New Jersey Statutes Title 27. Highways 27 § 21-1

When in any county a street or highway is crossed by a canal owned by a canal corporation, its successors or assigns, and the municipal board or body having control of street improvements in the municipality in which the road or highway is situate passes resolutions requesting the board of chosen freeholders to construct a bridge over the canal or to cause an existing bridge over it to be widened, the board of chosen freeholders may construct a bridge in such streets or highways, or cause an existing bridge over such canal to be widened.