§ A442-1. Franchise granted.

Pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 48:17-10, N.J.S.A. 48:17-11 and N.J.S.A. 48:17-12, permission and consent is hereby granted to New Jersey Bell Telephone Company (the "company"), its successors and assigns, to install, operate, inspect, maintain, repair, replace and remove its communications facilities and other transmission or process equipment, including underground facilities, such as conduits, manholes, cables, wires and all other facilities appurtenant thereto, and aboveground facilities, such as cables, wires, antennas, poles, posts, supports, guys, pedestals, cable termination and distribution cabinets and all other facilities appurtenant thereto, in, through, upon, along, over, under and across all the various public streets and ways, which include the roads, avenues, right-of-way, sidewalks, highways, bridges, waterways and other public places, and parts thereof, throughout their entire length, and to effect the necessary street openings and lateral connections to curb poles, property lines and other facilities in the City of North Wildwood (the "city") for said company's local and through lines and other communications facilities in connection with the transaction of its business. In the event that any public street or way where the company has facilities is vacated by the city, the city agrees to reserve unto said company the rights granted the company by the present ordinance.