40:56-48 - Contracts with county for road improvements;  assessments for benefits

40:56-48.  Contracts with county for road improvements;  assessments for benefits
    Whenever any municipality shall enter into a contract under any law with the  board of chosen freeholders of the county wherein such municipality is situated  for the permanent improvement and maintenance of any portion of any road within  such municipality, by which contract the said municipality undertakes or agrees  to pay any portion of the expense of the improvement, the municipality may  enact an ordinance, requiring and directing that the portion of the expense of  the improvement which it has contracted to pay shall be assessed upon any real  estate that may have been benefited by such improvement in the manner provided  by this chapter for the assessment, and shall be paid and collected in the  manner provided by this chapter for the payment and collection of assessments  levied for local improvements.