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27:14-21.  Certain roads chargeable to county;  sidewalks and drains; maintenance
    After the approval by the commissioner of a contract under this article for  the improvement of a road, the road shall thereafter be a county road.

    Any road improved under the provisions of any previous act entitled  "An act  to provide for the permanent improvement of public roads in this state" and  any road accepted by the board of chosen freeholders under the provisions of an  act entitled  "An act to enable boards of chosen freeholders to accept as  county roads, roads or sections of roads, in townships, which have been or shall hereafter be permanently improved without state or county aid," approved  March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and four (L.1904, c. 114, p.  240), or an act entitled  "An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders  of any county in this state to acquire, improve and maintain roads lying within  the corporate limits of any town, borough, township or village,"  approved  April eighth, one thousand nine hundred and ten (L.1910, c. 121, p. 202), shall  be county roads and the duty of keeping them in repair shall devolve  exclusively upon the board of chosen freeholders and the county road  supervisor, hereinafter provided for, and all other powers and duties respecting such roads shall be imposed upon and vested in the board of chosen freeholders to the exclusion of all municipal officers.

    No power conferred on any of said governing bodies shall in any way divest the board of chosen freeholders of its right to construct across or under the sidewalks the necessary culverts or other provisions for the maintenance of such county roads.

    If any such road shall become out of repair, and shall not be repaired within sixty days after notice in writing so to do, given by the commissioner to the board of chosen freeholders, or to its director, the commissioner shall certify such neglect or refusal to the state comptroller, who shall withhold payment to the county of any moneys already apportioned, or that may thereafter  be apportioned, to the county by the state, and no payment shall be made to the  county until the commissioner shall certify to the state comptroller that the  road has been placed in a good state of repair.