209 – Damages Caused by Discontinuance.
§ 209. Damages caused by discontinuance. Any person or corporation interested as owner or otherwise, in any lands and claiming any loss or damages, legal or equitable, by reason of the discontinuance, abandonment or closing of any street or highway, not within the limits of an incorporated village, under or pursuant to the provisions of […]
210 – Papers, Where Filed.
§ 210. Papers, where filed. All applications, certificates, appointments and other papers relating to the laying out, altering or discontinuing of any highway shall be filed by the town superintendent as soon as a decision shall have been made thereon in the town clerk’s office of the town.
211 – Costs of Motion.
§ 211. Costs of motion. Costs of a motion to confirm, vacate or modify the report of commissioners of appraisal appointed by the court to lay out, alter or discontinue a highway may be allowed in the discretion of the court not exceeding fifty dollars. On an uncontested motion to confirm the report of the […]
211-A – Abandonment of Certain Town Highways.
§ 211-a. Abandonment of certain town highways. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and upon the request of the county superintendent of highways, any town board may, by resolution duly adopted, declare any town highway or portion thereof in the town running through forest or forest lands not necessarily for ingress to or egress […]
205 – Highways Abandoned.
§ 205. Highways abandoned. 1. Every highway that shall not have been opened and worked within six years from the time it shall have been dedicated to the use of the public, or laid out, shall cease to be a highway; but the period during which any action or proceeding shall have been, or shall […]
205-A – Seasonal Limited Use Highway.
§ 205-a. Seasonal limited use highway. 1. The town highway superintendent is authorized to annually designate, on or before the first day of November in each year, a town highway as a seasonal limited use highway. 2. Seasonal limited use highways shall be those town highways without occupied residences or commercial buildings dependent upon such […]
205-B – Qualified Abandonment of Certain Town Highways.
§ 205-b. Qualified abandonment of certain town highways. 1. Abandonment of town highways which are access roads to state forest preserve lands or lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the state and held under the jurisdiction of the department of environmental conservation shall be qualifiedly abandoned in the following manner and shall have the […]
192 – Adjournments.
§ 192. Adjournments. If any accident shall prevent any of the proceedings required by this chapter relating to the laying out, altering or discontinuing of a highway, or the laying out of a private road, to be done on the day assigned, the proceedings may be adjourned to some other day, and the town superintendent […]
193 – Contracts for the Construction of Town Highways.
§ 193. Contracts for the construction of town highways. The town board of any town may provide that the construction of new highways and bridges, or the permanent improvement or reconstruction of existing highways and bridges or repairing, rebuilding or replacing walks on highways less than two rods in width pursuant to the provisions of […]
194 – Construction or Improvement of Town Highways by County and Town.
§ 194. Construction or improvement of town highways by county and town. 1. The board of supervisors of a county may provide for the construction or improvement under this section of a town highway or section thereof in one or more towns of the county or of a highway laid out along the boundary line […]