§ 47. Connecting highways in villages. The board of trustees of a
village may, by resolution, petition the commissioner of transportation
for the construction or improvement of a highway to connect streets or
highways within the village which have been paved or improved with state
highways which have been heretofore built under the provisions of
chapter one hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, and the acts amendatory thereof. If in the judgment of
the commissioner of transportation public convenience requires the
construction or improvement of such connecting highway, the commissioner
shall cause plans, specifications and estimates to be prepared, and
shall cause the same to be transmitted to the board of supervisors of
the county wherein such highway is situated. The board of supervisors
may thereupon take action on such plans and specifications and adopt a
resolution relating to such construction or improvement. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this chapter, the cost of such construction or
improvement shall be borne and payment thereof shall be made in the
manner as provided for in section two hundred and sixty-four. A
certified copy of such resolution shall be filed in the office of the
department of transportation. The construction or improvement of such
connecting highway shall then be taken up in the order and manner
provided in section two hundred and sixty-one for the construction or
improvement of state highways. If it is desired to construct or improve
any portion of such a connecting highway at a width greater than that
provided for in the plans and specifications therefor, or if a
modification of such plans and specifications is desired by which the
cost thereof will be increased, the board of trustees of the village
shall proceed as in section forty-six to secure such a modification of
the plans and specifications as will provide for such desired
construction. The provisions of such section shall apply in like manner
to the connecting highway to be constructed or improved as provided in
this section.

The provisions of this act shall not prevent the improvement by state
aid under the statute as it existed prior to the passage of this act, of
streets in cities of the second and third class, where, prior to the
passage of this act, highway numbers had been assigned as provided by
article twelve of this act; nor shall the provisions of this act prevent
the improvement in such cities of streets heretofore petitioned for and
approved in cases where the proposed improvement of each street does not
exceed one and one-half miles in length; but the total mileage of all
such streets not exceeding one and one-half miles in length shall not in
the aggregate exceed four miles.

Wherever plans for such improvement in a city of the second class have
been approved and a highway number assigned, and the work is ready for
contract as hereinbefore described and the common council of such city
has appropriated and made available the city's share of the cost of such
improvement, the city treasurer of such city is hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to deposit such moneys with the state comptroller
in the same manner as is provided by this section with regard to the
improvement of village streets.