[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of High Bridge 2-9-2006 as Ch. 189 of the 2006 Code of the Borough of High Bridge.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
Elizabethtown Gas Company of New Jersey, a public utility corporation
of the State of New Jersey, with principal offices at One Elizabethtown
Plaza, Elizabeth, New Jersey 07207, its successors and assigns be
and it hereby is authorized to construct, lay, maintain and operate
for a period of 50 years, the necessary mains, conductors, pipes and
concomitant appurtenances for the purpose of conveying, storing, supplying
and distributing natural and mixed gas for light, heat, power and
other purposes for public and private use and consumption along and
under certain streets, avenues, parks, parkways, highways or other
public places within the Borough of High Bridge, County of Hunterdon
and State of New Jersey as they now exist or may be hereinafter laid
out by the Borough authorities or said Borough of High Bridge or dedicated
to said Borough by private persons or public agencies within all those
remaining areas within said Borough which were not within the scope
of the partial franchise consent granted by Ordinance No. 87-24 on
July 23, 1987, by this further right, privilege and franchise of using
any of its mains and pipes in this Borough for transmission, transportation
and delivery of gas to any other municipality in the streets or public
places of which it may also have lawful authority to lay or maintain
its mains or pipes for the distribution of gas.
In all cases in which openings or excavations are made for the
purposes aforesaid, the Elizabethtown Gas Company of New Jersey shall
restore at its own expense all such streets, avenues, parks, parkways,
highways, sidewalks, grass plots, curbs or other public places to
their preexisting condition at the commencement of said work, said
work to be done in a careful, prudent and workmanlike manner and within
such time as shall be best for the proper restoration thereof. If
said company shall refuse or neglect, after five days' notice,
in writing, by the conditions of this ordinance from the Boards of
Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey pursuant to law.[1]
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Editor's Note: So in original.
