Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 32:8-23

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, with regard to any existing bridge within the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission’s jurisdiction and control on which tolls were not charged or collected in 1984 and which was financed in part with federal funds, the commission may in the same manner and to the same extent that it can do so for all toll bridges under its jurisdiction and control fix, charge and collect fees, rentals, tolls or any other charges on such existing bridge only if authorized to do so by substantially similar laws enacted by the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

L. 1985, c. 343, s. 1, eff. Oct. 21, 1985.