New York Laws
Article 8 - Town Highways
207 - Discontinuance of Highway.

ยง 207. Discontinuance of highway. Whenever the town superintendent of
any town shall determine that any portion of any highway or street, not
within the limits of an incorporated village, which is the terminus of
such street or highway, is unnecessary for highway purposes, and said
town superintendent may, by an order to be duly entered in the town
clerk's office, direct such highway to be discontinued and abandoned for
public purposes. Provided, however, that no portion of such highway to
be discontinued shall be greater than one thousand feet of the terminus
thereof and that the owners of the land on both sides of such highway or
street, for the distance it is proposed to discontinue the same, shall,
by written petition to such town superintendent have requested the
discontinuance thereof.

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HAY - Highway

Article 8 - Town Highways

170 - Survey for the Laying Out of a Highway.

171 - Highways by Dedication.

172 - Application.

173 - Petition for Acquisition.

177 - Damages in Certain Cases; How Estimated.

180 - Limitations Upon Laying Out Highways.

181 - Laying Out Highways Through Burying-Grounds.

182 - Costs; by Whom Paid.

184 - When Officers of Different Towns Disagree About Highway.

185 - Difference About Improvements.

186 - Highway in Two or More Towns.

187 - Laying Out, Dividing and Maintaining Highway Upon Town Line, or Wholly in One Town but Adjacent to Another Town.

188 - Final Determination, How Carried Out.

189 - Highways by Use.

190 - Fences to Be Removed.

191 - Highways or Roads Along Division Lines.

192 - Adjournments.

193 - Contracts for the Construction of Town Highways.

194 - Construction or Improvement of Town Highways by County and Town.

195 - County Aid for Construction, Improvement and Maintenance of Town Highways.

196 - County Aid for Connecting Highway Through Villages.

197 - Damages for Change of Grade.

198 - Interest on Damages for Change of Grade.

199 - Widening Highways; Petition.

203 - Widening, How Constructed.

204 - Actions to Compel Widening; How Affected by Petition.

205 - Highways Abandoned.

205-A - Seasonal Limited Use Highway.

205-B - Qualified Abandonment of Certain Town Highways.

206 - Highways in Lands Acquired by the United States for Fortification Purposes Deemed Abandoned.

207 - Discontinuance of Highway.

208 - Description to Be Recorded.

209 - Damages Caused by Discontinuance.

210 - Papers, Where Filed.

211 - Costs of Motion.

211-A - Abandonment of Certain Town Highways.

211-B - Abandonment of Certain Town Highways in School Districts.

212 - Changing Location of Highways Over Certain Lands Owned and Occupied by the State.

212-A - Abandoning of Parts of Town Highways.

213 - Construction and Repair of Approaches to Private Lands.

214 - Depositing Ashes, Snow, Ice, Stones, Sticks, Et Cetera Upon the Highway.

216 - When Town Not Liable for Damages.

218 - Storm Water Sewers in Town Highways.