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NY RR L § 228 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 228 - Commissioners to Deliver Certificate; Affidavit of Directors.

§  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,  setting   forth  the  certificate  of  incorporation  and  the organization of the   corporation for the purposes therein mentioned,  and  within  five  days   after the reception by them of such certificates, three of the directors   so  elected  shall  make  affidavit in duplicate that the full amount of   stock has been subscribed in  good  faith  to  construct,  maintain  and   operate  the  railroad or railroads in such certificate of incorporation   mentioned, and such directors shall file such affidavits and certificate   in the office of the secretary of state, and a duplicate of the same  in   the  office  of  the  clerk of the county wherein such railroad shall be   located;  and  thereupon  the  persons  who  have  so  subscribed   such   certificate   of   incorporation   and  all  persons  who  shall  become   stockholders in such corporation shall be  a  corporation  by  the  name   specified in such certificate, and be subject to the duties, liabilities   and restrictions of such corporations.
NY RR L § 229 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 229 - Powers.

§  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 property  on  its  railroad  by  the   power  or force of steam or by any motor other than animal power, and to   receive compensation therefor.2. To enter upon and  underneath  the  several  streets,  avenues  and   public  places and lands designated by the commissioners, and enter into   and upon the soil of the same, to construct, maintain, operate  and  use   in  accordance  with  the  plan adopted by the commissioners, a railroad   upon the route or routes and to the points decided upon  and  to  secure   the  necessary  foundations  and  erect  the  columns,  piers  and other   structures which may be required to secure safety and stability  in  the   construction  and maintenance of the railroad constructed upon such plan   and for operating the same; and to make such  excavations  and  openings   along  the  route  through  which  such railroad shall be constructed as   shall be necessary from time to time. In all cases the  surface  of  the   streets  around such foundations, piers and columns shall be restored to   the condition in which they were before such excavations were  made,  as   near  as may be, and any interference with or change in the water mains,   or in the sewers or lamp posts, except such changes as may be made  with   the concurrence of the proper department or authority, shall be avoided;   and  the use of the streets, avenues, places and lands designated by the   commissioners and the right of way through the same for the purpose of a   railroad, as herein  authorized,  shall  be  considered  and  is  hereby   declared  to  be  a  public  use, consistent with the uses for which the   roads, streets, avenues and public places are  publicly  held.  No  such   corporation  shall  have  the  right  to acquire the use or occupancy of   public parks or squares in any such  city  or  county,  or  the  use  or   occupancy of any of the streets or avenues, except such as may have been   designated  for  the  route  or routes of such railroad, and except such   temporary privileges  as  the  proper  authorities  may  grant  to  such   corporations to facilitate such construction, and no such railroad shall   be  constructed  across  the  track  of any steam railroad now in actual   operation at the grade thereof, nor shall any piers or supports for  any   elevated  railroad  be erected upon a railroad track now actually in use   in any street or avenue; and  no  such  corporation  shall  construct  a   street  surface  railroad to run in whole or in part upon the surface of   any street or highway under the provisions of this article.
NY RR L § 231 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 231 - Where Route Coincides With Another Route.

§ 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  has  not   forfeited  its  charter or failed to comply with the provisions thereof,   requiring the construction of a road or roads within  the  time  therein   prescribed,  such corporation shall have the like power to construct and   operate such railroad upon the fulfillment of the like requirements  and   conditions  imposed  by  the  commissioners  as  a corporation specially   formed under this article, and the commissioners may fix  and  determine   the  route  or routes by which any elevated steam railroad now in actual   operation may connect with other steam railroads or the depots  thereof,   or  with  steam  ferries, upon making compensation therefor, and in case   such corporations can not agree with the owners of such steam railroads,   depots or ferries upon the amount of such compensation, and such  owners   may   be   entitled   to  compensation  therefor,  the  amount  of  such   compensation shall be ascertained and paid in the manner  prescribed  in   the  condemnation  law,  and  upon fulfillment by such elevated railroad   corporation,  so  far  as  it  relates  to  such  connection,   of   the   requirements  and  conditions  imposed by this article, it shall possess   all the powers conferred by section two hundred and twenty-nine of  this   article, and when any connecting route or routes shall be so designated,   such  elevated  railroad  corporation may construct such connection with   all the rights and with like effect as though the same had been part  of   the original route of such railroad.
NY RR L § 232 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 232 - Commissioners to Transfer Plans.

§  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  in  their  possession, and they shall, within the like period of   one month after the organization of such corporation, cause to  be  paid   to  the  treasurer  thereof  all money collected under the provisions of   this article, after deducting therefrom the necessary expenses  incurred   by the commissioners and the amounts due to them for their salaries.
NY RR L § 233 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 233 - Commissioners to File Report; Confirmation Thereof.

§  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   pecuniary damages arising from the diminution of value of each parcel of   property bounded on that portion of the street or  streets,  highway  or   highways,  upon  which  it  is  proposed  to  construct such railroad or   railroads, which will be caused by  the  construction,  maintenance  and   operation  thereof.  The  name  and  place  of residence of the owner or   owners of each parcel shall be stated if the same are known, or  can  be   ascertained,  and  if  not  known  the  name  of  the  person or persons   appearing by the certificate of the clerk or register of the  county  to   have  the  title  thereto from the records in his office, and a specific   description of each parcel of property with  reasonable  certainty.  The   testimony,  if  any, taken by the commissioners as to the amount of such   damage, shall accompany their report. Within thirty  days  after  filing   and   recording   its  certificate  of  incorporation,  the  corporation   authorized to construct and operate such  railroad  or  railroads  shall   move  to  confirm  such  report  by  giving notice of such motion to the   property owners in the manner in which notice of the time and  place  of   hearing  before the commissioners is required by section two hundred and   twenty-five of this article to be given, and if the corporation fails to   so move, any property owner may make  the  motion;  and  thereafter  the   proceedings   shall  be  conducted  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  the   condemnation law.Before constructing and operating its railroad in front  of  any  real   property  bounded  upon  any  street, avenue or public place wherein the   corporation  is  authorized  by  the  certificate  and  report  of   the   commissioners  to construct and operate its road, such corporation shall   pay to the owner of the real property the  damages  sustained  or  which   will  be  sustained  by him in consequence thereof, as finally fixed and   ascertained, and the costs allowed him, if any, and the court may direct   that such damages be paid out of the moneys deposited  pursuant  to  the   provisions of section two hundred and twenty-five of this article, or in   case  negotiable  securities shall have been deposited in lieu of money,   that so much of such securities shall be sold as  may  be  necessary  to   raise the amount required to be paid to such owner for damages and costs   if  any. If a bond shall have been executed in lieu of such deposit, the   court may order the sureties in such bond to pay the  damages  so  fixed   and  ascertained,  and in default thereof may cause them to be proceeded   against and punished as for a contempt of court.
NY RR L § 234 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 234 - Pay of Commissioners.

§  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   corporation,  but  if  a sufficient amount of capital stock shall not be   subscribed within one year after the appointment of  such  commissioners   to  authorize the formation of such corporation, the commissioners shall   receive no salary, and shall cause to be returned to the subscribers for   such stock the amounts paid in by them, after  deducting  therefrom  the   necessary  expenses incurred by the commissioners, but the time, if any,   unavoidably consumed by the pendency of legal proceedings shall  not  be   deemed a part of any period of time limited by this article.
NY RR L § 235 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 235 - Quorum; Term of Office; Removal; Vacancies in Board of Commissioners.

§  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 any power, conferred or enjoined upon them. Any commissioner  may  be   removed  for  cause  at  any  time  by  the power appointing him, but no   commissioner shall be removed without due notice and an  opportunity  to   be  heard  in  defense;  and no commissioner thus removed is or shall be   eligible to be again appointed to the office of commissioner. In case of   the death, resignation or removal from office of  any  commissioner  the   vacancy  shall be filled by the power appointing him, within thirty days   after such removal, or within thirty days after  notice  in  writing  to   such  appointing  power  given  by  some  member of the board, or by the   corporation hereinafter mentioned, of such death or resignation,  and  a   certificate  of  every  such  appointment shall be filed as hereinbefore   required. Except as otherwise provided by law, the terms  of  office  of   the  commissioners  shall  determine  and expire with the performance of   their functions as hereinabove prescribed.
NY RR L § 238 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 238 - Increased Deposit, When and How Required.

§  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 value   at the time of deposit, the county treasurer or trust company shall call   upon such railroad corporation to substitute therefor  other  securities   equivalent  at  their par or market value to the amount in lieu of which   the securities for which they are to be substituted were deposited,  and   in  case  such  other  securities  shall  not  be  furnished, the county   treasurer or trust company shall call upon such corporation  to  furnish   as a substitute, and it shall so furnish an amount of money equal to the   amount  in  lieu  of  which  the securities first above referred to were   deposited.
NY RR L § 239 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 239 - Trains to Come to Full Stop.

§ 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 left   the  train,  provided  such passenger has manifested his intention to so   depart by moving toward or upon the platform of any car; nor until every   passenger upon the platform or station at which such train has  stopped,   and desiring to board or enter such cars, shall have actually boarded or   entered the same, but no person shall be permitted to enter or board any   train  after  due notice from an authorized employee of such corporation   that such train is  full  and  that  no  more  passengers  can  be  then   received.
NY RR L § 240 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 240 - Gates or Vestibule Doors.

§  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   passengers  in  their  egress from or ingress to such cars, or vestibule   doors so constructed as to slide into the body of  the  car;  and  every   such  gate  or door shall be kept closed while the car is in motion; and   when the car has stopped and a gate or door has  been  opened,  the  car   shall not start until such gate or door is again firmly closed.
NY RR L § 241 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 241 - Penalty for Violation of Two Preceding Sections.

§  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 corporation, and proof of such failure or neglect, pay to the clerk   of  the  court  wherein  such petition was made, a sum not less than two   hundred and fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, as such court  may   direct by its order. The sum so ordered to be paid shall be paid by such   clerk  of the court to the county treasurer, and shall be distributed by   such treasurer equally among the public hospitals of the county in which   the proceeding is had, at such time as the board of supervisors or board   of aldermen in any such county shall direct.   Nothing in  this  section   shall  relieve  elevated  railroad corporations from any liability under   which they may now be held by existing laws for damages  to  persons  or   property.
NY RR L § 242 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 242 - Sections to Be Printed and Posted.

§  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   stations and in each car belonging to them.
NY RR L § 243 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 243 - Extension of Time.

§ 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   or is now operating an elevated railroad shall be deemed  to  have  been   duly   incorporated   notwithstanding   any   failure  on  the  part  of   commissioners to  insert  in  its  articles  of  association  provisions   complying with statutory requirements relative to such articles.
NY RR L § 244 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 244 - Lighting Cars on Elevated Railroads in Cities of Over Twelve Hundred Thousand Inhabitants.

§  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   hundred and ninety-two, shall equip all cars used for the transportation   of passengers with the most approved system of lighting  passenger  cars   now in use upon railroads, either by electricity or gas of not less than   eighteen  candle  power,  and  every such corporation is prohibited from   using kerosene or coal oils as a means of lighting any of its  passenger   cars.  Any  violation of the provisions of this section shall render any   such corporation liable to pay a fine or penalty of  fifty  dollars  for   each  and  every  day,  for  each  and  every passenger car run over its   railroad which is not equipped and lighted as provided herein; and  such   fine  may  be  recovered  by  any passenger on such railroad who may sue   therefor; and any violation of the provisions of  this  section  on  the   part of any such railroad corporation shall also be a misdemeanor.
NY RR L § 300 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations 300 - Legislative Policy and Purposes.

§  300.  Legislative  policy and purposes. It is hereby declared to be   the policy of the state to encourage and bring about the rehabilitation,   improvement, and  continued  operation  by  private  enterprise  of  the   facilities  of  any domestic railroad corporation which now or hereafter   is a debtor in proceedings under  the  bankruptcy  laws  of  the  United   States  and which in the calendar year preceding the institution of such   proceedings had passenger miles within the state of five hundred million   or more, and to encourage and bring about  the  rehabilitation  of  such   corporations  in  order  to  enable them, with private capital and under   private  management,  to   furnish   safe,   efficient,   and   adequate   transportation  service  to  the  people  of the state; and it is hereby   further  found  and  declared  that  the  rehabilitation  and  continued   operation  of  such corporations by private enterprise and enabling such   bankruptcy proceedings to be terminated are matters of  public  concern;   that  it  is  necessary to create, with adequate safeguards, inducements   and opportunities for the  employment  of  private  investment  in  such   rehabilitation  and  continued  operation; that a railroad redevelopment   corporation qualifying hereunder serves a public purpose; that provision   must be  made  for  the  granting  of  partial  tax  exemption  to  such   corporations;  that  the  commissioner  of  transportation and any other   state agency empowered to act under  section  three  hundred  three  are   hereby declared to be the agencies and instrumentalities of the state to   carry  out  the policy and purposes herein recited; and the necessity in   the public interest  for  the  provisions  of  this  article  is  hereby   declared as a matter of legislative determination.
NY RR L § 301 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations 301 - Qualification.

§   301.  Qualification.  The  certificate  of  incorporation  of  any   corporation organized for the purpose  of  acquiring,  maintaining,  and   operating the facilities of a railroad corporation of the kind described   in section three hundred may provide that such new corporation elects to   qualify  as  a  railroad redevelopment corporation under and pursuant to   the provisions of this article; and any railroad corporation of the kind   described in section three hundred may, by action  pursuant  to  article   eight  of  the  business  corporation  law,  amend  its  certificate  of   incorporation to include therein a like provision. The term "certificate   of incorporation, " when used in this article, shall include any special   law creating a railroad corporation and also the special  laws  and  the   certificates  filed  pursuant  to law amendatory of and supplementary to   such special law.Upon the acceptance for filing of such certificate of incorporation or   amendment, as the case may be, such corporation shall qualify as and  be   a  railroad  redevelopment  corporation hereunder, and shall continue as   such for twelve years thereafter or until the earlier termination of its   qualification  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred  eleven;  provided,   however,  that  the  secretary  of  state  shall  not  accept  any  such   certificate of incorporation or amendment for filing unless it shall  be   accompanied  by a certificate of approval of such qualification executed   by the commissioner of transportation and by  a  certified  copy  of  an   order  of  the  bankruptcy  court  dismissing the pending proceedings in   which such corporation is a debtor, subject to such terms and conditions   as the court may fix in connection with winding up the  proceedings.  In   the  event  another state agency shall be authorized by law to execute a   certificate of approval for any railroad corporation, the certificate of   approval for any such corporation shall also be executed by such agency.