New Jersey § 19:34-45

§ 19:34-45.

No corporation carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, co-operative bank,

trust, trustee, savings indemnity, safe deposit, insurance, railroad, street railway,

telephone, telegraph, gas, electric light, heat or power, canal or aqueduct company,

or having the right to condemn land, or to exercise franchises in public ways granted

by the state or any county or municipality, and no corporation, person, trustee or

trustees, owning or holding the majority of stock in any such corporation, shall pay

or contribute money or thing of value in order to aid or promote the nomination or

election of any person, or in order to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat

of any political party. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any corporation carrying on the

business of a co-generation facility, as defined in subsection c. of section 1 of P.L.2000, c. 156 ( C.54:15B-2.2 ), or to any corporation carrying on the business of a retail seller that extends

credit, pursuant to the provisions of the “Retail Installment Sales Act of 1960” P.L.1960,

c. 40 ( C.17:16C-1 et seq. ), or to any corporation, person, trustee or trustees, owning or holding the majority

of stock in either such corporation.