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PUBLIC LAW 87-678-SEPT. 20, 1962 ARTICLE

[76 STAT.

IV.

ESTABLISHMENT OF AGENCY; PURPOSES.

The two States agree that there shall be created and they do hereby create a body politic, to be known as "The Delaware Kiver and Bay Authority" (for brevity hereinafter referred to as the "Authority"), which shall constitute an agency of government of the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey for the following general public purposes, and which shall be deemed to be exercising essential governmental functions in effectuating such purposes, to wit: (a) The planning, financing, development, construction, purchase, lease, maintenance, improvement and operation of crossings between the States of Delaware and New Jersey across the Delaware River or Bay at any location south of the boundary line between the State of Delaware and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as extended across the Delaware River to the New Jersey shore of said river, together with such approaches or connections thereto as in the judgment of the Authority are re(^uired to make adequate and efficient connections between such crossings and any public highway or other routes in the State of Delaware or in the State of New Jersey; and (b) The planning, financing, development, construction, purchase, lease, maintenance, improvement and operation of any transportation or terminal facility within those areas of both States which border on or are adjacent to the Delaware River or Bay south of the aforesaid line and which in the judgment of the States is required for the sound economic development of the area; and (c) The performance of such other functions as may be hereafter entrusted to the Authority by concurrent legislation expressly in implementation hereof. The Authority shall not undertake any project or part thereof, other than a crossing, without having first secured approval thereof by concurrent legislation of the two States expressly in implementation hereof. ARTICLE V. COMMISSIONERS.

The Authority shall consist of ten Commissioners, five of whom shall be residents of and qualified to vote in, and shall be appointed from, the State of Delaware, and five of whom shall be residents of and qualified to vote in, and shall be appointed from, the State of New Jersey; not more than three of the Commissioners of each State shall be of the same political party; the Commissioners for each State shall be appointed in the manner fixed and determined from time to time by the law of each State respectively. Each Commissioner shall hold office for a term of five years, and until his successor shall have been appointed and qualified, but the terms of the first Commissioners shall be so designated that the term of one Commissioner from each State shall expire each year. All terms shall run to the first day of July. Any vacancy, however created, shall be filled for the unexpired term only. Any Commissioner may be suspended or removed from office as provided by law of the State from which he shall be appointed. Commissioners shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary expenses to be paid only from revenues of the Authority and may not receive any other compensation for services to the Authority except such as may from time to time be authorized from such revenues by concurrent legislation.

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