New York Laws
Article 8 - Town Highways
191 - Highways or Roads Along Division Lines.

§ 191. Highways or roads along division lines. Whenever a highway or
private road shall be laid along the division line between lands of two
or more persons, and wholly upon one side of the line, and the land upon
both sides is cultivated or improved, the persons owning or occupying
the lands adjoining such highway or road shall be paid for building and
maintaining such additional fence as they may be required to build or
maintain, by reason of the laying out and opening such highway or road;
which damages shall be ascertained and determined in the same manner
that other damages are ascertained and determined in the laying out of
highways or private roads.

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