New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 27 § 17-1(26)

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That the board of chosen freeholders of any county in this state, wherein the result of an election held or to be held upon the question whether a public road shall be laid out, opened, constructed, improved and maintained as provided for in the act to which this is a supplement, shall have been or shall be in favor of such public road, is hereby authorized and empowered, without any other or further election, to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain, in accordance with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, one or more roads or branches which shall run to and from, and connect or intersect at any convenient point, line or place thereof, any city, town or township of said county, not already connected with the road, or intersected by the lines, or any of them, as already laid out and fixed, of the road provided for in the act to which this is a supplement; provided, however, that no such city, town or township shall be connected by any such road or branch, as provided for in and by this supplementary act, where the same, or the nearest point, points or boundary lines thereof shall be more than one-half mile distant or away from the main road or original road provided for in the said act to which this is a supplement, measured on the shortest and most direct line between the side line of said road and any such boundary line of any city, town or township as aforesaid; and provided, that all said connecting or other road, roads or branches provided for in this supplement shall not, in the aggregate length, distance or like extent exceed one-third the length of the aforesaid main or original road provided for in the said act to which this is a supplement; such connecting or branch road or roads may be laid out, opened, constructed and improved either upon a direct line from said main or original road and the line of any street, road or avenue already laid out or in existence, or partly upon both, or otherwise, or by means of a road connection or branch road, which shall leave or branch off from said main public road at any point or place to be determined by said board of chosen freeholders by resolution thereof, and after running to or through any such city, town or township, or any part, portion or territory thereof, shall be extended along such line as said board of chosen freeholders may and hereby are authorized to determine by resolution as aforesaid; provided further, that not less than two-thirds of the total or aggregate length, between commencement and ending points of any and all such connecting road or roads, and for the full width thereof, shall be, if laid out, opened and built or made at all, through and over lands acquired or to be acquired by the said board of chosen freeholders for the purposes of such road, by gift, grant, or for a mere nominal consideration, and through and over streets, roads or avenues already laid out and dedicated to public use; it being hereby expressly provided and understood that not more than one-third of the total length of said connecting roads shall be through and over lands the title to which, for the purposes of said connecting road or roads, shall be requisite to be acquired, or shall be acquired by proceedings in condemnation, or by the payment of any but a mere nominal sum or consideration therefor, as aforesaid; and it is further provided, that such connecting road or roads shall be laid out, opened, constructed, improved and maintained in all other respects (including the supervision thereof, which is to be by the engineer in chief heretofore appointed under said original act), and the money necessary therefor, as mentioned in this act, shall be raised and had in the manner and by the methods provided for the raising of moneys and the like, contained in said act to which this is a supplement; and provided further, that the entire cost of laying out, opening, constructing and improving all of such connecting road in any county of this state shall not exceed (including awards for lands, real estate and property taken and damage thereto) the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and that the issue of bonds to raise money to pay the costs, charges and expenses in laying out, opening, constructing and improving such connecting roads shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and in order to provide for the proper acquirement by said board of chosen freeholders of the land, real estate and other property necessary to be acquired by condemnation, or the like, to meet and carry out the purposes of this act, three commissioners, and not more than three, of the character and with the powers provided for in and by the sixth section of said original act, to which this is a supplement, shall be appointed therefor in the manner provided for the selection and appointment of such like commissioners in the said original act and the acts supplementary thereto; any vacancy occurring in this commission of three, by the declination of any commissioner named to serve, or by death, resignation or otherwise, to be filled in the manner provided for filling vacancies in the office of commissioners in and by said supplemental acts.