N.Y. CAL Law § 61

§ 61. Farm and road bridges. The commissioner of transportation is\nauthorized and required to maintain until April first, nineteen hundred\nfifty-four, at public expense farm, road and street bridges over the\ncanal system, in all places where such bridges were constructed prior to\nthe twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred thirty-nine, if, in his\nopinion, the public convenience requires that they should be continued,\nwhether heretofore maintained at the expense of the state or of the\ncounties, towns, villages and cities where they are situate, provided,\nhowever, that commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred\nfifty-four, and continuing thereafter, the maintenance, repair,\nimprovement, replacement or closing of any such bridge over any section\nof the canal heretofore abandoned or which may hereafter be abandoned\nshall be governed by the provisions of the highway law, except that any\nsuch bridges situate in a city shall be maintained, repaired, improved,\nreplaced or closed in the same manner and subject to the same provisions\nof law as apply to other streets and bridges in such city.\n