New Jersey Statutes Title 48. Public Utilities 48 § 15-48

Nothing in this article shall relieve any such company from the repayment of any money advanced or expended prior to March twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, by any state, county or municipal board or body having control of streets, for any paving done before that date under and by virtue of a specific contract or agreement made and entered into between any such board or body and such company providing for the repayment thereof, but the obligation for such repayment shall be and remain enforceable as if this article had not been passed.