Every municipal port authority is hereby empowered, in its own name but for the local unit, to acquire by purchase, gift, grant or devise and to take for public use real property within the port district, which may be deemed by the municipal port authority to be necessary for its purposes, including public lands and property (hereinafter in this section called “public lands” ) in which any county, municipality or political subdivision of the State, or public body or agency of such political subdivision has any right, title or interest and to the acquisition of which it shall have consented. Whenever any municipal port authority has determined that it is necessary to take any such real property for port purposes by the exercise of the power of condemnation, as hereinafter provided, it shall prepare 2 copies of diagrams, maps or plans designating the general area in the local unit in which real property is to be acquired and file 1 copy thereof in its office and the other copy thereof in the office of the clerk of the local unit. Such municipal port authority is hereby empowered to acquire and take such real property by condemnation, in the manner provided by chapter 1 of Title 20, Eminent Domain, of the Revised Statutes (R.S. 20:1-1 et seq.) and, to that end, may invoke and exercise in the manner or mode of procedure prescribed in said chapter, either in its own name or in the name of the local unit, all of the powers of such local unit to acquire or take property for public use; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this act, no municipal port authority shall institute any proceeding to acquire or take, by condemnation, any real property within the designated area in the local unit referred to above in this section until after the date of filing in the office of the clerk of the local unit of a certified copy of a (a) resolution of the municipal port authority stating the finding of the municipal port authority that it is necessary or convenient to acquire real property in said designated area for port purposes, and (b) resolution of the governing body of the local unit expressing its consent to the acquisition of real property in said designated area.

L.1960, c. 192, p. 825, s. 25, eff. Feb. 15, 1961.