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HAY - Highway
Article 8 - Town Highways
189 - Highways by Use.
Universal Citation: NY Hwy L § 189 (2022)
§ 189. Highways by use. All lands which shall have been used by the public as a highway for the period of ten years or more, shall be a highway, with the same force and effect as if it had been duly laid out and recorded as a highway, and the town superintendent shall open all such highways to the width of at least three rods.
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