New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 27 - Highways

• Section 27:1a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Transportation Act of 1966." It shall be the purpose and intent of this...
• Section 27:1a-2 - Establishment Of Department
  There is hereby established in the Executive Branch of the State Government a principal department which shall be known as the Department of Transportation....
• Section 27:1a-2.1 - "David J. Goldberg Transportation Building" Designated
  2.The main office building of the Department of Transportation in the township of Ewing in the county of Mercer is designated as the "David...
• Section 27:1a-3 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties From Existing Departments
  All of the functions, powers and duties of the existing State Highway Department and the State Highway Commissioner, of the existing Division of Railroad...
• Section 27:1a-4 - Commissioner; Appointment; Term; Salary
  The administrator and head of the department shall be a commissioner, who shall be known as the Commissioner of Transportation, and who shall be...
• Section 27:1a-5 - Additional Functions, Powers, Duties Of Commissioner.
  5.The commissioner, as head of the department, shall have all of the functions, powers and duties heretofore vested in the State Highway Commissioner and...
• Section 27:1a-5.1 - Rail Freight Authority
  2. The commissioner, pursuant to subsection (i) of section 5 of P.L.1966, c.301 (C.27:1A-5), may: a. Plan, design, construct, equip, operate, improve and maintain,...
• Section 27:1a-5.2 - Indemnification Of Public Contractors
  The Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the Attorney General, may agree to defend and indemnify any person who, pursuant to a written contract...
• Section 27:1a-5.3 - Time Limitation
  Notwithstanding the time limitation established by section 1 of this act, the commissioner may defend and indemnify any person covered by an agreement which...
• Section 27:1a-5.4 - Rules, Regulations
  The Commissioner of Transportation may adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act. L. 1986, c. 81, s. 3.
• Section 27:1a-5.5 - Transportation Department Responsibility
  The Commissioner of Transportation shall: a. receive, preserve and make available to engineers, surveyors and others all records relating to bench marks, plane coordinate...
• Section 27:1a-5.6 - Department Authorized To Acquire Lands, Improvements For Airport Purposes
  43. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Department of Transportation and the commissioner thereof are authorized to acquire lands...
• Section 27:1a-5.7 - Findings, Determinations
  1. The Legislature finds and determines that: a. The development of a comprehensive transportation system to serve the needs of the residents of the...
• Section 27:1a-5.8 - Urban Transportation Supplement To The State Transportation Plan
  2. The Department of Transportation shall in conjunction with the New Jersey Transit Corporation prepare, or cause to be prepared, an urban transportation supplement...
• Section 27:1a-5.9 - Transportation Needs And Recommendations
  3. The urban transportation supplement to the State Transportation Plan shall include descriptions of the current and projected transportation needs and the plans and...
• Section 27:1a-5.10 - Consultation With Other Agencies
  4. The Department of Transportation shall consult with the Department of Labor, the Office of State Planning, the New Jersey Commission on Capital Budgeting...
• Section 27:1a-5.11 - Supplement As Added To Other Plans And Law Requirements
  5. The urban transportation supplement to the State Transportation Plan required by this act shall be in addition to the requirements for a master...
• Section 27:1a-5.12 - Completion Of Supplement, Updates
  6. The urban transportation supplement to the State Transportation Plan shall be completed within 12 months of the effective date of this act and...
• Section 27:1a-5.13 - Powers Of Commissioner Concerning Park-and-ride Facilities
  1. The Commissioner of Transportation may, pursuant to subsection (b) of section 5 of P.L.1966, c.301 (C.27:1A-5): a. Acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease, gift...
• Section 27:1a-5.14 - Defense, Indemnification Of Owner, Operator
  2. The Commissioner of Transportation, or the commissioner's designee, may agree to defend and indemnify any person, who, pursuant to a written agreement with...
• Section 27:1a-5.15 - Inventory Of Certain State-owned Properties, Preparation
  1. The Department of Transportation shall annually prepare, and submit to the Governor and the Legislature, an inventory of the properties owned by the...
• Section 27:1a-5.16 - Blue Star Memorial Highway Council.
  1. a. The Legislature finds that the Blue Star Memorial Highway Council was created by Joint Resolution No. 13, approved October 6, 1948, to...
• Section 27:1a-5.17 - Tolls Not Imposed On Portions Of Route 42 Under Jurisdiction Of South Jersey Transportation Authority
  1.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, whenever the department transfers jurisdiction of State Highway Route No. 42, or...
• Section 27:1a-5.18 - Property Of Department Of Transportation, Storage, Handling Of Radioactive-contaminated Material Prohibited; Exceptions.
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provision of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Commissioner of Transportation shall not permit any property of...
• Section 27:1a-5.19 - Report Of Motor Vehicle Accidents Involving Cellular Telephone Use.
  1.The Commissioner of Transportation shall annually compile and make available to the public information submitted to the Division of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to R.S.39:4-131,...
• Section 27:1a-5.20 - Legal Commuter Transportation Services; Public Awareness Campaign Established.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a public awareness campaign to inform the general public about legal commuter transportation services and to...
• Section 27:1a-5.21 - Evaluation Of Campaign; Report To Legislature.
  2.The Commissioner of Transportation shall evaluate the campaign established by this act and shall report to the Legislature and the Governor within 18 months...
• Section 27:1a-5.22 - Annual Transportation Capital Program, Information Posted On Dot Website.
  1.The Department of Transportation shall provide access to comprehensive information related to the Annual Transportation Capital Program on its website. The information available on...
• Section 27:1a-6 - Organization Of Department; Delegation Of Powers; Absence, Disability, Death Or Resignation Of Commissioner
  (a) The commissioner shall organize the department and establish therein such divisions as he may deem necessary and expedient. He may formulate and adopt...
• Section 27:1a-7 - Grants; Application And Acceptance; Expenditure
  The commissioner may apply for and accept on behalf of the State any grants from the Federal Government or any agency thereof, or from...
• Section 27:1a-8 - Assistant Commissioners
  (a) The commissioner shall be assisted in the performance of his duties by three assistant commissioners, an Assistant Commissioner for Transportation Services and Planning,...
• Section 27:1a-10 - Assistants To Assistant Commissioner For Engineering And Operations; State Highway Engineer; Deputy; Chief Engineers; Appointment; Qualifications; Salary
  (a) The commissioner shall appoint as assistants to the Assistant Commissioner for Engineering and Operations--State Highway Engineer, a Deputy State Highway Engineer and two...
• Section 27:1a-11 - Termination Of Employment Of Personnel Holding Office On Effective Date Of Act
  The persons in office as State Highway Engineer, assistant State Highway Engineers, Director of Planning, and Director of Administration on the effective date of...
• Section 27:1a-12 - Deputy Commissioner; Appointment; Term Of Office; Powers And Duties; Compensation
  To assist the commissioner in the performance of his duties, the commissioner may appoint a deputy commissioner who shall also serve as executive director....
• Section 27:1a-13 - Director Of Planning And Research And Deputy Executive Director; Appointment; Qualifications; Salary; Assistants
  (a) The commissioner shall be assisted in the performance of his duties relating to transportation planning and research by a Director of Planning and...
• Section 27:1a-14 - Rights And Protections Of Appointees Holding Positions In State Classified Service
  In the event that the deputy commissioner, Assistant Commissioner for Transportation Services and Planning, the Assistant Commissioner for Engineering and Operations, the Assistant Commissioner...
• Section 27:1a-28 - Repealer
  Chapter 88 of the laws of 1964 is hereby repealed. This repealer shall not in any way affect any contracts, agreements, determinations, order, rules...
• Section 27:1a-33 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties Of Existing Authorities To Department Of Transportation
  The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the New Jersey Expressway Authority and the New Jersey Highway Authority in the State Highway Department, together with all...
• Section 27:1a-34 - Appropriations
  All appropriations and other moneys available and to become available to any department, division, bureau or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of...
• Section 27:1a-35 - Transfer Of Employees To Department Of Transportation
  Such employees of any department, commission, council, board, authority, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned...
• Section 27:1a-36 - Tenure Rights, Rights Or Protection Under Pension Law Or Retirement System
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person of any tenure rights or of any right or protection provided him by...
• Section 27:1a-37 - Transfer Of Files, Books, Papers, Etc., To Department Of Transportation
  All files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property of any department, commission, council, board, office, authority or other agency, the functions, powers and...
• Section 27:1a-38 - Continuation Of Rules And Regulations Transferred To Department Of Transportation
  This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by any department, commission, council, board, authority, officer or other...
• Section 27:1a-39 - Actions Or Proceedings Pending On Effective Date Of Act
  This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any department, commission, council, board, authority, officer or other...
• Section 27:1a-40 - Reports And Certifications; Filing
  Unless specifically otherwise provided in this act or by any operative law, whenever, pursuant to existing law, reports, certifications, applications or requests are required...
• Section 27:1a-41 - Repealer
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed....
• Section 27:1a-42 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances or the exercise of any power or authority thereunder...
• Section 27:1a-43 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the administration, development and enforcement of laws and regulations relating to traffic, and the regulation and control...
• Section 27:1a-44 - Director Of The Division Of Motor Vehicles; Powers And Duties Transferred
  All the powers and duties heretofore exercised and performed by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the State Department of Law...
• Section 27:1a-45 - Appropriations And Other Moneys Transferred From Division Of Motor Vehicles To Department Of Transportation
  All appropriations and other moneys available and to become available to the Division of Motor Vehicles from the functions, powers and duties which have...
• Section 27:1a-46 - Transfer Of Employees To Department Of Transportation
  Such employees of the Division of Motor Vehicles the functions, powers and duties of whom have been herein transferred to the Department of Transportation,...
• Section 27:1a-47 - Tenure Rights; Rights Under Civil Service Law
  Nothing in this act shall be constructed to deprive any person of any tenure rights or of any right or protection provided him by...
• Section 27:1a-48 - Files, Books, Papers, Records, Equipment And Other Property Transferred To Department Of Transportation
  All files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety relating...
• Section 27:1a-49 - Orders, Rules And Regulations; Continuation
  This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of...
• Section 27:1a-50 - Actions Or Proceedings Pending On Effective Date Of This Act
  This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of...
• Section 27:1a-51 - Reports, Certifications, Applications Or Requests Relating To Transferred Powers Or Duties; Filing With Department Of Transportation
  Unless specifically otherwise provided in this act or by any operative law, whenever, pursuant to existing law, reports, certifications, applications or requests are required...
• Section 27:1a-52 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties Of Division Of Taxation With Respect To Outdoor Advertising Act To Department Of Transportation
  All the functions, powers and duties of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury with respect to the administration of the...
• Section 27:1a-53 - Transfer Of Appropriations, Grants And Other Moneys
  All appropriations, grants and other moneys available and to become available to the Division of Taxation with respect to the administration of the "Outdoor...
• Section 27:1a-54 - Transfer Of Employees
  Such employees of the Division of Taxation assigned to the administration of the "Outdoor Advertising Act" prior to the reorganization of the division, the...
• Section 27:1a-55 - Employment Rights; Effect Of Act
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person of any tenure rights or of any rights or protection provided him by...
• Section 27:1a-56 - Transfer Of Files, Books, Property, Etc.
  All files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property of the Division of Taxation pertaining to the administration of the "Outdoor Advertising Act" the...
• Section 27:1a-57 - Continuation Of Orders, Rules And Regulations
  This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by the Division of Taxation, the functions, powers and duties...
• Section 27:1a-58 - Actions, Proceedings, Orders Or Recommendations Pending On Effective Date Of Act
  This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against the Division of Taxation, or the director thereof, the...
• Section 27:1a-59 - Reports, Certifications, Applications Or Requests Relating To Transferred Powers Or Duties; Filing With Department Of Transportation
  Unless specifically otherwise provided in this act or by any operative law, whenever, pursuant to existing law, reports, certifications, applications or requests are required...
• Section 27:1a-60 - Reference To Division Of Taxation Or Its Director As Reference To Department Of Transportation Or Its Commissioner
  With respect to the functions, powers and duties pertaining to the administration of the "Outdoor Advertising Act" ^1^ hereby transferred to the Department of...
• Section 27:1a-61 - Supersedure Of Inconsistent Acts
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistencies, superseded and...
• Section 27:1a-62 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties Of Board Of Public Utility Commissioners With Respect To Railroad Grade Crossings And Bridges To Commissioner And Department Of Transportation
  The functions, powers and duties of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners with respect to elimination and regulation of railroad grade crossings and protective...
• Section 27:1a-63 - Method Of Transfer
  The transfer directed by this act shall be made pursuant to the "State Agency Transfer Act," P.L.1971, c. 375 (C. 52:14D-1 et seq.). L.1972,...
• Section 27:1a-64 - Findings, Declarations
  1.The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a.Many senior citizens and handicapped citizens of this State must depend on public transportation facilities to obtain...
• Section 27:1a-65 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: a. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Transportation; provided, however, that he may...
• Section 27:1a-66 - Motorbus, Rail Passenger Service For Senior, Handicapped Citizens At All Times; Exceptions
  3.The Commissioner of Transportation is hereby authorized and directed to establish and implement within 180 days of the effective date of P.L.1999, c.179 (C.27:1A-64...
• Section 27:1a-67 - Procedures For Establishment Of Program
  In establishing this program, the commissioner shall, after consulting with the Commissioner of Community Affairs, the New Jersey State Commission on Aging and the...
• Section 27:1a-68 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner is hereby authorized to make and issue such other rules and regulations in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410...
• Section 27:1a-69 - Utilization Of Personnel, Facilities And Resources Of Other Agencies Of State
  The commissioner may utilize the personnel, facilities and resources of any other department or agency of the State or any political subdivision thereof, in...
• Section 27:1a-70 - Further Reductions In Fares By Carrier Or Law
  Nothing in this act shall preclude any carrier from providing further fare reductions for senior citizens and handicapped citizens or preclude any municipality from...
• Section 27:1a-71 - Employees; Advertisement Of Program
  The commissioner is hereby authorized to hire, employ or assign such secretarial, clerical and other personnel as shall be required for complying with the...
• Section 27:1a-72 - Authorization For Reduced Rate For Handicapped Or Senior Citizens
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of chapter 3 of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes or of any other law to the contrary, any...
• Section 27:1a-73 - Free Transportation For Travel Attendant, Guide
  Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L. 1973, c. 126 (C. 27:1A-64 et seq.) or any other law to the contrary, a handicapped citizen and the...
• Section 27:1a-74 - Regulations
  The Commissioner of Transportation shall, after consulting with other relevant departments and agencies, adopt reasonable regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this...
• Section 27:1a-75 - Short Title.
  1.Sections 1 through 11 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Marine Transportation System Act." L.2001,c.429,s.1.
• Section 27:1a-76 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Maritime Transportation.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.There should be a single State agency for New Jersey's maritime industry charged with advancing Statewide maritime development...
• Section 27:1a-77 - Definitions Relative To Maritime Transportation.
  3.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Transportation. "Department" means the Department of Transportation. "Dredging and dredging related projects" means the...
• Section 27:1a-78 - Office Of Maritime Resources.
  4.There is hereby established in the Department of Transportation the Office of Maritime Resources. The office shall serve as the lead on all maritime...
• Section 27:1a-79 - "New Jersey Marine Transportation System Development" Section Of Transportation Plan.
  5.In support of the State's long range transportation plan, the office shall be responsible, in collaboration with the Division of Transportation Systems Planning in...
• Section 27:1a-80 - Additional Powers Of Commissioner.
  6.In addition to any powers granted to the commissioner under this act or any other provision of law, the commissioner shall: a.Provide interagency support,...
• Section 27:1a-81 - Duties Of Commissioner.
  7.The commissioner shall investigate and develop alternative funding resources, establish and budget annual State funding in furtherance of maritime initiatives, improve government coordination with...
• Section 27:1a-82 - Dredged Material Processing; "Maritime Industry Fund."
  8. a. The commissioner, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of the Treasury, may operate, lease, license or contract...
• Section 27:1a-83 - Purchases, Contracts, Agreements Regulated.
  9.Purchases, contracts, or agreements over $25,000 for dredging and dredging related projects shall be governed as provided in subsections a. and b. below. a.All...
• Section 27:1a-84 - Purchases, Contracts, Agreements May Be Made Without Public Advertisement, Certain Circumstances.
  10.Purchases, contracts or agreements over $25,000 for dredging and dredging related projects may be made, negotiated, or awarded by the office without public advertisement...
• Section 27:1a-85 - Rules, Regulations.
  11.The commissioner is hereby authorized to make and issue such rules and regulations in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et...
• Section 27:1b-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act of 1984." L.1984, c. 73, s....
• Section 27:1b-2 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. A sound, balanced transportation system is vital to the future of the State and is a...
• Section 27:1b-3 - Definitions.
  3.The following words or terms as used in this act shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:...
• Section 27:1b-4 - New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority
  4. a. There is hereby established in the department a public body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as the "New...
• Section 27:1b-5 - Purpose Of Authority
  5.It shall be the sole purpose of the authority created under this act to provide the payment for and financing of all, or a...
• Section 27:1b-6 - Powers Of Authority
  6.In addition to all other powers granted to the authority in the act, the authority shall have power: a.To sue and be sued; b.To...
• Section 27:1b-7 - Power To Accept And Use Funds Appropriated And Paid By State.
  7.The authority shall have the power to accept and use any funds appropriated and paid by the State to the authority, including, without limitation,...
• Section 27:1b-8 - Contracts With Toll Road Authorities Or State Agencies
  The authority shall have the power to enter into contracts (or take an assignment of the rights and interests in contracts entered into by...
• Section 27:1b-9 - Issuance Of Bonds.
  9. a. The authority shall have the power and is hereby authorized after November 15, 1984 and from time to time thereafter to issue...
• Section 27:1b-10 - Covenants With Holders Of Bonds, Notes Or Other Obligations.
  10.In any resolution of the authority authorizing or relating to the issuance of any bonds, notes or other obligations or in any indenture securing...
• Section 27:1b-11 - Pledge Of Revenues, Moneys, Funds Or Other Property
  Any pledge of revenues, moneys, funds or other property made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge...
• Section 27:1b-12 - Immunity From Personal Liability Of Members Of Authority And Persons Executing Bonds
  Neither the members of the authority nor any person executing bonds or notes or other obligations issued pursuant to this act shall be liable...
• Section 27:1b-13 - Reserves, Funds Or Accounts
  The authority may establish reserves, funds or accounts as may be, in its discretion, necessary or desirable to further the accomplishment of the purposes...
• Section 27:1b-14 - Pledge Of State To Not Alter Or Limit Rights Or Powers Vested In Authority
  The State does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds, notes or other obligations issued or incurred pursuant...
• Section 27:1b-15 - Bonds Or Notes As Legal Investments
  The State and all public officers, governmental units and agencies thereof, all banks, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings...
• Section 27:1b-16 - Tax Exemption; Property Of Authority; Bonds, Notes Or Other Obligations
  All property of the authority is declared to be public property devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and shall be...
• Section 27:1b-17 - Annual Report
  On or before the first day of September in each year the authority shall make an annual report of its activities for the preceding...
• Section 27:1b-18 - Services To Authority By Other Governmental Units; Payment Of Costs
  All officers, departments, boards, agencies, divisions and commissions of the State are hereby authorized and empowered to render any and all services to the...
• Section 27:1b-19 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner is authorized to adopt such rules and regulations, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.),...
• Section 27:1b-20 - "Transportation Trust Fund Account."
  20.There is hereby established in the General Fund an account entitled "Transportation Trust Fund Account," which shall consist of two subaccounts entitled: "Transportation Trust...
• Section 27:1b-21 - "Special Transportation Fund."
  21. a. There is hereby established a separate fund entitled "Special Transportation Fund." This fund shall be maintained by the State Treasurer and may...
• Section 27:1b-21.1 - Annual Funding Maximums.
  8. a. Commencing with the report of the commissioner, as may be amended, required to be submitted pursuant to section 22 of P.L.1984, c.73...
• Section 27:1b-21.4 - Utilization Of Funds; Allocation Of Costs
  11. The State amount appropriated from the revenues and other funds of the authority for any fiscal year commencing on or after July 1,...
• Section 27:1b-21.5 - Duties Of Commissioner, Loans, Conditions; Reports
  12. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements with public or private...
• Section 27:1b-21.6 - Funding Agreements For Transportation Projects
  13. The commissioner or the board of the New Jersey Transit Corporation with the approval of the commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements...
• Section 27:1b-21.7 - Closing Accounts, Expenditure Of Remaining Funds
  14. a. After the commissioner has determined that a project financed through the authority has been completed, the commissioner may direct that any account...
• Section 27:1b-21.8 - Credits To Airport Safety Fund.
  15.Each year a nonlapsing sum of money shall be appropriated from funds held in the Special Transportation Fund, established pursuant to section 21 of...
• Section 27:1b-21.9 - Appropriation For Operating Expenses Of New Jersey Transit Corporation
  16. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in any fiscal year in which the amount allocated by the Federal Government to...
• Section 27:1b-21.10 - Definitions Relative To State Transportation Infrastructure Bank
  1. As used in this act: "Federal infrastructure bank program" means the United States Department of Transportation State Infrastructure Bank Program provided for in...
• Section 27:1b-21.11 - State Transportation Infrastructure Bank, Established
  2. a. There is hereby established a special non-lapsing, revolving subaccount of the Special Transportation Fund to be known as the "State Transportation Infrastructure...
• Section 27:1b-21.12 - Commissioner's Powers; Duties
  3. a. The commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements with public or private entities or consortia thereof for the use of monies from...
• Section 27:1b-21.13 - Rules, Regulations
  4. The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), governing the State Transportation Infrastructure...
• Section 27:1b-21.14 - Short Title
  1.Sections 1 through 14 and 23 through 25 and section 27 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Congestion...
• Section 27:1b-21.15 - Findings, Declarations Regarding The State's Transportation System
  2.The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a.A balanced and improved transit and goods movement and highway system is of key importance to our...
• Section 27:1b-21.16 - Program To Improve Traffic Signal Operation
  3.The Commissioner of Transportation (hereinafter, "the commissioner") shall establish and implement a program to employ the best available technology to improve traffic signal operation...
• Section 27:1b-21.17 - Reduction Of Single Occupancy Trips, Report To Legislature
  4.No later than March 31, 2001, the commissioner shall submit a report to the Legislature containing recommended incentives to businesses to encourage a reduction...
• Section 27:1b-21.18 - Telecommuting, Report To Legislature
  5.No later than January 1, 2001, the Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission, in consultation with...
• Section 27:1b-21.19 - Context Sensitive Design
  6.Many State highways run through fully developed cities and suburban towns. In addition, many small villages in rural areas have State highways which pass...
• Section 27:1b-21.20 - Large Trucks, Report To Legislature
  7.The commissioner shall report to the Legislature not later than January 1, 2001, on measures undertaken by the department and measures it recommends as...
• Section 27:1b-21.21 - Led Lighting Installation
  8.The commissioner shall install light emitting diodes lighting ("LED lighting"), or lighting similar in energy and life cycle savings, in traffic signals on the...
• Section 27:1b-21.22 - Pavement Preservation And Preventive Maintenance Program
  9.There is hereby established in the Department of Transportation, a Pavement Preservation and Preventive Maintenance Program. In furtherance of this program, the commissioner shall...
• Section 27:1b-21.23 - Evaluation Of Road Pavements
  10. The commissioner shall continue to evaluate roadway pavements on the State highway system and assign numerical ratings to roads for maintenance and repair...
• Section 27:1b-21.24 - Pavement Maintenance, Repair, Report To Governor And Legislature
  11. The commissioner shall issue a report to the Governor and the Legislature at the end of each fiscal year containing the numerical ranking...
• Section 27:1b-21.25 - Life Cycle Cost Analysis Of Pavements, Report To Governor And Legislature
  12. The commissioner shall conduct a life cycle cost analysis of pavement surfaces and report the findings of the analysis to the Governor and...
• Section 27:1b-21.26 - Congestion Buster Task Force
  13. a. There is created in the Department of Transportation a task force to be known as the "Congestion Buster Task Force" to study...
• Section 27:1b-21.27 - Park-and-ride Facility Expansion, Report To Governor And Legislature
  14. No later than July 1, 2001, the commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on steps which the commissioner recommends to...
• Section 27:1b-21.28 - Use Of Debt Service Savings
  23. Any savings in the amount of debt service realized as a result of the sale of refunding bonds by the authority shall only...
• Section 27:1b-21.29 - Additional Funds
  24. In addition to those funds to be credited to the "Transportation Trust Fund Account" pursuant to section 20 of P.L.1984, c.73 (C.27:1B-20), the...
• Section 27:1b-21.30 - Highway Route Construction, Restriction
  25. No new State highway route shall be constructed using the revenues and other funds of the authority unless specifically authorized by joint resolution....
• Section 27:1b-21.32 - Use Of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement By Dot.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Commissioner of Transportation shall permit for public highways under the jurisdiction of...
• Section 27:1b-22 - Preparation, Submission Of Reports.
  22.The commissioner shall prepare and submit the following reports to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Financial Policy Review Board, established pursuant to section...
• Section 27:1b-22.1 - Circle Of Mobility Projects; Inclusion On List, Annual Funding; Completion
  3. a. The Commissioner of Transportation shall annually include in the list of proposed projects submitted to the Legislature pursuant to section 22 of...
• Section 27:1b-22.2 - Financial Policy Review Board.
  6.There is hereby created in the Executive Branch of the State Government, a body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as...
• Section 27:1b-22.3 - Report To Governor, Legislature.
  9.The Department of Transportation shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on September 1, 2008 and on September 1, 2010 on the amount...
• Section 27:1b-22.4 - Inclusion Of Projects In "Annual Transportation Capital Program."
  3.The Department of Transportation shall include, annually as part of its "Annual Transportation Capital Program" submitted pursuant to section 22 of P.L.1984, c.73 (C.27:1B-22),...
• Section 27:1b-23 - Contracts By Treasurer, Commissioner And Authority.
  23.In order to implement the arrangement provided for in the act, the treasurer, the commissioner and the authority are hereby authorized to enter into...
• Section 27:1b-24 - Expenditures With Firms Owned And Controlled By Socially And Economically Disadvantaged Individuals And By Women
  Subject to those definitions and procedures as the commissioner may prescribe by regulation, with respect to moneys appropriated or authorized pursuant to this act...
• Section 27:1b-25 - County, Municipal Projects.
  25. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of subtitle 4 of Title 27 of the Revised Statutes and P.L.1946, c.301 (C.27:15A-1 et seq.), the commissioner may,...
• Section 27:1b-25.1 - Aid To Counties, Municipalities, Basis.
  9.Aid to counties and municipalities administered by the department may, at the discretion of the commissioner, be disbursed to any individual county or municipality...
• Section 27:1b-25.2 - Use Of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, Maximum Amount.
  1.Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, counties and municipalities receiving State funds for transportation projects shall permit for public highways under...
• Section 27:1b-25.3 - Use Of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement In "Closed System" Project.
  2.Counties and municipalities receiving State funds for transportation projects shall permit for public highways under their jurisdiction the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement that...
• Section 27:1b-25.4 - Use Of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, Certain; Prohibited.
  3.Reclaimed asphalt pavement shall not be used for open-graded and modified open-graded friction courses, or any other special purpose or premium asphalt mix required...
• Section 27:1b-26 - Budgets Of Counties And Municipalities; Inclusion Of And Commitments Against State Aid
  It shall be lawful for each county and municipality, upon notification by the commissioner of approval for and the amount of State aid allocated...
• Section 27:1b-27 - Counties And Municipalities; Temporary State Aid Anticipation Notes
  When the commissioner shall notify the governing body of a county or municipality of the amount of State funds allocated to a project, the...
• Section 27:1b-28 - Act Not To Limit, Alter Or Impair Rights And Security Of Holders Under Contracts
  Nothing in the act shall be deemed or construed so as to limit, alter or impair in any way the rights and obligations of...
• Section 27:1b-29 - Severability
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of the act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the...
• Section 27:1b-30 - Liberal Interpretation Of Act
  This act shall be interpreted liberally to effect the purposes set forth herein. L.1984, c. 73, s. 39, eff. July 10, 1984.
• Section 27:1b-31 - Act As Supplemental And Additional To Powers Conferred By Other Laws; Inconsistent Acts Subordinate To This Act
  This act shall be deemed to provide an additional, alternative and complete method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be...
• Section 27:1c-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Transportation Development District Act of 1989." L.1989, c.100, s.1.
• Section 27:1c-2 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. In recent years, New Jersey has experienced explosive growth in certain regions, often along State highway routes...
• Section 27:1c-3 - Definitions
  The following words or terms as used in this act shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:...
• Section 27:1c-4 - Designation, Delineation Of Transportation Development District
  a. The governing body of any county may, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, apply to the commissioner for the designation and delineation of...
• Section 27:1c-5 - Joint Planning Process
  a. Following the commissioner's designation and delineation of a district under section 4 of this act, the governing body of the county shall initiate...
• Section 27:1c-6 - District Transportation Improvement Plan; Approval By Commissioner
  a. The governing body of any county which has completed all the requirements of section 5 of this act may, by ordinance or resolution,...
• Section 27:1c-7 - Assessment, Collection Of Development Fees
  a. After the effective date of an ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, adopted under section 6 of this act, the governing body of the...
• Section 27:1c-8 - Formula For Assessment
  An ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, adopted under section 7 of this act shall provide for the assessment of development fees based upon the...
• Section 27:1c-9 - Project Agreement
  Every transportation project funded in whole or in part by funds from a transportation development district trust fund shall be subject to a project...
• Section 27:1c-10 - Appropriation Of Funds
  No expenditure of funds shall be made from a transportation development district trust fund except by appropriation by the governing body of the county...
• Section 27:1c-11 - Loans
  The commissioner may, subject to the availability of appropriations for this purpose and pursuant to a project agreement entered into under section 9 of...
• Section 27:1c-12 - Adjoining Transportation Development Districts
  The governing bodies of two or more counties which have established, or propose to establish, adjoining transportation development districts, and which have determined that...
• Section 27:1c-13 - Request By Commissioner For Transportation Development District
  a. After due examination the commissioner may find, in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to subsection d. of section 4 of this act, that...
• Section 27:1c-14 - Application For Dissolution
  a. The governing body of a county within which a transportation development district has been designated under section 4 of this act may, by...
• Section 27:1c-15 - Petition By Municipal Governing Body; Response By County Governing Body
  a. The governing body of any municipality or municipalities may, by resolution, petition the governing body of the county to initiate an application for...
• Section 27:1c-16 - Limitations
  a. Except as provided by this act, no county or municipality may establish or operate a district within the boundaries delineated by the commissioner...
• Section 27:1c-17 - Pre-existing Districts
  a. If a county has, before the effective date of this act, established a district or districts for the purpose of consolidating the required...
• Section 27:1c-18 - Rules, Regulations
  The commissioner upon notice and the holding of a public hearing shall adopt the rules and regulations, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act,"...
• Section 27:1d-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Transportation Projects
  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. A safe and efficient transportation system is essential to the economic and social well-being of the...
• Section 27:1d-2 - Definitions Relative To Transportation Projects
  2. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Transportation. "Corporation" means the New Jersey Transit Corporation. "Department" means the Department of...
• Section 27:1d-3 - Selection Of Demonstration Projects
  3. a. Commencing with the fiscal year beginning after the effective date of this act and for the next four succeeding fiscal years, the...
• Section 27:1d-4 - Solicitation Of Proposals By Public Partner
  4. a. A public partner is authorized to solicit proposals in the five fiscal years after the effective date of this act, as provided...
• Section 27:1d-5 - Financial Conditions; Arrangements Of Projects
  5. a. The department's financial participation in any demonstration project undertaken pursuant to this act shall be subject to legislative appropriation. The corporation's financial...
• Section 27:1d-6 - Laws Applicable To Demonstration Projects
  6. Traffic and other laws applicable on the State transportation system shall be enforceable, as appropriate, on demonstration projects constructed by and leased by...
• Section 27:1d-7 - Demonstration Projects Subject To State, Federal Laws
  7. a. Demonstration projects selected pursuant to this act shall be designed, constructed, operated and maintained in accordance with all applicable environmental requirements and...
• Section 27:1d-8 - Immunities, Defenses Applicable To Demonstration Projects
  8. All absolute and qualified immunities and defenses provided to public entities and public employees by the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act," N.J.S.59:1-1 et...
• Section 27:1d-9 - Public Partner May Defend, Indemnify
  9. a. The public partner may agree to defend and indemnify any person, who, pursuant to a written agreement with the public partner entered...
• Section 27:1e-1 - Definitions Relative To Smart Growth In Dot And Expedited Permits.
  6.As used in section 7 of P.L.2004, c.89 (C.27:1E-2): "Applicant" means any person applying for a permit pursuant to section 7 or 10, as...
• Section 27:1e-2 - Division Of Smart Growth Established In Dot.
  7. a. There is established in the Department of Transportation a Division of Smart Growth under the direction of a director, who shall be...
• Section 27:2-1 - Road Contracts
  a. When the cost of constructing, reconstructing or resurfacing any State, county or municipal road, street or highway, or portion thereof, will exceed $7,500.00...
• Section 27:2-2 - Types Of Material And Construction; Alternative Bids
  The body having charge of the work may adopt plans and specifications calling for more than one type of material and construction, and if...
• Section 27:2-3 - Type Of Material Selected; Award To Lowest Bidder
  After bids are received by the body having control of the work, it shall then select the type of material or construction which under...
• Section 27:2-4 - Inviting Bids On Patented Paving; Other Pavements
  If a patented, proprietary pavement or paving material, or ingredients used in paving, is included in the specifications, the body having charge of the...
• Section 27:2-5 - Specifications To Make Fair Competition
  In selecting alternate pavements for competition with each other the public body in charge of the work shall require the specifications to be so...
• Section 27:2-6 - Bituminous Cements; Variations Allowed
  When the ingredients used as a cement are bituminous in character, in alternates the same general type of bituminous cement shall be used in...
• Section 27:2-7 - Width And Surface Of Competitive Pavements To Coincide
  When a patented, proprietary or controlled pavement is used in alternate competition with unpatented, nonproprietary and non-controlled pavements, the width of the pavements for...
• Section 27:2-8 - Liquid Applications
  The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to patented proprietary pavements or ingredients which are applied to roadway surfaces in liquid form or...
• Section 27:2-9 - Renegotiation Of Contract With Commissioner Of Transportation
  Any person awarded a contract by the Commissioner of Transportation for the construction, reconstruction or resurfacing of any State, county or municipal road, street...
• Section 27:3-1 - Establishment Of Detour Upon Necessity
  When a road is being constructed, reconstructed or undergoing extraordinary repairs under the authority and direction of the board of chosen freeholders of a...
• Section 27:3-2 - Improvement Of Detour Roads; Consent Required
  In providing detours the board of chosen freeholders or the state highway commissioner may expend money on roads used as detours so as to...
• Section 27:3-3 - Resolution Declaring Necessity For Detours; Cost Of Repair And Maintenance
  When the work contemplated by section 27:3-1 of this title will necessitate the providing of detours over other roads, the board of chosen freeholders...
• Section 27:3-4 - Repair And Maintenance Of Detour Roads
  The repair of roads used as detours and their maintenance during the necessary period may be included in the original contract for construction, reconstruction...
• Section 27:3-5 - State's Contribution For Detour Roads
  The state highway commissioner may contribute to any county for the purposes of this article any money that may come into his hands to...
• Section 27:3-6 - Detour Roads; Establishment
  When a road shall be closed temporarily by the governing body of a municipality, the board or body having control of such road or...
• Section 27:3-7 - Selection Of Route; Control
  The detour road so selected shall be the shortest practicable route from and to the road temporarily closed, and the governing body selecting it...
• Section 27:3-8 - Improvement And Maintenance Of Detour Roads
  The detour road shall be placed in, and shall be maintained in, proper condition for the use of the public during the period of...
• Section 27:3-9 - Guide Marks
  The governing body shall erect and maintain proper signs to guide the public to, from and along the detour road from and to the...
• Section 27:3-10 - Restoration After Use As Detour
  At the termination of the period of use of the detour road as such, the governing body shall place it in as good condition...
• Section 27:3-11 - Cost Of Repair And Maintenance
  The cost of repairing and maintaining detour roads as required by section 27:3-6 of this title shall be borne by the governing body required...
• Section 27:3-12 - Failure To Provide Or Maintain Detour; Violations Reported; Remedy
  When, in the opinion of the governing body of the municipality having original jurisdiction over a road or highway selected as a detour road,...
• Section 27:3a-1 - Purpose Of Act
  For the purposes of this act, "State, county or municipal highway or road" means any public street, thoroughfare, roadway, bridge, traffic circle, tunnel, overpass,...
• Section 27:3a-2 - Signs; Advance Notice; Information To Agency
  Whenever a State, county or municipal highway or road shall be closed for any reason, either continuously or during certain hours, to vehicular traffic...
• Section 27:3a-3 - Emergency Closing; Notice
  Should the governing body or agency closing the highway or road determine that an emergency condition exists requiring the immediate closing of a State,...
• Section 27:4-1 - Vacation Of Unused Roads
  When a public road or highway or portion thereof laid out over one or more tracts of land by the surveyors of the highways...
• Section 27:5-5 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Roadside Sign Control and Outdoor Advertising Act." L.1991,c.413,s.1.
• Section 27:5-6 - Findings, Declarations
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. In order to balance the promotion of the safety, convenience and enjoyment of travel on the...
• Section 27:5-7 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Advertisement or advertising" means the use of any outdoor display or sign upon real property within public view,...
• Section 27:5-8 - License, Permit Required; Public Hearing.
  4. a. A person shall not erect, maintain or make available to another a roadside sign, or engage in the business of outdoor advertising...
• Section 27:5-9 - Requirements For A Permit
  5. Signs permitted by this act shall be by permit from the commissioner pursuant to conditions consistent with the regulations of the commissioner, and...
• Section 27:5-9.1 - Billboard, Outdoor Advertising Sign; Subject To Regulation.
  2.Any billboard or outdoor advertising sign licensed and permitted pursuant to the "Roadside Sign Control and Outdoor Advertising Act," P.L.1991, c.413 (C.27:5-5 et seq.),...
• Section 27:5-10 - Signs Prohibited In Right-of-way Of Interstate And Primary Systems
  6. No sign shall be erected or maintained within the right-of-way of any portion of the Interstate and Primary Systems within this State, except...
• Section 27:5-11 - Exceptions For Certain Roadside Signs.
  7. a. No permit shall be issued by the commissioner for roadside signs to be erected or maintained in any protected area visible from...
• Section 27:5-12 - Exceptions For Certain Other Signs Or Devices
  8. Unless otherwise provided for in this act, no permit shall be required for the use, maintenance or erection of a sign or other...
• Section 27:5-13 - Licenses Or Permits; Application, Revocation
  9. a. Applications for licenses or permits shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished by the commissioner. b. If an applicant for a...
• Section 27:5-14 - Licenses Or Permits; Renewals
  10. a. Renewal of any license or permit issued after the effective date of this act may be refused for any ground sufficient for...
• Section 27:5-15 - Violations Of Act; Notice; Removal
  11. a. Any sign or other object used for the display of outdoor advertising which is not authorized by a valid permit or specifically...
• Section 27:5-16 - Penalties
  12. A person who erects or maintains a sign or other object for outdoor advertising, or authorizes his name to be used in connection...
• Section 27:5-17 - Enforcement By Commissioner
  13. Any penalty imposed pursuant to this act may be collected, with costs, in a summary proceeding pursuant to "the penalty enforcement law," N.J.S....
• Section 27:5-18 - Rules And Regulations
  14. a. The commissioner may adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to...
• Section 27:5-19 - Fees, Penalties For Administration Of Act; Fees In Addition To Other Excises.
  15. a. Moneys received from fees and penalties collected pursuant to this act shall be deposited with the State Treasurer, and shall be disbursed...
• Section 27:5-20 - State, Federal Agreements
  16. The commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States, as provided pursuant to Title 23...
• Section 27:5-21 - Acquisition Of Property By The State
  17. The commissioner is authorized to acquire by gift, lease, purchase or condemnation, real and personal property, or the right to maintain signs for...
• Section 27:5-22 - Safety Rest Areas, Informational Sites
  18. The commissioner is authorized to designate certain roadside areas as "safety rest areas" or "informational sites" and to regulate these sites. Safety rest...
• Section 27:5-23 - Duty Of Law Enforcement
  19. a. It shall be the duty of all departments of State or local government and all county and municipal officers charged with the...
• Section 27:5-24 - Effect Of Existing Rules, Regulations
  20. a. Any rules or regulations adopted by the commissioner concerning outdoor advertising that are in effect prior to the effective date of this...
• Section 27:5-25 - Effect On Existing Signs
  21. A sign erected and maintained with a valid permit issued before the effective date of this act, which does not comply with this...
• Section 27:5-26 - Effect On Local Ordinances Or Regulations
  22. This act shall not be construed to limit the powers of any political subdivision of this State to regulate land, streets, buildings or...
• Section 27:5-27 - Authorized Amount Of Outdoor Advertising Space; "State Entity" Defined.
  1.Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner shall determine the number of square feet of advertising space authorized...
• Section 27:5-28 - Disclosure Statement Required For Outdoor Advertising Businesses.
  2.Any person who is the holder of any license to engage in the business of outdoor advertising or of any outdoor advertising permit issued...
• Section 27:5-29 - Memorial Sign Program.
  1. a. The Department of Transportation shall establish, consistent with federal law, a fallen police officer, sheriff's officer, EMS worker, and firefighter memorial sign...
• Section 27:5-30 - Installation Of Sign.
  2. a. Within 90 days of reaching an agreement, pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2015, c.227 (C.27:5-31), for payment of the costs to have...
• Section 27:5-31 - Funding For Signs.
  3.No State or other public funds shall be used for producing, purchasing, or erecting memorial signs pursuant to P.L.2015, c.227 (C.27:5-29 et seq.). The...
• Section 27:5-32 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The Commissioner of Transportation shall, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations as...
• Section 27:5a-1 - Military Reservations, Roads In; Supervision
  Whenever any public road or highway is located wholly or in part within the limits of a United States military reservation, the United States...
• Section 27:5a-2 - Power To Continue Until Terminated By Governor
  The power hereby conferred upon and granted to any United States military authority shall continue in full force and effect until the same shall...
• Section 27:5b-1 - Acquisition, Construction, Maintenance, Repair Or Operation Of Projects
  The State Highway Commissioner may, under contract with any Authority in the State Highway Department, undertake and perform any acts in connection with the...
• Section 27:5d-1 - Co-operative Agreements By State Highway Commissioner For Acquisition And Clearance Of Property In Blighted Or Urban Redevelopment Areas
  In addition to the powers now vested in the State Highway Commissioner for the acquisition of lands by virtue of any statute, he shall...
• Section 27:5d-2 - Power Of Housing Authority Or Redevelopment Agency To Contract And Convey Realty; Approval Of Agreements By Municipality
  Any municipal housing authority or redevelopment agency of the State, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into...
• Section 27:5e-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the "Junkyard Control Act." L.1970, c. 152, s. 1, eff. July 24, 1970.
• Section 27:5e-2 - Declaration Of Policy
  The purposes of this act are to promote the public safety, health, welfare, convenience and enjoyment of public travel, to protect the public investment...
• Section 27:5e-3 - Definitions
  As used in this act: (a) "Junk" shall mean old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked,...
• Section 27:5e-4 - Establishment, Operation And Maintenance Of Junkyard
  No person shall establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way...
• Section 27:5e-5 - Screening Of Junkyard
  Any junkyard lawfully in existence on the effective date of this act which is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way...
• Section 27:5e-6 - Rules And Regulations For Screening Or Fencing
  The Commissioner of Transportation shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations governing the location, planting, construction and maintenance, including the materials used,...
• Section 27:5e-7 - Relocation, Removal Or Disposal Of Junkyards
  When the Commissioner of Transportation determines that the topography of the land adjoining the highway will not permit adequate screening of such junkyards or...
• Section 27:5e-8 - Relocation, Removal Or Disposal Of Junkyards; Acquisition Of Lands
  Junkyards which do not conform to the requirements of this act are declared to be public nuisances. The Commissioner of Transportation may apply to...
• Section 27:5e-9 - County And Municipal Ordinances; Effect
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any lawful ordinance, regulation, or resolution of any county or...
• Section 27:5e-10 - Federal Cooperation
  The Commissioner of Transportation is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the United States Secretary of Transportation as provided by Title 23, United...
• Section 27:5e-11 - Severability
  If any section, subsection or other provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder...
• Section 27:5e-12 - Violations; Penalty
  Whosoever shall hereafter establish and maintain any junkyards in violation of the provisions of this act shall, after conviction, be liable to a penalty...
• Section 27:5f-13.1 - Medical Aid
  The life saving medical services provided by first aid, rescue or ambulance squad members and by licensed physicians and surgeons have proven to be...
• Section 27:5f-18 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987." L. 1987, c. 284, s.
• Section 27:5f-19 - Findings, Determinations
  The Legislature hereby finds and determines that the toll of deaths and injuries resulting from highway accidents is a matter of State concern. Although...
• Section 27:5f-21 - Coordination By Governor.
  4. a. The Governor shall coordinate the highway traffic safety activities of State and local agencies, other public and private agencies, nonprofit organizations, and...
• Section 27:5f-22 - Training Programs
  The New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Program shall, in addition to other provisions, include training programs for groups such as but not limited to...
• Section 27:5f-23 - Qualification For Federal Funds.
  6.A political subdivision or nonprofit organization shall qualify for receipt of federal funds upon application to the Governor, provided that: a.The political subdivision or...
• Section 27:5f-24 - Grants To Treasury Department.
  7.The Department of the Treasury shall accept and receive any grants of money awarded to the State, its political subdivisions and nonprofit organizations under...
• Section 27:5f-25 - Portion To Political Subdivisions
  At least 40% of the federal funds so received, or such lesser amount as may be authorized pursuant to federal law, shall be expended...
• Section 27:5f-26 - Emergency Medical Service Programs.
  9.The Governor may also accept applications from political subdivisions and qualifying nonprofit organizations made on behalf of hospitals, volunteer and nonvolunteer first aid, rescue...
• Section 27:5f-27 - Certification
  The officers of each volunteer and nonvolunteer first aid, rescue and ambulance squad providing emergency medical service programs shall be responsible for the training...
• Section 27:5f-28 - Allocation Of Federal Funds
  The federal funds apportioned and allocated to the State pursuant to the "U.S. Highway Safety Act of 1966," Pub.L. 89-564 (23 U.S.C. s.s. 401-404),...
• Section 27:5f-30 - Ban On First Aid Squad Restrictions
  This act shall not be construed to grant to the Governor or any other State or local official any power to promulgate regulations which...
• Section 27:5f-31 - Advisory Council
  The Governor shall establish a Highway Traffic Safety Policy Advisory Council. The council shall consist of the following 21 members appointed by the Governor:...
• Section 27:5f-32 - Governor's Representative
  The Director of the Office of Highway Traffic Safety is hereby appointed as the Governor's representative to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of...
• Section 27:5f-33 - Report To Legislature
  On or before December 31st each year, the Governor shall submit a report to the Legislature. The report shall include a detailed presentation of...
• Section 27:5f-34 - Entities Abolished
  Executive Orders No. 31 of 1951 and 39 of 1968 are hereby superseded. The "State Coordinating Council on Traffic and Safety" established pursuant to...
• Section 27:5f-35 - Transfer Of Office
  The Office of Highway Safety in the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety, together with its powers, functions,...
• Section 27:5f-36 - Motorcycle Safety Education Program.
  1. a. The chief administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall establish a motorcycle safety education program. The program shall consist of...
• Section 27:5f-37 - Instructors, Certification.
  2.To qualify for certification as an instructor of the motorcycle safety education course established pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1991, c.452 (C.27:5F-36), a person...
• Section 27:5f-39 - Motorcycle Safety Education Fund.
  4.There is established a Motorcycle Safety Education Fund in the Motor Vehicle Commission. Such registration fees as may be imposed at the discretion of...
• Section 27:5f-40 - Rules, Regulations.
  5.The Chief Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate...
• Section 27:5f-41 - Development Of Curriculum Guidelines For Safe Operation Of Motor Vehicles.
  8. a. The Director of the Office of Highway Traffic Safety in the Department of Law and Public Safety, after consultation with the Chief...
• Section 27:5f-42 - "Graduated Driver License Fund."
  9. a. There is created in the Department of Transportation a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Graduated Driver License Fund." There...
• Section 27:5f-43 - Recommendations With Respect To Rules, Regulations.
  10. a. The Director of the Office of Highway Traffic Safety shall make recommendations to the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle...
• Section 27:5g-1 - Bridge Clearance Posting, Municipal Roads
  a. Every bridge or overpass carrying a municipal road or highway or under the jurisdiction of a municipality, with a clearance of less than...
• Section 27:5g-2 - County Roads
  a. Every bridge or overpass carrying a county road or highway or under the jurisdiction of a county, with a clearance of less than...
• Section 27:5g-3 - State Roads
  a. Every bridge or overpass carrying a State road or highway or under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation, with a clearance of...
• Section 27:5g-4 - Railroad Overpasses
  a. Every bridge or overpass carrying a railroad, with a clearance of less than 14 feet 6 inches from the roadway beneath, shall have...
• Section 27:5g-5 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Railroad Overhead Bridge Act of 1988." L. 1988, c. 171, s. 1.
• Section 27:5g-6 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Many of the hundreds of bridges carrying highways over railroads in the State are in need of...
• Section 27:5g-7 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Transportation. "Good repair" means a state of structural soundness according to accepted engineering standards...
• Section 27:5g-8 - Assignment Of Jurisdiction
  a. The commissioner shall, within six months of the effective date of this act, and following a public hearing, adopt as a regulation under...
• Section 27:5g-9 - Assignment To Department Of Transportation
  The commissioner shall assign all bridges carrying State highways to the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation. L. 1988, c. 171, s. 5.
• Section 27:5g-10 - Assignment To Other Public Entities
  When, pursuant to regulations adopted under this act, the commissioner determines, following a review of available statutes, regulations, local ordinances, maintenance agreements, records concerning...
• Section 27:5g-11 - Assignment To New Jersey Transit Corporation
  The commissioner shall assign each railroad overhead bridge carrying a highway, other than a State highway, over and across a right-of-way owned by the...
• Section 27:5g-12 - Assignment To Private Owner
  If a railroad overhead bridge carries a private road, the commissioner shall assign the bridge to the jurisdiction of the person owning the road....
• Section 27:5g-13 - Assignment As State Highway Bridge
  When the commissioner determines that a bridge cannot be assigned to the department under section 5 of this act, to a public entity under...
• Section 27:5g-14 - Routine Maintenance
  Any county or municipality having jurisdiction over a highway carried by a railroad overhead bridge assigned to the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Transit...
• Section 27:5g-15 - Services
  a. With respect to the inspection, maintenance, rehabilitation, replacement or removal of railroad overhead bridges assigned under this act, each person or railroad company...
• Section 27:5g-16 - Maintenance Contracts
  The commissioner may enter into contracts for the maintenance of any railroad overhead bridge assigned to the jurisdiction of the department under section 9...
• Section 27:5g-17 - Not Under Title 48
  Any railroad overhead bridge which has been assigned to a jurisdiction by written order of the commissioner under this act shall not be considered...
• Section 27:5g-18 - Prior Tort, Contractual Liability
  The issuance by the commissioner of a written order assigning jurisdiction over a railroad overhead bridge under the provisions of this act shall not...
• Section 27:5g-19 - Transfer Of Jurisdiction
  Jurisdiction over a railroad overhead bridge assigned under this act may be transferred to another party by voluntary agreement between the parties, provided that...
• Section 27:5h-1 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that the State of New Jersey, by virtue of its location, is one of the corridor states on the...
• Section 27:5h-2 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Highway route controlled quantity" means the same as it is defined by the United States Department of Transportation...
• Section 27:5h-3 - Nuclear Waste Transport Commission
  a. There is created in, but not of, the Department of Transportation, the Nuclear Waste Transport Commission. The commission shall consist of 11 voting...
• Section 27:5h-4 - Duties, Responsibilities
  The duties and responsibilities of the commission shall be: a. To establish criteria, in conformity with federal law and in consideration of the unique...
• Section 27:5h-5 - Rules, Regulations
  In accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), the commission shall: a. Adopt any...
• Section 27:5i-1 - Parking Of Roll-off Dumpsters
  a. No person shall park or leave unattended any waste or refuse container, commonly known as a roll-off dumpster or roll-off container, on or...
• Section 27:5j-1 - Archaeological Findings On Property Of Dot, Various Authorities, Protected.
  7. a. (1) Except as may be provided pursuant to subsection c. of this section, no person may alter, deface, destroy, disturb, or remove...
• Section 27:5k-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Scenic, Historic Highways.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Certain portions of the State highway system are notable for their scenic, historic, recreational, cultural, and archaeological value...
• Section 27:5k-2 - Definitions Relative To Scenic, Historic Highways.
  2.As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Transportation. "Department" means the Department of Transportation. "Program" means the New Jersey Scenic and...
• Section 27:5k-3 - "New Jersey Scenic And Historic Highways Program."
  3. a. There is hereby established a "New Jersey Scenic and Historic Highways Program" to be administered by the commissioner in accordance with the...
• Section 27:5k-4 - Roadways Designated For Inclusion.
  4.The following roadways are designated for inclusion in the New Jersey Scenic and Historic Highways Program: a."Quaker Road Scenic and Historic Highway," which consists...
• Section 27:5k-5 - Signage Permitted.
  5.The department or any other public entity with jurisdiction over a roadway which has been designated for inclusion in the program may erect signs...
• Section 27:6-1 - State Highway Routes Set Forth
  The state highway system shall consist of the following routes: ROUTE NO. 1, S-1, AND S-1-A. Alpine to Bayonne. Beginning at the New York...
• Section 27:6-1.1 - State House Commission Approval Of Conveyance Required; Parcels, Certain.
  2.Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any sale or conveyance by the Department of Transportation of the State's interest in any...
• Section 27:6-2 - Certain Former Routes Included In System
  The state highway system shall also include any routes established, taken over and constructed under acts in effect prior to March thirtieth, one thousand...
• Section 27:6-3 - Approaches To Midtown Hudson Tunnel Declared Part Of State Highway System; Maintenance And Operation
  When, pursuant to article 6 of chapter 1 of Title 32, Interstate and Port Authorities and Commissions (s. 32:1-118 et seq.), the port of...
• Section 27:7-1 - Subtitle Definitions
  As used in this subtitle: "Access code" means the State highway access management code adopted by the commissioner under section 3 of the "State...
• Section 27:7-2 - Additional Routes
  The commissioner may lay out routes in continuation of, connecting with, and in addition to the routes prescribed by section 27:6-1 of this title.
• Section 27:7-3 - Routes To Be Direct; Use Of Existing Highways; New Right Of Ways
  All routes shall be as short and direct as practicable between the points specified, due regard being had for the other requirements of this...
• Section 27:7-4 - Routes Taken Over As State Highways; Hearing And Notice
  When the commissioner contemplates taking over a route or part thereof as a state highway he shall give notice in writing, which may be...
• Section 27:7-5 - Determination By Commissioner; Notice To Governing Body
  After the hearing the commissioner shall determine whether a route or part thereof, if any, shall be taken over as a state highway, and...
• Section 27:7-6 - Route Becomes State Highway; Exception
  Upon such determination by the commissioner such route or part thereof shall become a state highway, and the further improvement, betterment, maintenance and repair...
• Section 27:7-7 - Contracts Affecting Route Taken Over; Fulfillment
  When the body from which the highway is taken over has rights or benefits by virtue of an understanding, agreement, award or contract with...
• Section 27:7-8 - Existing Contracts Unaffected
  If at the time when it is proposed to take over a highway, a contract for work thereon shall have been awarded but the...
• Section 27:7-9 - Reimbursement Of Counties For Work Done On Roads Taken Over
  If, when a highway is taken over by the state under this chapter, a county shall have improved, reconstructed or made any extraordinary repairs...
• Section 27:7-10 - Use Of Moneys Repaid
  Moneys repaid to any county pursuant to section 27:7-9 of this title shall be used as follows and for no other purpose: a. If...
• Section 27:7-11 - State Highways Maintained And Repaired By Commissioner
  The commissioner shall take charge of all work on state highways and maintain them in good order. All work of improvement, betterment, reconstruction, or...
• Section 27:7-11.1 - Reflectors As Lane Markers
  Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, whenever any repair, construction, reconstruction or resurfacing is undertaken by the Department of Transportation on...
• Section 27:7-12 - Use Of Roads By Public Utilities; Consent Required
  No consent, grant or franchise for the laying of any railroad or street railway crossings, gas pipes, water pipes, electric conduits or other piping,...
• Section 27:7-13 - Use Of Bridges And Viaducts By Public Utilities; Agreement
  No person shall lay any tracks, pipes or conduits on, over or under any public viaduct or bridge constituting a part of the state...
• Section 27:7-14 - Paving Materials; Width Of Roads; Curves And Crossings Eliminated
  The state highways herein provided for shall be paved with granite, asphalt, or wood blocks, bricks, concrete, bituminous concrete, sheet asphalt or other pavement...
• Section 27:7-15 - Municipal Streets As Part Of Highway System; Improvement By Municipality
  The commissioner may enter into contract with a municipality, the streets or roads of which will form proper connections with a state highway, for...
• Section 27:7-16 - Contracts To Have Work Done By State Or County
  In lieu of making the improvement in the manner provided in section 27:7-15 of this title, the municipality, upon the approval of such proceedings...
• Section 27:7-17 - Certain Drawbridges Along Routes Maintained By State
  All drawbridges and approaches thereto in existence since March thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and not less than six hundred feet long,...
• Section 27:7-18 - Powers Of Commissioner Over State Highways; Exceptions In Certain Cities
  In the improvement, betterment, repair and maintenance of highways, forming a part of the state highway system, the commissioner shall possess and exercise, in...
• Section 27:7-19 - Co-operation By Other Bodies In Highway Work; Agreements; Cost Apportioned
  The commissioner may enter into written agreement with any board of chosen freeholders or other public body, or with any person for co-operation in...
• Section 27:7-19.1 - Claims Against County, Municipality Or Corporation; Compromise And Settlement
  Whenever it shall appear to the State Highway Commissioner after reasonable investigation that any claim of the State against a county, municipality or corporation...
• Section 27:7-19.2 - Execution Of Agreement For Settlement And Compromise; Compliance Within Eighteen Months
  When the State House Commission shall direct the State Highway Commissioner to settle, compromise and adjust any such claim or claims, the settlement shall...
• Section 27:7-19.3 - Municipal Indebtedness To State For Highway Or Road Work Or Improvement As Temporary Offset Against Claim For Emergency Relief Expenditures
  When any municipality of this State shall be indebted to the State, on contract, for highway or road work or improvement, including the cost...
• Section 27:7-20 - Work May Be Done By Contract; Approval Required; Exception
  If, in the judgment of the commissioner, the co-operating board, body or person could obtain more advantageous prices for the work and the best...
• Section 27:7-21 - Additional Powers Of Commissioner
  27:7-21. In addition to, and not in limitation of, his general powers, the commissioner may: a. Determine and adopt rules, regulations and specifications and...
• Section 27:7-21.1 - Construction Or Maintenance Of State Highway; Destruction Or Contamination Of Collection, Body, Store Or Supply Of Water
  Whenever the construction or maintenance undertaken by the Department of Transportation of a State highway shall result in the destruction or contamination of a...
• Section 27:7-21.3 - Vacation Of Unmapped Parts Of Highway
  Where the route of a State highway has heretofore or hereafter been fixed and mapped by the State Highway Commissioner, he shall be deemed...
• Section 27:7-21.4 - Leasing Property Acquired For Transportation Purposes; Provision For Termination Of Lease
  1. Any real or personal property heretofore or hereafter acquired by the Department of Transportation for a transportation or transportation related program or project...
• Section 27:7-21.5 - Management, Maintenance, Repair And Operation Of Leased Property
  The commissioner is hereby authorized to perform or contract for the performance of all acts necessary for the management, maintenance, repair and operation of...
• Section 27:7-21.6 - Option To Prior Owner Or Person In Possession; Lease To Public Body Or Agency; Competitive Public Bidding; Publication Of Notice
  If pursuant to this act the Commissioner of Transportation determines to permit the temporary lease of property, he shall give the first option to...
• Section 27:7-21.7 - Monthly Service Charge Payable By Lessee; In Lieu Of Local Property Or Leasehold Estate Taxes
  Every lease agreement, except leases entered into by public bodies or agencies for public purposes, nonprofit housing corporations, or with persons or for uses...
• Section 27:7-21.8 - Eradication Of Rats, Other Harmful Rodents From Public Highways.
  1.The Commissioner of Transportation is directed to devise and put into effect such programs as shall be necessary to provide for the eradication of...
• Section 27:7-21.9 - Snow Removal Or Other Maintenance Operations Upon Highway; Removal Of Motor Vehicle Or Other Object
  The Commissioner of Transportation or any officer or employee of the Department of Transportation may cause any motor vehicle or other object of any...
• Section 27:7-21.10 - Liability For Costs Of Removal By Owner
  The owner of a motor vehicle or other object so removed shall be liable to the commissioner for the reasonable cost of removal and...
• Section 27:7-21.11 - Liability Of Department Employees Or Private Persons For Removal
  Neither the commissioner nor any officer or employee of the department acting under the authority of this act may be held liable to any...
• Section 27:7-21.12 - Motor Service Signs, Lease, License, Contract.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Transportation may lease, license, or contract the use, management, or operation of any State right-of-way or any real property...
• Section 27:7-21.13 - Dot, Agreements With Certain Local Governments, Authority Clarified, Rates Established.
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.27:7-11, R.S.27:7-21, R.S.27:7-29, P.L.1966, c.185 (C.27:7-35.1 et seq.), and any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary,...
• Section 27:7-22 - Acquisition Of Land; Condemnation; Procedure For Immediate Possession
  The commissioner may acquire lands or rights therein whether for immediate or future use by gift, devise or purchase, or by condemnation in the...
• Section 27:7-22.1 - Land Acquired Subject To Restrictions; Release Of Restrictions By Commissioner
  In all cases where the State of New Jersey has received or shall hereafter receive a conveyance of land subject to restrictions as to...
• Section 27:7-22.2 - Fee Simple, Acquisition Of
  In addition to the powers now vested in the State Highway Commissioner for the acquisition of lands by virtue of any statute, he shall...
• Section 27:7-22.3 - Acquisition Of Right Of Access To Traffic Circles, Grade Separations And Channelized Intersections, And Ramp Devices
  The State Highway Commissioner is hereby authorized to acquire by gift, purchase, or condemnation the right of access to traffic circles, grade separations and...
• Section 27:7-22.4 - Acquisition Of Property For Landscape And Roadside Development Adjacent To Federal-aid Highways
  The commissioner is hereby authorized to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation, real or personal property for landscape and roadside development appropriate for the...
• Section 27:7-22.5 - Availability Of Funds To Carry Out Purposes Of Act
  The commissioner in order to carry out the purposes of this act is hereby authorized to use the funds allocated to the State of...
• Section 27:7-22.6 - Acquisition Of Uneconomic Remnants Of Lands Along Right-of-way
  In addition to the powers now vested in the Commissioner of Transportation for the acquisition of lands or rights therein by virtue of any...
• Section 27:7-23 - Acquisition Of Municipally Owned Property; Procedure
  If the commissioner finds it necessary to acquire lands owned and used by municipalities for public uses and purposes he shall, before taking it...
• Section 27:7-24 - Settlement Of Controversies Involving Land Used As Highway; Award
  The commissioner may settle and compromise, in such manner and upon such terms as he, in his discretion, may deem advisable, all controversies which...
• Section 27:7-25 - Work On State Highways; Contracts; Institutional Labor
  All work of construction or building of unimproved roads and of extensive repairs to improved roads taken over as state highways shall be by...
• Section 27:7-26 - Notice Of Restriction On Disturbing Completed Pavement
  When the commissioner shall determine to construct or reconstruct a highway he shall, prior to the advertisement of such construction or reconstruction, serve upon...
• Section 27:7-27 - Service Of Notice; Posting
  The notice required by section 27:7-26 of this title shall be served upon the owner, tenant or public utility prior to the advertisement for...
• Section 27:7-28 - Openings In Highway Within Restricted Period
  When such owner, tenant, or public utility desires to open a highway before the expiration of the time prescribed by section 27:7-26 of this...
• Section 27:7-29 - Advertisement For Bids; Contents; Publication
  The commissioner shall advertise for bids on the work and materials covered by the plans and specifications for each project. The advertisement shall be...
• Section 27:7-30 - Award Of Contract; Rejection Of Bids
  The commissioner may reject any or all bids not in accord with the advertisement of specifications, or for any other irregularity, or may reject...
• Section 27:7-31 - Proposal Bond To Accompany Bid; Amount; Contractor's Bond
  27:7-31. A proposal bond in an amount, not to exceed 50% of the bid, to be determined by the commissioner, executed by the contractor...
• Section 27:7-32 - Failure To Provide Bond; Rejection Of Bid
  If the bidder fails to provide a satisfactory proposal bond as provided in section 27:7-31 of this Title, his bid shall be rejected. Amended...
• Section 27:7-33 - Time For Awarding Of Contract; Extension; Return Of Proposal Bonds
  The commissioner shall award the contract or reject the bids therefor within 30 working days after the bids are received, except that this time...
• Section 27:7-34 - Partial And Deferred Payments For Highway Work; Amount; Deposit.
  27:7-34. Contracts shall provide for partial payments at least once each month or from time to time as the work progresses on work of...
• Section 27:7-35.1 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter: "Person" means and includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation or joint stock company, their lessees, trustees, assignees or receivers...
• Section 27:7-35.2 - Highway Projects; Classification Of Prospective Bidders
  Officials shall require that all persons proposing to submit bids on highway work shall first be classified by the department as to the character...
• Section 27:7-35.3 - Statement Under Oath; Filing; Contents; Fee.
  3.Any person desiring such classification shall file with the department a statement under oath in response to a questionnaire, prepared and standardized for like...
• Section 27:7-35.4 - Classification; Notice
  The officials shall classify all such prospective bidders as to the character and amount of work on which they shall be qualified to submit...
• Section 27:7-35.5 - Effective Date Of Classification; Expiration
  The classification of the prospective bidder shall be effective 15 days after the receipt of the information specified in section 4 of this act...
• Section 27:7-35.6 - Request For Hearing After Classification
  Any person, after being notified of his classification, being dissatisfied therewith or with the classification of another person or persons, may request in writing...
• Section 27:7-35.7 - Prequalification Committee; Members
  The prequalification committee to be appointed by the Commissioner of Transportation, shall consist of such officials as the commissioner may deem appropriate for the...
• Section 27:7-35.8 - Developments Subsequent To Classification; Right To Reject Bidder
  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as depriving the State Highway Commissioner of the right to reject a bidder at any time...
• Section 27:7-35.9 - False, Deceptive Or Fraudulent Statement; Misdemeanor
  Any person who makes, or causes to be made, a false, deceptive or fraudulent statement in the questionnaire required to be submitted, or in...
• Section 27:7-35.10 - Liquidated Damages
  The commissioner shall cause the forfeiture as liquidated damages to the State of any certified check or certificate of deposit deposited by any person...
• Section 27:7-35.11 - Regulations For Controlling Qualifications Of Prospective Bidders; Adoption; Publication
  The commissioner may establish such reasonable regulations as he may deem appropriate for controlling the qualifications of prospective bidders. The regulations may fix the...
• Section 27:7-35.12 - Liability Of Commissioner And State Officials
  No action for damages out of any court of competent jurisdiction shall lie against the commissioner or any State official because of any action...
• Section 27:7-36 - Location Of State Highways In County Parks; Agreement As To
  In the location of state highway routes the commissioner shall not locate, lay out, construct, use or improve any route in, over, under, through...
• Section 27:7-37 - Highways Affecting Comprehensive Plan For Municipal Improvements; Conformity To Plan
  If the construction of a state highway will affect a comprehensive plan of improvement made or to be made by one or more municipalities,...
• Section 27:7-38 - Return Of Roads Formerly Maintained By State; Resurfacing
  When the commissioner determines to abandon a county, township or borough road or highway which, prior to March nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and...
• Section 27:7-39 - Sidewalks And Curbs Along Highways; Contracts With Counties And Municipalities
  The commissioner may construct paths or sidewalks and curbing along state highways and other roads and highways under his jurisdiction from any moneys available...
• Section 27:7-40 - Commissioner May Contract For Work Upon Issuance Of Certificate
  The state highway commissioner may enter into contracts for the doing of work authorized by law and financed by the issuance of bonds, under...
• Section 27:7-41 - Entry Upon Land To Protect Highway From Damage By Water
  When the commissioner shall determine that it is necessary, for the preservation of a part of the state highway system, to prevent water from...
• Section 27:7-42 - Highway Beautification; Fund For
  The commissioner may set apart in any calendar year from the amount subject to expenditure in that year for state highway construction, a sum...
• Section 27:7-43 - Contracts For Deposits Of Road Materials
  The commissioner may contract with any person or public or private corporation for the acquisition of any necessary lands, or easements for gravel pits...
• Section 27:7-44 - Injurious Substances On Highway Forbidden; Protection Of Property; Penalties
  No person shall place or allow to fall upon a state highway any broken glass, pottery or sharp object, or any substance injurious to...
• Section 27:7-44.1 - Consents, Grants And Franchises Affecting Highways; Approval Of Commissioner; Lease Of Land Under Viaduct Or Bridge; Removal Of Encroachments; Penalty For Violation
  No consent, grant or franchise affecting any portion of a State highway, or of any road included in the State highway system, shall be...
• Section 27:7-44.2 - Relief Of Contractor From Maintenance Of Completed Section
  When a section of a project under contract shall have been completed prior to the completion of the entire project, the commissioner shall have...
• Section 27:7-44.3 - Relocation Of Structures Impeding Construction, Acquisition Of Lands For
  Whenever it shall appear to the State Highway Commissioner that construction of a State highway, the acquisition of lands for which has been previously...
• Section 27:7-44.4 - Size Of Tracts To Be Acquired; Plans
  Such additional unimproved lands may be acquired in tracts sufficiently large to permit the laying out of sites for the relocation thereon of more...
• Section 27:7-44.5 - Power To Relocate Structures; What Included; Contracts
  The power herein granted to relocate structures shall include the power to remove the same and to install all essential facilities, including (but not...
• Section 27:7-44.6 - Condemnation; Procedure
  Whenever, in pursuance of this act, it shall be necessary to acquire property by condemnation, the State Highway Commissioner shall proceed in accordance with...
• Section 27:7-44.7 - Funds Which May Be Expended To Relocate Structures
  For the purpose of acquiring lands pursuant to this act, and for defraying any and all costs and expenses for removing and relocating structures,...
• Section 27:7-44.8 - Power To Sell Land
  6. The State Highway Commissioner shall have power to sell any or all lands acquired pursuant to this act, or any portion or portions...
• Section 27:7-44.9 - Relocation Of Facilities
  a. In addition to other powers conferred upon the Commissioner of Transportation by any other law and not in limitation thereof, the commissioner, in...
• Section 27:7-44.10 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Certain Highway Entry Or Exit Ramps.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.The safety of the State's school children is of paramount importance. b.Given the school facilities needs of Abbott...
• Section 27:7-44.11 - Definitions Relative To Certain Highway Entry Or Exit Ramps.
  3.As used in this act: "Department" means the Department of Transportation. "Highway" means a highway which is designated part of the Interstate System as...
• Section 27:7-44.12 - New Entry Or Exit Ramp, Construction Within 1,000 Feet Of School; Prohibited; Exceptions.
  4. a. A new entry or exit ramp shall not be constructed as part of a highway project if a school is located or...
• Section 27:7-44.13 - Determination Of Distance Between A Highway Ramp And School.
  6.For the purpose of determining the distance between a highway ramp and a school pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of this act, the...
• Section 27:7-44.14 - Statewide Study.
  7. a. The department, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall conduct a Statewide study to identify public safety hazards posed by highway...
• Section 27:7-44.15 - Inapplicability Of Act.
  8. This act shall not apply to highway projects for which preliminary design has been completed and for which environmental work has commenced on...
• Section 27:7-44.16 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Road Markings Containing Inorganic Arsenic.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that inorganic arsenic is a hazardous substance and is recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the...
• Section 27:7-44.17 - Manufacture, Sale Of Certain Reflective Glass Beads Prohibited; Violations, Penalties.
  2. a. On or after July 1, 2012 no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes in this State...
• Section 27:7-44.18 - Definitions.
  1.As used in sections 1 through 3 of P.L.2013, c.130 (C.27:7-44.18 through C.27:7-44.20): "Acknowledgement sign" means a sign that is intended to inform the...
• Section 27:7-44.19 - Establishment Of Sponsorship Program.
  2. a. There is established in the department a sponsorship program to allow for private sponsorship of department operational activities or other highway-related services...
• Section 27:7-44.20 - Rules Or Regulations.
  3.The department shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules or regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• Section 27:7-44.21 - Signs Prohibiting Motorists From Texting While Driving.
  1.The Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the Director of the Division of Highway Traffic Safety in the Department of Law and Public Safety,...
• Section 27:7-45 - Designation Of Bridges As State Highway Bridges
  The commissioner may designate any bridge which connects at each end with improved roads in the state highway system as a state highway bridge,...
• Section 27:7-46 - Petition For Designation; Cost Of Maintenance Apportioned
  The board or boards of chosen freeholders severally or jointly charged with the operation or repair of the bridge may, by resolution, request such...
• Section 27:7-47 - Repairs; Annual Estimate; Approval By Commissioner
  Each board of chosen freeholders charged with the duty of operating and repairing a bridge designated as a state highway bridge shall annually, during...
• Section 27:7-48 - Bills Certified To Commissioner; Payment; Limitation
  The board of chosen freeholders shall file with the commissioner certified copies of all bills. Payment to the board shall be made of the...
• Section 27:7-49 - Acquisition Of Property And Rights
  The department may acquire for the state, by gift, devise, grant, purchase or condemnation for public use, land and water rights in any county...
• Section 27:7-50 - Property To Be Part Of Highway System
  The land or water rights and the piers, wharves or docks shall become a part of the state highway system and shall be under...
• Section 27:7-51 - Construction; Law Applicable
  The erection and construction of the piers, wharves, or docks, as situate within the territorial jurisdiction of New Jersey, shall be subject to the...
• Section 27:7-52 - Wharfage Charges; Regulations; Lease With Option To Buy
  The department shall prescribe such charges for the use of the piers or wharves and make such rules and regulations governing them as to...
• Section 27:7-53 - Roads And Parking Areas; Supervision By Commissioner
  All roads, parking areas and driveways on land owned by the State shall be constructed under the supervision of the commissioner, and all improvements...
• Section 27:7-54 - Cost Of Work; Payment
  All payments for such roads, parking areas and driveways, and improvements to existing roads, parking areas and driveways on lands owned by the State,...
• Section 27:7-55 - Improved Roads For State Institutions
  The body having charge of any state institution may construct or improve any portion of a public road lying between an improved road located...
• Section 27:7-56 - Jurisdiction Of Commissioner
  The plans and specifications for any such road shall be approved by the state highway commissioner and the road shall be constructed or improved...
• Section 27:7-57 - Use Of Highway Funds For Roads On State Property
  Any moneys appropriated to the state highway department for construction and maintenance of roads may be expended by it for roads on grounds under...
• Section 27:7-66 - Certified Copy Of Map, Plan Or Report Indicating Proposed Highway; Filing; Contents; Amendments
  Whenever the location of a proposed line of any new State highway shall have been approved by the commissioner, the commissioner may file a...
• Section 27:7-67 - Effect Of Filing Upon Municipal Approving Authority; Recommendation Of Commissioner
  (a) Whenever a map, plan or report indicating a proposed line of a new State highway, or any amendment thereto, has been filed by...
• Section 27:7-68 - Agreements Between Commissioner And County Or Municipality; Costs
  The commissioner may enter into agreements with any county or municipality or any authority or agency thereof, or with any authority, board, commission or...
• Section 27:7-72 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Transportation Replacement Housing and Relocation Act. L.1972, c. 47, s. 1, eff....
• Section 27:7-73 - Relocation Assistance Program
  The purpose of this act is to establish a uniform program for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced by the acquisition of...
• Section 27:7-74 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Agency" means the entity public or private, including the State of New Jersey, Department of Transportation, counties, municipalities,...
• Section 27:7-75 - Payments To Displaced Persons
  a. Whenever a program or project to be undertaken by an agency will result in the displacement of any person, the agency shall provide...
• Section 27:7-76 - Additional Payments To Homeowners
  a. In addition to payments otherwise authorized by this act, the agency shall make an additional payment, within limits as established by regulations of...
• Section 27:7-77 - Other Displaced Occupants
  a. In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this act, an agency shall make a payment to or for any person displaced from any...
• Section 27:7-78 - Relocation Assistance Advisory Program
  a. Whenever the acquisition of real property for a program or project undertaken by the agency will result in displacement, the agency shall provide...
• Section 27:7-79 - Comparable Replacement Dwelling Assurance
  Whenever the acquisition of a dwelling for a program or project undertaken by an agency will result in the displacement of any person on...
• Section 27:7-80 - Funding For Replacement Dwellings
  a. If a project cannot proceed on a timely basis because comparable replacement dwellings are not available, and the agency determines that such dwellings...
• Section 27:7-81 - Payment Deemed Not Income, Resources
  No payment received by a displaced person under this act shall be considered as income or resources for the purpose of determining the eligibility...
• Section 27:7-82 - Coordination With Other Programs
  The payments authorized in this act shall not be construed as creating in any condemnation proceeding brought under the power of eminent domain any...
• Section 27:7-83 - Appeal Procedure
  Any person or business concern aggrieved by any relocation procedure or determination concerning eligibility for relocation payments authorized by this act may appeal such...
• Section 27:7-84 - Rules, Regulations
  a. To carry into effect the provisions of this act and to fully qualify the Department of Transportation for federal aid reimbursement under the...
• Section 27:7-85 - Federal Aid Assistance, Additional Action To Qualify Department
  The commissioner is further authorized within the limits of funds and appropriations to take such additional action as may be required to fully qualify...
• Section 27:7-86 - Appropriations
  There shall be made available from the funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation the sum of $100,000.00 for purposes of enabling the Right-of-Way...
• Section 27:7-87 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the act in...
• Section 27:7-88 - Repeals
  Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 16 of P.L.1968, c. 393 are repealed, and all acts and...
• Section 27:7-89 - Short Title
  Sections 1 through 10, inclusive, and sections 27, 28, 30, 31 and 32 of this act shall be known and may be cited as...
• Section 27:7-90 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The purpose of the State highway system is to serve as a network of principal arterial routes...
• Section 27:7-91 - Access Code
  a. The Commissioner of Transportation shall, within one year of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, adopt as a regulation under...
• Section 27:7-92 - Access Permit
  a. Any person seeking to construct or open a driveway or public street or highway entering into a State highway shall first obtain an...
• Section 27:7-93 - Nonconforming Lot Access Permit
  The commissioner shall issue a nonconforming lot access permit for a property a. on his own motion or b. after finding that: (1) the...
• Section 27:7-94 - Revocation Of Permit; Alternative Access
  a. The commissioner may, upon written notice and hearing, revoke an access permit after determining that alternative access is available which meets the standards...
• Section 27:7-95 - Expansion, Change In Use
  a. Any property owner who expands or changes the use of property subject to an access permit issued before the effective date of this...
• Section 27:7-96 - New Subdivisions
  After adoption of the access code, as provided by section 3 of this amendatory and supplementary act, no property abutting a State highway shall...
• Section 27:7-97 - Provision Of Alternative Access
  The Commissioner of Transportation and every county and municipality may build new roads or acquire access easements to provide alternative access to existing developed...
• Section 27:7-98 - Acquisition Of Right Of Access
  In addition to any powers granted to him under this amendatory and supplementary act or any other provision of law, the commissioner may acquire,...
• Section 27:7a-1 - Definitions
  a. As used in this act: "Limited access highway" means a highway especially designed for through traffic over which abutters have no easement or...
• Section 27:7a-2 - Limited Access Highway
  a. The commissioner shall construct every State highway, or portion thereof, located on new alignment as a limited access highway unless he shall determine...
• Section 27:7a-3 - Necessary Property
  a. Property needed for any limited access highway is declared to be all those lands or interests therein required for the traveled way together...
• Section 27:7a-4.1 - Acquisition Of Entire Parcel
  In connection with the acquisition of property or property rights for any limited access highway or portion thereof, the commissioner, with respect to limited...
• Section 27:7a-5 - Existing State Highways
  The commissioner may, by order and after public hearing, designate any existing State highway, or portion thereof, a limited access highway and thereafter shall...
• Section 27:7a-6 - Restricted Use
  The commissioner, with respect to limited access highways under his jurisdiction, and the governing body of a county, with respect to limited access highways...
• Section 27:7a-8 - Service Facility Sales, Leases
  No commercial enterprises or activities shall be conducted by the commissioner or any other agency of the State within or on the property acquired...
• Section 27:7a-9 - Additional Powers
  The powers contained in this act are in addition to all the powers that the commissioner has at the time this act becomes effective...
• Section 27:7a-10 - Designation As Freeways Of Routes Included In National System Of Interstate Highways
  The State Highway Commissioner may designate as freeways, in accordance with chapter 83, Public Laws of 1945, routes in the State approved by the...
• Section 27:8-1 - Contracts Between State And Federal Government; Other Parties
  The commissioner may apply to and contract with the United States government or any official thereof for aid in road work, and with the...
• Section 27:8-2 - Use Of Funds
  The commissioner may undertake to receive and apply any money received from the federal government for road work to any work he shall have...
• Section 27:8-3 - Division Of Cost
  All work done with federal aid shall be done and paid for as provided by law, except as to the division of cost. The...
• Section 27:8-4 - Incurring Liability; Limitation
  The commissioner shall not incur any liability or otherwise commit the state to an expenditure in excess of the unrequisitioned balances of any funds...
• Section 27:8-5 - Moneys Kept Separate
  Moneys received in accordance with the provision of a contract under this chapter shall be kept as a separate fund to be used only...
• Section 27:8-6 - Commissioner Authorized To Accept Federal Funds; Expenditure
  The commissioner may accept any funds allocated or granted to this state for expenditure by the department under the provisions of the national industrial...
• Section 27:9-1 - Construction Of State Highway Routes By Counties; Consent Required
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county in which a state highway route has or shall have been laid out by the state...
• Section 27:9-2 - County Obligations Issued
  The board of chosen freeholders may provide and raise money for the purposes set forth in section 27:9-1 of this title, by issuing notes...
• Section 27:9-3 - Road Taken Over As State Highway; County Reimbursed
  When the commissioner has or shall have approved a contract made in accordance with section 27:9-1 of this title and the payments thereunder, he...
• Section 27:9-4 - Refunding Indebtedness If Highway Not Taken Over
  If the commissioner does not take over the highway in the manner prescribed in section 27:9-3 of this title within six years after the...
• Section 27:9-5 - Paving State Highways By Counties; Consent; Reimbursement
  When a road laid out as part of the state highway system has or shall have been taken over by the commissioner as a...
• Section 27:9-6 - Reimbursement Of County For Interest Charges
  When a state highway, or portion thereof, has been or shall be improved or reconstructed by the board of chosen freeholders of a county...
• Section 27:9-7 - Agreement For Work On State Highways; Payment Of County's Share
  A county may enter into a written agreement with the commissioner to share in the cost of the construction, repair and maintenance of a...
• Section 27:9-8 - County Bonds For Highway Improvements; Law Applicable
  A county may borrow money and issue bonds for the improvement, betterment, reconstruction or resurfacing of portions of the state highway system located in...
• Section 27:9-9 - Agreement Between County And State; Use Of Proceeds; Reimbursement
  No bonds shall be issued by a county under sections 27:9-8 to 27:9-12 of this title unless and until the board of chosen freeholders...
• Section 27:9-10 - Contribution By County; Reimbursement
  The state highway commissioner may accept from any such county any sum raised by the issuance of bonds pursuant to sections 27:9-8 to 27:9-12...
• Section 27:9-11 - Maturity Of Bonds Arranged
  In fixing the time or times of maturity of the principal of any such bonds, the board of chosen freeholders shall consider the amounts...
• Section 27:9-12 - Powers Deemed Additional; Construction
  The powers granted by sections 27:9-8 to 27:9-11 of this title, are in addition to and not in substitution for the powers granted by...
• Section 27:10-1 - Approval Of Plans By Commissioner; Contracts
  The governing body of a municipality in which a state highway route has or shall have been laid out may, with the consent of...
• Section 27:10-2 - Municipal Obligations Issued
  The governing body of the municipality may provide and raise moneys to be expended for the work contemplated by section 27:10-1 of this title,...
• Section 27:10-3 - Refunding Indebtedness If Highway Not Taken Over
  If the commissioner shall not take over the highway as provided in section 27:10-4 of this title before six years after the authorization of...
• Section 27:10-4 - Road Taken Over As State Highway; Municipality Reimbursed; Bonds Retired
  When the commissioner shall have approved a contract made in accordance with section 27:10-1 of this title and the payments thereunder, he shall within...
• Section 27:10-5 - Time For Reimbursement
  The commissioner may designate the year in which the municipality shall be reimbursed for the work.
• Section 27:11-1 - State Highway System Funds; Sources
  L.1927, c. 331, p. 778, entitled "An act concerning the state highway system and regulating the disbursement of moneys therefor," passed April first, one...
• Section 27:11-2 - Salary Fund Continued
  The fund established by the act entitled "An act providing for the establishment and maintenance of a fund subject to the disbursement of the...
• Section 27:11-3 - Custodian Of Fund
  The commissioner shall designate one of his employees to act as custodian of the fund. He shall furnish a surety bond conditioned for the...
• Section 27:11-4 - Semimonthly Payments
  The commissioner shall pay out of the fund, salaries and wages of his officers and employees at least semimonthly, as other state officers and...
• Section 27:11-5 - Maintenance Of Fund
  The fund shall be replenished and maintained by payments made by the state treasurer to the custodian, on the warrant of the comptroller, which...
• Section 27:11-6 - Proof Of Payment; Withholding Of Funds; Emergency Payments
  The comptroller may require from the state highway commissioner, the custodian or other approval officer, or any or all of them, such further satisfactory...
• Section 27:11-7 - Act Of 1922
  L.1922, c. 262, p. 634 (1924 Suppl. s.s. 179-821 to 179-839), entitled "An act for the construction, improvement, reconstruction and rebuilding of the state...
• Section 27:11-8 - Act Of 1927
  L.1927, c. 181, p. 344, entitled "An act for the construction, improvement, reconstruction and rebuilding of the state highway system, including bridges, tunnels, viaducts...
• Section 27:11-9 - Act Of 1930
  L.1930, c. 228, p. 1022, entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a debt of the state of New Jersey by the issuance of...
• Section 27:11-10 - Act Reducing Amount Of 1930 Issue
  L.1932, c. 250, p. 550, entitled "An act to reduce to sixty-three million dollars the debt authorized to be created by an act entitled...
• Section 27:11-11 - Act Further Reducing Amount Of 1930 Issue
  L.1933, c. 397, p. 1100, entitled "An act to reduce to fifty-eight million dollars the debt authorized to be created by an act entitled...
• Section 27:11-12 - Municipal And County "State Road Tax Funding Bonds, 1934"
  L.1934, c. 182, p. 436, entitled "An act concerning the payment of past due state road taxes," approved May ninth, one thousand nine hundred...
• Section 27:11-13 - Municipal And County "State Road Tax Funding Bonds, 1935"
  L.1935, c. 16, p. 38, entitled "An act concerning the payment of past due State road taxes," approved February fifth, one thousand nine hundred...
• Section 27:11-14 - State Road Tax Not Certified In Certain Cases
  The comptroller of the treasury need not certify the state road tax to the several counties in any year so long as the revenue...
• Section 27:12-1 - Disposition Of Property Not Needed For Public Use
  When real estate or any right or interest therein has or shall have come into the possession or control of the commissioner, or when...
• Section 27:12-1.1 - Sale Of State Highway Property, First Offer.
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 27:12-1 or any other law to the contrary, if the Commissioner of Transportation determines, pursuant to R.S. 27:12-1, that...
• Section 27:12-1.2 - Conditions Of Sale.
  2.The sale of real property permitted by section 1 of this act may only occur after the owners of record of the property at...
• Section 27:12-1.3 - Sale To Municipality, Public Body Permitted.
  3.The provisions of this act shall not affect the right of the commissioner to sell at private sale to a municipal corporation or to...
• Section 27:12-2 - Disposition Of Slopes Or Easements
  The commissioner may also, when he shall determine that certain slope, drainage or easement rights or any or all of them, or parts thereof,...
• Section 27:12-3 - Deed; Execution
  All deeds of conveyance and releases shall be executed by the commissioner for and on behalf of the state, and the seal of the...
• Section 27:12-4 - Sale Or Exchange Of Unused Lands
  When the commissioner shall determine that lands, the fee to which he has acquired or shall acquire in the name of the state, are...
• Section 27:12-5 - Terms
  Such sale or exchange may be made to or with any person, corporation, municipality or county on such terms as the commissioner shall determine...
• Section 27:12-6 - Consummation Of Agreements Made Before December 4, 1933
  Any agreement made prior to December fourth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, between the commission and a municipality concerning the purchase, sale or...
• Section 27:12-7 - Sales To Municipalities Of Estates In Realty In Areas Above Surface Of Ground; Lease By Private Negotiation
  The State Highway Commissioner may sell at private sale and convey to any municipality an estate in any real estate, which is owned and...
• Section 27:12-7.1 - Notice Of Lease; Publication; Contents
  Whenever any municipality shall intend to enter into a lease by private negotiation, pursuant to section 1 of this act, it shall make such...
• Section 27:13-1 - State Aid Roads; Standards For Construction And Maintenance
  No funds shall be expended for state aid to counties or municipalities unless the roads constructed therewith conform to standards prescribed by the department...
• Section 27:13-1a - Width Of Road; Elimination In Consideration For State Aid
  In determining the allotment of State aid to a municipality for the construction, improvement, maintenance or repair of municipal roads pursuant to chapters 13...
• Section 27:13-1.1 - Amount Of State Aid Appropriated To Counties And Municipalities For Construction And Maintenance Of Roads; Annual Notice
  Except as provided in section 3 of this act and notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation...
• Section 27:13-1.2 - Annual Budget; Amount
  It shall be lawful for each county and municipality to include an amount equal to twice the amount of such State aid in its...
• Section 27:13-1.3 - Certification Of Amount By Commissioner
  Not later than June 30 of each year the commissioner shall certify to each county and municipality entitled to receive funds therefrom, the amount...
• Section 27:13-2 - Annual Work Program; Filing; Approval
  All expenditures for state aid to counties or municipalities for the improvement, maintenance or repair of highways or for the building, maintenance or repair...
• Section 27:13-3 - Time For Filing Programs; Hearings; Co-ordination Of Programs
  The commissioner may fix a date on or before which counties and municipalities shall file their annual work program, but in case of emergencies...
• Section 27:13-4 - Payment Of Dedicated Funds Quarterly; Dates For Payment; Emergencies
  (a) All moneys from time to time dedicated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 22 of the Title State Government, Departments and Officers (s....
• Section 27:13-5 - Moneys Allotted To Counties And Municipalities As State Aid Road Funds To Be Held In Special Account Until Paid Out
  Any moneys heretofore or hereafter allotted from the State Highway Fund to any county or municipality as State aid road funds shall be paid...
• Section 27:13-6 - Investment Of Moneys In Special State Aid Road Fund Account; Availability
  As soon as can be after the effective date of this act and annually thereafter, the State Highway Commissioner shall determine the amount of...
• Section 27:13-7 - Payment Or Retention Of Moneys Allotted To Counties; Dedicated Funds
  Any moneys heretofore allotted from the State Highway Fund to any county or municipality as State aid road funds shall be paid to such...
• Section 27:13-8 - Investment Of Dedicated Funds; Availability
  If, in the opinion of the State Treasurer and the State Highway Commissioner, the best interests of the State will permit, the State Treasurer...
• Section 27:13-9 - Snow Removal Equipment; Purchase
  Municipalities and counties of the State of New Jersey are hereby authorized to purchase snow removal equipment with presently allocated State aid moneys. L.1949,...
• Section 27:13-10 - Assistance In Reconstruction Of Certain Public Roads
  Whenever any appropriation is made in any general or special appropriation act for the purpose of defraying all or any part of the cost...
• Section 27:13-11 - Application For Assistance
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county or the mayor of any municipality, in which any such destruction was caused to the public...
• Section 27:13-12 - Contents Of Application
  Such application shall contain a brief description of and photographs depicting such destruction to the public roads and shall be accompanied by plans and...
• Section 27:13-13 - Action By Commissioner; Authority To Resubmit
  The State Highway Commissioner, within 30 days from the date of the filing of any such application by any county or municipality so affected,...
• Section 27:13-14 - Certification Of Funds
  Upon the approval of any such application the State Highway Commissioner is hereby empowered and authorized in his discretion to certify the amount of...
• Section 27:13-15 - Supervision And Control Of Work
  All work undertaken under this chapter by any county or municipality and approved by the State Highway Commissioner shall be done under the supervision...
• Section 27:13-16 - Authorization Of Expenditure Or Disbursement Of County Or Municipal Share
  Upon the approval by the State Highway Commissioner of any application herein contemplated, the board of chosen freeholders of any county or municipality shall...
• Section 27:13-17 - Rules And Regulations By Commissioner
  The State Highway Commissioner is hereby empowered and authorized to adopt such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to implement the provisions of...
• Section 27:13a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "State Aid Road System Act of 1967." L.1967, c. 86, s. 1.
• Section 27:13a-2 - Availability Of Moneys To Counties And Municipalities
  All moneys hereafter appropriated to the Department of Transportation to carry out the purposes of this act shall be made available by the Commissioner...
• Section 27:13a-3 - Establishment Of System; Roads Included
  The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a State aid road system consisting of county and municipal roads so situated as to form a comprehensive...
• Section 27:13a-4 - Application For Designation
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county or the governing body of any municipality may apply to the commissioner for the designation of...
• Section 27:13a-5 - Approval Of Applications
  The commissioner shall determine which of such applications, if approved, would best serve the objective of establishing and maintaining a comprehensive and functionally integrated...
• Section 27:13a-6 - Notification Of Designation; Agreement With County Or Municipality
  Upon his approval of any application, the commissioner shall notify the board of chosen freeholders of the county or the governing body of the...
• Section 27:13a-7 - Share Of Cost
  The State's share of the cost of any project undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this act shall not exceed, in the case of...
• Section 27:13a-8 - Disbursement Of Moneys; Voucher
  Disbursement of all or any part of the amount made available to any county or municipality for the construction, reconstruction or improvement of a...
• Section 27:13a-9 - Control And Supervision By Commissioner
  All work undertaken by any county or municipality pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be performed in accordance with such standards for...
• Section 27:13a-10 - Surveillance Of Projects; Records
  The commissioner is authorized to provide continuing surveillance of any project undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this act. Every county or municipality undertaking...
• Section 27:13a-11 - Additional Aid
  Subsequent to the completion of the initial construction, reconstruction or improvement work on any State aid road as provided by this act, the board...
• Section 27:13a-12 - Rules And Regulations
  The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to implement the provisions of this act....
• Section 27:13a-13 - Bridges And Viaducts; Improvement And Reconstruction; Inspection Program; Allocation Of Funds
  County and municipal bridges and viaducts, without regard to location in the State, may be improved or reconstructed with funds available under the provisions...
• Section 27:14-1 - Annual Apportionment To Counties For Construction And Reconstruction; County's Share
  The commissioner shall annually apportion to each county fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000.00) from State Highway system funds to be used for the construction, reconstruction,...
• Section 27:14-2 - Construction Of Public Roads; Action By Freeholders; Contribution By Municipalities
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county may by resolution direct that a public road or section thereof, located within the county, being...
• Section 27:14-3 - Surveys And Plans; Approval By Freeholders And Commissioner
  After the passage of the resolution contemplated by section 27:14-2 of this title the board of chosen freeholders shall cause a survey of the...
• Section 27:14-4 - Cost Defined
  For the purpose of estimating the state's share of the cost of the work, the cost shall include that of supervision and engineering.
• Section 27:14-5 - Road Improvements; Extent Of
  The road improvements contemplated by this article shall include the: a. Construction of the road and its intersections with other public roads; b. Restoration...
• Section 27:14-6 - Bridges And Culverts; Specifications, Advertisements And Contracts
  Bridge and culvert building may be included in the road contract or separately contracted for and advertised as provided in section 27:14-12 of this...
• Section 27:14-7 - Supplemental Contracts
  The board of chosen freeholders may, after the execution and approval by the commissioner of a contract for road improvements under this article make...
• Section 27:14-8 - Limitation On State Aid In Certain Cases
  The state's share of or contribution to the cost of any improvement under this article shall be forty per cent of the estimated cost...
• Section 27:14-9 - Contribution By Municipalities; Resolutions Binding
  A resolution passed by the governing body of a municipality through which the road runs, to pay at least ten per cent of the...
• Section 27:14-10 - Municipal Bond Issue
  When a municipality shall have undertaken to pay ten per cent of the cost of an improvement under the provisions of this article either...
• Section 27:14-11 - Municipalities May Borrow To Meet Installments On Improvement Contract; Amount
  When a municipality or public body has or shall have entered into a contract, with the approval of the commissioner, for the improvement of...
• Section 27:14-12 - Advertisement For Bids; Specifications; Certified Check With Bid; Contract And Bond; Time Of Awarding Contract
  Within thirty days after the approval of the plans, cross sections and specifications by the commissioner, the board of chosen freeholders shall advertise for...
• Section 27:14-13 - Contract And Bond; Approval By Commissioner; Rejection; Readvertising
  Before any work is done under the contract, the contract, together with the contractor's bond, shall be exhibited to the commissioner for his approval...
• Section 27:14-14 - Time Of Payments; Contractor's Bond On Completion Of Work; Term
  The time and manner of payment for work done under a contract awarded under this article shall be set forth in the contract. When...
• Section 27:14-15 - Partial Payments; Engineers' Certificate; Final Report; Filing
  When a contract provides for partial payments based upon the amount of work done, the state highway engineer or his authorized agent, in conjunction...
• Section 27:14-16 - Partial Payments For Highway Work; Amount
  Contracts may provide for partial payments at least once each month or from time to time as the work progresses on work of construction...
• Section 27:14-17 - Payment Of State's Share Of Construction Cost; Certification
  The state's share of the cost of all roads constructed under this article shall be paid out of any appropriations made therefor. The governor...
• Section 27:14-18 - Contribution By County; Annual Tax Levy; Deficiency And Surplus
  On or before the time fixed by law for the closing and final adoption of the annual tax budget of the county, the board...
• Section 27:14-19 - Bond Issue Instead Of Tax Levy; Vote Required
  The board of chosen freeholders may, instead of certifying to the county board of taxation the county's share of the cost of any work...
• Section 27:14-20 - Acquisition Of Land; Condemnation; Abandonment
  When the board of chosen freeholders shall deem it necessary and advisable to acquire land for the purpose of laying out, widening, changing the...
• Section 27:14-21 - Certain Roads Chargeable To County; Sidewalks And Drains; Maintenance
  After the approval by the commissioner of a contract under this article for the improvement of a road, the road shall thereafter be a...
• Section 27:14-22 - Widening Roads; State Aid; Procedure
  The board of chosen freeholders may widen any existing road originally constructed or improved under this article, and the commissioner may contribute the state's...
• Section 27:14-23 - Copy Of All Papers Filed With Commissioner
  A true copy of the specifications, bid, contract, bond, justification of surety and summary of all bids received, including any rejected and the cause...
• Section 27:14-24 - County Road Supervisor; County Engineer; County Superintendent Of Bridges; Assistants
  After the first county road shall have been constructed under this article in any county, the board of chosen freeholders shall appoint a county...
• Section 27:14-24.2 - Tenure In Office For Certain County Road Supervisors.
  1.The board of chosen freeholders of any county of the first class may, by resolution, provide that the county road supervisor of the county...
• Section 27:14-25 - Engineer And Road Supervisor; Removal; Procedure; Successor
  The engineer or supervisor may be dismissed at any time by the board of chosen freeholders after a proper hearing upon proof sustaining, to...
• Section 27:14-26 - Road Closed Temporarily; Procedure
  If the commissioner shall deem it necessary to close a road or section thereof being constructed, improved or repaired under this article, in order...
• Section 27:14-27 - Authorities May Acquire Quarries And Gravel Pits
  A board of chosen freeholders or other governing body charged with the construction, maintenance and repair of roads may acquire lands for gravel pits,...
• Section 27:14-28 - Authority Over Trees
  When a road plan involving the treatment of trees or forests abutting upon any road improved under the provisions of any prior law providing...
• Section 27:14-29 - Applicability Of Article; Road Construction By Municipalities
  The provisions of this article shall extend to townships, towns, boroughs, villages or any municipality. The governing body, the assessor or assessors, the mayor...
• Section 27:14-30 - Improvement Of County Roads By Boroughs; Payment Of Cost
  When a county road or section thereof lies within the corporate limits of a borough, the borough may improve the road or section thereof...
• Section 27:14-31 - Bond Issues; Reimbursement
  The board of chosen freeholders and the borough may issue bonds to meet the cost of the improvement in the same manner and to...
• Section 27:14-32 - Consent To Improvement By Borough
  Before an improvement is undertaken by a borough by virtue of the provisions of section 27:14-30 of this title the consent and approval of...
• Section 27:14-35 - Grade Of Road And Sidewalks; Work Done By Municipalities
  When a public road has or shall have been improved under the provisions of this article and in the course of the improvement the...
• Section 27:14-36 - Restrictions On Municipal Improvements
  The proper authorities of any municipality through which any such road runs may make any municipal improvement upon or within the road within the...
• Section 27:14-37 - Payment By Municipalities; Assessments For Benefits
  The cost and expense of any of the public improvements authorized by sections 27:14-35 and 27:14-36 of this title shall, as far as possible,...
• Section 27:14-38 - Improvement By Property Owners At Own Expense; Contract; Approval By County
  If all the owners of property abutting on any road or highway which has not been improved or is not undergoing improvement, desire the...
• Section 27:14-39 - Completed Road Taken Over By County; Engineer's Compensation
  Upon the completion of the work to the satisfaction of the county engineer and the board of freeholders, and upon the submission to the...
• Section 27:14-40 - Change Of Location Of Road
  The location of any portion of the road may be changed, if deemed desirable, upon obtaining the consent in writing of the owners of...
• Section 27:14-41 - Approaches To Properties; Payment By County
  The board of chosen freeholders may lay out, open, construct and improve, when such contemplated work is shown on the approved plans and cross...
• Section 27:14-42 - Improvement Of Roads Along State Property; Payment By State Body
  When a public road is sought to be improved under the provisions of section 27:14-38 of this title, and property of the state fronts...
• Section 27:14-43 - Improvement Of Full Width Road At Request Of Property Owners
  When the owners of fifty-one per cent of the frontage of property abutting a road proposed to be improved by a board of chosen...
• Section 27:14-44 - Repair And Maintenance; Funds; How Raised
  The board of chosen freeholders shall appropriate all moneys necessary to keep the roads constructed under this article in good repair and free from...
• Section 27:14-45 - Maintenance Of Roads Built By Freeholders Within Certain Cities
  When a road or section of road constructed by the board of chosen freeholders prior to March twelfth, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen,...
• Section 27:14-46 - Maintenance And Repair Of Roads Leading To State Institutions
  The commissioner may improve and keep in repair any road, or section thereof, leading up to any institution, park or reservation maintained wholly by...
• Section 27:14-47 - Extraordinary Repairs Or Reconstruction; Approval
  When an improved public road is in need of extraordinary repairs or reconstruction, the public body charged with its care shall prepare specifications and...
• Section 27:14-48 - Extraordinary Repairs; Payment Of Cost; State Aid
  If the public body referred to in section 27:14-47 of this title shall not have sufficient funds with which to pay its share of...
• Section 27:14-49 - Municipality May Borrow Certain Amount For Road Repairs; Repayment
  When the commissioner shall issue to a municipality or public body charged with the maintenance of any improved roads, his certificate setting forth the...
• Section 27:15-1 - Amount Available; Use Of Funds; Notice; Budget, Inclusion In; Standards
  A. There shall be set aside annually on October first or as soon thereafter as available from the net receipts of the motor vehicle...
• Section 27:15-1.1 - Schedule; Official Map; Filing
  The governing body of any municipality desiring to avail itself of the State aid provided in section 27:15-1 of the Revised Statutes shall, on...
• Section 27:15-1.2 - Extension Of Date For Filing Schedule
  The State Highway Commissioner may, on application of any municipality, extend the date for filing the schedule referred to in section two hereof. L.1947,...
• Section 27:15-1.3 - Standards Of Work
  All work undertaken by any municipality, in which all or any part of the State aid, provided in section 27:15-1 of the Revised Statutes...
• Section 27:15-1.4 - Schedule; Engineering And Planning Work By Municipality
  In any case where any such State aid is to be expended for construction or reconstruction work, the schedule referred to in section two...
• Section 27:15-1.5 - Width Of Road, State Aid Regardless Of
  In any case where any such State aid is to be expended for the construction of any municipal road between curbs and gutters, where...
• Section 27:15-1.6 - Work And Costs To Be Included
  In any case where any such State aid is to be expended for construction work, such work shall include, in addition to constructing the...
• Section 27:15-1.7 - Plans And Specifications
  In any case where any such State aid is to be expended for construction or reconstruction work, there shall be filed by the municipality...
• Section 27:15-1.8 - Time Of Disbursement To Municipality; Report; Deduction Of Amount Unexpended; Reserve
  On or before the thirtieth day of June following the filing of a schedule by any municipality as required pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 27:15-1.9 - Approval Of Disbursements; Application; Disbursement During Work
  Disbursement of all or any part of the amount of State aid made available to any municipality pursuant to the provisions of section 27:15-1...
• Section 27:15-1.10 - Maximum Percentage Of State's Share
  The State's share of the cost of any work undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this act shall not exceed ninety per centum (90%)...
• Section 27:15-1.12 - Reserve To Credit Of Municipality Of State Aid Available
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: Any municipality may, on or before the first day of March following receipt of...
• Section 27:15-1.13 - Undistributed Amount To Lapse Unless Reserved
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: Unless reserved as provided in this act, any amount of the State aid made...
• Section 27:15-1.14 - Additional Amount Annually From Motor Vehicle Revenues For Construction And Reconstruction Of Municipal Roads
  A. Exclusive of the sum set aside in accordance with the provisions of section 27:15-1 of the Revised Statutes, there shall be set aside...
• Section 27:15-1.15 - Repeal; Existing Agreements
  Sections 27:15-2 to 27:15-6, inclusive, 27:15-9 to 27:15-15, inclusive, and 27:15-18 of the Revised Statutes and "An act concerning highways, and supplementing chapter fifteen...
• Section 27:15-1.16 - Repeal
  The following act is hereby repealed: "An act concerning State aid for the construction, reconstruction, grading, drainage, maintenance and repair of certain city, town,...
• Section 27:15-1.17 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven. L.1947, c. 62, p. 213, s. 18.
• Section 27:15-7 - Method Of Raising Money; Taxation And Bond Issue
  The governing bodies of the municipalities may raise the funds necessary for the work contemplated by this chapter by taxation, by assessment in the...
• Section 27:15-8 - Acquisition Of Lands; Width Of Right Of Way
  Any municipality may acquire any land necessary for straightening or relocating any road on which work is to be done under this chapter by...
• Section 27:15-16 - Use Of Moneys For Road Lighting, Traffic Lights, Underpasses And Overpasses
  Such funds as are made available pursuant to this chapter may be utilized for the lighting of the roads mentioned in this chapter, including...
• Section 27:15-17 - "Unimproved Road" Defined
  Whenever the words "unimproved road" are used in chapter fifteen, Title 27 of the Revised Statutes they shall mean any road, which in the...
• Section 27:15-19 - Unused Moneys Appropriated For Road And Street Maintenance; Use For Improvements
  Where moneys were, prior to the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, appropriated by law for the maintenance of city,...
• Section 27:15-20 - Repeal
  "An act authorizing municipalities in certain counties to use moneys appropriated for road and street maintenance for general road and street improvements in such...
• Section 27:15a-1 - State Highway Commissioner Authorized To Approve Applications For State Aid In Repairing Certain County Roads Or Bridges
  Whenever any appropriation is made in any general or special appropriation bill for the purpose of defraying, or reimbursing the various counties for, all...
• Section 27:15a-2 - Application By Board Of Chosen Freeholders
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county, in which any such damage was caused to the public roads or public bridges of the...
• Section 27:15a-3 - Application; Plans And Specifications
  Such application shall contain a brief description of such damage to the public roads or public bridges and shall be accompanied by plans and...
• Section 27:15a-4 - Approval Or Disapproval Within Thirty Days
  The State Highway Commissioner, within thirty days from the date of the filing of any such application by any county so affected, shall either...
• Section 27:15a-5 - Certification Of Amount Set Aside; Limitation
  Upon the approval of any such application, the State Highway Commissioner is hereby empowered and authorized in his discretion to certify the amount of...
• Section 27:15a-6 - Commissioner To Supervise Or Approve Work
  All work undertaken under this chapter by any county and approved by the State Highway Commissioner shall be done under the supervision and control...
• Section 27:15a-7 - Expenditures Authorized; Filing Of Resolution
  Upon the approval of any application herein contemplated by the State Highway Commissioner, the board of chosen freeholders of any such county may by...
• Section 27:16-1 - County Powers
  The governing body of any county may: a. Lay out and open such free public roads in the counties as it may deem useful...
• Section 27:16-2 - Acquisition Of Roads And Real Estate; Procedure
  The board of chosen freeholders may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation, any public road, toll road, private road or byroad, or any portion...
• Section 27:16-3 - Acquisition Of Roads; Hearing And Notice
  After the resolution and map or maps shall have been filed with the county clerk, the board shall give public notice in two or...
• Section 27:16-4 - Maps Revised; Originals Voided
  After hearing and considering any objections which may be presented, the board may adopt the map or maps, or alter, revise, correct or change...
• Section 27:16-5 - Municipal Roads Taken Over By County; Consent; Resolutions
  A road, or portion thereof, owned or controlled by one or more municipalities, may be taken over by the board of chosen freeholders of...
• Section 27:16-6 - Maintenance Of Roads; Easements And Rights Of Way
  The duty of maintaining and keeping in repair every road so laid out and opened, taken over, or acquired, shall devolve exclusively upon the...
• Section 27:16-7 - Width Of Roads Fixed
  The board of chosen freeholders shall establish and determine the width of the roadway of all roads under its control.
• Section 27:16-8 - County To Maintain Road To Full Width
  The board of chosen freeholders shall maintain every road laid out, opened, taken over, or acquired by it, between the curb lines, and keep...
• Section 27:16-9 - Survey Of Road Prior To Improvement Or Repair
  Before the board of chosen freeholders shall commence the improvement or repair of a road it shall cause a survey thereof to be made,...
• Section 27:16-10 - Improvements; Plans And Specifications; Bids And Contracts
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county contemplating the improvement of a road shall designate the kind of material to be used, adopt...
• Section 27:16-11 - Matters Affecting Several Parts Of Road Included As Single Proceeding
  When proceedings are taken for the laying out, opening, alteration or vacation of any road, and such road shall consist of several parts or...
• Section 27:16-12 - Extraordinary Repairs; State Aid; Procedure Where State Refuses Aid; Bonds
  When a county road is in need of extraordinary repair, construction or reconstruction, the public body of the county charged with its care shall...
• Section 27:16-13 - Protection Of Roads Near Tidewater; Acquisition Of Lands
  If a county road is in danger of being damaged or destroyed by tidewaters the board of chosen freeholders may by a two-thirds vote,...
• Section 27:16-14 - Agreement With Land Owners To Maintain Banks
  In lieu of acquiring lands and meadows under the provisions of section 27:16-13 of this title, the board may, by a two-thirds vote, contract...
• Section 27:16-15 - Widening Certain Roads; Contracts With Railway Companies; Grade Crossing Elimination
  When a county road is not built and improved to its authorized or full width and in the judgment of the board of chosen...
• Section 27:16-16 - Bidding Required
  If the cost of the improvement contemplated by section 27:16-15 of this Title exceeds the amount set forth in or the amount calculated by...
• Section 27:16-17 - Contract; Parties; Contribution By Railway Company
  The contract for the work may be made between the board of chosen freeholders and the successful bidder, in which event the railway company...
• Section 27:16-18 - Rights Of Company Unaffected
  By executing such agreement the railway company shall not acquire any superior rights in the road or any further or other rights than it...
• Section 27:16-19 - Bond Issue
  If the board of chosen freeholders has not sufficient funds on hand available for the purpose it may issue bonds to pay the cost...
• Section 27:16-20 - Certain Roads Located In Adjoining County; Construction; Consent Required
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county may maintain, construct and repair a road located in an adjoining county where it is a...
• Section 27:16-21 - Bond Issue
  For the purpose of providing the money necessary for the construction of the road contemplated by section 27:16-20 of this title the board of...
• Section 27:16-23 - Water Pipes, Sewers, And House Connections In Roads; Pavement Restored
  The board of chosen freeholders, or any county board or commission, owning or having control of a road, parkway or other highway, may grant...
• Section 27:16-25 - Lighting Roads In Vicinity Of County Institutions
  If, in a county of the first class, a county institution having a plant for the generation of electricity occupies more than one hundred...
• Section 27:16-26 - Lighting Highways From Main Shore To Seaside Resorts; Contracts
  The board of chosen freeholders shall light with electric lights all public highways which have or shall have been constructed in part by the...
• Section 27:16-27 - Engineers And Assistants; Entry On Lands
  The board of chosen freeholders may employ all necessary engineers, surveyors, and workmen to carry out the provisions of this chapter. All such persons...
• Section 27:16-28 - Vacation Or Discontinuance Of County Road
  Any road or portion thereof owned by any county or under the control of any county governing body may be (a) discontinued as a...
• Section 27:16-29 - Certain Resolutions And Proceedings Filed And Recorded
  All resolutions or proceedings affecting the opening or change in location or the widening or vacating of any road, shall be filed in the...
• Section 27:16-30 - Location And Boundaries Of Roads; Removal Of Obstructions
  The board of chosen freeholders may ascertain and establish the location and boundaries of all roads under its control, and prevent and remove all...
• Section 27:16-31 - Regulations To Protect Roads And Road Surfaces
  The board of chosen freeholders may by resolution: a. Regulate the tearing up or excavating in any road under its control, for any purpose;...
• Section 27:16-31.1 - First Class Counties Over 800,000; Restriction Of Roads To Passenger Vehicles
  Wherever the board of chosen freeholders in counties of the first class having over eight hundred thousand inhabitants, acquires or takes over any road,...
• Section 27:16-32 - Public Utility Companies To Share Expense; Agreement
  The board of chosen freeholders, or any two or more boards of chosen freeholders, or any joint committees thereof, may agree with a street...
• Section 27:16-33 - Snow Removal
  If a road owned by or under the control of a board of chosen freeholders shall become blockaded with snow so as to be...
• Section 27:16-34 - Warning And Protection Of Dangerous Places
  If a dangerous place exists in or near a county road the board of chosen freeholders shall erect and maintain, in or near such...
• Section 27:16-35 - Signposts; Erection By County; Removal Of Others
  The board of chosen freeholders shall place, or cause to be placed, along and at the intersection of all public county roads, suitable signboards...
• Section 27:16-36 - Traffic Posts And Lights; Approval
  No traffic posts, traffic lights or any other obstruction shall be placed in or upon any part of a public county road without the...
• Section 27:16-37 - Removal Of Posts, Lights, Etc.
  The board of chosen freeholders may remove any traffic posts, traffic lights or other obstruction from a public county road when, by resolution, it...
• Section 27:16-38 - Change Of Grade; Damage Suit By Property Owners
  An action shall lie in behalf of the owner of any real estate situate along a road owned by or under the control of...
• Section 27:16-39 - Sale Of Surplus Road Materials; Certificate Posted
  A county maintaining a road material yard for the storing, handling and distribution of road materials, may sell any surplus materials in its possession...
• Section 27:16-41 - Other State Aid Laws Unaffected; Contracts; Law Applicable
  Nothing in this chapter shall repeal any law providing for the improvement of roads by counties with state aid, or any law providing for...
• Section 27:16-42 - Acquisition Of Real Estate; Condemnation
  If the board cannot acquire the real estate, or any interest therein, necessary for the making of any improvement authorized by this chapter by...
• Section 27:16-48 - Entry Upon Property Before Making Compensation; Action To Fix Compensation
  The board of chosen freeholders may enter upon and take property for any of the purposes set forth in section 27:16-1 of this Title,...
• Section 27:16-54 - Additional Method Of Acquiring Real Estate
  In addition to the method prescribed by sections 27:16-42 to 27:16-53 of this Title the board of chosen freeholders may acquire real estate or...
• Section 27:16-55 - Right Of Way Commission; Appointment; Term; Compensation; Removal; Oath; Assistance
  The board of chosen freeholders may appoint three discreet and impartial freeholders, residents of the county, to examine and make awards for real estate...
• Section 27:16-56 - Condemnation; Resolution And Map; Removal Of Buildings
  When an improvement resolution shall require the taking of real estate or any right or interest therein, for any of the purposes provided in...
• Section 27:16-57 - Map And Resolution Filed And Recorded
  Upon the conclusion of the hearing as provided in this chapter and the adoption of the resolution, the map together with a copy of...
• Section 27:16-58 - Hearing And Notice; View Of Premises
  Upon the filing of the resolution and map with the commission, it shall view the real estate to be acquired under the resolution and...
• Section 27:16-59 - Hearing; Adjournment; Examination Of Witnesses
  The commission shall attend at the time and place appointed. A majority of its members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business...
• Section 27:16-60 - Award; Award For Removal Or Restoration Of Buildings
  The commission shall thereupon make a just and equitable award of the damages sustained by reason of the taking of such real estate, having...
• Section 27:16-61 - Payment Of Award; Removal Of Buildings
  After the filing and recording of the award the owner shall have sixty days from the date of the filing and recording within which...
• Section 27:16-62 - Report Of Commission; Copies Filed
  When an award is made under the provision of sections 27:16-54 to 27:16-68 of this title the commission shall make its report in writing...
• Section 27:16-63 - New Frontage; Consideration As Increase In Value
  When the land to be taken for highway purposes is not for the widening of an existing road but is for an extension, cut-off...
• Section 27:16-64 - Acquisition Of Title To Buildings; Removal
  When a building is partly upon the land to be taken and partly upon the owner's remaining land and the commission deems it to...
• Section 27:16-65 - Award; Payment Into Court; Appeal
  If an uncertainty exists as to who is entitled to the amount awarded, or if the board of chosen freeholders is unable to tender...
• Section 27:16-66 - Title Vests Upon Payment Of Award; Right Of Entry
  Upon the acceptance of the award, or the payment thereof into the Superior Court, title to the real estate or right or interest therein...
• Section 27:16-67 - Report As Evidence Of County's Right To Possession
  The report of the commission or a copy thereof certified by the county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages, as the case may...
• Section 27:16-68 - Powers Deemed Additional; Certain Bodies Unaffected
  Sections 27:16-54 to 27:16-67 of this title shall not be construed as in substitution or in lieu of the authority and method of procedure...
• Section 27:16-71 - Municipal Control Over County Roads; Consent Required
  The governing body of a municipality may by resolution take over the care and control of a county road or portion thereof within the...
• Section 27:17-1 - County Boulevards Authorized; Construction And Maintenance; Connecting Roads
  L.1888, c. 274, p. 397 (C.S. pp. 4503 to 4511, s.s. 194 to 215), entitled "An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders...
• Section 27:17-2 - Boulevard Commissioners; Election And Term
  In a county where a road has been or shall be built under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to authorize the...
• Section 27:17-3 - Commissioners; Nomination And Election
  The commissioners elected and holding office in a county where a road has already been completed under the above entitled act are hereby continued...
• Section 27:17-4 - Oath And Bond Filed
  27:17-4. Before entering upon the duties of his office each commissioner shall take an oath to perform well and truly the duties of his...
• Section 27:17-5 - Commissioners Supersede Freeholders In Certain Matters
  All the duties which, by the act entitled "An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of...
• Section 27:17-6 - Commissioners; Organization; Officers; Compensation
  The commissioners shall meet for organization at noon on January first next succeeding the date of their election and elect from their number a...
• Section 27:17-7 - Annual Requisition For Funds; Control Of Funds
  On or before January first, in each year, the commissioners shall make a requisition in writing on the board of chosen freeholders of the...
• Section 27:17-8 - Commissioners; Use Of County Property; Employees
  The commissioners shall be entitled to the use and possession of all property and plant of the county used for maintaining, lighting and repairing...
• Section 27:17-9 - Transfer Of Funds To Commissioners
  Upon the election and qualification of the first commissioners elected in any county the board of chosen freeholders shall transfer to the account of...
• Section 27:17-10 - Contracts For Maintenance, Lighting Or Repair
  If the commissioners determine to maintain, repair or light such road, or any part thereof, by contract, proposals therefor shall be published for two...
• Section 27:17-11 - Annual Report
  The commissioners shall annually on or before the first Monday in May file in the office of the clerk of the board of chosen...
• Section 27:17-12 - Construction Of Certain Sections
  Sections 27:17-2 to 27:17-11 of this title shall apply to all roads, branch or connecting roads constructed, or to be constructed, or in course...
• Section 27:17-13 - Counsel To Boulevard Commission
  The counsel to the county shall act as counsel to the commissioners without extra or additional compensation.
• Section 27:17-14 - Vacancies; How Filled
  If a vacancy occurs in the office of boulevard commissioner the governor shall forthwith appoint a resident legal voter of the county to the...
• Section 27:17-15 - Repair Of Road And Lighting Plant
  The boulevard commissioners may put and keep the road and the lighting plant connected therewith in good repair and condition.
• Section 27:17-16 - Additional Appropriation; Requisition; Taxation Or Bond Issue
  If the appropriation made in any year by the board of chosen freeholders for the repair of the road and the lighting plant connected...
• Section 27:17-17 - Bonds; Use Of Proceeds; Control Of Funds
  The moneys derived from the sale of bonds shall be turned over to and remain as a fund in the hands of the county...
• Section 27:17-18 - Roads Affected
  Sections 27:17-15 to 27:17-17 of this title shall apply to the repair of all roads, branch or connecting roads, constructed or to be constructed,...
• Section 27:17-19 - Insurance For Drivers Of Vehicles; Payment Of Premiums
  The boulevard commission may in its discretion cause liability insurance to be issued by an insurance company approved by it, and pay the premium...
• Section 27:17-20 - Insurance Premiums; Amount Included In Annual Budget
  The board of chosen freeholders, upon requisition by the boulevard commission, may provide the necessary funds to pay the premiums for such insurance by...
• Section 27:18-1 - Construction; Acquisition Of Property; Condemnation
  The board of chosen freeholders may lay out, construct and maintain roads or ways, to be called speedways, and to that end acquire lands...
• Section 27:18-2 - Grade Crossings And Intersections; Regulation Of
  After the location of the speedway shall have been determined upon, no public street or highway shall be laid across or intersect it at...
• Section 27:18-3 - Rules And Regulations
  The board of chosen freeholders, or a committee thereof appointed for the purpose, may make rules and regulations for the government of the speedway,...
• Section 27:18-4 - Maintenance; Transfer Of Control To Park Commission
  After the completion of the speedway, the board of chosen freeholders shall maintain it, but may in its discretion, by resolution, transfer the title...
• Section 27:19-1 - Construction; Maintenance And Repair; Joint County Bridges
  The board of chosen freeholders may construct, or acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation, and maintain and operate, and widen when necessary, viaducts and...
• Section 27:19-2 - Petition For Bridge Or Viaduct; Referendum; Resolution
  If twenty per cent of the legal voters in a county believe that the public convenience requires that a viaduct or bridge should be...
• Section 27:19-3 - Ballot; Form And Content
  If the board adopts a resolution that a vote is required upon the question, a certified copy of the resolution shall at once be...
• Section 27:19-4 - Petition For Bridge Or Viaduct In Adjoining Counties; Referendum Or Resolution
  If twenty per cent of the legal voters in each of any adjoining counties believe that the public convenience requires that a viaduct or...
• Section 27:19-5 - Acquisition Of Property And Rights Therein; Payment
  In order to carry out the provisions of sections 27:19-1 to 27:19-4 of this title the board or boards, as the case may be,...
• Section 27:19-6 - Bridges And Viaducts To Connect Highways
  All viaducts and bridges, with their approaches, shall connect at each end with a public road or street, or at one end with a...
• Section 27:19-7 - Commission To Settle Disputes; Appointment, Powers, Duties And Compensation
  Whenever it shall have been determined that the public convenience requires that a viaduct or bridge be constructed at the joint expense of adjoining...
• Section 27:19-9 - Closing Unsafe Bridges; Repair; Freeholders Notified
  If any viaduct or bridge in any municipality, or between any two municipalities in the same county, or any viaduct or bridge over any...
• Section 27:19-10 - Bridges; Actions For Personal Injuries Or Property Damage
  If the board of chosen freeholders of a county, or boards of chosen freeholders of two or more counties, are chargeable by law with...
• Section 27:19-11 - Toll Bridges And Viaducts; Acquisition; Maintenance As Free Bridges
  When a toll bridge or toll viaduct has been constructed and now exists, forming a part of a free public road, or connecting free...
• Section 27:19-12 - Acquisition Of Joint Bridges; Agreements; Contents; Cost Apportioned
  When two or more counties contemplate the joint acquisition by gift, purchase or condemnation, or the building and construction of any viaduct or bridge...
• Section 27:19-13 - Regulations For Bridges And Viaducts; Bridge Tenders; Police Powers
  The board of chosen freeholders shall make rules and regulations for the protection and use of the viaducts and bridges in the county under...
• Section 27:19-14 - Advertisement For Bids; Designs, Plans And Specifications
  When it shall be necessary to advertise for bids to build and construct a viaduct or bridge, the board or boards of chosen freeholders...
• Section 27:19-15 - Moneys For Preliminary Expenses; Annual Charges; How Raised
  All moneys necessary for the acquisition, construction, building, rebuilding, widening or extraordinary repair of a viaduct or bridge wholly in one county or joining...
• Section 27:19-16 - Approaches Included In "Viaduct And Bridge"
  As used in this article the term "viaduct and bridge" includes all approaches thereto, except when such approaches are a public road, street, avenue...
• Section 27:19-17 - Joint Construction And Operation Of Bridge In One County
  Any two or more counties may acquire, construct, maintain and operate a viaduct or bridge wholly within the territorial limits of one county in...
• Section 27:19-18 - Bridges To Conform To Wharf Lines; Drawbridges
  No viaduct or bridge, or any piers, foundations or abutments thereof, shall be located, built or constructed in violation of pier or wharf lines...
• Section 27:19-19 - Tracks, Pipes, Conduits On Bridges; Agreement; Appeal To Utility Commissioners
  No person shall lay any tracks, pipes, or conduits, on, over or under a public viaduct or bridge, or connect any wires, cables or...
• Section 27:19-20 - Bridge Over Certain Tidal Waters; Legislative Consent
  No bridge, viaduct or fixed structure shall be erected over or in any part of the navigable waters separating this state from any other...
• Section 27:19-21 - Liability During Repairs
  When it shall be necessary to repair or rebuild a bridge, culvert or viaduct the public authorities or person so repairing or rebuilding it...
• Section 27:19-22 - Changing Course Of Stream; Acquisition Of Property
  When a board of chosen freeholders is about to construct a bridge over a stream which passes the location of the proposed bridge diagonally,...
• Section 27:19-23 - Joint County Bridges; Preliminary Survey; Cost Of Survey Apportioned
  Where navigable waters mark the dividing line between two or more counties and the respective boards of chosen freeholders thereof have or shall have...
• Section 27:19-24 - Bond Issue; Maturity
  In order to provide the money for the purposes of section 27:19-23 of this title the respective boards of chosen freeholders may issue bonds...
• Section 27:19-25 - Contribution By State
  The state highway commissioner may expend an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars toward the payment of the cost of the preliminary survey contemplated...
• Section 27:19-26 - County Bridge Commission; General Powers; "Bridge" Defined
  Every county through its board of chosen freeholders may, if it determines so to do, create a bridge commission. Each bridge commission so created...
• Section 27:19-26.1 - Definitions Relative To County Bridge Commission Projects, Certain.
  1.As used in this article: "Facility charges" mean tolls, rents, rates, fares, fees or other charges in connection with, or for the use or...
• Section 27:19-26.2 - Additional Powers Of County Bridge Commission.
  2.In addition to the powers set forth in R.S.27:19-26 et seq., a bridge commission established prior to the effective date of P.L.2001, c.301 (C.27:19-26.1...
• Section 27:19-26.3 - Empowerment To Enter Into Lease, Agreement.
  10.Any governmental unit or person is hereby empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with the commission for the lease...
• Section 27:19-26.4 - Powers Of County, Municipality.
  11.For the purpose of aiding a commission and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any project, the county or any...
• Section 27:19-26.5 - Empowerment To Convey Land To Commission.
  12.Any county by resolution of its governing body, municipality by ordinance of its governing body, governmental unit or person is hereby empowered, without any...
• Section 27:19-27 - Entry Upon And Condemnation Of Lands
  The commission, its agents, officers, engineers or others in its employ, may enter at all times upon all lands or waters for the purpose...
• Section 27:19-28 - Power To Acquire Or Construct Approaches And Bridges
  The commission may acquire or construct approaches to any such bridge, and may acquire or construct any such bridge or bridges over any channel...
• Section 27:19-29 - Tolls, Facility Charges.
  27:19-29. a. The commission may at all times take, demand, and receive of and from any person who shall pass over or use its...
• Section 27:19-30 - Total Cost; What To Include
  For all purposes of financing, the total cost of any improvement authorized by this article may include every item of expense in connection with...
• Section 27:19-31 - Financing Of Purposes, Powers Of Bridge Commission.
  27:19-31. (A) To finance any of the purposes or powers provided for in this article, the bridge commission shall from time to time first...
• Section 27:19-32 - Bonds Of Bridge Commission.
  27:19-32. The bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (hereinafter in this section called "bonds") issued by such bridge commissions shall bear interest at...
• Section 27:19-32.1 - Covenant Of State With Bondholders.
  11.The State of New Jersey does hereby covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued by...
• Section 27:19-32.2 - Legal Investments, Evidences Of Indebtedness Of Commission As
  The bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of such commissions are hereby made securities in which, notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other...
• Section 27:19-33 - Creation Of Commission; Corporate Powers; Members; Terms And Vacancies; Property Exempt From Taxation And Execution; Bonds Tax Exempt
  When it has been determined by the governing body of any such county, by resolution in the exercise of its discretion that in the...
• Section 27:19-34 - Organization Of Commission; Officers And Employees; Compensation
  The commission shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from its members, and a secretary and treasurer who need not be a member. The members...
• Section 27:19-34.1 - Contracts For Hospitalization, Medical, Surgical, Etc., Benefits; Validation And Confirmation Of Payments
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any county bridge commission created under the article to which this act is a supplement and owning...
• Section 27:19-35 - Awarding Of Contracts, Agreements.
  27:19-35. Every contract or agreement for the construction, reconstruction, repair, enlargement, extension, renewal, replacement or equipment of bridges or projects, shall be made and...
• Section 27:19-36 - Operation Of Bridges; Tolls; Agreements With Counties For Maintenance Of Bridges; Powers Of Counties
  The commission shall operate, manage and control the bridges under its charge in their entirety, fix the rate of tolls, establish rules and regulations...
• Section 27:19-36.1 - Payments To Municipality In Lieu Of Taxes.
  1.Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article to which this act is a supplement, any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article...
• Section 27:19-36.2 - Lease Or Conveyance Of Real Property To County Bridge Commission
  Any public department, agency or commission of the State of New Jersey, notwithstanding any other law, is hereby authorized and empowered to lease, lend,...
• Section 27:19-36.3 - Appointment Of Bridge Police; Authority; Procedure On Arrest
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article of which this act is a supplement, any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article...
• Section 27:19-36.4 - Rules And Regulations By County Bridge Commission
  Any county bridge commission may adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient for the proper government of the bridge or bridges...
• Section 27:19-36.5 - Penalties For Violations
  For any violation of this chapter or of any rule or regulation of any county bridge commission, the offender shall be subject to a...
• Section 27:19-37 - Records, Semiannual Statements, Examination.
  27:19-37. The commission shall keep accurate records of all acts, the property intrusted to it, the cost of the bridge or bridges, project or...
• Section 27:19-37.1 - Surplus Capital Funds; Determination; Disposition
  Whenever any county bridge commission, created pursuant to article 2 of chapter 19 of Title 27 of the Revised Statutes or any supplement thereto...
• Section 27:19-37.2 - Use Of Surplus Capital Funds
  Said surplus funds may be used by the county only for capital purposes in the acquisition, construction, improvement or enlargement of county facilities, buildings...
• Section 27:19-39 - Dissolution Of Commission; Assumption Of Duties
  Any commission provided for in this article may be dissolved by the governing body of the county or counties creating it at any time...
• Section 27:19-40 - Bridges Extending Within Limits Of Other States Not To Be Acquired Or Constructed
  No county bridge commission created pursuant to the article to which this act is a supplement shall hereafter acquire or construct any bridge extending...
• Section 27:19-41 - Sale By Commission Of Bridges Extending Within Limits Of Other States
  Every such county bridge commission owning or controlling any bridge or bridges extending within the limits of any State other than the State of...
• Section 27:19-42 - Disposition Of Proceeds Of Sale Of Bridges Extending Within Limits Of Other States
  The proceeds received by any such county bridge commission upon any sale, grant or conveyance made pursuant to section two hereof shall forthwith upon...
• Section 27:19-43 - Disposition Of Proceeds Of Condemnation Award For Bridge
  In the event that any such county bridge is acquired in any condemnation proceeding by any such body corporate and politic and public corporate...
• Section 27:19-44 - Dissolution Of County Bridge Commission
  Any county bridge commission may be dissolved by the governing body of the county or counties creating it at any time after the bridge...
• Section 27:19-45 - Replacement Or Reconstruction Of Bridges Or Approaches; Powers Of Commission
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article of which this act is a supplement, any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article...
• Section 27:20-1 - Acquisition Of Plank Roads; Bridges; Maintenance By Counties And Municipalities
  When the franchise of an incorporated plank road company has expired or may expire, the board of chosen freeholders of the county in which...
• Section 27:20-5 - Use Of Unappropriated Funds; Taxation
  For the purpose of furnishing the moneys necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 27:20-1 to 27:20-4 of this title and for defraying...
• Section 27:20-6 - Changed Conditions To Alter Apportionment; Action
  At any time after the entry of a judgment of apportionment of expense as provided in sections 27:20-4 and 27:20-5 of this Title, the...
• Section 27:20-7 - Widening Plank Roads Acquired By County
  After a plank road shall have been acquired and taken possession of by a board or boards of chosen freeholders it may be widened...
• Section 27:20-8 - Widening Roads; Acquisition Of Property; Cost Borne By Counties Respectively
  The title to the lands required for such widening may be acquired by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, and shall vest in the county...
• Section 27:20-9 - Bond Issue
  If in the opinion of any of the boards of chosen freeholders, to place in the tax levy for any fiscal year the moneys...
• Section 27:20-10 - Joint Operation By Freeholders Abandoned; Boards To Act Separately
  When the road and bridge or bridges of a plank road company, included within the terms of section 27:20-1 of this title, have been...
• Section 27:20-11 - Police And Employees Assigned To Their Own County
  Thereafter the police and employees theretofore jointly employed shall become the police and employees of their respective counties in which they were resident at...
• Section 27:20-12 - Maintenance Of Certain Turnpikes Purchased
  The portion of a turnpike road lying within the limits of a municipality, purchased or acquired for public use under the provisions of an...
• Section 27:21-1 - Construction By County; Application By Municipality
  When in any county a street or highway is crossed by a canal owned by a canal corporation, its successors or assigns, and the...
• Section 27:21-2 - Approval Of Plans By Municipality Before Advertising For Bids
  The board of chosen freeholders shall not advertise for bids or proceed with the work of erecting or widening a bridge as provided in...
• Section 27:21-3 - Apportionment Of Cost; Agreement; Action Where No Agreement
  The cost of construction of a bridge or the widening of an existing bridge shall be borne by the board of chosen freeholders of...
• Section 27:21-4 - Damage To Abutting Property Paid By Municipality
  The owners of property abutting the bridge shall be entitled to compensation for damages sustained by reason of the construction thereof or the widening...
• Section 27:21-5 - Share Borne By County; Limitation
  The board of chosen freeholders may expend as its share of the cost of construction of any such bridge or bridges, or of the...
• Section 27:21-6 - County Bonds
  If in the opinion of the board of chosen freeholders, to place the entire cost of the work in the tax levy for one...
• Section 27:21-7 - Municipal Bonds; Limitation
  In order to enable the municipalities to raise the moneys wherewith to pay any damages with which they may be charged by reason of...
• Section 27:22-10 - Use Of Funds Obtained From Highway Commissioner; Consent Required
  The county may pay its share of the cost of the improvement out of any funds allotted to it by the state highway commissioner...
• Section 27:22-12 - Contribution By County For Maintenance And Repair
  Each board of chosen freeholders may appropriate funds to be used for the purpose of aiding municipalities in maintaining and repairing roads constructed or...
• Section 27:22-13 - Maintenance Of Certain Township Roads In Adjoining County
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county may contribute towards the cost of the maintenance, upkeep and repair of a township road located...
• Section 27:22-14 - Agreement; Approval By County
  When a township applies to the board of chosen freeholders for an improvement to be made under section 27:22-13 of this title, an agreement...
• Section 27:22-15 - Cost Charged To County Road Appropriation
  All moneys expended by the county for improvements under sections 27:22-13 and 27:22-14 of this title shall be charged to its road appropriation.
• Section 27:23-1 - Transportation Projects.
  1.Transportation projects. In order to facilitate vehicular traffic and remove the present handicaps and hazards on the congested highways in the State, and to...
• Section 27:23-2 - Credit Of State Not Pledged.
  2.Transportation revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall not be deemed to constitute a debt or liability of the State or...
• Section 27:23-3 - New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
  3.New Jersey Turnpike Authority. (A) There is hereby established in the State Department of Transportation a body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to...
• Section 27:23-3.2 - Reports, Capital Project And Investment Plan.
  1.Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of the act hereby supplemented or any other law, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall submit to the Governor, the...
• Section 27:23-3.3 - Inclusion Of Projects In Capital Project And Investment Plan.
  4.The New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall include, annually as part of its Capital Project and Investment Plan submitted pursuant to subsection c. of section...
• Section 27:23-4 - Definitions.
  4.Definitions. As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different...
• Section 27:23-5 - General Grant Of Powers.
  5.General grant of powers. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic and shall have perpetual succession and shall have the following powers:...
• Section 27:23-5.2 - Authorization Relative To Feeder Road.
  2.The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is authorized to acquire, construct, reconstruct, repair and maintain any feeder road. L.1949,c.40,s.2; amended 1991, c.183, s.8; 2003,c.79,s.10.
• Section 27:23-5.3 - May Take Over Existing Roads, Procedure
  The Turnpike Authority is authorized to take over for reconstruction, maintenance and repair any existing road which is needed as a feeder road. Before...
• Section 27:23-5.4 - Powers Relative To Feeder Road Constructed Over New Alignment.
  4.In any case where a feeder road is constructed over new alignment, the Turnpike Authority is granted the same powers concerning the construction thereof...
• Section 27:23-5.6 - Return Of Certain Roads To Local Authorities.
  6.The Turnpike Authority is authorized to turn back to local authorities any road or portions of road taken over from such local authorities in...
• Section 27:23-5.6a - Projects Turned Over To Dot.
  12. The authority may in its discretion turn over to the Department of Transportation any highway project or part thereof and provide by agreement...
• Section 27:23-5.8 - Additional Powers.
  1.The New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall have, in addition to the powers heretofore granted to it, power: a.To pay or make any advance or...
• Section 27:23-5.9 - Limitations Relative To A Transportation Project.
  2.The authority shall not engage in the acquisition, construction or operation of any facility or activity not directly or indirectly related to the use...
• Section 27:23-5.10 - Proposed Tolls; Hearing.
  1.The authority shall, whenever it desires to increase any existing toll or establish any new toll for the use of any highway project and...
• Section 27:23-5.11 - Notice Of Hearings
  The authority shall cause to be published notice of such hearing at least 10 days prior to such hearing in at least 10 newspapers...
• Section 27:23-6 - Incidental Powers.
  6.The authority shall have power to construct grade separations at intersections of any highway project with public highways and to change and adjust the...
• Section 27:23-6.1 - Standing Operating Rules, Procedures For Entering Into Contracts By Turnpike Authority.
  1. a. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, in the exercise of its authority to make and enter into contracts and agreements necessary or incidental...
• Section 27:23-6.2 - Registration Of Towing Operators With New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
  2. a. An operator awarded a contract for towing and storage services by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall register with the authority. Upon...
• Section 27:23-6.3 - Partial Payments To Roadway Contractors.
  1.Contracts entered into by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority for roadway construction and maintenance shall provide for partial payments at least once each month...
• Section 27:23-6.4 - Existing Covenants, Agreements, Contracts Unaffected.
  2.The provisions of this act shall not modify, limit, or restrict in any manner the obligations and powers of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority...
• Section 27:23-7 - Bonds.
  7.The authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution, at one time or from time to time, for the issuance of bonds of the...
• Section 27:23-7a - New Jersey Turnpike Authority To Protect Bondholders.
  21. Nothing in or done pursuant to the powers and obligations set forth in this amendatory and supplementary act (P.L.1991, c.183) shall in any...
• Section 27:23-7.1 - Notes
  The authority is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its notes for any of its corporate purposes and renew from time to...
• Section 27:23-8 - Trust Agreement.
  8.Trust agreement. In the discretion of the Authority any bonds issued under the provisions of this act may be secured by a trust agreement...
• Section 27:23-9 - Revenues.
  9.Revenues. (A) The authority is hereby authorized by resolution to fix, revise, charge and collect tolls, fees, licenses, rents, concession charges and other charges...
• Section 27:23-10 - Trust Funds
  All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this act, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed...
• Section 27:23-11 - Remedies
  Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this act or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust...
• Section 27:23-12 - Exemption From Taxation.
  12. The exercise of the powers granted by this act will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the State,...
• Section 27:23-13 - Bonds Eligible For Investment
  Bonds issued by the Authority under the provisions of this act are hereby made securities in which the State and all political subdivisions of...
• Section 27:23-14 - Miscellaneous.
  14. Miscellaneous. Each highway project when constructed and opened to traffic shall be maintained and kept in good condition and repair by the Authority....
• Section 27:23-14.1 - Use Of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement By New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
  3. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall permit for a turnpike project under the...
• Section 27:23-15 - Refunding Bonds.
  15. The Authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds of the Authority for the purpose of refunding...
• Section 27:23-16 - Projects Part Of State Highway System.
  16. When all bonds issued under the provisions of this act to finance any highway project or projects and the interest thereon shall have...
• Section 27:23-17 - Preliminary Expenses.
  17. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized in its discretion to expend out of any funds available for the purpose such moneys as...
• Section 27:23-18 - Additional, Alternative Methods.
  18. The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized...
• Section 27:23-19 - Act Liberally Construed
  This act, being necessary for the welfare of the State and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof. L.1948, c....
• Section 27:23-20 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other...
• Section 27:23-21 - Inconsistent Laws Inapplicable
  All other general or special laws, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are hereby declared to be inapplicable to the provisions of this act. L.1948,...
• Section 27:23-22 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as, and may be cited as the "New Jersey Turnpike Authority Act of 1948." L.1948, c. 454, p. 1873,...
• Section 27:23-23 - Turnpike Project Authorized; Combining Projects; Legislature Must Designate Direction; Consent Of Highway Commissioner
  The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, created pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred fifty-four of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and...
• Section 27:23-23a - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that the highway corridor between the Delaware Memorial Bridge and the George Washington Bridge is the main artery of...
• Section 27:23-23.1 - Project Addition Authorized
  The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is authorized to construct, maintain, repair and operate a project addition to the New Jersey Turnpike consisting of a...
• Section 27:23-23.2 - Project Addition Authorized
  The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is authorized to construct, maintain, repair and operate a project addition to the New Jersey Turnpike consisting of a...
• Section 27:23-23.3 - Toms River Extension
  The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is authorized to construct, maintain, repair and operate a project addition and extension to the New Jersey Turnpike consisting...
• Section 27:23-23.4 - Approval Of Governor
  The authority may not acquire any land, erect any structure, nor alter the landscape for the purpose of carrying out the project described in...
• Section 27:23-23.5 - Environmental Impact Statement
  The authority shall submit to the Governor an environmental impact statement on the project described in section 1 in accordance with guidelines to be...
• Section 27:23-23.6 - Turnpike Interchange Authorized
  Subject to the findings of a feasibility study, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority may construct, maintain and repair an interchange connecting Route 295 with...
• Section 27:23-23.7 - New Jersey Turnpike Authority Authorized To Acquire Portion Of Interstate Highway 95
  a. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is authorized and directed to acquire, maintain, repair and operate a project addition and extension to the New...
• Section 27:23-23.8 - Route 92 Freeway Extension
  1. The New Jersey Turnpike authority is authorized to acquire, construct, maintain, repair and operate a project addition and extension to the New Jersey...
• Section 27:23-24 - State Highway Department's Jurisdiction Over Route To Cease
  At such time as the New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall undertake to construct this turnpike project, the jurisdiction and authority of the State Highway...
• Section 27:23-24a - Department Of Transportation Control Over I-95 Extension To Cease
  At such time as the New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall acquire the I-95 Extension, the jurisdiction and control of the Department of Transportation over...
• Section 27:23-24.1 - Repeal
  Any provision of law heretofore enacted (except laws authorizing interstate compacts or agreements) which restricts, prohibits, or limits the construction or acquisition of any...
• Section 27:23-24.2 - Partial Invalidity; Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other...
• Section 27:23-25 - Toll, Payment Required.
  1.No vehicle shall be permitted to make use of any highway project or part thereof operated by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority created pursuant...
• Section 27:23-26 - Operation Of Vehicles On Highway Project.
  2.No vehicle shall be operated on any such highway project carelessly or recklessly, or in disregard of the rights or safety of others, or...
• Section 27:23-27 - Speed Of Vehicles On Highway Project.
  3.A person operating a vehicle on any such highway project shall operate it at a careful and prudent speed, having due regard to the...
• Section 27:23-28 - Traffic Control; Signal.
  4.All persons operating vehicles upon any such highway project must at all times comply with any lawful order, signal or direction by voice or...
• Section 27:23-29 - Compliance With Regulations.
  5.All persons operating vehicles upon any such highway project, or seeking to do so, must at all times comply with regulations, not inconsistent with...
• Section 27:23-30 - Stopping In Case Of Accident; Report
  The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to any person or damage to any property shall immediately...
• Section 27:23-31 - Prohibitions Relative To Items Transported.
  7.No person shall transport in or upon any such highway project, any dynamite, nitroglycerin, black powder, fireworks, blasting caps or other explosives, gasoline, alcohol,...
• Section 27:23-32 - Violation Constituting Violation Of Law Or Ordinance If Committed In Municipality
  If the violation of any provision of this act, or the violation of any regulation adopted by the Authority under the provisions of this...
• Section 27:23-33 - Violation Resulting In Injury Or Death Or Property Damage Over $5000 A High Misdemeanor
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight hereof, if the violation within the State of the provisions of section seven hereof shall result in injury...
• Section 27:23-34 - Penalties; Enforcement.
  10. Except as provided in sections eight and nine of this act, any violation of any of the provisions hereof, including but not limited...
• Section 27:23-34.1 - Definitions Relative To Toll Collection Monitoring.
  6.As used in sections 6 through 10 of P.L.1997, c.59 (C.27:23-34.1 through C.27:23-34.5): "Authority" means the New Jersey Turnpike Authority established by section 3...
• Section 27:23-34.2 - Toll Collection Monitoring System Regulations; Violations, Penalties.
  7. a. The authority may, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt toll collection monitoring system regulations. The...
• Section 27:23-34.3 - Violations Of Toll Collection Monitoring System Regulations; Penalties.
  8. a. If a violation of the toll collection monitoring system regulations is committed as evidenced by a toll collection monitoring system, the authority...
• Section 27:23-34.4 - Enforcement Power Of Authority Not Limited, Exception
  9. Nothing in sections 6 through 10 of P.L.1997, c.59 (C.27:23-34.1 through C.27:23-34.5) shall be construed as limiting the power of the authority as...
• Section 27:23-34.5 - Power Of Authority Over Tolls Unchanged
  10. Nothing in sections 6 through 10 of P.L.1997, c.59 (C.27:23-34.1 through C.27:23-34.5) shall be construed as extending or diminishing the power of the...
• Section 27:23-34.6 - Report Of Loss, Theft Of Electronic Vehicle Identification System Transponder; Limited Liability.
  3. a. A customer who has an account with a New Jersey electronic toll collection system, subject to sections 6 through 10 of P.L.1997,...
• Section 27:23-36 - Partial Invalidity
  If any term or provision of this act shall be declared unconstitutional or ineffective in whole or in part by a court of competent...
• Section 27:23-37 - Regulations Of Counties Or Municipalities Inapplicable To Vehicles Upon Turnpike Project
  No resolution or ordinance heretofore or hereafter adopted by the governing body of any county or municipality for the control and regulation of traffic...
• Section 27:23-38 - Suspension Or Revocation Of Registration And License Certificates For Violations; Nonresidents
  In addition to any punishment or penalty provided by other sections of this act, every registration certificate and every license certificate to drive motor...
• Section 27:23-39 - Requirements Of Title 39; Applicability
  Except as otherwise provided by this act or by any regulation of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority made in accordance with the provisions hereof,...
• Section 27:23-40 - Tolls; Exemptions.
  1.No toll shall be charged for the passage of any ambulance, first-aid or emergency-aid vehicle or of any vehicular fire-fighting apparatus or police vehicle...
• Section 27:23-41 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Transfer Of Functions Of New Jersey Highway Authority To New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares: a.Increasing traffic and related congestion are impairing the quality of life and economy of the State. In order to...
• Section 27:23-42 - Powers, Rights, Duties Conferred As Of Transfer Date.
  3. a. Until the Transfer Date, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (hereinafter the "authority") shall not exercise any powers, rights or duties conferred by...
• Section 27:23-43 - Authorization Relative To Existing Projects, Facilities Of The Highway Authority.
  4.The authority, pursuant to the provisions of this act, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, improve, manage, repair and operate a project known as...
• Section 27:23-44 - Local Funding For Non-highway Transportation Projects.
  41. For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the acquisition, construction, or operation of any non-highway transportation project of the authority, any county...
• Section 27:23-45 - Acquisition Of Certain Roadside Areas Adjoining Highway Projects.
  42. Subject to the terms of any agreement by the authority with the holders of bonds, the authority is authorized to acquire in cooperation...
• Section 27:23-46 - Conveyance Of Certain Park, Recreational Areas, Facilities To Dep.
  43. Subject to the terms of any agreement by the authority with the holders of bonds, the authority shall have power to lend, lease,...
• Section 27:23-47 - Maintenance Of Vietnam Veterans' Memorial.
  44. The authority, as the successor to the Highway Authority, may provide for the perpetual maintenance of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in accordance with...
• Section 27:23-48 - New Jersey Turnpike Authority, Sale Of "Jersey Fresh," "Made With Jersey Fresh" Products At Certain Service Areas.
  1. a. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall adopt, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968,...
• Section 27:23-49 - Equipment Provided By New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
  3.Subject to the rights and security interests of the holders from time to time of bonds or notes heretofore or hereafter issued by the...
• Section 27:23-50 - Certain Roadway Markings Prohibited On Roads Under Jurisdiction Of Nj Turnpike Authority; Rules, Regulations.
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1948, c.454 (C.27:23-1 et seq.) or any rule or regulation to the contrary, no markings made with paint...
• Section 27:23-51 - Definitions Relative To The Helmets To Hardhats Pilot Program.
  1.As used in this act: "Apprenticeable trade" means a trade or occupation eligible to participate in an apprenticeship program. "Apprenticeship program" shall have the...
• Section 27:23-52 - Helmets To Hardhats Pilot Program.
  2. a. The authority shall establish a pilot program to aid former military personnel in finding employment in the construction industry. Notwithstanding the provisions...
• Section 27:23-53 - Conduct Of Pilot Program.
  3.The authority shall conduct the pilot program established pursuant to section 2 of this act for a period of 18 months from the effective...
• Section 27:23-54 - Evaluation Of Pilot Program, Report To Governor, Legislature.
  4.The authority shall evaluate the pilot program established pursuant to section 2 of this act to determine what impact, if any, the program had...
• Section 27:23-55 - Definitions.
  4.As used in sections 4 through 6 of P.L.2013, c.130 (C.27:23-55 through C.27:23-57): "Acknowledgement sign" means a sign that is intended to inform the...
• Section 27:23-56 - Establishment Of Sponsorship Program.
  5. a. There is established in the authority a sponsorship program to allow for private sponsorship of authority operational activities or other highway-related services...
• Section 27:23-57 - Rules Or Regulations.
  6.The authority shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules or regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• Section 27:23-58 - Public Telephone, Free Drinking Water Unnecessary For Participation In Service Sign Program Along Nj Turnpike, Garden State Parkway.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, and consistent with federal law, a facility shall not be...
• Section 27:25-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Public Transportation Act of 1979." L.1979, c. 150, s. 1, eff....
• Section 27:25-2 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  2.The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a. The provision of efficient, coordinated, safe and responsive public transportation is an essential public purpose which...
• Section 27:25-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: a."Corporation" means the New Jersey Transit Corporation. b."Motorbus regular route service" means and includes the operation of any motorbus...
• Section 27:25-4 - New Jersey Transit Corporation Established; Board; Powers.
  4. a. There is hereby established in the Executive Branch of the State Government the New Jersey Transit Corporation, a body corporate and politic...
• Section 27:25-5 - Powers And Duties Of Corporation.
  5.In addition to the powers and duties conferred upon it elsewhere in this act, the corporation may do all acts necessary and reasonably incident...
• Section 27:25-5a - Collapsible Bicycles Permitted On Njt Passenger Trains
  1. The provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, the New Jersey Transit Corporation shall not, at any time, prohibit...
• Section 27:25-5.1 - Railroad Passes For Retired Employees
  a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the governing board of the corporation shall allow a retired railroad employee, as defined...
• Section 27:25-5.2 - Certificates; Rules
  The governing board of the corporation shall issue a certificate in card form to those retired railroad employees determined to be eligible pursuant to...
• Section 27:25-5.3 - Restrictions
  The certificate shall be produced and shown on request of the conductor or person in charge of the train on which the retired railroad...
• Section 27:25-5.4 - Illegal Use
  Any retired railroad employee who is issued a certificate under section 2 of this act and who loans his certificate, and any person using...
• Section 27:25-5.5 - Confiscation Of Certificate
  The governing board of the corporation, through its agents, may take possession of any certificate presented by any person other than the retired railroad...
• Section 27:25-5.6 - Definitions Relative To Rail Passenger Service.
  1.As used in this act: "Authorized employee" means an employee of a provider of rail passenger service authorized by the provider of rail passenger...
• Section 27:25-5.7 - Payment For Service; Proof Of Payment.
  2.The use of a rail passenger service by a person shall constitute an agreement by the person to pay the prescribed fare for the...
• Section 27:25-5.8 - Violation.
  3.It shall be a violation of this act for any person to use or attempt to use a rail passenger service or enter a...
• Section 27:25-5.9 - Applicability To Juveniles.
  4.Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, this act shall apply to users of rail passenger services who are juveniles...
• Section 27:25-5.10 - Cooperation Of Passengers, Required; Violation.
  5.A person subject to the issuance of a complaint and summons under this act shall cooperate in the issuance of the complaint and summons...
• Section 27:25-5.11 - Form Of Complaint, Summons.
  6.A complaint and summons issued for a violation of the provisions of this act or any of the rules or regulations adopted by the...
• Section 27:25-5.12 - Fare Enforcement Officers.
  7. a. The executive director of the corporation shall have the power and authority to appoint such number of fare enforcement officers as the...
• Section 27:25-5.13 - Immunity Of Fare Enforcement Officers.
  8.An authorized employee or fare enforcement officer carrying out his duties pursuant to this act shall not be criminally or civilly liable for false...
• Section 27:25-5.14 - Rules, Regulations.
  9.The corporation shall adopt rules and regulations, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to effectuate the purposes...
• Section 27:25-5.15 - Complaint, Proceedings; Jurisdiction.
  10. A complaint for a violation of any of the provisions of this act may be filed with a court having jurisdiction, at any...
• Section 27:25-5.16 - Violation Of Act; Penalty; Distribution.
  11. A violation of the provisions of this act or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to this act by the corporation shall be...
• Section 27:25-5.17 - Rail Passes Not Affected.
  12. The provisions of this act shall not affect certificates issued pursuant to R.S.48:12-109 through R.S.48:12-116, inclusive, or any certificate or pass issued by...
• Section 27:25-5.18 - Use Of Wireless Telephone, Electronic Communication Devices By Operator Of Public Transportation Service Prohibited; Exceptions.
  1. a. The use of a wireless telephone or electronic communication device by an operator of a moving vehicle involved in the provision of...
• Section 27:25-5.19 - Provision Of Proof Of Travel For Certain Veterans.
  2.The New Jersey Transit Corporation shall cooperate with the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to provide receipts or other proof of travel to...
• Section 27:25-6 - Contracts With Public Or Private Entity
  a. The corporation may enter into contracts with any public or private entity to operate rail passenger service or portions or functions thereof. Where...
• Section 27:25-7 - Motorbus Charter Service; Continuation Of School Bus Services
  a. The corporation or any public or private entity under contract to the corporation operating regular route motorbus service may provide motorbus charter service...
• Section 27:25-8 - Corporation Not Public Utility, Authority Relative To Fares, Services; Notice, Public Hearing.
  8.a. The corporation or any subsidiary thereof shall not be considered a public utility as defined in R.S.48:2-13 and except with regard to subsection...
• Section 27:25-9 - Proceedings For Decrease In Service; Contract Payments As Available Revenue
  In any proceeding before the Department of Transportation for decreasing or abandoning service, any contract payments offered by the corporation for continuing service shall...
• Section 27:25-10 - Purchase And Improvement Of Capital Equipment And Facilities
  In order to conserve, improve, and promote public transportation service necessary for public use pursuant to the provisions of this act, the corporation may...
• Section 27:25-11 - Purchases, Contractors Or Agreements; Award; Advertisement For Bids; Exemptions; Bid Bond; Qualification Of Bidders.
  11. a. All purchases, contracts or agreements pursuant to this act shall be made or awarded directly by the corporation, except as otherwise provided...
• Section 27:25-12 - Affirmative Action Programs.
  a.The corporation shall formulate and abide by an affirmative-action program of equal opportunity whereby it will provide equal employment opportunity to rehabilitated offenders and...
• Section 27:25-13 - Power Of Acquisition By Purchase, Condemnation, Lease, Gift Or Otherwise; Exercise Of Power Of Condemnation
  a. The corporation shall have the power to acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease, gift or otherwise, on terms and conditions and in the manner...
• Section 27:25-14 - Employer-employee Relations
  a. As used in this section: "Employee" means: (1) An employee of the corporation, or (2) An employee of any public or private entity...
• Section 27:25-15 - Officers, Employees And Professional Consultants; Powers And Duties Of Corporation
  The corporation may appoint an executive director, directors of operating divisions and other such additional officers, all of whom need not be members of...
• Section 27:25-15.1 - New Jersey Transit Police Department; Duties, Appointments, Training
  2. a. There is established in the New Jersey Transit Corporation a New Jersey Transit Police Department, which shall be headed by a chief...
• Section 27:25-15.1a - Participation In Police And Firemen's Retirement System.
  2.The police officers of the New Jersey Transit Police Department who qualify for participation in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System in accordance with...
• Section 27:25-15.1b - Liability To New Jersey Transit For Training; Terms Defined.
  3. a. If a person who was appointed as a police officer of the New Jersey Transit Police Department pursuant to section 2 of...
• Section 27:25-15.1c - Applicability Of "45-day" Rule For Violation Of Internal Rules To Nj Transit Police Officers.
  3.A person shall not be removed from employment or a position as a police officer of the New Jersey Transit Police Department pursuant to...
• Section 27:25-15.2 - Executive Director Of New Jersey Transit; Duties
  8. The Executive Director of the New Jersey Transit Corporation shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of...
• Section 27:25-16 - Taxes And Assessments; Exemption; In Lieu Payments; Leases For Private Use
  The exercise of the powers granted by this act shall be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the State, and...
• Section 27:25-17 - Liability For Expenses Of Corporation
  All expenses incurred by the corporation in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be payable from funds available to the corporation therefor...
• Section 27:25-18 - Exemptions From Claims Of Creditors And Levy, Execution Or Attachment
  Real property and rolling stock owned or used by the corporation shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution or...
• Section 27:25-19 - Applicability Of Contractual Liability Act
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the "New Jersey Contractual Liability Act" (N.J.S. 59:13-1 et seq.) to the contrary, contract claims and suits against...
• Section 27:25-20 - Annual Reports; Public Records; Inspection; Annual Audit; Examination Of Accounts And Books By State Auditor.
  20. a. The corporation shall, by September 15 of each year, file with the Commissioner of Transportation a report in such format and detail...
• Section 27:25-21 - Purchases In Name Of Commuter Operating Agency, Its Predecessors Or Commissioner Of Transportation To Be Property Of Corporation
  All real or personal properties purchased heretofore for public transportation purposes in the name of Commuter Operating Agency, Department of Transportation, its predecessors or...
• Section 27:25-22 - Liberal Construction
  This act is intended to protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare, and shall be liberally construed to obtain the objectives and...
• Section 27:25-23 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person, circumstances, or the exercise of any power, or authority thereunder is...
• Section 27:25-24 - Reference To Commuter Operating Agency To Mean And Refer To New Jersey Transit Corporation
  Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, contract, document, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise, reference is made to the New Jersey Commuter Operating Agency,...
• Section 27:25-25 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Act." L.1983, c. 578, s. 1,...
• Section 27:25-26 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that many senior citizens and disabled residents in the State require assistance in meeting their need for available and...
• Section 27:25-27 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Corporation" means the New Jersey Transit Corporation. b. "Board" means Board of Directors of the New Jersey Transit...
• Section 27:25-28 - Senior Citizen And Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program; Purposes.
  4. a. The board shall establish and administer a program to be known as "The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program" for...
• Section 27:25-29 - Program Guidelines; Hearings; Report
  The corporation, in conjunction with the New Jersey Transit Special Services Citizen Advisory Committee, appropriate advisory committees of the corporation and with representatives or...
• Section 27:25-30 - Assistance; County Plan
  In order for a county to be eligible for assistance under this program, the governing body of that county or a group or groups...
• Section 27:25-31 - Allocation Of Moneys.
  7. a. Moneys under this program shall be allocated by the corporation in the following manner: (1)85% shall be available to be allocated to...
• Section 27:25-32 - Rules And Regulations; Assistance By Other Governmental Units; Public Hearings; Notice; Access
  a. The board shall promulgate, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 54:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as...
• Section 27:25-33 - Audit
  The board shall cause an annual audit to be made of this program and shall, if not conducted by the corporation, employ a recognized...
• Section 27:25-34 - Study; Insurance Pool For Transit Vehicles; Report
  The corporation shall prepare a comprehensive study designed to determine the feasibility of lowering insurance costs by means of the development of a Statewide...
• Section 27:25a-1 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "South Jersey Transportation Authority Act." L.1991,c.252,s.1.
• Section 27:25a-2 - Findings, Declarations.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.It is the public policy of this State to provide for the coordinated development and planning of the...
• Section 27:25a-3 - Definitions
  3. As used in this act: "Air passenger service" means any service which involves the carriage of persons for compensation or hire by aircraft....
• Section 27:25a-4 - "South Jersey Transportation Authority" Established
  4. There is established in the Department of Transportation a public body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as the "South...
• Section 27:25a-5 - Membership Of The Authority
  5. a. The authority shall consist of the Commissioner of Transportation who shall be an ex officio voting member, the Commissioner of Commerce, Energy...
• Section 27:25a-6 - Transfer Of Powers To Authority
  6. a. Until the transfer date, the authority shall not exercise any powers, rights or duties conferred by this act in any way which...
• Section 27:25a-7 - Powers Of Authority
  The authority shall have the following powers: a. To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; b....
• Section 27:25a-7.1 - Route 42 To Remain Toll-free
  2.Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the authority shall not fix, charge or collect tolls or other charges for the...
• Section 27:25a-8 - Purchases, Contracts, Agreements Awarded Directly By Authority; Public Bids; Exceptions.
  8. a. All purchases, contracts or agreements made pursuant to this act shall be made or awarded directly by the authority, except as otherwise...
• Section 27:25a-8.1 - Registration Of Towing Operators With South Jersey Transportation Authority.
  3. a. An operator awarded a contract for towing and storage services by the South Jersey Transportation Authority shall register with the authority. Upon...
• Section 27:25a-9 - "Airport Division" To Be Established
  9. a. Upon the acquisition or operation by the authority of a transportation project authorized in section 24 of this act or upon the...
• Section 27:25a-10 - Powers Of Authority Relative To Public Highways
  10. a. Subject to the limitations of this act, the authority shall have the power to construct traffic circles, interchanges and grade separation at...
• Section 27:25a-11 - Maintenance Of Completed Projects
  11. a. Each project when constructed and completed shall be maintained and kept in the condition and repair as the authority determines, or the...
• Section 27:25a-11.1 - Use Of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement By South Jersey Transportation Authority.
  4. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the South Jersey Transportation Authority shall permit for an expressway project under the...
• Section 27:25a-12 - Power Of Eminent Domain
  12. The exercise of the power of eminent domain and the compensation to be paid thereunder by the authority shall be in accordance with...
• Section 27:25a-13 - Authority Bonds, Notes
  13. a. The authority may from time to time issue its bonds or notes for any of its purposes under this act, including the...
• Section 27:25a-14 - Actions Of Authority Require Prior Approval Of State
  14. No resolution or other action of the authority providing for the issuance of bonds, notes, refunding bonds or other obligations or for the...
• Section 27:25a-15 - Powers Of Authority To Secure Payment Of Bonds, Notes
  15. In any resolution of the authority authorizing or relating to the issuance of any bonds or notes, the authority, in order to secure...
• Section 27:25a-16 - Pledges Of Authority Revenues Valid, Binding
  16. Any pledge of tolls, fares, charges or other revenues or other moneys made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the...
• Section 27:25a-17 - Members Of Authority Not Liable On Bonds, Notes
  17. Neither the members of the authority nor any person executing bonds or notes issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on...
• Section 27:25a-18 - Authority May Purchase Bonds, Notes Out Of Available Funds
  18. The authority shall have power to purchase bonds or notes of the authority out of any funds available therefor. The authority may hold,...
• Section 27:25a-19 - Authority May Collect Charges For Use Of Each Project
  19. a. The authority is authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect tolls, fares, passenger facility charges and other charges, including reduced fare or...
• Section 27:25a-20 - Authority May Increase Tolls, Fares Or Charges; Hearings
  20. The authority may increase any existing toll, fare or facility or other charge or establish any new toll, fare or charge for the...
• Section 27:25a-21 - Traffic Regulations; Violations, Penalties
  21. a. Except as otherwise provided in subsection a. of section 19 of this act, no vehicle shall be permitted to make use of...
• Section 27:25a-21.1 - Definitions Relative To Toll Collection Monitoring.
  11. As used in sections 11 through 15 of P.L.1997, c.59 (C.27:25A-21.1 through C.27:25A-21.5): "Authority" means the South Jersey Transportation Authority established by section...
• Section 27:25a-21.2 - Toll Collection Monitoring System Regulations.
  12. a. The authority may, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt toll collection monitoring system regulations. The...
• Section 27:25a-21.3 - Violations Of Toll Collection Monitoring System Regulations; Penalties.
  13. a. If a violation of the toll collection monitoring system regulations is committed as evidenced by a toll collection monitoring system, the authority...
• Section 27:25a-21.4 - Enforcement Power Of Authority Not Limited; Exception
  14. Nothing in sections 11 through 15 of P.L.1997, c.59 (C.27:25A-21.1 through C.27:25A-21.5) shall be construed as limiting the power of the authority as...
• Section 27:25a-21.5 - Power Of Authority Over Tolls Unchanged
  15. Nothing in sections 11 through 15 of P.L.1997, c.59 (C.27:25A-21.1 through C.27:25A-21.5) shall be construed as extending or diminishing the power of the...
• Section 27:25a-21.6 - Report Of Loss, Theft Of Electronic Vehicle Identification System Transponder; Limited Liability.
  4. a. A customer who has an account with a New Jersey electronic toll collection system, subject to sections 11 through 15 of P.L.1997,...
• Section 27:25a-22 - Provisions Of Plan For Motorbus Services
  22. a. If a plan is established under subsection q. of section 7 of this act for motorbus regular route and motorbus charter services,...
• Section 27:25a-23 - Authority To Own, Operate "Atlantic City Expressway" Project
  23. The authority, as successor to the New Jersey Expressway Authority, shall be the owner and operator of the project known as the "Atlantic...
• Section 27:25a-24 - "Atlantic City International Airport" Project Established
  24. a. There is established a transportation project, which shall consist of an airport and related facilities and activities. The airport, which shall be...
• Section 27:25a-25 - Authority To Own, Operate Transportation, Parking Facilities
  25. The authority, as the successor to the Atlantic County Transportation Authority, shall be the owner and operator of all transportation and parking facilities...
• Section 27:25a-26 - Authority May Make Regulations In Connection With Utility Works On Projects
  26. In addition to the other powers conferred by this act or by any other law and not in limitation thereof, the authority, in...
• Section 27:25a-27 - Consent Necessary For Takeover Of Existing Public Highway As Feeder Road
  27. Before taking over any existing public highway as a feeder road, the authority shall obtain the consent of any entities then exercising jurisdiction...
• Section 27:25a-28 - Real Property May Be Conveyed To Authority By Government Entity
  28. Any government entity, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, is authorized to lease, lend, grant or convey to the authority at its request...
• Section 27:25a-29 - County, Municipality May Cooperate With Authority In Projects
  29. For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the acquisition, construction, or operation of any project of the authority, any county or municipality...
• Section 27:25a-30 - Amount Of Departmental Costs, Expenses Certified To Authority
  30. If the department shall have incurred or paid any costs or expenses with respect to a project or with respect to preliminary studies...
• Section 27:25a-31 - Authority Property Exempt From Execution
  31. All property of the authority, except any property which is subjected to a lien to secure any bonds or notes issued by the...
• Section 27:25a-32 - Authority Projects Declared Public Property; Exemption From State Taxes
  32. All projects and other property of the authority are declared to be public property of an instrumentality of the State and devoted to...
• Section 27:25a-33 - Authority Deposits, Banking Transactions
  33. All banks, trust companies, savings banks, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business are each authorized to give to the...
• Section 27:25a-34 - Investment In Authority Bonds, Notes Permitted
  34. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the State and all public officers, municipalities, counties, political subdivisions and public bodies and agencies thereof,...
• Section 27:25a-35 - Submission Of Reports By Authority
  35. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this act or any other law, the authority shall submit to the Governor, the commissioner, the President of...
• Section 27:25a-36 - Financial, Management Audits
  36. a. The authority shall cause a financial audit of its books and accounts to be made at least once each year by certified...
• Section 27:25a-37 - Conflicts Of Interest, Penalty
  37. Any member, agent or employee of the authority who is interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract of another with the authority...
• Section 27:25a-38 - Regulations For Outdoor Advertising On Atlantic City Expressway
  38. The erection, use or maintenance of any structure for the display of outdoor advertising on the Atlantic City Expressway shall be consistent with...
• Section 27:25a-39 - State May Require Authority To Redeem, Pay Bonds Or Notes
  39. The State shall have the right, upon furnishing the authority with sufficient funds therefor, to require the authority to redeem, pay or cause...
• Section 27:25a-40 - Powers Limited Against State Property
  40. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize or empower the authority to: a. Vacate, close, connect with, adjust, relocate, cross or...
• Section 27:25a-41 - Authority May Enter Lands, Waters, Premises
  41. The authority and its authorized agents and employees may enter upon any lands, waters and premises other than State property for the purpose...
• Section 27:25a-42 - State Not To Limit, Alter Rights Or Powers Vested In Authority
  42. The State of New Jersey does hereby pledge to and covenant and agree with the holders of any bonds or notes issued by...
• Section 27:25a-43 - South Jersey Transportation Authority, Sales Of "Jersey Fresh," "Made With Jersey Fresh" Products At Service Areas Along The Atlantic City Expressway.
  2. a. The South Jersey Transportation Authority shall adopt, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968,...
• Section 27:25a-44 - Equipment Provided By South Jersey Transportation Authority.
  4.Subject to the rights and security interests of the holders from time to time of bonds or notes heretofore or hereafter issued by the...
• Section 27:25a-45 - Certain Roadway Markings Prohibited On Roads Under Jurisdiction Of South Jersey Transportation Authority; Rules, Regulations.
  4. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1991, c.252 (C.27:25A-1 et seq.) or any rule or regulation to the contrary, no markings made with paint...
• Section 27:25a-46 - Definitions.
  7.As used in sections 7 through 9 of P.L.2013, c.130 (C.27:25A-46 through C.27:25A-48): "Acknowledgement sign" means a sign that is intended to inform the...
• Section 27:25a-47 - Establishment Of Sponsorship Program.
  8. a. There is established in the authority a sponsorship program to allow for private sponsorship of authority operational activities or other highway-related services...
• Section 27:25a-48 - Rules Or Regulations.
  9.The authority shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules or regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• Section 27:25a-49 - Public Telephone, Free Drinking Water Unnecessary For Participation In Sign Program Along Atlantic City Expressway.
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, and consistent with federal law, a facility shall not be...
• Section 27:26-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Ridesharing Act of 1981." L.1981, c. 413, s. 1, eff. Jan....
• Section 27:26-2 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: New Jersey's transportation needs are being threatened by the growing energy shortage which this nation faces. In addition,...
• Section 27:26-3 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Ridesharing" means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle, with a maximum carrying capacity of not more...
• Section 27:26-4 - Employers; Immunity From Liability
  a. An employer shall not be liable for injuries or damages sustained by passengers and other persons resulting from the operation or use of...
• Section 27:26-5 - Compensation Of Employee For Travel Time
  An employee who participates in a ridesharing arrangement between his or her place of residence and place of employment, or termini near such places,...
• Section 27:26a-3 - Definitions Relative To Travel Demand Management
  3. As used in this amendatory and supplementary act: "Alternative means of commuting" means travel between a person's place of residence and place of...
• Section 27:26a-4 - Analysis Of Data, Development Of Strategy
  4. a. To the end that the problems of traffic congestion and its attendant economic, social and environmental costs and effects shall be dealt...
• Section 27:26a-4.1 - Submission Of Revision Of State Implementation Plan
  1. As authorized by Section 182(d)(1) of the Clean Air Act as amended by Pub.L.104-70, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall submit a revision...
• Section 27:26a-4.2 - Compliance With Clean Air Act; Rules, Regulations; Report
  2. In order to facilitate compliance with Section 182(d)(1) of the Clean Air Act as amended by Pub.L. 104-70, requiring that the State of...
• Section 27:26a-4.3 - Registration As Participant In Voluntary Employer Trip Reduction Program
  3. In order to certify to the Director of the Division of Taxation, in the Department of the Treasury, eligibility for the tax benefits...
• Section 27:26a-4.4 - Transfer Of Balances In "Travel Demand Management Program Account"
  4. All balances remaining in the "Travel Demand Management Program Account" created pursuant to section 9 of P.L.1992, c.32 (C.27:26A-9) are hereby transferred to...
• Section 27:26a-8 - Development Of Public Education Program
  8. The department, in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, Energy and Economic Development, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Department of Education,...
• Section 27:26a-15 - Tax Credit For Providing Commuter Transportation Benefits.
  1. a. An employer that is a taxpayer subject to the provisions of the Corporation Business Tax Act (1945), P.L.1945, c.162 (C.54:10A-1 et seq.),...
• Section 27:27-1 - "Monorail" Defined
  As used in P.L. 1983, c. 295 and this 1985 amendatory and supplementary act, "monorail" means any type of transportation system in which manned...
• Section 27:27-2 - Transportation Responsibility
  The Department of Transportation shall have exclusive responsibility for assisting in the development of monorail systems except where otherwise provided by law. The Commissioner...
• Section 27:27-3 - Functions, Powers, Duties
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the Commissioner of Transportation shall have the following functions, powers and duties: a. Approve or reject any proposed...
• Section 27:27-4 - Report To Commission
  Any authority or agency proposing a monorail project and not subject to approval pursuant to subsection a. of section 8 of this act shall...
• Section 27:27-5 - Rules, Regulations
  The Commissioner of Transportation shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) to...

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