New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 27 § 17-1(37)

1. That whenever the board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of this state acting under the authority of the above-mentioned act to which this is a supplement, and the supplements thereto, and acts amendatory thereof, or either of them have laid out and opened, or shall lay out and open wholly or partially, and have improved, or proceeded to put in process of improvement, or shall improve or proceed to put in process of improvement in accordance with the provisions of said acts and supplements, the whole or any part of any such part of any such public road as is authorized and provided for in and by the provisions of said acts, including any branch or connecting roads, and whether such connecting roads or any of the same be now laid out and opened or shall be laid out and opened in the future; it shall be lawful for said board of chosen freeholders of such county from time to time, when they shall deem it expedient, in order to provide for and secure to the people of such county desirable and serviceable roads of the character before mentioned, with the further improvement thereof as hereinafter provided, by resolution or resolutions, to be passed by at least a majority vote of said board at a regular or stated meeting, to further provide for the improvement and the further improvement of such roads, and to improve and further improve the same as follows: by paving or covering the whole or such portion of the roadway of such roads as they may by said resolution or resolutions designate, with suitable road material, but no stone block pavement shall be used, excepting in paving gutters or waterways; or at the intersection of streets devoted to heavy traffic; by setting curbstone and paving the gutters and waterways along and within said roads or any part thereof; by planting trees along said roads or any parts thereof; by providing a proper plant or plants for the lighting of said road or roads, as directed by the act to which this is a supplement or any of said acts supplementary thereto, and to do all other work necessary to make and provide good, well regulated public road or roads of the character before described, serviceable in all weather and seasons.