New Jersey § 32:8-2

§ 32:8-2.

There is hereby created a body corporate and politic, to be known as the “Delaware

River Joint Toll Bridge Commission” (hereinafter in this agreement called the “commission”),

which shall consist of the commissioners, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

provided for by the act, approved the eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred

and nineteen (Pamphlet Laws, one hundred forty-eight), and its supplements and amendments, 1 for the acquisition of toll bridges over the Delaware River, and of commissioners,

on behalf of the State of New Jersey, provided for by the act, approved the first

day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve (Chapter two hundred ninety-seven),

and its supplements and amendments, 2 for the acquisition of toll bridges over the Delaware River, which said commissions

have heretofore been acting as a joint commission by virtue of reciprocal legislation. No action of the commission shall be binding unless a majority of the members of the

commission from Pennsylvania and a majority of the members of the commission from

New Jersey shall vote in favor thereof. In the event that any ex-officio member of the commission from Pennsylvania shall

for any reason be absent from a meeting of the commission, a deputy or other person

in his department designated by him for such purpose shall be authorized to act at

such meeting for and in behalf of such absent member and to vote in his place on all

matters which may be presented for consideration at such meeting. Such designation shall be signed by such ex-officio member and filed with the secretary

of the commission and shall continue in effect until the expiration of the term of

office of such member or until another designation shall be made. In the event that any ex-officio member of the commission from New Jersey shall for

any reason be absent from a meeting of the commission, a deputy or other person in

the ex-officio member's department designated by the ex-officio member for such purpose

shall be authorized to act at such meeting for and in behalf of such absent member

and to vote in the member's place on all matters which may be presented for consideration

at such meeting. Such designation shall be signed by the ex-officio member and filed with the secretary

of the commission and shall continue in effect until the expiration of the term of

office of such member or until another designation shall be made. The commission shall constitute the public corporate instrumentality of the Commonwealth

of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey for the following public purposes, and

shall be deemed to be exercising an essential governmental function in effectuating

such purposes, to wit: (a) The administration, operation, and maintenance of the joint State-owned bridges

across the Delaware River between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of

New Jersey, and located north of the present stone arch bridge of the Pennsylvania

Railroad across the Delaware River from Morrisville to Trenton; (b) The investigation of the necessity for additional bridge communications over the

Delaware River, and the making of such studies, surveys and estimates as may be necessary

to determine the feasibility and cost of such additional bridge communications; (c) The preparation of plans and specifications for, and location, acquisition, construction,

administration, operation and maintenance of, such additional bridge communications

over the Delaware river, at any location north of the boundary line between Bucks

county and Philadelphia county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as extended across

the Delaware river to the New Jersey shore of said river, as the commission deems

necessary to advance the interests of the two States and to facilitate public travel;

and the issuance of bonds and obligations to provide moneys sufficient for the acquisition

or construction of such bridges; and the collection of tolls, rentals, and charges

for the redemption of such bonds and obligations, and the payment of interest thereon; (d) The procurement from the government of the United States of any consents which

may be requisite to enable the commission to exercise any of its powers; (e) The investigation of the necessity for additional port and terminal facilities

within the area (hereinafter referred to as the “district”) comprising all of the

territory within the counties of Bucks, Northampton, Monroe and Pike in Pennsylvania,

all of the territory within the counties of Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon and Mercer in

New Jersey, and that part of the territory within the county of Burlington in New

Jersey north of the northerly bank of Rancocas Creek as said creek and its north branch

extend in a general easterly direction from the Delaware River and through Mount Holly,

Pemberton and Browns Mills and other communities to the Burlington-Ocean County boundary

line in New Jersey; (f) The acquisition, construction, administration, operation and maintenance of such

port and terminal facilities within the district as the commission may deem necessary

to advance the interests of the two States; the issuance of bonds or other obligations

of the commission to provide moneys sufficient for the acquisition or construction

of such facilities; and the collection of fees, rentals, tolls and other charges

for the payment of such bonds or obligations and the interest thereon, and for the

administration, operation and maintenance of such facilities. 1

36 P.S. §§ 3271 to 3278. 2

N.J.S.A. §§ 32:9-1 to 32:9-16.