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 106 STAT. 3578 PUBLIC LAW 102-544—OCT. 27, 1992 any other port corporation, port authority, or port related entity which is located within the Port District, all in accordeince with the applicable laws of the State in which the facility, corporation, or authority is located; (ii) the exercise of the other powers granted by this compact; or (iii) the establishment (whether solely or jointly with any other entity or entities) of such subsidiary corporation or corporations or maritime or port advisory committees as may be necessary or desirable to effectuate this purpose. "(n) The planning, financing, development, acquisition, construction, purchase, lease, maintenance, marketing, improvement and operation of any project, including but not limited to any terminal, terminal facility, transportation facility, or any other facility of commerce or economic development activity; from funds available after appropriate allocation for maintenance of bridge and other capital facilities.". (2) Article II of the agreement is amended to read as follows: 'The commission shall consist of sixteen commissioners, eight resident voters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and eight resident voters of the State of New Jersey, who shall serve without compensation. "The commissioners for the State of New Jersey shall be appointed by the Governor of New Jersey with the advice and consent of the Senate of New Jersey, for terms of five years, and in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of commissioner during a recess of the Legislature, it may be filled by the Governor by an ad interim appointment which shall expire at the end of the next regular session of the Senate unless a successor shall be sooner appointed and qualify and, after the end of the session, no ad interim appointment to the SEime vacancy shall be made unless the Governor shall have submitted to the Senate a nomination to the office during the session and the Senate shall have adjourned without confirming or rejecting it, and no person nominated for any such vacancy shall be eligible for an ad interim appointment to such office if the nomination shall have failed of confirmation by the Senate. "Six of the eight commissioners for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvemia shall be appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania for terms of five years. The Auditor General and the State Treasurer of said Commonwealth shall be ex officio commissioners for said Commonwealth, each having the privilege of appointing a representative to serve in his place at a meeting of the commission which he does not attend personally. Any commissioner who is an elected public official shall have the privilege of appointing a representative to serve and act in his place at any meeting of the commission which he does not attend personally. "All commissioners shall continue to hold office £^r the expiration of the terms for which they are appointed or elected until their respective successors are appointed and qualify, but a period during which any commissioner shall hold over shall be deemed to be an extension of his term of office for the purpose of computing the date on which his successor's term expires.. (3) Article III of the agreement is amended to read as follows: "The commissioners shall have charge of the commission's property and affairs and shall for the purpose of doing business constitute a board, but no action of the commissioners shall be binding unless a majority of the members of the commission from Pennsylva-

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