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Statutes > New-jersey > Title-32 > Section-32-23 > 32-23-15332:23-153. General powers
In addition to the powers and duties of the commission elsewhere conferred in this act or in the act to which this act is amendatory or supplementary, the commission shall have the power:
1. To administer and enforce the provisions of this compact;
2. To establish such divisions and departments within the commission as the commission may deem necessary and to appoint such officers, agents and employees as it may deem necessary, prescribe their powers, duties and qualifications and fix their compensation and retain and employ counsel and private consultants on a contract basis or otherwise;
3. To make and enforce such rules and regulations as the commission may deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this compact or to prevent the circumvention or evasion thereof including, but not limited to, rules and regulations (which shall be applicable to any person licensed by the commission, his employer, or any other person within an airport) to provide for the maximum protection of air freight, such as checking and custodial accounting, guarding, storing, fencing, gatehouses, access to air freight, air freight loss reports, and any other requirements which the commission in its discretion may deem to be necessary and appropriate to provide such maximum protection. The rules and regulations of the commission shall be effective upon publication in the manner which the commission shall prescribe and upon filing in the office of the secretary of state of each state. A certified copy of any such rules and regulations, attested as true and correct by the commission, shall be presumptive evidence of the regular making, adoption, approval and publication thereof;
4. To have for its members and its properly designated officers, agents and employees, full and free access, ingress and egress to and from all airports, air freight terminals, all aircraft traveling to or from an airport and all trucks or other motor vehicles or equipment which are carrying air freight to or from any airport or air freight terminal for the purposes of conducting investigations, making inspections or enforcing the provisions of this compact; and no person shall obstruct or in any way interfere with any such member, officer, employee or agent in the making of such investigation or inspection or in the enforcement of the provisions of this compact or in the performance of any other power or duty under this compact;
5. To make investigations, collect and compile information concerning airport practices generally, and upon all matters relating to the accomplishment of the objectives of this compact;
6. To advise and consult with representatives of labor and industry and with public officials and agencies concerned with the effectuation of the purposes of this compact, upon all matters which the commission may desire, including but not limited to the form and substance of rules and regulations and the administration of the compact and the expeditious handling and efficient movement of air freight consistent with the security of such air freight;
7. To make annual and other reports to the governors and legislatures of both states containing recommendations for the effectuation of the purposes of this compact;
8. To issue temporary licenses and temporary permits under such terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe;
9. In any case in which the commission has the power to revoke or suspend any license or permit the commission shall also have the power to impose as an alternative to such revocation or suspension, a penalty, which the licensee or permittee may elect to pay the commission in lieu of the revocation or suspension. The maximum penalty shall be $5,000.00 for each separate offense. The commission may, for good cause shown, abate all or part of such penalty;
10. To determine the location, size and suitability of field and administrative offices and any other accommodations necessary and desirable for the performance of the commission's duties under this compact;
11. To acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property, by gift, purchase, lease, license or other similar manner, for its corporate purposes, and in connection therewith to borrow money;
12. To recover possession of any card or other means of identification issued by the commission as evidence of a license or permit in the event that the holder thereof no longer is a licensee or permittee;
13. To require any licensee or permittee to exhibit upon demand the license or permit issued to him by the commission or to wear such license or permit.
The powers and duties of the commission may be exercised by officers, employees and agents designated by them, except the power to make rules and regulations. The commission 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.
L.1970, c. 58, s. 4.
