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 93 STAT. 1256

Acquisition of property.

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PUBLIC LAW 96-163—DEC. 28, 1979

state and municipal officers and bodies of both states, all trust companies and banks other than savings banks, all building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a commercial banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever (other than savings banks), who are now or may hereafter be authorized by either state to invest in bonds of such state, may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital, belonging to them or within their control, and said bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and shall be received by any state or municipal officer or agency of either state for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds of such state is now or may hereafter be authorized. The bonds issued by the port authority to provide funds for any of the purposes of this act as security for which the general reserve fund shall have been pledged in whole or in part are hereby made securities in which all savings banks also may properly and legally invest any funds including capital, belonging to them or within their control. "§ 14. Subsequent to and subject to the execution of the agreement or agreements authorized by sections eleven and twelve hereof for the projects and facilities and at the locations specified therein, if the port authority shall find it necessary, convenient or desirable to acquire from time to time any real property or any property other than real property (including but not limited to contract rights and other tangible or intangible personal property), for any of the purposes of this act whether for immediate or future use (including temporary construction, rehabilitation or improvement), the port authority may find and determine that such property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser interest, is required for a public use, and upon such determination the said property shall be and shall be deemed to be required for such public use until otherwise determined by the port authority, and such determination shall not be affected by the fact that such property has theretofore been taken for and is then devoted to a public use; but the public use in the hands of or under the control of the port authority shall be deemed superior to the public use in the hands of any other person, association or corporation. "The port authority may acquire and is hereby authorized so to acquire from time to time, for any of the purposes of this act, such property, whether a fee simple absolute or a lesser estate, by condemnation (including the exercise of the right of eminent domain) under and pursuant to the provisions of the eminent domain procedure law of the state of New York in the case of property located in or having its situs in such state, and chapter three hundred sixty-one of the laws of New Jersey of nineteen hundred seventy-one, in the case of property located in or having its situs in such state, or, at the option of the port authority, as provided in section fifteen of chapter forty-three of the laws of New Jersey of nineteen hundred fortyseven, as amended, in the case of property located in or having its situs in such state, or pursuant to such other and alternate procedure as may be provided by law of the state in which such property is located or has its situs; and all of said statutes for the acquisition of real property shall, for any of the purposes of this act, be applied also to the acquisition of other property authorized by this section, except that such provisions as pertain to surveys, diagrams, maps, plans or profiles, assessed valuation, lis pendens, service of notice and papers, filing in the office of the clerk in which the real property affected is

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