N.Y. Highway Law § 141: Estimate of expenditures for highways and bridges

§ 141. Estimate of expenditures for highways and bridges. The estimate

of expenditures for highways and bridges, to be submitted by the town

superintendent, as required by section one hundred four of the town law,

shall specify:

1. The amount of money necessary to be levied and collected for the

repair and improvement of highways, including sluices, culverts and

bridges having a span of less than five feet, and board walks or

renewals thereof on highways less than two rods in width, and also the

amount necessary to construct or repair any public roads, walks, places

or avenues on any sand beach separated by more than two miles from the

main body of the town, or on any island or part of an island in the

town. Such amount shall not be less than an amount which when added to

the amount of money to be received from the state, under the provisions

of section two hundred and seventy-nine, will equal thirty dollars for

each mile of highways within the town, outside the limits of

incorporated villages, except that no town having an assessed valuation

of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars or less per mile

outside of incorporated villages shall be required to levy and collect a

tax under this subdivision in excess of four dollars on each thousand

dollars of assessed valuation.

2. The amount of money necessary to be levied and collected for the

repair and construction of bridges, having a span of five feet or more.

3. The amount of money necessary to be levied and collected for the

purchase, repair and custody of stone crushers, power rollers, traction

engines, road machines for grading and scraping, power trucks, power

graders, turn tables, scarifiers, concrete mixers, power shovels and

distributors and tools and implements.

4. The amount of money necessary to be levied and collected for the

removal of obstructions caused by snow and for other miscellaneous

purposes, including the widening of a state highway under a permit as

provided by section fifty-two. The amounts specified in such statement

shall not exceed the limitations prescribed in section two hundred and

seventy-one. If the town superintendent is of the opinion that an amount

in excess of the limitations therein prescribed be raised by tax, he

shall include in his statement his reasons therefor in detail.