New Jersey § 48:15-41

§ 48:15-41.

Any traction company or company operating or authorized by the laws of this State

to operate a street railway or railroad operated as a street railway or an elevated

railroad or a subway by means of an overhead trolley system may, if the Board of Public

Utility Commissioners has approved or hereafter shall approve substitution on any

such line or part thereof, substitute in whole or in part, in the operation of its

lines or any part thereof over which it has a franchise or consent for the construction

and operation of an electric street railway, an elevated railroad or a subway, or

the approval of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners for the operation of autobusses

in substitution for railway service pursuant to section 48:15-38 of the Revised Statutes,

for the operation of street railway cars or substituted autobusses, the operation

of vehicles known as trackless trolleys or trolley busses or motor vehicles which

are operated in part by electricity furnished by an overhead trolley system and in

part by other motive power, and for the purpose of providing electric power for the

operation of such substituted vehicles as aforesaid may use, construct and reconstruct

in and along all public highways, streets and public places in, along, on, over or

under which such company is authorized to operate, such poles and overhead wires as

may be necessary or proper for such operation including overhead ground wire or wires

parallel to each trolley wire or wires necessary for such substituted operation. In case any poles or wires theretofore used for such street railway operation shall

have been removed, any such company may restore the same. Whenever the Board of Public Utility Commissioners has approved or hereafter shall

approve the substitution of vehicles of the character described herein on any line

or part thereof, and there exists any emergency or unusual traffic or transportation

condition, the company operating such substituted vehicles, in order to furnish safe,

adequate and proper service to the public, may, during the continuance of such emergency

or unusual traffic or transportation condition, operate autobusses on such line or

part thereof. Whenever the Board of Public Utility Commissioners has approved or hereafter shall

approve the substitution of vehicles of the character described herein on any line

or part thereof, the company operating any such line may, from time to time, with

the approval of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners, utilize in lieu of such

vehicles, autobusses in the operation of any such line, or part thereof, including

any extension or substitution thereof made pursuant to the provisions of section 43.3

of this chapter.