New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 27 § 17-1(1)

1. That it shall be lawful for any board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of this state, when said board deem it for the best interests of such county to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain a public road, extending through such county in any direction, to submit by resolution the question whether or not such public road shall be laid out, opened, constructed, improved and maintained as provided for in this act, to the electors of said county at an election to be held at the same time and place of holding the general election in and for said county for members of the general assembly of this state, which election shall be conducted by the same officers as may be chosen or designated to conduct such election for members of the general assembly, and if a majority of such electors voting on said question shall vote in the manner hereinafter provided for said public road, then such board of chosen freeholders shall be invested with all the rights and powers necessary and expedient to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain such public road, but if the majority of such electors so voting shall vote against such public road, then nothing in this act shall apply to or be effective in such county;  which said resolution shall specify approximately the termini and general course or route of such road, and name the townships, towns and the wards or aldermanic districts or other similar districts or divisions of cities through which the same is to run.