Editor's Note: This local law was originally adopted as Ch. 152, but was renumbered as Ch. 27, Art. I, to maintain the organizational style of the Code.
The Town Board finds that it is in the interest
of the public health and safety to permit the use of Town Highway
Department equipment and employees on private property during certain
emergency situations.
The Town Highway Superintendent is hereby authorized
to use the equipment and the employees of the Town Highway Department
to assist the Fire Department, Police Department, rescue squad, and
other similar emergency service agencies in dealing with emergency
conditions or situations.
The Town Highway Superintendent is authorized during
emergency situations to enter upon private property, with Highway
Department equipment and employees, to cut and remove trees, cut fire
lanes, plow and sand private roadways, and provide any other similar
service which the Town Highway Superintendent determines necessary
to assist any emergency service agency in dealing with a specific
emergency condition or situation.