54:30A-55 Statements by taxpayers operating public utilities.

7. (A) Every taxpayer shall on or before the first day of September, 1941 and on or before the first day of September in each year thereafter return to the Director of the Division of Taxation a statement in such form, manner, and detail as the Director of the Division of Taxation shall require, showing, as of the first day of July of such year:

(1) Deleted by amendment, P.L.1997, c.162.)

(2) The length of the taxpayer's lines and mains along, in, on or over any public street, highway, road or other public place in this State, exclusive of service connections; and

(3) The whole length of the taxpayer's lines and mains, exclusive of service connections.

(4) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1997,c.162.)

(B) Every taxpayer shall on or before February 1, 1998, and on or before February 1 in each year thereafter return to the Director of the Division of Taxation a statement showing:

(1) The gross receipts for the preceding calendar year from the business over, on, in, through or from the taxpayer's lines and mains in this State, stated separately for each class of business; and

(2) The gross receipts for the preceding calendar year from the business over, on, in, through or from the whole of the taxpayer's lines and mains.

(3) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1997, c.162.)

(C) The statements herein provided for shall be subscribed and sworn to by the president, a vice-president or chief officer of the corporation making such return; any taxpayer or refusing or neglecting to make the statements herein provided for shall forfeit and pay to the State of New Jersey the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each day of such refusal or neglect, to be recovered in an action at law in the name of the State and which, when recovered, shall be paid into the State Treasury. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Division of Taxation to certify any such default to the Attorney General of the State who, thereupon, shall prosecute an action at law for such penalty.

(D) The Director of the Division of Taxation shall audit and verify the statements filed by taxpayers and whenever and in such respects as he shall deem necessary or advisable. The Director of the Division of Taxation may require any taxpayer to supply additional data and information in such form and detail as he shall request, whenever he may deem it necessary or helpful, for the proper performance of his duties under this act.

L.1940,c.5,s.7; amended 1941, c.21, s.3; 1987, c.76, s.38; 1991, c.184, s.17; 1997, c.162, s.14.