New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 48 - Public Utilities

• Section 48:1-1 - Application Of Provisions Of General Corporation Law
  Every corporation organized under any of the provisions of this title, in addition to the powers conferred upon it by the provisions of this...
• Section 48:2-1 - Board Of Public Utilities Continued; Membership; Terms.
  48:2-1. a. The Board of Public Utilities, named pursuant to Reorganization Plan No. 001-1994, effective on July 4, 1994, and allocated in, but not...
• Section 48:2-1.1 - Designation Of President Of Board.
  2.The Governor shall designate one of the members of the Board of Public Utilities as president of the board. Any member of the board...
• Section 48:2-1.2 - Repeal
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed....
• Section 48:2-1.3 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as, and may be cited as, the "Department of Public Utilities Act of 1948." L.1948, c. 90, p. 507,...
• Section 48:2-1.4 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, except that any designation permitted by this...
• Section 48:2-2 - Seal; Employees; Compensation
  The board shall have a common seal. It shall appoint a secretary, assistant secretaries, counsel and such other employees as it may deem necessary...
• Section 48:2-3 - Office; Director Of Office Management; Meetings
  The board shall have a principal office and such other offices in such place and places as the Governor in writing may designate, and...
• Section 48:2-3.1 - Principal Office; Filing Of Copy Of Designation
  Upon the designation by the Governor of the principal office of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners pursuant to section 48:2-3 of the Revised...
• Section 48:2-4 - Duties Of Secretary
  The secretary or in his absence an assistant secretary shall keep full and correct minutes of all the transactions and proceedings of the board...
• Section 48:2-5 - Salary
  The members of the board shall each receive such compensation as shall be provided by law. Amended by L.1962, c. 65, s. 10; L.1962,...
• Section 48:2-6 - Traveling Expenses
  The members, secretary, assistant secretaries and other employees of the board shall be entitled to receive from the State their necessary traveling expenses while...
• Section 48:2-7 - Purchase Of Necessary Materials
  The board shall purchase such materials, apparatus and measuring instruments as it may deem necessary.
• Section 48:2-8 - Connection With Public Utilities Or Governmental Office Prohibited
  No member or employee of the board shall have any official or professional relation or connection with, or hold any stock or securities in,...
• Section 48:2-9 - Reports Of Findings And Decisions; Publications
  The board shall furnish its secretary or in his absence an assistant secretary such of its findings and decisions as, in its judgment, may...
• Section 48:2-10 - Certified Copies Of Records As Evidence
  Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited in the office of the board, certified by a member thereof or the secretary...
• Section 48:2-11 - Annual Report
  The board shall report annually on or before January 15, to the Governor, making such recommendations as it may deem proper. The report shall...
• Section 48:2-12 - Rules
  The board may make all needful rules for its government and other proceedings.
• Section 48:2-13 - Powers Of Board; Public Utility Defined; Exemptions From Jurisdiction
  48:2-13. a. The board shall have general supervision and regulation of and jurisdiction and control over all public utilities as defined in this section...
• Section 48:2-13.1 - Rural, Electric Cooperatives; Powers Of Board
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, with respect to a rural, electric cooperative which is exclusively owned...
• Section 48:2-13.1a - Customers Of Rural Electric Cooperative, Electronic Billing, Payment Permitted.
  11. Upon the request of a customer, a rural electric cooperative may: a.offer the customer the ability to receive or access, in electronic format,...
• Section 48:2-13.2 - Limited Jurisdiction Of Board Of Public Utilities Over Certain Nonpublicly-owned, Nonprofit Water Companies
  1. The provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary notwithstanding, with respect to a nonpublicly-owned, nonprofit water company which is...
• Section 48:2-14 - Approval Of Grants By Municipalities Of Franchises And Privileges To Public Utilities
  No privilege or franchise granted after May first, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, to any public utility by a political subdivision of this...
• Section 48:2-15 - Authority Over Interstate Commerce; Interstate Co-operation
  (a) The board or the members thereof, whenever authorized by an Act of Congress to exercise any power or authority over interstate commerce, shall...
• Section 48:2-16 - Supervisory And Regulatory Powers In General
  1. The board may, after hearing, upon notice, by order in writing, require every public utility: Compliance with laws and ordinances. (a) To comply...
• Section 48:2-16.1 - Examination And Audit Of Accounts
  The Board may provide for the examination and audit of all accounts and may determine, after notice and hearing, the propriety of the allocation...
• Section 48:2-16.2 - Inspection And Examination Of Books And Records
  The board's officers and employees may, under direction of the board, inspect and examine all books, accounts, papers, records and memoranda kept by any...
• Section 48:2-16.3 - Failure To File Annual Report On Date Due; Penalty
  Any public utility that shall fail to file any annual report on the day on which it shall be due, shall be subject to...
• Section 48:2-16.4 - Management Audits
  The Board of Public Utilities shall establish procedures to provide for management audits to be performed on a regular or irregular schedule on all...
• Section 48:2-17 - Filing List Of Officials And Their Duties With Board
  The board may require every public utility to file with the board a statement in writing, verified by the oaths of the president and...
• Section 48:2-18 - Depreciation Accounts; Rates Of Depreciation; Conformity To Rates
  The board may, after hearing, upon notice, by order in writing, require every public utility to carry, whenever in the judgment of the board...
• Section 48:2-19 - Investigations; Valuation Of Property Of Public Utility
  The board may: a. Investigate upon its own initiative or upon complaint in writing any matter concerning any public utility; b. Appraise and value...
• Section 48:2-20 - Testing Appliances; Access To Premises; Fees
  The board may: a. Provide for the examination and test of any and all appliances used for the measuring of any product or service...
• Section 48:2-21 - Rates
  Schedule of rates. (a) The board may require every public utility to file with it complete schedules of every classification employed and of every...
• Section 48:2-21.1 - Adjustment Of Rates During Pendency Of Hearing
  The board may, during the pendency of any hearing instituted by it, on its own initiative or on petition, in which the approval or...
• Section 48:2-21.2 - Circumstances Under Which Board Not Required To Find Rate Base
  In arriving at any determination as to the justness or reasonableness of any existing rate, fare or charge or in prescribing a just and...
• Section 48:2-21.3 - Stipulations Extending Suspension Periods Or Waiving Effective Dates Of Tariffs Or Rates
  Any public utility may file with the board a written stipulation subject to the board's approval at any time extending the suspension periods provided...
• Section 48:2-21.10 - Expenses Incurred In Complying With The Worker And Community Right To Know Act Considered As Current Expenses
  The Board of Public Utilities shall consider all expenses incurred by a public utility in complying with the provisions of P.L.1983, c.315 (C.34:5A-1 et...
• Section 48:2-21.11 - Moneys Received As Reimbursement For Costs Incurred From Insurance Carrier Or As Result Of Legal Action Or Settlement As Moneys Available
  In determining just and reasonable rates for any electric utility pursuant to R.S. 48:2-21, R.S. 48:2-21.1, or section 31 of P.L.1962, c. 198 (C....
• Section 48:2-21.12 - Adjustment To Rates To Provide Reimbursements Received Are Applied To Reduction Of Utility Rates
  The board shall make an appropriate adjustment to the rates charged to rate payers to provide that any reimbursements so received are applied properly...
• Section 48:2-21.13 - Inapplicability Of Act To Reimbursements Under $100,000
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to moneys reimbursed which are less than $100,000.00. L.1983, c. 461, s. 3, eff. Jan. 12,
• Section 48:2-21.14 - Fines, Penalties Not Operating Expense
  In determining just and reasonable rates for any electric utility pursuant to R.S. 48:2-21, R.S. 48:2-21.1, or section 31 of P.L. 1962, c. 198...
• Section 48:2-21.15 - Rate Reduction
  Any telecommunications carrier other than a telephone company, that is no longer subject to taxation on personal property pursuant to R.S. 54:4-1 et seq.,...
• Section 48:2-21.16 - Findings, Declarations
  1. a. The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the State to: (1) Maintain universal telecommunications service at affordable rates....
• Section 48:2-21.17 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: "Alternative form of regulation" means a form of regulation of telecommunications services other than traditional rate base, rate of...
• Section 48:2-21.18 - Plans For Alternative Form Of Regulation, Petition, Requirements
  3. a. A local exchange telecommunications company may petition the board to be regulated under an alternative form of regulation. The company shall submit...
• Section 48:2-21.19 - Competitive Services, Rates Not Regulated; Conditions.
  4. a. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.48:2-18, R.S.48:2-21, section 31 of P.L.1962, c.198 (C.48:2-21.2), R.S.48:3-1, or any other law to the contrary, the...
• Section 48:2-21.20 - Interexchange Carrier Services Deemed Competitive, Standards
  5. a. For purposes of subsection a. of section 4 of this act, telecommunications services provided by interexchange telecommunications carriers are deemed to be...
• Section 48:2-21.21 - Rate Counsel Assessments
  6. Whenever rate counsel represents the public interest pursuant to its statutory authority in the review of the petition and plan filed by a...
• Section 48:2-21.22 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Aos Providers.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.In 1991, the Legislature acted to exempt competitive telecommunications services from traditional public utility regulation upon a finding...
• Section 48:2-21.23 - Regulation Of The Alternate Operator Service Provider; Definition.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1991, c.428 (C.48:2-21.16 et seq.) or any other law to the contrary, the Board of Public Utilities shall regulate the...
• Section 48:2-21.24 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Production, Delivery Of Electricity, Natural Gas
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the State to foster the production and delivery of electricity and natural...
• Section 48:2-21.25 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: "Alternative form of regulation" means a form of regulation of electric or gas utility services other than traditional...
• Section 48:2-21.26 - Standards For Off-tariff Rate Agreements
  3. a. No later than October 18, 1995 and notwithstanding any provision of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the...
• Section 48:2-21.27 - Base Rate Case Proceedings
  4. a. An electric public utility that enters into an off-tariff rate agreement pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1995, c.180 (C.48:2-21.26) shall not recover...
• Section 48:2-21.28 - Petitions For Alternative Forms Of Regulation; Njsave Program
  5. a. An electric or gas public utility may petition the Board of Public Utilities to be regulated under an alternative form of regulation...
• Section 48:2-21.29 - Reports
  6.The Board of Public Utilities shall submit a report to the Legislature on the implementation of P.L.1995, c.180 (C.48:2-21.24 et seq.) and of the...
• Section 48:2-21.30 - Authority Of Division Of Ratepayer Advocate
  7. Nothing in this act shall be construed to alter or diminish in any way the authority of the Division of the Ratepayer Advocate...
• Section 48:2-21.31 - Terms, Conditions Unaltered For Retail Sales, Certain.
  59. a. Nothing in P.L.1997, c.162 (C.54:10A-5.25 et al.) shall be construed to alter any terms or conditions of any contract for the duration...
• Section 48:2-21.32 - Rules.
  63. The Board of Public Utilities may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules as it deems...
• Section 48:2-21.33 - Tax And Related Savings To Consumers.
  65. The Board of Public Utilities shall have authority and shall pass along the tax and related savings realized under P.L.1997, c.162 (C.54:10A-5.25 et...
• Section 48:2-21.34 - Definitions Relative To Phase Out Schedule Of Transitional Energy Facility Assessment Unit Rate Surcharges; Formulas; Adjustments To Rates.
  67. a. As used in this section: "Base rates" means the rates, including minimum bills, charged for utility commodities or service subject to the...
• Section 48:2-21.35 - Cooperation On Development Of Statement To Energy User Bills.
  74. The State Treasurer and the Board of Public Utilities shall cooperate to develop a statement to be included on energy users' billings from...
• Section 48:2-21.36 - Definitions Relative To A Manufacturing Facility; Electricity, Natural Gas Agreements.
  3. a. As used in this section, "manufacturing facility" means a facility: (1)with respect to which the owner of the facility shall have entered...
• Section 48:2-21.37 - Definitions Relative To Imposition Of Standby Charges.
  1.As used in this act: "Board" means the Board of Public Utilities. "Demand charge" means a charge imposed by an electric public utility which...
• Section 48:2-21.38 - Study To Determine Effects Of Distributed Generation.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the board shall, within 120 days of the effective date...
• Section 48:2-21.39 - Establishment Of Criteria For Fixing Rates.
  3. a. The board shall, within 180 days of the effective date of P.L.2011, c.219 (C.48:2-21.37 et seq.), establish criteria for fixing rates associated...
• Section 48:2-21.40 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The board shall, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the...
• Section 48:2-22 - Compacts For Joint Regulation And Control Of Gas And Electricity Rates
  The board may enter into compacts in the name of the state of New Jersey with the states of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut...
• Section 48:2-23 - Safe, Adequate Service
  48:2-23. The board may, after public hearing, upon notice, by order in writing, require any public utility to furnish safe, adequate and proper service,...
• Section 48:2-23.1 - Assessment, Review Of Conveyances.
  4. a. The Board of Public Utilities, in reviewing a request by a public utility to convey land utilized for the purpose of the...
• Section 48:2-23.2 - Sale Of Real Property Owned By Public Utility; Deadline For Decision By Bpu Provided.
  1.Except as provided in section 4 of P.L.1988, c.163 (C.48:2-23.1), when a public utility petitions the Board of Public Utilities to approve the sale...
• Section 48:2-24 - Discontinuance Of Service; Permission; Resumption Of Service
  No public utility shall discontinue, curtail or abandon any service without obtaining permission from the board after notice. The board may withhold permission until...
• Section 48:2-24.1 - Ratification Of Unauthorized Discontinuance
  Any discontinuance, curtailment, abandonment or change in passenger service heretofore authorized by the State Highway Commissioner without approval of the Board of Public Utility...
• Section 48:2-24.2 - Notice Of Certain Utility Service Discontinuance To Chief Law Enforcement Officer.
  1. a. Any public utility as defined in R.S.48:2-13, which discontinues gas, electric or water service to a multifamily housing unit customer for safety...
• Section 48:2-25 - Standards, Classifications And Measurements Of Service
  The board may, after hearing, by order in writing: a. Fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements or service to be furnished,...
• Section 48:2-25.1 - Determining And Fixing Time For Supplying Products Or Services Or For Installation Of Facilities Or Equipment
  The board may, in any order approving the supplying of any product or service or the installation of any facilities or equipment by any...
• Section 48:2-26 - Maintenance Of Junction Points And Connections
  The board may, after hearing, upon notice, by order in writing: a. Direct any railroad, street railway or traction company to establish and maintain...
• Section 48:2-27 - Extension Of Facilities
  The board may, after hearing, upon notice, by order in writing, require any public utility to establish, construct, maintain and operate any reasonable extension...
• Section 48:2-28 - New Grade Crossings; Approval Of Board
  No highway shall be constructed across the tracks of any railroad company at grade, nor shall any track over which locomotives, railroad or street...
• Section 48:2-29 - Protection At Grade Crossings
  Whenever it shall appear to the board that a public highway and a railroad or a street railway, or that a railroad and a...
• Section 48:2-29.1 - Prohibit Payment Of Dividends Except From Surplus Or Net Profits
  The board may, after hearing upon notice, by order in writing, prohibit any public utility from paying dividends except from surplus or net profits...
• Section 48:2-29.2 - Prohibit Or Limit Payment Of Dividends By Utility Failing To Comply With Board's Order
  The board may, after hearing, upon notice, by order in writing, prohibit or limit the payment of dividends by a public utility if the...
• Section 48:2-29.3 - Discontinuance Of Surcharge
  Whenever any public utility shall heretofore have been or shall hereafter be authorized by the board to collect a surcharge to raise a definite...
• Section 48:2-29.4 - Repayment Of Excess Surcharge
  Whenever after hearing upon notice the board shall determine that any public utility has collected by means of a surcharge an amount of money...
• Section 48:2-29.5 - Regulating Deposits By Customers To Secure Payment For Services; Interest On Deposits
  The board may adopt rules and regulations prescribing the terms and conditions under which public utilities may require the deposit of moneys to secure...
• Section 48:2-29.15 - Establishment Of Lifeline Credit Program
  The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall administer a program which shall be known as the "Lifeline Credit Program." L.1979, c. 197,...
• Section 48:2-29.16 - Eligibility For Lifeline Credit Program
  Any residential electric or gas customer who on July 1 of any year or at any time during the succeeding six months is: a....
• Section 48:2-29.16a - "Lifeline Credit Program," Notification As To Error In Estimated Annual Income.
  4. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a recipient of benefits under the "Lifeline Credit Program," established pursuant to...
• Section 48:2-29.17 - Credit Against Electric Or Gas Utility Bills
  The "Lifeline Credit Program" shall consist of an annual credit against the electric or gas utility bill of each eligible residential electric or gas...
• Section 48:2-29.18 - State Payments To Utilities For Amount Of Credit; Schedule; Return Of Payments For Unused Credit; Special State Utility Supplement To Supplementary Security Income Program
  Upon certification by the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services, the State Treasurer shall pay to each electric and gas utility the amount...
• Section 48:2-29.19 - Rules And Regulations; Services Of State Departments, Boards, Etc.
  a. The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services is authorized to promulgate, pursuant to law, such rules and regulations as he may deem...
• Section 48:2-29.20 - Notice Of Lifeline Credit Program
  The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services is authorized to direct each electric and gas utility to inform each eligible residential customer of...
• Section 48:2-29.21 - Annual Report On Lifeline Credit Program
  The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall submit a report on the "Lifeline Credit Program" to the Legislature on August 15, 1981,...
• Section 48:2-29.22 - Transfer Of Responsibility For Administration, Powers And Duties From Board Of Public Utilities To Commissioner Of Department Of Human Services
  The responsibility for the administration of the "Lifeline Credit Program" and all powers and duties in connection therewith is transferred from the Board of...
• Section 48:2-29.30 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the extraordinary and unprecedented energy costs in recent years have had a deleterious financial impact on senior...
• Section 48:2-29.31 - Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Program; Establishment And Administration
  The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services, hereinafter referred to as the commissioner, shall establish and administer a program which shall be known...
• Section 48:2-29.32 - Eligibility For Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Program
  Any residential tenant not receiving an individual electric or gas utility bill who at any time between July 1 and December 31, 1981, or...
• Section 48:2-29.32a - "Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Program," Notification As To Error In Estimated Annual Income.
  5. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a recipient of benefits under the "Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Program," established pursuant...
• Section 48:2-29.33 - Annual Tenants Assistance Payment; Limitations
  Any residential tenant found eligible for the "Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Program" shall be entitled to an annual tenant's assistance payment, except as otherwise provided...
• Section 48:2-29.34 - Certification By Commissioner; Issuance Of Payment; Date; Special State Utility Supplement To Supplemental Security Income Program
  a. Upon certification by the commissioner, the State Treasurer shall issue a tenants assistance payment to each residential tenant found eligible for the "Tenants'...
• Section 48:2-29.35 - Rules And Regulations; Assistance From Or Contracts For Services Of State Agency
  a. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate, pursuant to law, such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purpose of this...
• Section 48:2-29.36 - Annual Report To Legislature And Governor
  The commissioner shall submit a report on the "Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Program" to the Legislature and the Governor on August 15 of each year,...
• Section 48:2-29.38 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Energy Assistance Program.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that certain citizens of the State may find it difficult to pay for energy services because of a temporary...
• Section 48:2-29.39 - Designation Of Statewide, Nonprofit Energy Assistance Organization.
  2.The Board of Public Utilities shall designate an established Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organization representing the State's major electric and gas utilities and human...
• Section 48:2-29.40 - Utilization Of Funds Provided; Eligibility Criteria.
  3.The Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organization receiving such funding from the State shall utilize the funds to provide temporary financial assistance to residential customers...
• Section 48:2-29.41 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The Board of Public Utilities is authorized to promulgate, pursuant to law, such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purpose...
• Section 48:2-29.42 - Third Party Designation To Receive Transmission Of Public Utility Service Termination
  1.Every public utility which provides electric, natural gas, water, sewage disposal or local telecommunications service shall permit a residential ratepayer who receives service to...
• Section 48:2-29.43 - Rules, Regulations
  2.The board shall promulgate, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be necessary...
• Section 48:2-29.44 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Electric Public Utility Service
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.During periods of excessive heat, the health of individuals with disabilities, senior citizens, and others can be severely...
• Section 48:2-29.45 - Provision Of Continued Electrical Service During Periods Of Excessive Heat
  2.Notwithstanding any law, rule, order or regulation to the contrary, the board shall provide for the continuation of electrical service during periods of excessive...
• Section 48:2-29.46 - Rules, Regulations
  3.The board shall promulgate, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be necessary...
• Section 48:2-29.47 - Prevailing Wage Requirement, Construction Undertaken With Bpu Financial Assistance.
  1.Not less than the prevailing wage rate shall be paid to workers employed in the performance of any construction undertaken in connection with Board...
• Section 48:2-30 - Requisition Of Sum Required For Payments For Services; Reservation
  When any contract is made by the board for professional or expert services for the purposes of carrying out any of the provisions of...
• Section 48:2-31 - Balance Of Reserve; Disposition
  If the work called for by the contract mentioned in section 48:2-30 of this title is not completed during the fiscal year in which...
• Section 48:2-32 - Board Rules To Govern; Single Member May Sit
  All hearings and investigations before the board or any member thereof or any hearing examiner designated by the board shall be governed by rules...
• Section 48:2-32.1 - Hearing Examiners; Authority; Rules And Regulations; Compensation
  The Board of Public Utility Commissioners may by order in writing designate its secretary, assistant secretaries, counsel, executive officer, assistant executive officer, any director...
• Section 48:2-32.2 - Municipal, County Rights Of Intervention; Notice
  a. Every municipality may intervene alone or jointly with another municipality or municipalities in any hearing or investigation held by the board, which involves...
• Section 48:2-32.2a - Applicability Of Notification Procedures
  The specific notification procedures set forth in this amendatory and supplementary act shall apply to any hearing or investigatory function involving: a. Any adjustment...
• Section 48:2-32.2b - Complementary Requirements
  This amendatory and supplementary act shall not be construed as limiting notice requirements, per se, to the hearings and investigations set forth in section...
• Section 48:2-32.3 - Public Passenger Transportation Service; Changes Or Curtailment; Notice
  Whenever a State agency shall schedule public hearings relating to proposed changes or curtailment of public passenger transportation service, such hearings shall be conducted...
• Section 48:2-32.4 - Hearing In Affected Municipality
  Prior to granting a public utility a proposed adjustment which would result in an increase in individual rates, joint rates, tolls, charges or schedules...
• Section 48:2-32.5 - Definitions
  For purposes of this act: a. "Geographic region" means one of the following regions of the State: the southern region encompassing the counties of...
• Section 48:2-32.6 - Public Hearings
  a. The provisions of any other law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary notwithstanding, the board, or the Office of Administrative Law acting...
• Section 48:2-32.7 - Final Decision Or Order
  The board shall adopt a final decision or order with respect to an application under section 2 of this act at a public meeting,...
• Section 48:2-33 - Witnesses; Production Of Documents; Oaths; Subpoenas
  The board may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of tariffs, contracts, papers, books, accounts and all other documents. Any member of...
• Section 48:2-34 - Depositions
  The board may, in any investigation or hearing, by its order in writing, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the state...
• Section 48:2-35 - Compelling Witness To Testify Or Produce Documents; Contempt
  If a person subpoenaed to attend before the board or a member thereof fails to obey the command of the subpoena without reasonable cause,...
• Section 48:2-36 - Self-incrimination; Immunity From Prosecution
  No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, document or paper in any investigation or inquiry by or upon a...
• Section 48:2-36.1 - Requiring Utility To Submit Data Relevant To Inquiry Or Investigation By Board
  The board may by order in writing require any public utility to compile from its accounts, books, records, documents, and papers and submit to...
• Section 48:2-37 - Corporations And Persons Owning Or Controlling Public Utility Stock; Compelling Production Of Records And Attendance Of Witnesses
  The board, or any member of the board, may compel by service of its subpoena the production of the books, accounts, records, contracts and...
• Section 48:2-38 - Evidence By Member Or Employee In Civil Suit
  No member or employee of the board shall be required to give testimony or to furnish documents in a civil suit to which the...
• Section 48:2-39 - Fees Of Witnesses
  The fees of witnesses required to attend before the board shall be at the same rates as are prescribed by law for attendance under...
• Section 48:2-40 - Issuance Of Order; Effective Dates; Service; Posting On Internet; Rehearing.
  48:2-40. a. A majority vote of the board shall be necessary to the issuance of an order. b.After the effective date of P.L.2011, c.63,...
• Section 48:2-41 - Enforcement
  Observance of the orders of the board may be enforced by complaint in lieu of prerogative writ or injunction in appropriate cases, or by...
• Section 48:2-42 - Penalty For Noncompliance With Orders
  Any person or public utility that shall fail to comply with an order of the board, except an order to resume service which has...
• Section 48:2-43 - Appeal; Notice
  Any order made by the board may be reviewed by appeal to the appellate division of the Superior Court. Notice of appeal shall be...
• Section 48:2-43.1 - Appearance By Board In Review Proceedings
  On any argument or hearing had in the Superior Court or the Supreme Court in any proceeding in review of any order or determination...
• Section 48:2-46 - Setting Aside Orders
  The Superior Court, appellate division is hereby given jurisdiction to review any order of the board and to set aside such order in whole...
• Section 48:2-47 - Ordering Rehearing By Board
  If, with respect to any order brought under review it shall appear equitable and just that a rehearing should be had before the board,...
• Section 48:2-49 - Performing, Participating In Or Causing Prohibited Acts
  Any person who shall knowingly and willfully perform, commit or do, or participate in performing, committing or doing, or who shall knowingly and willfully...
• Section 48:2-50 - Failure To Perform Required Acts
  Any person who shall knowingly and willfully neglect, fail or omit to do or perform, or who shall knowingly and willfully cause or join...
• Section 48:2-51 - Utilities Acting Unlawfully
  Any public utility company which shall perform, commit or do any act or thing prohibited or forbidden by this chapter or by sections 48:3-1...
• Section 48:2-51.1 - Acquisition Of Control Of Public Utility; Approval Of Board Of Public Utilities; Exceptions.
  1. a. Except as otherwise provided by subsection b. of this section, no person shall acquire or seek to acquire control of a public...
• Section 48:2-52 - Rights Preserved
  This chapter shall not have the effect to release or waive any right of action by the board or by any person for any...
• Section 48:2-56 - Fees And Charges.
  1.The Board of Public Utilities is hereby empowered, authorized and required to charge and collect fees and charges for the purposes and in the...
• Section 48:2-56.1 - Bus Inspection Fees, Revenue Of The Commission.
  2.Moneys received from fees collected by the commission pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1959, c.43 (C.48:2-56) for the bus inspection program shall be revenues...
• Section 48:2-57 - Disposition Of Fees And Charges
  All fees and charges collected under the provisions of this act shall be received by the board for the sole use of the State...
• Section 48:2-58 - Repeal
  "An act authorizing, empowering and requiring the Board of Public Utility Commissioners to charge and collect fees with respect to matters coming before the...
• Section 48:2-59 - Annual Assessments
  To enable the Board of Public Utility Commissioners in the Department of Public Utilities to better perform its lawful duties relating to service, classifications...
• Section 48:2-60 - Amount Of Assessment
  The assessment shall be equal to a percentage of the gross operating revenue of the public utilities under the jurisdiction of the board derived...
• Section 48:2-61 - Exclusion Of Operating Revenue Derived From Service Receiving Public Funds
  Operating revenue derived from any service provided or performed by any public utility which is receiving public funds in connection with such service under...
• Section 48:2-62 - Levy Of Assessment; Time For Payment; Gross Operating Revenues Statement
  The assessment prescribed by sections 1 and 2 shall be levied by the Board of Public Utility Commissioners not later than July 1, and...
• Section 48:2-63 - Objections To Statement; Hearing
  Within 15 days after the date of mailing a statement as provided in this act, the public utility or public mover against which the...
• Section 48:2-64 - Findings Of Board
  If after the hearing the board finds any part of the charge against the objecting public utility or public mover excessive, erroneous, unlawful or...
• Section 48:2-65 - Payment Of Statement Objected To; Notice Of Delinquency
  If a statement against which objections are filed is not paid within 30 days after mailing to the objector notice of a finding that...
• Section 48:2-66 - Action For Recovery Of Payments
  No action for recovery of an amount paid under the terms of this act shall be maintained in any court unless objections have been...
• Section 48:2-67 - Payment Necessary Prior To Action Contending Assessment Excessive, Erroneous Or Unlawful
  No action or proceeding shall be maintained in any court for the purpose of restraining or delaying the collection or payment of a statement...
• Section 48:2-68 - Procedure
  The procedure provided in this act for determining the lawfulness of statements and the recovery of payments made pursuant to statements of assessments shall...
• Section 48:2-69 - Failure To Pay Or File Objections; Notice To State Treasurer
  If any public utility or public mover to which a statement for the amount assessed against it as provided in this act has been...
• Section 48:2-70 - Collection
  Within 10 days after receipt of the notice and certified copy of the statement, the State Treasurer shall proceed to collect the amount stated...
• Section 48:2-71 - Disposition Of Moneys
  All moneys received by the board under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the State Treasurer. L.1968, c. 173, s. 13,...
• Section 48:2-72 - Companies Not Subject To Fees And Charges By Commissioners
  The provisions of sections 1 of P.L.1959, c. 43 (C. 48:2-56) and 11 of P.L.1968, c. 375 (C. 48:22-11) relating to the collections of...
• Section 48:2-73 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 19 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Underground Facility Protection Act." L.1994,c.118,s.1.
• Section 48:2-74 - Findings, Declarations, Determinations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that damage to underground facilities caused by excavation and the discharge of explosives poses a significant risk to...
• Section 48:2-75 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: "Board" means the Board of Public Utilities; "Business day" means any day other than Saturday, Sunday, or a nationally...
• Section 48:2-76 - One-call Damage Prevention System, Established; Rules, Regulations
  4. The Board of Public Utilities shall establish a One-Call Damage Prevention System pursuant to the provisions of this act, and may adopt, pursuant...
• Section 48:2-77 - Operation Of One-call Damage Prevention System
  5. a. Five years after the effective date of this act, the board shall designate, through an appropriate administrative mechanism, a person to operate...
• Section 48:2-78 - Appropriate Waiver Conditions
  6. The board may grant a waiver from the requirements of section 8 of this act for such reasons as it deems appropriate. The...
• Section 48:2-79 - System Operator, Responsibilities
  7. The system operator shall: a. Operate the One-Call Damage Prevention System, which shall include but not be limited to the services described in...
• Section 48:2-80 - Underground Facility Operator, Responsibilities; Underground Facility Markings.
  8. a. Except as provided in sections 6 and 9 of this act, the operator of an underground facility shall: (1)Participate in and comply...
• Section 48:2-81 - Marking Of Facilities; Nonapplicability; Excavation, Permitting Process On State Property
  9. a. The requirement, pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection a. of section 8 of this act, for an operator to mark, stake, locate...
• Section 48:2-82 - Notification Of The One-call Damage Prevention System; Excavator's Duties.
  10. a. An excavator shall notify the One-Call Damage Prevention System established pursuant to section 4 of this act of his intent to engage...
• Section 48:2-83 - Proof Of Notification Required For Permission To Excavate
  11. The provisions of any other law, rule, regulation or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding, any permit or permission for a road opening, building,...
• Section 48:2-84 - Nonapplicability To Emergencies
  12. The provisions of this act shall not apply when an excavation or demolition is undertaken in response to an emergency, provided that the...
• Section 48:2-85 - Map Of Pipeline; Filing
  13. a. An operator of an interstate natural gas pipeline or an interstate hazardous liquid underground pipeline shall file a map depicting the route...
• Section 48:2-86 - Violation Of Act; Injunction; Civil Penalties.
  14. a. Whenever it appears to the board that a person has violated any provision of P.L.1994, c.118 (C.48:2-73 et al.), or any rule,...
• Section 48:2-87 - Illegal Excavation; Disorderly Persons Offense, Third Degree Crime
  15. Any person who knowingly engages in an excavation without: a. First using the One-Call Damage Prevention System to determine the location of underground...
• Section 48:2-88 - Penalty For Operator Violations
  16. a. An operator or excavator, or the person who operates the One-Call Damage Prevention System, who violates any provision of this act or...
• Section 48:2-89 - Notice Failure, Prima Facie Evidence Of Negligence
  17. Evidence that an excavation or demolition that results in any damage to an underground facility was performed without providing the notice required pursuant...
• Section 48:2-90 - Civil Penalties To The State
  18. All civil penalties recovered pursuant to this act shall be paid into the General Fund. L.1994,c.118,s.18.
• Section 48:2-91 - Board's Jurisdiction Not Affected
  19. Nothing in this act shall limit the jurisdiction of the board: a. Over public utilities pursuant to R.S.48:2-1 et seq., notwithstanding the fact...
• Section 48:2-92 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "BPU Business Ombudsman Act." L.2005,c.215,s.1.
• Section 48:2-93 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Bpu Business Ombudsman.
  2.The Legislature finds and determines that: a.The attraction and retention of new and existing businesses is vital to the continued economic development of the...
• Section 48:2-94 - Definitions Relative To Bpu Business Ombudsman.
  3.As used in this act: "Act" means the "BPU Business Ombudsman Act." "Board" means the Board of Public Utilities. "Business project or activity" means...
• Section 48:2-95 - Bpu Business Ombudsman; Appointment, Powers, Duties, Funding.
  4. a. There is hereby created a BPU Business Ombudsman in the board to provide information and assistance to any business, located in this...
• Section 48:2-96 - Function Of Office Of Bpu Business Ombudsman.
  5.It shall be the function of the office to: a.Assist businesses with obtaining information concerning energy costs in response to requests from businesses; b.Monitor...
• Section 48:2-97 - Annual Report To Board.
  6.The Ombudsman shall make an annual report to the board of the office's operations, and render such other reports as the board shall from...
• Section 48:2-98 - Rules, Regulations.
  7.The board may, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt such rules and regulations, as shall be necessary to...
• Section 48:3-1 - Unjust Or Unreasonable Discriminations Or Classifications Of Rates; "Board" Defined
  No public utility shall: a. Make, impose or exact any unjust or unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory or unduly preferential individual or joint rate, commutation rate,...
• Section 48:3-2 - Unjust Or Unreasonable Regulations
  No public utility shall adopt, maintain or enforce any regulation, practice or measurement which shall be unjust, unreasonable, unduly preferential, arbitrarily or unjustly discriminatory...
• Section 48:3-2.1 - Interest On Utility Overpayments
  A public utility shall pay or credit interest at a rate prescribed by the Board of Public Utilities on any overpayment made by a...
• Section 48:3-2.2 - Notice To Customers
  The board shall require each public utility to annually provide written notice of the provisions of this act to each of its residential customers....
• Section 48:3-2.3 - Assessment Of Late Charge On Unpaid Utility Bill, Conditions.
• Section 48:3-3 - Improper Service; Refusal Or Withholding Of Service
  48:3-3. a. No public utility shall provide or maintain any service that is unsafe, improper or inadequate, or withhold or refuse any service which...
• Section 48:3-3.1 - Refusal To Furnish Service For Nonpayment Of Bill By Previous Occupant Prohibited
  No public utility shall refuse to furnish or supply service to or for any building or premises by reason of a bill remaining unpaid...
• Section 48:3-4 - Undue Preferences
  No public utility shall make or give, directly or indirectly, any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, locality or particular description...
• Section 48:3-4.1 - Reduced Fare For Transporting Persons Over Age 65
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of chapter 3 of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes or of any other law to the contrary, any...
• Section 48:3-5 - Capitalizing Franchises Or Contracts For Consolidation
  No public utility shall: a. Capitalize any franchise to be a corporation; b. Capitalize any franchise in excess of the amount, exclusive of any...
• Section 48:3-6 - Gratuities To Public Officials
  No public utility shall give, grant or bestow upon any local, municipal or county official any discrimination, gratuity or free service. Nothing herein shall...
• Section 48:3-7 - Utility Property Transactions.
  48:3-7. a. Except as otherwise provided by subsection g. of this section, no public utility shall, without the approval of the board, sell, lease,...
• Section 48:3-7.1 - Certain Contracts Between Public Utilities And Corporations Or Persons Owning Or Controlling Utility Stock; Approval Of Board; Disapproval
  No management, advisory service, construction or engineering contract that in itself or in connection with another contract relating to the same work, project, transaction...
• Section 48:3-7.2 - Loans To Corporations Or Persons Owning Or Controlling Public Utility Stock; Approval Of Board Required
  Except with the approval in writing of the board first had and obtained, no public utility shall loan any of its money or property...
• Section 48:3-7.3 - Investment Of Depreciation Fund In Certain Securities; Approval Of Board
  No public utility shall, without the approval in writing of the board first had and obtained, invest any part of its depreciation fund in...
• Section 48:3-7.4 - Depreciation Fund Investments Kept In State
  Every public utility shall at all times keep within this state all obligations and securities in which its depreciation fund is invested and reinvested.
• Section 48:3-7.5 - Disposition Of Certain Depreciation Fund Investments; Board May Order
  The board may after hearing upon notice order any public utility to dispose of any obligations or securities in which its depreciation fund is...
• Section 48:3-7.6 - Balance Of Depreciation Fund To Be Deposited Within State
  Every public utility shall deposit, and at all times keep deposited in its own name and to its own credit and in a banking...
• Section 48:3-7.7 - Certain Railroads Exempt
  The provisions of sections 48:3-7.3 to 48:3-7.6 of this title shall not apply to any public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the interstate...
• Section 48:3-7.8 - Regulations Applicable To Public Utilities.
  48:3-7.8. a. Every public utility shall at all times keep within this State all records, books, accounts, documents and other writings relating to contracts...
• Section 48:3-7.9 - Designation Of Agent.
  48:3-7.9. Every public utility and every natural gas vendor and electric vendor subject to subsection c. of R.S.48:3-7.8, shall file with the board a...
• Section 48:3-7.10 - Superior Court, Chancery Division, To Enforce Compliance
  Jurisdiction and power is hereby conferred upon the Superior Court, chancery division of this State, at the suit of the board, to enforce compliance...
• Section 48:3-7.11 - Service Of Process To Produce Records
  In case for any cause service of process to produce such records, books, accounts, documents or other writings cannot be effected upon a designated...
• Section 48:3-7.12 - Railroads And Railway Express Exempt
  The provisions of sections 48:3-7.8 to 48:3-7.11 of this Title shall not apply to any public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the interstate...
• Section 48:3-7.13 - Transportation Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers, Etc.; Unlawful Agreements And Charges; Violation As Misdemeanor
  Any part of any agreement, arrangement, or other device shall be unlawful, which as a condition to the transportation of a loaded or empty...
• Section 48:3-9 - Security Transactions.
  48:3-9. a. Except as otherwise provided by subsection b. of this section, no public utility shall, unless it shall have first obtained authority from...
• Section 48:3-10 - Sale Or Transfer Of Stock Unless Authorized By Board Prohibited; Exceptions.
  48:3-10. a. Except as otherwise provided by subsection b. of this section, no public utility incorporated under the laws of this State shall sell,...
• Section 48:3-11 - Article To Govern Granting Of Consents; "Street" Defined
  Where by law the consent of a municipality is required for the use of any street either above, below or on the surface thereof,...
• Section 48:3-12 - Petition; Contents
  No such consent shall be granted by a municipality until a petition shall have been filed with the clerk thereof by the person desiring...
• Section 48:3-13 - Notice; Publication
  The petition shall not be considered by the board or body of such municipality authorized to grant consent until public notice shall be given...
• Section 48:3-14 - Notice; Contents
  The notice shall specify the name of the person or corporation presenting the petition, the date and hour when the same will be considered...
• Section 48:3-15 - Grant By Ordinance; Fifty-year Limit
  Upon the date fixed by the notice, or upon such subsequent date as the hearing of the petition may be adjourned, the board or...
• Section 48:3-16 - Acceptance Of Ordinance Granting Consent To Be Filed
  The consent granted by the ordinance shall not become effective unless an acceptance in writing of the ordinance shall be filed by the person...
• Section 48:3-17 - Construction; Exceptions
  The provisions of this article are in addition to other conditions imposed by law. This article shall not apply to any railroad company, or...
• Section 48:3-17a - Public Utility Pole Or Underground Facility Placement; Municipal Consent Required; Procedures, Enforcement.
  1. a. After the effective date of P.L.1991, c.366 (C.48:3-17a), before a public utility places a pole, used for the supplying and distributing of...
• Section 48:3-17.1 - Presumption From Occupancy; Action For Removal Of Poles Barred In 10 Years
  Whenever a public utility corporation subject to regulation by the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of this State has occupied a public highway, street...
• Section 48:3-17.2 - Definitions
  As used herein: (a) "public utility" means any public utility defined in 48:2-13; (b) "right of way" means the area devoted to passing over,...
• Section 48:3-17.3 - Recording Of Grants; Effect As Constructive Notice
  The recording of any grant of easement or right of way to any public utility, and any corporation operating pipeline facilities within or through...
• Section 48:3-17.3a - Notice Of Development Applications
  6. Within 30 days after the effective date of this act, the Board of Regulatory Commissioners shall notify the corporate secretary of every public...
• Section 48:3-17.4 - Effect Of Act On Previously Granted Easement Rights
  Nothing herein contained shall limit or modify the exercise by any public utility as herein defined, or by any corporation operating pipeline facilities within...
• Section 48:3-17.5 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect January 1, 1958. L.1957, c. 130, p. 511, s. 4.
• Section 48:3-17.6 - Authority To Take Property
  Any of the following types of public utilities now or hereafter organized and existing under and by virtue of any law of this State:...
• Section 48:3-17.7 - Necessity; Application; Notice And Hearing; Rules And Regulations
  The power of condemnation shall not be used or enforced by any such public utility unless the necessary land or other property or any...
• Section 48:3-17.8 - Taking Of State Property Prohibited
  No public utility shall take by condemnation any land, property, or other interest belonging to the State of New Jersey. L.1962, c. 198, s.
• Section 48:3-17.9 - Definitions
  As used herein: (a) "Public utility" means any public utility defined in 48:2-13; (b) "Right-of-way" means the area devoted to passing over, on, through...
• Section 48:3-17.10 - Notice To Landowner Before Entry
  It shall be unlawful for any public utility to enter upon any lands in which it has acquired an easement or right-of-way, for the...
• Section 48:3-18 - Agreements
  Any person municipal or otherwise, may enter into a written agreement with any other such person owning or using any poles erected under municipal...
• Section 48:3-19 - Municipal Consent
  The consent of the municipality shall be obtained for the use by a person of the poles of another person unless each person has...
• Section 48:3-20 - Powers, Rights And Franchises Not Impaired
  Such joint use of poles shall not lessen or impair the powers, rights, privileges and franchises of either corporation. Each corporation shall have the...
• Section 48:3-20.1 - Franchise Not To Lapse On Death Of Holder; Transfer By Estate With Consent Of Board
  No franchise, privilege, authority or consent to operate a public utility, lawfully granted or given by the State or by any political subdivision thereof,...
• Section 48:3-20.2 - Designation Of Agent To Act For Estate
  There may be filed with the board a designation containing the name and address of an agent, resident of this State, to act for...
• Section 48:3-21 - Sale Of Property And Franchises Of Gas, Water, Or Gas And Water Companies; Purchasers Constituted Corporation; Powers
  Whenever the property, rights, powers, immunities, privileges and franchises of any turnpike, bridge, plank road, gas, water, or gas and water corporation created by...
• Section 48:3-22 - Filing Certificate Of Organization; Copy As Evidence
  It shall be the duty of such new corporation, within one calendar month after its organization, to make a certificate thereof under its common...
• Section 48:3-23 - Sale Of Railroad, Canal, Turnpike, Bridge Or Plank Road Company; Purchasers Constituted Corporation; Powers
  Whenever any railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge or plank road of any corporation created by or under any law of this state, or by any...
• Section 48:3-24 - Meeting Of Purchasers For Organization Of New Corporation; Procedure; Stock And Bonds
  The person or persons for or on whose account any such railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge or plank road may have been or shall be...
• Section 48:3-25 - Certificate Of Organization; Filing; Prior Liens Not Affected
  It shall be the duty of such new corporation, within one month after its organization, to make a certificate thereof, under its common seal,...
• Section 48:3-26 - Number Of Directors Of New Company
  The stockholders of any railroad, canal or turnpike company which has been or may be formed after mortgage sales of the railroad, canal or...
• Section 48:3-27 - Railroad, Canal Or Turnpike Lying Partly Within And Partly Without State
  When any such railroad, canal or turnpike lies partly within and partly without this state and shall have been purchased under a mortgage sale...
• Section 48:3-28 - Receivers Or Trustees For Insolvent Companies; Appointment; Sale Or Lease Of Property
  Whenever any railroad, canal or turnpike company, incorporated under the laws of this State, has become insolvent or failed for 90 days after the...
• Section 48:3-29 - Sale Or Lease Of Property And Franchises By Receiver; Exception
  When a receiver of a corporation has charge of a railroad, canal, turnpike or other work of a public nature in which the value...
• Section 48:3-30 - Time-tables To Conform To Standard Time
  Time-tables of all public conveyances within this state shall conform to the standard time established by section 1:1-2.3 of the title Acts, Laws and
• Section 48:3-31 - Passes To Officers And Employees And Their Families; "Employees" Defined
  Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent the issue by any steam railroad, street railway, traction, canal, express, telephone or telegraph companies...
• Section 48:3-32 - Free Transportation Of Police; Deduction From Franchise Tax
  Every public utility operating any street railway, traction railway or autobus shall transport, without the collection of fares from them, uniformed public officers while...
• Section 48:3-33 - Dog May Accompany Blind, Handicapped Or Deaf Person On Buses Or Other Public Utilities
  Any blind person, accompanied by a dog, known and described as a "seeing-eye dog," any deaf person, accompanied by a dog, known and described...
• Section 48:3-34 - Transportation Of Blind Person And Guide For One Fare
  Any totally blind person and guide may be transported by any street railway, traction railway, autobus company, or railroad company at the usual and...
• Section 48:3-35 - Overcharges; Penalty; Recovery
  Any person authorized by law to take toll or charge for the transportation of passengers or goods, who shall directly or indirectly take or...
• Section 48:3-36 - Ticket Agents; Certificate Of Authority; Selling Without Certificate; Penalty
  Every agent authorized to sell tickets or other evidence entitling the holder to travel on any railroad, steamboat or other public conveyance, shall have...
• Section 48:3-37 - Redemption Of Unused Tickets
  The owner or person operating any railroad, steamboat or other public conveyance shall redeem at his general office the whole or such parts of...
• Section 48:3-38 - Police For Railroad, Street Railway, Canal Or Steamboat Companies
  48:3-38. a. On the application of any railroad, street railway, canal or steamboat company the Governor may appoint such persons as the company may...
• Section 48:3-42 - Identification Badges; Necessity For Employees For Collections Or Reading Meters
  No employee of a public utility, as defined in R.S. 48:2-13, shall have the right of reasonable access to a customer's premises and to...
• Section 48:3-43 - Size, Form Of Badge
  2.The identification badge shall not be larger than 2 " x 4 " and shall be made in such a way and of such...
• Section 48:3-44 - Issuance Of New Identification Badge
  A new identification badge shall be made and issued by the public utility from time to time to reflect any substantial changes in the...
• Section 48:3-45 - Improper Use Of Public Utility Employee Identification Badge, Fourth Degree Crime.
  4.No employee of a public utility who is in possession of any identification badge, as provided for by P.L.1977, c.35 (C.48:3-42 et seq.), shall...
• Section 48:3-46 - Failure To Issue Identification Badge By Public Utility; Penalty
  Any public utility that fails to issue an identification badge to each employee whose job requires that he inspect customer's premises, shall, in addition...
• Section 48:3-47 - Failure To Wear Identification Badge; Penalty; Collection Of Penalties
  Any employee of a public utility who has been issued an identification badge by said public utility and who fails to wear said identification...
• Section 48:3-48 - Notification Of Customers
  On or before January 31 of each year, each public utility requiring the right of reasonable access to a customer's premises shall notify said...
• Section 48:3-49 - Short Title
  1.Sections 1 through 46, and sections 51, 57, 59, 60, 63, 65 and 66 of this act shall be known and may be cited...
• Section 48:3-50 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Competition In The Electric Power And Gas Industries
  2. a. The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of this State to: (1)Lower the current high cost of energy, and...
• Section 48:3-51 - Definitions Relative To Competition In The Electric Power, Gas, Solar Energy And Offshore Wind Industries.
  3.As used in P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-49 et al.): "Assignee" means a person to which an electric public utility or another assignee assigns, sells, or...
• Section 48:3-52 - Electric Public Utilities, Unbundled Rate Schedules
  4. a. Simultaneously with the starting date for the implementation of retail choice as determined by the board pursuant to subsection a. of section...
• Section 48:3-53 - Provision Of Retail Choice Of Electric Power Suppliers
  5. a. By order the board shall provide that by no earlier than June 1, 1999, but in no event later than August 1,...
• Section 48:3-54 - Offering Of Customer Account Services On Regulated Basis
  6. a. An electric public utility may continue to offer customer account services on a regulated basis subsequent to the effective date of this...
• Section 48:3-55 - Competitive Service To Retail Customers Requires Board Approval
  7. a. An electric public utility or a related competitive business segment of an electric public utility shall not offer any competitive service to...
• Section 48:3-56 - Board Shall Not Regulate, Fix, Prescribe Certain Aspects Of Competitive Services.
  8. a. Except as otherwise provided in P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-49 et al.), and notwithstanding any provisions of R.S.48:2-18, R.S.48:2-21, section 31 of P.L.1962, c.198...
• Section 48:3-57 - Electric Public Utility To Provide Basic Generation Service; Retail Margin Fund, Use; Report.
  9. a. (1) Simultaneously with the starting date for the implementation of retail choice as determined by the board pursuant to subsection a. of...
• Section 48:3-58 - Gas Public Utilities, Unbundled Rate Schedules
  10. a. After the implementation of retail electric choice pursuant to subsection a. of section 5 of this act, the board shall order each...
• Section 48:3-59 - Requirements For Electric Public Utility After Retail Choice
  11. a. On or after the starting date for the implementation of retail choice as determined by the board pursuant to subsection a. of...
• Section 48:3-60 - Societal Benefits Charge By Public Utility; Universal Service Fund
  12. a. Simultaneously with the starting date for the implementation of retail choice as determined by the board pursuant to subsection a. of section...
• Section 48:3-60.1 - Imposition Of Certain Charges By Gas Public Utilities Prohibited.
  5.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, gas public utilities shall not impose a societal benefits charge...
• Section 48:3-60.2 - Bpu To Provide Equal Opportunity For Certain Types Of Funding Incentives For Businesses.
  1.Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary, the Board of Public Utilities shall provide equal opportunity for businesses in all areas...
• Section 48:3-60.3 - Credit Against Societal Benefits Charge Permitted.
  1. a. On and after January 1 next following the date of enactment of P.L.2011, c.216 (C.48:3-60.3), a commercial or industrial ratepayer shall be...
• Section 48:3-61 - Market Transition Charge For Stranded Costs
  13. a. The provisions of R.S.48:2-21 or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, and simultaneously with the starting date for the implementation of...
• Section 48:3-62 - Authorization For Issuance Of Transition Bonds.
  14. a. For purposes of recovering a portion of the stranded costs of an electric public utility that are deemed eligible for rate recovery...
• Section 48:3-63 - Proceeds Of Transition Bonds Not Considered Income To Utility; Tax Consequences Of Sale Of Assets
  51. a. All proceeds received from the issuance of transition bonds shall not be considered income to the electric public utility or gas public...
• Section 48:3-64 - Bondable Stranded Costs Rate Orders
  15. a. A bondable stranded costs rate order issued by the board pursuant to section 14 of this act shall: (1)Authorize the electric public...
• Section 48:3-65 - Orders Become Irrevocable Upon Issuance
  16. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each bondable stranded costs rate order and the transition bond charges authorized therein shall become irrevocable...
• Section 48:3-66 - State Pledge To Holders Of Transition Bonds; Orders Not Pledge Of State's Credit
  17. a. The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge and agree with the holders of any transition bonds issued under the authority of...
• Section 48:3-67 - Customers Assessed For Transition Bond Charges
  18. The transition bond charges established by the board in bondable stranded costs rate orders shall be assessed against all customers of the electric...
• Section 48:3-68 - Effectiveness Of Bondable Stranded Costs Rate Order
  19. Each bondable stranded costs rate order shall be effective only in accordance with the terms thereof and upon the written consent of the...
• Section 48:3-69 - Recourse Against Issuer Only
  20. Transition bonds shall be recourse only to the credit and assets of the issuer of the transition bonds. L.1999,c.23,s.20.
• Section 48:3-70 - Electric Public Utility To Maintain Records Of Transition Bond Charges
  21. An electric public utility shall maintain or cause to be maintained records of transition bond charges which have been assessed and collected by...
• Section 48:3-71 - Issuance Of Transition Bonds; Security
  22. a. Electric public utilities or other financing entities may, but are not required to, issue transition bonds authorized by the board in any...
• Section 48:3-72 - Transfer Of Bondable Transition Property
  23. a. If an agreement by an electric public utility or its assignee to transfer bondable transition property expressly states that the transfer is...
• Section 48:3-73 - Successor To Electric Public Utility
  24. Any successor to an electric public utility, whether pursuant to any bankruptcy, reorganization or other insolvency proceedings or pursuant to any merger, consolidation...
• Section 48:3-74 - Application For Bondable Stranded Costs Rate Order Not Required
  25. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this act, an electric public utility shall not be obligated under this act to apply to the...
• Section 48:3-75 - Expedited Judicial Review Of Bondable Stranded Costs Rate Orders
  26. In order to maximize the rate savings to customers of the electric public utility under a bondable stranded costs rate order, which order...
• Section 48:3-76 - Bondable Transition Property Constitutes An Account.
  27. a. For purposes of this act, and the Uniform Commercial Code - Secured Transactions, N.J.S.12A:9-101 et seq., bondable transition property, as defined in...
• Section 48:3-77 - Charges For Sale, Delivery Of Power To Off-site Customer.
  28. a. Whenever an on-site generation facility produces power that is not consumed by the on-site customer, and that power is delivered to an...
• Section 48:3-77.1 - Utilization Of Locally Franchised Public Utility Electric Distribution Infrastructure.
  4.In order to avoid duplication of existing public utility electric distribution infrastructure, and to maximize economic efficiency and electrical safety, delivery of electric power...
• Section 48:3-78 - Electric Power Supplier License
  29. a. A person shall not offer to provide or provide electric generation service to retail customers in this State unless that person has...
• Section 48:3-79 - Gas Supplier License
  30. a. A person shall not offer to provide or provide gas supply service to retail customers in this State unless that person has...
• Section 48:3-80 - Investigative Powers Of Board Relative To Suppliers
  31. a. Whenever it shall appear to the board that an electric power supplier or a gas supplier has engaged in, is engaging in,...
• Section 48:3-81 - Revocation, Suspension, Refusal To Issue, Renew Supplier's License
  32. a. The board may revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew an electric power supplier's license or a gas supplier's license at...
• Section 48:3-82 - Additional Remedies
  33. a. In addition or as an alternative, as the case may be, to revoking, suspending or refusing to issue or to renew the...
• Section 48:3-83 - Violations, Penalties
  34. Any person who violates any provision of this act shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for the...
• Section 48:3-84 - Rights, Remedies, Prohibitions; Cumulative
  35. a. The rights, remedies and prohibitions accorded by the provisions of this act are in addition to and cumulative of any right, remedy...
• Section 48:3-85 - Consumer Protection Standards.
  36. a. Notwithstanding any provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the board, in consultation with the...
• Section 48:3-86 - "Slamming" Prevention; Penalties.
  37. a. Notwithstanding any provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the board, in consultation with the...
• Section 48:3-87 - Environmental Disclosure Requirements; Standards; Rules.
  38. a. The board shall require an electric power supplier or basic generation service provider to disclose on a customer's bill or on customer...
• Section 48:3-87.1 - Application To Construct Offshore Wind Project.
  3. a. An entity seeking to construct an offshore wind project shall submit an application to the board for approval by the board as...
• Section 48:3-87.2 - Approval Of Project By Board.
  4.The board may approve, subject to the project obtaining the necessary permits, approvals, and authorizations from the Department of Environmental Protection, a qualified wind...
• Section 48:3-88 - Status Of Municipal Systems, Rural Electric Cooperatives, Definition.
  39. a. (1) A municipal system, or a rural electric cooperative, that was established prior to the effective date of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-49 et...
• Section 48:3-89 - Aggregator Contracts; Bundling Restriction; Tax Treatment
  40. a. A private aggregator may enter into a contract with a licensed electric power supplier or a licensed gas supplier for the provision...
• Section 48:3-90 - Registration Of Private Aggregator.
  41. a. A private aggregator shall register with the board, which shall include the filing of basic information pertaining to the supplier, such as...
• Section 48:3-91 - Government Aggregator.
  42. a. Pursuant to the provisions of sections 42 through 45 of this act, a government aggregator may obtain: electric generation service, electric related...
• Section 48:3-91.1 - Written Contract For Procurement Of Certain Electric And Gas Services For State Or Local Government Or Aggregator.
  1. a. The Division of Purchase and Property in the Department of the Treasury, on behalf of any State agency or local government unit,...
• Section 48:3-91.2 - Request For Inclusion In Proposed Contract.
  2.Upon receiving the notification from the Division of Purchase and Property pursuant to section 1 of this act, a State agency, local government unit...
• Section 48:3-91.3 - Determination Of Best Contract For Services; Alternative Forms Of Bidding; Administrative Fee.
  3.The Division of Purchase and Property in the Department of the Treasury shall determine how best to contract for electric generation service, electric related...
• Section 48:3-91.4 - Provision In Contract For Additional Locations, Facilities Of Government.
  4.The Division of Purchase and Property is authorized to include in any contract, entered into after the effective date of this act, for the...
• Section 48:3-91.5 - Regulations.
  5.The State Treasurer may adopt regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act", P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) as are necessary to administer the provisions...
• Section 48:3-91.6 - Contracts For Provision Of Alternative Electrical Energy Systems; Inclusion Of Local Units In State Contract, Certain Conditions; Definitions.
  1. a. The State, prior to initiating the process required pursuant to P.L.1954, c.48 (C.52:34-6 et seq.) for entering into a written contract for...
• Section 48:3-92 - Government Energy Aggregation Programs
  43. Government energy aggregation programs shall be subject to the following provisions: a.A contract between a government aggregator and a licensed electric power supplier...
• Section 48:3-93.1 - Establishment, Operation Of Government Energy Aggregation Program
  1.A government aggregator that is a municipality or a county may establish and operate a government energy aggregation program pursuant either to the provisions...
• Section 48:3-93.2 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Government Energy Aggregation
  2. a. The provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary notwithstanding, within 90 days of the effective...
• Section 48:3-93.3 - Contributions To Campaign Committees, Candidates, Office Holders; Restrictions; Enforcement
  6. a. The provisions of any law, or rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, to the contrary notwithstanding, a government aggregator that is a...
• Section 48:3-94 - Operation Of Government Energy Aggregation Program
  45. a. (1) A government aggregator that is a municipality or a county may operate a government energy aggregation program that provides for the...
• Section 48:3-95 - Rule Adoptions By Board
  46. Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the board shall initiate a proceeding and...
• Section 48:3-96 - Standards For Inspection, Maintenance, Repair, Replacement Of Electric Equipment, Facilities
  57. a. The Board of Public Utilities shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), standards for the inspection,...
• Section 48:3-96.1 - Electronic Billing, Payment By Bpu Customers, Certain Circumstances.
  1.Any company under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities that periodically bills its customers may, upon the request of a customer: a.offer...
• Section 48:3-97 - Construction Of Act Relative To Dot, Dep
  60. a. No provision of this act shall be interpreted or construed in any fashion so as to amend or alter the functions, powers...
• Section 48:3-98 - Effective Date; Retroactivity
  66. This act shall take effect immediately, except that, to the extent not already provided for by existing law, the authority of the board...
• Section 48:3-98.1 - Electric, Gas Public Utilities Energy Efficiency And Conservation Programs, Investments, Cost Recovery; Terms Defined.
  13. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law or rule or regulation to the contrary: (1)an electric public utility or a gas public...
• Section 48:3-98.2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To A Long-term Capacity Agreement Pilot Program To Promote Construction Of Qualified Electric Generation Facilities.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares: a.In 2007, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., the firm that manages the regional electric power grid, changed the method of procuring...
• Section 48:3-98.3 - Initiation, Completion Of Schedule To Support Commencement Of Lcapp.
  3.Notwithstanding any provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P. L. 1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the board shall initiate and complete...
• Section 48:3-98.4 - Challenged Provisions; Final Resolution.
  4.If one or more provisions in P.L.2011, c.9 (C.48:3-98.2 et al.) are challenged in an administrative or judicial proceeding, the board may suspend the...
• Section 48:3-98.5 - Switching Between Certain Providers.
  1. a. A customer shall be permitted to switch between an electric power supplier and a basic generation service provider or between electric power...
• Section 48:3-99 - Definitions Relative To Energy Efficiency.
  1.As used in this act: "Air-cooled very large commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment'' means air-cooled, water-cooled, evaporative-cooled or water source (but not...
• Section 48:3-100 - Applicability Of Act.
  2. a. The provisions of this act shall apply to the testing, certification and enforcement of efficiency standards for the following types of new...
• Section 48:3-101 - Rules, Regulations Establishing Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards.
  3.Within one year of the effective date of this act, the Board of Public Utilities, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, shall...
• Section 48:3-102 - Compliance Of New Products With Standards, Time.
  4. a. Except as provided in subsection c. of this section, within two years of the effective date of this act, no new product...
• Section 48:3-103 - Procedures For Testing Energy Efficiency Of New Products.
  5. a. The Board of Public Utilities, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," procedures...
• Section 48:3-104 - Periodic Inspections Of Distributors, Retailers.
  6.The Board of Public Utilities, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, may cause periodic inspections to be made of distributors or retailers...
• Section 48:3-105 - Investigations Of Complaints; Violations, Penalties.
  7. a. The Board of Public Utilities, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, shall cause investigations to be made of complaints received...
• Section 48:3-106 - Further Regulations.
  8.The Board of Public Utilities, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1...
• Section 48:3-107 - Program For Certification Of Persons Who Install Renewable Energy Devices In Buildings; Fee Schedule; Rules, Regulations.
  1. a. The Board of Public Utilities shall within 180 days of the enactment of this act, establish a program for the certification of...
• Section 48:3-108 - Standard Request For Proposal.
  7. a. The Board of Public Utilities, in consultation with the State Treasurer and the Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, shall establish,...
• Section 48:3-109 - Bpu Designated As Responsible Agency.
  8. a. The Board of Public Utilities is designated as the agency of the State Government responsible for implementing and enforcing the provisions of...
• Section 48:4-1 - Scope Of Chapter; Terms Defined
  48:4-1. The term "autobus" as used in this chapter means and includes, except as hereinafter noted, any motor vehicle or motorbus operated over public...
• Section 48:4-1.2 - Charter And Special Busses; Jurisdiction
  The board shall have full jurisdiction over charter busses and special busses, to the same extent that it has jurisdiction over autobusses. L.1973, c....
• Section 48:4-2 - Other Automobile Laws Applicable
  Nothing in this chapter shall exempt a person owning or operating an autobus from complying with the laws relating to the ownership, registration and...
• Section 48:4-2.1a - Discontinuance Of Operation Of Motor Vehicle.
  90. a. The commission may make rules, regulations and orders applicable to the construction, equipment and insurance required of every motor vehicle within the...
• Section 48:4-2.1b - Vehicle Emission, Brake Tests, Emissions Inspections.
  1.The commission may, in conjunction with any program of self-inspection established to ensure compliance with regulations adopted under section 90 of P.L.1962, c.198 (C.48:4-2.1a),...
• Section 48:4-2.1c - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Bus Safety Compliance Act." L.1995,c.225,s.1.
• Section 48:4-2.1d - Findings, Determinations On Bus Safety
  2. The Legislature finds that bus safety is of paramount importance to the residents of this State, to those travelling on the public highways...
• Section 48:4-2.1e - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: "Bus" or "buses" means and includes all autobuses, of whatever size or configuration, under the jurisdiction of the commission;...
• Section 48:4-2.1f - Bus Safety Out-of-service Violations; Schedule, Sanctions Established.
  4. a. The commission shall establish by regulation, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), a schedule of bus...
• Section 48:4-2.1g - Evidence Of Appropriate Insurance; Holding, Impoundment Of Vehicle
  5. In addition to any other penalties provided by law, when a bus is operated on public highways or in public places in this...
• Section 48:4-2.1h - Bus Safety Out-of-service Violation; Holding, Impoundment Of Vehicle
  6. In addition to any other penalties provided by law, when a bus is operated on public highways or in public places in this...
• Section 48:4-2.1i - Inspection; Penalty, Mvc Inspections Prohibited On Casino-owned Property; Exceptions.
  7. a. The commission or any duly authorized representative of the commission is authorized to direct any bus operated in this State to immediately...
• Section 48:4-2.1j - Vehicle Inspection Report
  8. a. The bus driver shall have in his possession a copy of the most recent vehicle inspection report for the bus he is...
• Section 48:4-2.1k - Penalty Enforcement; Summons Issued For Violation Of Act.
  9.Any penalty imposed pursuant to this act may be collected, with costs, in a summary proceeding pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999,"...
• Section 48:4-2.1l - Enforcement Of Provisions Of Act
  10. All county, municipal and other officers charged with the enforcement of State and municipal laws, are authorized to assist the department under the...
• Section 48:4-2.1m - Agreements With Governmental Agencies
  11. The commissioner is authorized to consult with and enter into agreements with federal, interstate, bi-state, and intrastate agencies and authorities as may be...
• Section 48:4-2.1n - Penalty Money Deposited Into General Fund
  12. Monies received from penalties collected pursuant to this act shall be deposited in the General Fund. L.1995,c.225,s.12.
• Section 48:4-2.1o - Act In Addition To Other Law
  13. The implementation and enforcement of this act shall not be deemed as supplanting any other provisions of this Title and shall not preclude...
• Section 48:4-2.2 - Bus Drivers Exempt From Municipal Fees
  No driver of any autobus who shall be authorized under the provisions of chapter 3 of the title Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation (s....
• Section 48:4-2.3 - Receivers And Trustees In Bankruptcy Operating Autobusses To Carry Insurance; Deposit With Commissioner Of Banking And Insurance
  Receivers appointed by the United States District Court for the district of New Jersey or by the Superior Court of this State, or trustees...
• Section 48:4-2.20 - Establishment; Autobus Defined
  Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 2 of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes or any other law to the contrary, all autobuses regulated by...
• Section 48:4-2.21 - "Zone Of Rate Freedom" Established Annually.
  2.The commission shall establish annually a "zone of rate freedom" which will provide for a maximum permitted percentage adjustment to any rate, fare or...
• Section 48:4-2.22 - Filing By Owner Or Operator; Conclusive Presumption To Be Just And Reasonable
  Any rate, fare or charge for regular route autobus service filed by an owner or operator of an autobus with the Department of Transportation...
• Section 48:4-2.23 - Adjustments; Notice To Department Of Transportation And Public; Posting
  An owner or operator of an autobus which adjusts rates, fares or charges for regular route autobus service under this act shall be required...
• Section 48:4-2.24 - Establishment In Accordance With Other Provisions Of Law
  An owner or an operator of an autobus filing any rate, fare or charge for regular route autobus service pursuant to this act shall...
• Section 48:4-2.25 - Casino, Charter, Special Bus Operations
  The provisions of this act shall apply to the rates, fares and charges of autobuses for casino bus operations, charter bus operations and special...
• Section 48:4-3 - Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity; Penalties.
  48:4-3. a. No autobus, charter bus operation or special bus operation which is engaged, wholly or partly, in intrastate commerce shall be operated or...
• Section 48:4-3.1 - Conditions Permitted
  Nothing in this act shall preclude the Commissioner of Transportation from limiting certificates of public convenience and necessity by imposing conditions as to the...
• Section 48:4-6 - Transfer Of Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity; Liability For Outstanding Debts
  Any such certificate of public convenience and necessity for the operation of an autobus, charter bus operation or special bus operation heretofore granted and...
• Section 48:4-7 - Revocation Of Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity
  Any such certificate of public convenience and necessity for the operation of an autobus, charter bus operation or special bus operation heretofore granted and...
• Section 48:4-7.1 - Notice Of Intent To Change Service; Violations, Penalty.
  2.Any holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the operation of an autobus who files a petition with the Motor Vehicle...
• Section 48:4-8 - Substitution Of Busses
  The holder of any such certificate of public convenience and necessity for the operation of an autobus heretofore granted and now in effect or...
• Section 48:4-9 - Special Or Occasional Trips
  The holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the operation of an autobus may use such autobus for special or occasional...
• Section 48:4-11 - Penalties.
  48:4-11. a. Any person who shall operate an autobus, charter bus operation or special bus operation within the State of New Jersey without complying...
• Section 48:4-12 - Corporations May Carry Own Liability Insurance; Paid Up Cash Capital
  Whenever the owner of any autobus, or the person possessing the right to use the same, is required by any law of this State...
• Section 48:4-13 - Exemption; Revocation
  Any owner desiring to be exempt from obtaining or filing such insurance policy, as aforesaid, shall make application to the Commissioner of Banking and...
• Section 48:4-14.1 - Franchise Tax Or License Fee On Owner Or Operator Of Autobus; Imposition By Municipalities; Prohibition; Exception
  Except as provided in R.S. 48:16-25 no municipality shall assess or impose any franchise tax or municipal license fee upon any person owning or...
• Section 48:4-14.2 - Payment In Lieu Of Franchise Taxes On Autobusses By State To Municipalities; Annual Certification Of Amount Due
  In order that no municipality shall suffer a loss in revenue due to the repeal of R.S. 48:4-14, the State shall annually remit to...
• Section 48:4-18 - Construction And Equipment
  The board of public utility commissioners may prescribe reasonable regulations with respect to the construction and equipment of autobusses carrying passengers between points in...
• Section 48:4-19 - Insurance
  The board of public utility commissioners may require operators of such interstate busses to carry insurance equal in amount to that required by law...
• Section 48:4-20 - Tax On Interstate Bus Service; Exemptions
  A person owning or operating an autobus which is operated over any highway in this State for the purpose of carrying passengers from a...
• Section 48:4-21 - Monthly Report Of Mileage; Payment Of Tax
  Every such owner or operator shall file with the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles on or before the twenty-fifth day of each...
• Section 48:4-22 - Report Of Schedule Of Operations; Contents; Subsequent Changes
  On or before May 7, 1934, every such owner or operator shall file with the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles a report...
• Section 48:4-23 - Revenues Used For Highway Purposes
  All moneys derived from the excise hereby imposed shall be paid over monthly by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles to the...
• Section 48:4-24 - Enforcement; Bond
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall enforce the payment of the excise hereby imposed and for such purpose make and enforce...
• Section 48:4-25 - Examination Of Records Of Owners Or Operators; Oaths
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall have power, whenever he deems it expedient, to make or cause to be made by...
• Section 48:4-26 - Hearings; Examination Of Witnesses
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles or his deputy, auditors or investigators shall have power to conduct hearings and to administer oaths...
• Section 48:4-27 - Subpoenas; Witnesses' Fees
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall have power by subpoena to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of any...
• Section 48:4-28 - Refusal To Obey Subpoena; Procedure Before Supreme Court; Contempt
  If a person subpoenaed to attend any hearing refuses to appear, be examined or answer any question or produce any books, records, papers, vouchers,...
• Section 48:4-29 - Appointment Of Auditors, Investigators, Etc.; Civil Service
  The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may appoint one or more auditors and investigators and such clerical assistants as he may deem...
• Section 48:4-30 - Revocation Of Registration Certificate; Grounds
  Failure to file a report or bond in the manner prescribed by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, or to pay proper...
• Section 48:4-31 - Collection Of Excise; Prior Lien
  The excise imposed by section 48:4-20 of this Title, and interest and penalties thereon from the time the same shall be due and payable,...
• Section 48:4-32 - Failure To File Report Or Pay Excise; Penalty
  Any such owner or operator who shall fail to file a report as required by section 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this Title, or bond...
• Section 48:4-33 - False Report Or Statements; Evasion Of Excise; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall make any false or fraudulent report, or any false statement in any report with intent to defraud the state, or...
• Section 48:4-34 - Perjury
  Any person who shall knowingly swear to, affirm or verify any false or fraudulent statement with intent to evade the payment of any excise...
• Section 48:4-35 - Definitions.
  48:4-35. a. "Motor vehicle" as used in this article includes all vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular power (excepting such vehicles as run only...
• Section 48:4-36 - Financial Coverage Required; Insurance Policy; Filing With Utility Board; Rejection; Minimum And Maximum Liability For Bodily Injury Or Death
  Any person engaged in the operation of motor vehicles shall at all times have financial coverage. If such financial coverage shall be by insurance...
• Section 48:4-37 - Property Damage; Liability
  For damages because of injury to or destruction of property, for each motor vehicle an insurance policy with a minimum liability of $10,000.00 and...
• Section 48:4-38 - Provision For Continuing Liability
  Insurance policies filed under this article shall contain a provision for a continuing liability, notwithstanding any recovery thereon, until the expiration thereof according to...
• Section 48:4-39 - Self-insurance Unaffected
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to repeal any law permitting self-insurance of motor vehicles.
• Section 48:4-40 - Evidence Of Financial Coverage; Driver To Have In Possession And Exhibit Upon Request
  The driver of every motor vehicle shall have in his possession and exhibit for inspection when requested by any proper person (a) the original...
• Section 48:4-41 - Rules And Regulations
  The board of public utility commissioners is hereby empowered to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state with respect...
• Section 48:4-42 - Operating Motor Vehicle Without Financial Coverage; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall knowingly operate or permit to be operated any motor vehicle not at the time of such use covered by insurance...
• Section 48:4-43 - Driver Refusing To Exhibit Evidence Of Financial Coverage; Penalty
  Any driver of a motor vehicle who shall fail or refuse to exhibit upon request of a proper person the evidence of insurance or...
• Section 48:4-44 - Construction Of Article
  This article shall not be construed to repeal any act or portion of any act not wholly inconsistent therewith but all such acts shall...
• Section 48:4-45 - Certain Autobusses Excepted
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to autobusses with a carrying capacity of not more than 10 passengers now or hereafter operated...
• Section 48:4-46 - Definitions
  (a) As used in this article "motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire" is hereby defined as meaning any motor vehicle propelled otherwise than by...
• Section 48:4-47 - Financial Coverage Required; Insurance Policy; Filing With Utility Board; Rejection; Minimum And Maximum Liability For Bodily Injury Or Death
  Any person engaged in the business of operating motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire shall at all times have financial coverage. If such financial...
• Section 48:4-48 - Property Damage; Liability
  For damages because of injury to or destruction of property, for each motor vehicle an insurance policy with a minimum liability of $10,000.00 and...
• Section 48:4-49 - Provision For Continuing Liability
  Insurance policies filed under this article shall contain a provision for a continuing liability, notwithstanding any recovery thereon, until the expiration thereof, according to...
• Section 48:4-50 - Self-insurance Unaffected; Nonresident Owners And Operators; Certificate Of Self-insurance
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to repeal any law permitting self-insurance of motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire, nor shall the...
• Section 48:4-51 - Evidence Of Financial Coverage; Driver To Have In Possession And Exhibit Upon Request
  The driver of every motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire shall have in his possession and exhibit for inspection when requested by any proper...
• Section 48:4-52 - Rules And Regulations
  The board of public utility commissioners is hereby empowered to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state with respect...
• Section 48:4-53 - Operating Motor Vehicle Without Financial Coverage; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall knowingly operate or permit to be operated any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire not at the time of such...
• Section 48:4-54 - Refusal To Exhibit Evidence Of Financial Coverage; Penalty
  Any person who shall knowingly operate or permit to be operated a motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire who shall fail to display or...
• Section 48:4-55 - Construction Of Article
  This article shall not be construed to repeal any act or portion of any act not wholly inconsistent therewith, but all such acts shall...
• Section 48:5-1 - Formation Authorized
  Five or more persons, a majority of whom shall be residents of this state, may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining...
• Section 48:5-2 - Certificate Of Incorporation; Contents
  Such persons shall execute a certificate of incorporation setting forth: I. The name of the company; II. The period of time the same is...
• Section 48:5-3 - Recording And Filing Certificate
  The certificate of incorporation shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where the principal office of the company is...
• Section 48:5-4 - Certificate Or Copy As Evidence
  Any certificate of incorporation filed in the office of the secretary of state pursuant to section 48:5-3 of this title, or a copy thereof...
• Section 48:5-5 - Directors And Officers
  A board of at least five directors of every company organized under this article shall be chosen annually by the stockholders, when, where, and...
• Section 48:5-6 - Stock
  The stock of every company organized under this article shall be subscribed, paid for, held and transferred, and the subscriptions therefor collected in the...
• Section 48:5-7 - General Powers
  Every company organized under this article shall have power: I. To lay out a bridge or bridges with the proper approaches and to construct...
• Section 48:5-8 - Tolls
  Every company organized under this article may take such rate of toll as may be fixed by it from time to time, for persons,...
• Section 48:5-8.1 - Charter Inoperative Or Void For Nonpayment Of Taxes; Reinstatement
  If the charter of any company organized under this article shall hereafter become or shall have heretofore become inoperative or void by proclamation of...
• Section 48:5-9 - Joint Agreement Of Bridge Companies For Constructing And Operating Bridge
  Whenever two or more bridge companies are authorized by any lawful authority to build and maintain bridges over or across navigable waters separating this...
• Section 48:5-10 - Terms Of Joint Agreement
  The directors of the companies proposing to enter into such joint agreement may agree upon the terms thereof and the agreement may prescribe the...
• Section 48:5-11 - Stockholders' Meeting; Filing Agreement
  The agreement shall be submitted to the stockholders of each company at a meeting called specially for the purpose. Written or printed notice of...
• Section 48:5-12 - Mortgages Of Corporate Rights And Franchises
  Every bridge company incorporated by the laws of this state and doing business, operating works or owning property in this state or partly in...
• Section 48:5-13 - Formation Authorized
  Three or more persons may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a bridge or bridges over the Delaware river...
• Section 48:5-14 - Certificate Of Incorporation; Contents
  The certificate of incorporation shall set forth: I. The name of the company, which shall not resemble a name already in use by any...
• Section 48:5-15 - Signing, Recording And Filing Certificate
  The certificate of incorporation shall be signed in person by all the incorporators and proved or acknowledged as required for deeds of real estate...
• Section 48:5-16 - Conditions Precedent To Filing Of Certificate
  The certificate of incorporation shall not be filed in the office of the secretary of state until there shall have been annexed thereto and...
• Section 48:5-17 - Certificate Or Copy As Evidence
  Any certificate of incorporation filed in the office of the secretary of state in pursuance of section 48:5-15 of this title, or a copy...
• Section 48:5-18 - General Powers
  Every company incorporated, organized or existing under this article shall have power: Construction and maintaining bridges. a. To construct, maintain and operate its bridge...
• Section 48:5-19 - Tolls
  Every such company may demand and receive such sums of money for the use of its bridges and for other services connected with its...
• Section 48:5-20 - Uses Of Bridge
  Every bridge constructed under the provisions of this article may be used for the passage of vehicles of all types and kind; for the...
• Section 48:5-21 - Keeping Bridge Open
  Every bridge constructed under the provisions of this article shall be kept open to the public at all times after it is completed except...
• Section 48:5-22 - Acquisition Of Bridge By States; Terms Of Acquisition
  The state reserves to itself the right, acting in conjunction with any adjoining state or municipality thereof, to acquire any bridge constructed by any...
• Section 48:5-23 - Acquisition Of Bridge By States; Two Or More Bridges
  If two or more bridges shall have been constructed by any such company at different times, the per cent of the total cost to...
• Section 48:5-24 - Bridges To Become Property Of States After Fifty Years
  If the state, acting jointly with any adjoining state, shall not have purchased a bridge constructed by a company organized under this article at...
• Section 48:5-25 - Interpretation
  This article shall be liberally construed and no proceedings thereunder shall be set aside or invalidated by reason of any informality, unless substantial injustice...
• Section 48:5-26 - Conviction Of Nuisance; Taking Toll Without Paying Fine; Penalty
  When a corporation shall be convicted of a nuisance for not repairing and keeping in repair a bridge and shall neglect to pay the...
• Section 48:5-27 - Investigation Of Toll Bridges And Fixing Of Rates
  L.1913, c. 298, p. 614 (1924 Suppl. s.s. *167-18, *167-19), entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning public utilities; to create...
• Section 48:5-28 - Destruction Or Removal Of Materials Of Toll Bridges; Regulating Passage Over
  L.1872, c. 85, p. 16 (Rev.1877, pp. 91, 92, s.s. 35 to 40; C.S. pp. 322, 323, s.s. 65 to 70), entitled "An act...
• Section 48:5a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Cable Television Act." L.1972, c. 186, Art. I, s. 1.
• Section 48:5a-2 - Legislative Findings, Determinations, And Declarations.
  2.The Legislature finds, determines and declares: a.That, after careful investigation, it appears that the rates, services and operations of cable television companies in this...
• Section 48:5a-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act, except as the context may otherwise clearly require or indicate: a."Board" means the Board of Public Utilities. b."Office" means...
• Section 48:5a-4 - Office Of Cable Television; Establishment; Inapplicability Of Title 48 To Cable Television.
  4.There is hereby established in the Board of Public Utilities an Office of Cable Television; but nothing in P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.) shall...
• Section 48:5a-5 - Director; Qualifications; Compensation; Appointment; Term
  The office shall be headed and administered by a director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to perform the duties...
• Section 48:5a-6 - Director; Powers And Duties.
  6.The director under the supervision of the President of the Board shall organize the work of the office and establish therein such administrative subdivisions...
• Section 48:5a-7 - Officers And Employees; Appointment; Terms Of Employment.
  7.Subject to the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes, and within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available, the...
• Section 48:5a-8 - Annual Report
  The director shall make an annual report to the board of the office's operations, and render such other reports as the board shall from...
• Section 48:5a-9 - Board And Director; Power, Authority And Jurisdiction.
  9.The board, which is empowered pursuant to P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.) to be the local franchising authority in this State, and the director...
• Section 48:5a-10 - Rules And Regulations; Promulgation; Subject Matter; Cooperation With Federal Regulatory Agencies.
  10. The director with the approval of the board shall establish, consistent with federal law, for the purpose of assuring safe, adequate and proper...
• Section 48:5a-10.1 - Electronic Filing Of Documents By Cable Television Companies.
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the board shall, consistent with federal law, establish, on...
• Section 48:5a-10.2 - Electronic Filing Of Documents By Public Utilities.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the board shall, consistent with federal law, establish, on...
• Section 48:5a-10.3 - Electronic Filing Of Documents By Entities Under Jurisdiction Of Bpu.
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the board shall, consistent with federal law, establish, on...
• Section 48:5a-11 - Rates, Charges And Classifications For Services; Filing; Publication; Notice; Review; Hearings; Limitations On Revenues; Effective Competition.
  11. a. (1) The board, through the office, shall, consistent with federal law, prescribe just and reasonable rates, charges, and classifications for the services...
• Section 48:5a-11a - Cable Tv Outages.
  1. a. The director, with the approval of the board, shall adopt rules and regulations providing for a credit or rebate for outages of...
• Section 48:5a-11b - Notices To Subscribers.
  1. a. Notice to subscribers of refund liability and ordered rate decreases shall commence concurrent with subscriber credits within the next billing cycle following...
• Section 48:5a-11.1 - Public Purpose
  It is declared that many elderly and disabled persons reside in the State whose annual net income from all sources is less than the...
• Section 48:5a-11.2 - Discounted Catv Rates; Qualifications.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.) or of any other State law to the contrary, any CATV company providing service may...
• Section 48:5a-11.3 - Discount In Rates Not Mandatory.
  3.A cable television company shall not be required, as part of any franchising agreement, or renewal thereof, or as part of any negotiations leading...
• Section 48:5a-11.4 - No Additional Charge To Hearing Impaired Individuals
  No CATV company shall charge or in any way penalize a subscriber for the possession or use of any auxiliary equipment designed to facilitate...
• Section 48:5a-11.5 - No Charge Permitted
  No CATV company shall charge or in any way penalize a subscriber for the possession or use of a video cassette recorder, video disc,...
• Section 48:5a-11.6 - No Charge If Connected By Subscriber, In Series
  No CATV company shall charge or in any way penalize a subscriber for the possession or use of a video cassette recorder, video disc,...
• Section 48:5a-11.7 - Installation
  Any connection made to a cable television system, either directly or indirectly, pursuant to the provisions of section 2 or 4 of this act...
• Section 48:5a-11.8 - Charge For Connection Of Auxiliary Equipment
  Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting a CATV company from charging a subscriber for connection services rendered the subscriber for auxiliary...
• Section 48:5a-11.9 - Other Law Not Superseded
  Nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing the use or possession of equipment prohibited by N.J.S. 2C:20-8. 1987,c.395, s.7.
• Section 48:5a-11.10 - Cable Television Company, Specific Late Fee, Method Of Calculation.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary, the board shall not allow a cable television company...
• Section 48:5a-11.11 - Catv, Advance Notification, Certain; Requirement Eliminated.
  1.Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary, a cable television company shall not be required to provide advance notification to the...
• Section 48:5a-15 - Certificate Of Approval Or System-wide Franchise For Extension, Operation Of Catv System; Exceptions.
  15. No person shall hereafter begin the construction or extension of a CATV system, or begin the operation of a CATV system, or acquire...
• Section 48:5a-16 - Application For Certificate Of Approval, System-wide Franchise, Fees; Decision; Appeal; Hearings.
  16. a. Any entity that seeks to provide cable service in this State after the effective date of P.L.2006, c.83 (C.48:5A-25.1 et al.) may...
• Section 48:5a-17 - Certificate Of Approval, System-wide Franchise For Catv Operations.
  17. a. The board shall issue a certificate of approval or a system-wide franchise, as appropriate, when, after reviewing the application, and after the...
• Section 48:5a-18 - Hearings; Conduct; Notice; Intervention By Municipalities; Fees; Disposition Of Fees And Charges.
  18. a. Any hearing held pursuant to the provisions of section 16 or section 17 of P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-16 or C.48:5A-17) shall be open...
• Section 48:5a-19 - Certificate Of Approval, System-wide Franchise; Transferability; Duration; Renewal.
  19. a. A certificate of approval issued by the board shall be nontransferable, except by consent of the board and shall specify the area...
• Section 48:5a-20 - Highways And Rights-of-way; Use; Joint Use With Other Catv Company Or Public Utility.
  20. a. Upon obtaining the prior approval of the board, if necessary, a CATV company may construct and maintain the wires, cables, and conduits...
• Section 48:5a-20.1 - Notice Of Development Applications To Catv General Manager, Municipal Registration.
  7.Within 30 days after the effective date of P.L.2006, c.83 (C.48:5A-25.1 et al.), the board shall notify the general manager of every cable television...
• Section 48:5a-21 - Lease, Rental Of Facilities, Rights-of-way.
  21. Upon the prior approval of the board, any person may lease or rent or otherwise make available facilities or rights-of-way, including pole space,...
• Section 48:5a-22 - Municipal Consent; Necessity For Certificate Of Approval
  In any case where a CATV company operates or proposes to operate in a municipality or municipalities where facilities are to be placed in,...
• Section 48:5a-23 - Application; Filing; Fee; Hearings; Notices; Additional Applications; Decision By Municipality; Report; Conditions; Fees; Disposition
  a. Application for a municipal consent required under section 22 of this act shall be made by a CATV company by filing thereof, on...
• Section 48:5a-24 - Issuance By Ordinance; Terms; Acceptance By Company
  Issuance of a municipal consent shall be by ordinance of the governing body, which shall have annexed thereto and incorporated therein the application filed...
• Section 48:5a-25 - Conformance Of Municipal Consent With Act.
  25.A municipal consent issued pursuant to this act shall conform in form and substance to all requirements of this act and of rules, regulations...
• Section 48:5a-25.1 - Municipal Consents, Certificates Of Approval Previously Issued Remain In Effect, Conversion To System-side Franchise; Conditions.
  19. a. Municipal consents and certificates of approval for applications to provide cable television services in a municipality issued prior to the effective date...
• Section 48:5a-25.2 - Requirements For Catv System-wide Franchise.
  20. a. As part of any system-wide franchise issued by the board pursuant to P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.), a CATV company shall be...
• Section 48:5a-26 - Designation Of Municipal "Complaint Officer;" Office Of Catv For System-wide Franchises.
  26. a. Any ordinance issuing a municipal consent pursuant to P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.) shall designate some officer, office, bureau or other agency...
• Section 48:5a-26.1 - Record Of Complaints, Annual Report.
  8. a. In addition to the requirements as provided in section 26 of P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-26), the board shall, upon notice, by order in...
• Section 48:5a-27 - Information On Applicant's Financial Responsibility, Technical Competency And General Fitness
  Whenever a CATV company shall apply to a municipality for the municipal consent required under this act, the municipal governing body may, before acting...
• Section 48:5a-28 - Contents Of Application, Commitments By System-wide Franchises.
  28. Each application for a municipal consent or system-wide franchise shall contain: a.A description of the initial area to be served. b.A description of...
• Section 48:5a-28.1 - Rules For Dispute Resolution Between Companies And Municipalities.
  24. The board shall adopt rules for procedures for resolving disputes between CATV companies and between CATV companies and municipalities concerning the provisions of...
• Section 48:5a-28.2 - Application Requirements Relevant To Board's Decision On Applications; Enforcement Of Commitments.
  25. a. All of the elements required to be included in the franchise application pursuant to P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.) shall form, in...
• Section 48:5a-29 - Conformance Of Proposals, Representations To Rules, Regulations.
  29. All proposals and representations included in an application for municipal consent or a system-wide franchise shall conform to applicable rules and regulations of...
• Section 48:5a-30 - Payment From Catv Company To Municipality; System-wide Franchise Fees, Local And State.
  30. a. Except as provided in subsection d. of this section, in consideration of a municipal consent issued under P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.),...
• Section 48:5a-31 - Municipal Officers And Employees; Interest In Catv Company; Prohibitions
  It is unlawful for a member of a municipal governing body or any other officer or employee of a municipality to acquire any interest,...
• Section 48:5a-32 - Annual Assessment By Office
  To enable the office to perform its lawful duties and responsibilities relating to the regulation of CATV companies, the director shall annually make an...
• Section 48:5a-33 - Amount
  The assessment shall be equal to a percentage of the gross operating revenues of all CATV companies under the jurisdiction of the office derived...
• Section 48:5a-34 - Levy And Payment; Statement Of Amount; Statement Of Gross Operating Revenues By Companies; Filing; Objections; Hearings; Determination; Failure To Pay; Collection; Actions For Recovery Of Amount Paid
  a. Such assessment shall be levied not later than July 1, and shall be paid within 30 days after mailing by registered mail to...
• Section 48:5a-35 - Failure To Pay Amount; Notice To State Treasurer And Company; Collection By Seizure And Sale Of Goods Or Chattels
  a. If any CATV company to which a statement for the amount assessed against it as provided in this act has been rendered fails...
• Section 48:5a-36 - Duties Of Catv Companies
  a. Each CATV company shall provide safe, adequate and proper service, equipment and facilities for the operation of its CATV system. b. No CATV...
• Section 48:5a-36.1 - Catv Service Termination Notices, Designation Of Third Parties To Receive.
  1. a. Every cable television company which provides cable television reception service shall permit a residential subscriber who receives such service to designate a...
• Section 48:5a-37 - Abandonment Of Property Or Discontinuance Or Temporary Suspension Of Service; Approval Of Board
  No CATV company shall abandon all or any part of its system or other property necessary or useful in the performance of its duties...
• Section 48:5a-38 - Combinations, Mergers, Consolidations, Acquisition Of Control, Certain Circumstances; Approval Of Board.
  38. a. Except as otherwise provided by subsection b. of this section, no CATV company shall combine, merge, or consolidate with, or acquire control...
• Section 48:5a-39 - Prohibited Activities
  No CATV company shall: a. Adopt, maintain or enforce any regulation, practice or measurement which shall be unjust, unreasonable, unduly preferential, arbitrarily or unjustly...
• Section 48:5a-40 - Sale, Mortgage, Lease, Disposition, Encumbrance, Merger, Consolidation, Certain Circumstances, Approval By Board.
  40. a. Except as otherwise provided by subsections b. and c. of this section, no CATV company shall, without the approval of the board,...
• Section 48:5a-41 - Loan Of Money Or Property To Owners Or Corporations Owned By Shareholders; Approval Of Board
  Except with the approval in writing of the board first had and obtained, no CATV company shall loan any of its money or property...
• Section 48:5a-42 - Issuance, Renewal Of Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Other Evidences Of Indebtedness, Certain Circumstances; Review By Board.
  42.Except as otherwise provided by subsection c. of this section, no CATV company shall, unless it shall have first obtained authority from the board...
• Section 48:5a-43 - Sale Or Transfer Of Stock To Other Catv Corporation Or To Corporation Or Person Resulting In Acquisition Of Majority In Interest; Authorization
  No CATV company incorporated under the laws of this State shall sell, nor shall any such CATV company permit to be made upon its...
• Section 48:5a-44 - Requirements By Board; Notice; System Of Accounting; Depreciation Account; Report Of Finances And Operations; Notice Of Accidents
  The board may, upon notice, by order in writing require every CATV company: a. To keep its books, records and accounts so as to...
• Section 48:5a-45 - Records, Books, Accounts, Documents And Writings; Keeping Within State; Consent For Exemption; Conditions; Designation Of Agent As Custodian; Jurisdiction For Enforcement Of Compliance
  a. Every CATV company shall at all times keep within this State all records, books, accounts, documents and other writings relating to contracts entered...
• Section 48:5a-46 - Inspection And Examination Of Books, Records, Accounts, Papers And Memoranda
  The board and any officers or employees of the office under its direction may inspect and examine all books, records, accounts, papers and memoranda...
• Section 48:5a-47 - Revocation, Suspension, Alteration Of Certificate, Franchise.
  47. The board may, after affording the holder an opportunity to be heard, revoke, suspend or alter any certificate of approval or franchise for...
• Section 48:5a-48 - Order To Extend System, To Repair, To Improve Or Add To System
  The board may, after affording an opportunity for hearing, order a CATV company (1) to construct and operate any reasonable extension of its existing...
• Section 48:5a-49 - Landlords Allowing Cable Television Service Reception By Tenants; Prohibition Of Charges And Fees; Indemnification Of Owners By Installers; Definitions
  a. No owner of any dwelling or his agent shall forbid or prevent any tenant of such dwelling from receiving cable television service, nor...
• Section 48:5a-50 - Immunity From Liability For Use Of Facilities For Catv Company
  No cable television company shall be liable to prosecution or for damages, directly or indirectly, arising out of any suit for libel, slander, defamation...
• Section 48:5a-51 - Penalties, Enforcement.
  51. a. Any person or any officer or agent thereof who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.)...
• Section 48:5a-53 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application of such provision is held invalid for any reason, the remainder of this act or...
• Section 48:5a-54 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Cable Subscriber Privacy Protection Act." L. 1988, c. 121, s. 1.
• Section 48:5a-55 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Upstream communications channel" means a signaling path provided by a cable television company for the transmission of signals...
• Section 48:5a-56 - Personally Identifiable Information
  a. A cable television company may, without the subscriber consent required pursuant to subsection d. of this section or section 4 of this act,...
• Section 48:5a-57 - Provision Of Personally Identifiable Information To Others
  a. No cable television company shall rent, sell or otherwise release personally identifiable information, in part or whole, without the prior written or electronic...
• Section 48:5a-58 - Disclosure To Subscriber
  a. A cable television company shall disclose to a subscriber all information which the company possesses pertaining to that subscriber upon request of the...
• Section 48:5a-59 - Monitoring
  a. Except as otherwise provided in this act, no signal of any upstream communications channel may be transmitted from a subscriber terminal for the...
• Section 48:5a-60 - Collection Of Debt
  This act shall not prohibit a cable television company from providing individual subscriber data to a proper court or agency for the purposes of...
• Section 48:5a-61 - Examination, Disclosure Of Data
  This act shall not prohibit the examination of aggregate data by, or the disclosure of such data to, any third party, provided that the...
• Section 48:5a-62 - Fine For Violation
  Any person who discloses personally identifiable information in violation of this act or otherwise engages in negligent, willful or reckless conduct in violation of...
• Section 48:5a-63 - Liability
  a. Subject, where appropriate, to the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act" (N.J.S. 59:1-1 et seq.), any person, State or local agency or other governmental...
• Section 48:5a-64 - Contract Between Private Aggregator And Municipalities.
  6. a. A private aggregator may enter into a contract with two or more municipalities for the purpose of facilitating the joint action of...
• Section 48:6-14 - Powers In General
  Every canal company organized under this Title shall have power: I. To enter upon all lands or waters to explore, survey and locate the...
• Section 48:6-15.1 - Condemnation; Authority; Restrictions; Payment Of Damages
  Every canal utility may take and condemn pursuant to sections 48 and 49 hereof, such lands, waters and streams as may be necessary for...
• Section 48:6-16 - Width Of Canal
  No canal constructed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall exceed two hundred and fifty feet in width unless more land is required...
• Section 48:6-17 - Borrowing Money And Issuing Bonds Secured By Mortgage
  Every canal company organized under this Title may borrow such sums of money from time to time, not to exceed in the whole its...
• Section 48:6-18 - Extension Of Time For Completing Works
  Any canal company created by virtue of any law of this state may extend the time limited in its charter for the completion of...
• Section 48:6-19 - Bridges And Passageways Over Canal
  Every canal company organized under this Title shall construct and properly maintain adequate bridges and passages over or under the canal at all places...
• Section 48:6-20 - Highways May Cross Over Or Under Canal
  Whenever the route of the canal shall cross a highway, the canal company may carry the highway over or under the canal, as may...
• Section 48:6-21 - Contracts For Transporting Goods And Passengers
  Every canal company organized under this Title may make contracts with any person for transporting or conveying goods, freight and passengers in accordance with...
• Section 48:6-22 - Abandonment Of Feeder In Municipality; Bridges And Viaducts
  Whenever the governing body of a municipality in which a canal feeder or part thereof is located, and the board of directors of the...
• Section 48:6-23 - Canal Not Authorized In City
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed as authorizing the construction of any canal within the limits of an incorporated city.
• Section 48:6a-1 - Agents For Service Of Process; Filing Of Powers Of Attorney
  From and after the effective date of this act the Board of Public Utility Commissioners shall receive, file and preserve powers of attorney, appointing...
• Section 48:6a-2 - Public Records, Powers Of Attorney As
  Said powers of attorney, when received by the Board of Public Utility Commissioners, shall be public records open to the inspection of any interested...
• Section 48:7-1 - Erection Of Poles; Consent Of Property Owner; Designation Of Street
  Any company organized or to be organized pursuant to the laws of this State for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating works for...
• Section 48:7-1.1 - Street Light Outage Reporting Plan.
  1.Each electric public utility, as defined in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-51), shall, upon the direction of the Board of Public Utilities, prepare...
• Section 48:7-2 - Pipes And Conduits; Restrictions On Laying; Municipal Consent
  Any such company may lay pipes or conduits and wires therein beneath such public highways, streets and alleys as it may deem necessary. Such...
• Section 48:7-3.1 - Power To Condemn; Designation Of Streets And Highways; Location Of Posts, Towers, Etc.
  Every utility organized and existing for the purpose of supplying electricity for light, heat or power may exercise the power of eminent domain as...
• Section 48:7-5 - Determination Of Disputes As To Territories Served
  The board of public utility commissioners shall have power, after hearing, upon notice, to determine between public utilities supplying electric light, heat or power,...
• Section 48:7-6 - Construction, Reconstruction, Extensions And Contracts Validated
  L.1898, c. 197, p. 458 (C.S. p. 3153, s. 38), entitled "An act relating to the use of the public streets by electric light,...
• Section 48:7-14 - Approval Of Electrical Inspection Authorities By Board Of Public Utility Commissioners
  The Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the Department of Public Utilities shall approve all electrical inspection authorities for inspection of electrical construction work...
• Section 48:7-15 - Acceptance By Electrical Utilities Of Approved Electrical Inspection Agencies
  All electrical inspection agencies approved by the Public Utilities Commission shall be accepted by electrical utilities for electrical inspection work in the State of...
• Section 48:8-1 - Board Of Freeholders To Fix Rates; Clerk's Fee For Copies
  The board of freeholders, hereinafter in this article called the "board" , shall fix the rates to be taken at the several ferries within...
• Section 48:8-2 - Table Of Rates; Posting At Ferry
  The owner or keeper of every ferry shall erect and maintain, where the ferry is kept, a post with a table of the rates...
• Section 48:8-3 - Taking Excessive Fare; Penalty
  Any ferryman, keeper of a ferry or his servant who shall demand or take a greater fare than that fixed by the board shall...
• Section 48:8-4 - Proper Boats Adequately Equipped Required; Penalties
  The owner or keeper of every ferry shall provide proper boats or other vessels sufficient for the safe and speedy transportation of passengers, horses,...
• Section 48:8-5 - Refusal To Or Delay In Carrying Passengers Or Goods; Exception
  Every ferryman shall give constant and diligent attendance to his ferry, and shall not deny or unnecessarily delay the carrying over any passenger, horses,...
• Section 48:8-6 - Ejecting Persons From Ferryboats
  Every ferryman may exclude or eject from his ferryboat or other vessel any person who shall attempt to enter, or enter or stay therein...
• Section 48:8-7 - Persons Carried According To Arrival; Penalty
  All persons shall be received into the ferryboats or vessels and carried over the ferry according to their arrival at the ferry, provided all...
• Section 48:8-8 - Maintenance Of Safe Landing Places
  48:8-8. All owners or keepers of ferries shall construct and maintain safe places of landing, where they are needed, upon penalty of forfeiting such...
• Section 48:8-9 - Actions For Penalties
  The penalties imposed by this article, except section 48:8-8 of this title, shall be recoverable by action at law, with costs, by any person...
• Section 48:8-10 - Stopping Boat While Receiving And Discharging Passengers; Penalty; Liability For Injuries
  Every steamboat navigating waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall be stopped for at least one minute and as much longer as shall...
• Section 48:8-11 - Stopping Engine While Discharging Passengers Into Small Boats; Penalty
  No passenger on any steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall be put into any small boat for the purpose...
• Section 48:8-12 - Running Steamboats Against Each Other; Penalty; Damages
  When two steamboats are moving in the same direction in waters within the jurisdiction of this state, neither shall be willfully so navigated as...
• Section 48:8-13 - Deviating From Course To Impede Boat Passing In Same Direction; Penalty; Damages
  When a steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall attempt to pass another boat going in the same direction, the...
• Section 48:8-14 - Steamboats Passing Nearer Than Ten Yards; Penalty
  Neither of two steamboats meeting each other while going in opposite directions upon the waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall be so...
• Section 48:8-15 - Lights On Steamboats Navigated At Night; Penalty; Damages
  Every steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this state at night shall show a good and sufficient light near her bows and...
• Section 48:8-16 - Law Posted In Cabin Of Steamboats; Penalty
  The owner or master of every steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall keep a copy of this article posted...
• Section 48:8-17 - Actions For Penalties; Process
  48:8-17. The penalties imposed by this article shall be recoverable by action at law, with costs, in any court having cognizance thereof, by any...
• Section 48:9-5 - Exclusive Franchises; General Laws Applicable
  No exclusive privilege granted prior to April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, in the charter of any company to construct and operate...
• Section 48:9-17 - Powers Of Gas Company; Consent To Laying Of Conductors
  Every gas company heretofore organized under this chapter or hereafter organized under Title 14, Corporations, General, of the Revised Statutes may manufacture, sell, furnish...
• Section 48:9-18 - Companies May Mortgage Property And Franchises
  Any company organized under this chapter may mortgage any or all of its property, real or personal, including franchises, when necessary to enable it...
• Section 48:9-19 - Increasing Bonded Indebtedness
  Any gas company incorporated under the laws of this state, which by the terms of its charter is restricted as to the amount of...
• Section 48:9-21 - Manner Of Laying Pipes
  Every gas company organized under the laws of this State shall lay its main or distributing gas pipes at the greatest practicable distance from...
• Section 48:9-23 - Extension Of Main Pipes To Neighboring Municipality
  Any gas company now existing, whether by special charter or by organization under an act entitled "An act to authorize the formation of gas...
• Section 48:9-24 - Piping Gas To Other Municipalities
  Any corporation of this state, having lawful authority to lay or maintain gas pipes or mains in the streets and public places of a...
• Section 48:9-24.1 - Condemnation; Authority; Purposes
  Any gas utility which is empowered to manufacture and sell gas of any type or mixture of gas of various types suitable for light,...
• Section 48:9-25.1 - Approval By Board Of Public Utility Commissioners Of Character Or Heating Quality Of Gas Or Of Change Therein Required
  No gas company subject to regulation by the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of this State shall change the character or heating quality of...
• Section 48:9-25.2 - Corporations Manufacturing Gas May Distribute Natural Gas
  Any corporation now or hereafter organized or existing under any law of this State, which is empowered to manufacture and sell gas of any...
• Section 48:9-25.3 - Powers Granted By Act Are Additional Powers
  The rights, powers and privileges conferred by this act shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, or in derogation of, whatever...
• Section 48:9-25.4 - Distribution Of Natural Gas; Designation Of Route
  Any gas company organized under the laws of this State in addition to but not in limitation of the powers conferred by the laws...
• Section 48:9-25.8 - Franchise, Consents, Permits And Rights Related To Maintenance And Operation Of Gas Properties And Facilities May Also Be Acquired
  Any corporation now or hereafter organized and existing under any law of this State, which is empowered to manufacture or sell gas of any...
• Section 48:9-25.9 - Rights Of Corporation To Which Sale, Transfer, Conveyance And Assignment Has Been Made
  The corporation to whom such sale, transfer, conveyance and assignment has been made, shall, thereupon, have and possess all the rights, powers, and privileges...
• Section 48:9-26 - Companies Which May Extend Their Corporate Existence
  Any company incorporated under the laws of this state prior to April eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and engaged in supplying gas...
• Section 48:9-27 - Certificate; Filing; Contents
  Such extension shall be made by filing with the secretary of state a certificate signed by the president and secretary under the corporate seal,...
• Section 48:9-28 - Affidavit Of Doing Business
  There shall be filed with the certificate and assent an affidavit by the president and secretary that the company is at the time actually...
• Section 48:9-29 - Privileges Conferred By Extension
  Upon making and filing the certificate, and paying the same fee imposed upon other companies for certificates of incorporation, the period of existence of...
• Section 48:9-30 - No Exclusive Privileges; General Laws Applicable
  Nothing contained in this article shall invest such company with any exclusive privileges, or exempt it from the operation of any general laws passed...
• Section 48:9-31 - Rights Of State Preserved
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to interfere with the right of the state reserved by any law to acquire the property...
• Section 48:9-32 - Taxes According To General Laws
  Every company whose corporate existence is extended, renewed and continued as authorized by this article shall be assessed for taxes in accordance with the...
• Section 48:9-33 - Penalties For Violation Of Natural Gas Pipelines Safety.
  1. a. Any person who is determined by the Board of Public Utilities, after notice and opportunity to be heard, to have violated the...
• Section 48:10-1 - Power To Condemn; State Water Policy Commission Unaffected
  Pipe line companies, associations and corporations may acquire by condemnation land and other property necessary for public use for right of way in the...
• Section 48:10-1.1 - Power To Condemn; Department Of Conservation And Economic Development Unaffected
  Pipe line utilities may exercise the power of eminent domain as provided in sections 48 and 49 hereof in taking land and other property...
• Section 48:10-2 - Title
  The short title of this act shall be the Natural Gas Safety Act. L.1952, c. 166, p. 540, s. 1, eff. May 9, 1952.
• Section 48:10-3 - Definitions
  (a) "Board" shall mean the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of New Jersey. (b) "Natural gas pipeline utility" shall mean any individual, co-partnership, association,...
• Section 48:10-4 - Supervision And Regulation
  The board shall have general supervision and regulation of, and jurisdiction and control over natural gas pipeline utilities as herein defined and their property,...
• Section 48:10-5 - Board To Prescribe Rules, Regulations; Promulgate Orders
  The board, after hearing, upon notice, may prescribe reasonable rules and regulations for the safe construction, operation and maintenance by natural gas pipeline utilities...
• Section 48:10-6 - Factors To Be Considered
  In determining reasonable rules and regulations, the board shall consider, among others, such factors as the economic necessity and desirability of natural gas service,...
• Section 48:10-7 - General Powers
  In carrying out the provisions of this act, the board shall have all powers now vested in it by Title 48 of the Revised...
• Section 48:10-8 - Enforcement Of Orders
  Enforcement of orders of the board duly promulgated under this act shall be as provided in Title 48 of the Revised Statutes. L.1952, c....
• Section 48:10-9 - Separability Of Provisions
  If any provision of this act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the...
• Section 48:10-10 - Report Of Specifications For Natural Gas Pipeline Subject To Pressure Of Over 125 Pounds Per Square Inch; Filing Of Maps; Objections
  At least 30 days prior to the construction or major reconstruction of any gas pipeline intended to be subjected to pressure in excess of...
• Section 48:10-11 - Penalties.
  1.Any person who violates any provision of the Natural Gas Safety Act, P.L.1952, c.166 (C.48:10-2 et seq.) as amended and supplemented or any order,...
• Section 48:12-1 - Application Of Chapter
  The provisions of this chapter, except as otherwise herein restricted or unless the contrary appears from the context, shall apply to all railroad companies...
• Section 48:12-2 - Exclusive Franchises; Railroads Subject To General Laws
  No franchise granted prior to July 4, 1903, to construct a railroad or build or establish bridges or ferries or operate any line of...
• Section 48:12-3 - Certified Copies Of Certificates, Surveys And Documents As Evidence
  A certified copy of a certificate, survey or other document filed or recorded in the office of the secretary of state pursuant to this...
• Section 48:12-4 - Time For Discharging Duty Or Exercising Privilege; Effect Of Restraint By Court
  When a railroad company is restrained by any court from the discharge of a duty imposed upon it or the exercise of a privilege...
• Section 48:12-13 - General Powers, Restrictions And Liabilities; Governed By Title 14
  Every railroad company shall have the general powers conferred by Title 14, Corporations, Generally, of the Revised Statutes and the supplements thereto and shall...
• Section 48:12-14 - Purchase And Sale Of Capital Stock, Securities And Franchises Of Other Corporations
  Every railroad company, in addition to the powers conferred by its charter or by any act or certificate under which it is or shall...
• Section 48:12-15 - Sale Or Exchange By Railroad Company Of Its Property And Franchises; Procedure
  Every railroad company may, by action taken at any meeting of its board of directors, sell or exchange all or substantially all of its...
• Section 48:12-16 - Change Of Name; Extension Of Corporate Existence; Change In Amount And Classes Of Stock
  Every railroad company may, by certificate and proceeding in the manner prescribed by sections 14:11-1 to 14:11-5 of the title Corporations, General: a. Change...
• Section 48:12-17 - Voting By Bondholders
  The stockholders of any railroad company may, by agreement expressed in the certificate of incorporation, or in a supplementary certificate executed and acknowledged by...
• Section 48:12-18 - Borrowing Money; Bonds; Mortgages; Usury As Defense; Penalty
  Every railroad company may borrow such sums of money from time to time as shall be necessary to construct, improve, extend and repair its...
• Section 48:12-19 - Motive Power; Condemnation
  Any railroad company authorized to use steam as a motive power may use any motive power it deems best adapted to the economical operation...
• Section 48:12-20 - Construction And Use Of Tracks Across Streets And Highways By Certain Companies
  Any railroad corporation chartered by or authorized to exercise its franchises within this state, which, on March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine,...
• Section 48:12-21 - Operation Of Ferry As Part Of Railroad System
  Where the terminus of a railroad company is on the shore of a river or navigable water of this state, the company may establish...
• Section 48:12-22 - Purchasing Or Hiring Vessels, Wharves And Landings
  Any railroad company, whenever a majority of the directors thereof shall so decide, may purchase or hire any vessels or barges and any wharves,...
• Section 48:12-23 - Foreign Railroads In This State; Rights And Liabilities
  Any railroad company created by the laws of any other state and authorized by the laws of this state to hold property and exercise...
• Section 48:12-23.1 - Improvement And Use Of Real Estate Not Required Or Used For Railroad Purposes
  Whenever any railroad owns in fee real estate susceptible of other than railroad uses without abandonment of such railroad uses, or real estate, different...
• Section 48:12-24 - Filing Surveys Of Routes Of Main Line And Branches
  When the route of a railroad company shall have been determined, a survey of the route and location, particularly describing the same, shall be...
• Section 48:12-25 - Deposit With Treasurer Prerequisite To Filing Survey Of Branch
  The survey of the route of any branch shall not be filed in the office of the secretary of state until the company shall...
• Section 48:12-26 - Recording Surveys Of Main Lines And Branches; Fees
  The secretary of state shall record in a book kept for that purpose all descriptions of the surveys of the main lines or branches...
• Section 48:12-27 - Right Of Way; Width
  The right of way of any railroad or of any branch thereof shall not exceed two hundred feet in width unless more land is...
• Section 48:12-28 - Entry On Lands And Construction Of Road; Payment Or Tender Of Damages
  When the survey of its route has been filed in the office of the secretary of state, every railroad company, upon payment or tender...
• Section 48:12-29 - Time For Commencement And Completion Of Road
  Every railroad company shall commerce its proposed railroad within six months from the date of its organization. Where the road is not more than...
• Section 48:12-30 - Failure To Timely Commence Or Complete Road; Priority Of Location
  Any railroad company organized under the laws of this State which shall fail to comply with the provisions of section 48:12-29 of this Title...
• Section 48:12-31 - Extension Of Time For Completing Road
  L.1937, c. 13, p. 27, entitled "An act for extending the time for completing certain railroads," approved March eleventh, one thousand nine hundred and...
• Section 48:12-32 - Branch Lines To Mills, Factories And Mines; Municipal Consent
  Any railroad company may lay out, construct, or may acquire, lease or purchase any branch line or lines of railroad not exceeding two miles...
• Section 48:12-32.1 - Branch Lines, Spurs Or Side Tracks To Horse Race Meeting Premises; Deposit With State Treasurer; Municipal Consent
  Any railroad company may lay out, construct, acquire, lease, contract in respect to, or purchase any branch line or lines, spur or side track...
• Section 48:12-33 - Connecting Roads By Branches
  Whenever the roads of any railroad companies shall intersect or cross or approach each other within a distance of one mile, either company may...
• Section 48:12-34 - Connection Between Railroad And Street Railway
  Any railroad company and any street railway company whose lines intersect may make a physical connection of their tracks to enable the cars of...
• Section 48:12-35.1 - Authority And Extent Of Condemnation.
  60.Any railroad utility incorporated in this State or in any other state and operating in New Jersey may exercise the power of eminent domain...
• Section 48:12-36 - Crossing Another Railroad; Required Grade Angle
  No railroad company shall cross another railroad at grade at a less angle than 20 degrees, but a railroad may be located upon the...
• Section 48:12-37 - Relocating Route Before Construction
  Any portion of the route of a railroad company may be relocated before construction and after filing of the original survey, by filing and...
• Section 48:12-38 - Change Of Location Of Route To Avoid Physical Obstacles
  Any railroad company may change the location of a part of its route for any section not exceeding one mile in length by filing...
• Section 48:12-39 - Straightening, Shortening Or Improving Road; Condemning Land
  Any railroad company may straighten, shorten or improve its road or connect points thereon by shorter lines or branches upon filing and recording a...
• Section 48:12-40 - Abandonment Of Part Of Line; Repaying Of Deposit; New Survey
  Any railroad company prior to the operation of any trains may abandon any part of its line before the same shall have been wholly...
• Section 48:12-40.1 - Cautionary Boards Not Connected With Automatic Block Signal System
  Every railroad company operating freight or passenger trains or engines or cars in this State, over or upon any tracks, or on any bridges...
• Section 48:12-40.2 - Violations
  Any violation of this act by any railroad company shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than...
• Section 48:12-41 - Construction And Maintenance; Draws; Land Under Water Belonging To State
  Any railroad company may build and maintain over such streams as its roads may cross, such piers and bridges as it may deem expedient,...
• Section 48:12-42 - Draws; Lights And Attendants; Penalty For Neglect
  When such river, stream or bay is navigable, the company shall, for the safety of persons navigating the same, maintain a red light at...
• Section 48:12-43 - Bridge Over Shallow Tidal Waters; Necessity Of Draw; Determination Of Department Of Conservation And Economic Development
  Where a railroad is constructed across a stream where the tide ebbs and flows and by reason of the narrowness of the stream or...
• Section 48:12-44 - Bridges Over Delaware River; Condemnation; Taking Lands Of State
  Where the line of any railroad company of this State is constructed to the Delaware river, such company may extend such line, with as...
• Section 48:12-45 - Tunnel Under Interstate Waters; Manner Of Constructing; Changing Sewers
  Any railroad company organized under the laws of this State whose route lies in part under the bed of waters of an interstate river...
• Section 48:12-46 - Duty To Erect And Maintain; Liability
  Every railroad company shall erect and maintain fences on the sides of its road of the height and strength of division fences required by...
• Section 48:12-47 - Penalty For Driving Animals On Tracks
  Any person who shall ride, lead or drive any cattle, horses or other animals upon any railroad protected by fences and guards as required...
• Section 48:12-48 - Speed Of Trains Through Cities Where Fence, Embankment Or Cut Is Maintained
  Where any railroad company in any city shall maintain along its roadway where the same adjoins a public highway, a fence or embankment four...
• Section 48:12-49 - Bridges And Passages At Street And Road Crossings; Private Ways And Cattle Guards
  Every railroad company owning, leasing or controlling any right of way for a railroad within this state shall construct and keep in repair good...
• Section 48:12-49.1 - Construction Of Bridges Or Passages; Installation Of Protective Devices; Division Of Expenses
  The railroad company or companies involved shall pay 15% and the Department of Transportation, out of funds to be provided for that purpose, shall...
• Section 48:12-50 - Piers To Support Bridges Over Streets Or Highways
  Where a railroad is constructed above the grade of any street or highway in any city or town by a bridge the company may...
• Section 48:12-51 - Highways Over Or Under Railroad; Condemnation Of Lands For Embankment Or Cutting
  When the tracks of a railroad company shall cross a highway, such highway may be carried under or over the tracks as may be...
• Section 48:12-52 - Failure To Construct And Maintain Bridges And Crossings; Procedure By County Or Municipality
  When a railroad company shall not properly construct and maintain the bridges or other crossings which cross, or are crossed by, highways, whenever the...
• Section 48:12-53 - Construction Of Tracks Along City Streets; Elevated Roads; Contracts
  The municipal authorities of any city except a city of the first class may permit any railroad company to lay and construct its tracks...
• Section 48:12-54 - Protections At Grade Crossings; Group Signals
  Every company operating on a fixed track or tracks, freight or passenger trains or cars, shall provide protection to pedestrians and the traveling public...
• Section 48:12-55 - Compelling Proper Protection Of Grade Crossing
  The Board of Public Utility Commissioners, upon its own initiative or upon the application of any municipality or citizen dissatisfied with the protection provided...
• Section 48:12-56 - Enforcement; Penalty; Construction
  The provisions of sections 48:12-54 and 48:12-55 of this title shall be enforced by the board of public utility commissioners in the manner provided...
• Section 48:12-57 - Safety Measure For Locomotives; Penalties; "Supplementary Safety Measure" Defined; Limitations.
  48:12-57. a. Every railroad company shall place on each engine a bell weighing not less than 30 pounds which shall be rung continuously in...
• Section 48:12-57.1 - Pilot Demonstration Program For Supplementary Safety Measures.
  2.The Commissioner of Transportation may immediately proceed with a pilot demonstration program implementing the use of potential supplementary safety measures, in anticipation of the...
• Section 48:12-58 - Warning Signs At Grade Crossings
  Every railroad company shall install and maintain at each highway crossing at grade a conspicuous sign with such inscription and of such standard and...
• Section 48:12-58.1 - Abandonment Of Line And Grade Crossings; Notice; Substitution Of Abandoned Grade Crossing Sign For Warning Sign
  Whenever a railroad company has discontinued or discontinues all traffic on any line or part thereof, and has abandoned or abandons the use of...
• Section 48:12-59 - Protection Of Electrified Third Rail At Grade Crossings
  Any company operating a railroad in this state on which the cars are operated by electric current by means of a third rail at...
• Section 48:12-60 - Failure To Protect Electrified Third Rail; Penalty; Negligence Per Se
  Any company violating section 48:12-59 of this title shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars and costs for each offense, to...
• Section 48:12-61 - Authority Of Board Of Public Utility Commissioners; Manner Of Elimination
  Whenever a public highway, other than a state highway and the tracks of a railroad, or of more than one railroad whose rights of...
• Section 48:12-62 - Division Of Expenses
  The railroad company or companies involved shall pay 15% and the board, out of funds to be provided for that purpose, shall pay 85%...
• Section 48:12-63 - Expense Of Change In Or Removal Of Public Utility Property Or Facilities; Hearing
  Where the order of the board shall require changes in or the removal of the property or facilities of any other public utility, the...
• Section 48:12-64 - Petition For Removal Of Grade Crossing; Hearing; Notice; Determination
  Any railroad company or companies whose tracks cross or are crossed at grade by a public highway, or the body having charge of the...
• Section 48:12-65 - Notice Of Hearing; Publication; Contents
  The notice of time and place of hearing required by section 48:12-64 of this Title may, except as to the municipality or county and...
• Section 48:12-66 - Powers Vested In Board Of Public Utility Commissioners And Courts
  All the powers, supervision, regulation of, jurisdiction and control over public utilities granted by chapter 2 of this title (s. 48:2-1 et seq.) are...
• Section 48:12-67 - Changes Or Alterations Ordered Prior To April 14, 1930
  Sections 48:12-61 to 48:12-66 of this title shall apply to any alterations, changes, relocations or openings ordered by the board of public utility commissioners...
• Section 48:12-67.1 - Application Of Sections 48:12-61 To 48:12-66
  Sections 48:12-61 to 48:12-66 of the Revised Statutes shall apply to all alterations, reconstructions, changes, relocations or openings ordered by the Board of Public...
• Section 48:12-68 - Annual Program By State Highway Department; Maximum Yearly Expenditure
  The State Highway Department, before January 1 of each year, shall formulate a program, covering the work to be started or completed during the...
• Section 48:12-69 - Railroad Companies To Be Furnished Annual Program; Co-operation Required
  The State Highway Department shall furnish the annual program to every company owning or operating a railroad which is called upon to perform work...
• Section 48:12-70 - Division Of Cost Between Railroads And Highway Department
  The cost of the work to be shared by railroad companies and the State Highway Department provided for in any annual program, exclusive of...
• Section 48:12-71 - Agreement For Division Of Cost
  The State Highway Department and any railroad company or companies may enter into an agreement on the basis of the division of the cost,...
• Section 48:12-72 - Expense Of Certain Crossings Not At Grade
  The State Highway Department shall bear the entire expense of locating and constructing all crossings of railroads and State highways not at grade to...
• Section 48:12-73 - Agreements With Railroad Companies To Perform The Work
  The State Highway Department may enter into an agreement or agreements with the company or companies owning or operating such railroad or railroads for...
• Section 48:12-74 - Furnishing Annual Program To Municipalities And Public Utilities; Changes At Own Expense
  Whenever the work in the annual program involves changes in rails, pipes or lines owned by a municipality or public utility, the State Highway...
• Section 48:12-75 - Maintenance And Repair Of Completed Work
  Completed work under sections 48:12-68 to 48:12-78 of this Title shall be maintained, repaired and renewed as follows: a. The municipality or public utility...
• Section 48:12-76 - Closing, Abandoning Or Combining Crossings
  In connection with the elimination of any crossing at grade, the improvement, relocation, alteration or reconstruction of any crossing not at grade, or the...
• Section 48:12-77 - Sharing Of Expense Of Closing, Abandoning Or Combining Highway Or Crossing
  Where the total cost of work is to be borne by the State, the expense of closing, abandoning or combining any existing road or...
• Section 48:12-78 - Determination Of Disputes
  Any dispute arising under sections 48:12-68 to 48:12-77 of this title may be submitted to the board of public utility commissioners, which is hereby...
• Section 48:12-79 - Contracts Between Municipalities And Railroads; Condemnation; Division Of Expenses
  The proper municipal authorities in any municipality may enter into such contracts with any railroad company whose road lies wholly or partially within the...
• Section 48:12-80 - Taxes Or Bonds By Municipalities To Pay Their Share Of Expenses
  Whenever the proper municipal authorities of a municipality shall enter into a contract with a railroad company pursuant to section 48:12-79 of this title,...
• Section 48:12-81 - Contracts Between County And Railroad For Elimination Of Grade Crossings; Street Railways
  Where a public road maintained at county expense or controlled by the county is intersected by a railroad, the board of chosen freeholders of...
• Section 48:12-82 - Contributory Negligence At Crossings Having Safety Gates Jury Question
  Whenever a person is killed or injured by a locomotive or train while attempting to cross the tracks at a crossing at which the...
• Section 48:12-83 - Crossing Not Having Protective Device; Contributory Negligence Jury Question
  In any action against a railroad company to recover damages for injury or death occurring at any crossing at which the company has not...
• Section 48:12-84 - Traveler's Right To Assume Proper Operation Of Safety Devices At Grade Crossing
  Whenever a railroad shall install any safety gates, bell or other device designed to protect the traveling public at any crossing, or has placed...
• Section 48:12-85 - Spark Arresters On Engines; Penalty
  Every company or person operating or using any railroad shall take and use all practicable means to prevent the communication of fire from any...
• Section 48:12-86 - Liability For Damage By Fire From Sparks
  When injury is done to property by fire communicated from an engine of any company or person in violation of section 48:12-85 of this...
• Section 48:12-87 - Insurance By Railroad Of Property Exposed To Fire From Sparks
  Any railroad company may insure the property of any owner or occupant of land adjacent or near to its railroad and exposed to loss...
• Section 48:12-87.1 - Diesel Locomotives; Ventilation Of Cab; Penalty For Violation
  Every company operating a railroad in this State shall equip each diesel locomotive in use upon its railroad with an exhaust fan for the...
• Section 48:12-87.2 - General Requirements
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, corporation, trustee or receiver operating a railroad as a common carrier for hire in whole...
• Section 48:12-87.3 - Exception
  This act shall not apply to cabooses or other equivalent cars used in switching service or on trains operated wholly within 25 miles of...
• Section 48:12-87.4 - Administration And Enforcement; Penalty
  It shall be the duty of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners to administer and enforce the provisions of this act. Any person or...
• Section 48:12-87.5 - Partial Invalidity
  If any part or provision of this act shall be held invalid the remainder of this act shall not be affected thereby. L.1967, c....
• Section 48:12-88 - Requiring Safe Ingress And Egress To Railroad Station
  Whenever it shall appear to the board of public utility commissioners that ingress or egress to or from a railroad station is obstructed by...
• Section 48:12-89 - Inclosures Around Stations
  Any railroad company may erect a fence or other inclosure around its stations so as to prevent persons other than passengers from coming near...
• Section 48:12-90 - Abandonment Of Station Or Discontinuance Of Passenger Or Freight Agent
  No railroad company shall, without first obtaining the approval of the board of public utility commissioners, abandon any railroad station, stop the sale of...
• Section 48:12-90.1 - Electric Headlight And Tail Light
  Every track motor car being operated on the rails of a railroad company, when such visability cannot be afforded by daylight, shall be equipped...
• Section 48:12-90.2 - Windshield And Device For Removing Moisture; Top
  Every track motor car being operated on the rails of a railroad company shall be equipped with a windshield and a device for removing...
• Section 48:12-90.3 - Administration Of Act; Rules And Regulations
  The Board of Public Utility Commissioners shall administer this act and shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate its...
• Section 48:12-90.4 - Violation Of Act; Penalty
  Any company violating any of the provisions of this act shall be subject to a penalty of $100.00, for each offense, to be recovered...
• Section 48:12-91 - Consent Of Municipality And Approval Of Public Utility Commissioners
  Any railroad company organized under any law of this state may construct and maintain, for a distance of not more than one-half a mile...
• Section 48:12-92.1 - Condemnation
  Any railroad utility meeting the requirements of section 48:12-91 and after obtaining the consent and approval required by said section, may exercise the power...
• Section 48:12-93 - Stocks And Bonds; Mortgages; Approval
  Any company owning or constructing a subsurface railroad and station or stations pursuant to section 48:12-91 of this title may provide the money to...
• Section 48:12-95.1 - Condemnation Of Right-of-way
  The right-of-way condemned for a railroad beneath the surface of the ground by an underground railroad utility shall not include the right to use...
• Section 48:12-96 - Operation Authorized
  Any railroad company operating under this chapter may acquire, own and operate autobusses and autotrucks for the transportation of passengers, freight, mail and other...
• Section 48:12-97 - Prerequisites To Operation Of Autobusses
  Every such company before operating any such autobus shall obtain, as required by law, the consent of the authorities of the municipality in or...
• Section 48:12-98 - Franchise Taxes; Exemption From Other Taxes
  Every such company shall pay the same franchise taxes upon gross receipts from the operation of autobusses as other owners and operators of autobusses,...
• Section 48:12-99 - Train Service; Accommodations For Transportation; Civil Liability
  Every railroad company shall start and run trains for the transportation of persons and property at regular times to be fixed by public notice....
• Section 48:12-100 - Right To Demand And Receive Fares
  A railroad company may demand and receive such sums of money for the transportation of persons on its railroad and connections and for any...
• Section 48:12-101 - Tickets; Length Of Validity
  Tickets for passengers, except excursion tickets or tickets sold at reduced rates, should be good for 6 months. Tickets sold at reduced rates shall...
• Section 48:12-103 - Extra Fare For Parlor And Sleeping Cars
  Any railroad company may, subject to the approval of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners, collect such extra fare from passengers who travel in...
• Section 48:12-104 - Ejection Of Passenger For Nonpayment Of Fare
  If any passenger shall fail or refuse to pay his fare, the conductor of the train and the servants of the company, using no...
• Section 48:12-105 - Reduced Rates For Ministers And Members Of Religious Orders
  Any railroad company may transport at special or reduced rates, ministers of religion and sisters or nuns who may be members of any religious...
• Section 48:12-106 - Liability For Injuries To Passenger On Platform
  A railroad company shall not be liable for injury to a passenger by reason of his going or remaining on the platform of a...
• Section 48:12-107 - Baggage Checks; Penalty For Refusal
  A check shall be affixed to every parcel of baggage taken for transportation by a railroad company if there is a handle, loop or...
• Section 48:12-108 - Transportation Of Bicycles As Baggage; Penalty For Refusal
  The holder of a ticket issued by any railroad company entitling him to transportation on its railroad or ferries as a passenger shall have...
• Section 48:12-109 - State Officials And Employees Entitled To Free Transportation
  The following persons, during their respective terms of office or employment, shall pass and repass, free of charge, in regular coach service, over all...
• Section 48:12-110 - Issuance Of Certificates; Contents; List To Railroads; Revocation
  The Secretary of State shall issue a certificate in card form under his seal of office to each person designated in section 48:12-109 of...
• Section 48:12-111 - Production Of Certificate On Request
  Such certificate shall be produced and shown on request of the conductor or person in charge of the train on which such person is...
• Section 48:12-112 - Loaning Certificate; Illegal Use Of Certificate; Penalty
  Any person mentioned in section 48:12-109 of this title loaning such certificate shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars and costs,...
• Section 48:12-113 - Certificates Taken Up For Misuse; Restoration Or Cancellation
  The railroads over whose line such certificates are used may, through their agents, take up any certificate presented by any person other than the...
• Section 48:12-114 - Return Of Certificate At Expiration Of Office Or Employment
  When the term of office or period of employment of any person mentioned in section 48:12-109 of this title expires, he shall return at...
• Section 48:12-115 - Existing Charter Or Statute Obligation Of Railroads Not Affected
  Nothing in sections 48:12-109 to 48:12-114 of this title shall modify or alter any charter or statute obligation already existing imposed upon any railroad...
• Section 48:12-116 - Free Transportation To Municipal Police And County Detectives
  Any railroad company may issue free transportation to the chiefs and captains of police of the municipalities of this state and to county detectives....
• Section 48:12-117 - Freight Charges
  Any railroad company may demand and receive such sums of money for the transportation of property on its railroad and connections and for any...
• Section 48:12-118 - Rates For Way Freight
  Except as authorized by section 48:12-118.1 of this title, no company shall charge or receive any greater rate of compensation for transporting property between...
• Section 48:12-118.1 - Greater Rate For Way Freight; Lesser Rate For Long Hauls; Board May Authorize; Restrictions
  The board of public utility commissioners may, upon application, after investigation and hearing, authorize in writing any railroad company to charge or receive a...
• Section 48:12-119 - Exchange Of Freight; Transportation And Rate
  All companies whose railroads cross, intersect or join shall deliver to and receive from each other and forward to their destination all property intended...
• Section 48:12-120 - Mail; Rate And Terms Of Carrying; Commission To Determine
  Upon application to it by the postmaster general any railroad company shall convey the mails of the United States. If such company shall not...
• Section 48:12-121 - Rates For Express Matter And Fragile Property; Agreement Between Railroad And Express Companies
  Any railroad company may charge in accordance with the approved tariff on file with the Board of Public Utility Commissioners for the transportation of...
• Section 48:12-122 - Responsibility For Freight Not Delivered At Station
  When any freight has been carried on a railroad and delivered by the company to any point specified by the consignor other than a...
• Section 48:12-123 - Charges For Demurrage Or Car Service
  Where the consignee of property transported by railroad to a point in this state cannot be found or refuses to receive and pay charges...
• Section 48:12-124 - Lien For Demurrage; Bond For Delivery Of Property Where Claim Disputed
  The company referred to in section 48:12-123 of this title shall have a lien upon the property or so much thereof as has not...
• Section 48:12-125 - Limitation Of Liability; Notice
  Any railroad company may, subject to the provisions of section 12A:7-309 of the New Jersey Statutes, by giving notice to a person offering goods,...
• Section 48:12-125.1 - Railroad Rights Of Way; Acquisition; Abandonment; Sale, Conveyance.
  1. a. In order to permit the State and its political subdivisions to receive notice of, and be afforded an opportunity to acquire, by...
• Section 48:12-125.2 - Contents Of Notice
  Each notice, required to be served pursuant to this act, shall contain a brief description sufficient to identify the right of way intended to...
• Section 48:12-125.3 - Service Of Notice
  Service of the said notice shall be made by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the Governor in cases of service upon the...
• Section 48:12-126 - Lease, Consolidation Or Merger Authorized; Rates
  Any railroad company of this State, or any railroad company not a corporation of this State authorized by law to own or operate any...
• Section 48:12-127 - Filing Agreement Of Waiver; Approval Of Board Of Public Utility Commissioners
  No such lease, union, consolidation or merger shall take effect until the parties thereto file in the office of the Secretary of State an...
• Section 48:12-128 - Joint Agreement For Consolidation Or Merger; Contents
  The directors of the several companies parties to the proposed consolidation or merger may enter into a joint agreement under seal for their consolidation...
• Section 48:12-129 - Submission Of Agreement To Stockholders
  Every agreement of consolidation or merger authorized by this chapter shall be submitted to the stockholders of each of the companies parties to such...
• Section 48:12-130 - Filing And Recording Of Agreement; Record Or Copy As Evidence
  The agreement of consolidation, merger or lease so adopted, with the certificates of adoption thereon, shall be filed and recorded in the office of...
• Section 48:12-131 - Effect Of Consolidation Or Merger; Rights, Duties And Liabilities Of New Or Acquiring Company; Acquisition Of Land
  The several parties to any such agreement of consolidation or merger shall, from the time of the recording thereof in the office of the...
• Section 48:12-132 - Stockholders Dissenting From Consolidation, Merger Or Lease; Procedure
  Any stockholder of any company of this State who shall refuse to convert his stock into the stock or securities of the consolidated or...
• Section 48:12-133 - Issuance Of Stock And Exchange Or Sale Of Stock And Bonds By Consolidated Company
  Any railroad company of this State, formed by consolidation of two or more railroad companies under this article or the acquiring and surviving company...
• Section 48:12-134 - Borrowing Money; Bonds Secured By Mortgage
  In all cases of merger or consolidation under this article, the consolidated or acquiring company may borrow an amount of money, sufficient to cover...
• Section 48:12-135 - Lessor Company May Borrow Money And Issue Bonds Secured By Mortgage
  Any railroad company authorized to lease its railroad may, in addition to its then existing power to borrow money and issue bonds secured by...
• Section 48:12-136 - Filing Of Survey And Maps Of Lines; Relocation Of Routes
  When railroad companies have consolidated or merged their corporate franchises and property as provided in this article, the new company so created in the...
• Section 48:12-137 - State Treasurer To Repay Deposit In Certain Cases
  When any railroad company organized under the laws of this State shall, by agreement of lease, merger or consolidation, become possessed of a line...
• Section 48:12-138 - Sale Or Lease; Title Vested In Purchaser Or Lessee
  When a sale is made of a railroad in this State under execution or by force of a decree or judgment in foreclosure or...
• Section 48:12-139 - Acceptance Of Former Charter Or Organization Of New Company
  The purchaser or lessee and his associates or assigns not less than 3 in number, may within 18 months after the sale or lease,...
• Section 48:12-140 - New Company May Issue Bonds And Stock; Settling Debts Of Former Company
  When a new railroad company is organized to purchase and operate the railroad and franchises of any railroad company of this state sold on...
• Section 48:12-141 - Foreclosure Sale Of Railroad Of Another State With Part Of Route In This State
  Where suit is brought to foreclose a mortgage of the railroad and franchises of any railroad company of another State, any part of whose...
• Section 48:12-142 - Procedure To Acquire Property And Franchise Within State; Transfer Of Property To New Company
  Where a new railroad company is formed in the State of the domicile of such former company by or on behalf of the purchasers,...
• Section 48:12-143 - Purchase By Another Railroad Company Of Railroad And Franchises Sold By Court Order
  When the railroad and franchises of a railroad company of this state, or any part thereof are sold by virtue of a decree, order...
• Section 48:12-144 - Foreclosure Sale In Another State Of Foreign Railroad Operating Road Within This State
  L.1898, c. 11, p. 23 (C.S. pp. 4264, 4265, s.s. 110 to 113), entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act to authorize...
• Section 48:12-145 - Failure To Run Daily Trains; Receiver; Exceptions
  If a railroad company shall fail or neglect to run daily trains on any part of its road for a space of 10 days...
• Section 48:12-146 - Operation Of Insolvent Railroad By Receiver; Expenses
  When a railroad company in this State shall become insolvent and its property shall have passed into the hands of a receiver by order...
• Section 48:12-147 - Sale Or Lease Of Railroad By Receiver
  The receiver, appointed by the Superior Court, of an insolvent railroad company of this State, or of another State holding railroad franchises and property...
• Section 48:12-148 - Lease Of Railroad By Trustee Or Receiver; Conditions
  No lease of a railroad shall be made by a trustee or receiver appointed by the Superior Court except upon a rental and adequate...
• Section 48:12-149 - Return To Receiver Of Insolvent Railroad Money Deposited With State Treasurer
  When the Superior Court or a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudged a railroad company to be insolvent and appointed a receiver to wind...
• Section 48:12-150 - Dissolution; Procedure; Repayment Of Deposit With State Treasurer
  When the holders of a majority of the capital stock of a railroad company which has no bonded indebtedness and does not receive for...
• Section 48:12-151 - Limitation Of Certain Actions.
  48:12-151. All actions accruing from injuries to persons caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of any railroad company owning or operating any...
• Section 48:12-152 - Trespassing On Property Prohibited; Recovery Barred In Certain Cases.
  48:12-152. a. No person other than those connected with or employed upon the railroad who are acting within the scope of their employment shall...
• Section 48:12-153 - Liability Of Railroad For Amount Due Laborer By Contractor
  Any laborer employed by a contractor for the construction of any part of a railroad may give notice to the company of any indebtedness...
• Section 48:12-154 - Badges For Passenger Train And Station Employees
  Every conductor, brakeman, engineer, baggage-master or other servant of a railroad company employed on a passenger train or at a station for passengers, shall...
• Section 48:12-155 - Number In Train Crews
  The board of public utility commissioners, upon its own initiative or upon complaint in writing, may by order in writing after hearing on notice...
• Section 48:12-156 - Selling Articles On Train Without License
  Any conductor, servant or agent of a railroad company may eject from any train and station of the company, using no unnecessary violence, any...
• Section 48:12-157 - Unauthorized Exercise Of Franchise; Penalty
  Any company or person exercising or attempting to exercise a railroad franchise without statutory authority shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred...
• Section 48:12-158 - Placing Freight Car In Rear Of Passenger Car; Misdemeanor; Exceptions Where Ordered By Army Or Navy Officers
  In forming a passenger train, no freight car shall be placed in the rear of a passenger car. A conductor, officer or agent who...
• Section 48:12-160 - Unobstructed Windows On Passenger Cars; Penalty
  No passenger car having fastened screens, bars or gratings across the windows shall be used in the transportation of passengers on any railroad. Any...
• Section 48:12-161 - Signal Device Between Engine And Cars; Penalty
  Every company operating a railroad shall have a bell, gong or whistle on the locomotive with a rope or strong cord attached thereto leading...
• Section 48:12-163 - Intoxication Of Engineer Or Conductor; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall, while in charge of an engine running upon the track of a railroad company, or while acting as a conductor...
• Section 48:12-164 - Strikes; Employees Abandoning Or Refusing To Aid In Movement Of Trains; Misdemeanor
  Any railroad employee within this state who shall: a. While engaged in a strike or with a view to incite others to such strike...
• Section 48:12-165 - Strikes; Interfering With Employees; Injuring, Destroying Or Obstructing Property; Misdemeanor
  Any person who shall, in aid or furtherance of the objects of any strike upon any railroad: a. Interfere with, molest or obstruct a...
• Section 48:12-166 - Neglect Or Refusal To Pay Fare; Penalty
  Any person who shall: a. Travel or attempt to travel on any train on a railroad without having previously paid his fare and with...
• Section 48:12a-17 - Legislative Findings And Policy
  The Legislature hereby finds and determines that it is necessary to authorize the Division of Railroad Transportation in the Department of Highways to undertake...
• Section 48:12a-18 - Contract For Connecting Passenger Service
  The commissioner is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of this act, to contract with such carriers as shall be necessary to undertake improvements...
• Section 48:12a-19 - Obligations Of Carrier; Costs; Obligation Of State; Contract For Approved Service
  Any contract entered into by the commissioner with a carrier pursuant to the provisions of this act shall specify the obligations of the carrier...
• Section 48:12a-20 - Definitions
  As used in this act, unless the context indicates another or different meaning or intent: (a) "Carrier" shall mean any individual, copartnership, association, corporation,...
• Section 48:12a-21 - Elimination Or Relocation Of Grade Crossings
  (a) In connection with the improvement to capital facilities authorized by chapter 191, P.L.1962, to be undertaken by the Division of Railroad Transportation in...
• Section 48:13-9 - Entry On Lands For Preliminary Surveys
  Every sewerage company organized under the laws of this State may enter upon any lands in the neighborhood of the municipality which it is...
• Section 48:13-10 - Construction Of Works; Laying Pipes And Conduits
  Every sewerage company organized under the laws of this State may build, alter, repair, enlarge and maintain all necessary works and apparatus within or...
• Section 48:13-11 - Laying Pipes Beneath Streets; Municipal Consent; Maps And Specifications
  Every sewerage company organized under the laws of this State may lay its pipes and conduits beneath such public roads, streets, avenues and alleys...
• Section 48:13-12.1 - Power To Condemn
  Every sewerage utility desiring to take any lands or to use, occupy and make excavation upon any lands may exercise the power of eminent...
• Section 48:13-13 - Time Of Commencement And Completion Of Sewerage System
  Every sewerage company organized under the laws of this State shall commence the construction of the proposed system of sewerage within 6 months from...
• Section 48:13-14 - Rentals For Use Of Sewers
  Such company may contract with property owners and others for the use of its system of sewerage for such price or rents and such...
• Section 48:13-15 - Extension Of Chapter To Certain Water Companies Filing Certificate Prior To January 1, 1938
  Any company incorporated prior to June second, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven under an act entitled "An act for the construction, maintenance and...
• Section 48:13-16 - Cessation Of Service Without Board's Consent Prohibited; Extension Of Corporate Existence
  No corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated under any act of the Legislature of this State for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a...
• Section 48:13a-1 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Solid Waste Utility Control Act." L.1970,c.40,s.1; amended 1991,c.381,s.24.
• Section 48:13a-2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that the disposal of solid waste is a matter of grave concern to all citizens and is an...
• Section 48:13a-3 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from...
• Section 48:13a-4 - Rules, Regulations For Utility Aspects
  5. a. The Department of Environmental Protection shall, after hearing, by order in writing, adopt appropriate rules, regulations or administrative orders for the regulation...
• Section 48:13a-4.1 - Septic Waste Disposal; Charges Or Rates; Jurisdiction
  Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1970, c. 40 or any other law, the Board of Public Utilities shall not have any jurisdiction over charges or...
• Section 48:13a-5 - Award Of Franchises
  6. a. The Department of Environmental Protection may, by order in writing, when it finds that the public interest requires, award a franchise to...
• Section 48:13a-5.1 - Tonnage Charge
  The person holding the franchise for a resource recovery facility pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of P.L. 1970, c. 40 (C. 48:13A-5)...
• Section 48:13a-6 - Qualifications
  7. a. No person shall engage, or be permitted to engage, in the business of solid waste collection or solid waste disposal until found...
• Section 48:13a-6.1 - Sanitary Landfill Facility; Operation After Filing Of And Under Conditions In Tariff
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provision of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, no sanitary landfill facility shall commence or continue operation...
• Section 48:13a-6.2 - Regulation Of Transfer Stations
  a. The provisions of P.L.1957, c.183 (C.40:14B-1 et seq.), P.L.1985, c.38 (C.13:1E-136 et al.) or any other law, or any rules and regulations adopted...
• Section 48:13a-6.3 - Increase Of Tariffs For Solid Waste Facilities
  a. The Board of Public Utilities may, in accordance with the provisions of P.L.1970, c.40 (C.48:13A-1 et seq.) and upon receipt of a petition...
• Section 48:13a-7 - Proof Of Reasonable Rates; Adjustments
  8. a. The Department of Environmental Protection, upon complaint or its own initiative, after hearing, may direct any person engaging in the solid waste...
• Section 48:13a-7.1 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 23 inclusive of this amendatory and supplementary act shall be known and may be cited as the "Solid Waste Collection...
• Section 48:13a-7.2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that the collection of solid waste is an activity thoroughly affected with the public interest; that the health,...
• Section 48:13a-7.3 - Definitions
  3. As used in sections 1 through 23 of P.L.1991, c.381 (C.48:13A-7.1 et al.): "Applicant" means any person seeking to obtain an initial certificate...
• Section 48:13a-7.4 - Fees
  4. a. Every solid waste collector shall pay an annual fee of $100.00 to cover the costs of supervising the solid waste collection industry....
• Section 48:13a-7.5 - Just And Reasonable Rates And Charges
  5. The board may direct any applicant to furnish proof that the rates or charges to be received for solid waste collection services do...
• Section 48:13a-7.6 - Review Of Rate And Charges
  6. a. The board, upon the adoption of the rules and regulations required pursuant to section 19 of P.L.1991, c.381 (C.48:13A-7.19), may review the...
• Section 48:13a-7.7 - Filing Revised Tariff Sheets
  7. a. Any solid waste collector proposing to extend solid waste collection services into any area where that person is not actively engaged in...
• Section 48:13a-7.8 - Conditions For The Adjustment Of Rates
  8. a. Any increase or decrease in the disposal rates or charges received at authorized solid waste facilities in this State shall be automatically...
• Section 48:13a-7.9 - Rules, Regulations; Schedule Of Rate Bands In Transition
  9. The provisions of any other law, or of any rule, regulation or administrative order adopted or issued pursuant thereto, to the contrary notwithstanding,...
• Section 48:13a-7.10 - Rate Adjustments By Collector; Report Filing; Customer Notice
  10. a. Upon filing with the Board of Public Utilities a uniform tariff, any solid waste collector may adjust the rates or charges set...
• Section 48:13a-7.11 - Customer Notices And Bill Of Rights
  11. Every solid waste collector shall notify customers at least once every year that solid waste collection services in this State are available on...
• Section 48:13a-7.12 - Uniform Tariff Rates; Exigent
  12. No solid waste collector may, except in cases of hardship or exigent circumstances, or in the case of significant increases in energy costs,...
• Section 48:13a-7.13 - Publication Of Rate Schedules By The Board
  13. The Board of Public Utilities shall, within 12 months of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act and at least once...
• Section 48:13a-7.14 - Board Of Public Utilities Reports; Contents
  14. a. The Board of Public Utilities shall, within 30 months of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, submit a preliminary...
• Section 48:13a-7.15 - Deregulation Or Rates By Board Of Public Utilities; Conditions
  15. The rates or charges imposed by solid waste collectors, or fees, rates or charges for solid waste collection services provided by persons engaged...
• Section 48:13a-7.16 - Provision Of Annual Report; Failure To Comply
  16. a. The Department of Environmental Protection may compel any person engaged in the business of solid waste collection or otherwise providing solid waste...
• Section 48:13a-7.17 - Provision Of Records And Other Documents; Failure To Comply
  17. a. The Department of Environmental Protection may compel any solid waste collector to furnish and file with the department any records, including, but...
• Section 48:13a-7.18 - Extension Of Services; Failure To Comply
  18. a. Should any person engaged in the solid waste collection business fail or refuse to complete, execute or perform any contract or agreement...
• Section 48:13a-7.19 - Criteria For Determining Effective Competition
  19. Within 180 days of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, the Board of Public Utilities shall establish, in rules and...
• Section 48:13a-7.20 - Review Of Collector's Excessive Rates; Time; Orders
  20. a. (1) Whenever, on the basis of available information, the board has reasonable grounds for belief in the existence of facts warranting further...
• Section 48:13a-7.21 - Solid Waste Enforcement Fund
  21. a. There is created in the Board of Public Utilities a special nonlapsing fund to be known as the "Solid Waste Enforcement Fund."...
• Section 48:13a-7.22 - Rules, Regulations
  22. The Board of Public Utilities shall establish, in rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410...
• Section 48:13a-7.23 - Procedures For Review Of Charges Per Container Under Municipal Contracts
  23. a. (1) Whenever the governing body of a municipality adopts an ordinance to provide for the collection or disposal of solid waste within...
• Section 48:13a-7.24 - Short Title
  1.Sections 1 through 10 of P.L.2003, c.169 (C.48:13A-7.24 et seq.) shall be known and may be cited as the "Commercial Landfill Regulatory Reform Act."
• Section 48:13a-7.25 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Solid Waste Disposal Services
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that efficient and reasonable solid waste disposal services at competitive rates will more likely be achieved if the services...
• Section 48:13a-7.26 - Definitions Relative To Solid Waste Disposal Services
  3.As used in sections 1 through 10 of P.L.2003, c.169 (C.48:13A-7.24 et seq.): "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection. "Market-based rates" means the...
• Section 48:13a-7.27 - Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity Required For Operation
  4. a. The owner or operator of every privately-owned sanitary landfill facility shall hold a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the...
• Section 48:13a-7.28 - Adjustment Of Rates
  5. a. The solid waste disposal rates collected by a privately-owned sanitary landfill facility may be adjusted upon 30 days' notice to current customers...
• Section 48:13a-7.29 - Annual Fee
  6. a. The total annual fee collected by the department from the owner or operator of a privately-owned sanitary landfill facility to cover the...
• Section 48:13a-7.30 - Solid Waste Disposal Rates Deemed Just And Reasonable
  7. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation, court decision or order of the Board of Public Utilities or department...
• Section 48:13a-7.31 - Contested Case Proceedings
  8. a. Whenever, on the basis of available information, the department has reasonable grounds for belief that the solid waste disposal rates collected by...
• Section 48:13a-7.32 - Jurisdiction Of Department
  9. a. The provisions of section 18 of P.L.1975, c.326 (C.13:1E-27), Title 48 of the Revised Statutes, P.L.1970, c.40 (C.48:13A-1 et seq.), or any...
• Section 48:13a-7.33 - Rules, Regulations By Department For Regulatory Reform
  10. Within 180 days of the effective date of P.L.2003, c.169 (C.48:13A-7.24 et al.), the department shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act,"...
• Section 48:13a-8 - Failure To Perform; Department Orders
  9. a. Should any person engaged in the solid waste disposal business fail or refuse to complete, execute or perform any contract or agreement...
• Section 48:13a-9 - Revocation Or Suspension Of Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity
  10. The Department of Environmental Protection shall revoke or suspend the certificate of public convenience and necessity issued to any person engaged in the...
• Section 48:13a-10 - Monopoly Prohibited; Recovery Of Damages; Prequalification Test
  11. a. No person shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person to monopolize, trade or commerce in...
• Section 48:13a-11 - Attendance Of Witnesses; Production Of Tariffs, Accounts And Documents
  12. a. The Department of Environmental Protection may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of tariffs, contracts, papers, books, accounts and all...
• Section 48:13a-12 - Penalties; Injunctive Relief; Payment To Fund
  13. a. Any person or any officer or agent thereof who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act or aid or...
• Section 48:13a-12.1 - Solid Waste Vehicles Not To Transport Food, Rules And Regulations
  1. a. Except as provided in subsections b., c. or d., no vehicle, including any truck, trailer or other haulage vehicle other than a...
• Section 48:13a-12.2 - Violations, Penalties
  2. a. Any owner or operator who knowingly violates the provisions of section 1 of P.L.1991, c.214 (C.48:13A-12.1) is guilty of a crime of...
• Section 48:13a-13 - Derogation Of Rights
  Nothing contained herein shall be construed to be in derogation of any other right, duty, power or authority granted to the board by the...
• Section 48:14-2 - Manner Of Laying Pipes And Conduits
  Pipes and conduits shall be laid at least 3 feet below the surface and shall not unnecessarily interfere with public travel or damage public...
• Section 48:14-3 - Restoration Of Pavements; Repair And Maintenance Of Streets
  The portions of the surfaces of any streets, including pavements, disturbed in laying the pipes, shall be immediately restored to their original condition and...
• Section 48:14-9 - Surveys; Entry On Lands
  When a survey of the locations of the dams of any steam or water power company organized under the laws of this State and...
• Section 48:14-10.1 - Condemnation; Authority; Action Against Utility
  Every utility formed to construct dams in any of the rivers or streams within this State or between this and another State, for the...
• Section 48:14-11 - Dams; Construction; Jurisdiction Of Department Of Conservation And Economic Development
  Every steam and water power company organized under the laws of this State may construct and maintain dams on rivers and streams at such...
• Section 48:14-12 - Canals And Raceways; Jurisdiction Of Department Of Conservation And Economic Development
  Every steam and water power company organized under the laws of this State may cut or acquire main canals or raceways on each side...
• Section 48:14-13 - Time For Commencement And Completion Of Dams, Canals And Raceways
  Every steam and water power company organized under the laws of this State shall commence its proposed dams and works within 2 years from...
• Section 48:14-14 - Forfeiture Of Franchise
  Any company failing to comply with the provisions of sections 48:14-11 to 48:14-13 of this title shall thereby forfeit the franchises given by this
• Section 48:14-15 - Construction And Maintenance Of Necessary Works
  Every steam and water power company organized under the laws of this State may construct, maintain, improve and repair all such embankments, reservoirs, aqueducts,...
• Section 48:14-16 - Development And Sale Of Electric Power
  Every steam and water power company organized under the laws of this State may develop electric power for commercial purposes by means of water...
• Section 48:14-17 - Erection Of Poles; Municipal Consent
  Every steam and water power company organized under the laws of this State may enter upon any public highway, street or alley and erect...
• Section 48:14-18 - Lease Of Dams And Works; Consolidation
  Every steam and water power company incorporated under the laws of this State may lease its dams and works or any part thereof to...
• Section 48:14-19 - Supplying Water For Domestic Uses Prohibited; Diversion By Municipality
  No steam and water power company organized under the laws of this State shall supply any municipality or the public with water for potable...
• Section 48:14-20 - Surveys Of Dams, Canals And Other Works; Filing Map With County Clerk
  Every water power company organized to construct one or more dams in any river or stream tributary to Barnegat bay for the purpose of...
• Section 48:14-21.1 - Power To Condemn
  Any utility organized to construct one or more dams in any river, stream, or tributary to Barnegat Bay for the purpose of developing and...
• Section 48:15-1 - "Street Railway Or Traction Company" ; "Street"
  The term "street railway or traction company" when used in this chapter means and includes, unless the contrary appears from the context, a company...
• Section 48:15-2 - Computation Of Time For Performance Of Duty Or Exercise Of Privilege
  Whenever a street railway or traction company shall have a duty imposed upon it or a privilege which it is authorized to exercise and...
• Section 48:15-3 - Public Consent To Have Force Of Contract
  Any consent required by this chapter to be given by any public body may be given by a resolution or ordinance of such body...
• Section 48:15-4 - Improper Incorporation Of Certain Companies Not Ground For Questioning Right To Operate
  The right of any company formed under any law of this state which on July fourth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, owned or...
• Section 48:15-5 - Valuation Report; Open To Public Inspection; As Evidence
  The report of any valuation of street railway or traction company property together with all documents, maps and other papers accompanying the same, filed...
• Section 48:15-10 - General Powers
  Every street railway or traction company shall have power: I. To construct lines of street or passenger railways and all necessary turnouts, sidings and...
• Section 48:15-11 - Powers Not Limited By Description Of Route In Certificate Of Incorporation
  The insertion in the certificate of incorporation of a street railway or traction company of a description of a line or route of railway...
• Section 48:15-12 - Issuance Of Stock For Stocks And Securities Of Other Corporations
  Any street railway or traction company may purchase and hold real and personal property necessary and convenient for the business of such company, and...
• Section 48:15-13 - Borrowing Money; Limitation
  Any street railway or traction company may borrow from time to time such sums of money as may be necessary for the accomplishment of...
• Section 48:15-14 - Bonds And Mortgages; Recording Mortgages
  Any company borrowing any sums pursuant to section 48:15-13 of this title may, for the repayment thereof, issue coupon or registered bonds, or both,...
• Section 48:15-16.1 - Power Of Condemnation
  Any street railway or traction utility may exercise the power of eminent domain as provided in sections 48 and 49 hereof in taking so...
• Section 48:15-17 - Entry On Land To Explore And Survey; Filing Survey
  For any of the purposes mentioned in section 48:15-16 of this title the company may enter at all times upon all lands lying within...
• Section 48:15-18 - Entry On Railway For Purpose Of Operating; Certificate, Description And Map
  If a street railway or traction company shall, in the exercise of powers conferred by law, enter upon any railway for the purpose of...
• Section 48:15-19 - Carrying Newspapers, Freight And Express
  Any street railway or traction company may receive and carry over its railway, newspapers, freight and express matter for hire and may deliver the...
• Section 48:15-20 - Change Of Gauge
  The board of public utility commissioners may permit any street railway or traction company to change its existing gauge to standard steam railroad gauge...
• Section 48:15-21 - Joint Use Of Tracks And Equipment
  Whenever after hearing, upon notice, the board of public utility commissioners shall find that public convenience and necessity require the use by one street...
• Section 48:15-22 - Steam Locomotives Prohibited
  No street railway or traction company shall use on any of its railways within the limits of any street and in the surface thereof,...
• Section 48:15-23 - Inclosed Or Vestibuled Platforms On Cars Required; Penalty
  No company operating a street railway or railroad operated as a street railway by means of electric motors shall, between the first day of...
• Section 48:15-24 - Filing Description And Map Of Extension Or New Line; Exclusive Right To Route
  Every street railway or traction company before beginning the construction of any extension of an existing railway, or the construction of any new line...
• Section 48:15-25 - Amended Description And Map
  When a street railway or traction company shall fail to acquire from the municipal governing body or the body having control of any street,...
• Section 48:15-26 - Relocation Before Completion Of Extension Or New Line
  When the location of the route of the extension of any railway or of any new line shall have been made under this chapter,...
• Section 48:15-27 - Change Of Route; Land Condemned Along Original Route To Revert To Owners
  Any street railway or traction company may at any time change the location of the route of any new line of railway or an...
• Section 48:15-28 - Relocation Of Tracks At Request Of Body Having Control Of Streets; Effect On Period Of Operation; Approval
  Whenever any street railway or traction company shall change the location of its tracks or any part thereof in any street or public park...
• Section 48:15-29 - Municipal Consent To Construction Of Street Railways
  No street railway shall be constructed in any street or other public place in any municipality except upon the consent of the governing body...
• Section 48:15-30 - Consent Of Public Authority Other Than Municipal Governing Body
  If any board, body or public authority other than the governing body of the municipality shall have control of any street in which a...
• Section 48:15-31 - Consent Of Property Owners
  No such municipal consent shall be granted until there shall be filed with the clerk or other equivalent officer of the governing body of...
• Section 48:15-32 - Map Or Description Of Route; Location Of Tracks And Poles
  Every application made to the governing body of a municipality for the construction, operation and maintenance of a street railway shall be accompanied with...
• Section 48:15-33 - Right To Maintain Poles, Wires And Conduits
  Every such municipal consent shall be deemed to include the right to construct, erect, use and maintain such poles, wires, conduits and other structures...
• Section 48:15-34 - Extension Of Tracks In Cities Of First And Second Class For Connections Or Detours; Approval
  Whenever in the judgment of the board or body having control of the streets of any city of the first or second class, public...
• Section 48:15-35 - Municipal Consent; Petition; Fixing Location Of Poles Or Conduits
  Any company owning or operating a street railway in the state may obtain permission and authority to change the motive power used on its...
• Section 48:15-36 - Consent Of Public Authority Other Than Municipal
  If any board, body or public authority other than the governing body of such municipality shall have control of any of the streets in...
• Section 48:15-37 - Municipal Consent To Operation Of Autobusses; Fares; Franchise Taxes
  Any company organized under any law of this state operating a street railway may acquire, own and operate autobusses. Every such company before operating...
• Section 48:15-38 - Substitution Of Busses For Suspended Street Railway Service
  Whenever, upon application of a street railway or traction company, the board of public utility commissioners has approved or shall approve the suspension of...
• Section 48:15-39 - Substitution Of Busses For Street Cars
  Any company organized under any law of this State operating a street railway in any county of this State may operate autobusses in substitution...
• Section 48:15-40 - Co-ordinated Bus And Street Railway Operation
  Whenever, in order to serve the public convenience, any street railway or traction company is lawfully operating autobusses in conjunction with its street railway...
• Section 48:15-41 - Substitution Of Trackless Trolleys Or Trolley Busses For Street Cars; Overhead Ground Wires
  Any traction company or company operating or authorized by the laws of this State to operate a street railway or railroad operated as a...
• Section 48:15-42 - Removal Of Tracks; Resumption Of Street Car Service; Restoration Of Tracks
  Any such company which shall make substitution as provided in section 48:15-41 of this Title for all street car service upon any line or...
• Section 48:15-43 - Substitution Deemed Compliance With Franchise
  The operation of substituted vehicles for street cars as provided in sections 48:15-41 and 48:15-42 of this title shall be considered for all purposes...
• Section 48:15-43.1 - Complete Substitution Of Autobusses For Street Cars; Payment Of Taxes On Busses
  When any street railway or traction company of this state shall have substituted autobusses for street railway cars over all of its lines of...
• Section 48:15-43.2 - Trackless Trolleys Deemed Autobuses For Certain Purposes; Taxation
  Whenever any traction company, or company operating or authorized by the laws of this State to operate a street railway or railroad operated as...
• Section 48:15-43.3 - Operation Of Substituted Vehicles On Designated Streets Authorized; Erection And Maintenance Of Poles And Wires
  Whenever upon the application of any traction company, or company operating or authorized by the laws of this State to operate a street railway...
• Section 48:15-43.6 - One-way Streets; Operation Over Parallel Streets
  Whenever any traction company, or any company operating or authorized by the laws of this State to operate a street railway or railroad operated...
• Section 48:15-44 - Company Required To Restore Pavement Disturbed By It
  Whenever any street railway or traction company shall disturb the pavement of any street for the construction, reconstruction, repair or removal of its tracks,...
• Section 48:15-45 - Compelling Company To Repair Pavement Between Tracks Damaged By Operation Of Street Cars
  Whenever any part of the pavement between the tracks and eighteen inches outside thereof on any street upon which is located the tracks of...
• Section 48:15-46 - Tracks And Roadbed To Be Put In Good Condition When Street Is Paved
  Whenever any municipality, board or body having authority so to do, shall pave or repave any street upon which are located the tracks of...
• Section 48:15-47 - Obligations Under Article In Lieu Of All Others
  The obligations imposed by this article shall be and are in lieu and substitution of any and all other obligations of any such company...
• Section 48:15-48 - Duty To Repay Moneys Advanced To Company Not Affected
  Nothing in this article shall relieve any such company from the repayment of any money advanced or expended prior to March twenty-third, one thousand...
• Section 48:15-49 - Construction And Operation Of Terminal; Acquisition Of Property; Condemnation
  Any street railway or traction company may construct, maintain and operate a terminal station in any municipality, and for that purpose any such company...
• Section 48:15-50 - Subways Connecting Tracts And Terminals; Elevated Or Surface Tracts
  In order to connect the tracks of any street railway system with such terminal the company building or owning the terminal may construct a...
• Section 48:15-51 - Issuance Of Stocks Or Bonds; Mortgages; Approval
  Any company owning or constructing a terminal pursuant to this article may provide money to defray the cost thereof and approaches thereto, including any...
• Section 48:15-52 - Application To Board Of Public Utility Commissioners
  Whenever a street railway or traction company operates its cars in any street in this state in which a bridge forms a connecting link...
• Section 48:15-53 - Hearing; Determination
  On the hearing of the application, and upon notice, the parties in interest shall be heard by the said board, and if in its...
• Section 48:15-54 - Compliance With Order; Fixing Of Compensation
  Upon the making of the order aforesaid, the street railway or traction company, within the time fixed in such order, shall lay its tracks,...
• Section 48:15-55 - Lease Of Property And Franchises; Rights And Liabilities Of Lessee
  Any street railway or traction company or any turnpike, plank road or motor power company may lease its property and franchises to any street...
• Section 48:15-56 - Proceedings Where Stockholder Dissents
  Any stockholder of a company whose property and franchises shall be leased pursuant to section 48:15-55 of this Title and who shall not assent...
• Section 48:16-1 - Definitions
  As used in this article: "Autocab" means and includes any automobile or motor car, commonly called taxi, engaged in the business of carrying passengers...
• Section 48:16-2 - Necessity Of Municipal Consent Before Operating Autocab; Limitation On License Fee
  No autocab shall be operated along any street in any municipality until the owner thereof shall obtain the consent of the elective governing body...
• Section 48:16-2.1 - Determination Of Number Of Taxi Licenses Available For Issuance.
  1.A municipality shall determine by ordinance the number of taxi licenses available for issuance. Whenever the governing body of a municipality determines to authorize...
• Section 48:16-2.2 - Construction Of C.48:16-2.1 Relative To Issuance Of License.
  2.The provisions of section 1 of P.L.2011, c.135 (C.48:16-2.1) shall not be construed to require the issuance of any license or licenses with respect...
• Section 48:16-2.3 - Issuance, Qualification For License; Reimbursement To Municipality.
  3.Whenever the governing body of a municipality determines by ordinance to issue one or more taxi licenses, the governing body may authorize that such...
• Section 48:16-2.4 - Display Of Tax License Number.
  4.The owner of an autocab shall cause to be displayed on the body of the vehicle the taxi license number issued to that vehicle....
• Section 48:16-3 - Insurance; Amount; Criminal History Record Background Check.
  48:16-3. No such consent shall become effective until the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section have been satisfied: a.The owner of...
• Section 48:16-4 - Blanket Bond Or Insurance Policy
  If such owner operates more than one autocab, he may file with the clerk of the municipality, in lieu of the policy required by...
• Section 48:16-5 - Power Of Attorney
  The owner of the autocab shall execute and deliver to the clerk of the municipality concurrently with the filing of a policy or bond...
• Section 48:16-6 - Certificate Of Compliance; Contents; Filing And Posting
  The clerk of the municipality, upon the filing of the required insurance policy or bond, shall issue a certificate in duplicate showing that the...
• Section 48:16-7 - Operation In More Than One Municipality; Filing Of Insurance Policy
  Where an autocab operates in more than one municipality, the insurance policy or bond required by sections 48:16-3 and 48:16-4 of this title shall...
• Section 48:16-8 - Exemption From Insurance
  Any corporation organized under the laws of this state having a paid up cash capital of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand...
• Section 48:16-9 - Revocation Of Order Of Exemption
  If it shall appear to the commissioner of banking and insurance, after a hearing, that the company no longer has a paid up cash...
• Section 48:16-10 - Revocation Of Municipal Consent
  A consent granted under section 48:16-2 of this title may be revoked by the governing body of the municipality granting the same, after notice...
• Section 48:16-11 - Other Automobile Laws Applicable
  Nothing in this article contained shall exempt any person owning or operating any autocab from complying with the law relating to the ownership, registration...
• Section 48:16-12 - Penalty
  Any person who shall operate an autocab in any street in this state without complying with the provisions of this article shall be guilty...
• Section 48:16-13 - Definitions.
  48:16-13. Except as provided in section 2 of P.L.1997, c.356 (C.48:16-13.1), as used in this article: "Autocab" means a limousine. "Chief Administrator" means the...
• Section 48:16-13.1 - Limousine Defined; County, Certain.
  2.In a county of the first class with a population density of over 10,000 persons per square mile, according to the latest federal decennial...
• Section 48:16-14 - Insurance Policy On Limousine.
  48:16-14. Except as provided in section 14 of P.L.1999, c.356 (C.48:16-22.4), no limousine shall be operated wholly or partly along any street in any...
• Section 48:16-16 - Power Of Attorney Executed By Owner Of Limousine.
  48:16-16. The owner of the limousine shall execute and deliver to the Division of Motor Vehicles, concurrently with the filing of a policy referred...
• Section 48:16-17 - Issuance Of License To Operate Limousine; Fee.
  48:16-17. The clerk of the municipality, in which the owner has his principal place of business, upon the filing of the required insurance policy...
• Section 48:16-18 - Insurance Policy Filed Where Owner Has Principal Place Of Business.
  48:16-18. Where a limousine service operates in more than one municipality, the insurance policy required by R.S.48:16-14 shall be filed with the clerk of...
• Section 48:16-18.1 - Municipal Licensing Requirements For Limousine Service; Fee.
  6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, a municipality may require a limousine service to obtain a corporate license, permit, certificate...
• Section 48:16-21 - Compliance With Other Laws.
  48:16-21. Nothing in this article contained shall exempt any person owning or operating any limousine service from complying with the law relating to the...
• Section 48:16-22 - License Required To Operate Limousine.
  48:16-22. No person shall operate a limousine service in any street in this State without a license to operate issued by a municipality in...
• Section 48:16-22.1 - Requirements For Operation Of Limousine.
  11. No limousine shall be operated on the highways of this State unless it has a license issued pursuant to R.S.48:16-17 and the limousine...
• Section 48:16-22.2 - General Examination Of Condition Of Limousine.
  12. a. Prior to any operation of a limousine on the highways of this State for the purpose of picking up passengers, the driver...
• Section 48:16-22.3 - Limousine Service Owner, One License, Etc. Required.
  13. Neither the State nor any political subdivision of the State shall enact, adopt or enforce any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order, standard or...
• Section 48:16-22.3a - Requirements For Applicants As Driver Of Limousine, Certain Passenger Vehicles.
  9. a. Any person who owns a limousine service, or any other company or service which pairs a passenger automobile, as defined in R.S.39:1-1,...
• Section 48:16-22.3b - Applicants To Be Tested For Controlled Dangerous Substances; Regulations.
  10.Any person who owns a limousine service shall require an applicant for employment as a limousine operator or driver to be tested, at the...
• Section 48:16-22.4 - Regulations Applicable To Out-of State Limousines, Black Cars; Definition.
  14. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, a limousine registered in another state or the District of Columbia operating in...
• Section 48:16-22.5 - Construction Of Act In Regard To Taxis, Limousine Fares.
  15. Nothing in this act shall be construed in any way as altering the authority of municipalities to regulate taxis, nor as giving the...
• Section 48:16-22.6 - Construction Of Act In Regard To Filing Complaint For Consumer Fraud.
  16. Nothing in this act shall be construed as preventing the filing of a complaint concerning limousine service with the Division of Consumer Affairs...
• Section 48:16-23 - Definitions
  The word "autobus" as used in this article shall mean and include any automobile or motor bus, commonly called jitney, with a carrying capacity...
• Section 48:16-24 - Municipal Consent To Operation; Insurance; Power Of Attorney; Revocation Of Consent
  No autobus as defined herein shall be operated wholly or partly along any street in any city until the owner or owners thereof shall...
• Section 48:16-25 - Franchise Tax; Monthly Statement Of Gross Receipts; Penalty For Nonpayment; Perjury
  Every person as herein defined, owning and operating an autobus as herein defined, in any city of this state shall, on or before the...
• Section 48:16-26 - Other Automobile Laws Applicable
  Nothing contained in sections 48:16-23 to 48:16-25 of this title shall exempt any person owning or operating any autobus from complying with existing statutes...
• Section 48:16-27 - Penalty
  Any person operating an autobus in any of the streets of any city in this state without complying with the provisions of sections 48:16-23...
• Section 48:16-28 - License Fee In Fourth-class Cities
  In lieu of the monthly franchise tax provided for by section 48:16-25 of this title, any city of the fourth class of this state...
• Section 48:16a-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act "Vehicle" means and includes any horse-drawn vehicle owned or operated in the business of carrying passengers for hire by...
• Section 48:16a-2 - Filing Of Insurance Policy As Condition Precedent To Operation; Amount; Policy Provisions
  No vehicle shall be operated wholly or partly along any street in any municipality until the owner of the vehicle shall have filed with...
• Section 48:16a-3 - Operation Of More Than One Vehicle; Blanket Insurance; Provisions
  If such owner operates more than one vehicle, he may file with the clerk of the municipality, in lieu of the policy required by...
• Section 48:16a-4 - Appointment Of Attorney For Acknowledgment Of Service Of Process
  The owner of the vehicle shall execute and deliver to the clerk of the municipality concurrently with the filing of a policy or bond...
• Section 48:16a-5 - Issuance Of Certificate Of Compliance; Contents; Posting
  The clerk of the municipality, upon the filing of the required insurance policy or bond, shall issue a certificate in duplicate showing that the...
• Section 48:16a-6 - Operation Of Vehicle In More Than One Municipality; Place Of Filing Policy Or Bond
  Where a vehicle operates in more than one municipality, the insurance policy or bond required by sections 2 and 3 of this act shall...
• Section 48:16a-7 - Authority Of Corporation To Carry Own Insurance; Exemption Order; Statement By Corporate Officers; Filing
  Any corporation organized under the laws of this State having a paid up cash capital of not less than $300,000.00 may carry its own...
• Section 48:16a-8 - Revocation Of Exemption Order
  If it shall appear to the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, after a hearing, that the company no longer has a paid up cash...
• Section 48:16a-9 - Operation In Violation Of Act; Misdemeanor
  Any person who, being the owner or bailor of such a vehicle, shall operate, or permit to be operated, for hire such vehicle in...
• Section 48:17-8 - Poles And Conduits; Erection Or Construction; Consent Of Owner Of Land
  Any telegraph or telephone company organized under the laws of this or any other State, or of the United States may erect, construct and...
• Section 48:17-9.1 - Condemnation
  Any telegraph or telephone utility may exercise the power of condemnation as provided in sections 48 and 49 hereof in taking or acquiring any...
• Section 48:17-10 - Consent Of Municipality Or County For Local Line
  No pole, conduit, wire or other fixture, except such as are a part of a through line of any such telegraph or telephone company...
• Section 48:17-11 - Designation Of Streets For Construction Of Through Line; Restrictions
  The governing body of any municipality or the board of freeholders of any county on granting permission to use any street, road or highway...
• Section 48:17-12 - Designation Of Streets For Local Line
  Where application is made to the governing body of any municipality or county for permission to erect, construct and maintain poles, wires, conduits or...
• Section 48:17-14 - Use Of One Telephone Or Telegraph Line By Another; Apportionment Of Cost
  Whenever, after hearing upon notice, the board of public utility commissioners shall determine that public convenience and necessity require a physical connection for the...
• Section 48:17-14.1 - Tickers And Teleprinters To Be Registered With Board Of Public Utility Commissioners
  Every telegraph company the principal business of which is the operation of a telegraph system and furnishing ticker or teleprinter service within this State...
• Section 48:17-14.2 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1952, c. 257, p. 879, s. 2.
• Section 48:17-15.1 - Setting Forth Substance Of S. 2a:170-25.5 In Telephone Directories
  In every telephone directory printed and distributed after January 1, 1956, to the general public in this State or in any portion thereof, which...
• Section 48:17-16 - When Authorized; Use Of Highways; Consent Of City
  Every railroad company organized under the laws of this state, and every railroad company organized under the laws of another state but leasing or...
• Section 48:17-17 - Offices; Reception And Transmission Of Messages
  Every railroad company availing itself of section 48:17-16 of this title shall establish, maintain and keep open, for the reception and transmission of messages...
• Section 48:17-18 - Arrangements With Other Railroad Or Telegraph Companies; Rates
  Any railroad company availing itself of section 48:17-16 of this title may enter into business arrangements with any other railroad or telegraph company of...
• Section 48:17-19 - Disclosure Of Contents Of Communications Prohibited; Exception
  It shall not be lawful for any person connected with any line of telegraph or telephone within this state, whether as superintendent, operator, or...
• Section 48:17-20 - Punishment For Disclosing Contents Of Communications
  Any superintendent, operator, or other person who in any other capacity may be connected with any telegraph or telephone line in this state, who...
• Section 48:17-21 - Injuring Or Obstructing Telegraph Or Telephone Lines; Punishment
  Any person who shall willfully and unlawfully injure, destroy or obstruct the use of any telegraph or telephone line constructed by virtue of this...
• Section 48:17-22 - Access Option
  No telephone company the principal business of which is the provision of telephone service within this State shall provide a subscriber access to adult-oriented...
• Section 48:17-23 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Aggregator" means a person or entity, which is not a telecommunications carrier, who in the ordinary course of its...
• Section 48:17-24 - Requirements For Alternate Operator Service Providers
  The Board of Public Utilities shall promulgate, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 48:17-25 - Instructions To Telephone Company Customers For Removal Of Name From Telephone Solicitation Lists
  Every local exchange telephone company the principal business of which is the provision of telephone service within this State shall: a. Enclose, at least...
• Section 48:17-26 - Regulations
  The Board of Public Utilities, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), may promulgate regulations necessary to...
• Section 48:17-27 - Definitions
  1. As used in this act: "Caller" means a person who attempts to contact or contacts a subscriber in this State by telephone or...
• Section 48:17-28 - Delivery Of Certain Recorded Telephone Messages Prohibited.
  2.A caller within the State shall not use a telephone or telephone line to contact a subscriber within the State to deliver a recorded...
• Section 48:17-29 - Use Of Certain Devices; Violation
  3. The use of automated dialing, push button, or tone activated devices which operate sequentially or are otherwise unable to avoid contacting subscribers who...
• Section 48:17-30 - Exceptions
  4. Nothing in this act shall prohibit the use of automatic dialing equipment or the delivery of a recorded message for the purpose of...
• Section 48:17-31 - Violations, Penalties
  5. A person who violates the provisions of this act shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $300 or more than...
• Section 48:17-32 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Voice over Internet Freedom Act." L.2007,c.195,s.1.
• Section 48:17-33 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Voice Over Internet Protocol, Protocol-enabled Services.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The growth and enhancement of services using Internet Protocol technology provide consumers more choice in voice, data, and...
• Section 48:17-34 - Definitions Relative To Voice Over Internet Protocol, Protocol-enabled Services.
  3.As used in this act: "Circuit switched local exchange access service" means circuit switched local "telephone exchange service" as that term is defined in...
• Section 48:17-35 - Regulation Of Voip Limited To This Act.
  4.Except as otherwise provided in this act, notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary, neither the State, nor...
• Section 48:17-36 - Construction Of Act.
  5.Nothing in this act shall be construed to: a.affect the application or enforcement of criminal or other statutes or regulations that apply generally to...
• Section 48:19-5 - Extension Of Chapter To Companies Filing Certificate Prior To January 1, 1920
  Any company incorporated prior to April fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, under any other act of the legislature than this chapter, engaged...
• Section 48:19-6 - Extension Of Chapter To Companies Filing Certificate Prior To January 1, 1926
  Any company incorporated prior to March twelfth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, under any other act of the legislature than this chapter, or...
• Section 48:19-7 - Extension Of Chapter To Companies Filing Certificate Prior To January 1, 1934
  Any company incorporated prior to April tenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, under any other act of the legislature than this chapter, or...
• Section 48:19-8 - Incorporation Of Certain Companies Recognized; Powers
  Any company, however incorporated, which on March twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, was actually engaged in supplying one or more municipalities with...
• Section 48:19-11 - Increase Of Capital; Approval Of Public Utility Commission
  Each water company in this State may increase its capital stock by and with the consent of 2/3 of the stockholders of the company...
• Section 48:19-13 - General Powers
  Each water company organized under the laws of this State may take and divert sources of water supply and build, erect, alter, repair, enlarge...
• Section 48:19-13.1 - Membership Fees Of Certain Water Companies
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any nonprofit, private water company, organized pursuant to Title 15 of the...
• Section 48:19-14 - Entry On Land
  Each water company may enter upon any lands for the purpose of making all such preliminary examinations, explorations, measurements and levelings as may be...
• Section 48:19-15.1 - Condemnation; Action Against Utility
  Every water utility desiring to take, use or occupy any lands or to take or divert any spring or stream of water necessary for...
• Section 48:19-17 - Pipes In Streets Authorized; Consent Of Public Body; Appeal
  Each water company may lay its pipes beneath such public roads, streets, and places as it may deem necessary for its corporate purposes, free...
• Section 48:19-18 - Sale Of Water, Rates.
  48:19-18. Each water company organized under the laws of this State may sell and dispose of the water issuing from its reservoirs, aqueducts or...
• Section 48:19-18.1 - Statement Of Amount Of Water Sold In Gallons On Bill
  Any bill or other statement presented by a person, firm, association, corporation, authority or governmental unit to a customer for water sold or supplied...
• Section 48:19-19 - Contracts Between Companies For Supply Of Water
  Every water company organized under the laws of this State may contract with any company organized under any law of the State for a...
• Section 48:19-20 - Extension Of Works
  Every aqueduct company which was on March 21, 1888, in existence under any special charter in this State and every water company incorporated under...
• Section 48:19-22 - Refund For Failure To Supply Water
  In case any water company of this state shall fail for more than five consecutive days during any period for which water rent is...
• Section 48:19-23 - Municipal Consents To Formation Of Water Companies Validated
  L.1906, c. 68, s. 2, p. 98 (C.S. p. 3636, s. 633), being section two of the act entitled "A supplement to an act...
• Section 48:19-24 - Incorporation And Contracts Of Certain Water Companies Validated
  L.1906, c. 128, p. 238 (C.S. p. 3649, s. 675), entitled "An act validating the incorporation and proceedings of certain companies organized in townships...
• Section 48:19-25 - Incorporation And Powers Of Certain Water Companies Validated
  L.1926, c. 158, p. 263, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act for the construction, maintenance...
• Section 48:19-26 - Nonprofit Senior Citizen Cooperative Associations; Exceptions From Rules And Laws On Rates
  The Board of Public Utility Commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to grant exceptions from the literal requirements of those provisions of chapters 2,...
• Section 48:19-27 - Applications For Exception
  An application for an exception authorized pursuant to the provisions of section 1 of this act shall be filed in writing with, and upon...
• Section 48:19-28 - Exceptions Granted; Record; Public Examination
  The board shall maintain a record of all exceptions granted, and shall make such record reasonably available for public examination. L.1973, c. 160, s....
• Section 48:23-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority Act of 1968." L.1968, c. 405, s. 1,...
• Section 48:23-2 - Definitions.
  2.For the purposes of this act, unless otherwise indicated by the context: "Authority" means the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority. "Board" means the board...
• Section 48:23-3 - New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority; Establishment.
  3.There is hereby established, pursuant to P.L.1968, c.405 (C.48:23-1 et seq.), in the Executive Branch of the State Government the New Jersey Public Broadcasting...
• Section 48:23-4 - Board; Appointment; Terms; Compensation; Meetings; Organization; Secretary; Seal.
  4. a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2010, c.104). b.The authority shall consist of a board which shall be composed of five members: (1) three members...
• Section 48:23-7 - Powers Of Authority.
  7.The authority shall have the power to: a.Adopt and from time to time amend and repeal suitable by-laws for the management of the authority's...
• Section 48:23-8 - Encumbering Of Assets
  The authority shall have no power to issue bonds, notes or other obligations, or to mortgage, pledge or otherwise encumber the assets of the...
• Section 48:23-9 - Political Activities
  The authority shall be prohibited from supporting or opposing any political party or candidate for public office, elective or otherwise, and from attempting to...
• Section 48:23-10 - Educational Policies; Curriculum Content
  Nothing in this act concerning the authority's activities in the field of instructional television shall be deemed to supersede the responsibilities of the Commissioner...
• Section 48:23-13 - Foundation For New Jersey Public Broadcasting Established
  The New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority is authorized to establish a nonprofit, educational and charitable organization to be known as the Foundation for New...
• Section 48:23-14 - Board Of Directors.
  2.The Foundation for New Jersey Public Broadcasting shall be governed by a board of directors. The number of directors and their terms and manner...
• Section 48:23-15 - Executive Director, Employees
  The board of directors of the Foundation for New Jersey Public Broadcasting shall be authorized, within the limits of its own funds, to employ...
• Section 48:23-16 - Bylaws
  Upon the incorporation of the Foundation for New Jersey Public Broadcasting and the establishment of the first board of directors, the board shall adopt...
• Section 48:23-17 - Use Of Funds.
  5.All funds received by the Foundation for New Jersey Public Broadcasting, other than those necessary to pay for the expenses of the foundation, shall...
• Section 48:23-18 - Short Title.
  1.Sections 1 through 9, sections 14 through 15 and sections 22 through 24 of this act shall be known and may be cited as...
• Section 48:23-19 - Findings, Declarations Relative To The State's Public Broadcasting System.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.In 1968, the Legislature passed and then Governor Richard J. Hughes signed the "New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority...
• Section 48:23-20 - Transfer Of State's Public Broadcasting System To Another Entity.
  3. a. The New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority created pursuant to P.L.1968, c.405 (C.48:23-1 et seq.) shall undertake all acts necessary to accomplish the...
• Section 48:23-21 - Preparation Of Written Inventory Of Assets And Liabilities.
  4. a. The State Treasurer, in consultation with the authority, shall prepare a complete written inventory identifying the public broadcasting system's assets and liabilities...
• Section 48:23-22 - Authorization For Receipt Of Proposals, Negotiation Of Contract.
  5. a. (1) The State Treasurer is authorized to receive one or more proposals to transfer all or any part of the assets of...
• Section 48:23-23 - Authorization To Delegate By Contract Responsibility To Another Entity.
  6. a. (1) The State Treasurer is authorized to receive one or more proposals to delegate by contract responsibility for conducting the operations of...
• Section 48:23-24 - Receipt Of Records, Liabilities, Obligations, Commitments Of Authority To Effectuate Transfer.
  7.The State Treasurer may receive, continue, or assume any records, liabilities, obligations or commitments of the authority or by written order or other appropriate...
• Section 48:23-25 - Authority To Enter Into Contracts, Transfer Assets.
  8.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, contracts may be entered into and assets may be transferred, leased,...
• Section 48:23-26 - Disposition Of Transferred Assets.
  9.Public broadcasting system assets transferred, or authorized to be transferred, by contract or otherwise, pursuant to P.L.2010, c.104 (C.48:23-18 et al.), may be leased,...
• Section 48:23-27 - Terms Of Office Terminated.
  14. The terms of office of all members of the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Commission in office prior to the effective date of P.L.2010,...
• Section 48:23-28 - Terms Of First Members Appointed.
  15. Of the first members of the board of the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority appointed after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.104 (C.48:23-18...
• Section 48:23-29 - "Trust Fund For The Support Of Public Broadcasting."
  22. a. There is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury the "Trust Fund for the Support of Public Broadcasting", a restricted, nonlapsing,...
• Section 48:23-30 - Transfer Approval.
  23. If the Legislature's approval of the sale or transfer, as appropriate, of any radio or the television operating license is found to violate...
• Section 48:23-31 - Liberal Construction, Severability.
  24. This act shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of...

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