40:37B-32 - Additional powers - New Jersey Statutes

40:37B-32.  Additional powers
    In addition to the other powers conferred upon it by this act or by any other law and not in limitation thereof, every authority, in connection with construction or operation of any public facility, shall have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair,  renewal, relocation and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables,  wires, towers, poles or any other equipment and appliances (in this section  called  "works" ) of any public utility as defined in section 48:2-13 of the  Revised Statutes, in, on, along, over or under any real property, including  public lands or waters.  Whenever in connection with construction or operation  of any public facility, any authority shall determine that it is necessary that  any such works, which now are or hereafter may be located in, on, along, over  or under any such real property, should be relocated in such real property or  should be removed therefrom, the public utility owning or operating such works  shall relocate or remove the same in accordance with the order of the  authority; provided, however, that the cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such works in a new location or new  locations, and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands or any  other rights acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, less the cost  of any lands or any rights, or interests in lands or any other rights of the  public utility paid to the public utility in connection with the relocation or  removal of such works, shall be paid by the authority and may be included in  the cost of such public facility.  In case of any such relocation or removal of  works as aforesaid, the public utility owning or operating the same, its  successors or assigns, may maintain and operate such works, with the necessary  appurtenances, in the new location or new locations for as long a period, and  upon the same terms and conditions, as it had the right to maintain and operate  such works in their former location.

     L.1967, c. 136, s. 32, eff. June 28, 1967.