Title RRD, Railroad

§ 28. Tunnel railroads. When, according to the route and plan for the\nbuilding of its road, adopted by any railroad corporation, including\ncorporations organized under chapter one hundred and forty of the laws\nof eighteen hundred and fifty, and the acts amendatory thereof, an…

§ 300. Legislative policy and purposes. It is hereby declared to be\nthe policy of the state to encourage and bring about the rehabilitation,\nimprovement, and continued operation by private enterprise of the\nfacilities of any domestic railroad corporation which now or hereafte…

§ 301. Qualification. The certificate of incorporation of any\ncorporation organized for the purpose of acquiring, maintaining, and\noperating the facilities of a railroad corporation of the kind described\nin section three hundred may provide that such new corporation elects to…

§ 302. Certain directors to be local residents. The certificate of\nincorporation of any corporation qualifying hereunder shall provide\nthat, during the period of its existence as a railroad redevelopment\ncorporation, one-third of the members of its board of directors shall be…

§ 303. Certificate of approval. 1. The commissioner of transportation\nand other state agency, if any be authorized by law to do so, shall give\na certificate of approval of the qualification of a railroad corporation\nas a railroad redevelopment corporation if, in the judgment …

§ 304. Limitations upon payments on indebtedness and stock. A railroad\nredevelopment corporation shall not declare or pay any dividends on its\ncapital stock or make any payments of interest or principal upon any\nbonds or other indebtedness of such corporation which its certif…

§ 305. Tax exemption. A railroad redevelopment corporation, during\neach year of its existence as such corporation, shall be exempt from the\npayment of any and all taxes (including, without limitation, franchise,\norganization, income, mortgage recording, excise, sales, and\nco…

§ 306. Rates, fares, and charges. A railroad redevelopment corporation\nshall be entitled to maintain such rates, fares, and charges as will\nenable such corporation to have sufficient operating revenues and other\nincome in any twelve months of its existence as a railroad redev…

§ 307. Fare changes. 1. In the event it appears at any time to a\nrailroad redevelopment corporation that its operating revenues and other\nincome will not be sufficient during the forthcoming twelve months to\nprovide for the items enumerated in section three hundred six, such\…

§ 308. Reductions in fares and charges. In the event that the\ncommissioner of transportation, after a hearing held in his discretion,\non his own motion and on reasonable notice, shall determine (1) that a\nrailroad redevelopment corporation, during the most recent twelve-month…

§ 309. Reports to the commissioner of transportation. In addition to\nany reports which railroad corporations are required to file with the\ncommissioner of transportation pursuant to the transportation law, a\nrailroad redevelopment corporation shall file monthly reports with t…

§ 310. Accounting terms. The meaning of all accounting terms used in\nthis article, and the calculation of each amount to be computed under\nany provision of this article, shall be determined in accordance with\nthe uniform system of accounts for railroad companies or other\napp…

§ 311. Termination of qualification. 1. The commissioner of\ntransportation shall make and file an order terminating the\nqualification of a railroad redevelopment corporation if such\ncorporation or any affiliated corporation files an application for an\nincrease in the passeng…

§ 312. Orders of the commissioner of transportation. In addition to\nits other powers under this article, the commissioner of transportation\nshall have power, after a hearing held in his discretion, on his own\nmotion and on reasonable notice, to make and file such orders as he…

§ 313. Application of other laws. All provisions of law relating to\nrailroad corporations, as hereafter from time to time amended, shall\napply to railroad redevelopment corporations except where such\nprovisions are in conflict with the provisions of this article. Nothing\nin …

§ 32. Individual, joint-stock association, or other corporation may\nlay down and maintain railroad tracks in certain cases. Any individual,\njoint-stock association or corporation, engaged in any lawful business\nin this state, may, except in any city of the state, lay down and…

§ 34. Substituted lines in certain cases. Where a portion of a steam\nsurface railroad or branch thereof, shall be specifically authorized by\nstatute to be taken for any other public use, and such portion lies\nwholly outside of any city, any corporation owning or operating suc…

§ 450. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto\nannexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.\n

§ 451. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect\nimmediately.\n

§ 5. Incorporation. A railroad corporation may be formed under this\nchapter for the purpose of owning or operating a railroad for public\nuse, in accordance with the procedure for the formation of corporations\nset forth in article four of the business corporation law, by deliv…

§ 50. Liability of corporation to employees of contractor. An action\nmay be maintained against any railroad corporation by any laborer for\nthe amount due him from any contractor for the construction of any part\nof its road, for ninety or any less number of days' labor perform…

§ 51. Weight of rail. The rail used in the construction or the\nrelaying of the track of every railroad hereafter built or relaid in\nwhole or in part shall be of iron or steel, weighing not less than\ntwenty-five pounds to the lineal yard on narrow-gauge roads, and on all\nothe…

§ 51-a. Clearances. Clearance distance between adjacent tracks and\nbetween tracks and adjacent structures or obstructions and between the\ntop of the rail and any overhead wire, bridge, viaduct or obstruction.\nAll tracks hereafter constructed or reconstructed by every railroad…

§ 52. Fences, farm crossings and cattle-guards. Every railroad\ncorporation, and any lessee or other person in possession of its road,\nshall, before the lines of its road are opened for use, and so soon as\nit has acquired the right of way for its roadway, erect and thereafter\…

§ 52-a. Fences along road operated by electric third rail.\nNotwithstanding the provisions of section fifty-two or of any other law,\ngeneral or special, within a city containing a population of over one\nmillion inhabitants according to the last preceding federal census or\nsta…

§ 52-b. Fences along right of way. Notwithstanding the provisions of\nsections fifty-two, fifty-two-a, or fifty-two-c or of any other law,\ngeneral or special, every railroad corporation shall erect and\nthereafter maintain a fence or fences along the boundary line of its\nright…

§ 52-c. Fences in Queens county. Notwithstanding the provisions of\nsection fifty-two or of any other law, general or special, within Queens\ncounty every railroad corporation operating a railroad shall erect and\nthereafter maintain a fence or fences along the boundary line of …

§ 52-d. Debris to be cleared. Every railroad shall maintain and keep\nclear of debris the margins alongside their yard tracks used for\nswitching operations where railroad employees are required to walk in\nthe course of their duties. Such margins constitute the area between the…

§ 52-e. Penalties for littering. 1. No person shall throw, dump, or\ncause to be thrown, dumped, deposited or placed upon any railroad or\nsubway tracks, or within the limits of the right of way of any railroad\nor subway, any refuse, trash, garbage, rubbish, litter or any nause…

§ 53. Sign boards, flagmen and gates at crossings. 1. Every railroad\ncorporation shall cause a sign board to be placed, well supported and\nconstantly maintained, at every crossing where its road is crossed by a\npublic highway at grade. Such sign board shall be of a shape and …

§ 53-a. Warning signs. Every municipality or political subdivision, or\nin case of state highways the department of transportation, which is\ncharged with the duty of maintaining a highway at places where such\nhighway crosses a railroad at grade, shall install and maintain an\n…

§ 53-b. Ringing bells and blowing whistles at crossings. A person\nacting as engineer, driving a locomotive on any railway in this state,\nwho fails to ring the bell, or sound the whistle, upon such locomotive,\nor cause the same to be rung or sounded, at least eighty rods from …

§ 53-c. Obstructing farm and highway crossings. Any officer or\nemployee of a railroad corporation who shall intentionally obstruct, and\nany owner, officer or employee of a railroad corporation who shall\nintentionally cause to be obstructed any farm or highway crossing with\na…

53-d. Unlawful propulsion of a missile at railroad trains. A person is\nguilty of unlawful propulsion of a missile at a railroad train where he\nwillfully with intent to cause personal injury or property damage\nthrows, shoots or propels a rock, stone, brick, or piece of iron, s…

§ 53-e. Unlawful interference with a railroad train. A person is\nguilty of unlawful interference with a railroad train when he wilfully\nwith intent to disrupt, delay, or disturb service, places, causes to be\nplaced, drops, or positions an object or objects of any kind, on, un…

§ 53-f. Joint inspection of traffic-control signals interconnected\nwith highway-rail at-grade crossing warning systems. 1. Notwithstanding\nthe provisions of any other law to the contrary, the commissioner is\nauthorized to establish, implement, and exercise oversight over a\np…

§ 54. Notice of starting trains; no preferences. Every railroad\ncorporation shall start and run its cars for the transportation of\npassengers and property at regular times, to be fixed by public notice,\nand shall furnish sufficient accommodations for the transportation of\nal…

§ 54-a. Communication. 1. No class 1 or class 2 railroad common\ncarrier or rail passenger carrier shall perform or cause to be performed\nany transportation service without ensuring that there is operable\ncommunication among all members of the train crew, between the train\ncr…

§ 55. Accommodation of connecting roads. Every railroad corporation\nwhose road, at or near the same place, connects with or is intersected\nby two or more railroads competing for its business, shall fairly and\nimpartially afford to each of such connecting or intersecting roads…

§ 56. Locomotives must stop at grade crossings. All trains and\nlocomotives on railroads crossing each other at grade shall come to a\nfull stop before crossing, not less than two hundred nor more than eight\nhundred feet from the crossing, and shall then cross only when the way…

§ 57. Rates of fare. Subject to the provisions of the transportation\nlaw, every railroad corporation may fix and collect the following rates\nof fare as compensation to be paid for transporting any passenger and\nhis baggage, not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds in weight…

§ 57-a. A steam or electric railroad corporation having a franchise\nfrom this state, operating to and from stations within a city of over a\nmillion inhabitants, and owned, controlled or operated by a railroad\ncorporation having a franchise from another state, shall not charge…

§ 58. Excess charge when fare paid on cars. It shall be lawful for any\ncompany owning or operating a steam railroad in this state, to demand\nand collect an excess charge of ten cents over the regular or\nestablished rate of fare, from any passenger who pays fare in the car in\…

§ 59. Penalty for excessive fare. Any railroad corporation, which\nshall ask or receive more than the lawful rate of fare, unless such\novercharge was made through inadvertence or mistake, not amounting to\ngross negligence, shall forfeit fifty dollars, to be recovered with the\…

§ 6. Applicability of business corporation law to railroad\ncorporations. (a) The business corporation law applies to a corporation\nheretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or under any other\nstatute or special act of this state, or under laws other than the\nstatute…

§ 60. Issue and use of mileage books. Every railroad corporation\noperating a railroad in this state, the line or lines of which are more\nthan one hundred miles in length, and which is authorized by law to\ncharge a maximum fare of more than two cents per mile, and not more tha…

§ 61. Passenger refusing to pay fare may be ejected. If any passenger\nshall refuse to pay his fare the conductor of the train, and the\nservants of the corporation, may put him and his baggage out of the\ncars, using no unnecessary force, on stopping the train, at any usual\nst…

§ 61-a. Sounding of certain signals on railroad cars by unauthorized\npersons. A person who shall ring or sound a signal bell or device for\nstarting or stopping a passenger car, of a street or other surface\nrailroad, or subway or elevated railroad, while such car is in use for…

§ 62. Sleeping and parlor cars. Any railroad corporation may contract\nwith any person, association or corporation for the hauling by the\nspecial or regular trains of said railroad corporation, the parlor,\ndrawing-room or sleeping car or cars of such person, association or\nco…

§ 63. Persons employed as drivers, conductors, motormen or gripmen.\nAny railroad corporation may employ any inhabitant of the state, of the\nage of twenty-one years, not addicted to the use of intoxicating\nliquors, as a car driver, conductor, motorman or gripman, or in any\not…