2009 New Jersey Code
TITLE 27 - HIGHWAYS
Section 27:7
27:7-6 - Route becomes state highway;  exception

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 thereof shall be at the expense of the state, under the jurisdiction  of the commissioner, but when the determination of the commissioner or any  amendment thereof made before the work on such portion of a state highway has  been begun, shall contain a provision that certain indicated portions of a  state highway to a length thereof in any particular location not exceeding five  miles are subject to change of route at any time thereafter, which change is  hereby limited to five years from the completion of such highway in its  entirety as originally laid out, the certain indicated portion or portions  thereof shall not become permanently dedicated as a part of the route of such  state highway, but the commissioner may, in that case, alter the route and lay  out the new part of the route as he may indicate, as he might have done in the  first instance. The vacated portion of the highway to the extent limited  herein may then be either vacated or abandoned and may be taken over by the  board of chosen freeholders of the county and maintained as a county road as is  otherwise provided by law.