Opinion ID: 1309366
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Heading: Necessity for Formal Resolution of Board of Supervisors.

Text: Soo Line contends that no action to reconstruct the bridge was required of it in the absence of formal action by the Monroe County Board of Supervisors mandating that the bridge be rebuilt. We find no merit in that contention. The position of Monroe County with respect to reconstruction of the bridge was adequately communicated to all affected parties by documents filed in connection with the complaint procedure before the agency. Although the destruction of the bridge may have produced a de facto closing of the road on which it was located, that secondary road has continued to exist as a public highway. Consequently, section 327F.2 was self-executing with respect to the obligation that it visited upon Soo Line. No formal resolution by the board of supervisors was required as a condition for the agency acting to enforce that obligation.