48:12-127 - Filing agreement of waiver; approval of board of public utility commissioners
48:12-127. Filing agreement of waiver; approval of board of public utility commissioners
No such lease, union, consolidation or merger shall take effect until the parties thereto file in the office of the Secretary of State an agreement surrendering to the State all rights of exemption or contract privileges with respect to taxation in this State and reserving to the State any existing right to take the property of any of the parties nor shall the same be valid unless approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission in any case as to which that commission has jurisdiction, and in any other case by the board of public utility commissioners.
The property and franchises in this State of the lessor and lessee and of such consolidated or acquiring company shall be subject to taxation under the general laws of this State.
Amended by L.1948, c. 317, p. 1266, s. 2.