* § 205-c. Minimum maintenance roads. 1. a. The town board of any\ndesignated town may, after a public hearing, adopt a local law\ndesignating any low-volume road or portion thereof providing\nagricultural or recreational land access, except for farm access roads\nor roads that provide access to an individual year-round residence at\nthe time of designation, as a minimum maintenance road. No such law\nshall restrict farm operations in an agricultural district. Such local\nlaw shall not prevent the state from maintaining such road if the road\npasses over, or provides access to, state land. No such law designating\na minimum maintenance road shall be effective until signs are posted\nadvising the public that such road is a minimum maintenance road. No\nroad, once designated a minimum maintenance road, shall be determined to\nhave been abandoned pursuant to the provisions of subdivision one of\nsection two hundred five of this article solely because it has been\ndesignated a minimum maintenance road.\n b. At least forty-five days prior to the public hearing on such local\nlaw the town board having jurisdiction over such road shall issue\nfindings that such road or portion thereof should be designated a\nminimum maintenance road. Such findings shall include, but not be\nlimited to:\n (i) the volume and type of motor vehicle traffic on such road;\n (ii) a determination that the property owners of land abutting the\nroad shall continue to have access to their property;\n (iii) a determination that the users of the road traveling at a\nreasonable and prudent speed, under the circumstances, shall not be\nplaced in a hazardous situation;\n (iv) a determination that such road, or portion thereof, does not\nconstitute a farm access road as defined in this section; and\n (v) the effect of such designation on any farm operations dependent\nupon the road, and that such designation does not restrict farm\noperations in agricultural districts.\n A copy of the town board's findings shall be made available for public\ninspection in the town clerk's office and posted to the town website if\navailable.\n A copy of the findings shall be sent to the school board of the school\ndistrict in which each road is located and to the town planning board.\nSuch school board and planning board may review the findings of the town\nboard and within forty-five days file with the town clerk their\nrecommendation and findings. In the event the school or planning board\ntakes no action within the forty-five day review period the town board\nmay proceed without said board's recommendation and findings. School or\nplanning board review may be waived, shortened or extended upon mutual\nconsent of said board and the town board. The town board of the town\nmay, by resolution, accept, accept in part, or reject the\nrecommendations of either the school or planning board prior to any vote\nupon the proposed local law.\n A copy of the findings shall also be sent to the department of\nenvironmental conservation or any other relevant state agency that has\njurisdiction over the land that the road proposed to be designated as\nminimum maintenance passes over or provides access to.\n c. At least thirty days prior to the public hearing on such local law,\nwritten notice of such hearing, including a summary of the findings,\nshall be served by certified mail upon every owner of real property, as\ndetermined by the latest completed assessment roll, abutting such road\nor portion thereof.\n d. The town clerk shall give notice of such hearing by the publication\nof a notice in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the\ntown, and post such notice on the town website if available, specifying\nthe time when and the place where such hearing will be held, and in\ngeneral terms describing the proposed resolution. Such notice shall be\npublished once at least five days prior to the day specified for such\nhearing.\n 2. A road or road segment located within a design
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