Section 2702 - Establishing county roads(a) For the purpose of providing public roads, specially constructed, improved and maintained, the county commissioners may: (1) Lay and open any road.(2) Take possession of and exercise control over any existing municipal road or part thereof, or any road decreed by a court to be a county road.(3) Build and maintain roads as county roads within the county limits.(4) Straighten, widen, extend and alter any county road or part thereof laid out, opened or acquired, and vacate so much thereof as may become unnecessary and useless.(b) Any road taken over or improved shall thereupon become a county road and be subject to the control and supervision of the county commissioners. It shall be the duty of the county to keep and maintain county roads established under this act and all other county roads in repair, the expense thereof to be paid by the county in the manner hereinafter provided. Amended by P.L. TBD 2018 No. 154, § 115, eff. 12/24/2018.1955, Aug. 9, P.L. 323, § 2702.