§ A419-1. Franchise granted.

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.