NY Hwy L § 118-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws HAY - Highway Article 6 - County Roads 118-A - Abandoning of Parts of County Highways.

§ 118-a. Abandoning of parts of county highways. Whenever, pursuant to   this  act  or under the provisions of any statute, any county road shall   have  been  widened,  straightened,  extended,  drained,  paved   and/or   otherwise  improved  and  in  the  process  thereof  a county shall have   acquired from  an  adjacent  owner  certain  lands  necessary  for  said   right-of-way by purchase, condemnation or as a gift and where under such   circumstances  either the grantor of said new right-of-way shall own the   property on both sides thereof for the full length of the new taking  or   the  consent  in writing of any and all other owners within such area be   given, and there shall be sections of the old road as it existed  before   said  improvement  which  are  of no further use for highway purposes to   said county, the board of supervisors of said county in which said  land   is  situated,  upon  the  recommendation of the county superintendent of   highways, may abandon to the abutting owner or owners such  sections  or   parts of the old road as it existed before said improvement which are of   no  further  use  for  highway  purposes,  providing the road after such   abandonment shall not be less than three rods in width, and the chairman   of the board of supervisors of  said  county  is  hereby  authorized  to   execute  and acknowledge in the name of the county and affix the seal of   the county to a quit-claim deed or deeds of the land so abandoned and to   deliver the same to the abutting owner or owners for such  consideration   and  upon  such  terms and conditions as the board of supervisors of the   county shall deem proper.Whenever, pursuant to this chapter or  under  the  provisions  of  any   statute,  the  maintenance  of  any section of a highway by the state is   discontinued by official order or otherwise and the maintenance  thereof   transferred  to a county, and such section of such road is of no further   use for highway purposes to said county, the  board  of  supervisors  in   which  said  land  is  situated,  upon  the recommendation of the county   superintendent of highways, may adopt a resolution  to  abandon  to  the   abutting  owner  or  owners  of such section of such road which is of no   further use for highway purposes, and  the  chairman  of  the  board  of   supervisors   of  said  county  is  hereby  authorized  to  execute  and   acknowledge in the name of the county, and affix the seal of the  county   to  a quit claim deed or deeds of the lands so abandoned, and to deliver   the same to the abutting owner or owners for such consideration and upon   such terms and conditions as the board of  supervisors  of  said  county   shall deem proper.The  adoption of the hereinbefore mentioned resolution by the board of   supervisors shall be an immediate abandonment and discontinuance of  the   use for highway and street purposes of said sections or parts of the old   road   described  in  said  resolution  without  any  further  or  other   proceeding.Notwithstanding any other provisions of  law,  the  superintendent  of   highways,  with  the approval by resolution of the board of supervisors,   may establish parking areas on land which would ordinarily be  abandoned   by  the  highway  department,  due  to  new  right-of-ways, or widening,   straightening,  extending,  draining,  paving  or  otherwise   improving   highways.  The  superintendent  may  also  place upon said parking areas   suitable picnic tables and facilities for the traveling public. The area   so developed by the superintendent of highways shall be used for parking   and resting purposes primarily and shall not be developed for  or  as  a   public park.