N.Y. Highway Law § 60: Sprinkling; removal of filth and refuse

§ 60. Sprinkling; removal of filth and refuse. Upon petition signed by

a majority of the taxpayers owning property abutting upon an improved

state highway and filed with the town clerk, the town board may set

aside any section of such highway outside of a village and contract for

the sprinkling of the roadbed with water and also contract for the

removal of filth and refuse therefrom. No such contract shall be entered

into unless previously approved by the county superintendent. The amount

of any such contract so entered into shall be assessed upon the property

abutting upon such section in the proportion which the frontage of each

parcel thereof bears to the length of the section exclusive of

intersecting highways. Such assessment shall be made, levied and

collected in the same general manner, and at the same time and by the

same officers as the town taxes of said town are assessed, levied and

collected.