ASSEMBLY, No. 1431

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JAMES J. KENNEDY

District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public utility performing road excavation to repave part of road that was excavated if that road had been repaved in previous five years.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  


An Act concerning certain public utility excavation projects and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    A public utility, upon completing a project that requires the excavation of a portion of a road that was repaved within the previous five calendar years, shall repave or shall provide that a contractor repave the road from the portion of the road that was excavated to the bordering curbs and street corners of the road.  If the bordering street corners are farther than 150 feet from the portion of road that was excavated, then the public utility shall repave or shall provide that a contractor repave 150 feet of road in the direction of each bordering street corner from the excavation site.  As used in this section, “public utility” means “public utility” as defined in R.S.48:2-13, and “road” means a public road, street, or highway.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires a public utility, upon completing a project that requires the excavation of a portion of a road that was repaved within the previous five calendar years, to repave or to provide that a contractor repave the road from the portion of the road that was excavated to the bordering curbs and street corners of the road.  If the bordering street corners are farther than 150 feet from the portion of road that was excavated, then the public utility is to repave or to provide that a contractor repave 150 feet of road in the direction of each bordering street corner from the excavation site.