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Bill Text

A4609 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4609 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires public utilities and cable television 
companies to accommodate and relocate facilities when necessary for 
transportation infrastructure projects at direction of DOT.� 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning the accommodation and relocation of certain 
public utility and cable television facilities for the purposes of transportation 
infrastructure projects and amending P.L.1983, c.283.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1983, c.283 (C.27:7-44.9) is amended to read 
as follows:

���� 1.��� a. �In addition to other 
powers conferred upon the Commissioner of Transportation by any other law and 
not in limitation thereof, the commissioner, in connection with the 
construction, reconstruction, maintenance or operation of any [highway] infrastructure 
project, may make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, 
maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation and removal of [pipes, mains, 
conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles and other equipment and appliances, 
herein called "facilities,"] 
facilities of any [public] utility company, 
as defined in [R.S.48:2-13, 
and of any cable television company as defined in the "Cable Television 
Act," P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.),] subsection c. of this 
section, having been granted privileges by the State or any political 
subdivision thereof, in, on, along, over or under any [highway] infrastructure 
project.� Whenever the commissioner determines that it is necessary that 
facilities which now are, or hereafter may be, located in, on, along, over or 
under any [highway] infrastructure 
project shall be relocated in the project or should be removed from the 
project, the [public] utility [or cable 
television] 
company owning or operating the facilities shall relocate or remove the same in 
accordance with the order of the commissioner.� The cost and expenses of such 
relocation or removal, including the cost of installing the facilities in a new 
location, or new locations, and the cost of any lands, or any rights or 
interests in lands, and any other rights acquired to accomplish the relocation 
or removal, shall be ascertained and paid by the commissioner as a part of the 
cost of the infrastructure project, provided the utility company 
complies with all applicable federal and State statutes and regulations as they 
apply to the contracting for, and the cost reimbursement and accounting of, the 
accommodation of facilities within the highway right-of-way. �The department may 
audit all records associated with the reimbursement of facilities accommodation 
costs within three years of completion of the accommodation work and recover or 
deduct from future payments for any other infrastructure project requiring 
facilities accommodation work, any non-allowable costs discovered through that 
audit.� In the case of the relocation or removal of facilities, [as aforesaid,] the [public] utility [or cable 
television] 
company owning or operating the same, its successors or assigns may maintain 
and operate the 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 the facilities in the 
former location or locations. 

���� b.��� [As used in 
this act, "highway project," in addition to its ordinary meaning, 
means one which is administered and contracted for by the commissioner.

���� c.] For infrastructure projects 
undertaken by the department and financed with public funds wherein utility 
facilities will require accommodation, the accommodation work shall be done in 
accordance with a final infrastructure project work plan, utility accommodation 
plan, and construction schedule developed by the department, in consultation 
with the utility companies.� Costs associated with pre-engineering, field 
location testing, engineering design and review, and any costs attributable to 
the utility company from its delay in the relocation of its facilities, shall 
be paid by the utility company.

���� c.���� As used in this act:� 

���� �Cable 
television company� shall have the same meaning as defined in section 3 of 
P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-3).� 

���� �Contractor� 
means a person who is directly awarded and enters into a contract for services 
related to an infrastructure project by the department. 

���� �Department� 
means the Department of Transportation.

���� �Draft 
infrastructure project work plan and construction schedule� means a draft of a 
plan and construction schedule for an infrastructure project being contemplated 
by the department, which shall include, but need not be limited to, the 
preliminary