2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PNY - Port of New York Authority 154/21

 
                       Chapter 154 of the laws of 1921
                         Port of New York authority
    Section  1.  William  R.  Willcox,  Eugenius H. Outerbridge and Murray
  Hulbert, or any two of them, commissioners  heretofore  appointed  under
  chapter  four hundred and twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and
  seventeen of the state of New York, together with  the  attorney-general
  of  the  state  of New York, are hereby authorized as commissioners upon
  the part of the state of New York to enter into, with the state  of  New
  Jersey,  by  and  through  the  commissioners  appointed  or  who may be
  appointed under or by virtue of a law of the legislature of the state of
  New Jersey, an agreement or compact in the form following,  that  is  to
  say:
    Whereas,  In  the  year eighteen hundred and thirty-four the states of
  New York  and  New  Jersey  did  enter  into  an  agreement  fixing  and
  determining  the  rights  and obligations of the two states in and about
  the waters between the two states, especially in and about  the  bay  of
  New York and the Hudson river; and
    Whereas,  Since  that  time  the  commerce of the port of New York has
  greatly developed and increased and the territory in and around the port
  has become commercially one center or district; and
    Whereas, It is confidently believed that a better co-ordination of the
  terminal, transportation and other facilities of commerce in, about  and
  through the port of New York, will result in great economies, benefiting
  the nation, as well as the states of New York and New Jersey; and
    Whereas,  The  future development of such terminal, transportation and
  other facilities of commerce will require the expenditure of large  sums
  of  money and the cordial co-operation of the states of New York and New
  Jersey in the encouragement of the investment of  capital,  and  in  the
  formulation and execution of the necessary physical plans; and
    Whereas, Such result can best be accomplished through the co-operation
  of the two states by and through a joint or common agency.
    Now,  therefore,  The  said  states  of  New  Jersey  and  New York do
  supplement and amend the existing  agreement  of  eighteen  hundred  and
  thirty-four in the following respects:
                                 ARTICLE I.
    They  agree to and pledge, each to the other, faithful co-operation in
  the future planning and development of the port of New York, holding  in
  high  trust  for  the  benefit  of  the nation the special blessings and
  natural advantages thereof.
                                 ARTICLE II.
    To that end the two states do agree that there shall  be  created  and
  they  do  hereby  create a district to be known as the "Port of New York
  District" (for brevity hereinafter referred to as "The District")  which
  shall embrace the territory bounded and described as follows:
    The  district  is  included  within  the  boundary  lines  located  by
  connecting points of  known  latitude  and  longitude.  The  approximate
  courses and distances of the lines enclosing the district are recited in
  the description, but the district is determined by drawing lines through
  the  points  of  known latitude and longitude. Beginning at a point A of
  latitude  forty-one  degrees  and  four  minutes  north  and   longitude
  seventy-three degrees and fifty-six minutes west, said point being about
  sixty-five-hundredths  of a mile west of the westerly bank of the Hudson
  river and about two  and  one-tenth  miles  northwest  of  the  pier  at
  Piermont, in the county of Rockland, state of New York; thence due south
  one  and  fifteen-hundredths miles more or less to a point B of latitude
  forty-one degrees and three minutes north  and  longitude  seventy-three
  degrees  and  fifty-six  minutes  west;  said  point being about one and
  three-tenths miles northwest of the pier at Piermont, in the  county  of

  Rockland,  state  of  New  York;  thence  south  fifty-six  degrees  and
  thirty-four minutes west six and  twenty-six-hundredths  miles  more  or
  less to a point C of latitude forty-one degrees and no minutes north and
  longitude  seventy-four  degrees  and two minutes west, said point being
  about seven-tenths of a mile north of the railroad station at  Westwood,
  in  the  county of Bergen, state of New Jersey; thence south sixty-eight
  degrees and twenty-four minutes west  nine  and  thirty-seven-hundredths
  miles  more  or  less  to  a  point  D  of  latitude  forty  degrees and
  fifty-seven minutes north and longitude seventy-four degrees and  twelve
  minutes  west,  said  point  being  about  three  miles northwest of the
  business center of the city of Paterson, in the county of Passaic, state
  of New Jersey; thence south forty-seven degrees  and  seventeen  minutes
  west  eleven and eighty-seven-hundredths miles more or less to a point E
  of  latitude  forty  degrees  and  fifty  minutes  north  and  longitude
  seventy-four degrees and twenty-two minutes west, said point being about
  four  and  five-tenths  miles  west  of  the borough of Caldwell, in the
  county of Morris, state  of  New  Jersey;  thence  due  south  nine  and
  twenty-hundredths  miles  more  or  less  to a point F of latitude forty
  degrees and forty-two minutes north and longitude  seventy-four  degrees
  and  twenty-two  minutes west, said point being about one and two-tenths
  miles southwest of the passenger station of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
  Western railroad in the city of Summit, in the county of Union, state of
  New Jersey; thence south forty-two degrees and twenty-four minutes west,
  seven and seventy-eight-hundredths miles more or less to a  point  G  of
  latitude  forty  degrees  and  thirty-seven  minutes north and longitude
  seventy-four degrees and twenty-eight minutes  west,  said  point  being
  about  two  and two-tenths miles west of the business center of the city
  of Plainfield, in the county of Somerset, state of  New  Jersey;  thence
  due  south twelve and sixty-five-hundredths miles more or less on a line
  passing about one mile west of the business center of the  city  of  New
  Brunswick  to a point H of latitude forty degrees and twenty-six minutes
  north and longitude seventy-four degrees and twenty-eight minutes  west,
  said  point being about four and five-tenths miles southwest of the city
  of New Brunswick, in the county  of  Middlesex,  state  of  New  Jersey;
  thence  south  seventy-seven  degrees and forty-two minutes east ten and
  seventy-nine-hundredths miles more or less to  a  point  I  of  latitude
  forty  degrees  and twenty-four minutes north and longitude seventy-four
  degrees and sixteen minutes west,  said  point  being  about  two  miles
  southwest  of  the borough of Matawan, in the county of Middlesex, state
  of New Jersey; thence due east  twenty-five  and  forty-eight-hundredths
  miles  more  or  less,  crossing  the  county  of Monmouth, state of New
  Jersey, and passing about one and four-tenths miles south of the pier of
  the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Atlantic Highlands to a point J of
  latitude forty degrees  and  twenty-four  minutes  north  and  longitude
  seventy-three  degrees and forty-seven minutes west, said point being in
  the Atlantic ocean; thence north eleven degrees fifty-eight minutes east
  twenty-one and sixteen-hundredths miles more or less to a point K,  said
  point  being  about five miles east of the passenger station of the Long
  Island railroad at Jamaica and about one and three-tenths miles east  of
  the  boundary  line  of  the  city of New York, in the county of Nassau,
  state of New York; thence in a  northeasterly  direction  passing  about
  one-half  mile  west  of New Hyde Park and about one and one-tenth miles
  east of the shore of Manhasset bay at  Port  Washington,  crossing  Long
  Island sound to a point L, said point being the point of intersection of
  the boundary line between the states of New York and Connecticut and the
  meridian  of  seventy-three  degrees,  thirty-nine  minutes  and  thirty
  seconds west longitude, said point being also about a mile northeast  of
  the  village  of  Port  Chester; thence northwesterly along the boundary

  line between the states of New York and Connecticut to a point  M,  said
  point being the point of intersection between said boundary line between
  the  states  of  New  York and Connecticut and the parallel of forty-one
  degrees  and  four  minutes  north latitude, said point also being about
  four and five-tenths miles northeast of the business center of the  city
  of  White  Plains;  thence  due  west  along said parallel, of forty-one
  degrees and four minutes north latitude, the line passing about two  and
  one-half  miles north of the business center of the city of White Plains
  and crossing the Hudson river to the point A, the place of beginning.
    The boundaries of said district may be changed from time  to  time  by
  the  action  of  the  legislature  of  either  state concurred in by the
  legislature of the other.
                                 ARTICLE III
    There is hereby created "The Port of New York Authority" (for  brevity
  hereinafter  referred to as the "Port Authority"), which shall be a body
  corporate and politic, having the powers  and  jurisdiction  hereinafter
  enumerated,  and  such other and additional powers as shall be conferred
  upon it  by  the  legislature  of  either  state  concurred  in  by  the
  legislature  of the other, or by act or acts of congress, as hereinafter
  provided. On and after July first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-two,  the
  port  authority  shall be known and designated as "The Port Authority of
  New York and New Jersey."
                                 ARTICLE IV
    The port authority shall consist of twelve commissioners, six resident
  voters from the state of New York,  at  least  four  of  whom  shall  be
  resident  voters  of  the city of New York, and six resident voters from
  the state of New Jersey, at least four of whom shall be resident  voters
  within  the  New Jersey portion of the district, the New York members to
  be chosen by the state of New York and the New  Jersey  members  by  the
  state of New Jersey in the manner and for the terms fixed and determined
  from  time to time by the legislature of each state respectively, except
  as herein provided. Each commissioner may be removed or  suspended  from
  office  as  provided  by  the  law  of  the state from which he shall be
  appointed.
 
                                 ARTICLE V.
    The commissioners shall, for the purpose of doing business, constitute
  a board and may adopt suitable by-laws for its management.
 
                                 ARTICLE VI.
    The port  authority  shall  constitute  a  body,  both  corporate  and
  politic,  with  full  power  and authority to purchase, construct, lease
  and/or operate any  terminal  or  transportation  facility  within  said
  district;  and  to make charges for the use thereof: and for any of such
  purposes to own, hold, lease and/or operate real or  personal  property,
  to  borrow  money  and secure the same by bonds or by mortgages upon any
  property held or to be held by it. No property now or  hereafter  vested
  in  or  held  by either state, or by any county, city, borough, village,
  township or other municipality, shall be taken by  the  port  authority,
  without  the  authority or consent of such state, county, city, borough,
  village, township or  other  municipality,  nor  shall  anything  herein
  impair  or  invalidate in any way any bonded indebtedness of such state,
  county, city, borough, village,  township  or  other  municipality,  nor
  impair  the  provisions of law regulating the payment into sinking funds
  of revenues derived from municipal property, or dedicating the  revenues
  derived from any municipal property to a specific purpose.
    The  powers granted in this article shall not be exercised by the port
  authority until the legislatures of both states shall have approved of a

  comprehensive plan for  the  development  of  the  port  as  hereinafter
  provided.
 
                                ARTICLE VII.
    The port authority shall have such additional powers and duties as may
  hereafter  be  delegated  to or imposed upon it from time to time by the
  action  of  the  legislature  of  either  state  concurred  in  by   the
  legislature  of the other. Unless and until otherwise provided, it shall
  make an annual report to the legislature of both states,  setting  forth
  in  detail  the  operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to
  this agreement and any legislation thereunder. The port authority  shall
  not  pledge  the credit of either state except by and with the authority
  of the legislature thereof.
 
                               * ARTICLE VII-A
    The port  authority  shall  file  with  the  temporary  president  and
  minority leader of the senate and the speaker and minority leader of the
  assembly,  the chairman of the assembly ways and means committee and the
  chairman of the senate finance committee of the state of  New  York  and
  the  president,  minority  leader  and  secretary  of the senate and the
  speaker, minority leader and clerk of the general assembly of the  state
  of  New  Jersey  a copy of the minutes of any action taken at any public
  meeting of the port authority. Such filing shall be made on the same day
  such minutes are transmitted to the governor of each state  for  review;
  and  notice  of  such  filing  shall be provided to the governor of each
  state at the same time. Failure to effectuate any such filing shall  not
  impair  the  ability of the authority to act pursuant to a resolution of
  its board. Such filing shall not apply to any  minutes  required  to  be
  filed pursuant to section twenty of chapter six hundred fifty-one of the
  laws of nineteen hundred seventy-eight.
    The temporary president and minority leader of the senate, the speaker
  and  minority  leader of the assembly, the chairman of the assembly ways
  and means committee and the chairman of the senate finance committee  of
  the state of New York and the speaker and minority leader of the general
  assembly  and the president and the minority leader of the senate of the
  state of New Jersey, or representatives designated by  them  in  writing
  for  this  purpose,  may  by certificate filed with the secretary of the
  port authority waive the foregoing filing requirement  with  respect  to
  any specific minutes.
    *  NB  Effective pending passage of identical legislation by the state
  of New Jersey
 
                                ARTICLE VIII.
    Unless and until otherwise provided, all laws now or hereafter vesting
  jurisdiction or control in the public service commission, or the  public
  utilities  commission,  or  like  body,  within each state respectively,
  shall apply to railroads and to any transportation,  terminal  or  other
  facility  owned,  operated, leased or constructed by the port authority,
  with the same force and effect as if such railroad,  or  transportation,
  terminal  or  other facility were owned, leased, operated or constructed
  by a private corporation.
 
                                 ARTICLE IX.
    Nothing contained in this agreement shall impair  the  powers  of  any
  municipality to develop or improve port and terminal facilities.
 
                                 ARTICLE X.

    The  legislatures  of  the  two  states,  prior to the signing of this
  agreement, or thereafter as soon as may be  practicable,  will  adopt  a
  plan or plans for the comprehensive development of the port of New York.
 
                                 ARTICLE XI.
    The  port  authority  shall  from  time  to  time  make  plans for the
  development of said district, supplementary to or amendatory of any plan
  theretofore adopted, and when  such  plans  are  duly  approved  by  the
  legislatures  of  the two states, they shall be binding upon both states
  with the same force and effect as if incorporated in this agreement.
 
                               * ARTICLE XI-A
    Notwithstanding any other provision of  law  to  the  contrary,  every
  action against the authority for damages or injuries to real or personal
  property,  or  for  the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries or
  wrongful death shall not be commenced unless a  notice  of  claim  shall
  have  been  served  on  the  authority in the manner provided for in the
  state where  the  action  is  commenced,  and  in  compliance  with  the
  pertinent  statutes of the state relating generally to actions commenced
  against that state and in compliance with all the  requirements  of  the
  laws  of  that  state.  Where  such  state's  law permits service upon a
  department of that state in lieu of  service  upon  the  public  entity,
  service  may  be  made  pursuant  to  such  law. Except in an action for
  wrongful death against such an entity, an  action  for  damages  or  for
  injuries  to  real or personal property, or for the destruction thereof,
  or for personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained, shall  not  be
  commenced  more  than one year and ninety days after the cause of action
  therefor  shall  have  accrued  or  within  the  time  period  otherwise
  prescribed  by  any special provision of law of that state, whichever is
  longer.
    * NB Effective upon enactment of legislation of  identical  effect  by
  the state of New Jersey or June 15, 2013, whichever is later
                                ARTICLE XII.
    The  port  authority may from time to time make recommendations to the
  legislatures of the two states or to the congress of the United  States,
  based  upon  study  and analysis, for the better conduct of the commerce
  passing  in  and  through  the  port  of  New  York,  the  increase  and
  improvement  of  transportation and terminal facilities therein, and the
  more economical and expeditious handling of such commerce.
 
                                ARTICLE XIII
    The port authority may petition any interstate commerce commission (or
  like body), commissioner of transportation, public utilities  commission
  (or  like  body),  or  any  other  federal,  municipal,  state  or local
  authority, administrative, judicial or legislative, having  jurisdiction
  in  the  premises,  after  the  adoption  of  the  comprehensive plan as
  provided for in article ten, for  the  adoption  and  execution  of  any
  physical  improvement,  change in method, rate of transportation, system
  of handling freight, warehousing, docking,  lightering  or  transfer  of
  freight, which, in the opinion of the port authority, may be designed to
  improve or better the handling of commerce in and through said district,
  or  improve  terminal  and  transportation  facilities  therein.  It may
  intervene in any proceeding affecting the commerce of the port.
 
                                ARTICLE XIV.
    The  port  authority  shall  elect  from  its   number   a   chairman,
  vice-chairman,  and  may  appoint  such officers and employees as it may

  require for the performance of its duties, and shall fix  and  determine
  their qualifications and duties.
 
                                 ARTICLE XV.
    Unless  and  until  the revenues from operations conducted by the port
  authority are adequate to meet all expenditures, the legislatures of the
  two states shall  appropriate,  in  equal  amounts,  annually,  for  the
  salaries,  office and other administrative expenses, such sum or sums as
  shall be recommended by the port authority and approved by the governors
  of the two states, but each state obligates itself hereunder only to the
  extent of one hundred thousand dollars in any one year.
 
                                ARTICLE XV-A
    1. The legislature finds and declares that the right of the public  to
  be present at meetings of the port authority of New York and New Jersey,
  and  to  witness  in  full detail all phases of the deliberation, policy
  formulation, and decision making of  the  authority,  is  vital  to  the
  enhancement  and  proper functioning of the democratic process, and that
  secrecy in  public  affairs  undermines  the  faith  of  the  public  in
  government  and  the  public's effectiveness in fulfilling its role in a
  democratic society; and declares it to be  the  public  policy  of  this
  state  to  insure  the  right  of  its citizens to have adequate advance
  notice of and the right to attend all meetings of the authority at which
  any business affecting the public is discussed or acted upon in any  way
  except  only  in those circumstances where otherwise the public interest
  would be clearly endangered or the personal privacy of guaranteed rights
  of individuals would be clearly in danger of unwarranted invasion.
    2. As used in this act:
    a. "Board" means the board of commissioners of the Port  Authority  of
  New York and New Jersey.
    b.  "Meeting"  means  any  gathering, whether corporeal or by means of
  communication equipment, which is attended by, or open  to,  the  board,
  held  with  the  intent,  on  the  part of the board members present, to
  discuss or act as a unit  upon  the  specific  public  business  of  the
  authority. "Meeting" does not mean a gathering (1) attended by less than
  an  effective  majority  of the board, or (2) attended by or open to all
  the members of three or more similar public bodies at  a  convention  or
  similar gathering.
    c. "Public business" mean matters which relate in any way, directly or
  indirectly, to the performance of the functions of the port authority of
  New York and New Jersey or the conduct of its business.
    3.  The  board  shall  adopt  and  promulgate  appropriate  rules  and
  regulations concerning the right of the public to be present at meetings
  of the authority. The board may incorporate in its rules and regulations
  conditions under which it may exclude the public from  a  meeting  or  a
  portion thereof.
    Any  rules or regulations adopted hereunder shall become a part of the
  minutes of the port authority of New York and New Jersey  and  shall  be
  subject  to  the approval of the governor of New Jersey and the governor
  of New York.
 
                                 ARTICLE XVI
    Unless  and  until  otherwise  determined  by  the   action   of   the
  legislatures of the two states, no action of the port authority shall be
  binding unless taken at a meeting at which at least three of the members
  from  each  state are present, and unless a majority of the members from
  each state present at such meeting but in any event at  least  three  of
  the  members  from  each  state, shall vote in favor thereof. Each state

  reserves the right to provide by law for the exercise of a veto power by
  the governor thereof over  any  action  of  any  commissioner  appointed
  therefrom.
 
                                ARTICLE XVII.
    Unless   and   until   otherwise  determined  by  the  action  of  the
  legislatures of the two states, the port authority shall not  incur  any
  obligations  for  salaries,  office  or  other  administrative expenses,
  within the provisions  of  article  fifteen,  prior  to  the  making  of
  appropriations adequate to meet the same.
 
                               ARTICLE XVIII.
    The  port  authority  is  hereby authorized to make suitable rules and
  regulations not inconsistent with the constitution of the United  States
  or  of  either  state,  and  subject  to  the  exercise  of the power of
  congress, for the improvement of the conduct of navigation and commerce,
  which, when concurred in or  authorized  by  the  legislatures  of  both
  states, shall be binding and effective upon all persons and corporations
  affected thereby.
 
                                ARTICLE XIX.
    The  two  states  shall provide penalties for violations of any order,
  rule or regulation  of  the  port  authority,  and  for  the  manner  of
  enforcing the same.
 
                                 ARTICLE XX.
    The  territorial  or  boundary  lines  established by the agreement of
  eighteen hundred and thirty-four, or the jurisdiction of the two  states
  established  thereby, shall not be changed except as herein specifically
  modified.
 
                                ARTICLE XXI.
    Either state may by its legislature withdraw from  this  agreement  in
  the  event  that  a  plan  for the comprehensive development of the port
  shall not have been adopted by both states on or prior  to  July  first,
  nineteen  hundred  and twenty-three; and when such withdrawal shall have
  been communicated to the governor of the other state  by  the  state  so
  withdrawing, this agreement shall be thereby abrogated.
 
                                ARTICLE XXII.
    Definitions.  The  following  words  as  herein  used  shall  have the
  following meaning: "Transportation facility"  shall  include  railroads,
  steam  or  electric,  motor  truck  or other street or highway vehicles,
  tunnels, bridges, boats, ferries, car-floats, lighters,  tugs,  floating
  elevators, barges, scows or harbor craft of any kind, air craft suitable
  for harbor service, and every kind of transportation facility now in use
  or  hereafter  designed  for  use  for the transportation or carriage of
  persons or property. "Terminal facility" shall include  wharves,  piers,
  slips,   ferries,  docks,  dry  docks,  bulkheads,  dock-walls,  basins,
  car-floats, float-bridges, grain or other storage elevators, warehouses,
  cold storage, tracks,  yards,  sheds,  switches,  connections,  overhead
  appliances, and every kind of terminal or storage facility now in use or
  hereafter  designed  for  use  for  the  handling,  storage,  loading or
  unloading of  freight  at  steamship,  railroad  or  freight  terminals.
  "Railroads"   shall   include  railways,  extensions  thereof,  tunnels,
  subways, bridges, elevated structures, tracks, poles,  wires,  conduits,
  power   houses,  substations,  lines  for  the  transmission  of  power,
  car-barns, shops, yards,  sidings,  turn-outs,  switches,  stations  and

  approaches  thereto, cars and motive equipment. "Facility" shall include
  all works, buildings, structures, appliances and appurtenances necessary
  and convenient for the proper construction, equipment,  maintenance  and
  operation  of  such  facility  or facilities or any one or more of them.
  "Real property" shall include land under water, as well as uplands,  and
  all  property either now commonly or legally defined as real property or
  which may hereafter be so defined.  "Personal  property"  shall  include
  choses  in action and all other property now commonly or legally defined
  as personal property or which may hereafter be so  defined.  "To  lease"
  shall include to rent or to hire. "Rule or regulation," until and unless
  otherwise  determined by the legislatures of both states, shall mean any
  rule or regulation not inconsistent with the constitution of the  United
  States  or of either state, and, subject to the exercise of the power of
  congress, for the improvement of the conduct of navigation and  commerce
  within  the district, and shall include charges, rates, rentals or tolls
  fixed  or  established  by  the  port  authority;  and  until  otherwise
  determined as aforesaid, shall not include matters relating to harbor or
  river  pollution.  Wherever action by the legislature of either state is
  herein referred to, it shall mean an act of the legislature duly adopted
  in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of the state.
    Plural or singular. The singular wherever used  herein  shall  include
  the plural.
    Consent,  approval  or  recommendation  of  municipality;  how  given.
  Wherever  herein  the  consent,  approval   or   recommendation   of   a
  "municipality"  is  required,  the word "municipality" shall be taken to
  include any city or incorporated village within the port  district,  and
  in  addition  in  the state of New Jersey any borough, town, township or
  any municipality  governed  by  an  improvement  commission  within  the
  district.  Such consent, approval or recommendation whenever required in
  the case of the city of New York shall be deemed to have been  given  or
  made  whenever  the  board of estimate and apportionment of said city or
  any body hereafter succeeding to its duties shall  by  a  majority  vote
  pass  a  resolution expressing such consent, approval or recommendation;
  and in the case of any municipality  now  or  hereafter  governed  by  a
  commission,  whenever the commission thereof shall by majority vote pass
  such a resolution; and in all other cases whenever the  body  authorized
  to  grant  consent  to  the  use  of  the  streets  or  highways of such
  municipality shall by a majority vote pass such a resolution.
    § 2. The said agreement or compact, when  signed  and  sealed  by  the
  commissioners   of   each   state  as  hereinbefore  provided,  and  the
  attorney-general of the state of New York, and the  attorney-general  of
  the  state  of  New Jersey if he be designated so to act by the state of
  New Jersey, shall become binding upon the state of New York,  and  shall
  be  filed  in  the  office of the secretary of state of the state of New
  York.
    § 3. If by death, resignation or otherwise,  a  vacancy  occurs  among
  those  appointed  hereunder  by  the  state of New York, the governor is
  hereby authorized to fill the same.
    § 4. The said commissioners, together with the commissioners appointed
  from the state of New Jersey, shall have power to apply to the  congress
  of  the  United  States for its consent and approval of the agreement or
  compact signed by them; but in the absence of such consent  of  congress
  and  until  the  same  shall  have  been  secured, the said agreement or
  compact shall be binding upon the state of  New  York  in  all  respects
  permitted  by  law for the two states of New York and New Jersey without
  the consent of congress to co-operate, for the  purposes  enumerated  in
  said agreement or compact, and in the manner provided herein.