27:7-15 - Municipal streets as part of highway system; improvement by municipality - New Jersey Statutes

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 work which will place such streets and roads in a condition in keeping with the nature of the state highways approaching and leaving the municipality.

    A municipality may, when it deems it advisable, improve a part of a state highway lying within the municipality, such part lying outside the limits of the area of the highway improved or proposed to be improved by the commissioner  or by the county with the consent and approval or the commissioner.

    In either case the municipality shall proceed in the same manner as for the  making of a  "local"  or  "general"  improvement, as defined by section 40:56-1  of the title Municipalities and Counties, except that advertising for or  receiving bids for the making thereof shall not be required.