N.Y. Canal Law § 61: Farm and road bridges

§ 61. Farm and road bridges. The commissioner of transportation is

authorized and required to maintain until April first, nineteen hundred

fifty-four, at public expense farm, road and street bridges over the

canal system, in all places where such bridges were constructed prior to

the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred thirty-nine, if, in his

opinion, the public convenience requires that they should be continued,

whether heretofore maintained at the expense of the state or of the

counties, towns, villages and cities where they are situate, provided,

however, that commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred

fifty-four, and continuing thereafter, the maintenance, repair,

improvement, replacement or closing of any such bridge over any section

of the canal heretofore abandoned or which may hereafter be abandoned

shall be governed by the provisions of the highway law, except that any

such bridges situate in a city shall be maintained, repaired, improved,

replaced or closed in the same manner and subject to the same provisions

of law as apply to other streets and bridges in such city.