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2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 115 - Preparation of Map Showing Proposed County Road System.

§  115.  Preparation  of  map showing proposed county road system. The
  county superintendent of highways of each county  shall  prepare  a  map
  showing  a proposed county road system for such county to be constructed
  with moneys from the county road fund, such  system  not  to  include  a
  state  highway,  except  that a designated state highway not under state
  maintenance may be included in such system and be improved by a  county.
  This  map  must  be  approved by the board of supervisors of such county
  before it becomes effective; and when so approved it shall be  filed  in
  the  office  of  the county clerk and county superintendent. An existing
  map of a county road system, however, may be approved by  the  board  of
  supervisors and, when approved by such superintendent, such action shall
  be deemed a compliance with this article, when the map is filed as above
  provided.    Thereafter,  except  as  otherwise  provided by section one
  hundred  fourteen  of  this  chapter,  no  road  shall  be  constructed,
  reconstructed or maintained with any such county road fund moneys except
  the  road set forth on such map, excepting, however, and notwithstanding
  any of the provisions of this article, any highway enumerated in section
  three hundred forty-one of this chapter that  has  been  constructed  or
  improved  under  section  one hundred and ninety-four or one hundred and
  ninety-five,  or  under  the  general  or  special  law  governing   the
  construction  or  improvement  of highways, that has been constructed or
  improved as a state highway, may be maintained  from  such  county  road
  fund  moneys.    Amendments to such map may from time to time be made by
  such county superintendent and if approved by such board of  supervisors
  shall   be   filed  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk  and  county
  superintendent.  Construction in accordance with such map shall, subject
  to the provisions of this chapter, proceed in such manner that any money
  in the county road fund used in any one year shall be used so far as  is
  practicable  to build or finish complete road units or projects as shown
  on such map within such year and not to  construct  parts  of  units  or
  projects divided from each other.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 115-A - Abandonment of Unused Portions of Town Highways on County Road System.

§  115-a.  Abandonment  of  unused portions of town highways on county
  road system. Whenever a county road or part thereof constructed as  part
  of  the  county  road  system deviates from the line of an existing town
  highway, or from the line of a former town highway within the limits  of
  an  incorporated village, as shown on the map of the county road system,
  the  board  of  supervisors  by  resolution  duly   adopted   upon   the
  recommendation of the county superintendent of highways, and pursuant to
  a written agreement with the town board or village board of trustees, or
  in  the  event  such an agreement cannot be reached with the approval of
  the commissioner of transportation, may  abandon  to  the  town  or  the
  incorporated  village  as  the  case may be for future maintenance, that
  part of the town highway or former town highway within the limits of  an
  incorporated  village not improved and modify the map of the county road
  system accordingly. The portion of  any  town  highway  or  former  town
  highway  within  the limits of an incorporated village excluded from the
  county road system shall be maintained by the town or village  in  which
  it is located.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 115-B - Removal of Road or Part of Road From County Road System.

§ 115-b. Removal of road or part of road from county road system. Upon
  the recommendation of the county superintendent of highways and pursuant
  to  a  written  agreement  with the governing body of a town, village or
  city, or in the event such an  agreement  cannot  be  reached  with  the
  approval of the commissioner of transportation, the board of supervisors
  of  any  county may remove a road or part of a road from the county road
  system and upon adoption of the resolution therefor  by  the  board  the
  county  map, referred to in section one hundred fifteen of this chapter,
  shall be amended as provided for in said section so as to eliminate said
  road or part of said road from said map and said road or  part  of  said
  road  shall  thereupon revert to the town or towns or village or city or
  cities wherein said road or part of said road is situated and thereafter
  shall be maintained by said town or towns or village or city  or  cities
  in  the  same manner as other town highways and village streets and city
  streets are maintained.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 115-C - Notice to Municipalities Where County Roads Are Abandoned or Revert to Such Municipalities.

§  115-c. Notice to municipalities where county roads are abandoned or
  revert to such municipalities. Whenever a county road  is  abandoned  or
  reverts  to  a  city,  town  or  village  pursuant  to the provisions of
  sections one  hundred  fifteen-a  and  one  hundred  fifteen-b  of  this
  chapter,  thirty  days before such abandonment or reverter is effective,
  the board of supervisors or county legislature  must  give  notice  that
  such  abandonment  or  reverter  is  to  take place to the clerk and the
  mayor, supervisors or other chief executive  officer  of  each  of  such
  municipalities within which all or part of such road is situated.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 116 - Statement and Approval of Proposed Work.

§ 116. Statement and approval of proposed work. Before any county road
  fund  moneys  are  spent or obligated in any one year under article six,
  except as otherwise provided in this section, the county  superintendent
  of  highways shall prepare a statement of the roads on such map proposed
  to be constructed or reconstructed during such year. This statement must
  be approved by the board of supervisors of such county  and  shall  show
  the  location  of  the  proposed road, the total mileage thereof and the
  mileage of the portion to be constructed or reconstructed in such  year,
  the  estimated  cost  of  such  construction  or  reconstruction, width,
  thickness and type.   Such statement shall be  made  in  triplicate  and
  after final approval as hereinbefore specified one copy thereof shall be
  filed  in  the  office of the board of supervisors of the county, one in
  the office of the county superintendent  of  highways  and  one  in  the
  office  of  the  county  treasurer.    Upon recommendation of the county
  superintendent, the board of supervisors  may  authorize  by  resolution
  that  a  specific  amount of said county road fund moneys may be used by
  the county superintendent for preliminary  engineering  and  surveys  to
  acquire  necessary  data  for  the  preparation of said statement of the
  roads on such map proposed to be constructed or reconstructed.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 117 - Construction and Reconstruction of County Roads.

§  117.  Construction and reconstruction of county roads. Construction
  or reconstruction of such roads, including necessary grade  and  culvert
  work,  and  any  plans  and specifications therefor, shall conform to an
  outline  or  general  plan  of  the  work,  and  such  construction   or
  reconstruction  must  be  done under the immediate direct supervision of
  the county superintendent or a competent foreman designated by him.  All
  or  any  part  of  such  construction  or  reconstruction may be done by
  contract or by direct employment of labor and purchase of  material,  or
  both.  The  machinery  needed  for  work done under this article, unless
  furnished by the contractor, shall be provided as follows:
The county superintendent may rent road  machinery  from  any  person,
  company,  corporation,  or from any town or towns in the county, or from
  any other county, and such rental shall be payable from the county  road
  fund;  or  he  may  use  road  building  machinery, equipment, tools and
  implements purchased with county  moneys,  and  whenever  used  for  the
  purpose  of  this  article,  a charge therefor, in the nature of rental,
  shall be  payable  from  the  county  road  fund  on  itemized  vouchers
  certified  by  the county superintendent showing where the machinery was
  used, together with the  amount  chargeable  to  each  appropriation  or
  construction project. The provisions of subdivision three of section one
  hundred  ninety-five,  and of subdivisions four, five and six of section
  one hundred ninety-four shall apply to work carried on pursuant  to  the
  provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 117-B - Controlled-Access Highways in Counties.

§  117-b.  Controlled-access highways in counties. Notwithstanding the
  provisions of any general, special or  local  law  to  the  contrary,  a
  county road entirely or partly constructed, reconstructed or improved at
  a   location  where  no  public  highway  theretofore  existed,  may  be
  designated within a county by the board of supervisors of  such  county,
  on  recommendation of the county executive, if any, or in any other case
  on recommendation  of  the  county  superintendent  of  highways,  as  a
  controlled-access  highway, to and from which the owners or occupants of
  abutting property or any other person shall  have  no  right  of  access
  either  as  pedestrians,  as  operators  of  vehicles  or  in  any other
  capacity, excepting at junctions of  such  highways  with  other  public
  highways,  and also excepting as such access may be reserved by the deed
  or final order of condemnation describing the property which has been or
  which  hereafter  shall  be   acquired   for   the   purpose   of   such
  controlled-access   highway.   Such   county   road   designated   as  a
  controlled-access highway shall be subject in all other respects to  the
  provisions  of  the  vehicle  and  traffic law, and the highway law with
  relation to county roads.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 117-C - Hawking, Peddling, Vending, Sale of Goods, Wares or Merchandise; Erie County; Certain Areas.

§   117-c.  Hawking,  peddling,  vending,  sale  of  goods,  wares  or
  merchandise; Erie county; certain areas. Notwithstanding any law to  the
  contrary,  except  section  thirty-five of the general business law, the
  county of Erie shall have the power to enact  a  local  law  prohibiting
  hawking,  peddling,  vending  and sale of goods, wares or merchandise or
  solicitation of trade in the right-of-way of county  roads  adjacent  to
  arenas,  stadiums,  auditoriums  or like facilities, which contain fifty
  thousand or more seats, which are used  for  events  likely  to  attract
  large  numbers of spectators, including but not limited to home games of
  a National Football League franchise. Provided, however, that the  power
  to  enact  such  local  law  shall  be  subject  to the requirement that
  provision be made, by lease agreement, regulation or otherwise, for  the
  hawking,  peddling,  vending and sales of goods, wares or merchandise or
  solicitation of trade in designated  vending  areas  on  the  ground  of
  county-owned  lands leased for use as an arena, stadium or auditorium or
  like facility which contain fifty thousand or more  seats;  and  further
  provided  that  members of the armed forces of the United States who (a)
  were honorably discharged from such service, or (b)  have  a  qualifying
  condition,  as defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and
  received a discharge other than bad conduct or  dishonorable  from  such
  service,  or (c) are discharged LGBT veterans, as defined in section one
  of the veterans' services law, and received a discharge other  than  bad
  conduct or dishonorable from such service, and who are entitled to hawk,
  vend,  sell or peddle merchandise in the public right-of-way pursuant to
  sections thirty-two and thirty-five of the general business  law,  shall
  be  given  first preference in any assignment or vending locations or in
  the allocation of such locations.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 117-D - Pedestrian Overpass to Be Designated as the "Jennifer Bolender Memorial Overpass".

§  117-d.  Pedestrian  overpass  to  be  designated  as  the "Jennifer
  Bolender  Memorial  Overpass".  The  pedestrian  overpass  spanning  the
  LaSalle  Expressway  in  the  city  of  Niagara  Falls, in the county of
  Niagara, known as the sixty-sixth street overpass, shall  be  designated
  and known as the "Jennifer Bolender Memorial Overpass".
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 117-E - Pedestrian Overpass to Be Designated as the "Police Officer Robert Mclellan Memorial Overpass".

§  117-e.  Pedestrian overpass to be designated as the "Police Officer
  Robert McLellan Memorial Overpass".  The  pedestrian  overpass  spanning
  Route  33  in  the  city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie, known as the
  Hickory Street Junction, shall be designated and known  as  the  "Police
  Officer Robert McLellan Memorial Overpass".
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 118-B - Entry Upon Lands by County Superintendent.

§  118-b.  Entry  upon  lands  by  county  superintendent.  The county
  superintendent may, when authorized by the county board, enter
1. Upon any lands adjacent to any  county  road  for  the  purpose  of
  opening  an existing ditch or drain, or for digging a new ditch or drain
  for the free passage of water for the drainage of such road.
2. Upon the lands of any person adjoining rivers, streams  or  creeks,
  to drive piles, throw up embankments and perform such other labor as may
  be  necessary to keep such rivers, streams or creeks within their proper
  channels, and to prevent their encroachment upon county roads or bridges
  and culverts thereon.
3. Upon the lands adjoining county  roads  which,  during  the  spring
  freshets  or  at  a time of high water are subject to overflow from such
  rivers, streams or creeks, to remove or change the position of  a  fence
  or  other obstruction preventing the free flow of water under or through
  such road or bridges and culverts thereon,  whenever  the  same  may  be
  necessary for the protection of such roads, bridges or culverts.
4.  Upon  any  lands  adjacent  to county roads to remove any fence or
  other obstruction which causes snow to drift in and upon such roads, and
  erect snow fences or other  devices  upon  such  lands  to  prevent  the
  drifting of snow in or upon such roads.
Where lands are entered upon under the provisions of this section, the
  county  superintendent shall agree with the owner of such lands, subject
  to the approval of the county board, as to the  amount  of  damages,  if
  any, sustained by such owner in consequence of such entry in performance
  of  the  work  authorized by this section, and the amount of such damage
  shall be a county charge. If the  county  superintendent  is  unable  to
  agree  with  such  owner  upon  the amount of damages thus sustained the
  amount thereof shall be ascertained, determined and paid in  the  manner
  that   damages   are   so   ascertained,   determined  and  paid,  where
  rights-of-way  are  necessary  for  the  construction,   reconstruction,
  improvement  or  repair  of  county  roads  generally  and  the board of
  supervisors is unable to acquire such rights-of-way by purchase.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 120 - Petition to Acquire Lands.

§  120.  Petition  to  acquire  lands.  If the board of supervisors is
  unable to acquire land by  purchase  as  provided  for  in  section  one
  hundred  nineteen  of  this chapter, the board may present to the county
  court of the county or to the supreme court, at a special term  thereof,
  to be held in the judicial department in which said county is located, a
  petition  for  the  appointment  of  three commissioners of appraisal to
  ascertain and determine the compensation to be paid to the owners of the
  land to be acquired and to all persons interested therein. Such petition
  shall describe the land to be acquired with reference to  the  map  upon
  which  the same is shown which shall be annexed to such petition. A copy
  of such petition and map shall be filed in  the  office  of  the  county
  clerk.  Such  petition  shall  be signed and verified in the name of the
  board of supervisors, by the chairman or a member thereof designated for
  that purpose by resolution. Notice of presentation of such  petition  to
  such court shall be given by the petitioner by publishing such notice in
  two newspapers published in such county, once in each week for two weeks
  successively  preceding  the day of such presentation, and also at least
  eight days preceding the day of such presentation by serving a  copy  of
  such notice, personally or by mail, on the occupant or owner of the land
  to  be  acquired,  and by posting a copy of said notice in not less than
  three public places in each town in which property  to  be  acquired  is
  located.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 121 - Commissioners of Appraisal to Be Appointed.

§   121.  Commissioners  of  appraisal  to  be  appointed.  Upon  such
  presentation, such court shall,  after  hearing  any  person  owning  or
  claiming an interest in the lands to be acquired who may appear, appoint
  three disinterested persons as commissioners of appraisal. And in case a
  commissioner  of  appraisal shall at any time decline to serve, or shall
  die, or for any cause become disqualified or disabled  from  serving  as
  such,  the  said  court,  at  a  similar special term, may, upon similar
  notice, application and hearing, and upon such notice to the land owners
  as the court may prescribe, appoint another person similarly  qualified,
  to fill the vacancy caused thereby.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 123 - County Treasurer to Pay Awards.

§  123.  County  treasurer  to pay awards. Within six months after the
  report of the commissioner of appraisal shall be confirmed as aforesaid,
  the county treasurer of such county  shall  pay  to  the  persons  named
  therein  the  amounts  awarded  to them for damages with four per centum
  interest thereon from the  date  of  the  filing  of  the  oath  of  the
  commissioners  of  appraisal  in  the  office  of the county clerk. Such
  amounts with interest and the  amounts  payable  in  pursuance  of  this
  article  shall  be  deemed  a  part  of  the  cost  of  construction  or
  improvement of county roads under this article and shall  be  paid  from
  the  county  road fund by the county treasurer, in case of purchase upon
  requisition of the chairman of the board of supervisors of said  county,
  or  by  any  member  or committee thereof designated for that purpose by
  said board and in case of a petition for the acquisition of such  lands,
  upon service of a certified copy of the order confirming such awards. In
  case there are unknown owners, to whom the award is made in said report,
  the said county treasurer shall deposit the amounts awarded to them with
  like  interest  in some trust company or bank in such manner as the said
  court shall in the order of confirmation direct, such amount to be  paid
  out upon the application of said unknown owners when discovered.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 125 - Land May Be Sold or Leased; Disposition of Proceeds.

§  125. Land may be sold or leased; disposition of proceeds. Any lands
  acquired by purchase or  condemnation,  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining
  gravel, stone or other materials, for the construction or maintenance of
  highways  improved  or  constructed  as  provided  in  this  article, or
  required for spoil banks, may be sold in  accordance  with  the  eminent
  domain procedure law or leased by the governing body of any county, when
  no longer needed for any of such purposes. The proceeds thereof shall be
  paid  into and become a part of the county road fund. The governing body
  may, where it has  acquired  land  by  purchase  or  condemnation  as  a
  right-of-way  for  a  county  road,  sell, convey, grant or lease to the
  owner or owners of property adjoining the same, so much thereof  as  may
  be  unnecessary  for  such  highway purposes, provided the strip of land
  retained for such highway purposes is not less than sixty feet in width,
  and provided such sale,  conveyance,  grant  or  lease  will  give  said
  adjoining  owner  or  owners  of land a frontage immediately in front of
  their respective premises upon the new  highway  and  right-of-way  when
  completed.  The  governing body may make such sale, conveyance, grant or
  lease to such owner or owners  of  real  property  for  the  purpose  of
  compensating such owner or owners for damages sustained by reason of the
  change of the location of such highway and in full settlement thereof.
In  the  county  of  Wayne,  however,  if  any such owner or owners of
  property adjoining lands heretofore acquired by said county from the  R.
  & S. Liquidating Corporation and being formerly lands of the Rochester &
  Syracuse  Trolley  Company,  for  purposes of a right-of-way for a state
  highway, do not purchase such lands  or  any  part  thereof  as  may  be
  unnecessary  for  highway  purposes  as provided by this section, within
  sixty days from the receipt by such owner or owners of the offer of  the
  governing  body  of  such county to sell such lands or any part thereof,
  then such board may sell and convey such lands or any part  thereof,  on
  the  same  terms and conditions as those of such offer or offers, to any
  other person or persons, and the proceeds thereof shall be used  in  the
  manner provided by this section.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 126 - Awarding of Contracts.

§   126.   Awarding   of   contracts.   Contracts   for  construction,
  reconstruction or work to  be  performed  under  contract  for  purposes
  authorized in this article shall be awarded by the county superintendent
  of  highways  with  the  approval  of  the  chairman  of  the  board  of
  supervisors, except where  the  board  of  supervisors,  by  resolution,
  determines that any or all such contracts shall be awarded by such board
  or  by the county purchasing agent; and the provisions of article five-A
  of  the  general  municipal  law  shall   apply   to   such   contracts.
  Notwithstanding  any  other general or special law any such contract may
  be let to a town board without submitting the  contract  to  competitive
  bidding.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 127 - Payments From the County Road Fund.

§  127.  Payments  from  the  county road fund. 1. Except as otherwise
  provided in this article, no claim against the county road fund shall be
  paid  unless  such  claim  has  first  been  approved  by   the   county
  superintendent  of highways, and shall have been audited by the board of
  supervisors or a duly appointed auditing officer in the same  manner  as
  other  charges  against the county; provided, however, that debt service
  payments may be made without the approval of the  county  superintendent
  of  highways  and without prior audit; and compensation for the services
  of officers and employees engaged at agreed  wages  by  the  hour,  day,
  week, month or year may be paid without prior audit.
2.  Where  work  is  performed  pursuant  to  a written contract which
  provides for  partial  payments  as  the  work  progresses,  the  county
  superintendent  of highways shall, from time to time, in accordance with
  rules established by the state commissioner of transportation, prepare a
  voucher showing the total  value  of  the  work  completed,  subtracting
  therefrom  the  completed work under such contract shown in the previous
  voucher, if any, and  from  the  result  there  shall  be  deducted  any
  percentages  required  to  be  retained as provided in the contract. The
  county superintendent of highways shall certify on the voucher or attach
  thereto a certificate stating  that  the  work  has  been  performed  in
  accordance with the plans and specifications. The contractor may request
  the  payment  of  any retained amounts upon the deposit of securities as
  provided in section one hundred six of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 129 - Maintenance and Apportionment of Cost.

§  129.  Maintenance  and apportionment of cost.   Notwithstanding any
  other provisions of law, the maintenance of  roads  improved  under  the
  provisions  of  this  article  shall be the responsibility of the county
  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  county  superintendent  of  highways.
  Notwithstanding   any   other  provisions  of  law,  the  cost  of  such
  maintenance may be paid by the county from any funds in such county that
  are available and that may be legally used for highway or road  purposes
  or  from county funds raised, provided and appropriated therefor, in the
  same manner as it raises,  provides  and  appropriates  moneys  for  the
  construction  of  a road or highway under the provisions of sections one
  hundred and ninety-four and one hundred and ninety-five of this chapter;
  or, notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law,  the  cost  of  such
  maintenance may be paid from the county road fund.
In  either  case  the  county  may  apportion such cost of maintenance
  between it and the local municipalities in which such road or highway is
  located, and the amounts to be so borne by  the  county  and  the  local
  municipalities,  respectively,  may  be  raised and provided in the same
  manner as money is raised and provided under sections  one  hundred  and
  ninety-four  and  one  hundred  and  ninety-five of this chapter for the
  construction or improvement of a road or highway where the cost  thereof
  is  apportioned between the county and a town or towns; or, such cost of
  maintenance, as apportioned,  may  be  paid  by  the  county  and  local
  municipalities,  respectively,  from  any funds in such county and local
  municipalities, respectively, that are available and that may be legally
  used for highway, road or street purposes.
The term "improved roads" as used in this section shall be  deemed  to
  refer  to  and  mean  highways  or  roads with a pavement of substantial
  character sufficient to afford a hard driving surface at all seasons  of
  the year and which can be efficiently maintained at all times.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 130 - Bridges on County Road System.

§  130.  Bridges on county road system. Notwithstanding the provisions
  of sections two hundred and thirty-one and two hundred and  thirty-three
  of  this chapter, or any other statute, any bridge hereafter proposed to
  be located  on  such  county  road  system,  when  the  same  is  to  be
  constructed, reconstructed, maintained or repaired with county road fund
  moneys, or when the same is to be constructed, reconstructed, maintained
  or  repaired with federal and any county moneys, shall be considered and
  deemed for such purposes a part of the road on which it is located;  and
  all  the  provisions  of this section relative to such road system shall
  apply with equal force and  effect  to  such  bridge  thereon  for  such
  purposes.
Bridges  under  this  section  shall  include  bridges over and across
  navigable streams, waters, bays or arms of the sea, whether or  not  the
  title to the bed thereof is in the state.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131 - County Roads of Additional Width and Increased Cost at Expense of Village.

§  131. County roads of additional width and increased cost at expense
  of village. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the county road
  system provided for in this  article  may  include  highways  within  an
  incorporated  village, but if a road be constructed therein of a greater
  width or more expensive type of improvement than that of the  connecting
  highway  outside  the  village, the additional expense shall be borne by
  the village and the amount thereof paid into the county road  fund.  The
  village  shall  provide  the  money to pay such additional expense to be
  raised by tax or pursuant to the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131-A - Application.

§   131-a.   Application.   The  provisions  of  section  one  hundred
  thirty-one-a through one hundred thirty-one-j shall not apply to bridges
  on the Hudson river below Waterford, or on the East river, or  over  the
  waters forming a part of the boundaries of the state.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131-B - County Highways and Bridges.

§  131-b.  County highways and bridges. 1. A board of supervisors may,
  when satisfied that it is for the  interest  of  the  county,  lay  out,
  construct, open, alter or discontinue a county highway therein, or cause
  the  same  to  be done, and construct, repair or abandon a county bridge
  therein, or cause the same to be done when the board shall deem that the
  interest of the  county  will  be  promoted  thereby.  All  expenses  so
  incurred  shall  be a county charge, and may be financed pursuant to the
  local finance law.
2. Whenever the board of supervisors of a county  shall  determine  to
  construct  a  bridge in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this
  section, such board, on behalf of the county, and the town  board  of  a
  town  or  in  case  of a city the board of aldermen or any similar board
  exercising the functions of aldermen, on behalf of such  town  or  city,
  may  enter  into  an  agreement with the county, to the effect that such
  town or city will operate and maintain such bridge, in case  the  bridge
  is  located  wholly in a town or city. In case the bridge is constructed
  over a stream forming the boundary line between two towns or two  cities
  or  between  a  town  and  city,  then they may agree with the county to
  operate and maintain such bridge jointly, in proportion to the  assessed
  valuation of such town or city. The sum which the town or towns, city or
  cities  are obliged to pay under such an agreement is a charge upon such
  towns or cities and shall be paid as other  town  or  city  charges  are
  paid.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131-C - Location and Construction of Bridges.

§ 131-c. Location and construction of bridges. The board may authorize
  the location, change of location and construction of any bridge, applied
  for  by  any  town  or  towns,  jointly,  or  by  other than a municipal
  corporation, created under a general  law,  or  by  any  corporation  or
  individual  for  private purposes; and if a public bridge, erected other
  than by a  municipal  corporation,  establish  the  rates  of  toll  for
  crossing such bridge; but if such bridge is to cross a navigable stream,
  provision  shall be made in the resolution or permission authorizing the
  same, for the erection and maintenance of a suitable  draw,  to  prevent
  any  obstruction  of  the  navigation  of  such stream; and if a private
  bridge, provision shall be made that the draw shall be kept open as  may
  be  required to permit all vessels to pass without loss of headway. When
  such bridge shall be intersected by the line of counties, the action  of
  the  board  of supervisors of each county shall be necessary to give the
  jurisdiction herein permitted.   If such bridge is  to  cross  a  stream
  which  is  navigable in fact, it, including its abutments, and piers, if
  any, shall be located and constructed in accordance with maps, plans and
  specifications to be approved by the department of  transportation;  and
  not otherwise, and copies of such maps, plans and specifications showing
  the  location,  character, design and dimensions of such bridge, and the
  fact of such approval shall be filed in the office of the department  of
  transportation.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131-D - Construction by County of Destroyed Bridges.

§  131-d.  Construction  by county of destroyed bridges. If any bridge
  within a county, or intersected by any boundary line of a county,  shall
  be destroyed by the elements, and the board of supervisors of the county
  shall  deem  that the expenses of the construction of a new bridge at or
  near the site of the bridge so destroyed would be  too  burdensome  upon
  the  town  or  towns within such county, which would otherwise be liable
  therefor, the board of supervisors of any such county  may  provide  for
  the construction and completion of a bridge and all necessary approaches
  thereto,  at  or near the site of the bridge so destroyed. If the bridge
  so destroyed shall have been constructed by a corporation created  under
  a  general  law,  and  the  site thereof, and the approaches thereto, or
  either, shall be  the  property  of  such  corporation,  such  board  of
  supervisors  may purchase the interest of such corporation, or any other
  person, in such site or approaches, if such purchase can be accomplished
  upon reasonable terms; but  if  such  site  or  approaches  can  not  be
  lawfully acquired by such purchase, or otherwise, upon reasonable terms,
  such  board  may  acquire title to premises on either side of such site,
  and provide for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto,  at
  such place, at the expense of the county or of the two counties jointly,
  as  the  came may be, provided such bridge shall be so located as not to
  increase the distance to be traveled upon the highway to reach each  end
  of  such  bridge more than five rods. Any board of supervisors providing
  for the construction of any such  bridge  may  determine  by  resolution
  whether  the  expenses  of  the  maintenance  and  repair  thereof shall
  thereafter be a county charge, or a charge upon such town or towns.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131-G - Regulation of Toll Rates.

§  131-g. Regulation of toll rates. 1. Such boards shall have power by
  a vote of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected  to  authorize  an
  alteration, reduction or change of the rates of toll charged or received
  by  any  turnpike,  plank or gravel road, or other toll road within such
  county, or by any bridge company or ferry within  such  county,  or,  if
  within  more  than one county, then by joint action with the supervisors
  of such counties, provided such alteration shall be  asked  for  by  the
  directors, trustees or owners of such road, bridge or ferry; but that no
  increase  of  toll shall be so authorized unless notice of such proposed
  increase shall have been published once each week for  three  successive
  weeks  in  a  newspaper having general circulation in each town in which
  such road or bridge is located or  in  which  such  ferry  is  operated,
  commencing at least thirty days prior to the date of such authorization;
  and  any  alteration  in  rates  of  toll  authorized  by  any  board of
  supervisors may be changed or modified by any subsequent board, on their
  own motion, by a like vote of two-thirds of all the members  elected  to
  such  board;  but  nothing  in  this  section  contained shall affect or
  abridge the powers of any city.
2. In the case of rates of toll for a  ferry,  such  boards  shall  be
  authorized  to  adopt  a  local  law to provide that a ferry shall carry
  without charge or fee of any  kind  for  transportation  between  points
  wholly  within  the  state  of  New York any member of the United States
  armed forces in uniform during their term of enlistment in  the  service
  of  the  United  States.  Provided, however, that the provisions of this
  subdivision  shall  not  apply  to  a  ferry  owned  or  operated  by  a
  municipality  that  is  subject to the provisions of section one hundred
  four of the transportation law.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131-H - Separate Highway Districts in Certain Counties.

§ 131-h. Separate highway districts in certain counties. The board may
  establish  separate  highway  districts in counties containing more than
  three hundred thousand acres of unimproved unoccupied forest lands,  for
  the  purpose  of  constructing highways through such lands; such highway
  districts to be established upon the application of the owners  of  more
  than  one-half  to  the  non-resident  lands therein.   Any such highway
  district shall consist of contiguous tracts or parcels of land, and  may
  include  parts of one or more towns; and they may be changed, altered or
  abolished at any time by the board. Such board may appoint one  or  more
  commissioners  to  lay  out  and  construct  such  highways  in any such
  district, and prescribe the powers and duties, and direct the manner  in
  which  highway  taxes  shall  be assessed, levied and collected upon the
  lands within the district, and the manner of expenditure thereof.
If obligations should be issued on behalf of the district,  the  board
  may,  for  the  purpose of repaying such loan, set aside and appropriate
  the highway taxes upon such lands, for a period not exceeding ten  years
  from the time of making such loan.
The  board  may,  upon  the  application  of the owners representing a
  majority in  value,  as  shall  be  ascertained  from  the  last  annual
  assessment-roll  of the real estate lying along the line of any highway,
  laid out through unimproved lands, in cases not provided for in the last
  preceding section,  authorize  the  appropriation  of  the  non-resident
  highway  tax  on the lands lying along such line, for the improvement of
  such highways.
The board may direct the expenditure of any  non-resident  highway  or
  bridge  tax, set apart by an act of the legislature, in counties wherein
  such  non-resident  lands  are  situated,  when  the  official  life  of
  commissioners appointed to receive and expend such taxes has expired.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 131-I - Boundary Lines.

§  131-i.  Boundary  lines.  Wherever the words "upon its borders" are
  used in this article in reference  to  the  boundary  line  between  two
  towns,  the  same  are  and were intended and shall be construed to mean
  "upon," "along," and "across its borders."
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 133-A - Rental or Hiring of County Highway Machinery, Tools or Equipment.

§  133-a.  Rental  or  hiring  of  county  highway machinery, tools or
  equipment. The board of supervisors or county legislature of any  county
  may,  on  the  recommendation  of the county superintendent of highways,
  permit the use of any county-owned street or highway machinery, tools or
  equipment,  by  any  municipal   corporation,   political   subdivision,
  district,  district  corporation  or  school district located within the
  state, upon such terms and conditions as  may  be  agreed  upon  by  the
  parties  involved.    Moneys  received  by  a  county  pursuant  to  the
  provisions of this section shall be paid into the county road  machinery
  fund.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 134 - Purchases by County Purchasing Agent.

§ 134. Purchases by county purchasing agent. Notwithstanding any other
  provisions  of this article any county may, by a resolution of its board
  of supervisors regularly adopted, provide that all, or any part or class
  of supplies,  materials,  tools,  implements  and  equipment,  including
  purchase   or  rental  of  road  machinery,  required  for  any  purpose
  authorized in this article, shall be purchased or contracted for by  the
  county purchasing agent in the manner provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 135 - Snow Removal, and Cutting of Weeds.

§ 135. Snow removal, and cutting of weeds. The board of supervisors of
  any  county  may  annually  appropriate  and expend such sum as it deems
  proper for the removal of snow from the county roads of the county,  and
  for sanding, or otherwise treating them, for the purpose of removing the
  danger  due  to  ice  and  snow thereon.   The board shall designate the
  county roads from which the snow is to be removed and the work shall  be
  conducted  in a manner to be determined by the board under the direction
  of the county superintendent of highways.
The board may also annually appropriate and  expend  such  sum  as  it
  deems  proper  for  the  planting  of  trees, the cutting and removal of
  noxious weeds, briers and brush within the bounds of  county  roads  and
  town  highways  improved by county aid, and the purchase and erection of
  snow fences, or other structures to prevent the drifting of snow on  the
  said  roads  and  highways;  and  the  county  superintendent  may  when
  authorized by the board of supervisors enter lands adjacent to a  county
  road  to  remove any fence or other structure which causes snow to drift
  in and upon such county road, and erect snow  fences  or  other  devices
  upon  such  lands to prevent the drifting of snow in or upon such county
  roads.
Whenever any equipment acquired  by  a  county  as  provided  in  this
  section is not needed by the county, the county superintendent may lease
  such equipment to (a) any town or towns in the county to be used on town
  highways  under  the direction of the town superintendent, (b) or to the
  state commissioner of transportation.
Where lands are entered upon under the provisions of this section, the
  county superintendent shall agree with the owner of such lands,  subject
  to  the  approval  of  the  board  of  supervisors,  as to the amount of
  damages, if any, sustained by such owner in consequence of such entry in
  performance of the work authorized by this section, and  the  amount  of
  such  damages  shall be a county charge. If the county superintendent is
  unable to agree  with  such  owner  upon  the  amount  of  damages  thus
  sustained,  the amount thereof shall be ascertained, determined and paid
  in the manner that damages are  so  ascertained,  determined  and  paid,
  where  new  highways are laid out and opened and the town superintendent
  and the land owners are unable to agree upon the amount thereof.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 135-A - Control of Snow and Ice Conditions on County Roads.

§  135-a.  Control  of  snow  and  ice  conditions  on  county  roads.
Notwithstanding any general, special or local law,  any  county  or  its
superintendent  of  highways may contract with any city, town or village
for the removal of snow from the county roads of a county or for sanding
or otherwise treating them for the purpose of removing the danger of ice
and snow, subject to such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon  by
the  parties  involved  and to the approval by resolution of each of the
legislative bodies of such county, city, town or village, as follows:
(a) By such city,  town  or  village  renting  its  highway  tools  or
equipment to the county for such purposes at such terms as may be agreed
upon;
(b) By removal of snow from county roads by a city, town or village;
(c)  By sanding and otherwise treating of county roads for the purpose
of removing the danger of ice and snow by a city, town or village;
(d) By removal of snow and sanding and control  of  ice  and  snow  on
county roads by a city, town or village;
(e) By any combination of a, b, c and d.
A  county may in like manner contract with a city, town or village for
the erection of county owned snow fence along a county  road  upon  such
terms  and  conditions as may be agreed upon. The erection of snow fence
shall not be deemed to be  a  part  of  the  contract  entered  into  as
described  in  b,  c,  d  or  e  above,  unless expressly so provided in
writing.
Such contract or contracts shall be in writing for not longer  than  a
period of ten years. Money received by a town pursuant to the provisions
of  this  section  shall  be credited to the respective funds which were
charged with the objects of expense. Money so  received  by  a  city  or
village   shall   be  placed  in  the  city  or  village  general  fund,
respectively, and may be used for any lawful  city  or  village  highway
purpose.
Any  county shall annually appropriate and expend such sum as it deems
proper for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 138 - Bridge Between Saratoga County and Warren County to Be Designated as the "Irving H. Densmore Memorial Bridge".

§  138.  Bridge  between  Saratoga  county  and  Warren  county  to be
  designated as the "Irving  H.  Densmore  Memorial  Bridge".  The  bridge
  across  the Hudson river between the village of Corinth, town of Corinth
  in Saratoga county and the town of Lake Luzerne in Warren  county  which
  carries  Saratoga  county  road  9  and  Warren  county road 16 shall be
  designated and known as the "Irving H. Densmore Memorial Bridge".
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 139-A - Presentation of Claims for Torts; Actions Against Counties.

§  139-a.  Presentation of claims for torts; actions against counties.
  1. Any  claim  including  a  claim  specified  in  section  one  hundred
  thirty-nine  of  this  chapter  which may be made against the county for
  damages for wrong or injury to person or property or for the death of  a
  person  shall  be  made and served in compliance with section fifty-e of
  the general municipal law.
2. Every action upon such claim shall be  commenced  pursuant  to  the
  provisions of section fifty-i of the general municipal law.
3.  This section shall not apply to actions upon claims for damages or
  compensation for property taken by condemnation for any public purpose.