2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 122 - Duties of Commissioners of Appraisal.

§  122.  Duties  of  commissioners  of appraisal. The commissioners of
  appraisal shall take the oath of office prescribed by the  constitution,
  which  oath  shall  be  filed  in  the office of the county clerk of the
  county. Upon the filing of such oath the title to the lands described in
  the petition and map filed in the office of the county clerk shall  vest
  in the county for the purpose of a highway forever. The commissioners of
  appraisal  shall, with all reasonable diligence, proceed to examine such
  highway and lands. The commissioners of appraisal shall cause  a  notice
  to  be published in two such newspapers as aforesaid, once each week for
  two weeks successively next preceding the day of  meeting  mentioned  in
  such  notice,  that  at  a stated time and place within such county they
  will meet for the purpose of hearing the parties claiming an interest in
  the compensation to be awarded for the lands taken  for  such  highways.
  Said  notice  shall  also  state the fact that a map or maps showing the
  land acquired had been filed in the county clerk's office. At  the  time
  and  place  of  said  meeting  and at any adjournment thereof which said
  commissioners of appraisal shall publicly  make,  they  shall  hear  the
  proofs  and  allegations of all interested parties. They may adjourn the
  proceedings before them from time to time, issue subpoenas or administer
  oaths in such proceedings; and shall keep minutes of  their  proceedings
  and  reduce  to  writing all oral evidence given before them. They shall
  thereafter make and sign a  report  in  writing,  to  which  they  shall
  assess,  allow  and  state the amount of compensation to be sustained by
  the owners of the several lots, pieces or parcels of land taken for  the
  purposes aforesaid. Such report shall contain the names of the owners of
  any  parcel  of  land  acquired  as  aforesaid,  except that in case the
  commissioners of appraisal are unable to ascertain  the  names  of  such
  owners,  they  may  in  place  of the names of such undiscovered parties
  insert the words "unknown owners, " in their report.  The  commissioners
  of  appraisal shall file their said report, together with the minutes of
  their proceedings, in the office of the county  clerk  of  such  county.
  After  said report shall have been completed and filed as aforesaid, the
  commissioners of appraisal shall, after  publishing  a  notice  in  like
  manner  as  that  provided  in  section one hundred twenty, apply 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, to have the said report confirmed. If no sufficient  reason  to
  the  contrary  shall  appear,  the  court  shall  confirm  said  report.
  Otherwise it may refer the  same  back  to  the  said  commissioners  of
  appraisal  for  revision  or  correction;  and  after  such  revision or
  correction the same proceedings  shall  be  taken  as  are  hereinbefore
  provided  for,  and  the  commissioners  of  appraisal shall in the same
  manner make renewed application for the confirmation of such report, and
  the court shall thereupon confirm or refer back the said report and such
  proceedings shall be repeated until a report shall  be  presented  which
  shall be confirmed by the said court.