§ 59. Additional width, different type of construction or other
additional work under repair or reconstruction contracts. Whenever in
the maintenance, repair or reconstruction of state highways the
commissioner of transportation shall have determined upon the necessity
of resurfacing or reconstructing such highway, the county, town or
village wherein the highway is located may petition the commissioner of
transportation to provide an additional width, a different type of
pavement, or both, or any additional work or any or all of same, in the
plans providing for such resurfacing or reconstruction.

The additional expense of such widening, different type of
construction or additional work shall be borne wholly by such county,
town or village and the provisions of sections forty-six, forty-eight
and forty-nine shall apply to such additional width, different type of
construction or any additional work under such repair or reconstruction
contract in the same manner as under a construction contract as provided
in those sections.