“Marine terminals” shall mean developments, consisting of one or more piers, wharves, docks, bulkheads, slips, basins, vehicular roadways, railroad connections, side tracks, sidings or other buildings, structures, facilities or improvements, necessary or convenient to the accommodation of steamships or other vessels and their cargoes or passengers and shall also mean waterfront development projects. It shall also include such highway projects in the vicinity of a marine terminal providing improved access to such marine terminal as shall be designated in legislation adopted by the two states. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, it shall also mean railroad freight projects related or of benefit to a marine terminal or which are necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the port authority for the protection or promotion of the commerce of the port district, consisting of railroad freight transportation facilities or railroad freight terminal facilities, and any equipment, improvement, structure or facility or any land, and any building, structure, facility or other improvement thereon, or any combination thereof, and all real and personal property in connection therewith or incidental thereto, deemed necessary or desirable in the opinion of the port authority, whether or not now in existence or under construction, for the undertaking of railroad freight projects.

“Marine terminal purposes” shall mean the effectuation, establishment, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, improvement, maintenance or operation of marine terminals.

“Municipality” shall mean a county, city, borough, village, township, town, public agency, public authority or political subdivision.

“Real property” shall mean lands, structures, franchises and interests in land, including waters, lands under water and riparian rights, and any and all things and rights usually included within the said term, and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser interests, including but not limited to easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.

“Waterfront development projects” shall mean projects for the revitalization and economic development of waterfront property which is not in use for the handling of waterborne cargoes or directly or indirectly related to the waterborne movement of passengers and their vehicles. Waterfront development projects shall include but not be limited to hotels, marinas, commercial offices including the installation of a fiber optic cable within its boundaries, or facilities which serve conference, convention, recreation or entertainment purposes or are retail service establishments, parking, technical, satellite antenna, similar communication or other facilities related to any of the foregoing and associated improvements necessary to provide public access to the waterfront development projects. Notwithstanding the above, a waterfront development project authorized by this act shall not contain any technical, satellite antenna or similar telecommunications facility unless the facility is directly used by, and for the sole use of, end users located on the site of the project. Furthermore, no Port Authority money shall be used directly or indirectly in the financing or construction of any telecommunications facility.

L.1947, c. 44, p. 142, s. 3. Amended by L.1977, c. 365, s. 3; L.1980, c. 157, s. 3; L.1983, c. 9, s. 2, eff. Aug. 1, 1984; L.1984, c. 107, s. 1, eff. Aug. 2, 1984.