Terms Used In N.Y. Village Law 6-614

  • street: as used in this article also includes a highway, road, avenue, lane or alley which the public have a right to use; and the term "pavement" includes a macadam, asphalt, brick, concrete or other similarly improved roadbed, and is only applied to the portion of the street between the sidewalks or established curb lines. See N.Y. Village Law 6-600

Upon adoption of a resolution the board shall immediately give notice of a hearing thereon at specified time and place to consider the resolution, and such hearing shall be conducted as provided in article twenty-one herein. The notice must state the general object of the resolution and if it be for the laying out of a street, a general description of its proposed course, and in any other case, the name of the street proposed to be changed, discontinued or accepted. If the street to be laid out, altered, widened, narrowed, discontinued or accepted shall cross a railroad such notice shall be served upon the railroad company as required by section ninety of the railroad law.