NY Hwy L § 131-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws HAY - Highway Article 6 - County Roads 131-F - Streets Outside Cities.

§  131-f.  Streets  outside  cities.  When  any  territory in a county   containing an incorporated city of one hundred thousand  inhabitants  or   upward,  lying  outside  the  limits  of such city, has been mapped into   streets and avenues pursuant  to  law,  the  board  of  supervisors  may   authorize  the establishment of a plan for the grade of such streets and   avenues; the alteration of such plan of grades, or of any  plan  thereof   that  shall  have  been  established  by  law;  the laying out, opening,   grading, constructing, closing and change of line or width, of  any  one   or  more of them, and provide for the assessment on property intended to   be benefited thereby, and fixing assessment districts therefor, and  for   the  levy, collection and payment of the amount of damages sustained and   the charges and expenses incurred, or which may be necessary to incur in   carrying out such provisions;  the  laying  out  of  new  or  additional   streets  and  avenues  upon  the  established  map  or plan thereof, the   acceptance  by  town  officers  of  conveyances  of  lands,  for  public   highways,  the  naming and changing of names of streets and avenues laid   down on said map or plan, and the numbering or renumbering of houses and   building lots fronting on such streets and avenues. But such last  named   power  in  regard  to  the  alteration  of said map or plan, laying out,   opening, grading, constructing, closing and  change  of  line,  of  such   streets or avenues, or the numbering or naming thereof, or defraying the   expenses  thereof,  shall  only  be  exercised  on  the  petition of the   property owners, who own more than one-half of the frontage on any  such   street   or   avenue,  or  on  a  certificate  of  the  town  board  and   commissioners of highways of the  town,  that  the  same  is,  in  their   judgment,  proper  and necessary for the public interest. If the streets   and avenues in respect to which such action is  proposed  to  be  taken,   shall  lie in two or more towns, a like certificate shall be required of   the town board and commissioners of highways,  of  each  town.    Before   making such certificate, such town board, or boards and commissioners of   highways, shall give ten days' notice by publication in one of the daily   papers  of the county, and by conspicuously posting in six public places   in each of such towns, of the time and place at which they will meet  to   consider  the  same,  at  which  meeting  the  public,  and  all persons   interested, may appear and be heard in relation thereto.  No such street   or avenue shall be laid out, opened or constructed, upon or  across  any   lands acquired by the right of eminent domain, and held in fee for depot   purposes  by  any  railroad corporation, or upon or across any lands now   held by a corporation formed for the purpose of improving the  breed  of   horses, without the consent of such corporations.  No town officer shall   charge  anything  for  his  services  under  this section, nor shall any   charge be made against any such town or the property  therein,  for  the   expense of the publication of the notice herein required.