48:3-28. Receivers or trustees for insolvent companies; appointment; sale or lease of property

Whenever any railroad, canal or turnpike company, incorporated under the laws of this State, has become insolvent or failed for 90 days after the same becomes due, to pay the principal or interest on any mortgage on its property and franchise, the Superior Court upon the application of a creditor, mortgagee or stockholder of the company, may appoint a receiver or receivers, or 3 trustees, who shall have and exercise all the powers and authority that it is lawful for receivers and trustees to exercise under Title 14, Corporations, General.

The receivers or trustees may sell or lease the canal, railroad or turnpike belonging to the company, together with all its chartered rights, privileges and franchises. The purchasers or lessees of such works, rights, privileges and franchises shall thereafter hold, use and enjoy the same during the residue of the term limited in the charter of the company, or during the term specified in the lease, in as full and ample a manner as the stockholders of the company could or might have enjoyed the same, subject, however, to all the restrictions, limitations and conditions contained in the charter.

Upon filing in the office of the Secretary of State, within 6 months after the sale or lease, a certificate that they accept the charter of the company whose property has been sold or leased, under a corporate name different from that of such company, the purchasers or lessees shall become a corporation under the name so specified, with all the powers, rights, privileges and franchises of the former company.

The purchasers or lessees, or the corporation formed by them as aforesaid, shall hold and enjoy the same, free and clear of all debts, claims and demands of creditors, mortgagees or stockholders, who shall look only to the fund arising from the sale or lease, which money, as collected, shall be paid into the Superior Court. Where the property is subject to a mortgage, the Superior Court may, with the consent of the complainant, or without such consent if the principal is not due, direct a sale or lease to be made subject to the lien of the mortgage.

Amended by L.1962, c. 198, s. 43.