New Jersey § 48:3-17

§ 48:3-17.

Whenever a public utility corporation subject to regulation by the Board of Public

Utility Commissioners of this State has occupied a public highway, street or other

public place in this State by the placing of a pole or poles in, on or along any such

public highway, street or other public place for the purpose of supplying and distributing

electricity for light, heat or power, or for furnishing telegraph or telephone service,

and the use and occupancy, as aforesaid, by such public utility corporation has continued

at substantially the same location or locations for a period of ten years, then and

in that case, such occupancy shall be presumed to be with the consent in writing of

the owner of the soil upon which such pole or poles have been placed, and no suit,

action or proceeding shall lie in any court of this State for the removal of any pole

or poles so placed and used, unless the same shall be instituted within ten years

from the time of the original occupation, as aforesaid, of said public highway, street

or other public place.