32:1-141.1. Bonds or other obligations of Port Authority issued to provide funds for terminals as legal investments

The bonds or other obligations which may be issued by the Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the Port Authority) from time to time to provide funds for the establishment, acquisition and rehabilitation of motor truck terminals (by which are meant terminals consisting of one or more platforms, sheds, buildings, structures, facilities or improvements necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the Port Authority for the accommodation of motor trucks or the loading or unloading of freight upon or from motor trucks or the receipt, delivery, storage or handling of freight transported or to be transported by motor trucks or the interchange or transfer thereof between carriers) located at such point or points within the Port of New York District as the Port Authority may deem to be desirable and in the public interest, or for the acquisition of real or personal property in connection therewith, or for any other purpose in connection with the establishment, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, maintenance or operation of such truck terminals or any of them, and the bonds or other obligations which may be issued by the Port Authority to provide funds for the rehabilitation of the Port Authority Grain Terminal (by which is meant the grain elevator, piers, lands and other structures and properties now or hereafter owned by the Port Authority at Gowanus bay, Brooklyn, New York) or for the making of additions, improvements or betterments thereto or for the acquisition of real or personal property in connection therewith or for any other purpose in connection with the rehabilitation, maintenance or operation thereof, including the payment, satisfaction, funding or refunding of moneys advanced to the Port Authority for use in connection with the establishment, rehabilitation, improvement, maintenance or operation of said grain terminal and of any amounts otherwise payable out of the revenues from said grain terminal or the pier development fund established in connection therewith, are hereby made securities in which all State and municipal officers and bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a bank business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever, who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the State, may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital, belonging to them or within their control; and said obligations are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and shall be received by any State or municipal officer or agency for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of this State is now or may hereafter be authorized.

L.1945, c. 197, p. 679, s. 3.