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[78 STAT. 219]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1964
[78 STAT. 219]

78 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 88-320-JUNE 13, 1964

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Utility Coniniission sluill have jurisdiction, on petition of the Commission, to order such transfer or reconstruction. Any party to such proceedings shall have the right of appeal from the ruling of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. The Delaware River Port Authority is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, any necessary land or right of way for the relocation of any such public utility right of way and facilities. The substitute right of way thus acquired shall be equal in estate to the original right of way acquired from the public utility, and the Commission shall deliver to the public utility a deed, duly executed and acknowledged, conveying to it an estate in the substitute right of way at least equal to that owned by the public utility in the original right of way, or if such substitute right of way is to be acquired by purchase, the Commission shall procure and deliver to the public utility a deed conveying such estate to it from the owner of the land on which such substitute right of way is located. This sub-paragraph (b) shall have no application to the relocation of public utility facilities located in the beds of public streets, roads or highways. (c) In addition to any other powers heretofore or hereafter granted \ '

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to it, the Commission, m connection with construction or operation lation, relocation, of any project for the eifectuation of any of its purposes authorized «*=• by this article, shall have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, jjoles or any other equipment and appliances (in this sub-paragraph (c) called "works") located in the State of New Jersey of any public utility as defined in section 48:2-13 of the revised statutes of New Jersey, in, on, along, over or under any such project. Whenever in connection with the construction or operation of any such project the Commission shall determine that it is necessary that any such works, which now are or hereafter may be located in, on, along, over or under any such project should be relocated in such project, or should be removed therefrom, the public utility owning or operating such works shall relocate or remove the same in accordance with the order of the Commission, provided, however. That, except in the case of the relocation or removal of such works located in, on, along, over or under public streets, roads or highways, the cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such works in a new location or new locations, and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands or 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 works, shall be paid by the Commission and shall be included in the cost of such project. In case of any such relocation or removal of works as aforesaid, the public utility owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns, may maintain and operate such works, 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 works in their former location. In case of any such relocation or removal of works, as aforesaid, the Commission shall own and maintain, repair and renew structures within the rights of way of railroad companies carrying any such project over railroads, and the Commission shall bear the cost of maintenance, repair and renewal of structures within the rights of way of railroad companies carrying railroads over any such project, but this provision shall not relieve any railroad company from responsibility for damage caused to any authority or railroad structure by the operation of its