Title 27, Title 27: HIGHWAYS

27:13-3. Time for filing programs; hearings; co-ordination of programs The commissioner may fix a date on or before which counties and municipalities shall file their annual work program, but in case of emergencies which were not anticipated, amendments thereto may at any time be…

27:13-4. Payment of dedicated funds quarterly; dates for payment; emergencies (a) All moneys from time to time dedicated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 22 of the Title State Government, Departments and Officers (s. 52:22-1 et seq.) for the reconstruction, maintenance and r…

27:13-5. Moneys allotted to counties and municipalities as State aid road funds to be held in special account until paid out Any moneys heretofore or hereafter allotted from the State Highway Fund to any county or municipality as State aid road funds shall be paid out to such cou…

27:13-6. Investment of moneys in special State aid road fund account; availability As soon as can be after the effective date of this act and annually thereafter, the State Highway Commissioner shall determine the amount of money which shall be placed in said special State aid ro…

27:13-7. Payment or retention of moneys allotted to counties; dedicated funds Any moneys heretofore allotted from the State Highway Fund to any county or municipality as State aid road funds shall be paid to such county or municipality as provided by law; provided, however, that …

27:13-8. Investment of dedicated funds; availability If, in the opinion of the State Treasurer and the State Highway Commissioner, the best interests of the State will permit, the State Treasurer may invest and reinvest such moneys in short term obligations of the United States. …

27:13-9. Snow removal equipment; purchase Municipalities and counties of the State of New Jersey are hereby authorized to purchase snow removal equipment with presently allocated State aid moneys. L.1949, c. 126, p. 496, s. 1.

27:13A-1. Short title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "State Aid Road System Act of 1967." L.1967, c. 86, s. 1.

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 an…

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…

27:13A-12. Rules and regulations The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to implement the provisions of this act. L.1967, c. 86, s. 12.

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 t…

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 …

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 an…

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 appli…

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 disappr…

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…

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 acqu…

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…

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 c…

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, mainten…

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 …

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 ha…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 du…

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…

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…

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 …

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 adop…

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 l…

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 ar…

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 previou…

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 const…

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 freeho…

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 ci…

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…

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 inc…

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…

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 …

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 provi…

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 an…

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 w…

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 boar…

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…