N.Y. Highway Law § 59: Additional width, different type of construction or other additional work under repair or reconstruction contracts

§ 59. Additional width, different type of construction or other

additional work under repair or reconstruction contracts. Whenever in

the maintenance, repair or reconstruction of state highways the

commissioner of transportation shall have determined upon the necessity

of resurfacing or reconstructing such highway, the county, town or

village wherein the highway is located may petition the commissioner of

transportation to provide an additional width, a different type of

pavement, or both, or any additional work or any or all of same, in the

plans providing for such resurfacing or reconstruction.

The additional expense of such widening, different type of

construction or additional work shall be borne wholly by such county,

town or village and the provisions of sections forty-six, forty-eight

and forty-nine shall apply to such additional width, different type of

construction or any additional work under such repair or reconstruction

contract in the same manner as under a construction contract as provided

in those sections.