27:25A-26. Authority may make regulations in connection with utility works on projects

26. In addition to the other powers conferred by this act or by any other law and not in limitation thereof, the authority, in connection with construction or operation of any project, may make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, renewal and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles or any other equipment and appliances, herein called "works," of any public utility as defined in R.S.48:2-13, in, on or along, over or under any project, public highway or real property, including public lands or waters. Whenever in connection with construction or operation of any project, the authority shall determine that it is necessary that any works, which now are or hereafter may be located in, on, along, over or under any project, public highway, or real property, should be relocated in the project, public highway, or real property or should be removed therefrom, the public utility owning or operating the works shall relocate or remove the same in accordance with the order of the authority, provided, however, that the cost and expenses of the relocation or removal, including the cost of installing these works in a new location or locations, and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands or any other rights acquired to accomplish the relocation or removal, less the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands or any other rights of the public utility, paid to the public utility in connection with the relocation or removal of the works, shall be paid by the authority and may be included in the cost of the project. In case of any relocation or removal of works, the public utility owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns, may maintain and operate the works, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new location for as long a period, and upon the same terms and conditions, as it had the right to maintain and operate the works in their former location.

In case of any relocation or removal of works, the authority shall own and maintain, repair and renew structures within the rights-of-way of railroad companies carrying any project or feeder road over railroads, and the authority shall bear the cost of maintenance, repair and renewal of structures within the rights-of-way of railroad companies carrying railroads over any project or feeder road, but this provision shall not relieve any railroad company from responsibility for damage caused to any authority or railroad structure by the operation of its railroad. The approaches, curbing, sidewalk paving, guard rails on approaches and surface paving projects or feeder roads as shall be within the rights-of-way of a railroad company or companies shall be owned and maintained, repaired and renewed by the authority; rails, pipes and lines shall be owned and maintained, repaired and renewed by the railroad company or companies.

L.1991,c.252,s.26.