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PUBLIC LAW 574-JULY 17, 1952

[66 S T A T.

N E W J E R S E Y CREATING THE DELAWARE RIVER JOINT COMMISSION AS A BODY CORPORATE A N D POLITIC A N D D E F I N I N G ITS POWERS A N D D U T I E S, " A U T H O R I Z I N G A N D E M P O W E R I N G THE DELAWARE RIVER JOINT COMMISSION TO CONSTRUCT, F I N A N C E, OPERATE, M A I N T A I N AND O W N A VEHICULAR T U N N E L U N D E R, OR A N ADDITIONAL BRIDGE ACROSS, THE DELAWARE RIVER A N D D E F I N I N G CERTAIN F U N C T I O N S, POWERS A N D DUTIES OF SAID COMMISSION,

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey do hereby solemnly covenant and agree each with the other, as follows: The "Agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey creating the Delaware River Joint Commission as a body corporate and politic and defining its powers and duties," which was executed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by its Governor on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and on behalf of the State of New Jersey by the New Jersey Interstate Bridge Commission by its members on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and which was consented to by the Congress of the United States by Public Resolution Number Twenty-six, being chapter two hundred fiftyeight of the Public Laws, Seventy-second Congress, approved the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, is amended and supplemented by adding thereto, as a part thereof, following Article X II thereof, a new article reading as follows:

47 Stat. 308.

ARTICLE XII-A BridgeOTtunnel nl. ^* ^'^ ar ra -

(1) In addition to other public purposes provided for it and Q^J^^J. pQ^rgpg aj^(j duties conferred upon it, and not in limitation thereof, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other article hereof, the Delaware River Joint Commission, by whatever name said commission may be designated, shall have among its authorized purposes, and it shall have the power and duty to effectuate, the construction, operation and maintenance of a bridge for vehicular traffic across the Delaware river, between a point or points within a onemile radius of Morgan street and Broadway in the city of Camden, New Jersey, and a point or points within a one-mile radius of Oregon avenue and Swanson street in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with such approaches thereto and highway connections as may be necessary or desirable, or, in lieu of such bridge, a tunnel or tunnels > for vehicular traffic under the Delaware river, between a point or points within a one-mile radius of Morgan street and Broadway in the city of Camden, New Jersey, and a point or points within a onemile radius of Oregon avenue and Swanson street in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with such approaches thereto and highway connections as ma}'^ be necessary or desirable. (2) For the effectuation of any of its purposes authorized by this article, the commission is hereby granted, in addition to any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it, power and authority to acquire in its name by purchase or otherwise, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as it may deem proper, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any land and other property which it may determine is reasonably necessary for the bridge or tunnel referred to in this article or for the construction of such approaches thereto or highway connections as the commission shall deem necessary and any and all rights, title and interest in such land and other property, including public lands, parks, playgrounds, reservations, highways, or parkways, owned by or in which any county, city, borough, town, township, village, or other political sutjdivision of the State of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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