New Jersey § acts:saved-27 - (30)

§ acts:saved-27. (30)

2. That whenever any owner or owners of any premises or property fronting on said public

road shall deem it necessary and require that such sewer or sewer connection or branch

sewer beneath the surface of said public road shall be constructed or made, in order

that such premises may obtain and have house drainage or sewerage as aforesaid, such

owner or owners shall, in writing, petition the proper municipal body for the construction

of said sewer or sewer connection, which shall be done in the same manner, or as near

thereto as practicable, as any property owner having property fronting on any other

street in such municipality may lawfully petition for and obtain the construction

of a sewer or sewers therein, and all the proceedings and steps as to petition, contract

for the making or construction of such last-mentioned sewer or sewer connection, and

other things necessary, as well as the assessment for or cost of and collection of

the same, shall be done and provided for in the same way, or as near thereto as may

be, to that provided, by law, in and for said municipality, for the petition and other

things requisite to be done or followed relative to and necessary for the making,

construction and defraying of the expense of the sewers or sewer system or connections

last referred to; and the body having control by law of the making or construction

of sewers in such municipality shall notify the board of chosen freeholders of the

said county in writing ten days previous to the time designated for the breaking or

the opening of the surface of said new public road for the construction of such sewer

or sewer connections, and said sewer or sewer connection shall be constructed to the

satisfaction of the said board of chosen freeholders, and in accordance with the said

plans for said sewers in or connected with said public road, and the work in and about

the construction or making of such sewer or sewer connections shall not be deemed

finally accepted by such municipality until the said engineer or officer in charge

of the public road as aforesaid shall have examined the same and reported to said

board that the work is satisfactorily executed, and said report shall have been approved

by such board of freeholders and notice thereof shall be filed in the office of the

clerk of such municipality or the governing body of such municipality; the word sewer

as mentioned in this act shall be taken to include all necessary receiving basins,

connections and manholes such as are usually made appurtenant to a properly constructed

sewer and sewer outlet.