Title 27, Title 27: HIGHWAYS

27:19-26.3 Empowerment to enter into lease, agreement. 10. Any governmental unit or person is hereby empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with the commission for the lease to or use by such governmental unit or person of all or any part of any project.…

27:19-26.4 Powers of county, municipality. 11. For the purpose of aiding a commission and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any project, the county or any municipality in any such county may: a. acquire real property in its name …

27:19-26.5 Empowerment to convey land to commission. 12. Any county by resolution of its governing body, municipality by ordinance of its governing body, governmental unit or person is hereby empowered, without any referendum or public or competitive bidding, to sell, lease, lend…

27:19-27. Entry upon and condemnation of lands The commission, its agents, officers, engineers or others in its employ, may enter at all times upon all lands or waters for the purpose of exploring, surveying, leveling and laying out the route or routes of any such bridge, with th…

27:19-28. Power to acquire or construct approaches and bridges The commission may acquire or construct approaches to any such bridge, and may acquire or construct any such bridge or bridges over any channel or channels, thoroughfare or thoroughfares, small streams, creeks or rive…

27:19-29 Tolls, facility charges. 27:19-29. a. The commission may at all times take, demand, and receive of and from any person who shall pass over or use its bridge or bridges and approaches, when such person shall enter upon or attempt to use the same, such rate of toll as may …

27:19-3. Ballot; form and content If the board adopts a resolution that a vote is required upon the question, a certified copy of the resolution shall at once be filed with the county clerk, who shall in the manner and form provided by law, place the question upon all the ballots…

27:19-30. Total cost; what to include For all purposes of financing, the total cost of any improvement authorized by this article may include every item of expense in connection with the project, and among other items shall also include the cost of constructing or purchasing the …

27:19-31 Financing of purposes, powers of bridge commission. 27:19-31. (A) To finance any of the purposes or powers provided for in this article, the bridge commission shall from time to time first determine which bridge or bridges, project or projects are to be constructed, acqu…

27:19-32 Bonds of bridge commission. 27:19-32. The bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (hereinafter in this section called "bonds") issued by such bridge commissions shall bear interest at such rate or rates per annum which may be fixed or may change, at such time or …

27:19-32.1 Covenant of State with bondholders. 11. The State of New Jersey does hereby covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued by any bridge commission that it will not in any manner limit or alter the power and obligation…

27:19-32.2. Legal investments, evidences of indebtedness of commission as The bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of such commissions are hereby made securities in which, notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all public officers, mu…

27:19-33. Creation of commission; corporate powers; members; terms and vacancies; property exempt from taxation and execution; bonds tax exempt When it has been determined by the governing body of any such county, by resolution in the exercise of its discretion that in the exerci…

27:19-34. Organization of commission; officers and employees; compensation The commission shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from its members, and a secretary and treasurer who need not be a member. The members of the commission shall receive such annual compensation from t…

27:19-34.1. Contracts for hospitalization, medical, surgical, etc., benefits; validation and confirmation of payments Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any county bridge commission created under the article to which this act is a supplement and owning or controllin…

27:19-35 Awarding of contracts, agreements. 27:19-35. Every contract or agreement for the construction, reconstruction, repair, enlargement, extension, renewal, replacement or equipment of bridges or projects, shall be made and awarded pursuant to the provisions of the "Local Pub…

27:19-36. Operation of bridges; tolls; agreements with counties for maintenance of bridges; powers of counties The commission shall operate, manage and control the bridges under its charge in their entirety, fix the rate of tolls, establish rules and regulations for the use of su…

27:19-36.1 Payments to municipality in lieu of taxes. 1. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article to which this act is a supplement, any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article may contract with any municipality within which any part of property acqu…

27:19-36.2. Lease or conveyance of real property to county bridge commission Any public department, agency or commission of the State of New Jersey, notwithstanding any other law, is hereby authorized and empowered to lease, lend, grant or convey to a county bridge commission at …

27:19-36.3. Appointment of bridge police; authority; procedure on arrest Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article of which this act is a supplement, any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article may appoint policemen and all policemen so appointed are …

27:19-36.4. Rules and regulations by county bridge commission Any county bridge commission may adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient for the proper government of the bridge or bridges and for the preservation of good order, safe traffic and proper conduct ther…

27:19-36.5. Penalties for violations For any violation of this chapter or of any rule or regulation of any county bridge commission, the offender shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $10.00 nor more than $25.00, together with costs, and on default of payment of the pena…

27:19-37 Records, semiannual statements, examination. 27:19-37. The commission shall keep accurate records of all acts, the property intrusted to it, the cost of the bridge or bridges, project or projects, and incidents thereto, the expenditures for maintaining, repairing and ope…

27:19-37.1. Surplus capital funds; determination; disposition Whenever any county bridge commission, created pursuant to article 2 of chapter 19 of Title 27 of the Revised Statutes or any supplement thereto has or shall have paid the principal and interest on all its outstanding …

27:19-37.2. Use of surplus capital funds Said surplus funds may be used by the county only for capital purposes in the acquisition, construction, improvement or enlargement of county facilities, buildings and roads, or any one or more of them, pursuant to resolution adopted by th…

27:19-39. Dissolution of commission; assumption of duties Any commission provided for in this article may be dissolved by the governing body of the county or counties creating it at any time after the construction, purchase and equipment of the complete bridge or bridges within i…

27:19-4. Petition for bridge or viaduct in adjoining counties; referendum or resolution If twenty per cent of the legal voters in each of any adjoining counties believe that the public convenience requires that a viaduct or bridge be constructed and maintained over any ravine, ma…

27:19-40. Bridges extending within limits of other states not to be acquired or constructed No county bridge commission created pursuant to the article to which this act is a supplement shall hereafter acquire or construct any bridge extending within the limits of any State other…

27:19-41. Sale by commission of bridges extending within limits of other states Every such county bridge commission owning or controlling any bridge or bridges extending within the limits of any State other than the State of New Jersey is hereby authorized to sell, grant or conve…

27:19-42. Disposition of proceeds of sale of bridges extending within limits of other states The proceeds received by any such county bridge commission upon any sale, grant or conveyance made pursuant to section two hereof shall forthwith upon their receipt be paid into a fund fo…

27:19-43. Disposition of proceeds of condemnation award for bridge In the event that any such county bridge is acquired in any condemnation proceeding by any such body corporate and politic and public corporate instrumentality of the State of New Jersey and any such other State, …

27:19-44. Dissolution of county bridge commission Any county bridge commission may be dissolved by the governing body of the county or counties creating it at any time after the bridge or bridges within its care have been sold, granted or conveyed to, or have been acquired by con…

27:19-45. Replacement or reconstruction of bridges or approaches; powers of commission Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article of which this act is a supplement, any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article shall, upon obtaining the consent of its bo…

27:19-5. Acquisition of property and rights therein; payment In order to carry out the provisions of sections 27:19-1 to 27:19-4 of this title the board or boards, as the case may be, of chosen freeholders may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation any lands, lands under water…

27:19-6. Bridges and viaducts to connect highways All viaducts and bridges, with their approaches, shall connect at each end with a public road or street, or at one end with a public road or street and at the other end with a public park or recreation ground notwithstanding that …

27:19-7. Commission to settle disputes; appointment, powers, duties and compensation Whenever it shall have been determined that the public convenience requires that a viaduct or bridge be constructed at the joint expense of adjoining counties, or that a viaduct or bridge being m…

27:19-9. Closing unsafe bridges; repair; freeholders notified If any viaduct or bridge in any municipality, or between any two municipalities in the same county, or any viaduct or bridge over any ravine, marsh, river or stream dividing any counties in whole or in part, connecting…

27:20-1. Acquisition of plank roads; bridges; maintenance by counties and municipalities When the franchise of an incorporated plank road company has expired or may expire, the board of chosen freeholders of the county in which any bridge owned or claimed to be owned by such comp…

27:20-10. Joint operation by freeholders abandoned; boards to act separately When the road and bridge or bridges of a plank road company, included within the terms of section 27:20-1 of this title, have been acquired, maintained and operated at the joint expense of the boards of …

27:20-11. Police and employees assigned to their own county Thereafter the police and employees theretofore jointly employed shall become the police and employees of their respective counties in which they were resident at the time of their respective appointments.

27:20-12. Maintenance of certain turnpikes purchased The portion of a turnpike road lying within the limits of a municipality, purchased or acquired for public use under the provisions of an act entitled "An act relating to the purchase and acquisition by any city, township, town…

27:20-5. Use of unappropriated funds; taxation For the purpose of furnishing the moneys necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 27:20-1 to 27:20-4 of this title and for defraying any expense thereby incurred, the boards of chosen freeholders may use any moneys of their …

27:20-6. Changed conditions to alter apportionment; action At any time after the entry of a judgment of apportionment of expense as provided in sections 27:20-4 and 27:20-5 of this Title, the boards of chosen freeholders or either of them, alleging changes in the conditions upon …

27:20-7. Widening plank roads acquired by county After a plank road shall have been acquired and taken possession of by a board or boards of chosen freeholders it may be widened to any width not exceeding one hundred feet, provided the board or boards of chosen freeholders of the…

27:20-8. Widening roads; acquisition of property; cost borne by counties respectively The title to the lands required for such widening may be acquired by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, and shall vest in the county or counties within the territorial limits of which they …

27:20-9. Bond issue If in the opinion of any of the boards of chosen freeholders, to place in the tax levy for any fiscal year the moneys necessary to pay for the acquisition of the lands necessary for such widening would be too burdensome on the taxpayers of such county, it may …