§ 529. Acquisition of land; dedication by counties, towns or villages.
1. Whenever the authority shall determine that any real estate or rights
or easements therein are required for any of the bridges or for highway
connections, and the commissioner shall approve such determination, the
commissioner shall acquire such real estate or rights or easements
therein in the name of the state by dedication, by agreement, by
acquisition pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law, or by
appropriation, in the manner provided by section thirty of the highway
law.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the board of
supervisors of any county, the town board of any town, the common or
city council of any city, or the trustees of any village, without any
election or meeting of the taxpayers or voters or other authorization,
is hereby authorized to dedicate to the state for any of the bridges or
for highway connections, any real property, easements or rights in land
owned by such county, town, city or village which the authority may deem
necessary.