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2006 New York Code - Legislative Purpose.



 
  § 15-2301. Legislative purpose.
    The  purpose  of  title  23  of this article is to provide a method by
  which a project may be undertaken  to  improve  the  channel,  construct
  dikes  or  regulate  the  flow  of  a  river for the protection of life,
  property and the public health or welfare from damage  by  floods,  such
  work  in  general  to  be  done  at  the  expense  of  the owners of the
  properties and of the political  subdivisions  of  the  state  benefited
  thereby.

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