46:11-1 - Right of entry to make surveys in certain proceedings - New Jersey Statutes

46:11-1.  Right of entry to make surveys in certain proceedings
    In any proceeding to lay out, alter, vacate or open a public road or street,  or to determine which of the proprietors or possessors of the lands adjacent to  any highway have narrowed or encroached on the same, and in any proceeding  under the act entitled  "An act to enable the owners of swamp or meadow ground  to drain the same, and to repeal a law heretofore made for that purpose,"  approved November twenty-fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and  the several supplements thereto, and in any other proceeding touching a public  improvement, any practical surveyor, with the necessary assistants, employed by  any person interested in any of such proceedings, may enter on the lands  adjacent to such highways or streets, or the lands to be drained under the  provisions of said act, or other lands, for the purpose of making necessary  surveys, doing as little damage as possible to the owner or owners of such  lands.