32:1-35.52. Port development project; world trade center; powers and duties of port authority

In furtherance of the aforesaid findings and determinations and in partial effectuation of and supplemental to the comprehensive plan heretofore adopted by the 2 said States for the development of the said port district, the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, acquire, construct, effectuate, develop, own, lease, maintain, operate, improve and rehabilitate project herein referred to as the port development project, which shall consist of a facility of commerce herein referred to as the world trade center, to be located within the Hudson tubes-world trade center area, and railroad facilities herein referred to as the Hudson tubes and the Hudson tubes extensions. The port authority shall proceed as rapidly as may be practicable to accomplish the purposes of this act.

The port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, levy and collect such rentals, tolls, fares, fees and other charges as it may deem necessary, proper or desirable in connection with any facility or part of any facility constituting a portion of the port development project and to issue bonds for any of the purposes of this act and to provide for payment thereof, with interest upon and the amortization and retirement of such bonds, and to secure all or any portion of such bonds by a pledge of such rentals, tolls, fares, fees, charges and other revenues or any part thereof (including but not limited to the revenues of any subsidiary corporation incorporated for any of the purposes of this act), and to secure all or any portion of such bonds by mortgages upon any property held or to be held by the port authority (or by any such subsidiary corporation) for any of the purposes of this act, and for any of the purposes of this act to exercise all appropriate powers heretofore or hereafter delegated to it by the States of New York and New Jersey, including, but not limited to, those expressly set forth in this act. The surplus revenues of the port development project may be pledged in whole or in part as hereinafter provided.

No toll or fare for passage upon or over the passenger rail facilities as to which the port authority is authorized and empowered to establish, levy and collect the same shall hereafter be instituted or increased until after a public hearing thereon shall have been held, at which persons affected thereby shall be given adequate opportunity to be heard, and notice whereof shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation within the port district not less than 10 days prior to the convening of such hearing.

Unless and until hereafter expressly authorized by the two States the port authority shall not: (a) operate or permit operation by others of its Hudson tubes railroad cars or other rolling stock or equipment or Hudson tubes extensions railroad cars or other rolling stock or equipment except upon the rail transit lines of the Hudson tubes or of the Hudson tubes extensions and also between the Market street station and the South street station of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the city of Newark, State of New Jersey; or (b) except by way of Hudson tubes extensions as herein defined, make additions, betterments or other improvements to or of said Hudson tubes or Hudson tubes extensions by way of extensions of their rail transit lines. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent the making by the port authority of such joint service or other agreements with railroads as it shall deem necessary, convenient or desirable for the use of the Hudson tubes and Hudson tubes extensions by the railroad cars or other rolling stock or equipment of such railroads and the acquisition of the rights to any or all parties in any joint service or other agreements the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company or its successors shall have made with other railroads for such use of the Hudson tubes. The port authority shall not proceed with the effectuation of any railroad or railroad facility in addition to the Hudson tubes and the Hudson tubes extensions until hereafter expressly authorized by the 2 states. Nothing contained in this act shall authorize or empower the port authority to establish, construct or otherwise effectuate an air terminal.

L.1962, c. 8, s. 3. Amended by L.1977, c. 108, s. 2.