32:1-146.2. Acts constitute agreement between States; liberal construction

This section and the preceding section hereof, together with corresponding sections of the act of the State of New York concurring herein in accordance with section three hereof shall constitute an agreement between the States of New Jersey and New York supplemental to the compact between the two States dated April thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes of said compact and of the agreements of the two States amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and not in limitation of or in derogation of any powers heretofore or hereafter conferred upon or delegated to the Port Authority, and not as granting any power to the Port Authority to make rules and regulations except as elsewhere provided in said compact and agreements, and shall not be construed to affect, diminish or impair the power of either State to prescribe, amend, modify or rescind such penalties, or to enact any other law, or to imply that the concurrence of the other State therein is necessary, or was necessary prior to the enactment of this act, or to impair or diminish, or as recognition of the impairment or diminution of any power of either State, legislative or otherwise, with respect to the Port Authority, its properties, or persons or property thereon, or to affect the interpretation of the aforesaid compact and agreements between the two States.

L.1951, c. 205, p. 744, s. 2.