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NY RR L § 180 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 180 - Motive Power.

§  180.  Motive  power.    Any street surface railroad may operate any   portion of its road by cable,  electricity,  or  any  power  other  than   locomotive  steam  power, which said locomotive steam power is primarily   generated by the locomotive propelling the cars, and in the use of which   either escaping steam or smoke is visible, which may be approved by  the   commissioner  of  transportation  and  consented  to  by  the  owners of   one-half of the property bounded on that portion of the  railroad,  with   respect  to  which  a  change  of  motive  power is proposed; and if the   consent of such property owners can not be obtained,  the  determination   of   three  disinterested  commissioners,  appointed  by  the  appellate   division of the supreme court of the department in which  such  railroad   is located, in favor of such motive power, confirmed by the court, shall   be  taken  in lieu of the consent of the property owners. The consent of   the property owners shall  be  obtained  and  the  proceedings  for  the   appointment   and   the  determination  of  the  commissioners  and  the   confirmation of their report shall be conducted in the manner prescribed   in sections one hundred and seventy-one and one hundred and seventy-four   of this article, so far as the same  can  properly  be  made  applicable   thereto.  Any  railroad  corporation making a change in its motive power   under this section, may make any changes in the construction of its road   or roadbed or other property rendered necessary by  the  change  in  its   motive  power.  Where  a  street  surface  railroad  in  the counties of   Herkimer and Hamilton  is  located  wholly  outside  the  limits  of  an   incorporated  city  or  village, such railroad may, with the approval of   the commissioner of transportation,  be  operated  by  locomotive  steam   power,  provided  that  such  steam  power  is generated by oil from and   including April fifteenth to and including November  thirtieth,  and  by   either  oil  or  coal from and including December first to and including   April fourteenth.
NY RR L § 181 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 181 - Rate of Fare.

§  181.  Rate  of  fare.   No corporation constructing and operating a   railroad under the provisions of this article, or of chapter two hundred   and fifty-two of the laws of eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-four,  shall   charge  any  passenger more than five cents for one continuous ride from   any point on its road, or on any road, line or branch operated by it, or   under its control, to any other point thereof, or any connecting  branch   thereof, within the limits of any incorporated city or village. Not more   than  one  fare  shall  be charged within the limits of any such city or   village, for passage over the main  line  of  road  and  any  branch  or   extention  thereof  if  the  right to construct such branch or extension   shall have been acquired under the provisions of such chapter or of this   article; except that in any city having a population of less than  fifty   thousand,  or  in  any incorporated village, it shall be lawful for such   corporation to charge and collect as a maximum rate  of  fare  for  each   passenger,  ten  cents,  where  such passenger is carried in a car which   overcomes an elevation of at least four hundred and fifty feet within  a   distance  of  one  and a half miles. This section shall not apply to any   part of any road constructed prior to May sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and   eighty-four,  and  then  in operation, unless the corporation owning the   same shall have acquired the right to extend such road, or to  construct   branches  thereof  under such chapter, or shall acquire such right under   the provisions of this article, in which event its rate  of  fare  shall   not exceed its authorized rate prior to such extension.  The legislature   expressly  reserves the right to regulate and reduce the rate of fare on   any railroad constructed and operated  wholly  or  in  part  under  such   chapter or under the provisions of this article; and the commissioner of   transportation  shall  possess  the  same  power,  to  be  exercised  as   prescribed in the transportation law.
NY RR L § 182 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 182 - Collection of Fare.

§  182. Collection of fare.  It shall be unlawful for any corporation,   or an employee thereof, operating a street surface railroad, or a branch   thereof, on which the motive power is electricity, which road or  branch   is  operated  wholly  or  in  part in a city having at least one million   inhabitants and which crosses the boundaries of such  city,  to  collect   fare of a passenger more than once for and during one continuous ride on   a  single  car  or  train;  excepting  that  fare  may be once collected   separately outside the city limits for passenger service to or from such   limits, and once separately within the city for the service  therein.  A   person  or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be   liable  to  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each   violation,   recoverable by the passenger aggrieved thereby.
NY RR L § 184 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 184 - Abandonment of Part of Route.

§  184.  Abandonment  of  part of route.   Any street surface railroad   corporation may declare any portion of its route which it  may  deem  no   longer   necessary   for  the  successful  operation  of  its  road  and   convenience  of  the  public  to  be  relinquished  or  abandoned.  Such   declaration  of abandonment must be adopted by the board of directors of   the corporation  under  its  seal,  which  shall  be  submitted  to  the   stockholders  thereof  at  a  meeting  called  and conducted in the same   manner as required by law for meetings of stockholders for the  approval   of  leases  by  railroad  corporations  for  the use of their respective   roads. If the stockholders shall, at such meeting, ratify and adopt such   declaration of abandonment,  the  secretary  of  the  company  shall  so   certify  under  the seal of the corporation, upon such declaration. Such   declaration  shall  then   be   submitted   to   the   commissioner   of   transportation  for his approval, and if approved by the commissioner of   transportation, such approval  shall  be  indorsed  thereon  or  annexed   thereto  and the declaration so certified and indorsed shall be filed in   the office of the department of state, and from the time of such filing,   such portion of the route designated in the declaration shall be  deemed   to be abandoned.
NY RR L § 185 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 185 - Effect of Dissolution of Charter as to Consents.

§  185. Effect of dissolution of charter as to consents.  Whenever any   street  surface  railroad  corporation  shall  have  been  dissolved  or   annulled,  or  its  charter  repealed  by an act of the legislature, the   consent of owners of property bounded on, and the consent of  the  local   authorities  having  the  control of that portion of a street or highway   upon which the railroad of such corporation shall have been  theretofore   constructed  and  operated,  and  the  order  of  the appellate division   confirming the report of any commissioner that such railroad ought to be   constructed or operated, shall not, nor shall either thereof, be  deemed   to  be in any way impaired, revoked, terminated or otherwise affected by   such act of dissolution, annulment or repeal,  but  the  same  and  each   thereof  shall continue in full force, efficacy and being.  The right to   the further enjoyment and to the use thereof, subsequent to such act  of   dissolution,  annulment or repeal, and of all the powers, privileges and   benefits therein or thereby created, shall be sold at public auction  by   the  local authorities within whose jurisdiction such railroad shall be,   in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  in  section  one  hundred   and   seventy-three  of  this article. When such sale shall have been so made,   the purchaser thereat shall have the right to the further enjoyment  and   use  of  such  consents  and orders, and of each thereof, and of all the   powers, privileges and benefits therein  or  thereby  created,  in  like   manner  as if such purchaser had been originally named in such consents,   reports and orders; if such purchaser shall be otherwise  authorized  by   law  to construct, maintain and operate a street surface railroad within   the municipality within which such railroad shall be.
NY RR L § 187 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 187 - Extensions and Franchises Confirmed.

§  187.  Extensions  and  franchises  confirmed.    Any street surface   railroad corporation which had prior to the tenth day of  May,  eighteen   hundred and ninety-three, constructed and was on that date operating any   extension  or  branch  of  its railroad along any streets or highways or   portion thereof in a city having less than fifty  thousand  inhabitants,   or  in  any  town  adjoining such city, and which had prior to said date   obtained consent of the owners of one-half  in  value  of  the  property   bounded  on,  and  the  consents  also  of  the local authorities having   control of that portion of the streets, roads  or  highways  upon  which   such  extension  or  branch  was  constructed  and being operated to the   construction and operation of the same, is hereby authorized to  operate   and  maintain any such branch or extension, upon filing in the office of   the secretary of state a certificate, signed by its board of  directors,   which  certificate shall contain a statement of the names of the cities,   towns, villages and counties,  and  the  names  or  description  of  the   streets,  avenues and highways in which such extensions or branches have   been constructed, the places from  and  to  which  the  same  have  been   constructed,  and  are  to  be  maintained  and  operated and the length   thereof, as near as may be; thereupon said extensions and branches shall   be deemed and considered a part of the lines of said railroad  from  the   date  of  the  filing  thereof, and all corporate action relating to the   construction, maintenance and operation of such extensions or  branches,   or  creating  liens  upon  the  same  by  said  corporation,  are hereby   validated and confirmed. Nothing in this section contained shall  affect   or  impair  any vested right or any litigation pending on said tenth day   of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,  nor  shall  any  corporation   which  shall  avail  itself  of the provisions of this section be deemed   thereby to have waived any rights which it therefore had to maintain and   operate any branches or extension named in any certificate filed  by  it   hereunder.
NY RR L § 188 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 188 - Certain Consents of Local Authorities Confirmed.

§  188. Certain consents of local authorities confirmed.  All consents   given since December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and  prior   to  February  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-six,  by  the local   authorities of any city having a population of fifty thousand  or  more,   to  the  construction,  operation  and  maintenance  of a street surface   railroad in any such city  by  a  railroad  corporation  which  has  not   complied  with  the  provisions  of section nine of this chapter, or has   failed to obtain  the  certificate  therein  provided  for,  are  hereby   validated and confirmed, and any such corporation may construct, operate   and maintain a street surface railroad over, along and upon the streets,   avenues,  highways  and  public  places  described in such consent, upon   obtaining the consent of the owners of property bounded on such streets,   avenues, highways or public places as provided by law.
NY RR L § 189 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 189 - Time Extended for Payment of Percentage Based on Gross Receipts.

§  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 and eighty-four, which, at any time during  the  period  of  six   years prior to January first, nineteen hundred and one, became liable to   pay  any  percentage  based upon the gross receipts of said corporation,   under the provisions of section one hundred  and  seventy-five  of  this   article,   and  which  heretofore  has  paid  or  hereafter  shall  pay,   separately or together, the amount of such percentage and,  in  addition   thereto,  interest  thereon  at  the rate of seven per centum per annum,   computed from the time such percentage became due by  said  section  one   hundred  and seventy-five up to the time such percentage was or shall be   paid, by virtue of such payment or  payments,  shall  be  discharged  of   liability  with  the  same  force  and  effect  as if the amount of such   percentage had been paid upon the date when it first  became  due  under   the provisions of the said section of this article.
NY RR L § 191 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 191 - Road Not to Be Constructed Upon Ground Occupied by Public Buildings or in Public Parks.

§  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  parks, except in tunnels to be approved by the local authorities   having control of such parks. Provided, however, that the  commissioners   of  the  state  reservation  at  Niagara, by and with the consent of the   commissioners of the land office, may construct, without expense to  the   state,  street railroad tracks upon and along that part of the riverway,   so called, between Falls and Niagara streets, in  the  city  of  Niagara   Falls,  and  in  their discretion may grant revocable licenses to street   surface railroad companies to use such tracks upon such  terms  as  said   commissioners  may  prescribe.  And  provided,  further,  that  a street   railroad may be constructed or extended upon a route or  routes  with  a   right of way not exceeding fifty feet in width in the Pelham Bay park in   the city of New York, said route or routes to be designated and fixed by   the  board of estimate and apportionment of said city, with the approval   of the park board of said city, and shall constitute  the  most  direct,   appropriate route or routes in the opinion of said board of estimate and   apportionment  and  said park board, but no such street surface railroad   shall be constructed or extended until a  franchise  or  right  therefor   shall  have  been  granted  by said board of estimate and apportionment,   pursuant to the statutes relating to the granting of such franchises  or   rights,  and requiring adequate compensation therefor, and no company or   corporation shall be given the  exclusive  right  to  operate  a  street   surface  railroad  upon such route or routes, and no such street surface   railroad shall be constructed at grade upon, along or across any of  the   existing  or  proposed  streets,  highways,  driveways, parkways or park   walks within the limits of said park.
NY RR L § 192 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 192 - Center-Bearing Rails Prohibited.

§  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 rails,   shall lay down "grooved" or some other kind of rail not "center-bearing"   approved by the local authorities. Such grooved or other rail  shall  be   of  such  shape  and  so  laid as to permit the paving-stones to come in   close contact with the projection which serves to guide  the  flange  to   the  car  wheel.  Where  in any city, the duty of repairing and repaving   streets,  as  distinguished  from  the  authorization  of  such  paving,   repairing  and  repaving,  is by law vested in any local authority other   than the common council of such city, such other local  authority  shall   be the local authority referred to in this section.
NY RR L § 192-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 192-A - Relocation of Tracks.

§ 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   transportation for an order directing any street railroad corporation to   change the location of its tracks within any street or highway forming a   part of its route in a borough of such city  containing  not  less  than   three  hundred  thousand  or more than six hundred thousand inhabitants,   where in  the  judgment  of  such  commissioner  of  transportation  the   relocation   of   such  tracks  is  necessary  in  connection  with  the   maintenance, widening, change of grade, setting back of  curb  lines  or   other  proper improvement of such street or highway. Any street railroad   corporation  operating  as  aforesaid,  shall,  at  such  time  as   the   commissioner  of transportation shall direct, start work upon the change   of the location of its tracks to the place and in the manner directed by   the commissioner of transportation and shall complete such change within   a reasonable time thereafter. The relocation of any track in  accordance   with  the  provisions  of this section shall not limit, change or in any   wise affect or prejudice the existing rights or franchises of any street   railroad corporation, and such corporation shall have the same right  to   operate  its  railroad  on the relocated route in the same manner and to   the same extent as it had the right so to do on the original route.The cost and expense of the relocation of such railroad  tracks  shall   be   imposed   and   borne   in  such  manner  as  the  commissioner  of   transportation may  determine  before,  during  or  subsequent  to  such   relocation.  In  determining such cost and expense, such commissioner of   transportation may take into consideration the fact that such  road  was   located before such street was laid out.
NY RR L § 193 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 193 - Right to Cross Bridge Substituted for a Bridge Crossed for Five Years.

§ 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   company shall have the right to cross such substituted bridge and to lay   and use tracks thereon for the transit of  its  cars  and  to  make  all   changes  and  extensions  of  its route subject to all the provisions of   this chapter, as  the  convenient  operation  of  its  cars  and  public   convenience may require.
NY RR L § 194 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 194 - Protection of Employees.

§  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 passenger   car propelled by electricity, cable or compressed air, operated  on  any   division  of  such railroad which extends in or between towns or outside   of city limits, during the months of  December,  January,  February  and   March,  except  cars  attached to the rear of other cars, to be inclosed   from the fronts of the platforms to the fronts of the hoods,  so  as  to   afford  protection  to  any person stationed by such corporation on such   platforms to perform duties in connection with  the  operation  of  such   cars. Every corporation or person using and operating a car in violation   of  this section shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars per   day for each car so used and operated, to  be  collected  in  an  action   brought  by the commission or commissioner having jurisdiction and to be   paid into the treasury of the state of New York, or in  a  suit  by  the   attorney of the municipality in which the violation of the provisions of   this section occurs, to be paid into the treasury of such municipality.
NY RR L § 195 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 195 - Platforms on New Cars, How Constructed.

§  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 operating   either in the borough of Manhattan or Brooklyn, in the city of New York,   shall  be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding   section.
NY RR L § 196 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads 196 - Protection to Employees in the Counties of Albany and Rensselaer.

§  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 the months of December, January, February and March, except   cars attached to the rear of other cars, to be inclosed from  the  front   and  at  least  one  side  of  the platform to the hood, so as to afford   protection to any person stationed by such corporation on such platforms   to perform duties  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  such  cars.   Platforms  on  cars  on such street surface railroads used more than one   mile outside the limits of a city  shall  be  completely  inclosed  from   platform  to  hood.  Every  corporation  using  and  operating  a car in   violation of this section shall be liable to a  penalty  of  twenty-five   dollars  per  day  for each car so used and operated, to be collected by   the people to  the  use  of  the  poor  of  the  county  in  which  such   corporation  has  its  principal  office,  in  an  action brought by the   commission or commissioner having jurisdiction or the district  attorney   of  such county. The supreme court may, on the application of a citizen,   direct the district attorney to bring such action.