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N.Y. Highway Law § 226 Co-ordination of projects
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§ 226. Co-ordination of projects. So far as practicable, the town boards and town superintendents of adjoining towns, within the county, contemplating projects with the county superintendent, may confer by committees or their representatives, and may cooperate with a view to co-…
N.Y. Highway Law § 227 State aid to towns
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§ 227. State aid to towns. 1. a. To aid the towns in the improvement, repair or reconstruction of town highways pursuant to this article, the state, within the amount appropriated therefor, shall pay a fractional part of the actual cost of each approved project. The numerator of…
N.Y. Highway Law § 228 Payment of state aid
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§ 228. Payment of state aid. 1. The county superintendent shall notify the commissioner when work has been commenced on an approved project. As work progresses on a project according to approved plans and specifications, a town may request the state aid in relation thereto to be…
N.Y. Highway Law § 229 Financing of town's share of cost
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§ 229. Financing of town's share of cost. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, a town may appropriate and spend money to pay its share of the cost of an approved project. 2. Moneys for the town's share of the cost shall be raised by tax on taxable real property in…
N.Y. Highway Law § 229-A Federal aid
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§ 229-a. Federal aid. 1. If the federal government, through any federal law, makes an allotment of moneys or otherwise provides financial aid and assistance for approved projects, the commissioner is hereby authorized to accept such federal moneys, aid and assistance, to sign al…
N.Y. Highway Law § 229-B Disbursement of moneys; accounts and reports
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§ 229-b. Disbursement of moneys; accounts and reports. Moneys appropriated by a town and available for approved projects shall be disbursed by the town supervisor upon vouchers approved by the town superintendent, in the manner provided for the disbursement of town moneys under …
N.Y. Highway Law § 229-C Existing rights
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§ 229-c. Existing rights. The repeal of article eight-A of the highway law, as added by chapter three hundred fifteen of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability incurred prior to the time suc…
N.Y. Highway Law § 229-D Duration of article
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§ 229-d. Duration of article. This article and the provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect until April first, nineteen hundred eighty-two.
N.Y. Highway Law § 23 Rubber-modified asphalt pilot project
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* § 23. Rubber-modified asphalt pilot project. 1. The commissioner shall undertake in nineteen hundred eighty-eight, a pilot project for the utilization of rubber-modified asphalt in the construction or improvement of state highways. Such rubber-modified asphalt pilot project sh…
N.Y. Highway Law § 23*2 Coal combustion by-product demonstration project
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* § 23. Coal combustion by-product demonstration project. 1. The commissioner shall undertake in nineteen hundred eighty-eight, after consultation with and in cooperation with the commissioner of environmental conservation, a demonstration project utilizing coal combustion by-pr…
N.Y. Highway Law § 230 Definitions
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§ 230. Definitions. As used in this article the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Bridge" means a structure including supports erected over a depression or an obstruction such as water, highway, or railway, having a track or passageway for carrying traffic o…
N.Y. Highway Law § 231 Program of comprehensive bridge management and inspection
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§ 231. Program of comprehensive bridge management and inspection. 1. Program establishment. The commissioner is authorized and directed to establish, implement and exercise oversight of and over a program of comprehensive bridge management and inspection. Such program shall faci…
N.Y. Highway Law § 232 Uniform code of bridge inspection
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§ 232. Uniform code of bridge inspection. 1. Code development; rules and regulations. The commissioner shall, after public hearing, promulgate a uniform code of bridge inspection, hereinafter referred to as the "code", by rule and regulation which shall be known as the uniform c…
N.Y. Highway Law § 233 State bridges and culverts
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§ 233. State bridges and culverts. 1. The commissioner shall cause an inspection to be made of any state bridge or culvert which is reported to be unsafe for its posted loading by the regional director or the county superintendent or the town superintendent. If such bridge or cu…
N.Y. Highway Law § 234 Public authority, public benefit corporation, commission, county, town, city or village bridges
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§ 234. Public authority, public benefit corporation, commission, county, town, city or village bridges. 1. a. All public authorities, public benefit corporations, commissions, county superintendents of highways, town superintendents of highways, and legislative bodies of cities …
N.Y. Highway Law § 236 Program of railroad bridge inspection
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§ 236. Program of railroad bridge inspection. 1. Program establishment. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner is authorized and directed to establish, implement and exercise oversight over a program of railroad bridge inspection in conformi…
N.Y. Highway Law § 237 When town or county expense
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§ 237. When town or county expense. The towns of this state, except as otherwise herein provided, shall be liable to pay the expenses for the construction and repair of its public or free bridges constructed over streams or other waters within their bounds, and their just and eq…
N.Y. Highway Law § 238 Construction or improvement of bridge by county and town or towns
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§ 238. Construction or improvement of bridge by county and town or towns. The board of supervisors of a county may provide for the construction or improvement of a bridge in one or more towns of a county and at the joint expense of the county and town or towns as provided in thi…
N.Y. Highway Law § 239 Joint liabilities of towns and their joint contracts
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§ 239. Joint liabilities of towns and their joint contracts. Whenever any two or more towns shall be liable to make or maintain any bridge or bridges, the same shall be built and maintained at the joint expense of such towns, without reference to town lines, except where the boa…
N.Y. Highway Law § 240 Refusal to repair
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§ 240. Refusal to repair. If the town board of either of such towns, after notice in writing from the town board of any other of such towns, given by the town clerk thereof, shall not within twenty days give their consent in writing to build or repair any such bridge, and shall …
N.Y. Highway Law § 241 Proceedings in court
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§ 241. Proceedings in court. Whenever two or more adjoining towns which, under the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to make or maintain any bridge whether in the same or different counties, three freeholders in either of such towns may, by petition signed by them, appl…
N.Y. Highway Law § 242 Supervisor to institute proceedings
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§ 242. Supervisor to institute proceedings. The supervisor of any such town shall, when directed by the town board, institute and prosecute proceedings under this chapter, in the name of the town, to compel the town board of such adjoining town or towns to cause the town superin…
N.Y. Highway Law § 243 Duty of town superintendents
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§ 243. Duty of town superintendents. The order for building, rebuilding or repairing a bridge being made, and a copy thereof being served on the town superintendent of such adjoining towns respectively the town superintendents of such towns shall forthwith meet and cause such br…
N.Y. Highway Law § 244 Report of town superintendents, and levy of tax
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§ 244. Report of town superintendents, and levy of tax. The town superintendent of each town shall make a full and verified report of their proceedings in the premises including an accurate account of what has been done in respect to such bridge, and shall attach thereto a copy …
N.Y. Highway Law § 245 Appeals
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§ 245. Appeals. Either party aggrieved by the granting or refusing to grant such order by the court at special term, may appeal from such decision to the appellate division of the supreme court for the review of the decision. The appellate division may alter, modify or reverse t…
N.Y. Highway Law § 246 Power of court on appeal
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§ 246. Power of court on appeal. The special term may grant or refuse costs as upon a motion, including also witnesses' fees, referees' fees and disbursements. The appeal provided for in the last preceding section shall conform to the practice of the supreme court, in case of ap…
N.Y. Highway Law § 247 Refusal to repair bridges
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§ 247. Refusal to repair bridges. Whenever any such bridge shall have been or shall be so out of repair as to render it unsafe for travelers to pass over the same, or whenever any such bridge shall have fallen down, or been swept away by a freshet or otherwise, if the town super…
N.Y. Highway Law § 248 Resolution of board of supervisors for abolition of toll bridges
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§ 248. Resolution of board of supervisors for abolition of toll bridges. The board of supervisors of any county may, and upon the presentation of a petition signed by fifty per centum of the owners of real property and representing a majority of the assessed valuation of the tow…
N.Y. Highway Law § 249 Investigation by the department of transportation
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§ 249. Investigation by the department of transportation. The department of transportation shall upon the receipt of such resolution or concurrent resolution, investigate and determine whether the bridge so sought to be abolished is of sufficient public importance to come within…
N.Y. Highway Law § 250 Acquisition by attorney general
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§ 250. Acquisition by attorney general. Upon the receipt of such certification of approval the attorney general shall, in the name of the people of the state, acquire title to said toll bridge and its franchise rights in accordance with the provisions of the eminent domain proce…
N.Y. Highway Law § 251 Payment of expense of acquisition
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§ 251. Payment of expense of acquisition. One-half of the expense incurred in the condemnation and acquirement of said toll bridge shall be paid by the department of taxation and finance upon the warrant of the comptroller out of any specific appropriations made to carry on the …
N.Y. Highway Law § 252 Maintenance of bridge
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§ 252. Maintenance of bridge. When a toll bridge shall have been acquired by the state under the provisions of this article it shall be maintained as a free bridge and the expense thereof shall be a charge upon the town or towns or city or cities within which it is situated. Upo…
N.Y. Highway Law § 253 Use of toll bridge by public service corporations; conditions; powers of town board
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§ 253. Use of toll bridge by public service corporations; conditions; powers of town board. After a bridge shall be acquired by the state under the provisions of this article, the same shall not be used by any railroad, telephone, gas, electric light, heat or power company or an…
N.Y. Highway Law § 254 Acquisition of certain toll bridges at the expense of the state
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§ 254. Acquisition of certain toll bridges at the expense of the state. 1. If a toll bridge for the traffic of vehicles and foot passengers is located on a state highway or constitutes a connecting link between two state routes as described in section three hundred forty-one of …
N.Y. Highway Law § 255 Unsafe toll bridge
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§ 255. Unsafe toll bridge. Whenever complaint in writing on oath, shall be made to the town superintendent, of any town in which shall be in whole or in part any toll bridge belonging to any person or corporation, representing that such toll bridge has from any cause become and …
N.Y. Highway Law § 260 Payment of cost of state highway
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§ 260. Payment of cost of state highway. The entire expense of the construction or improvement of a state highway shall be paid by the department of taxation and finance upon the warrant of the comptroller issued upon the requisition of the department of transportation out of an…
N.Y. Highway Law § 261 Apportionment and source of funds
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§ 261. Apportionment and source of funds. Construction of highways under this chapter shall proceed equitably among counties as far as practicable, using as a basis the ratio that the unbuilt mileage in each county bears to the total unbuilt mileage in the state, as herein provi…
N.Y. Highway Law § 262 Appropriations by state for the maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of state highways and state owned bridges thereon
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§ 262. Appropriations by state for the maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of state highways and state owned bridges thereon. There shall be annually appropriated for the maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of improved state highways and state owned bridges thereon, an a…
N.Y. Highway Law § 263 Payment for construction in connection with railroad grade crossing eliminations
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§ 263. Payment for construction in connection with railroad grade crossing eliminations. In carrying out railroad grade crossing elimination work under the provisions of the railroad law and the grade crossing elimination act, if it becomes necessary, in the judgment of the comm…
N.Y. Highway Law § 264 Provision of funds by county or town
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§ 264. Provision of funds by county or town. Whenever the board of supervisors shall have, by resolution, appropriated and made immediately available to the requisition of the department of transportation an amount sufficient to pay its share of the cost of the construction or i…
N.Y. Highway Law § 265 Levy of tax upon county
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§ 265. Levy of tax upon county. Each supervisor shall present to the clerk of the board of supervisors, on or before November tenth, a statement specifying the amount paid during the preceding year ended on October thirty-first, for the construction, care, maintenance, preservat…
N.Y. Highway Law § 266 Payment for machinery, tools, equipment and implements
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§ 266. Payment for machinery, tools, equipment and implements. After the authorization of the purchase of machinery or equipment as prescribed in section one hundred forty-two, the town board may direct and authorize the supervisor to complete the purchase of such machinery or e…
N.Y. Highway Law § 269 Extraordinary repairs of highways and bridges
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§ 269. Extraordinary repairs of highways and bridges. If any highway or bridge or the board walk on any highway less than two rods in width, or a walk built to replace the same under section one hundred and fifty-one, shall at any time be damaged or destroyed by the elements or …
N.Y. Highway Law § 270 Audit of damages without action
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§ 270. Audit of damages without action. The town board of any town may audit as a town charge, in the same manner as other town charges are audited, any one claim not exceeding five hundred dollars, for damages to person or property, heretofore or hereafter sustained by reason o…
N.Y. Highway Law § 271 Limitations of amounts to be raised
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§ 271. Limitations of amounts to be raised. The amounts to be raised by tax upon the vote of a town board, as provided in this article, shall be subject to the following limitations: 1. The amount to be levied and collected in each year for the repair and improvement of highways…
N.Y. Highway Law § 272 Submission of propositions at town meetings
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§ 272. Submission of propositions at town meetings. A proposition to authorize the levy and collection of an amount greater than that specified in the preceding section for any of the purposes therein mentioned may be submitted upon the written application of twenty-five taxpaye…
N.Y. Highway Law § 274 Provision of funds for bridge and highway purposes
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§ 274. Provision of funds for bridge and highway purposes. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the provision by a town, pursuant to the local finance law, in whole or in part, of funds to be expended for the following purposes: 1. Constructing, buildi…
N.Y. Highway Law § 274-A Power of county, city or town to provide funds for snow removal
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§ 274-a. Power of county, city or town to provide funds for snow removal. The board of supervisors of any county, the governing board or body of any city, the town board of any town, or the board of trustees of any village may provide funds for snow removal purposes and for the …
N.Y. Highway Law § 277 Assessment of village property
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§ 277. Assessment of village property. In any town in which there may be an incorporated village, which forms a separate road district, and wherein the roads and streets are maintained at the expense of such village, all property within such village shall be exempt from the levy…
N.Y. Highway Law § 278 Statement by clerk of board of supervisors
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§ 278. Statement by clerk of board of supervisors. The clerk of the board of supervisors of each county shall, on or before the first day of January of each year, transmit to the state comptroller and the commissioner of transportation a statement, signed and verified by the cha…