New York Highway Law Article 8 - TOWN HIGHWAYS

• 170 - Survey for the Laying Out of a Highway.
  Whenever the town superintendent shall lay out any highway, either upon application to him or otherwise, he shall notify the county superintendent, whose duty it...
• 171 - Highways by Dedication.
  1. Whenever land is dedicated to a town for highway purposes therein, the town superintendent may with the consent of the town board, either with...
• 172 - Application.
  Any person or corporation assessable for highway taxes may make written application to the town superintendent of the town in which he or it shall...
• 173 - Petition for Acquisition.
  Whenever the town superintendent of highways of any township shall determine that public necessity requires the laying out of a new or additional highway, and...
• 177 - Damages in Certain Cases; How Estimated.
  The owner of lands within the bounds of a highway discontinued may enclose the same and have the exclusive use thereof, and the benefits resulting...
• 180 - Limitations Upon Laying Out Highways.
  No highways shall be laid out less than three rods in width, nor through buildings or any fixtures or erections for the purpose of trade...
• 181 - Laying Out Highways Through Burying-Grounds.
  No private road or highway shall be laid out or constructed upon or through any burying-ground, unless the remains therein contained are first carefully removed,...
• 182 - Costs; by Whom Paid.
  In all cases of assessments of damages by supreme court, the costs thereof shall be paid by the town thereof, except that when reassessment of...
• 184 - When Officers of Different Towns Disagree About Highway.
  When the town superintendent of any town or officers of any village or city having the powers of town superintendents shall differ with the town...
• 185 - Difference About Improvements.
  When the town superintendent or the officers of a village or city having the powers of town superintendents therein, shall desire to make a new...
• 186 - Highway in Two or More Towns.
  When application is made to lay out, alter or discontinue a highway located in two or more towns, all notices or proceedings required to be...
• 187 - Laying Out, Dividing and Maintaining Highway Upon Town Line, or Wholly in One Town But Adjacent to Another Town.
  An application to lay out a highway upon the line between two or more towns, or wholly in one town but adjacent to another town,...
• 188 - Final Determination, How Carried Out.
  The final determination of the supreme court relating to laying out, altering or discontinuing a highway, and all orders and other papers filed or entered...
• 189 - Highways by Use.
  All lands which shall have been used by the public as a highway for the period of ten years or more, shall be a highway,...
• 190 - Fences to Be Removed.
  Whenever a highway shall have been laid out through any inclosed, cultivated or improved lands, in conformity to the provisions of this chapter, the town...
• 191 - Highways or Roads Along Division Lines.
  Whenever a highway or private road shall be laid along the division line between lands of two or more persons, and wholly upon one side...
• 192 - Adjournments.
  If any accident shall prevent any of the proceedings required by this chapter relating to the laying out, altering or discontinuing of a highway, or...
• 193 - Contracts for the Construction of Town Highways.
  The town board of any town may provide that the construction of new highways and bridges, or the permanent improvement or reconstruction of existing highways...
• 194 - Construction or Improvement of Town Highways by County and Town.
  1. The board of supervisors of a county may provide for the construction or improvement under this section of a town highway or section thereof...
• 195 - County Aid for Construction, Improvement and Maintenance of Town Highways.
  1. The board of supervisors of a county may aid a town or towns in the construction or improvement of a town highway or town...
• 196 - County Aid for Connecting Highway Through Villages.
  The board of supervisors of a county may, upon the petition of the board of trustees of an incorporated village, provide for the construction or...
• 197 - Damages for Change of Grade.
  In any town in which a town highway shall be repaired, graded and macadamized from curb to curb by the authorities of the town the...
• 198 - Interest on Damages for Change of Grade.
  Whenever awards shall be lawfully made, pursuant to any statute of this state, for damages sustained by real estate or any improvements thereon by reason...
• 199 - Widening Highways; Petition.
  When any part of a highway in any town of this state, not in an incorporated village or city, running between two or more villages...
• 203 - Widening, How Constructed.
  The town superintendent shall construct such widening of the highway according to plans and specifications adopted by the county superintendent and approved by the town...
• 204 - Actions to Compel Widening; How Affected by Petition.
  In case an action might lie in any court of this state against the town superintendent of any town or towns to compel such superintendent...
• 205 - Highways Abandoned.
  1. Every highway that shall not have been opened and worked within six years from the time it shall have been dedicated to the use...
• 205-a - Seasonal Limited Use Highway.
  1. The town highway superintendent is authorized to annually designate, on or before the first day of November in each year, a town highway as...
• 205-b - Qualified Abandonment of Certain Town Highways.
  1. Abandonment of town highways which are access roads to state forest preserve lands or lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the state and...
• 206 - Highways in Lands Acquired by the United States for Fortification Purposes Deemed Abandoned.
  When land sought to be acquired by the United States of America for the purpose of fortifications includes a highway or portion thereof, the condemnation...
• 207 - Discontinuance of Highway.
  Whenever the town superintendent of any town shall determine that any portion of any highway or street, not within the limits of an incorporated village,...
• 208 - Description to Be Recorded.
  Immediately upon making and entering the order mentioned in section two hundred and seven of this chapter, the said town superintendent shall cause a written...
• 209 - Damages Caused by Discontinuance.
  Any person or corporation interested as owner or otherwise, in any lands and claiming any loss or damages, legal or equitable, by reason of the...
• 210 - Papers, Where Filed.
  All applications, certificates, appointments and other papers relating to the laying out, altering or discontinuing of any highway shall be filed by the town superintendent...
• 211 - Costs of Motion.
  Costs of a motion to confirm, vacate or modify the report of commissioners of appraisal appointed by the court to lay out, alter or discontinue...
• 211-a - Abandonment of Certain Town Highways.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and upon the request of the county superintendent of highways, any town board may, by resolution duly adopted,...
• 211-b - Abandonment of Certain Town Highways in School Districts.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and upon the request of either the county superintendent of highways or the town superintendent of highways, any...
• 212 - Changing Location of Highways Over Certain Lands Owned and Occupied by the State.
  If a highway passes over or through lands wholly owned and occupied by the state, the location of such portion of such highway as passes...
• 212-a - Abandoning of Parts of Town Highways.
  Whenever, pursuant to this chapter or under the provisions of any statute, any town road shall have been widened, straightened, extended, drained, paved or otherwise...
• 213 - Construction and Repair of Approaches to Private Lands.
  The owners or occupants of lands shall construct and keep in repair all approaches or driveways from the town highway, under the direction of the...
• 214 - Depositing Ashes, Snow, Ice, Stones, Sticks, et Cetera Upon the Highway.
  Any person who shall deposit or throw loose stones in the gutter or grass adjoining a town highway, or shall deposit or throw upon a...
• 216 - When Town Not Liable for Damages.
  No town shall be liable for any damage resulting to persons or property by the reason of the breaking of any bridge, sluice or culvert,...
• 218 - Storm Water Sewers in Town Highways.
  1. Storm water laterals, petition for improvement. The town board may, in any town where an outlet drain or sewer has been or is to...

Last modified: February 3, 2019