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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 32, INTERSTATE AND PORT AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

    Chapter 8: Preamble; agreement

      Section: 32:8-12: Compact to have force and effect of statute

           ARTICLE XI.

Upon its signature on behalf of the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this compact or agreement shall become binding and shall have the force and effect of a statute of the state of New Jersey, and the commission shall thereupon become vested with all the powers, rights, and privileges, and be subject to the duties and obligations contained therein, as though the same were specifically authorized and imposed by statute, and the state of New Jersey shall be bound by all of the obligations assumed by it under this compact or agreement; and the governor shall transmit an original signed copy thereof to the secretary of state for filing in his office.

The governor is hereby authorized to apply, on behalf of the state of New Jersey, to the congress of the United States for its consent and approval to this compact or agreement; but in the absence of such consent and approval, the commission shall have all of the powers which the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania may confer upon it without the consent and approval of congress.

L.1934, c. 215, s. 1, pp. 498 to 509.



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