N.Y. Town Law § 273: Official map, changes

§ 273. Official map, changes. Such town board is authorized and

empowered, whenever and as often as it may deem it for the public

interest, to change or add to the official map of the town so as to lay

out new streets, highways, drainage systems or parks, or to widen or

close existing streets, highways, drainage systems or parks within that

part of the town outside the limits of any incorporated city or village.

At least ten days' notice of a public hearing on any proposed action

with reference to any such change in the official map shall be published

in a newspaper of general circulation in such town. Before making any

such addition or change, the town board shall refer the matter to the

planning board for report thereon, but if the planning board shall not

make its report within thirty days of such reference, it shall forfeit

the right further to suspend action. Such additions and changes, when

adopted, shall become a part of the official map of the town, and shall

be deemed to be final and conclusive with respect to the location of the

streets, highways, drainage systems and parks shown thereon. The layout,

widening or closing, or the approval of the layout, widening or closing,

of streets, highways, drainage systems or parks, by the town board, or

the town superintendent of highways, under provisions of law other than

those contained in this article, shall be deemed to be an addition or

change of the official map, and shall be subject to all the provisions

of this article with regard to such additions or changes.