§ 48:5-9 — Joint agreement of bridge companies for constructing and operating bridge

Whenever two or more bridge companies are authorized by any lawful authority to build and maintain bridges over or across navigable waters separating this state from another state and the lines of the bridges may or can embrace the same location or line or their locations or lines may or can connect or become tributary to each other, such companies may enter into an agreement for the joint or several building, maintenance or operation of the whole or any part of the bridges together with all proper connections and appurtenances and approaches thereto and stations.