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2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 45 - Entry Upon Adjacent Lands and Streams.

§ 45. Entry upon adjacent lands and streams. Lands adjacent to a state
  highway  or adjoining or in the bed or beds of any streams or creeks may
  be entered upon and occupied by the commissioner of transportation,  his
  representatives  and  employees, or by a contractor or any of his agents
  or employees when directed by the commissioner of transportation or  his
  representative:
1.  to  open,  maintain or construct an existing ditch or drain or for
  making surveys and for digging a  new  ditch  or  drain,  or  a  section
  thereof,  for  the  free  passage  of  water  for  the  drainage of such
  highways.
2. to perform such work of construction,  reconstruction,  improvement
  or  maintenance  in  order  to keep the waters of such streams or creeks
  within their proper channels and  to  prevent  their  encroachment  upon
  state highways or bridges thereon.
3.  to  remove  or change the position of a fence or other obstruction
  which, in the judgment of the commissioner of  transportation,  prevents
  the  free  flow  of  water  under  or through a state highway, bridge or
  culvert.
4. to remove any fence or other obstruction which, in the judgment  of
  the  commissioner  of transportation, causes snow to drift in and upon a
  state highway, and to erect snow fences or other devices upon such lands
  to prevent the drifting of snow in or upon any such highway.
5. to inspect trees for the purpose of determining whether any are  in
  such  a  condition  as  to  constitute a danger to users of the adjacent
  highway and to remove or prune those trees or parts thereof which in the
  judgment of the commissioner constitute such a danger.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or
  of any inconsistent provision of this chapter,  claims  for  any  damage
  caused  by such entry and work and not exceeding three hundred and fifty
  dollars  may  be  adjusted  by  agreement   by   the   commissioner   of
  transportation  without appropriating any property. Upon making any such
  agreement  and  adjustment,  and  upon  the  approval  thereof  by   the
  department  of  audit  and  control,  the commissioner of transportation
  shall deliver to  the  comptroller  such  agreement  and  a  certificate
  stating  the  amount  due such owner for damage caused by such entry and
  work and the amount so fixed shall be paid out  of  the  state  treasury
  from  moneys  appropriated  for  the  maintenance  and  repair  of state
  highways.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 49 - Improvement of State Highways at Expense of County or at the Joint Expense of Such County and Any City, Village or Town.

§  49.  Improvement  of  state highways at expense of county or at the
  joint expense of such county and any city, village or town. The board of
  supervisors of any county may request of the department an  estimate  of
  the  additional  cost  of  improving  a state highway to a width or in a
  manner, or both, as desired by such board. The department shall as  soon
  as practicable make an estimate of such additional cost and transmit the
  same  to  the  board  of  supervisors,  and the board of supervisors may
  thereupon by resolution petition the commissioner of  transportation  to
  provide the width and type of improvement desired. The expense caused by
  the  increased width or the type of improvement, or both, shall be borne
  wholly by the county, or, in the discretion of the board of  supervisors
  of  any  county,  and  with  the consent of the appropriate board of any
  city, village or town in which the road is located, the expenses may  be
  apportioned   between   such  county  and  such  other  municipality  or
  municipalities, in such proportion as may be agreed to.  Whenever  plans
  and specifications have been approved providing for such increased width
  or  such  type  of improvement, or both, an estimate of the cost of such
  increased width or type of improvement, or both, shall be  submitted  to
  the   board   of   supervisors,   which,   if  it  approve  such  plans,
  specifications and estimate of cost, shall, by resolution, duly  adopted
  by a vote of a majority of all of the members of such board, appropriate
  the  funds  necessary  to provide therefor; and such funds shall be made
  available for the commissioner of transportation in the manner  provided
  in this article.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 50 - Petition for Improvement of Highway Where a Street Surface Railroad Is Laid.

§  50.  Petition  for  improvement  of  highway where a street surface
  railroad is laid. Where a street surface railroad shall be laid  in  any
  street,  highway or public place in any town, village, or in any city of
  the second or third classes, which it was heretofore or shall  hereafter
  be  determined  to  pave, improve, reconstruct or repair, as provided in
  this chapter, the municipality may  petition  for  such  improvement  as
  provided  in sections forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight or forty-nine.
  If such petition is approved by the  department  of  transportation  the
  procedure  to  be  followed  shall  be  that  prescribed in the sections
  mentioned above and the proposals and  contract  for  such  improvement,
  reconstruction  or  repair shall include the improvement, reconstruction
  or repair of the  space  between  the  tracks  of  such  street  surface
  railroad, the rails of such tracks and two feet in width outside of such
  tracks,  and  the  work of improvement, reconstruction or repair in such
  space shall be done at the same time and under the same  supervision  as
  the  work  of  improvement, reconstruction or repair of the remainder of
  such street, highway or public place. The department  of  transportation
  may   prescribe   the   materials  to  be  used  in  paving,  improving,
  reconstructing or repairing such street, highway or public place  within
  the  railroad  space  above described, and upon the proper completion of
  the work, the department of transportation shall certify to the board of
  trustees of such village, or the common council of cities of the  second
  or  third  classes,  as  the  case  may  be,  the  cost of the pavement,
  improvement, reconstruction or repair of such street, highway or  public
  place  within  such  railroad  space,  and  the  entire  expense  of the
  pavement, reconstruction or repair within such  railroad  space  whether
  heretofore  or  hereafter  made or ordered, shall be assessed and levied
  upon the property of the company owning or operating such railroad,  and
  shall  be  collected  in  the  same  manner  as other expenses for local
  improvements are assessed, levied and collected in such town, village or
  city; and an action may also be maintained by the  municipality  against
  the company in any court of record for the collecton of such expense and
  assessment.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 51 - Repair of Highways at Railroad Crossings.

§  51.  Repair  of  highways at railroad crossings. Whenever a highway
  crosses a railroad track at grade and such  grade  crossing  is  out  of
  repair, if it is the judgment of the commissioner of transportation, the
  board  of  supervisors of a county, the board of aldermen of a city, the
  board of trustees of a village or the town superintendent of highways of
  a  town  that  the  same  should  be  repaired,  the   commissioner   of
  transportation,  the  board  of  supervisors  of  a county, the board of
  aldermen of a city, the board of trustees  of  a  village  or  the  town
  superintendent of a town may repair and maintain the same and charge the
  expense  thereof  to  the  railroad  company  over  whose  railroad such
  crossing is repaired and maintained, if after fifteen  days'  notice  in
  writing such railroad company neglects or refuses to repair the same.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 53 - Highways and Bridges on Indian Reservations.

§  53.  Highways and bridges on Indian reservations. The Department of
  transportation shall have supervision and control, in the  construction,
  maintenance  and  improvement of all highways and bridges constructed or
  to be constructed by the state on any Indian reservations, and may  make
  and  enforce  such  reasonable  orders, rules and regulations concerning
  their use as it shall deem necessary. The cost of such  maintenance  and
  construction  and  improvement,  and removal of snow therefrom, shall be
  paid by the state out of any moneys appropriated  for  the  maintenance,
  construction and improvement of highways.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 53-A - Highways on Indian Reservations.

§  53-a.  Highways  on Indian reservations. Where a highway is located
  partly on an Indian reservation, the  Indian  nation  and  the  town  or
  county  involved  and  the  department  of  transportation  may  make an
  agreement  to  apportion  certain  sections   of   such   highways   for
  reconstruction, maintenance and all other responsibilities in connection
  with such highway.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 54-A - Reestablishment of Approaches to Private Lands.

§  54-a.  Reestablishment  of  approaches  to  private  lands.  In the
  construction and reconstruction of any highway  on  the  state's  system
  where a substantial change in the existing grade of the highway is made,
  such change making necessary the reestablishment of an existing entrance
  or  approach  to  private lands, the commissioner of transportation may,
  upon the request of the abutting  property  owner  affected,  cause  the
  reestablishment  of the entrance, approach or driveway to be adjusted to
  the new highway grade and the cost  thereof  shall  be  a  state  charge
  payable  from any money available for the construction or reconstruction
  of state highways. In such adjustment the details of the work  shall  be
  as  determined  by  the commissioner of transportation.  The state shall
  not be liable for the maintenance of  such  adjusted  and  reestablished
  approaches or driveways beyond the outside edge of the road shoulder nor
  shall  it  be  liable  for  damages  in  connection  therewith after the
  completion of such adjustment work.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 55 - Emergency Aid for Control of Snow and Ice in Municipalities.

§  55.  Emergency  aid  for control of snow and ice in municipalities.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general,  special  or
  local,  the  commissioner  of  transportation,  when  authorized  by the
  governor, is empowered to aid any county, city, town or village  of  the
  state  in  the  control  of  snow  and  ice during emergency situations,
  providing the governing board or body of any such municipality certifies
  to the governor (a) that such aid is  required  to  promote  the  public
  welfare,  (b)  that  such  municipality  does  not have available and is
  unable to secure and provide the  necessary  equipment,  facilities  and
  personnel  to perform the immediate work of control of snow and ice, and
  (c) that adequate and appropriate provision has been made  to  reimburse
  the state for any actual costs of labor and of maintenance and operation
  and  for  the  depreciation of the necessary equipment and facilities of
  the state. The governing board or body of any such municipality and  the
  commissioner  of  transportation  are  hereby authorized to enter into a
  contract for the purposes of this section upon such terms and conditions
  as shall be reasonable for the protection of the public.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 56 - State to Maintain Roads Improved by State Appropriations Under Special Laws.

§  56.  State to maintain roads improved by state appropriations under
  special laws. When any highway has been constructed or improved under  a
  special  law,  with moneys taken from the state treasury and under plans
  prepared by a state department, the commissioner of  transportation  may
  at  any  time  inspect  such  highway  and  if  he determine it to be of
  sufficient importance and properly constructed, he  may  make  an  order
  directing  that  such  highway  become  a  part  of  the system of state
  highways in such county, and thereafter such highway shall be maintained
  as a state highway. Such order shall be served upon the chairman of  the
  board of supervisors, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the
  office  of  the  county  clerk  and  one  in  the  office  of  the state
  comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 57 - Maintenance by State of Canal Bridge Approaches.

§  57.  Maintenance  by  state  of  canal  bridge  approaches. Where a
  waterway which is a part of the canal system of the state  intersects  a
  state highway which is maintained adjacent to such intersection pursuant
  to  this  article,  the  pavement and shoulders of the approaches to the
  bridge structure carrying such highway across such waterway and the area
  formerly occupied by any such bridge which has been removed and replaced
  by a  fill  by  the  state  commissioner  of  transportation,  shall  be
  considered  eligible  for maintenance under this chapter, providing such
  approach  or  fill  has,  in  the  opinion  of   the   commissioner   of
  transportation, been properly graded in connection with the construction
  of the canal system of the state. The commissioner of transportation may
  at  any time make an order directing that such section of highway become
  a part of the system of state highways in such  county,  and  thereafter
  the  pavement  and  shoulders  of such approach shall be maintained as a
  state highway. Such order shall be served upon the chairman of the board
  of supervisors and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office
  of the county clerk and one in the office of the state  comptroller.  In
  maintaining  such  section of highway the commissioner of transportation
  may lay such type of pavement as in his opinion is advisable.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 58 - Liability of State for Damages.

§  58.  Liability  of state for damages. The state shall not be liable
  for damages suffered by any  person  from  defects  in  state  highways,
  except between the first day of May and the fifteenth day of November on
  such  highways  as  are maintained by the state under such system as the
  commissioner of transportation may adopt pursuant to section twelve, but
  the liability for such damages shall otherwise remain as now provided by
  law, notwithstanding the construction or improvement and maintenance  of
  such  highways  by  the  state  under  this  chapter; but nothing herein
  contained shall be construed to impose on the state  any  liability  for
  defects  in  bridges  over  which  the  state has no control. Within the
  limits of incorporated villages the state  shall  maintain  a  width  of
  pavement  equal  to the width of pavement constructed or improved at the
  expense of the state, if a state highway, the location  of  the  state's
  portion of such roadway within said incorporated limits to be determined
  by the center line of the roadway as shown on the plans on file with the
  department  of  transportation and the state shall be liable for damages
  to persons or property only when such damage shall occur as a result  of
  the  defective  condition  of  the  portion of improved highway as above
  described.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 59 - Additional Width, Different Type of Construction or Other Additional Work Under Repair or Reconstruction Contracts.

§  59.  Additional  width,  different  type  of  construction or other
  additional work under repair or reconstruction  contracts.  Whenever  in
  the   maintenance,  repair  or  reconstruction  of  state  highways  the
  commissioner of transportation shall have determined upon the  necessity
  of  resurfacing  or  reconstructing  such  highway,  the county, town or
  village wherein the highway is located may petition the commissioner  of
  transportation  to  provide  an  additional  width,  a different type of
  pavement, or both, or any additional work or any or all of same, in  the
  plans providing for such resurfacing or reconstruction.
The   additional   expense   of   such  widening,  different  type  of
  construction or additional work shall be borne wholly  by  such  county,
  town  or  village  and the provisions of sections forty-six, forty-eight
  and forty-nine shall apply to such additional width, different  type  of
  construction  or any additional work under such repair or reconstruction
  contract in the same manner as under a construction contract as provided
  in those sections.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 60 - Sprinkling; Removal of Filth and Refuse.

§ 60. Sprinkling; removal of filth and refuse. Upon petition signed by
  a  majority  of  the taxpayers owning property abutting upon an improved
  state highway and filed with the town clerk,  the  town  board  may  set
  aside  any section of such highway outside of a village and contract for
  the sprinkling of the roadbed with  water  and  also  contract  for  the
  removal of filth and refuse therefrom. No such contract shall be entered
  into unless previously approved by the county superintendent. The amount
  of any such contract so entered into shall be assessed upon the property
  abutting  upon such section in the proportion which the frontage of each
  parcel  thereof  bears  to  the  length  of  the  section  exclusive  of
  intersecting  highways.  Such  assessment  shall  be  made,  levied  and
  collected in the same general manner, and at the same time  and  by  the
  same  officers  as  the town taxes of said town are assessed, levied and
  collected.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 61 - Payment by Counties of a Portion of the Cost of Construction Under Repair Contracts.

§  61.  Payment  by  counties of a portion of the cost of construction
  under repair contracts. Whenever in the maintenance and repair of  state
  highways the department of transportation shall have determined upon the
  necessity  of resurfacing, reconstructing or repairing such highway, the
  county wherein the highway is located may by resolution provide that not
  to  exceed  fifty  per  centum  of  the  cost   of   such   resurfacing,
  reconstructing or repairing shall be borne by the county. The provisions
  of  this  chapter  shall  apply  to such resurfacing, reconstructing and
  repairing of state highways in  the  same  manner  as  to  the  original
  construction thereof in so far as the same may be applicable thereto.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 63 - Discontinuance of Part of Highway Due to Grade Crossing Elimination.

§  63.  Discontinuance  of  part  of  highway  due  to  grade crossing
  elimination. Whenever the commissioner of transportation shall determine
  that a state highway is affected by a side line or  a  new  location  by
  reason  of  the  elimination  of  a  highway-railroad  crossing at grade
  pursuant to an order of the department of transportation, or  by  reason
  of  the  improvement  or  reconstruction  of  an existing railroad grade
  crossing, and as a result thereof a  section  of  the  said  highway  no
  longer serves a useful purpose as a part of the state highway system, he
  shall  upon  the completion and acceptance of the elimination work, make
  an official order that the said section of the highway including any and
  all  bridges  and  culverts  located  thereon  or  immediately  adjacent
  thereto,  shall no longer be maintained by the state. If such section of
  highway or part thereof is located  in  an  incorporated  village,  such
  section  or part thereof including any bridge and culvert thereon, shall
  be maintained thereafter by the village in which such  section  or  part
  thereof  is  located,  excepting  however  that  any  bridge and culvert
  thereon, which were maintained by the town  in  which  such  village  is
  located,  before  the  improvement of the section by the state, shall be
  maintained by such town. If such section of highway was at the  time  of
  its  improvement  by the state on a county road, such section or as much
  thereof outside of the limits of an incorporated village, together  with
  any  bridge  and  culvert thereon, shall be maintained thereafter by the
  county or counties where it is located. The transfer of maintenance of a
  section of highway and of any bridge and culvert thereon to any  county,
  town  or  village  as  herein  provided  shall become effective upon the
  mailing of a certified copy of such  official  order  to  the  clerk  or
  clerks  of the board or boards of supervisors of the county or counties,
  to the town clerk or clerks or to the clerk or clerks of the village  or
  villages, as the case may be.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 64 - Maintenance by State of Certain Improved Roads and Highways.

§ 64. Maintenance by state of certain improved roads and highways. The
  commissioner  of transportation may inspect all roads and highways which
  have been constructed or improved under any general or  special  law  by
  the  county,  town  or  village  which  are indicated for improvement in
  section three hundred and forty-one of this act, and if any such road is
  properly constructed he shall make an order directing that such  highway
  be  taken  over  by  the  state for maintenance as a state highway. Such
  order shall be served upon the chairman of the board of supervisors  and
  a  certified  copy  thereof  filed in the office of the county clerk and
  also in the office of the state comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 3 - State Highways › 65 - Lands May Be Sold or Leased; Disposition of Proceeds.

§  65. Lands 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, reconstruction,
  improvement or maintenance of highways as provided in this  article,  or
  required   for   spoil  banks,  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  state
  commissioner of transportation, be sold in accordance with  the  eminent
  domain procedure law or leased by the governing body of the county which
  acquired said lands, when no longer needed for any of such purposes. The
  proceeds thereof shall be paid into the county treasury and shall become
  a  part  of  the  county road fund. The governing body may, where it has
  acquired lands by purchase or condemnation as a right-of-way for a state
  highway, with the consent of the commissioner of  transportation,  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  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 governing body 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 3 - State Highways › 66 - Replacement Water Sources.

§ 66. Replacement water sources. If the commissioner determines that a
  highway  project  or  highway maintenance activity of the department has
  significantly changed  or  rendered  unusable  a  private  water  supply
  system,  the  commissioner  is authorized, upon the consent of the owner
  thereof, to provide, or participate in the provision of,  a  replacement
  source  or supply of water or a modification of the system affected. The
  commissioner is authorized to use  the  forces  of  the  department  and
  contractors  under  contract  with  the department, and is authorized to
  enter into contracts or agreements for the purposes of this section.  In
  any  claims  against  the  state, actions undertaken by the commissioner
  pursuant to  this  section  shall  be  considered  in  reducing  damages
  incurred  by affected individuals. The commissioner, with the consent of
  the owner, is authorized to conduct testing and other  investigation  to
  ascertain  whether  a highway project or highway maintenance activity of
  the department may  have  adversely  impacted  a  private  water  supply
  system. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any action
  on  behalf of the department and the authority conferred herein shall be
  exercised, and any related determinations of the commissioner  shall  be
  made,  in the discretion of the commissioner or commissioner's designee.
  The department shall not enter private property pursuant to this section
  without the consent of the owner of such property. Nothing contained  in
  this  section  shall  be  construed  to  relieve the department from any
  requirements that would otherwise apply pursuant to article eight of the
  environmental conservation law.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 4 - Improvement With Federal Aid › 80-A - State Prefinancing of Federal Share of Non-State Highway Projects.

§  80-a.  State  prefinancing  of  federal  share of non-state highway
  projects. In connection with the undertaking  by  a  municipality  of  a
  non-state  highway  project  for which the commissioner is authorized to
  use moneys of the federal  government  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
  section  eighty of this chapter the commissioner is hereby authorized to
  advance from any state highway appropriation made in the first  instance
  and   subject   to  subsequent  reimbursement  in  accordance  with  the
  provisions of Title 23, U.S. Code, "Highways" to such  municipality  the
  share of the federal government of such project.
The  first instance advances herein authorized shall be available only
  after the Federal Highway Administration, Department  of  Transportation
  of  the  United  States  of  America,  shall  notify the commissioner of
  transportation that each specific project for which such first  instance
  advances are contemplated have been approved and that the required share
  of  federal  funds  which have been apportioned to the State of New York
  for expenditure have been  entered  on  the  official  records  of  such
  Federal  Highway  Administration,  Department  of  Transportation,  as a
  commitment of such funds.
The commissioner shall undertake such supervision  and  management  of
  the  municipal  project  so  advanced  in  order  to fulfill any and all
  agreements with the Federal Highway Administration in  order  to  assure
  federal reimbursement of the first instance advances herein authorized.
The  commissioner  shall  provide  for  the  management  of  the first
  instance advances and federal  reimbursements  herein  authorized  in  a
  manner consistent with the management of any other federally aided state
  highway construction project.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 4 - Improvement With Federal Aid › 82 - Expense; How Borne.

§  82.  Expense;  how  borne. The proportion of the total cost of work
  performed on any project, in addition to such elements  thereof  as  are
  not  subject  to  federal  aid, which shall be borne by the state of New
  York shall be the difference between the funds contributed for such work
  by the federal government and the actual cost thereof except as provided
  in section two hundred and thirty, and less  any  amount  which  may  be
  provided  by  any municipality in accordance with the provisions of this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 4 - Improvement With Federal Aid › 83 - Construction or Improvement, Partly at County Expense.

§  83.  Construction  or improvement, partly at county expense. If the
  estimated cost of a project  in  any  county  shall  exceed  the  amount
  available  in  such county for such work to be provided by the state and
  federal  government,  the  board  of  supervisors  of  the  county,   by
  resolution,  act  or  ordinance, may approve of such project within such
  estimate and may provide that the county shall pay the  amount  of  such
  excess. If the commissioner of transportation thereafter shall determine
  to  proceed with the project, the board of supervisors shall appropriate
  sufficient moneys to pay the amount of such excess. Moneys to meet  such
  appropriation  may be provided from moneys raised by tax, from available
  moneys in the county road fund, from other available moneys or  pursuant
  to  the  local  finance law. Moneys so appropriated shall be paid out by
  the county treasurer  on  the  written  order  of  the  commissioner  of
  transportation.    The  form  of any resolution, act or ordinance making
  such  an  appropriation,  shall  be  approved  by  the  commissioner  of
  transportation,  and  immediately upon the adoption thereof the clerk of
  the board of supervisors shall transmit a  certified  copy  to  him.  No
  resolution,  act  or  ordinance  thereafter  adopted by such board shall
  amend or repeal any prior resolution, act or ordinance adopted  pursuant
  to  this  section,  either  directly  or indirectly, excepting under the
  advice and with the consent of the commissioner of transportation.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 4 - Improvement With Federal Aid › 84 - Construction or Reconstruction of Any Road or Highway in Connection With Projects on the Principal Secondary and Feeder Roads.

§  84.  Construction  or  reconstruction  of  any  road  or highway in
  connection with projects on the principal secondary  and  feeder  roads.
  The  commissioner  of  transporation  may,  upon the request of a county
  through its board of supervisors, include in any project on the  federal
  principal  secondary  and  feeder road system, any work of construction,
  reconstruction or improvement of any road or  highway  that  is  located
  within  the  boundaries  of  such  county  and  that  is or shall form a
  continuation or extension of any such  principal  secondary  and  feeder
  road  or  shall be in connection therewith. Whenever the commissioner of
  transportation shall approve such a request of a county, he shall  cause
  surveys  and  plans to be made either by the county or by the department
  of transportation. Estimates of the construction and  engineering  costs
  shall  be  made  and submitted to the commissioner of transportation for
  approval.  If  approved,  such  county  shall  thereupon  deposit   such
  estimated  amounts  of monies with the comptroller, who is authorized to
  receive and accept the same for the purpose of this section, subject  to
  the draft or requisition of the commissioner of transportation. Upon the
  completion  and acceptance of the construction work, the commissioner of
  transportation shall render to the board of supervisors of  such  county
  an  itemized  statement showing in full the amount of money deposited by
  such county with  the  comptroller  as  hereinbefore  provided  and  all
  expenditures  made  for  the construction and engineering work connected
  therewith made pursuant to this section. Any surplus money shall be paid
  to such county on the warrant of the comptroller  on  vouchers  therefor
  approved by the commissioner of transportation.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 4 - Improvement With Federal Aid › 85 - General Authorization; Good Faith of State Pledged.

§  85.  General  authorization;  good  faith  of  state  pledged.  The
  commissioner of  transportation  is  hereby  authorized,  empowered  and
  directed  to  perform  and  do  such  other  and further acts not hereby
  specifically provided as may be necessary to perform the work authorized
  by  this  article  and  to  comply  with   federal   aid   highway   and
  transportation  acts  hereinbefore referred to and rules and regulations
  promulgated thereunder. The provisions of such acts are hereby  assented
  to, the good faith of the state of New York being hereby pledged to make
  such  provision  from  time  to  time as may be necessary to provide its
  share of the cost of such work.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 4 - Improvement With Federal Aid › 86 - Agreement to Control Erection and Maintenance of Advertising Devices.

§  86.  Agreement  to  control erection and maintenance of advertising
  devices. In order that the state of New York may be entitled to be  paid
  by  the United States an increased share of the costs of projects on the
  interstate highway system, the commissioner of transportation is  hereby
  authorized   to   enter   into   an  agreement  with  the  secretary  of
  transportation of the United States, as required by section one  hundred
  thirty-one  of  title twenty-three of the United States code, as amended
  and to  promulgate  and  enforce  regulations  in  conformity  with  the
  national  policy,  for  control  of  the  erection  and  maintenance  of
  advertising signs, displays, and other advertising  devices  within  six
  hundred  and  sixty  feet  of the edge of the right of way of controlled
  portions of the interstate highways system which  are  constructed  upon
  any  part  of  right  of  way,  the  entire  width  of which is acquired
  subsequent to July first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-six,  which  do  not
  traverse  commercial  or  industrial  zones  within  the  boundaries  of
  incorporated  municipalities  as  of  September  twenty-first,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-nine,  where  in the use of real property adjacent to the
  interstate highway system is subject to municipal regulation or control,
  and which do not  traverse  other  areas  where  the  land  use,  as  of
  September   twenty-first,   nineteen  hundred  fifty-nine,  was  clearly
  established under state law as industrial or commercial.  The  agreement
  may   also  include  provisions  for  preservation  of  natural  beauty,
  prevention  of  erosion,  landscaping,  reforestation,  development   of
  viewpoints  for  scenic  attractions  that  are accessible to the public
  without charge, the erection of  markers,  signs  or  plaques,  and  the
  development   of   areas,   in   appreciation  of  sites  of  historical
  significance, to the extent that such provisions are within the existing
  powers of the commissioner of transportation.
The commissioner of  transportation  shall  take  such  action  as  is
  necessary  to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds available under
  Federal Highway Aid Act of 1958.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 5 - County Superintendents › 100 - Appointment and Salary of County Superintendent.

§  100.  Appointment and salary of county superintendent. The board of
  supervisors of any county may appoint a county superintendent, determine
  the amount of the bond which he shall give, fix his salary, and  provide
  for  the  payment  of  all  the necessary expenses incurred while in the
  performance of his duties, which salary and expenses shall be  a  charge
  against  the county road fund, and may remove such county superintendent
  for malfeasance or misfeasance in office, upon written charges, after an
  opportunity to be heard, not less than five days after the service  upon
  such  superintendent  of  a  copy of such charges. The term of office of
  each superintendent or county engineer appointed by  any  other  law  to
  perform  the  duties of county superintendent shall be four years unless
  sooner removed by the board of supervisors as above provided.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 5 - County Superintendents › 102-A - Deputy County Superintendent.

§  102-a.  Deputy  county superintendent. The county superintendent of
  any county or the county engineer thereof appointed by any other law  to
  perform  the  duties  of county superintendent, with the approval of the
  board of supervisors, may appoint  a  deputy  county  superintendent  or
  engineer, as the case may be, for such period or periods as the board of
  supervisors  may  determine, but limited to the term of office for which
  such superintendent or engineer was appointed with power  and  authority
  in  the  county superintendent or engineer to terminate such appointment
  at his pleasure.  Such deputy shall act for and have all the powers  and
  duties of such superintendent or engineer during his inability to act as
  such  superintendent  or  engineer  or  during  the  regular or approved
  vacation period of such superintendent or engineer.
In the event that such county superintendent or county engineer  shall
  not  appoint a deputy as provided herein, prior to or within thirty days
  after such inability to act shall occur, the board  of  supervisors  may
  make  such appointment for the period of such disability during the term
  of office of such superintendent or engineer, and such  appointee  shall
  thereafter   continue  in  office  for  such  period  as  the  board  of
  supervisors  may  determine,  but  within  the  limitation  of  time  as
  hereinbefore mentioned.
The  board of supervisors shall, in any event, determine the amount of
  such deputy's bond and fix his salary and provide for the payment of all
  the necessary expenses incurred while in the performance of his  duties,
  which  salary  and  expenses  shall  be a charge against the county road
  fund, and may remove him from office for such causes  and  in  the  same
  manner  as  provided  for  the  removal  of  a  county superintendent or
  engineer.
The provisions of law not inconsistent with  the  provisions  of  this
  section,  applicable  to  the  powers,  duties, conduct, appointment and
  removal of county  superintendents  or  engineers  shall  be  applicable
  hereto.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 5 - County Superintendents › 103 - Temporary Obstruction of Highways.

§ 103. Temporary obstruction of highways. The necessary obstruction of
  a  highway  by  the  removal of buildings or other temporary obstruction
  shall only be allowed if a highway other than a state  highway  under  a
  permit  granted by the county superintendent upon the written request of
  the town superintendent, and if a state highway under a  permit  granted
  by the commissioner of transportation.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 5 - County Superintendents › 103-A - Obstructions and Removals.

§  103-a.  Obstructions and removals. Obstructions, within the meaning
  of this section, shall include trees which have been cut or have  fallen
  either  on adjacent lands or within the bounds of the highway, in such a
  manner as to interfere with public travel therein; limbs of trees  which
  have  fallen  within  the  highway, or branches of trees overhanging the
  highways so as to interfere with public travel therein; lumber, wood  or
  logs  piled  within the bounds of the public highway; machines, vehicles
  and implements abandoned or habitually placed within the bounds  of  the
  highway; fences, buildings or other structures erected within the bounds
  of  the  highway;  earth, stone or other material placed in any ditch or
  waterway along the highway; telegraph,  telephone,  electric  and  other
  poles,  and  the wires connected therewith, erected within the bounds of
  the highway in such a manner as to interfere with the use of the highway
  for public travel.
It shall be the duty of each owner or occupant of lands situate  along
  the  highway,  to remove all obstructions except such structures as have
  been placed or erected  by  a  public  utility  corporation  or  for  an
  otherwise  public  purpose, within the bounds of the highway, which have
  been placed there by such owner or occupant  or  with  his  consent.  It
  shall  be  the  duty  of  all public utility corporations, to remove and
  reset poles and the wires connected therewith, when the same  constitute
  obstructions  to  the  use  of  the  highway by the traveling public. If
  temporary obstructions such as trees,  lumber,  wood,  logs,  machinery,
  vehicles and similar obstructions are not removed within five days after
  the  service  of a notice by mail or forty-eight hours after the service
  of a notice personally, upon such owner or occupant, requesting the same
  to be done, the county superintendent  of  highways  shall  remove  such
  obstruction.  And  if  permanent  obstructions, including, among others,
  telegraph, telephone, electric  and  other  poles  and  wires  connected
  therewith,  are not moved and reset within thirty days after the service
  of a notice personally or by mail upon the owner of such poles or wires,
  the county superintendent of highways shall move and  reset  such  poles
  and  wires.  The cost and expenses incurred by the county superintendent
  in removing such obstructions may be recovered by the  county  from  any
  person or corporation responsible therefor in an action to be instituted
  by  the  county attorney. And all recoveries under this section shall be
  credited to the county road fund.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 5 - County Superintendents › 104-A - Designating as Restricted Highways Under Construction or Reconstruction.

§  104-a.  Designating  as  restricted  highways under construction or
  reconstruction. The commissioner of transportation shall have the  power
  to  designate any highway under construction or reconstruction under the
  supervision  of  the  commissioner   of   transportation,   the   county
  superintendent   of   highways  of  a  street,  highway  or  road  under
  construction or reconstruction  under  his  supervision,  and  the  town
  superintendent   of   highways  of  a  street,  highway  or  road  under
  construction  or  reconstruction  under  the  supervision  of  the  town
  superintendent,  as  a  restricted highway, maintaining traffic thereon,
  subject to the provisions of article thirty-seven  of  the  vehicle  and
  traffic law.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 110 - Definitions.

§ 110. Definitions. As used in this article:
1. The  term  "state moneys" shall include moneys paid by the state to
  the county pursuant to  section  one  hundred  twelve  and  one  hundred
  twelve-a  of  this  chapter and any other moneys appropriated by law for
  the purposes specified in section one hundred fourteen of this chapter;
2. The term "county superintendent of highways" shall  include  county
  engineer   or   other   officer  performing  similar  duties  to  county
  superintendent in counties having no superintendent of highways.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 111 - Payment and Apportionment of Cost Among Counties and Towns.

§ 111. Payment and apportionment of cost among counties and towns. The
  board  of  supervisors  of  any  county,  in lieu of proceeding with the
  construction or improvement of a highway or highways under sections  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,  may  appropriate  and  contribute  to the county road fund an
  amount to be applied to the construction or improvement,  reconstruction
  or  maintenance of such highway or highways under the provisions of this
  article. Such moneys may be raised by the county by tax  in  the  manner
  provided  in  such sections or other law with respect to moneys provided
  for the construction or improvement of a highway or highways  thereunder
  or  may  be raised pursuant to the local finance law; and the provisions
  of such section or laws authorizing apportionment of the expense or part
  thereof to the towns and prescribing the manner  of  such  apportionment
  and the method of providing the town's share thereof shall apply to such
  county contributions. Nothing herein contained, however, shall prevent a
  board of supervisors from providing such contribution to the county road
  fund  by general county tax, without apportionment of the expense to the
  towns.
2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 6 - County Roads › 113 - Annual Statement of Cost.

§ 113. Annual statement of cost. The clerk of the board of supervisors
  of  each  county  shall, upon or before the first day of January in each
  year, after the year nineteen hundred thirty-nine, transmit to the state
  comptroller and the commissioner of transportation a  statement,  signed
  and  verified  by the chairman of the board, and certified by the clerk,
  which shall state the total amount of county  moneys  provided  for  the
  construction,  reconstruction  and  maintenance  of  highways under this
  article. The comptroller shall determine the amount due to  the  several
  counties,  under  the  provisions of section one hundred and twelve, and
  shall draw his warrant upon the state treasury in favor  of  the  county
  treasurer of each county for the total amount to be paid to such county.