Title TCP, Transportation Corporations

§ 46. Corporations may contract with other cities, towns or villages; certificate of extension; effect of merger. When any such corporation has entered into a contract with the authorities of any city, town or village not mentioned in its certificate of incorporation, but situat…

§ 47. Merger or consolidation of waterworks corporations. Any two or more domestic waterworks corporations may merge or consolidate with each other, in accordance with the procedure and with the effect set forth in article nine of the business corporation law.

§ 5. Application. A corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated under a general law for a purpose or purposes for which a corporation may be formed under this chapter shall in respect to such purpose or purposes have all the powers and privileges conferred, and be subject t…

§ 6. Merger of subsidiary corporations. (a) Any domestic transportation corporation or any foreign corporation authorized to do in this state any business which may be done in this state by a domestic transportation corporation, owning at least ninety-five percent of the outstan…

§ 70. Definition. A ferry corporation is a corporation organized to operate a ferry, wholly within or partly without this state.

§ 71. Powers. Any such corporation shall have power to take by grant or by assignment a franchise or right to establish and operate a ferry or ferries, as specified in the certificate of incorporation, subject to the rights of any person, or municipal or other corporation. In an…

§ 72. Posting schedule of rates. A corporation operating a ferry in this state, or between this state and any other state, shall post in a conspicuous and accessible place in each of its ferry houses, in plain view of the passengers, a schedule plainly printed in the English lan…

§ 80. Definitions. 1. A pipe line corporation is a corporation organized to construct and operate for public use, wholly within or partly without this state, except in the city of New York, lines of pipe for conveying or transporting therein petroleum, gas, liquids or any produc…

§ 81. Additional powers. Every such corporation shall have power: 1. To make such examinations and surveys as it may deem necessary for the selection of the most advantageous route, and for such purpose by its officers, agents or servants to enter upon the lands or waters of any…

§ 81-a. Misconduct of officers and agents of pipe-line corporations. Any officer, agent or manager of a pipe-line corporation who: 1. Neglects or refuses to transport any product delivered for transportation, or to accept and allow a delivery thereof in the order of application,…

§ 82. Location of route. Before commencing the construction of its pipe line in any county, and before commencing any proceeding for the condemnation of real property, such a corporation shall plainly mark the route adopted and located by it by stakes consecutively numbered and …

§ 83. Condemnation of real property. In case such corporation is unable to agree for the purchase of any real property required for the purposes of its incorporation, and its route in the county in which such real property is situated has been finally located, it shall have the …

§ 84. Railroad and highway crossings. Whenever it shall be necessary for any line of pipe of any such corporation to cross any railroad or highway, such line of pipe shall be laid under such railroad or highway, with the least injury practicable, and unless such right to cross s…

§ 85. Construction across and along canals, rivers and creeks. No pipe line shall be constructed upon or across any of the canals of this state, except by the consent of and in the manner and upon the terms prescribed by the, commissioner of transportation, unless constructed up…

§ 86. Consent of local authorities. No pipe lines shall be constructed across or along any public highway without the consent of the public officer or body having supervision thereof, upon such terms as may be agreed upon with him or it, and also in the case of any public highwa…

§ 87. Construction through villages and cities. No pipe line shall be constructed into or through any incorporated village or city in this state, unless authorized by a resolution prescribing the route, manner of construction and terms upon which granted, adopted at a regular me…

§ 88. Over Indian reservations. Such corporations may contract with the chiefs of any nation of Indians over whose lands it may be necessary to construct its pipe line for the right to construct the same upon such lands, but no such contract shall vest in the corporation the fee…

§ 89. Over state lands. The commissioner of general services shall have power to grant to any pipe line corporation any lands belonging to the people of this state which may be required for the purposes of its incorporation on such terms as may be agreed, or such corporation may…

§ 90. Use of line to be public; storage; liable as common carrier; rates and charges. Every such corporation shall be a common carrier and its pipe lines subject to public use. All persons desiring to transport products shall have the right on equal terms to transportation in th…

§ 91. Receipts for property; cancellation of vouchers; delivery of property. No receipt, certificate or order of any kind shall be issued, made or accepted by any such corporation for any commodity unless the commodity represented thereby is actually in possession of the corpora…

§ 92. Semi-annual statements. Every such corporation shall make a semi-annual statement showing the quantity of all commodities on hand on the first day of the period for which the statement is made; the quantity received and delivered during such period, and the quantity on han…

§ 93. Fences; farm crossings and use of line not inclosed. It shall not be necessary for any such corporation to fence the lands acquired for its corporate purposes. But, if not inclosed by a substantial fence, the owner of the adjoining lands from whom such lands were obtained,…