14:2-2. Additional corporate purposes

There may be incorporated under this Title corporations for the purpose of

(1) Constructing, maintaining and operating railroads or street railways, or

(2) Constructing, maintaining and operating works, systems, conduits, conductors, lines, equipment, and facilities for the carrying on of one or more of the activities separately described in any one of subsections a through g following:

a. Generation, transmission and distribution of electric current for heat, light and power, or

b. Manufacturing, processing, transmission, distribution and supply of gas for heat, light and power, and other purposes, or

c. Furnishing means of disposal of sewage, or

d. Production, transmission, distribution and supplying of steam heat and power or steam power, or

e. Generation, transmission and distribution of water power or of electrical power generated by water power, or

f. Supplying of telegraph or telephone service or telegraph and telephone service, or

g. Transmission, distribution and supplying of water, and

(3) Furnishing such service or the sale of such product for profit to the public within or outside of this State.

Each corporation heretofore incorporated and organized under any of the provisions of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes, or of any other statutes therein revised, shall hereafter be governed by the provisions of Title 14 of the Revised Statutes to the same extent that it would have been governed thereby if it had been incorporated thereunder and it shall be subject to the restrictions and conditions in said title contained but shall have, in addition to the powers and privileges conferred by said Title 14 of the Revised Statutes,

a. All the powers conferred upon it by the provisions of the statute under which it was incorporated and organized, and

b. The power to issue its capital stock without nominal or par value and to change its existing capital stock to stock without nominal or par value as may be provided for in its charter or certificate of incorporation or any amendment thereof in the manner prescribed by the statute hereby supplemented subject, however, to such control by the Public Utility Commission as is provided by law.

L.1937, c. 188. Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 197.