Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/1283

 PUBLIC LAW 96-163-DEC. 28, 1979

93 STAT. 1251

the port authority or any other person having the right to mortgage the fee of such property and thus enable the port authority or such other person to give as security for its bond or bonds a lien upon the land and improvements, but such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission by consenting to the execution by the port authority or such other person of a mortgage upon the leased property shall not thereby assume and such consent shall not be construed as imposing upon such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission any liability upon the bond or bonds secured by the mortgage. In connection with any of the purposes of this act, either state and any municipality thereof, any commission, public authority or agency of either or both of said two states, the port authority and any other person are empowered to enter into any other agreement or agreements (and from time to time to enter into agreements amending or supplementing same) which may provide inter alia for the establishment of prices or rates, a requirement that any person sell, lease or purchase any commodity or service from any other person, or any other similar arrangement. "Nothing contained in this section shall impair or diminish the powers vested in either state or in any municipality, public authority, agency or commission to acquire, clear, replan, reconstruct, rehabilitate or redevelop abandoned, undeveloped or underutilized land and the powers herein granted to either state or any municipality, public authority, agency or commission shall be construed to be in aid of and not in limitation or in derogation of any such powers heretofore or hereafter conferred upon or granted to such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission. "Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize the port authority to acquire, by condemnation or the exercise of the right of eminent domain, property now or hereafter vested in or held by either state or by any municipality, public authority, agency or commission without the authority or consent by such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission, provided that the state under whose laws such public authority, agency or commission has been created may authorize by appropriate legislation the port authority to acquire any such property vested in or held by any such public authority, agency or commission by condemnation or the exercise of the right of eminent domain without such authority or consent; nor shall anything herein impair or invalidate in any way any bonded indebtedness of either state or any such municipality, public authority, agency or commission, nor impair the provisions of law regulating the payment into sinking funds of revenues derived from such property, or dedicating the revenues derived from such property to a specific purpose. "The port authority, subject to the express authority or consent of any such state, municipality, public authority, agency or commission, is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire from any such state or municipality, or from any other public authority, agency or commission having jurisdiction in the premises, by agreement therewith, and such state or municipality, public authority, agency or commission, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, is hereby authorized and empowered to grant and convey, upon reasonable terms and conditions, any real property which may be necessary, convenient or desirable for any of the purposes of this aot, including such real property as has already been devoted to a public use. "Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section or act Park lands, or any compact or general or special law, the port authority may not restriction on acquire any park lands for industrial development projects or facili- acquisition.

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