New Jersey § acts:saved-32 - (3)

§ acts:saved-32. (3)

3. The commission is hereby authorized to appoint either for itself or in conjunction

with the commission or agency of the state of New York; or for itself or in conjunction

with the joint commission heretofore authorized by the state of New Jersey or the

state of Pennsylvania, or the city of Philadelphia, known as the Delaware River Bridge

Joint Commission, engineers, consulting engineers, assistant engineers and such other

employees, clerks and assistants as may be necessary or convenient for carrying on

the work of constructing the Hudson river vehicular tunnel or the bridge across the

Delaware river, in conformity with the authority heretofore vested in the commission. It shall also have the sole power either for itself or in conjunction with the New

York commission or the Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission, to fix the compensation,

the period and terms of employment, and to define the duties of such engineers, consulting

engineers, assistant engineers, employees, clerks and assistants as it shall deem

advisable and to pay such engineers, assistants and employees out of the funds made

available to it for the purpose of carrying out the work heretofore or hereafter authorized;

and it shall also have the sole authority to employ counsel, assistant counsel, or

consulting counsel as may be requisite or necessary, either for itself, to protect

the independent interests of the commission and the state of New Jersey, or in conjunction

with the New York commission, or in conjunction with the Delaware River Bridge Joint

Commission, and to pay such counsel such salary or fees as may be necessary or requisite

out of the funds heretofore or hereafter made available to the said commission.