Section 141. Estimate of expenditures for highways and bridges  


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  • The estimate
      of  expenditures  for  highways and bridges, to be submitted by the town
      superintendent, as required by section one hundred four of the town law,
      shall specify:
        1. The amount of money necessary to be levied and  collected  for  the
      repair  and  improvement  of  highways,  including sluices, culverts and
      bridges having a span of  less  than  five  feet,  and  board  walks  or
      renewals  thereof  on highways less than two rods in width, and also the
      amount necessary to construct or repair any public roads, walks,  places
      or  avenues  on any sand beach separated by more than two miles from the
      main body of the town, or on any island or part  of  an  island  in  the
      town.   Such amount shall not be less than an amount which when added to
      the amount of money to be received from the state, under the  provisions
      of  section  two hundred and seventy-nine, will equal thirty dollars for
      each  mile  of  highways  within  the  town,  outside  the   limits   of
      incorporated  villages, except that no town having an assessed valuation
      of three thousand seven hundred and  fifty  dollars  or  less  per  mile
      outside of incorporated villages shall be required to levy and collect a
      tax  under  this  subdivision in excess of four dollars on each thousand
      dollars of assessed valuation.
        2. The amount of money necessary to be levied and  collected  for  the
      repair and construction of bridges, having a span of five feet or more.
        3.  The  amount  of money necessary to be levied and collected for the
      purchase, repair and custody of stone crushers, power rollers,  traction
      engines,  road  machines  for  grading and scraping, power trucks, power
      graders, turn tables, scarifiers, concrete  mixers,  power  shovels  and
      distributors and tools and implements.
        4.  The  amount  of money necessary to be levied and collected for the
      removal of obstructions caused  by  snow  and  for  other  miscellaneous
      purposes,  including  the  widening of a state highway under a permit as
      provided by section fifty-two. The amounts specified in  such  statement
      shall  not  exceed the limitations prescribed in section two hundred and
      seventy-one. If the town superintendent is of the opinion that an amount
      in excess of the limitations therein prescribed be  raised  by  tax,  he
      shall include in his statement his reasons therefor in detail.