New Jersey § 58:22-14

§ 58:22-14.

The department shall also have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation,

construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation and removal of tracks, pipes,

mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles and other equipment and appliances herein

called “public utility facilities” of any public utility as defined in section 48:2-13

of the Revised Statutes, in, on, along, over or under any project. Whenever the department shall determine that it is necessary that any such public

utility facilities which now are, or hereafter may be, located in, on, along, over

or under any project, should be relocated, or should be removed from such project,

the public utility owning or operating such facilities shall relocate or remove the

same in accordance with the order of the department; provided, however, that the

cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing

such facilities in a new location, or new locations, and the cost of any lands, or

any rights or interest in lands, and any other rights acquired to accomplish such

relocation or removal, less the cost of any lands or any rights or interests in lands

or any other rights of the public utility paid to the public utility in connection

with the relocation or removal of such property, shall be ascertained and paid by

the department as a part of the cost of such project. In case of any such relocation or removal of facilities, as aforesaid, the public

utility owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns, may maintain and

operate such facilities, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new location or

new locations, for as long a period, and upon the same terms and conditions, as it

had the right to maintain and operate such facilities in their former location or

locations.