Title 48, Title 48: PUBLIC UTILITIES

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 shall direct or knowingly suffer …

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 its name; b. Decrease …

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 person or company violating this section shall forfeit two hundred dolla…

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 through every baggage, express and passenger car and through or over every other c…

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 of a car or train, be intoxicated, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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 or in furtherance of any combination or preconcerted arran…

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 railroad employee performing his duty as s…

48:12-166. Neglect or refusal to pay fare; penalty 48:12-166. Any person who shall: a. Travel or attempt to travel on any train on a railroad without having previously paid his fare and with intent to avoid payment thereof; or b. Having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowi…

48:12-168 Railroad operators to remove obstructive vegetation near railroad crossings. 1. a. Each railroad operator shall destroy or remove plants, trees, brush, or other obstructive vegetation upon and within the geographical bounds of its right-of-way at each intersection with …

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 every stockholder and filed in like manner as the original certificate, authori…

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 road and furnish all necessary lands, chattels, engines, cars and equip…

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 of its railroad, and may erect, construct, maintain and use such machinery, engines, devices and applianc…

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 travel and take tolls or fares therefor shall after that date remain exclusive and …

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, owned or possessed,…

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 and operate ferries for the transportation of persons and property on or across the same. The co…

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, piers, docks, landings and buildings situated at or near any terminus of it…

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 franchises in this state may hold meetings of the directors in this state who may e…

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 levels or parts of different levels…

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 filed in the office of the secretary of state. The company may also from ti…

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 have deposited with the state treasurer at least two thousand dollars for every mile a…

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 filed with him, for which he shall collect from the company filing the same the fees pres…

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 required for the slopes of cuts and embankments or for retaining walls, in which case such land may be acquired as part of the ri…

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 of compensation, may construct, maintain and operate a railroad with…

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 fifty miles in length, the company shall open and complete at least one track wi…

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 chapter shall be evidence in all courts and places of the certificat…

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 shall forfeit thereby the franchises given to it by such laws. …

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 thirty-seven, saved from repeal. [Subject to certain conditions, this act extend…

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 in length, and may maintain and operate the same, extending from the…

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 of railroad…

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 construct and operate a branch connecting such roads and acquire land and property necessary for t…

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 the one to run on the tracks of the other, upon obtaining the certificate of the…

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 as provided herein in taking: (a) any land and property required for the right-of-way of…

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 surveyed route or location of any other railroad company with the consent of such other comp…

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 recording an amended survey thereof in the same manner as the original survey.

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 and recording a survey of the new location and of the section abandoned with the secret…

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 survey of the straightened, shortened or improved line in the…

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 which it is authorized to exercise and there is a limited time w…

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 completed upon filing and recording in the office of the Secretary of State a c…

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 or other structures carrying tracks of the kind commonly known …

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 five hundred dollars ($500.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). In the event that any such violation continues…

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, and may build viaducts over or tunnels under any navigable or …

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 each outer side and a white light at each inner side of said draws, which shall be ke…

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 shallowness of water …

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 many tracks as it shall deem necessary, by means of a bridge and its ap…

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 or other interstate waters may build its railroad under the same b…

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 law, with gates or barways at farm crossings. Every such company shall also construct and main…