Subject to contracts with bondholders and to the availability of adequate and secure revenues as determined by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the authorization given to the authority by P.L.1979, c. 33 (C. 32:2-23.27 et seq.) to provide capital funds for passenger mass transportation capital projects through the issuance of consolidated bonds is hereby amended to authorize the authority to provide such capital funds through the issuance of consolidated bonds or the provision of its revenues and reserves and to increase the total of such capital funds by an additional sum or sums not to exceed $200,000,000.00, to be approved by the Governors of the States of New York and New Jersey based upon a certification by the authority that the issuance of its consolidated bonds or the provision of its revenues or reserves in the amount of each such additional sum will not, during the ensuing 10 years, in the light of the authority’s estimated expenditures in connection with each such additional sum, materially impair the sound credit standing of the authority or the investment status of its consolidated bonds or the ability of the authority to fulfill any of its commitments, including those which require that it maintain its revenues and reserve funds in an amount adequate to permit it to discharge debt service on outstanding debt obligations, its other undertakings to the holders of consolidated bonds and its service obligations. The additional $200,000,000.00 or portion thereof certified as aforesaid shall be spent equally in the two states for the acquisition, development and financing of buses and ancillary bus facilities.

L.1981, c. 407, s. 1.