New York Highway Law Article 11 - Miscellaneous Provisions
- 300 - Private Road.
An application for a private road shall be made in writing to the town superintendent of the town in which it is to be located,...
- 301 - Jury to Determine Necessity and Assess Damages.
The town superintendent to whom the application shall be made shall appoint as early a day as the convenience of the parties interested will allow,...
- 302 - Copy Application and Notice Delivered to Applicant.
Such town superintendent shall deliver to the applicant a copy of the application, to which shall be added a notice of the time and place...
- 303 - Copy and Notice to Be Served.
The applicant on receiving the copy and notice shall, on the same day, or the next day thereafter, excluding Sundays and holidays, cause such copy...
- 304 - List of Jurors, and Drawing Jurors.
At such time and place, on due proof of the service of the notice, the town superintendent shall, in the presence of a justice of...
- 305 - Delivery, Execution and Return of Venire.
The justice of the peace attending upon such drawing of jurors shall thereupon issue a venire, and the same shall be delivered and executed in...
- 306 - Jury to Determine and Assess Damages; Fees of Justice of Peace and Constable.
At the time and place to which the proceeding has been adjourned, as provided in section three hundred and four hereof, the town superintendent, and...
- 307 - Their Verdict.
The jury shall view the premises, hear the allegations of the parties, and such witnesses as they may produce, and if they shall determine that...
- 308 - Value of Highway Discontinued.
If the necessity of such private road has been occasioned by the alteration or discontinuance of a public highway running through the lands belonging to...
- 309 - Papers to Be Recorded in the Town Clerk's Office.
The town superintendent shall annex to such verdict the application, and their certificate that the road is laid out, and the same shall be filed...
- 310 - Damages to Be Paid Before Opening the Road.
The damages assessed by the jury shall be paid by the party for whose benefit the road is laid out, before the road is opened...
- 311 - Fees of Officers.
Every juror serving on the jury, in proceedings for a private road, shall be entitled to receive for his services one dollar and fifty cents...
- 312 - Motion to Confirm, Vacate or Modify.
Within thirty days after the decision of the jury shall have been filed in the town clerk's office, the owner, occupant or applicant may apply...
- 313 - Costs of New Hearing.
If upon a new hearing, the damages assessed are increased, the applicant shall pay the costs and expenses thereof, otherwise the owner shall pay the
- 314 - For What Purpose Private Road May Be Used.
Every such private road, when so laid out, shall be for the use of such applicant, his heirs and assigns; but not to be converted...
- 315 - Credit on Private Road.
Any person living upon a private road may be credited on account of his highway taxes in any year an amount equal to the value...
- 315-a - Improvement Corporations; Right of Acquisition.
Any corporation formed for the purpose of developing or improving real property, which lays out for public use roads, streets, avenues or highways, upon or...
- 316 - Entitled to Free Use of Highways.
The authorities having charge or control of any highway, public street, park, parkway, driveway, or place, shall have no power or authority to pass, enforce...
- 317 - Drug Free School Zone Signs.
Any political subdivision of the state having jurisdiction over any highway within school grounds, as defined in subdivision fourteen of section 220.00 of the penal...
- 319 - Obstructions and Their Removal.
1. Obstructions, within the meaning of this section, shall include trees which have been cut or have fallen either on adjacent lands or within the...
- 320 - Injuries to Highways.
Whoever shall injure any highway or bridge maintained at the public expense, by obstructing or diverting any creek, water-course or sluice, or by dragging logs...
- 322 - Trees, Removal From Highway Bounds.
Any tree standing or lying on land within the bounds of any highway shall be for the proper use of the owner or occupant of...
- 323 - Injuring Fruit or Shade Trees.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons whatsoever in this state to hitch any horse or other animal to or leave the same...
- 324 - Penalty for Falling Trees.
If any person shall cut down any tree on land not occupied by him, so that it shall fall into any highway, river or stream,...
- 325 - Fallen Trees to Be Removed.
If any tree shall fall, or be fallen by any person from any inclosed land into any highway, any person may give notice to the...
- 326 - Penalties, How Recovered.
All penalties or forfeitures given in this chapter, and not otherwise specially provided for, shall be recovered by the town superintendent, in the name of...
- 327 - Lighting Roads, Highways and Bridges.
The town board of any town may from time to time provide for lighting dangerous portions of any road or highway defined by section three...
- 328 - Lighting of Public Highways or Bridges.
The board of supervisors of any county may from time to time provide for lighting public highways, or portions thereof, or bridges, located in such...
- 329 - Land Monuments and Markers; Duty of Highway Superintendents and Commissioner of Transportation in Regard Thereto.
If, upon the construction, reconstruction or improvement of a state highway, county road or town highway, including widening and straightening, any land boundary markers or...
- 330 - Ramps in Street Curbing.
No public street, sidewalk adjacent to a curb, sidewalk adjacent to a parking lot, sidewalk adjacent to a private road open to public motor vehicle...
- 331 - Consideration of Complete Street Design.
(a) For all state, county and local transportation projects that are undertaken by the department or receive both federal and state funding and are subject...
Last modified: February 3, 2019