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300 – Apportionment of Division Fence.

§ 300. Apportionment of division fence. Each owner of two adjoining tracts of land, except when they otherwise agree, shall make and maintain a just and equitable portion of the division fence between such lands, unless both of said adjoining owners shall agree to let their said lands lie open, along the division line, to […]

301 – Lands Lying Open.

§ 301. Lands lying open. When the owners of adjoining lands shall choose to let them lie open, as provided in section three hundred, neither of such owners shall be liable to the other in any action or proceeding for any damages done by animals lawfully upon the other’s premises going upon the lands so […]

302 – Division Fence on Change of Title.

§ 302. Division fence on change of title. Whenever a subdivision or new apportionment of any division fence shall become necessary by reason of transfer of the title of either of the adjoining owners, to the whole or any portion of the adjoining lands, by conveyance, devise or descent, such subdivision or new apportionment shall […]

303 – Settlement of Disputes.

§ 303. Settlement of disputes. If disputes arise between the owners of adjoining lands, concerning the liability of either party to make or maintain any division fence, or the proportion or particular part of the fence to be made or maintained by either of them, such disputes shall be settled by any two of the […]

304 – Powers of Fence Viewers.

§ 304. Powers of fence viewers. Witnesses may be examined by the fence viewers on all questions submitted to them; and either of such fence viewers may issue subpoenas for witnesses. A subpoena issued under this section shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules. Each fence viewer thus employed shall be entitled […]

292-A – Cemetery and Funeral Home Combinations.

§ 292-a. Cemetery and funeral home combinations. 1. No town shall, directly or indirectly: (a) sell, or have, enter into or perform a lease of any of its real property dedicated to cemetery purposes or adjacent thereto to a funeral entity, or use any of its property for location of a funeral entity; (b) commingle […]

280-A – Permits for Buildings Not on Improved Mapped Streets.

§ 280-a. Permits for buildings not on improved mapped streets. 1. No permit for the erection of any building shall be issued unless a street or highway giving access to such proposed structure has been duly placed on the official map or plan, or if there be no official map or plan, unless such street […]

281 – Municipal Improvements in Streets.

§ 281. Municipal improvements in streets. No public municipal street utility or improvement shall be constructed by the town in any street or highway within that part of the town outside the limits of any incorporated city or village until it has become a public street or highway and is duly placed on the official […]

282 – Court Review.

§ 282. Court review. Any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the planning board concerning such plat or the changing of the zoning regulations of such land, or any officer, department, board or bureau of the town, may have the decision reviewed by a special term of the supreme court […]

283 – Issuance of Licenses and Permits in Certain Towns.

§ 283. Issuance of licenses and permits in certain towns. If, in any town of the first class at the time of the enactment of this chapter, there exists a building department, set up as an adjunct of the planning board, all licenses or permits, whenever and in the manner required by any building zone […]