32:1-144 - Agreement between port authority and municipalities; amount and manner of payments - New Jersey Statutes

32:1-144.  Agreement between port authority and municipalities;  amount and  manner of payments
    To the end that counties, cities, boroughs, villages, towns, townships and other municipalities in the Port of New York District, may not suffer undue loss of taxes and assessments by reason of the acquisition and ownership of property therein by the Port of New York Authority (hereinafter called the port  authority), the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered, in its  discretion, to enter into a voluntary agreement or agreements with any county,  city, borough, village, town, township or other municipality in said port  district, whereby it will undertake to pay a fair and reasonable sum or sums  annually in connection with any marine or inland terminal property owned by it,  not in excess of the sum last paid as taxes upon such property prior to the  time of its acquisition by the port authority.  Such payment or payments which  the port authority is hereby authorized and empowered to make, shall be in such amount or amounts and shall be payable at such time or times and under such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon by and between the port authority  and such county, city, village, borough, town, township or other municipality  concerned.

     L.1931, c. 69, s. 1, p. 125.