New York Highway Law Article 3 - STATE HIGHWAYS
- 29 - Property for Highways, Bridges and Other Highway Uses and Purposes to Be Acquired by Acquisition.
1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this chapter, or any other laws, general or special, the commissioner of transportation shall, whenever the federal government shall...
- 30 - Acquisition by the State of Property Required for the Construction and Reconstruction of State Highways and Structures Thereon.
1. (a) Upon the construction, reconstruction or improvement, pursuant to this chapter of a state highway the property required therefor may be acquired by the...
- 31 - Exchange of Reservation Lands of the Seneca Nation of Indians.
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Seneca Nation of Indians which owns and occupies reservation lands or any real property interest therein as...
- 38 - Contracts for Construction or Improvement of Highways.
State highways shall be constructed or improved by contract. Upon the completion and final adoption or approval, as provided by law, of the plans and...
- 39 - Patented Material or Articles.
In the construction, maintenance or repair of state highways, no patented material or article or any other material or article shall be specified, contracted for...
- 40 - Authority of Commissioner of Transportation With Respect to the Performance of Contracts for Construction, Reconstruction or Improvement of State High
40. Authority of commissioner of transportation with respect to the performance of contracts for construction, reconstruction or improvement of state highways, highway projects under the...
- 41 - Maintenance of Highways After Preliminary Work Pending Permanent Paving.
Upon the completion of a contract for the preliminary grading and structures of a state highway the commissioner of transportation shall maintain said preliminary grading...
- 42 - Maintenance of Detours During Construction.
The maintenance and repair of any highway or right of way designated by official order of the department of transportation for use as a detour,...
- 42-a - Establishment of Temporary Detours When State Highways are Being Maintained or Repaired.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred four of this chapter, whenever in the maintenance or repair of a state highway, it is determined by...
- 43 - Intersections, Grading and Paving on County Roads and Town Highways At Intersection With and During Construction or Reconstruction of State Highways.
Whenever in the construction or reconstruction of a state highway it is determined by the commissioner of transportation to modify the grade or alignment of...
- 44 - Acceptance of State Highways When Completed.
Upon the completion of a state highway, or section thereof, constructed or improved under a contract let as provided in this article, the commissioner of...
- 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...
- 46 - State Highways in Villages.
A state highway may be constructed, reconstructed or improved through a village so as to form a continuous highway on the state highway system. Such...
- 47 - Connecting Highways in Villages.
The board of trustees of a village may, by resolution, petition the commissioner of transportation for the construction or improvement of a highway to connect...
- 48 - State Highways of Additional Width and Increased Cost At Expense of Town.
Whenever the department of transportation shall have determined upon the construction or improvement of a state highway or section thereof and it is desired by...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 52 - Permits for Work Within the State Highway Right of Way.
Except in connection with the construction, reconstruction, maintenance or improvement of a state highway, no person, firm, corporation, municipality, or state department or agency shall...
- 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...
- 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...
- 54 - Sidewalks Along Improved State Highways.
Walks or paths for pedestrians may be constructed by a county along any improved state highway or along a part thereof in any town of...
- 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,...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 62 - Improvement of Alignment and of Dangerous Conditions on Repair Work.
Whenever in the maintenance, repair or reconstruction of state highways under the provisions of this chapter, the commissioner of transportation shall have determined upon the...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
Last modified: February 3, 2019