* § 344. Construction of sections. Unless express provision has been
or hereafter shall be made in this chapter, no section hereof shall be
construed as authorizing the construction or maintenance of any portion
of a highway within the limits of any city, excepting that portion of a
third class city lying outside of its corporation tax district where
such city embraces the entire area of a former township; also excepting
the construction of the pipe line boulevard in the southern part of the
counties of Queens and Kings, but not the maintenance thereof; also
excepting the maintenance of that section of state highway number five
thousand two hundred twenty lying within the limits of the city of North
Tonawanda, county of Niagara, a distance of approximately 1.2 miles; and
also excepting the maintenance of that section of state highway number
five thousand seventy-eight known as Genesee street, all of state
highway 57-4 and the section of state highway number one thousand one
hundred sixty lying within the corporation tax limits of the city of
Oneida, county of Madison, a distance of approximately nine thousand
four hundred thirty-eight and one-half feet. This section shall not be
construed to apply to the construction or maintenance of state thruways
or any work of construction or maintenance in connection therewith.

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