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60 – Alteration of County Roads or Town Highways.

§ 60. Alteration of county roads or town highways. Whenever the commissioner of transportation shall deem it necessary to discontinue or alter any part of a county road or town highway because of its interference with the proper location or construction of any work on the canal system either of improvment, maintance, or repair he […]

61 – Farm and Road Bridges.

§ 61. Farm and road bridges. The commissioner of transportation is authorized and required to maintain until April first, nineteen hundred fifty-four, at public expense farm, road and street bridges over the canal system, in all places where such bridges were constructed prior to the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred thirty-nine, if, in his […]

62 – Maintenance by State of Certain Bridges Over the Canal System.

§ 62. Maintenance by state of certain bridges over the canal system. All highway or pedestrian, lift or movable bridges over the canal system other than highway bridges connecting parts of a state highway heretofore constructed as a part of the barge canal improvement shall be reconstructed, improved, maintained and repaired at the expense of […]

64 – Commutation for Bridges.

§ 64. Commutation for bridges. The commissioner of transportation may commute with owners and claimants of bridges over any canal, by paying such owner or claimant such sum in lieu of a bridge as may be agreed on between the claimant and the commissioner of transportation. If, in the opinion of the commissioner of transportation, […]

65 – Private Road in Lieu of Farm Bridges.

§ 65. Private road in lieu of farm bridges. If the commissioner of transportation cannot agree with the owner of a farm bridge spanning a canal as to the amount of commutation in any case where he is of the opinion that the state should erect such bridge, and the commissioner of transportation determines that […]

66 – Restrictions on the Construction of Farm and Road Bridges.

§ 66. Restrictions on the construction of farm and road bridges. A person shall not be entitled to demand a farm bridge across a canal or feeder where the necessity of convenience of such bridge shall have arisen from the division or acquisition of property subsequent to the location of such canal or feeder. A […]

67 – Construction of Bridges by Municipal Corporations.

§ 67. Construction of bridges by municipal corporations. The common council of any city may provide by ordinance for the erection of a lift, hoist or swing bridge over a canal at any street in such city, on plans and specifications approved by the commissioner of transportation. If the commissioner of transportation shall consent to […]

68 – Bridges Spanning Canal Channels.

§ 68. Bridges spanning canal channels. 1. When a bridge spanning the Oswego canal or that portion of the Erie canal between the Hudson river and its junction with the Oswego canal, is to be reconstructed, or a new bridge is to be built over such sections of the canal system, such reconstructed or new […]

51 – Method of Abandonment.

§ 51. Method of abandonment. Prior to the exercising of such authority of abandonment, however, the corporation shall cause a notice of any proposed abandonment to be transmitted to the commission and to be published once each week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county wherein such lands are located, except […]