§ 241.61. Authority of Commissioner of Public Works and Transportation to designate certain county roads as controlled-access highways.  


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  • Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law to the contrary, a county road entirely or partly constructed, reconstructed or improved at a location where no public highway theretofore existed may be designated by the county Commissioner of Public Works and Transportation, with the approval of the County Board, as a controlled-access highway, to and from which the owners or occupants of abutting property or any other persons shall have no right of access either as pedestrians, as operators of vehicles or in any other capacity, except at junctions of such highways with other public highways, and also except as such access may be reserved pursuant to the description and map of the property which has been or which hereafter shall be acquired for the purpose of such controlled-access highway. Such county road designated as a controlled-access highway shall be subject in all other respects to the provisions of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Highway Law and this Article with relation to the county roads.

(Added as § 155-a by the Laws of 1959, Ch. 381; amended by L.L. No. 19-2010, § 14 [])