New York Highway Law Article 6 - COUNTY ROADS
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 114 - Sources and Use of County Road Fund Moneys.
1. State moneys, together with the amount provided by the county under section one hundred eleven of this chapter, including any moneys, collected from the...
- 115 - Preparation of Map Showing Proposed County Road System.
The county superintendent of highways of each county shall prepare a map showing a proposed county road system for such county to be constructed with...
- 115-a - Abandonment of Unused Portions of Town Highways on County Road System.
Whenever a county road or part thereof constructed as part of the county road system deviates from the line of an existing town highway, or...
- 115-b - Removal of Road or Part of Road From County Road System.
Upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of highways and pursuant to a written agreement with the governing body of a town, village or city,...
- 115-c - Notice to Municipalities Where County Roads are Abandoned or Revert to Such Municipalities.
Whenever a county road is abandoned or reverts to a city, town or village pursuant to the provisions of sections one hundred fifteen-a and one...
- 116 - Statement and Approval of Proposed Work.
Before any county road fund moneys are spent or obligated in any one year under article six, except as otherwise provided in this section, the...
- 117 - Construction and Reconstruction of County Roads.
Construction or reconstruction of such roads, including necessary grade and culvert work, and any plans and specifications therefor, shall conform to an outline or general...
- 117-a - Highways in Villages in Niagara County.
The board of supervisors of Niagara county may place upon the map of the county road system and may provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement...
- 117-b - Controlled-Access Highways in Counties.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law to the contrary, a county road entirely or partly constructed, reconstructed or improved at a...
- 117-c - Hawking, Peddling, Vending, Sale of Goods, Wares or Merchandise; Erie County; Certain Areas.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, except section thirty-five of the general business law, the county of Erie shall have the power to enact a...
- 117-d - Pedestrian Overpass to Be Designated As the "Jennifer Bolender Memorial Overpass".
The pedestrian overpass spanning the LaSalle Expressway in the city of Niagara Falls, in the county of Niagara, known as the sixty-sixth street overpass, shall...
- 117-e - Pedestrian Overpass to Be Designated As the "Police Officer Robert Mclellan Memorial Overpass".
The pedestrian overpass spanning Route 33 in the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie, known as the Hickory Street Junction, shall be designated...
- 118 - Acquisition by Counties of Lands for Right-Of-way and Other Purposes.
1. If a county road, proposed to be constructed or improved as provided in this article, or which shall have been heretofore constructed, or which...
- 118-a - Abandoning of Parts of County Highways.
Whenever, pursuant to this act or under the provisions of any statute, any county road shall have been widened, straightened, extended, drained, paved and/or otherwise...
- 118-b - Entry Upon Lands by County Superintendent.
The county superintendent may, when authorized by the county board, enter 1. Upon any lands adjacent to any county road for the purpose of opening...
- 119 - Purchase of Lands.
The board of supervisors may, by resolution, authorize its chairman, a member, or a committee to purchase the lands to be acquired for the purposes...
- 120 - Petition to Acquire Lands.
If the board of supervisors is unable to acquire land by purchase as provided for in section one hundred nineteen of this chapter, the board...
- 121 - Commissioners of Appraisal to Be Appointed.
Upon such presentation, such court shall, after hearing any person owning or claiming an interest in the lands to be acquired who may appear, appoint...
- 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...
- 123 - County Treasurer to Pay Awards.
Within six months after the report of the commissioner of appraisal shall be confirmed as aforesaid, the county treasurer of such county shall pay to...
- 125 - Land 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 or maintenance of highways improved...
- 126 - Awarding of Contracts.
Contracts for construction, reconstruction or work to be performed under contract for purposes authorized in this article shall be awarded by the county superintendent of...
- 127 - Payments From the County Road Fund.
1. Except as otherwise provided in this article, no claim against the county road fund shall be paid unless such claim has first been approved...
- 129 - Maintenance and Apportionment of Cost.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the maintenance of roads improved under the provisions of this article shall be the responsibility of the county under...
- 130 - Bridges on County Road System.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections two hundred and thirty-one and two hundred and thirty-three of this chapter, or any other statute, any bridge hereafter proposed...
- 131 - County Roads of Additional Width and Increased Cost At Expense of Village.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the county road system provided for in this article may include highways within an incorporated village, but if a...
- 131-a - Application.
The provisions of section one hundred thirty-one-a through one hundred thirty-one-j shall not apply to bridges on the Hudson river below Waterford, or on the...
- 131-b - County Highways and Bridges.
1. A board of supervisors may, when satisfied that it is for the interest of the county, lay out, construct, open, alter or discontinue a...
- 131-c - Location and Construction of Bridges.
The board may authorize the location, change of location and construction of any bridge, applied for by any town or towns, jointly, or by other...
- 131-d - Construction by County of Destroyed Bridges.
If any bridge within a county, or intersected by any boundary line of a county, shall be destroyed by the elements, and the board of...
- 131-e - Bridges Over County Lines.
The board shall provide for the care, maintenance, preservation and repair of any draw or other bridge intersecting the boundary line of counties or towns,...
- 131-f - Streets Outside Cities.
When any territory in a county containing an incorporated city of one hundred thousand inhabitants or upward, lying outside the limits of such city, has...
- 131-g - Regulation of Toll Rates.
Such boards shall have power by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to authorize an alteration, reduction or change of the rates...
- 131-h - Separate Highway Districts in Certain Counties.
The board may establish separate highway districts in counties containing more than three hundred thousand acres of unimproved unoccupied forest lands, for the purpose of...
- 131-i - Boundary Lines.
Wherever the words "upon its borders" are used in this article in reference to the boundary line between two towns, the same are and were...
- 131-j - Development of Highways and Other Improvements in Certain Counties.
1. The board of supervisors of any county having a population of more than twelve thousand and adjoining a county having a population of four...
- 131-k - County Aid for Construction and Improvement of Certain Public Highways and Bridges in Municipalities.
1. The legislative body of a county may, upon consent of the governing body of any municipality situated in such county, provide for the construction,...
- 133 - Machinery, Tools, Equipment, Implements, Materials and Supplies.
1. There is hereby continued in each county the separate fund, known as the county road machinery fund. Such fund shall consist of, and there...
- 133-a - Rental or Hiring of County Highway Machinery, Tools or Equipment.
The board of supervisors or county legislature of any county may, on the recommendation of the county superintendent of highways, permit the use of any...
- 134 - Purchases by County Purchasing Agent.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article any county may, by a resolution of its board of supervisors regularly adopted, provide that all, or any...
- 135 - Snow Removal, and Cutting of Weeds.
The board of supervisors of any county may annually appropriate and expend such sum as it deems proper for the removal of snow from the...
- 135-a - Control of Snow and Ice Conditions on County Roads.
Notwithstanding any general, special or local law, any county or its superintendent of highways may contract with any city, town or village for the removal...
- 136 - Permits for Work Within the County Road Right of Way.
1. Except in connection with the construction, reconstruction, maintenance or improvement of a county road or operations of a corporation pursuant to the provisions of...
- 137 - Maintenance of Certain Highways by a County.
The commissioner of transportation may, and he is hereby authorized to abandon to each of the respective counties hereinafter named for the purpose of future...
- 138 - Bridge Between Saratoga County and Warren County to Be Designated As the "Irving H. Densmore Memorial Bridge".
The bridge across the Hudson river between the village of Corinth, town of Corinth in Saratoga county and the town of Lake Luzerne in Warren...
- 139 - County Liable for Injuries Caused by Defective Highways and Bridges.
1. When, by law, a county has charge of the repair or maintenance of a road, highway, bridge or culvert, the county shall be liable...
- 139-a - Presentation of Claims for Torts; Actions Against Counties.
1. Any claim including a claim specified in section one hundred thirty-nine of this chapter which may be made against the county for damages for...
Last modified: February 3, 2019