48:19-8 - Incorporation of certain companies recognized; powers - New Jersey Statutes

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 water for public and private use, and which has filed  in the office of the secretary of state a certificate approved by the board of  public utility commissioners purporting to be under the act entitled "A  supplement to an act entitled "An act for the construction, maintenance and  operation of waterworks for the purpose of supplying cities, towns, townships,  villages, boroughs and other municipalities in this state with water, and  otherwise amending said act,' approved April twenty-first, one thousand eight  hundred and seventy-six, as such title was amended by an act approved June  twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred and six,"  approved April tenth, one  thousand nine hundred and thirty-three (L.1933, c. 98, p. 202), shall be deemed  to have become thereby duly incorporated and to be fully authorized to continue  to supply water for public and private use in any and all municipalities then  being supplied by such company, and said company shall be fully authorized to  exercise all the rights and powers conferred by this chapter and may thereafter  continue to maintain, operate and extend its works, mains, pipes and  appurtenances in each of the municipalities being supplied.