27:7-18 - Powers of commissioner over state highways; exceptions in certain cities - New Jersey Statutes

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 addition to those conferred by this title, all the rights and  powers, not incompatible with his functions nor prohibited by law, exercised by  overseers of roads and boards of chosen freeholders in road construction,  repair and maintenance, except that when a state highway shall run through a  city having a population of seventy-five thousand or more, over streets or  roads formerly under the jurisdiction of the city, the city shall retain in  those streets or roads all its former jurisdiction and rights as to the  construction and regulation of the use of all water, sewer, gas and other subsoil conduits and structures.