Section 24-505. Raising of grade for drainage

Whenever the commissioner of
  environmental protection shall determine that it is necessary  to  raise
  the  grade  of  any street or streets for the proper sewage of the sewer
  district in which such street or  streets,  or  parts  of  streets,  are
  situated, he or she shall prepare a plan showing such proposed change of
  grade,  and  shall  present the same to the board of estimate and notify
  the community board for the community district  in  which  the  land  is
  located  and  the office of the appropriate borough president. The board
  of estimate shall refer such plan to the commissioner of  transportation
  for  report.  Such board may change the grade of such street or streets,
  or parts of streets, so  far  as  shall  be  necessary  for  the  proper
  drainage  thereof,  in accordance with such plan, in the manner provided
  by section one hundred ninety-nine of the charter.