32:1-35.57. Cooperation by states and agencies; agreements; powers; property

Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, general, special or local, either State and any municipality and any commission or agency of either or both of said 2 States is authorized and empowered to co-operate with the port authority and to enter into an agreement or agreements (and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing the same) with the port authority for and in connection with or relating to the acquisition, clearance, replanning, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or redevelopment of the Hudson tubes-world trade center area or of any other area forming part of the port development project for the purpose of renewal and improvement of said area as aforesaid and for any of the purposes of this act, upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be determined by such State, municipality, agency or commission and the port authority. Such agreement may, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, include consent to the use by the port authority of any real property owned or to be acquired by said State, municipality, agency or commission and consent to the use by such State, municipality, agency or commission of any real property owned or to be acquired by the port authority which in either case is necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the port authority for any of the purposes of this act, including such real property, improved or unimproved, as has already been devoted to or has been or is to be acquired for urban renewal or other public use, and as an incident to such consents such State, municipality, agency or commission may grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer any such real property to the port authority and the port authority may grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer any such real property to such State, municipality, agency or commission for such term and upon such conditions as may be agreed upon. If real property of such State, municipality, agency or commission be leased to the port authority for any of the purposes of this act, such State, municipality, agency or commission may consent to the port authority having the right to mortgage the fee of such property and thus enable the port authority to give as security for its bond or bonds a lien upon the land and improvements, but such State, municipality, agency or commission by consenting to the execution by the port authority of a mortgage upon the leased property shall not thereby assume and such consent shall not be construed as imposing upon such State, municipality, agency or commission any liability upon the bond or bonds secured by the mortgage.

Nothing contained in this section shall impair or diminish the powers vested in either State or in any municipality, agency or commission to acquire, clear, replan, reconstruct, rehabilitate or redevelop substandard or insanitary or deteriorating areas and the powers herein granted to the State, municipality, agency or commission shall be construed to be in aid of and not in limitation or in derogation of any such powers heretofore or hereafter conferred upon or granted to the State, municipality, agency or commission.

Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize the port authority to acquire property now or hereafter vested in or held by any municipality without the authority or consent of such municipality, provided that the State in which said municipality is located may by statute enact that such property may be taken by the port authority by condemnation or the exercise of the right of eminent domain without such authority or consent; nor shall anything herein impair or invalidate in any way any bonded indebtedness of the State or such municipality, nor impair the provisions of law regulating the payment into sinking funds of revenues derived from municipal property, or dedicating the revenues derived from municipal property to a specific purpose.

The port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire from any such municipality, or from any other agency or commission having jurisdiction in the premises, by agreement therewith, and such municipality, agency or commission, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, is hereby authorized and empowered to grant and convey, upon reasonable terms and conditions, any real property which may be necessary, convenient or desirable for any of the purposes of this act, including such real property as has already been devoted to a public use.

Any consent by a municipality shall be given and the terms, conditions and execution by a municipality of any agreement, deed, lease, conveyance or other instrument pursuant to this section or any other section of this act shall be authorized in the manner provided in article 22 of the compact of April 30, 1921 between the 2 States creating the port authority. Any consent by either State shall be effective if given, and the terms and conditions and execution of any agreement, deed, lease, conveyance or other instrument pursuant to this section or any other section of this act shall be effective if authorized, by the Governor of such State.

L.1962, c. 8, s. 8.