An Act authorizing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to establish additional air terminals and supplementing Title 32 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
C.32:1-35.27e Findings, declarations relative to establishment of additional air terminals in NY and NJ.
1. The Legislature finds and declares:
a. The States of New York and New Jersey hereby find and determine that there can be no further delay in the selection of sites for the establishment by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey of additional air terminals serving the Port of New York district.
b. Having given due consideration to all competing aspects of site selection, it is the judgment of the two states that it is in the public interest to authorize the establishment of one terminal in the State of New York and one terminal in the State of New Jersey, each such terminal to be at a site to be approved by the governor of the state in which such terminal is to be located.
C.32:1-35.27f Port Authority authorized to perform all operations relative to additional air terminal; exceptions.
2. Upon approval of a site for an additional air terminal by the governor of the state in which such terminal is to be located, the port authority is authorized to effectuate, establish, acquire, construct, rehabilitate, improve, maintain, and operate at such site an additional air terminal which, notwithstanding that such site may be outside the Port of New York district, shall be an “air terminal” for all the purposes of that certain agreement between the two states which is embodied in chapter eight hundred two of the laws of the State of New York for nineteen hundred forty-seven, as amended, and in the laws of the State of New Jersey, P.L.1947, c.43 (C.32:1-35.1 et seq.) (the “air terminal agreement” statutes) which were enacted to evidence the agreement of this State with the provisions of the laws of the State of New York; but the boundaries of the Port of New York district shall not thereby be deemed to have been extended. All of the provisions of the air terminal agreement statutes shall be applicable to the effectuation, establishment, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, improvement, maintenance and operation of the said air terminal as though it had been expressly mentioned and authorized therein, except that:
(1) the authorizations granted to municipalities by the provisions of section eight of the said chapter of the laws of New York, as amended, and by the cognate provisions of the air terminal agreement statutes of the State of New Jersey shall extend to municipalities located outside the Port of New York district; and
(2) the limitations set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 9 of P.L.1947, c.43 (C.32:1-35.9), as amended and supplemented, shall not be applicable to such terminal located in the State of New Jersey.
3. This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the State of New York of legislation having an identical effect with sections 1 and 2 of this act, but if the State of New York shall have already enacted such legislation, this act shall take effect immediately.
Approved May 3, 2007.