New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 32 § 2-27(27)

1. The New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission, in addition to the powers conferred by the act to which this is a supplement, and in the discretion of the commission as an alternative to any other method or means authorized and provided for in the act to which this is a supplement, is hereby authorized to act jointly and in agreement with the Pennsylvania commission, as hereinafter defined, or with such other board, commission or body duly constituted by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to act as a joint commission, in conjunction with said New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission, hereinafter designated as the interstate bridge commission, to enter into contracts or agreements with such Pennsylvania commission, or other properly constituted body, as may be deemed requisite or necessary to carry out the terms of this act and the act to which this is a supplement, for the joint construction, operation, repair and maintenance of a bridge over the Delaware river connecting the city of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the city of Camden, in the state of New Jersey. No action of the said joint commission shall be valid and binding unless a majority of each commission shall vote in favor thereof; and the minutes recording the action of the joint commission shall record the individual votes of the members thereof; provided, however, that the said joint commission shall not proceed to exercise or carry out any authority or power herein or hereby given until the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by appropriate legislation, shall first have vested like powers herewith in said joint commission, and beyond the extent to which the commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall have appropriated or made available to the said joint commission the moneys stipulated as the share of that state, including the share of the city of Philadelphia, as provided by the concurrent legislation in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the agreement therefor between said commonwealth and said city, for providing the cost of acquiring the land for the approaches to and for the erection and construction of the approaches and the substructure and superstructure of the bridge, said moneys, made available as provided by law, to be payable as herein provided on the order of the joint commission.