delaware River Port Authority or a

subsidiary corporation, for disorder or breach of the peace, or for violations of

any lawful regulation which may be or may heretofore have been adopted by the Delaware

River Port Authority or subsidiary corporations. Police officers shall be further authorized and empowered to make arrests or issue

summonses for evasion or attempts to evade the payment of tolls, fares or other charges

which may be fixed or may have been fixed for the use of a bridge, tunnel, rapid transit

system, or ferry, facility or other property owned, leased or operated by the Delaware

River Port Authority or a subsidiary corporation. In addition, while acting within any other areas of the port district, police officers

appointed by the Delaware River Port Authority shall have all of the powers, including

the right to carry firearms while on duty, and all of the immunities conferred by

law on police officers or municipal police officers in the enforcement of the laws

of the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; provided that no

police officer shall be so empowered unless the officer has satisfied all the training

and requalification requirements of section 2 of this amendatory and supplementary

act. 1 To pass over any part of said bridges or through said tunnels and approaches thereto

in any vehicle for which tolls shall be collectible, or for any person or vehicle

to use the rapid transit systems or ferries or other facilities or property without

passing through the toll gates or paying such tolls, fares or charges, shall constitute

such evasion and shall subject the person so evading or attempting to evade such payment

to arrest or receipt of a summons as aforesaid. Any such summons shall direct such person to appear before any proper judicial officer

as defined in this section at such time as the summons shall direct. Upon the return of such summons or upon the apprehension or arrest of any person

or persons for any of the other foregoing reasons, the offender may be taken before

any proper judicial officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or of the State of

New Jersey, without respect to the portion of the bridge, tunnel, ferry facility,

rapid transit system, facilities or other property upon or within which such offense

may have been committed or attempted or such offender arrested, and thereupon such

judicial officer shall have the power and authority to punish such offender as hereinafter

provided. The Delaware River Port Authority and its wholly-owned subsidiary corporations through

which it is effectuating its authorized purposes shall have the power to adopt such

rules and regulations as they may respectively deem expedient for the proper government

of said bridges, tunnels, approaches thereto, rapid transit systems, ferries, facilities

or other property and for the preservation of good order, safe traffic, and proper

conduct thereon or therein. For any violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this act or of any rule

or regulation adopted by the Delaware River Port Authority, or its said subsidiary

corporations, or for any evasion or attempt to evade payment of tolls, fares or charges,

the offender or offenders shall be subject to a fine or penalty of not less than $10.00

or more than $25.00, together with costs, to be adjudged by the proper judicial officer

of the city and county of Philadelphia or other proper judicial officer of the Commonwealth

of Pennsylvania or of the State of New Jersey before whom such offender or offenders

may be brought; and on default of payment of such fine or penalty, then to imprisonment

of not less than 10 days or more than 30 days in the place of incarceration decreed

by said magistrate or other judicial officer; and upon conviction of any subsequent

offense, shall be subject to a fine or penalty of not less than $25.00 or more than

$50.00, together with costs, or to imprisonment of not less than 30 days or more than

60 days, or both, at the discretion of the said magistrate or other judicial officer. 1

N.J.S.A. § 32:4-6.1.