§ 140. General powers and duties of town superintendent. The town\nsuperintendent shall, subject to the rules and regulations of the\ndepartment of transportation, made and adopted as provided in this\nchapter:\n 1. Have the care and superintendence of the town highways and bridges\nand board walks or renewals thereof on highways less than two rods in\nwidth, in the town, except as otherwise specially provided in relation\nto incorporated villages, cities and other localities.\n 2. Cause such highways and bridges and the board walks or renewals\nthereof on highways less than two rods in width to be kept in repair,\nand free from obstructions caused by snow and give the necessary\ndirections therefor, and inspect the highways and bridges within the\ntown, during the months of April and October of each year, or at such\nother time as the county superintendent may prescribe; and may cause to\nbe constructed and repaired any public roads, walks, places and avenues\non any sand beach separated by more than two miles of water from the\nmain body of his town, or on any island or part of an island in his\ntown, although such roads, walks, places and avenues are narrower than\nthe width of highways required by statute. Within the meaning of this\nsection, or of any provision of this chapter referring to a renewal of a\nboard walk on a highway less than two rods in width, the term "renewal"\nshall include a walk built of other material to replace such board walk.\n 3. Divide the town into as many sections as may be necessary for the\nproper maintenance and repair of the town highways therein, and the\nopening of town highways obstructed by snow.\n 4. Within the limits of appropriations employ such persons as may be\nnecessary for the maintenance and repair of town highways and bridges,\nand the removal of obstructions caused by snow, subject to the approval\nof the town board, and provide for the supervision of such persons.\n 5. Construct and keep in repair sluices and culverts and cause the\nwaterways, bridges and culverts to be kept open.\n 6. Cause loose stones lying in the beaten track of every town highway\nwithin his town to be removed at least three times each year between the\nfirst day of April and the first day of December. Stones so removed\nshall be conveyed to some place from which they shall not work back, or\nbe brought back into the track by road machines or other implements used\nin repairing such highways.\n 7. Cause briers, brush and noxious weeds growing within the bounds of\ntown highways to be cut and removed between July fifteenth and August\nfifteenth, and as many other times as he may deem necessary, in each\nyear.\n 8. Cause such town highways as shall have been laid out, but not\nsufficiently described, and such as shall have been used for twenty\nyears, but not recorded, to be ascertained, described and entered on\nrecord in the town clerk's office.\n 10. Attend public meetings called by the department of transportation,\nheld within the county, after receiving notice thereof from the county\nsuperintendent, and his expenses necessarily incurred thereby shall be a\ntown charge.\n 11. Cause the monuments erected, or to be erected, as the boundaries\nof town highways, to be kept up and renewed so that the extent of such\nhighway boundaries may be publicly known, and erect and establish such\nnew monuments as may be required by the county superintendent.\n 12. As often as the department of transportation shall direct, the\ntown superintendent shall measure all town highways of his town. Such\nmeasurements shall be made either by use of a cyclometer or otherwise as\nthe department of transportation shall direct. He shall ascertain, and\nindicate in his report, the town highways which have been surfaced with\ngravel, those which have been surfaced with crushed stone and those\nwhich have been shaped and crowned. He shall report in triplicate on\nforms to be prescribed and furnished by the department of
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