27:15-19. Unused moneys appropriated for road and street maintenance; use for improvements Where moneys were, prior to the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, appropriated by law for the maintenance of city, town, township, borough and village roads and streets, and any part of such moneys remains reserved, unused, and unobligated, and local conditions indicate that it would be more economical and advantageous to use these funds for new construction, reconstruction, betterment or improvement of said roads and streets, the State Highway Commissioner, upon application of the municipality, may permit the use of such remaining funds for the aforesaid purposes. L.1948, c. 124, p. 842, s. 1.
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