New York § 191 - 191Highways or roads along division lines
Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 191 — 191Highways or roads along division lines, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 191. 191Highways or roads along division lines
§ 191. Highways or roads along division lines. Whenever a highway or private road shall be laid along the division line between lands of two or more persons, and wholly upon one side of the line, and the land upon both sides is cultivated or improved, the persons owning or occupying the lands adjoining such highway or road shall be paid for building and maintaining such additional fence as they may be required to build or maintain, by reason of the laying out and opening such highway or road; which damages shall be ascertained and determined in the same manner that other damages are ascertained and determined in the laying out of highways or private roads.
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