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The Town and Highway Laws of the State of New York
The Town and Highway Laws of the State of New York Author:New York Subtitle: Consisting of Chapters 19 and 20 of the General Laws, as Revised by the Statutory Revision Commission. Together With Carefully Prepared Forms General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: J.B. Lyon Subjects: Town laws Highway law Law / General Transportation / General Notes: This... more » is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Section 14. Water pipes in highways. 15. Actions for injuries to highways. 16. Liability of towns for defective highways. 17. Action by town against commissioneri. 18. Audit of damages without action. 19. Reports of commissioners. 20. General duties of overseers. 21. Opening obstructed highways. 22. Penalties against overseers. 23. Penalties, how collected. 24. Compensation of overseers. Section 1. Short title. -- This chapter shall be known as the highway law. § 2. Treasurer of highway commissioners. -- When there is more than one commissioner of highways in any town, they shall designate one of their number to be treasurer. If they fail so to do, the commissioner longest in office shall be the treasurer; and all money collected for highway purposes, or belonging to the highway fund of the town, shall be paid to him. Before receiving such money, he shall execute to the town an undertaking, to be approved by the supervisor, to the effect that he will faithfully account and pay over to any officer or person entitled thereto, any money that may come into his hands as such treasurer. No. 1. -- §2. Undertaking of the Treasurer of Highway Commissioners. Whereas, the commissioners of highways of the town of , in the county of , have designated A B, one of their number, to be treasurer, pursuant to section 2 of the highway law; now, therefore...« less