New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 47 - STATE HIGHWAY ACCESS MANAGEMENT CODE › Subchapter 3 - DESIGNATION OF LIMITED ACCESS › Section 16:47-3.13 - Relocations or removals within driveway areas

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The Department
				has jurisdiction over all structures within the limits of its right-of-way and
				easements.
(b) Removal of curb is
				not authorized, except in accordance with
				16:47-3.9.
(c) Permission may be obtained for the
				relocation of an inlet where storm sewers, highway grades, and other conditions
				are favorable. All work will be at the expense of the permittee and shall be
				constructed in accordance with Department "Standard Specifications for Road and
				Bridge Construction".
(d) The
				permittee shall remove guide rail once the fill behind the guide rail has been
				completed to the satisfaction of the Department. The guide rail remains the
				property of the State and shall be delivered, undamaged, to the location
				specified in the permit.
(e) The
				permittee shall relocate regulatory, directional and warning signs, at the
				permittee's expense, providing a satisfactory location can be found.
(f) The Department may allow the relocation
				of State-owned electrical facilities providing a new location satisfactory to
				the Department can be found. This also applies to pavement detectors,
				pullboxes, conduits, and other constituent parts. Relocations shall be at the
				permittee's expense. Where structures are owned by a county or municipality,
				the applicant shall obtain written county or municipal permission before access
				is requested.
(g) Permission may be
				granted for construction of a driveway which requires the relocation of a
				utility pole or fire hydrant. Utility poles and fire hydrants shall not be
				permitted on channeling islands. Utility poles and fire hydrants should be
				relocated as close to the right-of-way line as possible. The relocation shall
				be arranged by the permittee with the utility company or municipality. The
				Department will not pay for relocation, except as required pursuant to
				27:7-44.9. Should a utility pole
				have attached to it service connections for any State-owned facility, the
				Department will relocate the service at the permittee's expense.
(h) Relocation of utility poles carrying the
				Department's lighting system usually cannot be permitted. These are placed in
				accordance with a carefully designed spacing pattern. However, should a new
				design be appropriate, it shall be at the permittee's expense.
(i) At locations on highways where metal pole
				lighting exists, electrical conduit or direct buried high voltage cables are
				located adjacent to the inside of curb, at a depth of approximately 18 inches
				(460 millimeters) below the top of curb. Extreme care must be exercised not to
				damage conduit or cables during removal of curb and construction of access
				points. It will be necessary to protect cables by encasing them in fiber
				conduit with an envelope of concrete. The permittee shall notify the Department
				District Electrical Supervisor at least three working days prior to any
				excavation adjacent to curb.
(j)
				When applications require movement or relocation of highway facilities by the
				Department, the applicant shall assume all expenses involved in the movement or
				relocation of the highway facilities and any expenses for additional facilities
				necessitated by the move. The Department will have the work
				completed.