{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-34-1b-8","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 34:1B-8","heading":"Public utility facilities;  definition;  powers","body":"The authority shall also 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 and other equipment and appliances herein called  \"public utility facilities\"  of any public utility, as defined in R.S. 48:2-13, in, on, along, over or under any project.\nWhenever the authority shall determine that it is necessary that any such public utility facilities which now are, or hereafter may be, located in, on, along, over or under any project, should be relocated, or should be removed from such project, the public utility owning or operating such facilities 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 facilities in a new location or new  locations, and the cost of any lands, or any rights or interests in lands, and  any other rights acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, less the  cost of any lands or any rights of the public utility paid to the public  utility in connection with the relocation or removal of such property, shall be  ascertained and paid by the authority as a part of the cost of such project.   In case of any such relocation or removal of facilities, as aforesaid, the  public utility owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns, may  maintain and operate such facilities, 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 facilities in  their former location or locations.\nL.1974, c. 80, s. 8, eff. Aug. 7, 1974.","path":["TITLE 34 LABOR AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"c97f896a9ae3ef6818125fa54bb98fc5dbb90d8a89889c5667d3426153904c68","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-34-1b-7.53","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-34-1b-9"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}