N.Y. Canal Law § 60: Alteration of county roads or town highways

§ 60. Alteration of county roads or town highways. Whenever the

commissioner of transportation shall deem it necessary to discontinue or

alter any part of a county road or town highway because of its

interference with the proper location or construction of any work on the

canal system either of improvment, maintance, or repair he shall direct

such discontinuance or alteration to be made and file in the office of

the clerk of the county or town in which such road or highway is

situate, an accurate description of the part of such road or highway so

discontinued and of the one laid out anew. From the time of filing such

description such road or highway shall be considered so altered. The use

of such old road or highway shall not be discontinued until the new road

or highway is declared open for public use by the commissioner of

transportation, and a certificate to such effect filed in the office of

the clerk of the county or town in which said road or highway is

located. Every alteration made on any public road located upon the canal

system before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine

shall be deemed valid in law from the time of such alteration.