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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law,  in  relation  to  the  abandonment  of
   certain  town  roads  in  the  towns of Pike and Genesee Falls, in the
   county of Wyoming

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 58 of section 341 of the highway law, as added
 by chapter 592 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as follows:
   58. Wyoming county. 1. Beginning  at  the  Cattaraugus-Wyoming  county
 line  west  of  the village of Arcade, thence running generally easterly
 through or near the village of Arcade, the hamlets of Bliss and Pike  to
 state  highway  eight  thousand  sixty-seven; beginning at state highway
 eight thousand sixty-seven, thence running  generally  easterly  to  the
 Wyoming-Livingston  county  line near the hamlet of Portageville; begin-
 ning at the Erie-Wyoming county line, thence running generally  easterly
 through  or  near the hamlets of Harris Corners, Persons Corners, Varys-
 burg and Halls Corners, the village of Warsaw and the  hamlet  of  Perry
 Center to the Wyoming-Livingston county line; beginning at the Cattarau-
 gus-Wyoming  county  line  southeast  of  the  village of Arcade, thence
 running generally northerly through or near the village  of  Arcade  and
 the hamlets of Java Center, Persons Corners and Bennington Center to the
 Wyoming-Genesee  county  line;  beginning at the Allegany-Wyoming county
 line south of the village of Pike, thence  running  generally  northerly
 through or near the villages of Pike, Gainesville, Warsaw and Wyoming to
 the  Wyoming-Genesee county line; beginning at state highway eight thou-
 sand one hundred  twenty-one,  thence  running  generally  northeasterly
 through or near the villages of Castile and Perry to the Wyoming-Living-
 ston county line; beginning at a state highway in or near the village of
 Perry, thence running generally northerly through or near the hamlets of
 Perry  Center and LaGrange to the Wyoming-Genesee county line; beginning
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 at the Livingston-Wyoming county line west of the hamlet of Greigsville,
 thence running generally northwesterly through or  near  the  hamlet  of
 Peoria  to  the  Wyoming-Genesee county line; beginning at the Allegany-
 Wyoming  county line south of the hamlet of Portageville, thence running
 generally northerly through or near the hamlet of Portageville  and  the
 villages  of  Castile  and Silver Springs to state highway five thousand
 four hundred south of the hamlet of Rock Glen; beginning  at  the  Erie-
 Wyoming  county  line  west of the hamlet of Cowlesville, thence running
 generally easterly through  or  near  the  hamlets  of  Cowlesville  and
 Bennington  to  a state highway in or near the village of Attica; begin-
 ning at a state highway in or near the hamlet of Halls  Corners,  thence
 running  generally  northwesterly  through  or near the hamlet of Attica
 Center to a state highway in or near the village of Attica; beginning at
 the Erie-Wyoming county line northwest of the hamlet  of  Strykersville,
 thence  running  generally  southeasterly through or near the hamlets of
 Strykersville, Java Center, Waldo's Corners and Smiths Corners to  state
 highway  five thousand four hundred north of the village of Gainesville;
 beginning at a state highway in or near  the  hamlet  of  Bliss,  thence
 running  generally northerly to a state highway in or near the hamlet of
 Smiths Corners; beginning at or near state highway  one  thousand  seven
 hundred  sixteen  in  or near the hamlet of Java Corners, thence running
 generally northerly to state highway one thousand five hundred fifty-two
 near the hamlet of Varysburg; beginning at or near state  highway  eight
 thousand  ninety-two near the hamlet of Varysburg, thence running gener-
 ally northerly through or near the village of Attica to the Wyoming-Gen-
 esee county line; beginning at the Letchworth state park boundary  north
 of  the  hamlet  of  Portageville, thence running generally northerly to
 state highway one thousand  eighty-eight  in  or  near  the  village  of
 Castile;  beginning  at  a  state  highway  northeast  of the village of
 Arcade, thence running generally northerly to state highway one thousand
 seven hundred sixteen at or near the hamlet of Waldo's Corners.
   2. EFFECTIVE JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, THE  LEGISLATIVE
 BODY OF THE TOWN OF PIKE AND THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF THE TOWN OF GENESEE
 FALLS,  BOTH  IN  THE  COUNTY OF WYOMING, HAVING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED THE
 ABANDONMENT OF CERTAIN TOWN ROADS, AS SET FORTH IN THIS SUBDIVISION, THE
 COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO ASSUME JURISDICTION FOR STATE
 HIGHWAY PURPOSES OVER THE TOWN ROAD DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: ALL  OF  GRIF-
 FITH  ROAD FROM THE INTERSECTION WITH STATE ROUTES 19 AND 39 IN THE TOWN
 OF PIKE EASTERLY TO ITS TERMINUS AT STATE ROUTE 19A IN THE TOWN OF GENE-
 SEE FALLS.
   § 2. The transfer of jurisdiction shall  be  deemed  to  transfer  all
 right,  title and interest of the towns of Pike and Genesee Falls in the
 transferred highway to the state. Furthermore, the state acquisition  of
 such  property pursuant to this act shall be deemed to be an acquisition
 pursuant to section 30 of the highway law for  all  subsequent  purposes
 and uses.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.