N.J. Stat. § 40:68A-61
Every municipal port authority and every municipality in which any property of the municipal port authority is located are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into agreements with respect to the payment by the municipal port authority to such municipality of annual sums of money in lieu of taxes on such property in amount not less than the amount of taxes last paid on such property prior to its acquisition by the municipal port authority, or such other agreed amount computed on the basis of the assessed value of real property without improvements, and each such municipal port authority is empowered to make such payments and each such municipality is empowered to accept such payments and to apply them in the manner in which taxes may be applied in such municipality.
N.J.S. § 40:68A-61