§ 291. Compensation of supervisor and town clerk. Notwithstanding the
provisions of section twenty-seven of the town law, members of boards of
supervisors shall be allowed and paid the compensation provided by law,
for services of members of boards of supervisors while serving as
members of a committee known as the highway officials of the county,
pursuant to section one hundred and ninety-five of this chapter, or as
members of a road or highway committee while visiting and inspecting a
road being constructed and improved under the provisions of section one
hundred and ninety-four of this chapter and advising with the county
superintendent of highways about the manner in which the work of such
construction and improvement is being done or ought to be done, and its
acceptance by the board, or as members of a highway committee in
acquiring land for rights of way, or spoil banks, or for the purposes of
obtaining gravel, stone or other material when required pursuant to the
provisions of sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-two of this
chapter.