32:3-13.51. Additional powers; acquisition of property; regulations for installation, maintenance, etc., of public utility works

(a) For the effectuation of any of its purposes authorized by this act, the authority is hereby granted, in addition to and in support of any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it, power and authority to acquire in its name by purchase or otherwise, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as it may deem proper, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, any land and other property which it may determine is reasonably necessary for the new toll bridge referred to in this act or for the construction of such approaches thereto or highway connections as the authority shall deem necessary, and any and all rights, title and interest in such land and other property, including public lands, parks, playgrounds, reservations, highways, or parkways, owned by or in which any county, city, borough, town, township, village, or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or State of New Jersey has any right, title or interest, or parts thereof or rights therein and any fee simple absolute or any lesser interest in private property, and any fee simple absolute in, easements upon, or the benefit of restrictions upon, abutting property to preserve and protect such bridge, the approaches thereto or highway connections. Upon the exercise of the power of eminent domain under this act, the compensation to be paid with regard to property located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall be ascertained and paid as provided by the act of July 9, 1919 (Pamphlet Laws 814) and acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto insofar as the provisions thereof are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of the compact and of this act, and upon the exercise of the power of eminent domain, the compensation to be paid with regard to property located in the State of New Jersey shall be ascertained and paid in the manner provided in chapter 1 of Title 20 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey insofar as the provisions thereof are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of the compact and of this act. The authority may join, in separate subdivisions in one petition or complaint, the descriptions of any number of tracts or parcels of land or property to be condemned and the names of any number of owners and other parties who may have an interest therein and all such land or property included in said petition or complaint may be condemned in a single proceeding: Provided, however, That separate awards shall be made for each tract or parcel of land or property: And provided further, That each of said tracts or parcels of land or property lies wholly in or has a substantial part of its value lying wholly within the same county.

(b) In addition to any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it, the authority, in connection with construction or operation of the project authorized by this act, shall have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, removal, relocation and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles or any other equipment and appliances (in this paragraph (b) called "works" ) located in the State of New Jersey of any public utility as defined in section 48:2-13 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, in, on, along, over or under any such project. Whenever in connection with the construction or operation of such project the authority shall determine that it is necessary that any such works, which now are or hereafter may be located in, on, along, over or under such project should be relocated in such project, or should be removed therefrom, the public utility owning or operating such works shall relocate or remove the same in accordance with the order of the authority, provided, however, that the cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such works in a new location or new locations, and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands or any other rights acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, less the cost of any lands or any rights or interests in lands or any other rights of the public utility paid to the public utility in connection with the relocation or removal of such works, shall be paid by the authority and shall be included in the cost of such project. In case of any such relocation or removal of works as aforesaid, the public utility owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns, may maintain and operate such works, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new location or new locations for as long a period, and upon the same terms and conditions, as it had the right to maintain and operate such works in their former location.

L.1964, c. 276, s. 2.