N.Y. Highway Law § 47: Connecting highways in villages

§ 47. Connecting highways in villages. The board of trustees of a

village may, by resolution, petition the commissioner of transportation

for the construction or improvement of a highway to connect streets or

highways within the village which have been paved or improved with state

highways which have been heretofore built under the provisions of

chapter one hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and

ninety-eight, and the acts amendatory thereof. If in the judgment of

the commissioner of transportation public convenience requires the

construction or improvement of such connecting highway, the commissioner

shall cause plans, specifications and estimates to be prepared, and

shall cause the same to be transmitted to the board of supervisors of

the county wherein such highway is situated. The board of supervisors

may thereupon take action on such plans and specifications and adopt a

resolution relating to such construction or improvement. Notwithstanding

any other provision of this chapter, the cost of such construction or

improvement shall be borne and payment thereof shall be made in the

manner as provided for in section two hundred and sixty-four. A

certified copy of such resolution shall be filed in the office of the

department of transportation. The construction or improvement of such

connecting highway shall then be taken up in the order and manner

provided in section two hundred and sixty-one for the construction or

improvement of state highways. If it is desired to construct or improve

any portion of such a connecting highway at a width greater than that

provided for in the plans and specifications therefor, or if a

modification of such plans and specifications is desired by which the

cost thereof will be increased, the board of trustees of the village

shall proceed as in section forty-six to secure such a modification of

the plans and specifications as will provide for such desired

construction. The provisions of such section shall apply in like manner

to the connecting highway to be constructed or improved as provided in

this section.

The provisions of this act shall not prevent the improvement by state

aid under the statute as it existed prior to the passage of this act, of

streets in cities of the second and third class, where, prior to the

passage of this act, highway numbers had been assigned as provided by

article twelve of this act; nor shall the provisions of this act prevent

the improvement in such cities of streets heretofore petitioned for and

approved in cases where the proposed improvement of each street does not

exceed one and one-half miles in length; but the total mileage of all

such streets not exceeding one and one-half miles in length shall not in

the aggregate exceed four miles.

Wherever plans for such improvement in a city of the second class have

been approved and a highway number assigned, and the work is ready for

contract as hereinbefore described and the common council of such city

has appropriated and made available the city's share of the cost of such

improvement, the city treasurer of such city is hereby authorized,

empowered and directed to deposit such moneys with the state comptroller

in the same manner as is provided by this section with regard to the

improvement of village streets.