Title 48, Title 48: PUBLIC UTILITIES

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 operating the same, it shall within ten days thereafter file …

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 same to parties entitled thereto. The board of public utility commissioners may pr…

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 there is a limited time within which the duty is to be discharged or…

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 upon such terms and conditions as the board shall prescribe.

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 railway or traction company or by a company organized under the general railro…

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, any locomotive or other engine propelled by steam, moving on its rails.

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 November and the first day of April in any year, use for passenger trans…

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 of railway shall file in the office of t…

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, the right to locate its tracks or any satisfactory operative portion thereof, it may file with the sec…

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, the company may, at any time before the extension or new line shall have been completely cons…

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 extension of any existing railway, shown on the map thereof filed in the off…

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 to another part of such st…

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 of the municipality. Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 178.

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 and shall have the force and effect of a contract when accepted by any street railway or traction company i…

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 proposed street railway is to be constructed, the consent of such other b…

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 the municipality the consent of the owners of at least one-half in amount in lineal feet of property fron…

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 a map or description of the route of the railway, showi…

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 and appliances as shall be appropriate or necessary to operate the street…

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 interest or convenience requires an extension therei…

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 railway by petition to the governing body of the municipality in wh…

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 which the tracks of the company are to be constructed or located, the consent of such o…

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 an autobus shall obtain, as required by law, th…

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 railway service upon any of its lines or parts there…

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 in whole or in part for street railway service upon any of its lines or parts thereof, …

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 operated a street railway upon the streets of th…

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 lines, and its autobusses and street railway lines are operat…

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 street railway or an elevated railroad or …

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 part thereof, may remove any of its street railway tracks …

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 as a compliance with the franchise for the operation of street cars, and …

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 street railway, such company, during the year f…

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 a street railway or an elevated railroad or a subway by m…

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 or railroad …

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 as a street railway, shall operate autobusses, or vehicles of the characte…

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, such company shall, at its own cost and expense, restore …

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 any street railway or traction company has…

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 any such company, the company shall at the same time and at its o…

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 to pave, repave or repair any street or to pay any part of the cost thereof except as i…

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 nine hundred and twenty-seven, by any state, county or municipal b…

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 may purchase, acquire by condemnation i…

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 with the board of public utility commissioners as directed …

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 subway under any street, park or other public place upon such t…

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 reasonable development or improvement of the land upon which the te…

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 and it has a franchise to lay its tracks in the street on either side of a bridge o…

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 opinion the use of the bridge by the street railway or traction company is a public necessity, it shall by order: a. Direct…

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, wires and appurtenances on the bridge and use the same for public travel. Should the …

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 railway or traction company. The lessee company may take the …