§ 260. Payment of cost of state highway. The entire expense of the construction or improvement of a state highway shall be paid by the department of taxation and finance upon the warrant of the comptroller issued upon the requisition of the department of transportation out of any specific appropriation made available for the construction […]
§ 261. Apportionment and source of funds. Construction of highways under this chapter shall proceed equitably among counties as far as practicable, using as a basis the ratio that the unbuilt mileage in each county bears to the total unbuilt mileage in the state, as herein provided. The funds necessary to provide for the construction […]
§ 262. Appropriations by state for the maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of state highways and state owned bridges thereon. There shall be annually appropriated for the maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of improved state highways and state owned bridges thereon, an amount sufficient to provide therefor, based upon estimates by counties, prepared and submitted by the […]
§ 263. Payment for construction in connection with railroad grade crossing eliminations. In carrying out railroad grade crossing elimination work under the provisions of the railroad law and the grade crossing elimination act, if it becomes necessary, in the judgment of the commissioner of transportation, to provide for highway facilities in those instances where the […]
§ 264. Provision of funds by county or town. Whenever the board of supervisors shall have, by resolution, appropriated and made immediately available to the requisition of the department of transportation an amount sufficient to pay its share of the cost of the construction or improvement which is to be borne by the county within […]
§ 265. Levy of tax upon county. Each supervisor shall present to the clerk of the board of supervisors, on or before November tenth, a statement specifying the amount paid during the preceding year ended on October thirty-first, for the construction, care, maintenance, preservation and repair of public bridges over streams or other waters forming […]
§ 266. Payment for machinery, tools, equipment and implements. After the authorization of the purchase of machinery or equipment as prescribed in section one hundred forty-two, the town board may direct and authorize the supervisor to complete the purchase of such machinery or equipment. If bonds or notes are issued for the purchase of such […]
§ 269. Extraordinary repairs of highways and bridges. If any highway or bridge or the board walk on any highway less than two rods in width, or a walk built to replace the same under section one hundred and fifty-one, shall at any time be damaged or destroyed by the elements or otherwise, or become […]
§ 270. Audit of damages without action. The town board of any town may audit as a town charge, in the same manner as other town charges are audited, any one claim not exceeding five hundred dollars, for damages to person or property, heretofore or hereafter sustained by reason of defective highways or bridges in […]
§ 271. Limitations of amounts to be raised. The amounts to be raised by tax upon the vote of a town board, as provided in this article, shall be subject to the following limitations: 1. The amount to be levied and collected in each year for the repair and improvement of highways, including sluices, culverts […]
§ 272. Submission of propositions at town meetings. A proposition to authorize the levy and collection of an amount greater than that specified in the preceding section for any of the purposes therein mentioned may be submitted upon the written application of twenty-five taxpayers upon the last town assessment-roll or by a majority of the […]
§ 274. Provision of funds for bridge and highway purposes. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the provision by a town, pursuant to the local finance law, in whole or in part, of funds to be expended for the following purposes: 1. Constructing, building, repairing or discontinuing any highway or bridge […]
§ 274-a. Power of county, city or town to provide funds for snow removal. The board of supervisors of any county, the governing board or body of any city, the town board of any town, or the board of trustees of any village may provide funds for snow removal purposes and for the purchase of […]
§ 277. Assessment of village property. In any town in which there may be an incorporated village, which forms a separate road district, and wherein the roads and streets are maintained at the expense of such village, all property within such village shall be exempt from the levy and collection of taxes levied in the […]
§ 278. Statement by clerk of board of supervisors. The clerk of the board of supervisors of each county shall, on or before the first day of January of each year, transmit to the state comptroller and the commissioner of transportation a statement, signed and verified by the chairman of the board, and certified by […]
§ 280. Additional amount of state aid. (a) In any year for which any town has failed to raise any tax for the repair and improvement of highways outside of cities and villages and by reason of such failure is not entitled to any amount of state aid in such year as provided in section […]
§ 281. Mileage and actual valuation. 1. The mileage of highways in towns to be used in determining the amounts to be paid to such towns under the provisions of this article shall be the tables of mileage heretofore prepared by the state engineer, until the corrected tables of mileage prepared as provided in section […]
§ 282. Apportionment and payment of state money; liability. The comptroller shall annually apportion to the towns, upon the basis of mileage certified to him by the commissioner of transportation, the amounts so required to be paid by the state, and shall forthwith pay such sums to the town supervisors of the several towns of […]
§ 283. Custody of highway moneys. All moneys levied and collected as provided in this article, all moneys collected as penalties under this chapter, or received from any other source and available for highway, bridge and miscellaneous purposes and all moneys paid to the town by the state, as provided in sections two hundred seventy-nine, […]
§ 284. Expenditures for repair and improvement of highways. The moneys levied and collected for the repair and improvement of highways, including sluices, culverts and bridges having a span of less than five feet and boardwalks or renewals thereof, the moneys received from the state, as provided by sections two hundred seventy-nine and two hundred […]
