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NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-46 - Definitions

48:4-46. Definitions  (a) As used in this article "motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire" is hereby defined as meaning any motor vehicle propelled otherwise than by muscular power (excepting such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks exclusively) carrying passengers for hire of any kind over the highways in this State except (1) motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire over the highways in this State by virtue of municipal consent or consents upon a route or routes established in any municipality or municipalities; (2) taxicabs; (3) hotel buses; (4) buses employed solely for transporting school children and teachers to or from school; (5) autobuses with a carrying capacity of not more than 10 passengers now or hereafter operated under municipal consent upon a route established wholly within the limits of a single municipality, which route does not in whole or in part parallel upon the same street the line of any street railway or traction railway or any other autobus route; (6) autobuses operated over highways in this State for the purpose of carrying passengers from a point outside the State to another point outside the State or from a point outside the State to a point within the State, or from a point within the State to a point outside the State between fixed termini on a regular schedule; (7) any vehicle with a maximum carrying capacity of not more than 15 passengers, including the driver, which is used in the form of service termed "ridesharing," where the transportation of passengers is incidental to the purpose of the driver. The term shall include such ridesharing arrangements known as carpools and vanpools. (b) "Self-insurer" means any person who by virtue of any law of this State, or in case of a nonresident, of the state of which such person is a resident and in which any motor vehicle coming within the provisions of this article is registered, is exempted by some official, board or body of this State or such other state from requirements imposed upon other owners of similar motor vehicles to carry insurance or secure possible claims for damages by a bond of a surety company. (c) "Financial responsibility" means ability to satisfy claims to the extent set forth in sections 48:4-47 and 48:4-48 of this Title. (d) "For hire" means compensation in any form, whether directly or indirectly made. (e) "Financial coverage" means insurance and also self-insurer. (f) "Magistrate" shall be deemed and understood to mean and include all judges of county and criminal courts, and other officers having powers of the committing magistrate. Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 85; L.1981, c. 413, s. 12, eff. Jan. 7, 1982.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-47 - Financial coverage required; insurance policy; filing with utility board; rejection; minimum and maximum liability for bodily injury or death

48:4-47. Financial coverage required; insurance policy; filing with utility board; rejection; minimum and maximum liability for bodily injury or death  Any person engaged in the business of operating motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire shall at all times have financial coverage. If such financial coverage shall be by insurance policy, such insurance policy or policies, or true copies thereof, shall be filed with the Board of Public Utility Commissioners. Said board may reject any policy if and when it determines after hearing upon notice in writing to the insurance company that the company or companies writing or underwriting said policies of insurance is or are not financially responsible to respond in damages. Upon any hearing as provided herein, the burden of proving its financial responsibility shall rest upon said insurance company or companies. Said insurance policies shall be conditioned for the payment of a minimum sum, hereinafter called "minimum liability," on any one judgment, and a maximum sum hereinafter called "maximum liability," on all judgments recovered against any such person upon claims arising out of the same transaction or transactions connected with the same subject of action, to be apportioned ratably among the judgment creditors according to the amount of their respective judgments, for damages because of bodily injury, including death, at any time resulting therefrom caused in the operation, maintenance, use or the defective construction of such motor vehicles, as follows: (a) For damages because of bodily injury, including death, at any time resulting therefrom, for each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of not more than 12 passengers, an insurance policy with a minimum liability of $25,000.00 and a maximum liability of $100,000.00. (b) For each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of not less than 13 nor more than 20 passengers, an insurance policy with a minimum liability of $25,000.00 and a maximum liability of $200,000.00. (c) For each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of not less than 21 nor more than 30 passengers, an insurance policy with a minimum liability of $25,000.00 and a maximum liability of $400,000.00. (d) For each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of more than 30 passengers, an insurance policy with a minimum liability of $25,000.00 and a maximum liability of $600,000.00. Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 86; L.1972, c. 182, s. 4, eff. Jan. 1, 1973.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-48 - Property damage; liability

48:4-48. Property damage; liability  For damages because of injury to or destruction of property, for each motor vehicle an insurance policy with a minimum liability of $10,000.00 and a maximum liability of $25,000.00. Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 87; L.1972, c. 182, s. 5, eff. Jan. 1, 1973.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-49 - Provision for continuing liability

48:4-49. Provision for continuing liability  Insurance policies filed under this article shall contain a provision for a continuing liability, notwithstanding any recovery thereon, until the expiration thereof, according to their terms or until ten days after notice in writing of cancellation has been given to the board of public utility commissioners.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-50 - Self-insurance unaffected; nonresident owners and operators; certificate of self-insurance

48:4-50. Self-insurance unaffected; nonresident owners and operators; certificate of self-insurance  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to repeal any law permitting self-insurance of motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire, nor shall the foregoing requirements as to insurance apply to a vehicle owned or operated by a nonresident who is a self-insurer under the laws of the state of which he is a resident and in which such vehicle is registered, if such laws are substantially similar to the laws of this state with respect to the qualifications for self-insurance; provided, any such nonresident self-insurer shall have filed with the board of public utility commissioners a certified copy of the certificate permitting such operator to be a self-insurer under the laws of the state of which he is a resident and in which the motor vehicle is registered; the board may reject any such certificate of self-insurance if and when it determines, after hearing upon notice in writing to the self-insurer, that such self-insurer is not financially responsible to respond in damages.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-51 - Evidence of financial coverage; driver to have in possession and exhibit upon request

48:4-51. Evidence of financial coverage; driver to have in possession and exhibit upon request  The driver of every motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire shall have in his possession and exhibit for inspection when requested by any proper person, either (a) the original policy of insurance covering such vehicle or (b) a certificate thereof issued by the insurance company; or (c) if a self-insurer, a certificate of such self-insurance issued by the official, board or body authorized by law to permit such self-insurance.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-52 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-52 - Rules and regulations

48:4-52. Rules and regulations  The board of public utility commissioners is hereby empowered to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state with respect to financial coverage as herein provided.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-53 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-53 - Operating motor vehicle without financial coverage; misdemeanor

48:4-53. Operating motor vehicle without financial coverage; misdemeanor  Any person who shall knowingly operate or permit to be operated any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire not at the time of such use covered by insurance or other financial coverage as herein provided for shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-54 - Refusal to exhibit evidence of financial coverage; penalty

48:4-54. Refusal to exhibit evidence of financial coverage; penalty  Any person who shall knowingly operate or permit to be operated a motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire who shall fail to display or who refuses to exhibit upon request of a proper person the evidence of insurance or other financial coverage provided for in this article shall, upon conviction, be adjudged a disorderly person and shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $100.00 or imprisonment for a term of not more than 90 days, or both a fine and imprisonment not exceeding the aforesaid maximum, at the discretion of the magistrate before whom the conviction shall be had. Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 88.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:4-55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:4-55 - Construction of article

48:4-55. Construction of article  This article shall not be construed to repeal any act or portion of any act not wholly inconsistent therewith, but all such acts shall be construed in paria materia herewith.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-1 - Formation authorized

48:5-1. Formation authorized  Five or more persons, a majority of whom shall be residents of this state, may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a bridge or bridges and approaches thereto for the public use.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-2 - Certificate of incorporation; contents

48:5-2. Certificate of incorporation; contents  Such persons shall execute a certificate of incorporation setting forth: I. The name of the company; II. The period of time the same is to continue; III. The name of each county through or into which the bridge or bridges are to be constructed, maintained and operated; IV. The amount of authorized capital stock of the company, which shall not be less than twenty thousand dollars for every bridge constructed or proposed to be constructed, and the number of shares of such capital stock; and V. The names and places of residence of the incorporators.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-3 - Recording and filing certificate

48:5-3. Recording and filing certificate  The certificate of incorporation shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where the principal office of the company is located, and filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state. Thereafter the incorporators and their successors shall be a corporation by the name certified in the certificate of incorporation.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-4 - Certificate or copy as evidence

48:5-4. Certificate or copy as evidence  Any certificate of incorporation filed in the office of the secretary of state pursuant to section 48:5-3 of this title, or a copy thereof certified by the secretary of state, shall be evidence of the incorporation of the company and of the facts therein stated.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-5 - Directors and officers

48:5-5. Directors and officers  A board of at least five directors of every company organized under this article shall be chosen annually by the stockholders, when, where, and as shall be provided by the by-laws and shall hold office for one year, and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. The other officers of the company shall be selected and chosen and shall hold office as provided by the by-laws.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-6 - Stock

48:5-6. Stock  The stock of every company organized under this article shall be subscribed, paid for, held and transferred, and the subscriptions therefor collected in the manner set forth in Title 14, Corporations, General.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-8 - Tolls

48:5-8. Tolls  Every company organized under this article may take such rate of toll as may be fixed by it from time to time, for persons, vehicles or animals, or for things not herein enumerated, entering on, passing over or using such bridges and the approaches thereto. Any toll gatherer of the company may stop any person, vehicle or animal from entering upon, passing over or using such bridges and the approaches thereto until the required toll shall have been paid.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-8.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-8.1 - Charter inoperative or void for nonpayment of taxes; reinstatement

48:5-8.1. Charter inoperative or void for nonpayment of taxes; reinstatement  If the charter of any company organized under this article shall hereafter become or shall have heretofore become inoperative or void by proclamation of the governor or by operation of law, for nonpayment of taxes, the governor, by and with the advice of the attorney general, may, upon payment by such company to the secretary of state of such sum in lieu of taxes and penalties as to them may seem reasonable, but in no case to be less than the fees required as upon the filing of the original certificate of incorporation, permit such company to be reinstated and entitled to all its franchises and privileges. Upon such payment as aforesaid the secretary of state shall issue his certificate entitling such company to continue its said business and its said franchises. Nothing in this section contained shall relieve any such company from the penalty of forfeiture of its franchises in case of failure to pay such future taxes imposed under any law of this state.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-9 - Joint agreement of bridge companies for constructing and operating bridge

48:5-9. Joint agreement of bridge companies for constructing and operating bridge  Whenever two or more bridge companies are authorized by any lawful authority to build and maintain bridges over or across navigable waters separating this state from another state and the lines of the bridges may or can embrace the same location or line or their locations or lines may or can connect or become tributary to each other, such companies may enter into an agreement for the joint or several building, maintenance or operation of the whole or any part of the bridges together with all proper connections and appurtenances and approaches thereto and stations.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-10 - Terms of joint agreement

48:5-10. Terms of joint agreement  The directors of the companies proposing to enter into such joint agreement may agree upon the terms thereof and the agreement may prescribe the terms and conditions thereof and the mode of carrying it into effect. The parties to the agreement may pledge to and with each other for the due performance thereof, all their present and future acquired property and franchises. They may prescribe such provisions relating to the issue of obligations by either or both companies and the securing of the same by guarantee or mortgage of the franchises and property of either or both companies, present or future acquired and relating to the ownership, possession, control, maintenance and operation of the whole or any part of such bridge, its connections, appurtenances, approaches and stations by the respective companies or by their respective stockholders, directors, committees, officers or agents, or by any board of managers or arbitrators appointed under the agreement, as may be proper to effect the objects thereof.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-11 - Stockholders' meeting; filing agreement

48:5-11. Stockholders' meeting; filing agreement  The agreement shall be submitted to the stockholders of each company at a meeting called specially for the purpose. Written or printed notice of the time and place of the meeting shall be delivered or mailed by each company to its stockholders of record whose post-office addresses are known to the company, at least thirty days before the meeting and a general notice thereof shall also be published daily for at least four weeks in a newspaper printed in the city, town or county where the company has its principal office or place of business. At the meeting, a vote by ballot shall be taken for the adoption or rejection of the agreement, each share entitling the holder thereof to one vote. The ballot shall be cast in person or by proxy. If two-thirds of the votes of all the stockholders of the respective companies shall be for the adoption of the agreement, that fact shall be certified thereon by the secretary of each company under its seal. The agreement so adopted or a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state and shall from thence be deemed and taken to be the agreement of the companies. The secretary of state shall be paid twenty dollars upon filing the agreement. A copy of the agreement duly certified by the secretary of state shall be evidence of the existence thereof and that the provisions of this section have been complied with.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-12 - Mortgages of corporate rights and franchises

48:5-12. Mortgages of corporate rights and franchises  Every bridge company incorporated by the laws of this state and doing business, operating works or owning property in this state or partly in this state and partly in another state, and whose charter or the supplements thereto do not confer an express power to mortgage or convey in trust its corporate rights and franchises to secure its bonds, may mortgage its corporate property, rights and franchises to secure the payment of any bonds or other indebtedness issued or to be issued by the company, but such indebtedness shall not exceed by more than fifty thousand dollars the amount of real and personal property which the company may be authorized by its charter to hold.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-13 - Formation authorized

48:5-13. Formation authorized  Three or more persons may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a bridge or bridges over the Delaware river for public use, upon executing and filing a certificate of incorporation as hereinafter provided.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-14 - Certificate of incorporation; contents

48:5-14. Certificate of incorporation; contents  The certificate of incorporation shall set forth: I. The name of the company, which shall not resemble a name already in use by any corporation in this state so as to lead to uncertainty or confusion; II. The location (town or city, street and number, if such there be) of the principal office in this state; III. The name of its agent in charge of the principal office upon whom service of process may be made; IV. The object of the company, the municipality in which the terminal points of the proposed bridge or bridges are to be located, the counties of this state in or through which the company intends to construct such bridge or bridges; V. The amount of total authorized capital stock, or total number of shares of stock authorized; the number of shares into which the same is divided, if it is to have a par value; a statement of whether such shares are to have a par value or to be without par value; if the shares are to have a par value, the par value of each share; the amount of capital stock subscribed by the incorporators, and with which it will commence business; and if there be more than one class of stock created by the certificate, a description of the different classes with the terms on which created; VI. The names and places of residence of the incorporators and the number of shares subscribed by each. The aggregate of such subscription shall be the amount of capital with which the company shall commence business; VII. The names and places of residence of the first directors of the company, of whom there shall be not less than three, who shall be stockholders and incorporators of the company, and at least one of whom shall be a resident of this state, and who shall manage its affairs until other directors are chosen in their places; VIII. The period, if any, limited for the duration of the company; IX. Any provisions authorized by law which the incorporators may choose to insert for the regulation of the business, and for conduct of the affairs of the corporation, or for creating, defining, limiting and regulating the powers of directors, stockholders and officers.
NJ Rev Stat § 48:5-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 48 - Public Utilities|Section 48:5-15 - Signing, recording and filing certificate

48:5-15. Signing, recording and filing certificate  The certificate of incorporation shall be signed in person by all the incorporators and proved or acknowledged as required for deeds of real estate and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where the principal office of the company shall be established. After being so recorded a copy thereof to be certified by the clerk shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. Thereupon the incorporators and their successors shall be a corporation. The secretary of state shall record the certificate in a book to be kept for that purpose.