N.Y. Highway Law 252 – Maintenance of bridge
§ 252. Maintenance of bridge. When a toll bridge shall have been acquired by the state under the provisions of this article it shall be maintained as a free bridge and the expense thereof shall be a charge upon the town or towns or city or cities within which it is situated. Upon the acquisition of any toll bridge as provided in this article, the board or boards of supervisors of the county or counties in which said toll bridge is located shall upon notice of such acquisition from the comptroller, accept and maintain the same as a part of the highway system of said county or counties and such acceptance shall be deemed to have been formerly taken at the expiration of twenty days from the notice of said acquisition by the state comptroller.
Terms Used In N.Y. Highway Law 252
- Bridge: means a structure including supports erected over a depression or an obstruction such as water, highway, or railway, having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads and having an opening measured along the center of the track or roadway of more than twenty feet between under croppings of abutments or spring lines or arches, or extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes and may include multiple pipes where the clear distance between openings is less than half of the smaller contiguous opening. See N.Y. Highway Law 230