§ 6-600 Definitions. The term “street” as used in this article also includes a highway, road, avenue, lane or alley which the public have a right to use; and the term “pavement” includes a macadam, asphalt, brick, concrete or other similarly improved roadbed, and is only applied to the portion of the street between the […]
§ 6-602 Separate highway district. The streets and public grounds of a village constitute a separate highway district and are under the exclusive control and supervision of the board of trustees or other officers of the village when such control is delegated to them by such board.
§ 6-604 Care of bridges. If the board of trustees of a village has the supervision and control of a bridge therein, it shall continue to exercise such control under this chapter. In any other case, every public bridge within a village shall be under the control of the superintendants of highways of the town […]
§ 6-606 When village may construct or repair bridges. A village may assume the control, care and maintenance of a bridge or bridges wholly within its boundaries, upon the adoption of a resolution of the board of trustees therefor; such action, however, shall be subject to a permissive referendum as provided in this chapter or […]
§ 6-608 When village may relinquish care of bridges. Any village which has the supervision, control, care and maintenance of any bridge or bridges wholly within its boundaries, or which has entered into an agreement with a town as provided in sections 6-604 and 6-606 of this chapter, may with the consent of the town […]
§ 6-610 Dedication of streets. An owner of land in a village who has laid out a street thereon may dedicate such street, or any part thereof, or an easement therein, to the village for a public street, or an owner may dedicate for such purpose land not laid out as a street. Upon an […]
§ 6-612 Street improvement or acceptance. The board of trustees may by resolution provide for laying out, altering, widening, narrowing, discontinuing or accepting the dedication of a street in the village.
§ 6-614 Notice of meeting of board. Upon adoption of a resolution the board shall immediately give notice of a hearing thereon at specified time and place to consider the resolution, and such hearing shall be conducted as provided in article twenty-one herein. The notice must state the general object of the resolution and if […]
§ 6-616. Changing grade of street or bridge. 1. If a village has exclusive control and jurisdiction of a street or bridge therein, it may change the grade thereof. If such change of grade shall injuriously affect any building or land adjacent thereto, or the use thereof, the change of grade, to the extent of […]
§ 6-618 Streets on boundary lines. Whenever a street is on a line between two villages, or between a village and a city or town, the highway or street commissioners of such adjoining municipalities shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, meet at a time and place to be determined […]
§ 6-620 Sidewalks, payment for construction. Whenever the owner or occupant of lands adjoining a street constructs along such street a sidewalk of stone, cement, brick or other similar materials to be approved by the board of trustees, and the board consents to bear a portion of the expense of construction thereof, the board of […]
§ 6-622 Pavements. The board of trustees may cause a street in the village or a part thereof, to be graded and paved or repaved wholly at the expense of the village, or wholly at the expense of the owners of the adjoining land or partly at the expense of each. If the street or […]
§ 6-624 Acquisition of lands for parks, squares, athletic fields and playgrounds. The board of trustees may, on behalf of the village, accept by grant or devise a gift of land for a public park, square, athletic field or playground, within the village or wholly within five miles of the boundaries thereof, or may, if […]
§ 6-626 Streets by prescription. All lands within the village which have been used by the public as a street for ten years or more continuously, shall be a street with the same force and effect as if it had been duly laid out and recorded as such.
§ 6-628 Liability of village in certain actions. No civil action shall be maintained against the village for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed or for damages or injuries to person or property […]
§ 6-630 Provisions governing the improvement of highways in villages. l. The term “highway improvement,” as used in this section, shall mean the filling, excavating, grading, paving, draining and the laying of curbs, gutters, sidewalks upon or otherwise improving a state highway, or a highway constructed under a special act of the legislature having the […]
§ 6-632 Incumbering streets; encroachments. 1. May regulate the use of sidewalks, stores, house and other building fronts; may regulate and prohibit the erection and construction of any stoop, steps, platform, curb pumps, bay windows, stairs, cellar, area, areaway, descent to or ascent from any building or any projection from any building in, to, upon, […]
