§ 346. Distinctive requirements of state thruways. Highways\nconstructed, improved or reconstructed, and maintained as prescribed in\nthis article, shall be designated "state thruways" and bridges thereon\nshall be deemed a part thereof. Each state thruway, except the Niagara\nthruway and the New England thruway, shall be constructed, improved or\nreconstructed on a right of way of such width as the commissioner of\ntransportation may determine, provided, however, that such width shall\nbe not less than two hundred feet, except in any location where, in the\njudgment of the commissioner of transportation, such minimum width shall\nbe deemed to be impracticable. The commissioner of transportation shall\nset monuments on the boundaries thereof, and he may cause fences to be\nerected along or adjacent to such boundaries and he is authorized to\ninstall suitable lighting, directional and protective facilities,\ndevices, and appurtenances, if he deems it necessary in the interest of\npublic safety.\n Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or\nof any inconsistent provision of this chapter, the maintenance of state\nthruways shall include the control of snow and ice. Such maintenance\nshall be done by the method or methods provided in this chapter for the\nmaintenance of improved state highways in towns and incorporated\nvillages. Whenever funds are provided therefor, the commissioner of\ntransportation shall have power to acquire for the state, by purchase or\nby appropriation through the procedure specified in section thirty of\nthis chapter property for the purpose of providing, erecting and\nmaintaining thereon storehouses and repair shops for the storing of\nsupplies and material and for the storing, repairing and maintaining of\nequipment, machinery, tools and implements; and of constructing and\nmaintaining such storehouses and repair shops.\n Pursuant to any statutes in such cases made and provided, the\nsuperintendent of state police shall exercise jurisdiction and control\nover the user and the vehicular traffic upon state thruways in\naccordance with generally established as well as special traffic\nregulations, which shall be invoked immediately upon the opening to the\npublic of any state thruway or section thereof by the issuance of an\nofficial order for such opening by the commissioner of transportation\nand the delivery of a certified copy thereof by him to the\nsuperintendent of state police.\n The commissioner of transportation shall have power to acquire by\nappropriation by the method contained in this article, property for the\npurpose of providing, and also to construct or reconstruct thereon\nsuitable housing and other facilities and appurtenances for members of\nthe division of the state police who shall be engaged in exercising such\njurisdiction and control. Upon approval by the director of the budget,\nthe cost of such property and of such construction or reconstruction\nshall be paid from funds available for construction, reconstruction or\nimprovement of state highways and thruways as part of the cost thereof.\n The commissioner of transportation is authorized to classify any part\nof a state thruway as a controlled access highway pursuant to this\nchapter, when the construction thereof is done on a location where no\npublic highway theretofore existed. Highway and railroad grade crossings\nshall be eliminated generally by structures to be determined by the\ncommissioner of transportation, who is hereby given authority to combine\nor relocate intersecting highways, streets, or roads to adjust traffic\nto such grade separation structures, except that the grade crossing\nelimination structures involved in public service commission cases\nnumber fifty-four hundred seventy-two and nine thousand fifty-eight\nshall remain under the jurisdiction of such commission or its successor.\nThe entire cost of such structure as so determined by the commissioner\nof transportation shall b
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