Section 62. Maintenance by state of certain bridges over the canal system

All highway or pedestrian, lift or movable bridges over the canal system
  other  than  highway  bridges  connecting  parts  of  a  state   highway
  heretofore constructed as a part of the barge canal improvement shall be
  reconstructed,  improved,  maintained and repaired at the expense of the
  state, if in the opinion of  the  commissioner  of  transportation,  the
  public  convenience  requires  such  bridges  to  be maintained where no
  alternate crossing has been provided. In the event the  commissioner  of
  transportation determines that any such bridge is no longer required for
  the  convenience  of the public, he shall have power to close, remove or
  relocate such bridge. The commissioner of transportation shall have  the
  supervision   and   direction   of   such  reconstruction,  improvement,
  maintenance, repair, closing, removing or relocation. All  bridges  over
  the  canal  system other than lift, movable, pedestrian or state highway
  bridges heretofore constructed as part of the  barge  canal  improvement
  shall be reconstructed, improved, maintained and repaired at the expense
  of  the state under the supervision and direction of the commissioner of
  transportation, if, in his opinion, the public convenience requires that
  each such bridge shall be continued as a bridge for highway traffic.  In
  the  event  the  commissioner  of  transportation  is  requested  by any
  municipality to reconstruct or improve any such  bridge,  he  is  hereby
  empowered to do so, provided, however, that prior to such reconstruction
  or  improvement  the  municipality  enters into a written agreement that
  such bridge thereafter shall become a part  of  the  highway  system  or
  systems  which  it may connect and the maintenance, repair, improvement,
  replacement or closing of any such  bridge  shall  be  governed  by  the
  provisions of the highway law, except that any such bridges situate in a
  city  shall be maintained, repaired, improved, replaced or closed in the
  same manner and subject to the provisions of any special law  which  may
  apply  or  to  the  same provisions of law as apply to other streets and
  bridges in such city or in  the  case  of  such  bridges  situate  in  a
  village,  such bridges shall be maintained, repaired, improved, replaced
  or closed in the same manner and subject to the same provisions  of  law
  as  apply  to other streets and bridges in such village. Any bridge over
  the New York state canal system or abandoned part  thereof  which  joins
  parts  of  a  state  highway  shall  be  under  the  jurisdiction of the
  commissioner of transportation and  deemed  to  be  part  of  the  state
  highway  system  and  such  bridges shall be constructed, reconstructed,
  improved, maintained, repaired, closed  or  relocated  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  the  highway law and the cost of such work shall be paid
  from moneys available  for  construction,  reconstruction,  improvement,
  maintenance or repair of state highways.