Section 16145 - Joining with municipalities in improving certain streets and highways

(a) General rule.--The county commissioners may join with the governing body of a municipal corporation in the grading, regrading, paving, repaving and improvement of so much of the streets and highways as are in, upon or alongside of the grounds of a county building. (b) Contract with municipalities.--The county commissioners may enter into contract with a municipality to pay a fair proportion of the expense of grading, regrading, paving, repaving and improvement of the streets and highways and may appropriate from the county treasury sufficient money for this purpose. The county commissioners may act with any committee appointed by municipalities to establish grades, determine the kind and quality of paving materials to be used and ratify the contracts entered into by the municipalities in the course of the improvements. (c) Contract specifications.--The selection of grades, paving materials and proportion of expenses to be paid by the county shall be specified by a contract formulated under this section.