Section 47. Connecting highways in villages

The board of trustees of a
  village may, by resolution, petition the commissioner of  transportation
  for  the  construction or improvement of a highway to connect streets or
  highways within the village which have been paved or improved with state
  highways which have  been  heretofore  built  under  the  provisions  of
  chapter  one  hundred  and  fifteen  of the laws of eighteen hundred and
  ninety-eight, and the acts amendatory thereof.   If in the  judgment  of
  the  commissioner  of  transportation  public  convenience  requires the
  construction or improvement of such connecting highway, the commissioner
  shall cause plans, specifications and  estimates  to  be  prepared,  and
  shall  cause  the  same to be transmitted to the board of supervisors of
  the county wherein such highway is situated.  The board  of  supervisors
  may  thereupon  take action on such plans and specifications and adopt a
  resolution relating to such construction or improvement. Notwithstanding
  any other provision of this chapter, the cost of  such  construction  or
  improvement  shall  be  borne  and  payment thereof shall be made in the
  manner as  provided  for  in  section  two  hundred  and  sixty-four.  A
  certified  copy  of  such resolution shall be filed in the office of the
  department of transportation. The construction or  improvement  of  such
  connecting  highway  shall  then  be  taken  up  in the order and manner
  provided in section two hundred and sixty-one for  the  construction  or
  improvement  of state highways. If it is desired to construct or improve
  any portion of such a connecting highway at a width  greater  than  that
  provided  for  in  the  plans  and  specifications  therefor,  or  if  a
  modification of such plans and specifications is desired  by  which  the
  cost  thereof  will  be  increased, the board of trustees of the village
  shall proceed as in section forty-six to secure such a  modification  of
  the   plans   and  specifications  as  will  provide  for  such  desired
  construction. The provisions of such section shall apply in like  manner
  to  the  connecting highway to be constructed or improved as provided in
  this section.
    The provisions of this act shall not prevent the improvement by  state
  aid under the statute as it existed prior to the passage of this act, of
  streets  in  cities  of  the second and third class, where, prior to the
  passage of this act, highway numbers had been assigned  as  provided  by
  article twelve of this act; nor shall the provisions of this act prevent
  the  improvement in such cities of streets heretofore petitioned for and
  approved in cases where the proposed improvement of each street does not
  exceed one and one-half miles in length; but the total  mileage  of  all
  such streets not exceeding one and one-half miles in length shall not in
  the aggregate exceed four miles.
    Wherever plans for such improvement in a city of the second class have
  been  approved  and a highway number assigned, and the work is ready for
  contract as hereinbefore described and the common council of  such  city
  has appropriated and made available the city's share of the cost of such
  improvement,  the  city  treasurer  of  such  city is hereby authorized,
  empowered and directed to deposit such moneys with the state comptroller
  in the same manner as is provided by this section  with  regard  to  the
  improvement of village streets.