32:27-18. Duties and responsibilities of commission

The commission shall have the following duties and responsibilities:

The commission shall have the responsibility of providing for the needs of the highway and/or transportation departments of the signatory parties in order that the States may qualify for all funds available to them from the Federal Government for the construction of highway facilities in the area and meet with the other planning needs of the said departments in the area. The commission shall also have the responsibility of providing for regional planning and the meeting and satisfaction of regional transportation planning requirements in order that the area may qualify for all funds available to it from the Federal Government of mass transportation facilities and services in the area. The commission shall also have the responsibility for meeting the needs of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and the Pennsylvania State Planning Board as required to obtain funds from the Federal Government available for such purposes as well as their other operations. The commission shall co-operate with all other State and local government agencies which have planning needs in the area. The commission shall serve as an advisory agency, with actual authority for carrying out planning proposals continuing to rest in the governing bodies of the States and counties. It shall initiate and develop surveys and plans of a regional nature and assist through co-ordination and planning programs involving regional matters of the planning bodies of the participants. The commission shall not assume any existing powers or functions of such planning commissions. It shall be the function and duty of the commission to make a master plan and such survey and studies as may be essential thereto for the physical development of the area and submit said plan to the participating governmental bodies. The commission shall encourage and promote the co-operation among all levels of government for the purpose of achieving the greatest possible benefit both economic and cultural for the inhabitants of the Delaware Valley Urban Area.

L.1966, c. 149, Pt. I, Art. III, s. 2, eff. June 18, 1966. Amended by L.1967, c. 223, s. 5, eff. Oct. 13, 1967.