N.J. Stat. § 40:68A-56
Any municipality, by ordinance of its governing body, or any other person is hereby empowered, without any referendum or public or competitive bidding to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to a municipal port authority, or to permit a municipal port authority to use, maintain or operate as part of the port system, any real or personal property owned by it which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of the municipal port authority and accepted by the municipal port authority. Any such sale, lease, loan, grant, conveyance or permit may be made with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited period of time and under any agreement and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such municipality or other person and which may be agreed to by the municipal port authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds. Subject to any such contracts with holders of bonds, the municipal port authority may enter into and perform any and all agreements with respect to property so accepted by it, including agreements for the assumption of principal or interest or both of indebtedness of such municipality or other person or of any mortgage or lien existing with respect to such property or for the operation and maintenance of such property as part of the port system.
N.J.S. § 40:68A-56