Title RRD, Railroad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 196. Protection to employees in the counties of Albany and\nRensselaer. Every corporation operating a street surface railroad in\nthe counties of Albany and Rensselaer shall cause the front and rear\nplatforms of every car propelled by electricity, cable or compressed\nair, du…

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

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

§ 2. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context\notherwise requires:\n (1) "Commissioner of transportation", "Commissioner" or "commission"\nmeans the state commissioner of transportation.\n (2) "Certificate of incorporation" and "bonds" have the meaning set\nforth…

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

§ 201. Construction of park railroads in cities having a population of\none million five hundred thousand or upwards. For the purpose of\nproviding for the more speedy transportation of persons across public\nparks in the cities within the state of New York having a population o…

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

§ 203. Expense of construction and operation. Whenever any railroad\nshall be constructed, equipped or operated under section two hundred and\none, the expense of such construction, and in case said railroad shall\nbe equipped and operated by such city, the expense of such equip…

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

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

§ 206. Motive power. Any portion of any railroad constructed,\nequipped and operated under section two hundred and one may be operated\nby cable.\n

§ 207. Railroads in parks in New York city, by whom constructed.\nWhenever any railroads shall be constructed in the city of New York,\nunder the provisions of the preceding six sections, such railroads shall\nbe constructed by the department of public parks of said city with th…

§ 209. Change of motive power authorized. Any railroad company having\nthe right to use any railroad now constructed in any public tunnel, road\nor way depressed below the surface of and wholly within any public park\nin any city within the state of New York having a population …

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

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

§ 22. Proceedings to determine point at which a new railroad shall\nintersect one already established; compensation; duties of intersecting\nroads. Every railroad corporation, whose road is or shall be intersected\nby any new railroad, shall unite with the corporation owning suc…

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

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

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

§ 223. Determination of necessity of railroad and route. The\ncommissioners shall, within thirty days after such organization,\ndetermine upon the necessity of such steam railroad, and if they find it\nto be necessary, they shall, within sixty days after such organization,\nfix …

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 23. Highway exempted. No railroad shall be constructed, maintained\nor operated and no railroad tracks shall be laid upon the state road\nknown as the Buffalo and White's Corners plank-road in the county of\nErie, where none now exists, excepting such as may be necessarily lai…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 236. Abandonment or change of route; new commissioners; their powers\nand proceedings. Any corporation heretofore organized or hereafter to be\norganized under this article, its successor or assigns, which shall have\nconstructed or put in operation a railroad upon a part and …

§ 237. Abandonment of portion of route by elevated railroad. Any\ncompany operating an elevated railroad or railroads in any city of this\nstate for the transportation of passengers, mails or freight, and which,\nprior to the twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninet…

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

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

§ 24. Change of route, grade or terminus; abandonment of line or\nportion thereof. Every railroad corporation, except elevated railroad\ncorporations, may, by a vote of two-thirds of all its directors, alter\nor change the route or any part of the route of its road or its termin…

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

§ 241. Penalty for violation of two preceding sections. Any elevated\nrailroad corporation that shall fail or neglect to comply with or\nenforce the provisions of the two preceding sections, shall upon the\npetition of any citizen to any court of record, and upon due notice to\n…

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

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

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