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Highway Department
 Our Highway Department is responsible for the year-round maintenance of all town roads. They can be seen repairing road ways, trimming road side tree lines and plowing snow.
Please show all of our Highway Department driving courtesy for everyone's safety!
Highway Department Hours:
Monday - Friday: 7:00am - 3pm
9.11 Mailboxes and Debris on the Road
Mailboxes are established by property owners within the highway rights-of-way. A county or town could adopt an ordinance that specifies the type and placement of mailboxes to prevent them becoming a fixed hazard. The other aspects of mailboxes to consider is the accidental damage to mailboxes in connection with the municipality’s maintenance operations, particularly snow and ice removal. There is not right of the property owner to recover against the municipality for the accidental damage to mailboxes. Repairs are a judgmental decision of the Superintendent.
Crawford Highway Department Crew
Occasionally mud, debris, or water that freezes is left on the highway by adjacent property owners or highway users. Section 1219, Vehicle and Traffic Law, provides, (for towns, §213, “Construction and repair of Approaches to Private Lands and §214, Depositing Ashes, snow, ice, sticks, etc. upon the highway, highway law):
- No person shall throw or deposit upon the highway any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, snow, or any other substance likely to injure any person animal or vehicle upon such highway.
- Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway any destructive or injurious material, or any material interfering with the safe use of the highway shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.
- Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle.
As per Section 1219, Vehicle and Traffic Law, Sub-section 214, it is “illegal to deposit snow, or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon such highway.
We ask that you, or the person who plows your driveway, not push snow out of your driveway and into the road, as you will be held responsible if the snow from your driveway causes an accident. This includes shoveling and snow blowing snow into the road. Also, the snow pile that is left can freeze and become impossible for the town snowplows to move.
If this problem persists, we will have little choice but to report it to the Police, and have summons issued.
We thank you for your understanding.
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