§ 207. Discontinuance of highway. Whenever the town superintendent of
any town shall determine that any portion of any highway or street, not
within the limits of an incorporated village, which is the terminus of
such street or highway, is unnecessary for highway purposes, and said
town superintendent may, by an order to be duly entered in the town
clerk's office, direct such highway to be discontinued and abandoned for
public purposes. Provided, however, that no portion of such highway to
be discontinued shall be greater than one thousand feet of the terminus
thereof and that the owners of the land on both sides of such highway or
street, for the distance it is proposed to discontinue the same, shall,
by written petition to such town superintendent have requested the
discontinuance thereof.