15-2301 - Legislative purpose. - New York Statutes

§ 15-2301. Legislative purpose. The purpose of title 23 of this article is to provide a method by which a project may be undertaken to improve the channel, construct dikes or regulate the flow of a river for the protection of life, property and the public health or welfare from damage by floods, such work in general to be done at the expense of the owners of the properties and of the political subdivisions of the state benefited thereby.