About: New York State Department of Public Works

An Entity of Type: WikicatNewYorkStateSuperintendentsOfPublicWorks, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

The office of Superintendent of Public Works was created by an 1876 amendment to the New York State Constitution. It abolished the canal commissioners and established that the Department of Public Works execute all laws relating to canal maintenance and navigation except for those functions performed by the New York State Engineer and Surveyor who continued to prepare maps, plans and estimates for canal construction and improvement. The Canal Board (now consisting of the Superintendent of Public Works, the State Engineer and Surveyor, and the Commissioners of the Canal Fund) continued to handle hiring of employees and other personnel matters. The Barge Canal Law of 1903 (Chapter 147) directed the Canal Board to oversee the enlargement of and improvements to the Erie Canal, the Champlain Ca

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The office of Superintendent of Public Works was created by an 1876 amendment to the New York State Constitution. It abolished the canal commissioners and established that the Department of Public Works execute all laws relating to canal maintenance and navigation except for those functions performed by the New York State Engineer and Surveyor who continued to prepare maps, plans and estimates for canal construction and improvement. The Canal Board (now consisting of the Superintendent of Public Works, the State Engineer and Surveyor, and the Commissioners of the Canal Fund) continued to handle hiring of employees and other personnel matters. The Barge Canal Law of 1903 (Chapter 147) directed the Canal Board to oversee the enlargement of and improvements to the Erie Canal, the Champlain Canal and the Oswego Canal. In 1967, the Department of Public Works was merged with other departments into the new New York State Department of Transportation. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 19346501 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 7099 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1000359286 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:after
dbp:before
dbp:title
  • New York State Department of Public Works (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 1876 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The office of Superintendent of Public Works was created by an 1876 amendment to the New York State Constitution. It abolished the canal commissioners and established that the Department of Public Works execute all laws relating to canal maintenance and navigation except for those functions performed by the New York State Engineer and Surveyor who continued to prepare maps, plans and estimates for canal construction and improvement. The Canal Board (now consisting of the Superintendent of Public Works, the State Engineer and Surveyor, and the Commissioners of the Canal Fund) continued to handle hiring of employees and other personnel matters. The Barge Canal Law of 1903 (Chapter 147) directed the Canal Board to oversee the enlargement of and improvements to the Erie Canal, the Champlain Ca (en)
rdfs:label
  • New York State Department of Public Works (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:architect of
is dbo:successor of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:designer of
is dbp:maint of
is dbp:office of
is dbp:preceding of
is dbp:successor of
is dbp:title of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License