Legal Opinion

Opn. No.

New York Attorney General Reports

Decided March 23, 1976Published

1Opinion of the Court

HON JONATHAN A. WEINSTEIN Village Attorney, Woodsburgh

We acknowledge receipt of your letter inquiring about the authority of a village temporarily to close a village street for the purposes of study, engineering, surveys and traffic surveys. You point out that the village street leads into your village from an adjoining village but it is not the only means of vehicular access between the two villages; there are no abutting properties on the village street which would be adversely affected by the closure; and that the village does not own the fee title to the street.

A village does not have the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. GrantNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
  2. In re McFaddenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904

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