[1971 Charter Laws, § 274; Laws of N.Y. (1915)
ch. 535, § 91]
The city shall constitute a separate highway district, and the
common council shall have the superintendence thereof and within the
limits thereof shall have all the powers of commissioners of highways
of towns, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
[1971 Charter Laws, §§ 276, 333; L.L. No.
3-1964, § 9; L.L. No. 6-1968, § 11]
(a)
The common council may discontinue any street or mapped street, and
lay out, widen, narrow, straighten, open, alter, change, and grade
or otherwise improve roads, avenues, streets, public parks or squares,
and lanes, crosswalks, and sidewalks within the city. For that purpose
the council may receive, accept, acquire, take, and appropriate any
lands within the city including such as may have been acquired or
are now used, held, or owned for cemetery, railroad, or other public
uses or purposes. Lands may be acquired for such purposes by the common
council in the manner provided by law.
(b)
The common council may include in the annual budget such sums as
deemed necessary to defray the city's portion of the construction
of new pavements.
