32:1-35.79. Cooperation by states and agencies; agreements; powers; acquisition of property; consent by municipality, state, public authority, agency or commission

Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, general, special or local, either state and any municipality thereof and any commission, public authority or agency of either or both of said two states is authorized and empowered to cooperate 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 or with any other person for and in connection with or relating to the acquisition, clearance, replanning, rehabilitation, reconstruction, redevelopment, sale, transfer or mortgage of any industrial development project or facility or of any other area forming part of any industrial development project or facility for the purpose of renewal and improvement of said area as aforesaid or for any of the other purposes of this act, including but not limited to the dedication by the municipalities of the port district of refuse, solid waste or waste resulting from other treatment processes to resource recovery to permit the generation of lower priced energy and the recovery of useful materials and a commitment by such municipalities to pay fees to permit the delivery and removal after processing of such refuse or solid waste at rates and for periods of time at least sufficient to assure the continued availability of such energy and recovered materials, upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be determined by such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission and the port authority. Such agreement may, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, further include consent to the use by the port authority or any other person of any real property owned or to be acquired by said state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission and consent to the use by such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission of any real property owned or to be acquired by the port authority or by any other person 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 consent such State, municipality, public authority, agency or commission may grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer any such real property to the port authority or to any other person and the port authority may grant, convey, lease or otherwise transfer any such real property to such state, municipality, public authority, agency, commission or any other person for such term and upon such conditions as may be agreed upon. If any real property of such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission be leased to the port authority or to any other person for any of the purposes of this act, such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission may consent to the port authority or any other person having the right to mortgage the fee of such property and thus enable the port authority or such other person to give as security for its bond or bonds a lien upon the land and improvements, but such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission by consenting to the execution by the port authority or such other person of a mortgage upon the leased property shall not thereby assume and such consent shall not be construed as imposing upon such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission any liability upon the bond or bonds secured by the mortgage. In connection with any of the purposes of this act, either state and any municipality thereof, any commission, public authority or agency of either or both of said two states, the port authority and any other person are empowered to enter into any other agreement or agreements, and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing same, which may provide inter alia for the establishment of prices or rates, a requirement that any person sell, lease or purchase any commodity or service from any other person, or any other similar arrangement.

Nothing contained in this section shall impair or diminish the powers vested in either state or in any municipality, public authority, agency or commission to acquire, clear, replan, reconstruct, rehabilitate or redevelop abandoned, undeveloped or underutilized land and the powers herein granted to either state or any municipality, public authority, 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 such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission.

Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize the port authority to acquire, by condemnation or the exercise of the right of eminent domain, property now or hereafter vested in or held by either state or by any municipality, public authority, agency or commission without the authority or consent of such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission, provided that the state under whose laws such public authority, agency or commission has been created may authorize by appropriate legislation the port authority to acquire any such property vested in or held by any such public authority, agency or commission 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 either State or any such municipality, public authority, agency or commission, nor impair the provisions of law regulating the payment into sinking funds of revenues derived from such property, or dedicating the revenues derived from such property to a specific purpose.

The port authority, subject to the express authority or consent of any such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission, is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire from any such state or municipality, or from any other public authority, agency or commission having jurisdiction in the premises, by agreement therewith, and such state or municipality, public authority, 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.

Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section or act or any compact or general or special law, the port authority may not acquire any park lands for industrial development projects or facilities unless each such conveyance of such land is specifically authorized by the legislature of the state wherein the land is located.

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 two states creating the port authority, except that as to towns in the State of New York, such consent shall be authorized in the manner provided in the town law and as to counties in the State of New Jersey, such consent shall be authorized in the manner provided in Title 40 of the Revised Statutes.

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. Any consent by a public authority, agency or commission shall be effective if given by such public authority, agency or commission.

L.1978, c. 110, s. 8, eff. Aug. 24, 1978.