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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-26 - Hearings; examination of witnesses

48:4-26. Hearings; examination of witnesses
The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles or his deputy, auditors or investigators shall have power to conduct hearings and to administer oaths to, and to examine under oath, any such owner or operator and the directors, officers, agents and employees of such owner or operator, and as well all other witnesses relative to the transportation business of such owner or operator, in respect to any matter incident to the administration of sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this Title.
Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 76.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-27 - Subpoenas; witnesses' fees

48:4-27. Subpoenas; witnesses' fees
The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles shall have power by subpoena to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of any books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents of any such owner or operator, or of any other person at any such hearing. The fees of witnesses required to attend any such hearing shall be the same as those allowed to witnesses appearing in the Superior Court. Fees shall be paid in a manner provided for the payment of other expenses incident to the administration of sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this Title.
Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 77.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-28 - Refusal to obey subpoena; procedure before supreme court; contempt

48:4-28. Refusal to obey subpoena; procedure before supreme court; contempt
If a person subpoenaed to attend any hearing refuses to appear, be examined or answer any question or produce any books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents when ordered so to do by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles or his deputy, auditor or investigator designated by him to conduct such hearing, the director, such deputy, auditor or investigator, may apply to the Superior Court, or any judge thereof, who shall have the power of the court for that purpose, upon proof by affidavit of the facts, to make an order returnable not less than 2, nor more than 10 days, directing such person to show cause before the court or a judge thereof, why he should not comply with the direction or order of the director, or of the deputy, auditor or investigator so appointed by the director.
Upon the return of such order, the court or judge before whom the matter shall come, shall examine such person under oath, and such person shall be given an opportunity to be heard and if the court or judge shall determine that such person refused without legal excuse to obey the command of the subpoena, or to be examined, or to answer a question, or to produce any book, paper, voucher, record, account or document which he was ordered to answer or produce, the court or judge may order such person to comply forthwith with the subpoena or order. Any failure to obey such order of the court or judge, may be punished by the court or judge as contempt of the Superior Court.
Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 78.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-29 - Appointment of auditors, investigators, etc.; civil service

48:4-29. Appointment of auditors, investigators, etc.; civil service
The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles may appoint one or more auditors and investigators and such clerical assistants as he may deem necessary, subject to the provisions of Title 11, Civil Service.
Amended by L.1953, c. 430, p. 2165, s. 1, eff. Sept. 18, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-30 - Revocation of registration certificate; grounds

48:4-30. Revocation of registration certificate; grounds
Failure to file a report or bond in the manner prescribed by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, or to pay proper excise, or any legal penalties imposed by sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this Title, or to adhere to any reasonable rules and regulations imposed by the director, or preventing an examination or investigation of books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents, or refusing to exhibit such books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts and documents, or ignoring subpoena whether served within the State or without the State, shall be good cause for the director to revoke the registration certificates for autobusses issued to such owner or operator, or to prevent the operation in this State of autobusses registered in another State.
Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 79.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-31 - Collection of excise; prior lien

48:4-31. Collection of excise; prior lien
The excise imposed by section 48:4-20 of this Title, and interest and penalties thereon from the time the same shall be due and payable, shall be a personal debt due from such owner or operator to the State, recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction in any action at law to be commenced by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles on behalf of the State.
Such excise, interest and penalties shall be a first and prior lien upon the assets of such owner or operator and payment thereof shall be preferred in any distribution of the assets of the owner or operator whether in insolvency, bankruptcy or otherwise.
Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 80.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-32 - Failure to file report or pay excise; penalty

48:4-32. Failure to file report or pay excise; penalty
Any such owner or operator who shall fail to file a report as required by section 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this Title, or bond when demanded, or fail to pay the excise imposed by said sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 within the time herein fixed and limited, shall forfeit and pay to the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles for the use of the State the sum of $5.00 for each and every day of such default, which sum shall be recovered by the director in the manner hereinbefore provided for the enforcement of the payment of the excise imposed by said sections. Such moneys, when recovered, shall be paid over to the State Treasurer for the use of the State Highway Commission for construction and maintenance of highways.
Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 81.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-33 - False report or statements; evasion of excise; misdemeanor

48:4-33. False report or statements; evasion of excise; misdemeanor
Any person who shall make any false or fraudulent report, or any false statement in any report with intent to defraud the state, or to evade the payment of any excise, or any part thereof imposed by section 48:4-20 of this title, or who shall aid or abet another in any attempt to evade the payment of any such excise, or any part thereof, or any person who shall make, or permit to be made, for any corporation, association or partnership any false report or any false statement in any report required to be filed under sections 48:4-20 to 48:4-34 of this title with intent to evade the payment of any excise hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-35 - Definitions.

48:4-35. Definitions.
48:4-35. a. "Motor vehicle" as used in this article includes all vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular power (excepting such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks exclusively) carrying passengers for hire now or hereafter operated by virtue of a certificate of public convenience and necessity including vehicles used in connection with charter or special bus operations to which this act applies within the State of New Jersey.
b. "Self-insurer" means any person who, by virtue of any law of this State is exempted by some official, board or body of this State from the requirements imposed upon other owners of similar motor vehicles to carry insurance in an insurance company.
c. "Financial responsibility" means ability to satisfy claims to the extent set forth in section 48:4-36 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 mean judges and other officers having powers of the committing magistrate.
Amended 1973,c.158,s.8; 1991,c.91,s.469.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-36 - Financial coverage required; insurance policy; filing with utility board; rejection; minimum and maximum liability for bodily injury or death

48:4-36. Financial coverage required; insurance policy; filing with utility board; rejection; minimum and maximum liability for bodily injury or death
Any person engaged in the operation of motor vehicles 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 of not less than hereinafter set forth, hereinafter called "minimum liability," on any one judgment, and a maximum sum of not less than hereinafter set forth, 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, or injury 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.1948, c. 178, p. 921, s. 1; L.1962, c. 198, s. 82; L.1972, c. 182, s. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1973.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-37 - Property damage; liability

48:4-37. 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. 83; L.1972, c. 182, s. 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1973.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-38 - Provision for continuing liability

48:4-38. 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-40 - Evidence of financial coverage; driver to have in possession and exhibit upon request

48:4-40. Evidence of financial coverage; driver to have in possession and exhibit upon request
The driver of every motor vehicle shall have in his possession and exhibit for inspection when requested by any proper person (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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-43 - Driver refusing to exhibit evidence of financial coverage; penalty

48:4-43. Driver refusing to exhibit evidence of financial coverage; penalty
Any driver of a motor vehicle who shall fail or refuse 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 one hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term of not more than ninety 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:4-45 - Certain autobusses excepted

48:4-45. Certain autobusses excepted
The provisions of this article shall not apply to autobusses 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, nor to any autobus solely engaged in transportation of school children, jurisdiction over which is now vested in any board or body other than the Board of Public Utility Commissioners.
Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 84.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-16 - Conditions precedent to filing of certificate

48:5-16. Conditions precedent to filing of certificate
The certificate of incorporation shall not be filed in the office of the secretary of state until there shall have been annexed thereto and filed therewith an affidavit, made by at least three of the directors in the certificate named, that at least one hundred thousand dollars has been, in good faith, subscribed and paid into the treasury of the company for stock for each terminal to be constructed by the company within this state, and that it is intended in good faith to construct, maintain and operate the bridges mentioned in the certificate. Nor shall the certificate be filed in such office until at least twenty-five thousand dollars has been in good faith subscribed and paid in cash to the directors for each terminal to be constructed in this state, and deposited by them with the treasurer of the state.
The treasurer of the state shall hold the sum so deposited subject to be repaid to the company or its treasurer upon the construction of what it shall be proved to his satisfaction that the company has expended at least twenty-five thousand dollars to construct, or to be repaid to the directors of the company upon satisfactory proof of the payment of all debts of the company and the dissolution thereof.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-17 - Certificate or copy as evidence

48:5-17. Certificate or copy as evidence
Any certificate of incorporation filed in the office of the secretary of state in pursuance of section 48:5-15 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 and of the right of the company to exercise all of its powers under the provisions of this article.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-19 - Tolls

48:5-19. Tolls
Every such company may demand and receive such sums of money for the use of its bridges and for other services connected with its business as it shall from time to time think reasonable and proper not exceeding:
Vehicles including driver--
Motor cycle with or without side car, twenty-five cents.
Automobiles, except trucks and busses, under one hundred-inch wheel base, forty cents; over one hundred-inch wheel base, sixty cents.
Automobile trucks or busses under eleven feet in length, fifty cents; eleven feet and under fifteen feet in length, sixty-five cents; fifteen feet and under seventeen feet in length, eighty cents.
Horse drawn vehicles--one-horse wagon, fifty cents; two-horse wagon, seventy-five cents; additional horses attached to vehicle, fifteen cents.
Trailer on automobile or wagon, fifty cents.
Each additional foot or part thereof over seventeen feet in length of all vehicles or loads thereof, five cents.
Bicycle and rider, ten cents.
Saddle horse and rider, fifteen cents.
Each pedestrian or passenger in vehicle, five cents.
Vehicles or means of transportation not above referred to or not now invented or used, at such rates as the company may fix.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-20 - Uses of bridge

48:5-20. Uses of bridge
Every bridge constructed under the provisions of this article may be used for the passage of vehicles of all types and kind; for the passage of pedestrians; for all incidental purposes, including conduits, cables, pipes, wires and railways, in so far as such use will not interfere with the passage of vehicles and pedestrians.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-22 - Acquisition of bridge by states; terms of acquisition

48:5-22. Acquisition of bridge by states; terms of acquisition
The state reserves to itself the right, acting in conjunction with any adjoining state or municipality thereof, to acquire any bridge constructed by any such company at the following times and upon the following terms:
a. At the expiration of five years after the opening of any bridge for public use, for the total costs thereof of whatever nature and upon assumption of all obligations or liabilities of the bridge company, for the construction of the bridge, with the approaches thereto and appurtenances thereof, plus fifteen per cent of the cost;
b. At any time thereafter, at such total cost and upon assumption of such obligations or liabilities, plus fifteen per cent of the cost, less two per cent per annum of the total cost for each year after the expiration of five years from the date of the opening of the bridge for public use.
Every company organized under this article consents to the acquisition by the state pursuant to this section of any bridge constructed by the company.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-23 - Acquisition of bridge by states; two or more bridges

48:5-23. Acquisition of bridge by states; two or more bridges
If two or more bridges shall have been constructed by any such company at different times, the per cent of the total cost to be paid therefor shall be applied to each bridge as of the date the same shall have been opened for public use.
The right to acquire two or more bridges under section 48:5-22 of this title may be exercised if any one of the bridges shall have been in operation for five years. If a second or other bridge shall not have been in operation for five years, then such second or other bridge shall be taken at such total cost thereof, plus fifteen per cent.
If, at the time of the taking of such second or other bridge, it is in process of construction, it shall be acquired at the total cost of the construction up to the time of acquisition, plus fifteen per cent thereof, and upon assumption by the states of all obligations and liabilities incurred in such construction.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-24 - Bridges to become property of states after fifty years

48:5-24. Bridges to become property of states after fifty years
If the state, acting jointly with any adjoining state, shall not have purchased a bridge constructed by a company organized under this article at the expiration of fifty years after the opening of the bridge for public use, the bridge together with the necessary approaches and appurtenances shall become the property of such states for public use without cost or expense to the states and the right, title and interest of the company shall cease.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-26 - Conviction of nuisance; taking toll without paying fine; penalty

48:5-26. Conviction of nuisance; taking toll without paying fine; penalty
When a corporation shall be convicted of a nuisance for not repairing and keeping in repair a bridge and shall neglect to pay the fine and costs awarded for the space of three months after execution shall have been issued against it, such corporation, its lessee or agent, or any other person shall not demand or take any toll upon such bridge until such fine and costs are paid.
If any person shall so demand or take toll after notice in writing to him of such conviction and neglect, such person shall be punished by a penalty of one hundred dollars to be sued for in the name of the prosecutor of the pleas of the county and applied toward payment of the fine and costs aforesaid.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-27 - Investigation of toll bridges and fixing of rates

48:5-27. Investigation of toll bridges and fixing of rates
L.1913, c. 298, p. 614 (1924 Suppl. s.s. *167-18, *167-19), entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning public utilities; to create a board of public utility commissioners and to prescribe its duties and powers,' approved April twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and eleven," approved April ninth, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, saved from repeal. [This act authorizes the board of public utility commissioners to investigate certain toll bridges, require them to be repaired if necessary and fix the toll charges thereof.]
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5-28 - Destruction or removal of materials of toll bridges; regulating passage over

48:5-28. Destruction or removal of materials of toll bridges; regulating passage over
L.1872, c. 85, p. 16 (Rev.1877, pp. 91, 92, s.s. 35 to 40; C.S. pp. 322, 323, s.s. 65 to 70), entitled "An act for the protection of bridges over the river Delaware," approved February twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, saved from repeal. [This act prescribes penalties for destroying or removing timber or other materials belonging to toll bridges over the Delaware river, for crossing such bridges faster than a walk and for carrying fire, explosives, et cetera, over such bridges and requires vehicles to keep to the right while crossing. The act provided it was to go into effect when ratified by the legislature of the state of Pennsylvania and it was so ratified by Pennsylvania by the act of 1873, April 10, P.L. 69, s. 1.]
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5A-4 - Office of Cable Television; establishment; inapplicability of Title 48 to cable television.

48:5A-4 Office of Cable Television; establishment; inapplicability of Title 48 to cable television.
4. There is hereby established in the Board of Public Utilities an Office of Cable Television; but nothing in P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.) shall be construed as declaring or defining cable television to be a public utility or subjecting it to the application of any of the provisions of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes, except as otherwise specifically provided in P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.).
L.1972,c.186,s.4; amended 2006, c.83, s.3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5A-5 - Director; qualifications; compensation; appointment; term

48:5A-5. Director; qualifications; compensation; appointment; term
The office shall be headed and administered by a director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of his office, and shall receive such salary as shall be provided by law. The director shall be appointed by the board, and shall serve at the pleasure of the board.
L.1972, c. 186, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5A-6 - Director; powers and duties.

48:5A-6 Director; powers and duties.
6. The director under the supervision of the President of the Board shall organize the work of the office and establish therein such administrative subdivisions as may be deemed necessary, proper and expedient. The director may formulate rules and regulations for the board's consideration and prescribe duties for the efficient conduct of the business, work and general administration of the office. The director may delegate to subordinate officers or employees in the office such powers as may be deemed desirable, to be exercised under the supervision and direction of the director.
L.1972,c.186,s.6; amended 2006, c.83, s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 48 - Public Utilities › Section 48:5A-7 - Officers and employees; appointment; terms of employment.

48:5A-7 Officers and employees; appointment; terms of employment.
7. Subject to the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes, and within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available, the director with the approval of the President of the Board may appoint such officers and employees of the office as may be deemed necessary for the performance of its duties, and may fix and determine their qualifications, duties and compensation, and may retain or employ engineers and private consultants on a contract basis or otherwise for rendering professional or technical service or assistance.
L.1972,c.186,s.7; amended 2006, c.83, s.5.