New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 27 § 17-1(30)

2. That whenever any owner or owners of any premises or property fronting on said public road shall deem it necessary and require that such sewer or sewer connection or branch sewer beneath the surface of said public road shall be constructed or made, in order that such premises may obtain and have house drainage or sewerage as aforesaid, such owner or owners shall, in writing, petition the proper municipal body for the construction of said sewer or sewer connection, which shall be done in the same manner, or as near thereto as practicable, as any property owner having property fronting on any other street in such municipality may lawfully petition for and obtain the construction of a sewer or sewers therein, and all the proceedings and steps as to petition, contract for the making or construction of such last-mentioned sewer or sewer connection, and other things necessary, as well as the assessment for or cost of and collection of the same, shall be done and provided for in the same way, or as near thereto as may be, to that provided, by law, in and for said municipality, for the petition and other things requisite to be done or followed relative to and necessary for the making, construction and defraying of the expense of the sewers or sewer system or connections last referred to; and the body having control by law of the making or construction of sewers in such municipality shall notify the board of chosen freeholders of the said county in writing ten days previous to the time designated for the breaking or the opening of the surface of said new public road for the construction of such sewer or sewer connections, and said sewer or sewer connection shall be constructed to the satisfaction of the said board of chosen freeholders, and in accordance with the said plans for said sewers in or connected with said public road, and the work in and about the construction or making of such sewer or sewer connections shall not be deemed finally accepted by such municipality until the said engineer or officer in charge of the public road as aforesaid shall have examined the same and reported to said board that the work is satisfactorily executed, and said report shall have been approved by such board of freeholders and notice thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such municipality or the governing body of such municipality; the word sewer as mentioned in this act shall be taken to include all necessary receiving basins, connections and manholes such as are usually made appurtenant to a properly constructed sewer and sewer outlet.