Title TCP, Transportation Corporations

§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Transportation Corporations Law."

§ 10. Definitions. A gas corporation is a corporation organized to manufacture, to produce or otherwise acquire and to supply for public use artificial or natural gas, a mixture of both artificial and natural gases or thermal energy for light, heat or power and for lighting the …

§ 100. Definition. A freight terminal corporation is a corporation organized to supply, maintain and operate freight terminal facilities-- including docks, wharves, bulkheads, basins, tugs, floats, lighters and other shipping, and wharfage and lighterage for the receipt, deliver…

§ 101. Limitation of powers. Nothing in this article shall be so construed as to permit any such corporation to engage in manufacture or production, except for its own use, of power, heat, light, supplies and equipment or to carry on the business of generating, selling or distri…

§ 102. Rates; discrimination; liability. Except as to terminal warehouses, show rooms and factories, such a corporation shall be a common carrier. Subject to regulation by the commissioner of transportation, such a corporation may make regulations and fix rates for each class of…

§ 103. Supervision. Every such corporation shall be subject to supervision, control and regulation by the commissioner of transportation to the same extent as railroads and street railroads so far as the provisions of the transportation law are applicable.

§ 104. Corporate acts subject to approval of commissioner of transportation. It shall be necessary for such a corporation to secure the approval of the commissioner of transportation as a condition to the following corporate acts: The issuance of stock; the issuance of bonds, no…

§ 105. Merger or consolidation of freight terminal corporations and other corporations formed for the purpose of engaging in business in which a freight terminal corporation may engage. Any two or more domestic freight terminal corporations may merge or consolidate with each oth…

§ 106. Condemnation; approval of commissioner of transportation. Every such freight terminal corporation shall have power to acquire by condemnation such real property, except that of a public service corporation, including the right of way through any property, as may be necess…

§ 107. Use of streets; municipal consent. Every such freight terminal corporation may acquire, use and enjoy the privilege to cross or otherwise use the streets adjacent to any terminal way or terminal station with the consent and on such terms as may be imposed by the local aut…

§ 108. Regulation. In construction and operation of its plant and equipment and in the transaction of its business, every such corporation shall be subject to all regulations as to construction, fire, health and safety imposed by law, ordinance or local authority.

§ 109. Inconsistent acts. The provisions of any act and parts of acts, including the charter of Greater New York and the charter of any other city of the state, which are inconsistent with this article, and insofar only as they are inconsistent with this article, shall have no a…

§ 11. Powers. Every such corporation shall have the following powers: 1. A gas corporation and a gas and electric corporation shall have power to manufacture gas, and to acquire thermal energy or natural or artificial gas and to mix the gases and to sell and furnish thermal ener…

§ 110. Definition. A district steam corporation is a corporation organized to supply steam to consumers from a central station or stations through pipes laid wholly or partly in the public streets.

§ 111. Municipal consent to use streets. A district steam corporation shall have power to lay and maintain suitable pipes and conduits or other fixtures in and under the streets, parks and public places of the cities, villages or towns mentioned in its certificate of incorporati…

§ 112. Service to be furnished upon application. A district steam corporation, upon the application in writing of the owner or occupant of any building or premises, within one hundred feet of any street main laid down by any such corporation, and payment by him of all money due …

§ 113. Examination of meters by agent. Any such corporation may make an agreement with any of its customers, by which any of its officers or agents shall be authorized at all reasonable times to enter any dwelling, store, building, room or place, supplied with steam by such corp…

§ 114. Entry by agent to cut off steam. If any person, corporation or association supplied with steam by any such corporation, shall neglect or refuse to pay the rent or remuneration for such steam, or for the meter, device, pipes, fittings or appliances, furnished by such corpo…

§ 115. Definitions. As used in this article, the term: 1. "Sewage-works corporation" means a corporation heretofore or hereafter organized to provide a sewer system as hereinafter defined for the disposal of sewage, through an established system of pipe lines, treatment plants a…

§ 116. Consent to incorporation. 1. No certificate of incorporation of a sewage-works corporation shall be filed unless there be annexed thereto a certificate or certificates duly executed in behalf of the local governing bodies of the city, town or village, as the case may be, …

§ 117. Approval by department of health. A local governing body shall not consent to the establishment of a sewage-works corporation in any municipality unless there shall first be filed with the department of health, or city, county, or part-county department of health having j…

§ 118. Inspection; cost certification. 1. The local governing body, except in the county of Suffolk, the county sewer agency shall utilize any licensed professional engineer in its own personnel staff, or retain a licensed professional engineer or engineering firm to cause the f…

§ 119. Guaranties. 1. The local governing body shall require the posting of a performance bond for the completion of the construction of the sewage-works system, and may require the posting of an additional bond or other guaranty for the payment of labor and material furnished i…

§ 12. Gas and electricity must be supplied on application. Except in the case of an application for residential utility service pursuant to article two of the public service law, upon written application of the owner or occupant of any building within one hundred feet of any mai…

§ 120. Option. (a) The local governing body may, at the time of granting the consent to incorporation, require an option to purchase the system from the corporation or at any time shall have the right to purchase or acquire it by condemnation. The local governing body may exerci…

§ 121. Duty to supply sewage-works facilities. A sewage-works corporation shall supply each city, town, village or other municipal area or district wherein such corporation operates, and the inhabitants therein, with facilities or make provision for the collection, treatment and…

§ 122. Powers. Every sewage-works corporation shall have the power: 1. To lay, maintain, repair and operate its pipes, conduits and sewers in any street, highway or public place of any city, town, village or other municipal area, in which it has obtained the consent required by …

§ 123. Survey and map. Before taking or using any land, for its corporate purposes such corporation shall cause a survey and map to be made of the lands intended to be taken designating the land of the several owners or occupants thereof, which map shall be signed by the preside…

§ 124. Condemnation of real property. Any such corporation shall have the right to acquire real estate, or any interest therein, necessary for the purposes of its incorporation, and the right to lay, repair and maintain conduits and sewer pipes with connections and fixtures, and…

§ 15. Refusal or neglect to pay rent. If any person supplied with gas or electric light by any such corporation, except residential customers supplied pursuant to article two of the public service law shall neglect or refuse to pay the rent or remuneration due for the same or fo…

§ 16. No rent for meters to be charged. No gas corporation, electric corporation or gas and electric corporation directly or indirectly shall charge or collect rent on its gas meters, and any person, or corporation violating this provision shall be liable to a penalty of fifty d…

§ 17. Construction over Indian reservation. A gas corporation, an electric corporation or a gas and electric corporation may contract with the chiefs of any nation of Indians over whose lands it may be necessary to construct its gas or electric lines for the right to construct s…

§ 2. Classification of transportation corporations. A transportation corporation shall be either, 1. A gas corporation, an electric corporation or a gas and electric corporation. 2. A telegraph corporation, a telephone corporation or a telegraph and telephone corporation. 3. A w…

§ 25. Definitions. A telegraph corporation is a corporation organized to construct, own, use and maintain a line or lines of electric telegraph wholly within or partly without this state, or to acquire and own any interest in any such line or lines, or any grants therefor or for…

§ 26. Extension of lines. A telegraph corporation, a telephone corporation or a telegraph and telephone corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated under or by any general or special law may construct, own, use and maintain any line of electric telegraph or telephone, wheth…

§ 27. Construction of lines. Any such corporation may erect, construct and maintain the necessary fixtures for its lines upon, over or under any of the public roads, streets and highways; and through, across or under any of the waters within the limits of this state, and may ere…

§ 28. Transmission of dispatches. Every such corporation shall receive dispatches from and for other telegraph or telephone lines or corporations, and from and for any person, and on payment of the usual charges for transmitting dispatches as established by the rules and regulat…

§ 29. Transfer of property to other corporations. Any such corporation may lease, sell or convey its property, rights, privileges and franchises, or any interest therein, or any part thereof to any telegraph, telephone or telegraph and telephone corporation organized under or cr…

§ 3. Incorporation. (a) A transportation corporation may be formed under this chapter, in accordance with the procedure for the formation of corporations set forth in article four of the business corporation law, by delivering to the department of state for filing a certificate …

§ 30. Special police officers of corporation operating signal systems. The police department or board of police of any city may, in addition to the police force now authorized by law, appoint a number of persons, not exceeding two hundred, who may be designated by any corporatio…

§ 30-a. Merger or consolidation of telephone corporations. Any two or more domestic telephone 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.

§ 30-b. Merger or consolidation of telegraph corporations. Any two or more domestic telegraph 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.

§ 31. Application of article. The provisions of this article shall apply to corporations owning, leasing, maintaining or operating or organized for the purpose of owning, leasing, maintaining or operating, a radio or wireless plant, equipment or system as a part of, or in conjun…

§ 4. Applicability of business corporation law to transportation corporations. (a) The business corporation law applies to a corporation heretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or under any other statute or special act of this state, or under laws other than the statu…

§ 40. Definition. A water-works corporation is a corporation organized to supply water by mains or pipes to any of the cities, towns or villages in this state, and the inhabitants thereof.

§ 41. Municipal consent to incorporation. No certificate of incorporation of a water-works corporation shall be filed unless there be annexed thereto a consent to the formation of the corporation, signed and acknowledged by the local authorities of each municipality named in suc…

§ 42. Duty to supply water; contracts with municipalities. Such corporation shall supply each city, town or village through which the conduits or mains of such corporation may pass, or wherein such corporation may have organized, and the inhabitants thereof, with pure and wholes…

§ 43. Powers. Every such corporation shall have the following additional powers: 1. To lay and maintain its pipes and hydrants for delivering and distributing water in any street, highway or public place of any city, town or village in which it has obtained the consent required …

§ 44. Survey and map. Before taking or using any land, for its corporate purposes such corporation shall cause a survey and map to be made of the lands intended to be taken designating the land of the several owners or occupants thereof, which map shall be signed by the presiden…

§ 45. Condemnation of real property. Any such corporation shall have the right to acquire real estate, or any interest therein, necessary for the purposes of its incorporation, and the right to lay, relay, repair and maintain conduits and water pipes with connections and fixture…