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N.Y. Highway Law § 182 Costs; by whom paid
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§ 182. Costs; by whom paid. In all cases of assessments of damages by supreme court, the costs thereof shall be paid by the town thereof, except that when reassessment of damages shall be had on the application of the party for whom the damages were assessed, and such damages sh…
N.Y. Highway Law § 184 When officers of different towns disagree about highway
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§ 184. When officers of different towns disagree about highway. When the town superintendent of any town or officers of any village or city having the powers of town superintendents shall differ with the town superintendent or superintendents of any other town or with the office…
N.Y. Highway Law § 185 Difference about improvements
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§ 185. Difference about improvements. When the town superintendent or the officers of a village or city having the powers of town superintendents therein, shall desire to make a new or altered highway extending beyond the bounds of such town, village or city, a better highway th…
N.Y. Highway Law § 186 Highway in two or more towns
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§ 186. Highway in two or more towns. When application is made to lay out, alter or discontinue a highway located in two or more towns, all notices or proceedings required to be served upon the town superintendents shall be served upon the town superintendent of each town; and th…
N.Y. Highway Law § 187 Laying out, dividing and maintaining highway upon town line, or wholly in one town but adjacent to another town
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§ 187. Laying out, dividing and maintaining highway upon town line, or wholly in one town but adjacent to another town. An application to lay out a highway upon the line between two or more towns, or wholly in one town but adjacent to another town, shall be made to the town supe…
N.Y. Highway Law § 188 Final determination, how carried out
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§ 188. Final determination, how carried out. The final determination of the supreme court relating to laying out, altering or discontinuing a highway, and all orders and other papers filed or entered in the proceedings, or certified copies thereof from the court where such deter…
N.Y. Highway Law § 189 Highways by use
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§ 189. Highways by use. All lands which shall have been used by the public as a highway for the period of ten years or more, shall be a highway, with the same force and effect as if it had been duly laid out and recorded as a highway, and the town superintendent shall open all s…
N.Y. Highway Law § 19 Planting trees and shrubs along state highways
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§ 19. Planting trees and shrubs along state highways. The commissioner of transportation, in his discretion, may plant rows or groups of suitable trees along the bounds of existing state highways at such places as he may determine and may also plant on the banks of such cuts and…
N.Y. Highway Law § 19-A Pollinator friendly plant species; medians
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§ 19-a. Pollinator friendly plant species; medians. 1. The commissioner shall, in cooperation with the department of environmental conservation, develop policies and procedures to encourage the use of native plant species that are pollinator friendly in medians along highways un…
N.Y. Highway Law § 190 Fences to be removed
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§ 190. Fences to be removed. Whenever a highway shall have been laid out through any inclosed, cultivated or improved lands, in conformity to the provisions of this chapter, the town superintendent shall give to the owner or occupant of the land through which such highway shall …
N.Y. Highway Law § 191 Highways or roads along division lines
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§ 191. Highways or roads along division lines. Whenever a highway or private road shall be laid along the division line between lands of two or more persons, and wholly upon one side of the line, and the land upon both sides is cultivated or improved, the persons owning or occup…
N.Y. Highway Law § 192 Adjournments
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§ 192. Adjournments. If any accident shall prevent any of the proceedings required by this chapter relating to the laying out, altering or discontinuing of a highway, or the laying out of a private road, to be done on the day assigned, the proceedings may be adjourned to some ot…
N.Y. Highway Law § 193 Contracts for the construction of town highways
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§ 193. Contracts for the construction of town highways. The town board of any town may provide that the construction of new highways and bridges, or the permanent improvement or reconstruction of existing highways and bridges or repairing, rebuilding or replacing walks on highwa…
N.Y. Highway Law § 194 Construction or improvement of town highways by county and town
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§ 194. Construction or improvement of town highways by county and town. 1. The board of supervisors of a county may provide for the construction or improvement under this section of a town highway or section thereof in one or more towns of the county or of a highway laid out alo…
N.Y. Highway Law § 195 County aid for construction, improvement and maintenance of town highways
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§ 195. County aid for construction, improvement and maintenance of town highways. 1. The board of supervisors of a county may aid a town or towns in the construction or improvement of a town highway or town highways therein, and shall designate the highway or highways which the …
N.Y. Highway Law § 196 County aid for connecting highway through villages
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§ 196. County aid for connecting highway through villages. The board of supervisors of a county may, upon the petition of the board of trustees of an incorporated village, provide for the construction or improvement of a highway or section thereof, through such village, at the j…
N.Y. Highway Law § 197 Damages for change of grade
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§ 197. Damages for change of grade. In any town in which a town highway shall be repaired, graded and macadamized from curb to curb by the authorities of the town the owner or owners of the land adjacent to the said highway shall be entitled to recover from the town the damages …
N.Y. Highway Law § 198 Interest on damages for change of grade
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§ 198. Interest on damages for change of grade. Whenever awards shall\nbe lawfully made, pursuant to any statute of this state, for damages\nsustained by real estate or any improvements thereon by reason of any\nchange of grade of any street, avenue or road in front thereof, the…
N.Y. Highway Law § 199 Widening highways; petition
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§ 199. Widening highways; petition. When any part of a highway in any town of this state, not in an incorporated village or city, running between two or more villages or cities, has, because of the wearing away by a river or stream or any other natural cause, become narrower tha…
N.Y. Highway Law § 2 Definitions
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§ 2. Definitions. 1. When used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires, the terms "state department of transportation," "state transportation department," "department of transportation," "transportation department," "department," "state commissio…
N.Y. Highway Law § 20 Roadside rest areas
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§ 20. Roadside rest areas. 1. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire roadside sites along state highways and to develop roadside rest areas. The commissioner may utilize for this purpose suitable lands already owned by the state, except …
N.Y. Highway Law § 203 Widening, how constructed
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§ 203. Widening, how constructed. The town superintendent shall construct such widening of the highway according to plans and specifications adopted by the county superintendent and approved by the town board of his town. The bills and expenses incurred in such work shall be aud…
N.Y. Highway Law § 204 Actions to compel widening; how affected by petition
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§ 204. Actions to compel widening; how affected by petition. In case an action might lie in any court of this state against the town superintendent of any town or towns to compel such superintendent to widen a part of a highway, the width of which has become less than that requi…
N.Y. Highway Law § 205 Highways abandoned
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§ 205. Highways abandoned. 1. Every highway that shall not have been opened and worked within six years from the time it shall have been dedicated to the use of the public, or laid out, shall cease to be a highway; but the period during which any action or proceeding shall have …
N.Y. Highway Law § 205-A Seasonal limited use highway
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§ 205-a. Seasonal limited use highway. 1. The town highway superintendent is authorized to annually designate, on or before the first day of November in each year, a town highway as a seasonal limited use highway. 2. Seasonal limited use highways shall be those town highways wit…
N.Y. Highway Law § 205-B Qualified abandonment of certain town highways
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§ 205-b. Qualified abandonment of certain town highways. 1. Abandonment of town highways which are access roads to state forest preserve lands or lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the state and held under the jurisdiction of the department of environmental conservation sh…
N.Y. Highway Law § 205-C Minimum maintenance roads
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* § 205-c. Minimum maintenance roads. 1. a. The town board of any designated town may, after a public hearing, adopt a local law designating any low-volume road or portion thereof providing agricultural or recreational land access, except for farm access roads or roads that prov…
N.Y. Highway Law § 206 Highways in lands acquired by the United States for fortification purposes deemed abandoned
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§ 206. Highways in lands acquired by the United States for fortification purposes deemed abandoned. When land sought to be acquired by the United States of America for the purpose of fortifications includes a highway or portion thereof, the condemnation proceedings may include s…
N.Y. Highway Law § 207 Discontinuance of highway
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§ 207. Discontinuance of highway. Whenever the town superintendent of any town shall determine that any portion of any highway or street, not within the limits of an incorporated village, which is the terminus of such street or highway, is unnecessary for highway purposes, and s…
N.Y. Highway Law § 208 Description to be recorded
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§ 208. Description to be recorded. Immediately upon making and entering the order mentioned in section two hundred and seven of this chapter, the said town superintendent shall cause a written description of that portion of the street or highway ordered to be discontinued to be …
N.Y. Highway Law § 209 Damages caused by discontinuance
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§ 209. Damages caused by discontinuance. Any person or corporation interested as owner or otherwise, in any lands and claiming any loss or damages, legal or equitable, by reason of the discontinuance, abandonment or closing of any street or highway, not within the limits of an i…
N.Y. Highway Law § 21 Restoration, preservation and enhancement of natural or scenic beauty
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§ 21. Restoration, preservation and enhancement of natural or scenic beauty. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire property for the restoration, preservation and enhancement of natural or scenic beauty of areas traversed by state highwa…
N.Y. Highway Law § 210 Papers, where filed
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§ 210. Papers, where filed. All applications, certificates, appointments and other papers relating to the laying out, altering or discontinuing of any highway shall be filed by the town superintendent as soon as a decision shall have been made thereon in the town clerk's office …
N.Y. Highway Law § 211 Costs of motion
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§ 211. Costs of motion. Costs of a motion to confirm, vacate or modify the report of commissioners of appraisal appointed by the court to lay out, alter or discontinue a highway may be allowed in the discretion of the court not exceeding fifty dollars. On an uncontested motion t…
N.Y. Highway Law § 211-A Abandonment of certain town highways
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§ 211-a. Abandonment of certain town highways. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and upon the request of the county superintendent of highways, any town board may, by resolution duly adopted, declare any town highway or portion thereof in the town running thro…
N.Y. Highway Law § 211-B Abandonment of certain town highways in school districts
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§ 211-b. Abandonment of certain town highways in school districts. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and upon the request of either the county superintendent of highways or the town superintendent of highways, any town board may, by resolution duly adopted, de…
N.Y. Highway Law § 212 Changing location of highways over certain lands owned and occupied by the state
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§ 212. Changing location of highways over certain lands owned and occupied by the state. If a highway passes over or through lands wholly owned and occupied by the state, the location of such portion of such highway as passes through such lands may be altered and changed, or the…
N.Y. Highway Law § 212-A Abandoning of parts of town highways
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§ 212-a. Abandoning of parts of town highways. Whenever, pursuant to this chapter or under the provisions of any statute, any town road shall have been widened, straightened, extended, drained, paved or otherwise improved and in the process thereof a town shall have acquired fro…
N.Y. Highway Law § 213 Construction and repair of approaches to private lands
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§ 213. Construction and repair of approaches to private lands. The owners or occupants of lands shall construct and keep in repair all approaches or driveways from the town highway, under the direction of the town superintendent, and it shall be unlawful for such owner or occupa…
N.Y. Highway Law § 214 Depositing ashes, snow, ice, stones, sticks, et cetera upon the highway
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§ 214. Depositing ashes, snow, ice, stones, sticks, et cetera upon the highway. Any person who shall deposit or throw loose stones in the gutter or grass adjoining a town highway, or shall deposit or throw upon a highway, ashes, papers, snow, ice, stones, sticks, or other rubbis…
N.Y. Highway Law § 216 When town not liable for damages
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§ 216. When town not liable for damages. No town shall be liable for any damage resulting to persons or property by the reason of the breaking of any bridge, sluice or culvert, by transportation on the same of any traction engine, portable piece of machinery, or of any vehicle o…
N.Y. Highway Law § 218 Storm water sewers in town highways
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§ 218. Storm water sewers in town highways. 1. Storm water laterals, petition for improvement. The town board may, in any town where an outlet drain or sewer has been or is to be constructed in any public highway, construct one or more storm water drains or sewers in one or more…
N.Y. Highway Law § 219 Definitions
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§ 219. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Town highway" shall mean highways constructed, improved or maintained by the town with the aid of the state or county, under the provisions of the highway law, including all highways in towns, outside of incorporated villages cons…
N.Y. Highway Law § 22 Multi-use areas adjacent to and recreational, natural and scenic areas along state highways
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§ 22. Multi-use areas adjacent to and recreational, natural and scenic areas along state highways. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire property in order to provide multi-use areas adjacent to state highways and recreational, natural a…
N.Y. Highway Law § 220 Improvement of town highways; submission of plan
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§ 220. Improvement of town highways; submission of plan. 1. The town board of any town may, upon its own determination, or upon recommendation of the town superintendent, elect to improve, repair or reconstruct any portion or portions of its town highways which are part of the t…
N.Y. Highway Law § 221 Compilation of approved plans; estimated costs
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§ 221. Compilation of approved plans; estimated costs. Not later than the twenty-eighth day of February each year, the commissioner shall compile all approved plans and estimate the probable cost of each approved project, the probable amount of state aid to be allocated to each …
N.Y. Highway Law § 222 Specifications
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§ 222. Specifications. 1. It is the intent of this article that the improvement, repair or reconstruction of such town highways, including necessary grade and culvert work and any plans and specifications thereof, shall conform generally to the following minimum specifications, …
N.Y. Highway Law § 223 Surfacing of town highways
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§ 223. Surfacing of town highways. 1. Plans for surfacing town highways may be adopted and filed and otherwise follow the procedure provided in section two hundred twenty of this article for plans for the improvement, repair or reconstruction of town highways. 2. The provisions …
N.Y. Highway Law § 224 Bridges
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§ 224. Bridges. Neither in the improvement, repair or reconstruction of town highways, nor in the surfacing thereof, pursuant to this article, shall the continuity of the roadbed be interrupted by bridge structures which are not at least four feet wider than such roadbed, but no…
N.Y. Highway Law § 225 Performance of work
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§ 225. Performance of work. 1. All work on an approved project shall be under the immediate control and direct supervision of the town superintendent, subject to inspection by the commissioner and the county superintendent. Such work or any part thereof may be consummated (a) by…