Right-Of-Way Maintenance

The Highway Office is responsible for maintenance of the Town right-of-way. This includes 
paved and unpaved surfaces. Some examples of this maintenance is as follows:

• Grass cutting along islands and recharge basins
  
• Annual road rehabilitation program
• Tree maintenance
• Leaf cleanup around recharge basins
• Pothole repair
• Sidewalks are the responsibility of the owner, lessee or tenant.  See Definitions below:

173-15. Definitions

For the purpose of this article, the following words shall have the meanings indicated:

The area between the edge of a roadway or highway pavement and the lot line of the abutting property, including but not limited to the curb, utility, brick, tree, dirt or landscape areas.

*  Town Code 173-16 Duty to repair, maintain and keep sidewalks clear: liability. 

Article IV. Maintenance of Sidewalk Area

173-16. Duty to repair, maintain and keep sidewalks clear; liability. 

The owner, lessee, tenant and occupant of lands fronting or abutting on any streets, highway, roadway, public lane, alley or square in any zoning district, shall maintain and repair the sidewalk adjoining his lands and shall keep such sidewalk free and clear of snow, ice, filth, dirt, weeds and all other obstructions and shall remove snow and ice within four (4) hours after snow has ceased to fall or after the deposit of any dirt, object or other material upon such sidewalks. The period between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. shall not be included in computing such requirements. Such owner, lessee, tenant or occupant, and each of them, shall be liable for any injury or damage to person or property by reason of the omission, failure or neglect to repair or maintain such sidewalk in a safe condition or to remove snow, ice or other obstructions and/or defects there from.

- See more at: http://www.huntingtonny.gov/content/13749/13845/15234/29900/default.aspx#sthash.KS754ATv.dpuf