Title RAT, Rapid Transit

§ 51. Right of board of transportation to enter upon property. It shall and may be lawful for the board of transportation, and for all persons acting under its authority, to enter in the day time into and upon any and all property which it shall deem necessary to be acquired, or…

§ 52. Maps and plans to be filed. The board of transportation shall cause three similar maps or plans to be made of each parcel of property which it may deem necessary so to be acquired, or to which there may be appurtenant property rights necessary so to be acquired or extingui…

§ 53. Corporation counsel to acquire property. a. Whenever and as often as the board of transportation shall deem it to be necessary and proper that the city should acquire any such property and shall have caused such maps or plans and memoranda specifying and defining the prope…

§ 54. Disposition of maps. The corporation counsel shall cause one of the maps or plans, so transmitted to him, to be filed in the office of the register of the county, or if there be no such register, then in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the property co…

§ 55. Notice of intention to condemn property. The corporation counsel shall give or cause to be given notice by publication in two public newspapers published in the city, of his intention to make application to the such court that the compensation which should justly be made t…

§ 56. Application to condemn property. After such maps shall have been filed in the office of the register or county clerk, the corporation counsel, for and on behalf of the city, shall, and he may from time to time, upon first giving the notice required by section fifty-five of…

§ 57. Procedure in case property is situated in two or more counties. If the property to be acquired or extinguished in any proceeding be situated in two or more counties, the maps or plans and memoranda required to be filed by section fifty-four of this chapter shall be so file…

§ 58. Order granting application to condemn. At the time and place mentioned in such notice, unless the court shall adjourn such application to a subsequent date, and in that event at the time to which it may be adjourned, the court, upon due proof to its satisfaction of the pub…

§ 59. Examination before trial. A proceeding by the board of transportation to acquire title to property or any right therein for the purposes of this chapter by condemnation shall be deemed a special proceeding, in which testimony may be taken by deposition pursuant to the prov…

§ 60. Trial; evidence of value. a. Upon the trial, evidence of the price and other terms upon any sale, or of the rent reserved and other terms upon any lease, relating to any of the property taken or to be taken or to any other property in the vicinity thereof shall be relevant…

§ 61. Order to expedite proceeding. At any time after the date of entry of the order granting the application to condemn the corporation counsel or any owner may apply to the court for an order directing any owner or the corporation counsel, as the case may be, to show cause why…

§ 62. Time when city becomes seized. Upon the date of the entry of\nthe order granting the application to condemn, the city shall be and\nbecome seized and possessed in fee or absolute ownership of all those\nparcels of property and property rights which are in the maps or plans…

§ 63. Partial payment of awards. In any proceeding instituted\npursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the acquisition of title\nto property by the city, in which title thereto shall have become vested\nin the city by virtue of the entry of an order in compliance with\nse…

§ 64. Payment of liens and encumbrances. Whenever a person would be entitled to the payment of any advance under section sixty-three of this chapter and there shall exist mortgages or other prior liens on such property, the holder of any such prior lien may apply to the city for…

§ 65. Tentative decree; objections thereto. The court, after hearing such testimony and considering such proofs as may be offered, shall ascertain and estimate the compensation which ought justly to be made by the city to the respective owners of or persons interested in the pro…

§ 66. Final decree. After considering the objections, if any, and making any corrections or alterations in the tentative decree which the court shall consider just and proper, it shall give instructions to the corporation counsel as to the preparation of the final decree, which …

§ 67. Payment of awards and expenses. Within four calendar months after the date of the filing of the final decree of the court, the city shall pay to the parties entitled thereto the respective sums of money determined in their favor as set forth in the final decree, with legal…

§ 68. Moneys of persons under disability; moneys paid to wrong persons. Whenever the owner or any person interested in any property taken or affected in such proceedings or in whose favor any such sum or compensation shall be determined by the final decree of the court is under …

§ 69. Cost of acquiring property. The moneys necessary and sufficient\nto be paid for any property acquired in any manner under the provisions\nof this chapter, together with all expenses necessarily incurred in\nsurveying, locating and acquiring title to such property, and for\…

§ 70. Amendments of defects. The special term of the supreme court, in the judicial district in which the property affected by the proceeding is situated, at any time may amend any defect or informality in any notice, petition, pleading, order or decree in a proceeding institute…

§ 71. Appeal to the appellate division. The city, or any party or person affected by the proceeding and aggrieved by the final decree of the court therein, may appeal to the appellate division of the court. An appeal from the final decree of the court must be taken within thirty…

§ 72. Appeal to court of appeals. An appeal to the court of appeals may be taken by the city or any person or party interested in the proceeding and aggrieved by the order of the appellate division. Such appeal shall be taken and heard in the manner provided in relation to appea…

§ 73. Property deemed acquired for public use. All property acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall be and shall be deemed to have been acquired for public uses and purposes, and for the purpose of affording increased facilities for rapid transit between points withi…

§ 80. Connecting routes and extension of lines. a. The commission, from time to time, with the approval of the board of estimate and of the mayor may grant a right or franchise or enter into a contract, upon application to such commission of any railroad corporation for the purp…

§ 81. Connection with other railroads or transit facilities. a. The commission, from time to time, with the approval of the board of estimate and the mayor, upon application of any person owning, leasing, constructing or actually operating or having the right by contract to ther…

§ 82. Relocation of railroads. a. Upon application of any person owning a railroad wholly or in part within the limits of the city, the commission, if in its judgment the public interests so demand, with the approval of the board of estimate and the mayor, may fix and determine …

§ 90. Commission to prepare plan. a. The commission after making the necessary studies and investigations shall prepare a plan for the relief of the emergency which is hereby declared to exist, and for the improvement of transit in any such city. Such plan shall contain provisio…

§ 91. Procedure under plan. a. Upon the completion of such plan, but before final adoption thereof, the commission shall hold a public hearing thereon at which citizens shall be entitled to appear and be heard. The commission shall transmit a copy thereof to the board of estimat…

§ 92. Approval of contracts to effectuate plans. Anything contained in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the commission shall not execute and deliver any plan, or any lease thereunder, without obtaining the consent and approval of the board of estimate.