New Jersey § 52:27h-22

§ 52:27h-22.

The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Sister Cities program both in concept and practice has been a valuable program

for encouraging cultural, educational and trade relationships between cities in the

United States and cities in other countries; b. This same concept has been applied to a sister state-province relationship between

New Jersey and Zhejiang Province in the Peoples Republic of China since May 11, 1981,

and has resulted in a number of successful cultural, educational and economic exchanges;

and c. As a means of furthering cultural, educational and trade relationships between

this State and similar jurisdictions in other countries, it is important to build

upon existing knowledge concerning sister city and sister state relationships and

to aggressively seek to establish other sister state relationships.