N.Y. Highway Law § 239: Joint liabilities of towns and their joint contracts

§ 239. Joint liabilities of towns and their joint contracts. Whenever

any two or more towns shall be liable to make or maintain any bridge or

bridges, the same shall be built and maintained at the joint expense of

such towns, without reference to town lines, except where the board of

supervisors has otherwise apportioned such expense as provided in

section two hundred and seventy-four. The town superintendents of all

the towns, or of one or more of such towns, the others refusing to act,

may, when directed by their respective town boards, enter into a joint

contract for making and repairing such bridges.