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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13-15 - Supervision and control of work

27:13-15. Supervision and control of work
All work undertaken under this chapter by any county or municipality and approved by the State Highway Commissioner shall be done under the supervision and control of the State Highway Commissioner and no funds shall be disbursed except with, and upon, the approval of the State Highway Commissioner.
L.1964, c. 244, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13-16 - Authorization of expenditure or disbursement of county or municipal share

27:13-16. Authorization of expenditure or disbursement of county or municipal share
Upon the approval by the State Highway Commissioner of any application herein contemplated, the board of chosen freeholders of any county or municipality shall authorize the expenditure or disbursement by the county treasurer or municipal treasurer of the amount of State assistance certified by the State Highway Commissioner for such reconstruction, plus the county or municipal share. The local share must be available in the budget of the county or municipality and if not available shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S. 40A:4-46. The State highway assistance shall be made available for expenditure pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S. 40A:4-87.
L.1964, c. 244, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-2 - Availability of moneys to counties and municipalities

27:13A-2. Availability of moneys to counties and municipalities
All moneys hereafter appropriated to the Department of Transportation to carry out the purposes of this act shall be made available by the Commissioner of Transportation to the several counties and municipalities in the State in the manner and to the extent provided by this act for the construction, reconstruction or improvement of county and municipal roads included in the State aid road system hereinafter established.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-3 - Establishment of system; roads included

27:13A-3. Establishment of system; roads included
The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a State aid road system consisting of county and municipal roads so situated as to form a comprehensive and integrated network of local roads designed to provide connections to and between major traffic arteries, residential, health, recreational, educational, cultural, agricultural, commercial and transportation centers, industrial areas and river and stream crossings. The county and municipal roads to be included in such system shall be selected by the commissioner in the manner hereinafter provided, and he may add or delete roads to or from the system from time to time as the best interests of the State shall require.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-4 - Application for designation

27:13A-4. Application for designation
The board of chosen freeholders of any county or the governing body of any municipality may apply to the commissioner for the designation of any road within the jurisdiction of said county or municipality as a State aid road. Every such application shall be made in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe, and shall include (a) a description of the road and a statement of how the interests of the State and of the applying county or municipality would be served by the inclusion of such road in the State aid road system; (b) a statement of all work proposed to be done on such road and the beginning and ending points of such work; (c) an estimate of the cost of such work and the amount which the county or municipality will be able to contribute thereto; and (d) such other information as the commissioner may require.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-5 - Approval of applications

27:13A-5. Approval of applications
The commissioner shall determine which of such applications, if approved, would best serve the objective of establishing and maintaining a comprehensive and functionally integrated system of county and municipal roads, and may approve or disapprove any application accordingly. He may approve any application in whole or in part, and may determine an order of priority for the approval of various applications within the limitations of the moneys available.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-6 - Notification of designation; agreement with county or municipality

27:13A-6. Notification of designation; agreement with county or municipality
Upon his approval of any application, the commissioner shall notify the board of chosen freeholders of the county or the governing body of the municipality, as the case may be, that the road described in the application has been designated as a State aid road and has been included in the State aid road system. Upon such notification, the commissioner shall enter into a written agreement with the county or municipality which shall specify the scope and responsibilities for the necessary planning, surveys and engineering and for the actual work and inspection thereof. Such agreement shall be limited to construction, reconstruction or improvement and activities incidental thereto, and shall not include the costs of maintenance, repair or any other activity not incidental to construction, reconstruction or improvement.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-7 - Share of cost

27:13A-7. Share of cost
The State's share of the cost of any project undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this act shall not exceed, in the case of county projects 50% and in the case of municipal projects 75% of the total cost thereof, including the cost of right-of-way acquisition, preliminary engineering, preparation of plans, specifications and estimates, construction supervision and inspection and the cost of construction, reconstruction or improvement as set forth in the agreement between the commissioner and the county or municipality.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 7. Amended by L.1968, c. 69, s. 1, eff. June 21, 1968.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-8 - Disbursement of moneys; voucher

27:13A-8. Disbursement of moneys; voucher
Disbursement of all or any part of the amount made available to any county or municipality for the construction, reconstruction or improvement of a State aid road shall be made on approval by the commissioner of a voucher submitted to him by such county or municipality. The voucher shall be in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe, and shall include a statement setting forth the work performed and the detailed cost thereof. Disbursement may be made, under such regulations as the commissioner shall prescribe, during the progress of such work, final payment to be made upon completion thereof, but such regulations shall not require the withholding of a larger percentage from the contractor pending and upon completion of the contract than is authorized in the case of State contracts pursuant to section 27:7-34 of the Revised Statutes.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-9 - Control and supervision by commissioner

27:13A-9. Control and supervision by commissioner
All work undertaken by any county or municipality pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be performed in accordance with such standards for design, construction, reconstruction and improvement as shall be prescribed by the commissioner, and shall be subject to his control and supervision.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 9.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-10 - Surveillance of projects; records

27:13A-10. Surveillance of projects; records
The commissioner is authorized to provide continuing surveillance of any project undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this act. Every county or municipality undertaking such a project shall maintain full records of all work done and funds disbursed and shall make such records available, during business hours of the office in which they are kept, for inspection and copying by the commissioner or his duly authorized agents.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-11 - Additional aid

27:13A-11. Additional aid
Subsequent to the completion of the initial construction, reconstruction or improvement work on any State aid road as provided by this act, the board of chosen freeholders of the county, or the governing body of the municipality, having jurisdiction over such road from time to time may apply to the commissioner for State aid for such further construction, reconstruction or improvement work on such road as may be necessary or desirable to maintain such road as a functional part of the State aid road system. If any such application is approved by the commissioner, the work shall be performed and the State share shall be disbursed according to the terms and conditions governing the initial work.
L.1967, c. 86, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:13A-13 - Bridges and viaducts; improvement and reconstruction; inspection program; allocation of funds

27:13A-13. Bridges and viaducts; improvement and reconstruction; inspection program; allocation of funds
County and municipal bridges and viaducts, without regard to location in the State, may be improved or reconstructed with funds available under the provisions of this act in the same manner as county and municipal roads on the State Aid Road System.
Of the total funds available to counties and municipalities under the provisions of this act for the calendar year commencing January 1, 1969, the commissioner may allocate not more than 10% of such amount to defray the cost of carrying out a comprehensive bridge inspection program but to the extent possible the allocation of such funds shall be made in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as is provided for all other funds distributed under the provisions of this act.
L.1968, c. 69, s. 2, eff. June 21, 1968, supplementing L.1967, c. 86.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-1 - Annual apportionment to counties for construction and reconstruction; county's share

27:14-1. Annual apportionment to counties for construction and reconstruction; county's share
The commissioner shall annually apportion to each county fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000.00) from State Highway system funds to be used for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of county roads and bridges.
Amended by L.1946, c. 207, p. 804, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-2 - Construction of public roads; action by freeholders; contribution by municipalities

27:14-2. Construction of public roads; action by freeholders; contribution by municipalities
The board of chosen freeholders of any county may by resolution direct that a public road or section thereof, located within the county, being at least thirty-three feet in width and at least one mile in length, or, being less than one mile in length but an extension of or connection with some permanently improved or paved road or street, be constructed or improved in such manner that it will, with reasonable repairs, be firm, smooth and convenient for travel at all seasons of the year.
When more roads are applied for than can be constructed in any one year, the board of chosen freeholders and the commissioner may select from the roads petitioned for the ones first to be constructed, having first regard to the most important roads and the distribution of the benefits of this article to all parts of the county.
The board of chosen freeholders may, before approving any road, require as a condition of its approval that the municipalities through which the road runs shall pay ten per cent of the cost of the improvement to be applied to the county's share of the cost of the improvement of the roads constructed under this article.
"Public road" as used in this section includes any road that may have been laid out, dedicated, or the right of way acquired, so that it may be built, notwithstanding it never has been built or used by the public, or any bridges or culverts erected thereon.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-3 - Surveys and plans; approval by freeholders and commissioner

27:14-3. Surveys and plans; approval by freeholders and commissioner
After the passage of the resolution contemplated by section 27:14-2 of this title the board of chosen freeholders shall cause a survey of the road to be made and plans, cross sections and specifications of the work to be done thereon to be prepared. The survey shall indicate the width and length of the road, and shall show how much of it may be improved by deviation from the then existing lines, but no survey shall be commenced until the written consent of the commissioner shall have been first obtained.
When the plans, cross sections and specifications shall have been prepared, they shall be submitted to the board of chosen freeholders for approval or rejection. If approved by the board they shall then be submitted to the commissioner, who shall, before approving them, ascertain the natural character of the soil upon which the road is proposed to be constructed and all other facts he may deem important.
If the commissioner approves the plans, cross sections and specifications, their scope and detail, and is satisfied as to the advisability of the improvement of the road as contemplated, and that the state's share of the cost of the construction of the road together with its share of the cost of the construction of all other roads or sections of roads under the plans and specifications previously approved by him, will not exceed the amount available for the purpose he shall indorse his approval on the plans, cross sections and specifications. Otherwise he shall reject them.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-5 - Road improvements; extent of

27:14-5. Road improvements; extent of
The road improvements contemplated by this article shall include the:
a. Construction of the road and its intersections with other public roads;
b. Restoration or construction as provided in this article of proper and adequate entrances to properties;
c. Building of the necessary walls in cuts or for slopes, bridges and culverts; and all necessary facilities for drainage;
d. Planting of shade trees and such work as may be necessary to preserve existing shade trees; and
e. Treatment of adjacent forest lands so as to make the road and its borders an effective firebreak.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-6 - Bridges and culverts; specifications, advertisements and contracts

27:14-6. Bridges and culverts; specifications, advertisements and contracts
Bridge and culvert building may be included in the road contract or separately contracted for and advertised as provided in section 27:14-12 of this title. Each separate contract shall be approved by the commissioner. All advertisements shall be made as required by this article and all bids received shall give separately the price of each bridge or culvert when included in the road contract.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-7 - Supplemental contracts

27:14-7. Supplemental contracts
The board of chosen freeholders may, after the execution and approval by the commissioner of a contract for road improvements under this article make without public advertisement, supplemental contracts for additional work found to be necessary as a part of the improvement, provided such contracts shall not cover any additional mileage or length of road, nor alter the general character of the improvement. Before any such contracts shall become binding, and before any work shall be done thereunder, they shall be submitted to and approved by the commissioner in the same manner as provided in this article in case of contracts let after public advertisement.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-9 - Contribution by municipalities; resolutions binding

27:14-9. Contribution by municipalities; resolutions binding
A resolution passed by the governing body of a municipality through which the road runs, to pay at least ten per cent of the cost of the improvement provided for in section 27:14-2 of this title, shall be binding upon it.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-10 - Municipal bond issue

27:14-10. Municipal bond issue
When a municipality shall have undertaken to pay ten per cent of the cost of an improvement under the provisions of this article either by resolution of the governing body, or otherwise, and in the opinion of the governing body, to be determined by resolution, it would be too burdensome on the taxpayers of the municipality to place in the tax levy for any fiscal year the portion of the expense of the improvement to be borne by it, the governing body may issue bonds for the amount undertaken to be paid by the municipality.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-11 - Municipalities may borrow to meet installments on improvement contract; amount

27:14-11. Municipalities may borrow to meet installments on improvement contract; amount
When a municipality or public body has or shall have entered into a contract, with the approval of the commissioner, for the improvement of a public road pursuant to this article, the body having control of the finances of such municipality or public body may, as and when each installment or payment on account of the contract price of such improvement falls due, and a proper certificate therefor is presented to the municipality or public body in accordance with section 27:14-15 of this title, borrow money on temporary loan in anticipation of the payment of such municipality or public body of and to an amount not exceeding the state's share of the installment or payment on account of the contract price of such road so falling due, and the proceeds of such temporary loan shall be applied and paid on account of the installment or payment on account of the contract price.
Such temporary loans shall be repaid upon the payment to the municipality or public body of the sums in anticipation of payment of which the loans were made.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-12 - Advertisement for bids; specifications; certified check with bid; contract and bond; time of awarding contract

27:14-12. Advertisement for bids; specifications; certified check with bid; contract and bond; time of awarding contract
Within thirty days after the approval of the plans, cross sections and specifications by the commissioner, the board of chosen freeholders shall advertise for bids for such work in two of the public papers printed in said county, and they may also advertise in one engineering journal published in the city of New York, for three weeks successively, at least once in each week.
The first publication of such advertisement shall be at least seventeen days before the date fixed therein for the receipt of bids. This advertisement shall state the place where bidders may examine said plans, cross sections and specifications, and the time and place where bids for such work will be received by the board of chosen freeholders, or a committee of said board. Each bidder must accompany his bid with a certified check, payable to the county treasurer equal to at least ten per cent of the bid; provided, the same shall in no case exceed twenty thousand dollars; and provided, further, that in case the bid be less than five thousand dollars, the check shall be five hundred dollars, as a guarantee that if said work be awarded to him he will enter into a contract with said board for the same. This contract must be executed, together with a bond of the successful bidder, in the penal sum of at least the estimated cost of said work, with two or more sureties, freeholders of the county, or a surety or trust company created by this state, or a surety or trust company of another state, authorized to transact business within this state, to be approved by the director of the board of chosen freeholders and the finance committee thereof, conditioned for the faithful performance of said work in strict conformity with the plans, cross sections, and specifications for the same, within thirty days from the awarding of the contract. Provided, further, that it shall be the duty of the board of chosen freeholders to make the award of the contract or contracts, or to reject the same, within the period of one month from the date the bids are received, and that all proposal checks which may be delivered with any bid or bids, excepting the two lowest responsible bids, shall be returned within three days thereafter.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-13 - Contract and bond; approval by commissioner; rejection; readvertising

27:14-13. Contract and bond; approval by commissioner; rejection; readvertising
Before any work is done under the contract, the contract, together with the contractor's bond, shall be exhibited to the commissioner for his approval in writing thereon, but the commissioner may, if he deems it to the best interests of the county, reject the contract, in which case he shall cause the word "rejected" to be placed thereon. From the time of such rejection the bond required to accompany the contract shall be null and void, but such rejection shall not prevent the board from readvertising for bids and proceeding thenceforth under the provisions of this article if such action is taken within four months after such rejection. Otherwise the approval required by section 27:14-3 of this title shall be null and void.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-14 - Time of payments; contractor's bond on completion of work; term

27:14-14. Time of payments; contractor's bond on completion of work; term
The time and manner of payment for work done under a contract awarded under this article shall be set forth in the contract. When a contractor has completed his contract no percentage of the contract price shall be retained but the contractor shall enter into a bond to the board of chosen freeholders in a sum amounting to five per cent of the contract price, with any surety company authorized to do business in this state and which has the approval of the attorney general, as surety. The bond shall remain in force for one year and shall provide that the contractor can be held responsible for poor workmanship done or poor materials furnished under such contract, but he shall not be responsible for acts or causes beyond his control.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-15 - Partial payments; engineers' certificate; final report; filing

27:14-15. Partial payments; engineers' certificate; final report; filing
When a contract provides for partial payments based upon the amount of work done, the state highway engineer or his authorized agent, in conjunction with the county engineer shall, as each payment becomes due, present to the board of chosen freeholders a certificate, signed by said state and county officials, specifying as nearly as may be, the amount of work done for which payment is to be made, and stating that it has been done in strict conformity with the contracts, plans and specifications.
When the work done under a contract shall have been fully completed, the state highway engineer and county engineer shall cause to be prepared a detailed and itemized statement, in quadruplicate, of the cost of the improvement, one copy to be filed with the board of chosen freeholders, one with the county clerk and two with the commissioner.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-16 - Partial payments for highway work; amount

27:14-16. Partial payments for highway work; amount
Contracts may provide for partial payments at least once each month or from time to time as the work progresses on work of construction or maintenance. Ten per centum of the amount due on partial payments on the first 50% of the total contract price shall be withheld from the contractor pending completion of the contract. Thereafter, on the remaining 50% of the total contract price, no per centum of the partial payments shall be withheld from the contractor pending such completion.
Contracts may also provide for partial payments at least once in each month or from time to time as the work progresses on all materials placed upon the site which are suitable for the use and execution of the contract, provided the contractor furnishes releases of liens for all material furnished at the time each estimate of work is submitted for payment, but such partial payments shall not exceed 80% of the value of the material.
Amended by L.1958, c. 7, p. 27, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-17 - Payment of state's share of construction cost; certification

27:14-17. Payment of state's share of construction cost; certification
The state's share of the cost of all roads constructed under this article shall be paid out of any appropriations made therefor. The governor and the commissioner shall certify, from time to time, to the state comptroller, the amount to be paid to any county or municipality for that year, and the comptroller shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the county or municipal treasurer for the amount so certified, and the state treasurer shall thereupon pay the same.
When a contract provides for partial payments based upon the amount of work done, the intent of this article is that partial payments to a county or municipality shall be certified as aforesaid, provided the amount so certified is not in excess of the state's proportionate share of that paid on account of the contract or contracts for work done by the county or municipality as provided in sections 27:14-15 and 27:14-16 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-18 - Contribution by county; annual tax levy; deficiency and surplus

27:14-18. Contribution by county; annual tax levy; deficiency and surplus
On or before the time fixed by law for the closing and final adoption of the annual tax budget of the county, the board of chosen freeholders shall appropriate either in the annual tax budget or separately the county's share of the estimated cost and expense of all work contracted for under the provisions of this article since the day fixed by law for the closing and final adoption of the annual tax budget of the county in the year next preceding, which shall be the total cost of such work less the amount certified to be paid by the state.
The sum or sums so fixed and appropriated shall be certified to the county board of taxation and shall be included in the assessment of county taxes and shall be assessed, collected and paid over to the county in the same manner and at the same time as other county taxes. If a deficiency shall exist in consequence of the cost and expense exceeding the estimate, or in consequence of the receipt of a lesser sum from the state as its share of the total cost and expense than shall have been estimated or fixed, the board of chosen freeholders may borrow, on temporary loans, such deficiency, and shall include the amount thereof with accrued interest in its next annual budget and tax resolution, and it shall be assessed, collected and paid over in the same manner as other taxes, or the deficiency may be raised by an issue of bonds either separately or in conjunction with an issue to pay the cost and expense of improving any other road under this article.
If, for any reason, there be a surplus, it shall be retained and used in the improvement of other roads under this article or in repairs to roads improved under this article.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-19 - Bond issue instead of tax levy; vote required

27:14-19. Bond issue instead of tax levy; vote required
The board of chosen freeholders may, instead of certifying to the county board of taxation the county's share of the cost of any work done under this article, as required by section 27:14-18 of this title, by resolution adopted by a vote of at least two-thirds of all its members, issue bonds of the county for its proper share of the cost of the work which shall be an amount not exceeding the total cost of such work, less the amount certified to be paid by the state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-20 - Acquisition of land; condemnation; abandonment

27:14-20. Acquisition of land; condemnation; abandonment
When the board of chosen freeholders shall deem it necessary and advisable to acquire land for the purpose of laying out, widening, changing the location of or straightening any road improved or to be improved under this article, all cost and expense of obtaining and acquiring such land by whatsoever method the same may be acquired may be paid out of any moneys applicable for road improvement purposes, or, if there be no money on hand for such purpose, the board may borrow the necessary money on temporary loans, upon the credit of the county, until the next annual taxes shall be levied and collected, or such sum as may be necessary may be raised by an issue of bonds, either separately or in connection with and as part of any other bond issue under the provisions of this article.
The board may agree with the owner of any land required for the foregoing purposes, as to the compensation to be paid by it for a conveyance of the land, but if no agreement can be reached the board may acquire the land by condemnation, in the manner prescribed by law.
The board may vacate any part of a public highway that may be rendered unnecessary for public travel by the widening, straightening, altering or changing of the location thereof.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-21 - Certain roads chargeable to county; sidewalks and drains; maintenance

27:14-21. Certain roads chargeable to county; sidewalks and drains; maintenance
After the approval by the commissioner of a contract under this article for the improvement of a road, the road shall thereafter be a county road.
Any road improved under the provisions of any previous act entitled "An act to provide for the permanent improvement of public roads in this state" and any road accepted by the board of chosen freeholders under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to enable boards of chosen freeholders to accept as county roads, roads or sections of roads, in townships, which have been or shall hereafter be permanently improved without state or county aid," approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and four (L.1904, c. 114, p. 240), or an act entitled "An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders of any county in this state to acquire, improve and maintain roads lying within the corporate limits of any town, borough, township or village," approved April eighth, one thousand nine hundred and ten (L.1910, c. 121, p. 202), shall be county roads and the duty of keeping them in repair shall devolve exclusively upon the board of chosen freeholders and the county road supervisor, hereinafter provided for, and all other powers and duties respecting such roads shall be imposed upon and vested in the board of chosen freeholders to the exclusion of all municipal officers.
No power conferred on any of said governing bodies shall in any way divest the board of chosen freeholders of its right to construct across or under the sidewalks the necessary culverts or other provisions for the maintenance of such county roads.
If any such road shall become out of repair, and shall not be repaired within sixty days after notice in writing so to do, given by the commissioner to the board of chosen freeholders, or to its director, the commissioner shall certify such neglect or refusal to the state comptroller, who shall withhold payment to the county of any moneys already apportioned, or that may thereafter be apportioned, to the county by the state, and no payment shall be made to the county until the commissioner shall certify to the state comptroller that the road has been placed in a good state of repair.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-22 - Widening roads; state aid; procedure

27:14-22. Widening roads; state aid; procedure
The board of chosen freeholders may widen any existing road originally constructed or improved under this article, and the commissioner may contribute the state's money toward such widening in the same proportion as in cases of construction or improvement of roads under the provisions of this article. The same procedure required by this article for the original construction or improvement of roads shall be followed in the widening thereof.
The term "widen" as used in this section means reconstruction of the road of a greater width in order to accommodate the public travel over the existing right of way or right of way to be first obtained by the board of chosen freeholders.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-23 - Copy of all papers filed with commissioner

27:14-23. Copy of all papers filed with commissioner
A true copy of the specifications, bid, contract, bond, justification of surety and summary of all bids received, including any rejected and the cause therefor, certified to be such by the director of the board of chosen freeholders, shall, immediately after the awarding of any contract, be furnished by the board of chosen freeholders to the commissioner to be filed and remain of record in his office.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-24 - County road supervisor; county engineer; county superintendent of bridges; assistants

27:14-24. County road supervisor; county engineer; county superintendent of bridges; assistants
After the first county road shall have been constructed under this article in any county, the board of chosen freeholders shall appoint a county supervisor of roads, and a qualified civil engineer as county engineer, and the board of chosen freeholders may appoint a county superintendent of bridges, each of whom, before assuming the duties of his office, shall make and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully perform all the duties of his office to the best of his ability and understanding. Each shall hold office for five years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. He shall give bond to the board of chosen freeholders in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office with such surety as the board shall approve. The engineer and superintendent of bridges shall receive such compensation for his services as the board shall determine and the supervisor shall receive a salary and allowance for expenses, both fixed by the board. Such compensation or salary shall not be reduced during the engineer's, supervisor's or superintendent's of bridges term of office.
The board of chosen freeholders may appoint an assistant county supervisor of roads and an assistant county superintendent of bridges, who, when appointed, shall hold office for three years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Each such assistant shall receive such compensation for his services as the board shall determine, which said compensation, when so fixed, shall not be reduced during such assistant's term of office.
Amended by L.1948, c. 111, p. 612, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-24.2 - Tenure in office for certain county road supervisors.

27:14-24.2 Tenure in office for certain county road supervisors.
1. The board of chosen freeholders of any county of the first class may, by resolution, provide that the county road supervisor of the county shall continue to be the county road supervisor of the county during good behavior, and that he shall not be removed as the county road supervisor except for cause on notice and after a hearing before the board of chosen freeholders; provided that the county road supervisor holds a valid public works manager certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1991, c.258 (C.40A:9-154.6a et seq.) and has previously acquired tenure as a municipal superintendent of public works under the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1981, c.383 (C.40A:9-154.6).
L.1975, c.214, s.1; amended 2007, c.291.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-25 - Engineer and road supervisor; removal; procedure; successor

27:14-25. Engineer and road supervisor; removal; procedure; successor
The engineer or supervisor may be dismissed at any time by the board of chosen freeholders after a proper hearing upon proof sustaining, to its satisfaction, charges preferred by it or the commissioner, for incompetency, neglect, disability or other cause. In the event of such dismissal, the board shall immediately appoint a new engineer or supervisor to hold for the full term of five years from the date of appointment.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-26 - Road closed temporarily; procedure

27:14-26. Road closed temporarily; procedure
If the commissioner shall deem it necessary to close a road or section thereof being constructed, improved or repaired under this article, in order to permit a proper completion of the work, he shall execute, and file with the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders, a certificate stating the necessity for closing the road and describing the portion thereof to be closed. The board of chosen freeholders shall thereupon close it to public travel by erecting suitable obstructions and posting conspicuous notices to the effect that the road is closed. Not more than one mile of a road shall be closed at one time.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-27 - Authorities may acquire quarries and gravel pits

27:14-27. Authorities may acquire quarries and gravel pits
A board of chosen freeholders or other governing body charged with the construction, maintenance and repair of roads may acquire lands for gravel pits, stone quarries, or other natural deposits of road building materials advantageously located for use in its jurisdiction and make payment therefor from funds available for the construction, maintenance and repair of roads.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-28 - Authority over trees

27:14-28. Authority over trees
When a road plan involving the treatment of trees or forests abutting upon any road improved under the provisions of any prior law providing for the construction, permanent improvement and maintenance of public roads in this state or under the provisions of this article is to be made, the state highway commissioner shall notify the board of conservation and development which shall cause to be prepared such plans and specifications as shall be necessary for the completion of said treatment, the cost of which shall be taken as part of the cost of the road.
In all that relates to the choice, planting or care of trees, the decision of the board of conservation and development, shall be final. In all that affects the location of trees, or the influence upon the road, the decision of the state highway commissioner shall be final.
If the state highway commissioner and a local governing body having authority in respect to roadside trees shall be unable to agree regarding the removal or treatment of any tree standing within the line of a road to be improved, they shall submit the case to the board of conservation and development and its decision shall be final and binding upon all parties.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-29 - Applicability of article; road construction by municipalities

27:14-29. Applicability of article; road construction by municipalities
The provisions of this article shall extend to townships, towns, boroughs, villages or any municipality.
The governing body, the assessor or assessors, the mayor or other chief executive officer, the clerk and the collector or other financial officer, respectively, of any municipality, shall have the power and shall perform all the duties imposed by this article upon the board of chosen freeholders, the county board of taxation, the director of the board of chosen freeholders, the county clerk and the county treasurer, respectively.
Any municipality may raise by taxation funds with which to pay for the cost of the construction of any road or roads, or may issue bonds for the payment thereof, in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as the board of chosen freeholders may do under this article, it being the expressed intention of this section to confer upon municipalities, full power to improve any road, or section of road, under the provisions of this article, all proceedings conforming, as nearly as may be practicable, to the provisions of this article.
Any such road, or section of road, so constructed by a municipality shall be exclusively under its jurisdiction and control and shall be repaired and maintained by it.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-30 - Improvement of county roads by boroughs; payment of cost

27:14-30. Improvement of county roads by boroughs; payment of cost
When a county road or section thereof lies within the corporate limits of a borough, the borough may improve the road or section thereof in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as it could be improved by the board of chosen freeholders under the provision of this article.
The cost of the improvement shall in the first instance be paid by the borough, but the state and county shall, when the road is completed, reimburse and pay the borough such proportionate share of the cost thereof as they would have respectively paid if the road had been improved by the county under this article. The cost shall include interest charges incurred by the borough on temporary loans provided for in section 27:14-31 of this title. The road when improved shall remain a county road.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-31 - Bond issues; reimbursement

27:14-31. Bond issues; reimbursement
The board of chosen freeholders and the borough may issue bonds to meet the cost of the improvement in the same manner and to the same extent that bonds could have been issued if the improvement had been made by the board of chosen freeholders.
The borough may borrow on temporary loans such sums as may be necessary to pay the moneys due under the contract for the improvement until such time as the proportionate shares of the cost thereof shall be received by it from the state and county respectively.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-32 - Consent to improvement by borough

27:14-32. Consent to improvement by borough
Before an improvement is undertaken by a borough by virtue of the provisions of section 27:14-30 of this title the consent and approval of the commissioner and of the board of chosen freeholders of the county in which the borough is situate shall be obtained. The board of chosen freeholders may agree with the borough as to the time and manner of the payment to the borough of the county's share of the cost of the improvement.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-35 - Grade of road and sidewalks; work done by municipalities

27:14-35. Grade of road and sidewalks; work done by municipalities
When a public road has or shall have been improved under the provisions of this article and in the course of the improvement the grade of the roadbed shall have been or shall be changed so that it shall not conform to the grade of the remaining portion of the road, including the sidewalks, the authorities of each municipality through which the road passes may cause the remaining portion of the road within the limits of the municipality to be graded and formed so as to conform in grade to that established for the roadway constructed under the provisions of this article, and may cause the work to be done under the proceedings and in the manner provided by law in their several municipalities for the grading of the streets thereof.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-36 - Restrictions on municipal improvements

27:14-36. Restrictions on municipal improvements
The proper authorities of any municipality through which any such road runs may make any municipal improvement upon or within the road within the limits of the municipality which may be authorized by law to be made in any of the other public streets or roads of the municipality, but no such improvement shall be made by the municipal authorities which may interfere with or impair the roadway improved under the provisions of this article without the approval and consent of the board of chosen freeholders of the county within which the road is located.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-37 - Payment by municipalities; assessments for benefits

27:14-37. Payment by municipalities; assessments for benefits
The cost and expense of any of the public improvements authorized by sections 27:14-35 and 27:14-36 of this title shall, as far as possible, be assessed upon the real estate specially benefited by the improvement in proportion to and not in excess of the benefit received. The assessment shall be made in the manner and under the procedure provided by law for the making of other assessments for street improvements within the municipality.
Nothing in this article shall impose upon any municipality therein referred to any part of the cost of the maintenance and repair of the roadway of any road improved under the provision of this article.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-38 - Improvement by property owners at own expense; contract; approval by county

27:14-38. Improvement by property owners at own expense; contract; approval by county
If all the owners of property abutting on any road or highway which has not been improved or is not undergoing improvement, desire the road or any section thereof to be improved, and shall certify in writing to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, that they are willing to bear the entire expense thereof, the county engineer or another competent engineer, shall prepare plans, cross sections and specifications for the work and shall submit them to the property owners. If the property owners are satisfied with the plans, cross sections and specifications they may enter into contract for such work, but the contract shall first be submitted to the board of chosen freeholders for its approval.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-39 - Completed road taken over by county; engineer's compensation

27:14-39. Completed road taken over by county; engineer's compensation
Upon the completion of the work to the satisfaction of the county engineer and the board of freeholders, and upon the submission to the board of proper receipts showing full payment for all work done, the board may by resolution declare the road or any portion thereof to be a county road. The county engineer shall be paid a reasonable fee for supervising the work, to be paid by the property owners.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 27 - Highways › Section 27:14-40 - Change of location of road

27:14-40. Change of location of road
The location of any portion of the road may be changed, if deemed desirable, upon obtaining the consent in writing of the owners of land abutting on the portion of the road to be changed, and upon acquiring, without expense to the county, the land necessary for the change.