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Sec. 4. If the said corporations, or any or either of them, shall neglect to cause 
the same to be cut down, at the times in the third section of this act mentioned, it 
shall be lawful for any person to cut the same, between the twenty-fifth day of June 
and the fifth day of July, inclusive, and between the twenty-fifth day of August 
and the fifth day of September, inclusive, in each year, at the expense of the corpora- 
tion on whose lands said Canada thistles, white and yellow daisies, or other noxious 
weeds shall be so cut, at the rate of three dollars per day for the time so oceupied in 
cutting, to be recovered in any court of justice in this State. 
(Passed May 18, 1881. Laws 1881, p. 401.) 
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of every person or corporation, owning or occupying 
under a lease for one or more years, any cultivated or enclosed lands abutting upon 
any highway, to cause all noxious weeds, briars, and brush, growing upon said 
lands, within the bounds of said highway, to be cut and destroyed between the 
fifteenth day of June and the first day of July, and between the fifteenth day of 
August and the first day of September, in each and every year. But boards of super- 
visors may fix a different period, or periods, for cutting or destruction in their respec- 
tive counties. This section shall not be construed to restrict any of the powers 
heretofore conferred upon boards of supervisors. 
SEc. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed any 
noxious weeds, or the seeds of such weeds within the bounds of any public highway. 
Src. 7. Any willful neglect to comply with the provisions of section one of this 
act, or any willful violation of section two of this act, shall subject the person or 
_ corporation so offending to a penalty of ten dollars and costs in and for each road 
district in which any of such provisions shall be violated, to be sued for by the 
commissioner or commissioners of highways of the town wherein said road districts 
shall be situate, or by the street commissioner of villages, when such village con- 
stitutes a separate road district, and recovered before any justice of the peace having 
jurisdiction; said fine, when collected, to be paid into the highway fund of such 
town or village. 
SEc. 8. It shall be the duty of commissioners of highways of towns or of street 
commissioners of villages to prosecute every person or corporation violating any 
of the provisions of this act in their respective towns or villages, and to include in 
each annual report of such commissioner a detailed statement of all fines recovered 
under the provisions of this act. 
(Passed March 11, 1878. Laws 1878, p.55.) 
Src. 9. It shall be the duty of the overseer of every road district and of the street 
commissioner of every city or village to see that the provisions of section one of this 
act are enforced, and it is hereby made his duty to give written notice to any occu- 
pant of premises to cut all weeds, briars and brush growing within the bounds of 
the highway. If they shall neglect so to do, as above provided; and if, after receiv- 
ing such notice, the occupant of the premises shall fail to do so within ten days, it 
shall be the duty of the overseer or street commissioner to employ some one to do so, 
and make a report, under oath, to the commissioner or commissioners of highways 
of the amount so expended by him and the ownership and occupancy of the several 
parcels of land against which such labor was performed on or before the first day of 
November in each year. The commissioner or commissioners of highways shall cer- 
tify these statements to the supervisor of the town, and the supervisor shall lay the 
same before the board of supervisors at their next meeting, and such board shall 
include the amounts included in said statements in the taxes assessed upon the lands 
upon or against which the labor was performed, the same to be collected with the 
other taxes and paid over upon the order of the supervisior to the parties entitled 
thereto. 
(Passed June 18, 1887. Laws 1887, p. 816. The Revised Statutes, Codes and General 
Laws of the State of New York, 1890, p. 3331.) 
