Title RRD, Railroad

§ 189. Time extended for payment of percentage based on gross receipts. Every corporation building or operating a street surface railroad, or a branch or extension thereof, under the provisions of this article, or chapter two hundred and fifty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred…

§ 19. Railroads through Indian lands. Any railroad corporation may contract with the chiefs of any nation of Indians, over whose lands it may be necessary to construct its railroad, for the right to make such road upon such lands, but such contract shall not vest in the corporat…

§ 191. Road not to be constructed upon ground occupied by public buildings or in public parks. No street surface railroad shall be constructed or extended upon ground occupied by buildings belonging to any town, city, county or to the state, or to the United States, or in public…

§ 192. Center-bearing rails prohibited. No street surface railroad corporation shall hereafter lay down in the streets of any incorporated city or village of this state what are known as "center-bearing" rails; but in all cases, whether in laying new track or in replacing old ra…

§ 192-a. Relocation of tracks. In any city having a population of one million or more, the board of estimate of such city, or if there be no board of estimate, the local authorities of such city having control of the streets shall have the power to apply to the commissioner of t…

§ 193. Right to cross bridge substituted for a bridge crossed for five years. Should any street surface railroad company have crossed any bridge as a part of its route for a period of more than five years and should any other bridge be substituted therefor at any time, such comp…

§ 194. Protection of employees. Every corporation operating a street surface railroad in this state, except such as operate a railroad or railroads either in the borough of Manhattan or Brooklyn, in the city of New York, shall cause the front and rear platforms of every passenge…

§ 195. Platforms on new cars, how constructed. All street surface railroad passenger cars purchased, built or rebuilt after the first day of December, nineteen hundred and four, and operated in the state of New York on and after said date, except those owned by any company opera…

§ 196. Protection to employees in the counties of Albany and Rensselaer. Every corporation operating a street surface railroad in the counties of Albany and Rensselaer shall cause the front and rear platforms of every car propelled by electricity, cable or compressed air, during…

§ 197. Protection of employees in the counties of Kings and Queens. Every corporation operating a street surface railroad in the counties of Kings or Queens, shall cause the front and rear platforms of every passenger car propelled by electricity, cable or compressed air, operat…

§ 198. Contracts for the adjustment of payments due certain cities. The board of estimate and apportionment, or if such board do not exist, the local authorities which have power to make appropriation of moneys to be raised by taxation, in any city having a population of three h…

§ 2. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Commissioner of transportation", "Commissioner" or "commission" means the state commissioner of transportation. (2) "Certificate of incorporation" and "bonds" have the meaning set forth in sec…

§ 20. Railroads through Chautauqua assembly grounds. No railroad corporation shall build, construct or operate any railroad in, upon, over or through the grounds, lands or premises owned by the Chautauqua assembly corporation in the town and county of Chautauqua, without the wri…

§ 201. Construction of park railroads in cities having a population of one million five hundred thousand or upwards. For the purpose of providing for the more speedy transportation of persons across public parks in the cities within the state of New York having a population of o…

§ 202. Consents of property owners. No railroads shall be constructed, equipped or operated by virtue of the preceding section except upon the condition that the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property outside of said public parks bounded on and the consent al…

§ 203. Expense of construction and operation. Whenever any railroad shall be constructed, equipped or operated under section two hundred and one, the expense of such construction, and in case said railroad shall be equipped and operated by such city, the expense of such equipmen…

§ 204. Agreements for payment of cost of construction by instalments. The department, board or officer having control of such public parks may agree with the person or corporation with whom any contract may be made for the construction, equipment and operation of said railroad t…

§ 205. Disposition of income. The compensation or income which shall be received by such cities from such railroad, except as the same may be otherwise applied pursuant to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be paid into the treasury thereof.

§ 206. Motive power. Any portion of any railroad constructed, equipped and operated under section two hundred and one may be operated by cable.

§ 207. Railroads in parks in New York city, by whom constructed. Whenever any railroads shall be constructed in the city of New York, under the provisions of the preceding six sections, such railroads shall be constructed by the department of public parks of said city with the c…

§ 209. Change of motive power authorized. Any railroad company having the right to use any railroad now constructed in any public tunnel, road or way depressed below the surface of and wholly within any public park in any city within the state of New York having a population of …

§ 21. Railroads along highways. No railroad corporation shall erect any bridge or other obstruction across, in or over any stream or lake, navigated by steam or sail boats at the place where it may be proposed to be erected, except as hereinafter provided, nor shall it construct…

§ 210. New streets across other than steam surface railroads. 1. When a new street, avenue, highway or road or new portion or additional width of a street, avenue, highway or road, or a state or county highway or county road deviating from the line of an existing highway or road…

§ 22. Proceedings to determine point at which a new railroad shall intersect one already established; compensation; duties of intersecting roads. Every railroad corporation, whose road is or shall be intersected by any new railroad, shall unite with the corporation owning such n…

§ 220. Application for railroad; commissioners. Upon the application of at least fifty reputable householders and taxpayers of any county or city, verified upon oath before a justice of the supreme court, that there is need in said county or city of a steam railroad in the stree…

§ 221. Oath and bond of commissioners. Within ten days after his appointment, and before entering upon the discharge of any of the duties of his office, each commissioner shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, which shall be filed in the office of the clerk …

§ 222. First meeting of commissioners. Within fifteen days after their appointment, the commissioners shall meet in some convenient place in the county or city and organize themselves as a board with appropriate officers.

§ 223. Determination of necessity of railroad and route. The commissioners shall, within thirty days after such organization, determine upon the necessity of such steam railroad, and if they find it to be necessary, they shall, within sixty days after such organization, fix and …

§ 224. Adoption of plans, and terms upon which road shall be built. The commissioners by such public notice, and under such conditions, and with such inducements as they may prescribe, shall invite a submission of plans for the construction and operation of such railroad, and sh…

§ 225. Appraisal of damages and deposit of money as security. The commissioners shall, within one hundred and ten days after their organization, ascertain and determine the aggregate pecuniary damage arising from the diminution in the value of the property bounded on that portio…

§ 226. Shall prepare certificate of incorporation; proviso as to forfeiture. The commissioners shall prepare an appropriate certificate of incorporation for the corporation in the last section mentioned in which shall be set forth and embodied, as component parts thereof, the se…

§ 227. Organization. Whenever the whole capital stock of such corporation or an amount of such capital stock proportioned to the part of such railroad directed by the commissioners to be constructed, shall have been subscribed by not less than fifteen persons, and the fixed perc…

§ 228. Commissioners to deliver certificate; affidavit of directors. Within ten days after the election of such directors the commissioners shall deliver to them a certificate in duplicate, verified by the oath of three commissioners, before a justice of the supreme court, setti…

§ 229. Powers. Subject to the provisions of the transportation law, every such corporation shall have power, in addition to the powers conferred by the business corporation law and by subdivisions four and six of section eight of this chapter: 1. To take and convey persons and p…

§ 23. Highway exempted. No railroad shall be constructed, maintained or operated and no railroad tracks shall be laid upon the state road known as the Buffalo and White's Corners plank-road in the county of Erie, where none now exists, excepting such as may be necessarily laid f…

§ 231. Where route coincides with another route. Whenever the route or routes determined upon by the commissioners coincide with the route or routes covered by the charter of an existing corporation, formed for the purpose of constructing and operating such a railroad, and it ha…

§ 232. Commissioners to transfer plans. Within one month after such corporation shall have been formed and organized in the manner hereinbefore provided, the commissioners shall transfer and deliver to the corporation all plans, specifications, drawings, maps, books and papers i…

§ 233. Commissioners to file report; confirmation thereof. The commissioners shall within one hundred and forty days after their appointment, make a report to a special term of the supreme court of the department in which such railroad may be located, of the amount of the pecuni…

§ 234. Pay of commissioners. Each of the commissioners shall be paid for his services at the rate of ten dollars per day for each day of actual service as such commissioner, and all expenses necessarily incurred by him in the discharge of his duties, to be paid by such corporati…

§ 235. Quorum; term of office; removal; vacancies in board of commissioners. A majority of the members of any board of commissioners appointed under this article shall be a quorum for the transaction of any business or the performance of any duty or function, or the exercise of …

§ 236. Abandonment or change of route; new commissioners; their powers and proceedings. Any corporation heretofore organized or hereafter to be organized under this article, its successor or assigns, which shall have constructed or put in operation a railroad upon a part and not…

§ 237. Abandonment of portion of route by elevated railroad. Any company operating an elevated railroad or railroads in any city of this state for the transportation of passengers, mails or freight, and which, prior to the twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-o…

§ 238. Increased deposit, when and how required. In case any of the securities deposited in lieu of money as provided in section two hundred and twenty-five, shall in the opinion of the county treasurer or trust company with whom they may be deposited, fall below their actual va…

§ 239. Trains to come to full stop. All trains upon elevated railroads shall come to a full stop before any passenger shall be permitted to leave such trains; and no train on such railroad shall be permitted to start until every passenger desiring to depart therefrom shall have …

§ 24. Change of route, grade or terminus; abandonment of line or portion thereof. Every railroad corporation, except elevated railroad corporations, may, by a vote of two-thirds of all its directors, alter or change the route or any part of the route of its road or its termini, …

§ 240. Gates or vestibule doors. Every car used for passengers upon elevated railroads shall have gates at the outer edge of its platforms so constructed that they shall, when opened, be caught and held open by such catch or spring as will prevent their swinging and obstructing …

§ 241. Penalty for violation of two preceding sections. Any elevated railroad corporation that shall fail or neglect to comply with or enforce the provisions of the two preceding sections, shall upon the petition of any citizen to any court of record, and upon due notice to such…

§ 242. Sections to be printed and posted. The officers and board of directors of such railroad corporations shall cause copies of sections two hundred and thirty-nine, two hundred and forty and two hundred and forty-one to be printed conspicuously and posted in the depots or sta…

§ 243. Extension of time. The time within which any act is required to be done under the foregoing sections of this article may be extended by the supreme court for good cause shown, for one year, and but one extension will be granted. Any company that has heretofore constructed…

§ 244. Lighting cars on elevated railroads in cities of over twelve hundred thousand inhabitants. Every corporation operating an elevated railroad in any city of over twelve hundred thousand inhabitants in this state, computed according to the state enumeration had in eighteen h…