48:3-21 - Sale of property and franchises of gas, water, or gas and water companies; purchasers constituted corporation; powers - New Jersey Statutes

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 or under any law of this state, shall be or has been sold and  conveyed under and by virtue of any process or decree of any court of this  state, or of the district court of the United States, the person or persons for  or on whose account such property, rights, powers, immunities, privileges and  franchises may be purchased shall be and they are hereby constituted a body  politic and corporate, and shall be and they are vested with all the right,  title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand in law and equity of,  in and to such turnpike, bridge, plank road, gas, water, or gas and water  company, with its appurtenances and with all the rights, powers, immunities,  privileges and franchises of the corporation as whose the same may have been  sold, and which may have been granted to or conferred thereupon by any law of  this state in force at the time of such sale or conveyance.

    The persons for or on whose account any such property, rights, powers, immunities, privileges and franchises of such corporation which may or shall have been purchased under and by virtue of any process or decree of any court of this state or of the district court of the United States, may organize such new corporation by the election of such officers and directors, issue such certificates of stock, create and issue such preferred stock, and from time to time issue such bonds, and secure the same as was authorized by the act or acts  under and by which such former corporation was created.