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NY RR L § 86 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 86 - Certain Railroads Need Not Be Operated Beyond June, July, August and September.

§ 86. Certain railroads need not be operated beyond June, July, August   and   September.   Subject   to  the  permission  and  approval  of  the   commissioner of transportation, any corporation, whose  railroad  is  or   shall  be not longer than sixteen miles and is or shall be in large part   intended for or used in summer travel  for  the  convenience  of  summer   sojourners  need  not  operate its road beyond the months of June, July,   August and September, inclusive. The motive power may be electricity. If   the road be not longer than ten miles,  such  corporation  may  fix  and   collect  fare  for  transporting  each passenger, together with ordinary   baggage, if any, not to exceed fifteen cents for each mile and  fraction   thereof.
NY RR L § 87 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 87 - Mails.

§  87.  Mails.  Any railroad corporation shall, when applied to by the   postmaster-general, convey the mails of the United States on  its  road,   and  in case such corporation and the postmaster-general shall not agree   as to the rate of transportation therefor, and as to the time,  rate  of   speed,  manner  and  condition of carrying the same, the commissioner of   transportation shall fix the  prices,  terms  and  conditions  therefor,   after  giving  the  corporation reasonable opportunity to be heard. Such   price shall not be less for carrying such mails in the regular passenger   trains than the amount which such corporation would receive  as  freight   on a like weight of merchandise transported in their merchandise trains,   and   a   fair   compensation   for   the   post-office   car.   If  the   postmaster-general shall require the mail to be carried at other  hours,   or  at  higher  speed than the passenger trains are run, the corporation   shall furnish an extra train for the  mail,  and  be  allowed  an  extra   compensation  for  the  expenses  and wear and tear thereof, and for the   service to be fixed as herein provided.Every railroad corporation refusing or neglecting to comply  with  any   provision  of  this section shall forfeit to the people of the state one   hundred dollars for every day such neglect or refusal continues.
NY RR L § 95 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 95 - Proceedings by Commissioner of Transportation for Alteration of Existing Crossings.

§  95. Proceedings by commissioner of transportation for alteration of   existing crossings. The  commissioner  of  transportation  may,  in  the   absence of any application therefor, when in his opinion public interest   requires  an alteration in an existing grade crossing or a change in any   existing structure above or below grade, institute  proceedings  on  his   own motion for any alteration in an existing grade crossing or structure   for which a municipal corporation may petition under section ninety-one,   upon  such notice as he shall deem reasonable, of not less than ten days   however, to the railroad company,  the  municipal  corporation  and  the   person  or  persons  interested,  and  proceedings shall be conducted as   provided in section ninety-one. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of   law  the  commissioner  of  transportation shall not, within areas which   were  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  transit  commission  on  March   thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred forty-three, order the elevation of any   railroad running longitudinally on a right-of-way in, upon  or  along  a   street,  avenue,  highway or road without the concurrent approval of the   local authorities of the city on which the railroad or such part thereof   is located. The  changes  in  existing  grade  crossings  or  structures   authorized  or required by the commissioner of transportation in any one   year shall  be  so  distributed  and  apportioned  over  and  among  the   railroads  and  the  municipalities  of  the  state  as  to produce such   equality of burden  upon  them  for  their  proportionate  part  of  the   expenses  as  herein provided for as the nature and circumstances of the   cases before it will permit.
NY RR L § 96 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 96 - Proceedings to Enforce Orders of Commissioner of Transportation.

§ 96. Proceedings to enforce orders of commissioner of transportation.   It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the corporation, municipality or person or   persons  to  whom  the  decisions  or  orders  of  the  commissioner  of   transportation  are  directed,  as  provided  in  sections  eighty-nine,   ninety, ninety-one and ninety-five, to comply with  such  decisions  and   orders,  and  in  case  of  their  failure  so to do the commissioner of   transportation shall thereupon commence an action or special  proceeding   to  compel  obedience to the decisions and orders of the commissioner of   transportation. The supreme court at a special term shall have the power   in all cases of  such  decisions  and  orders  by  the  commissioner  of   transportation   to   compel   compliance   therewith,   or   under  the   transportation law, subject to appeal to the appellate division  of  the   supreme  court and the court of appeals in the same manner and with like   effect as is provided in case of appeals from a judgment of the  supreme   court.
NY RR L § 98 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 98 - Intersection of Railroads.

§  98.  Intersection  of  railroads.  All  steam  railroads  hereafter   constructed across the tracks of  any  other  railroad  and  any  street   surface  railroad hereafter constructed across a steam railroad shall be   above, below, or at grade of such existing railroad as the  commissioner   of   transportation   shall   determine,   and   the   commissioner   of   transportation shall in such determination fix the proportion of expense   of such crossing to be paid by each railroad.
NY RR L § 99 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 99 - Application of Foregoing Section.

§  99.  Application  of  foregoing section. The provisions of sections   eighty-nine to ninety-eight, inclusive, of this chapter shall also apply   to all steam surface railroads  existing  on  the  first  day  of  July,   eighteen  hundred  and ninety-seven, or thereafter, on which, after said   date, electricity or some other agency than steam shall  be  substituted   as  a  motive power. None of the provisions of said sections shall apply   to crossings in the city of  Syracuse  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the   Syracuse   grade  crossing  commission.  The  terms  "municipality"  and   "municipal corporation" as used in said sections shall  include  cities,   villages, towns and counties.
NY RR L § 100 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 100 - Temporary Leave Granted by Court to a Street Surface Railroad; Bond.

§  100. Temporary leave granted by court to a street surface railroad;   bond. Whenever the railroad or route  of  any  street  surface  railroad   corporation  shall  intersect  and  cross, or shall cross the tracks and   roadbed of any railroad, operated by locomotive, steam or  other  power,   which  are  laid  in,  across or upon the surface of any street, avenue,   road or highway in any city, town or village of the state,  having  less   than  five hundred thousand inhabitants and such street surface railroad   corporation having been unable to agree with the corporation owning  the   tracks  and  roadbed so intersected or to be intersected and crossed, as   to the line or  lines,  grade  or  grades,  points  or  manner  of  such   intersection and crossing, or upon the compensation to be made therefor,   shall  have applied to the court by petition to appoint commissioners to   determine the same, the court shall upon application made by such street   surface railroad corporation, at, or after, the time of the  appointment   of  such  commissioners,  or if an answer to the petition of such street   surface  railroad  corporation  has  been  interposed,   at   any   time   thereafter,  direct  that  such  street  surface railroad corporation be   permitted to lay its tracks across, and to intersect, upon  the  surface   of  the  street, avenue, road or highway, the tracks and roadbed of such   railroad operated by locomotive steam  or  other  power,  provided  such   street  surface railroad corporation shall at the time of obtaining such   order, make and  file  with  the  clerk  of  said  court,  its  bond  or   undertaking  in  writing, in an amount and with surety or sureties to be   approved by the court, conditioned for the full and faithful performance   by such street surface railroad corporation of any  and  all  conditions   and  requirements  which  may  be  imposed  by said commissioners and be   affirmed by the court, in  determining  the  line  or  lines,  grade  or   grades, points or manner of such intersection and crossing and as to the   amount  of  compensation  to  be  paid therefor, and also conditioned to   conform such crossing and intersection made by virtue of such  order  of   the  court to the requirements made by said commissioners as affirmed by   the court.
NY RR L § 101 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 101 - Consent of Commissioner of Transportation in Certain Cases.

§  101. Consent of commissioner of transportation in certain cases. No   street surface railroad shall be allowed to  lay  its  tracks  at  grade   across  the  tracks  or  roadbed  of any railroad operated by locomotive   steam power at any point where there are three or  more  tracks  of  the   steam  road  proposed  to be crossed, which tracks have been constructed   and in operation at least two years, unless the written consent  of  the   commissioner  of  transportation  be first obtained for such crossing at   grade. But this section shall not affect the operation of the  preceding   section  in  any  suit  or proceeding pending on the twenty-ninth day of   March, eighteen hundred and  ninety-three,  nor  any  renewals  of  said   pending suit or proceeding brought for any cause.
NY RR L § 102 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 102 - Ventilation of Tunnels.

§  102.  Ventilation of tunnels. The commissioner of transportation is   hereby authorized, empowered and given full and  complete  authority  to   require  and compel all tunnels used or to be used by railroads operated   by any form of power in this state to be properly  ventilated,  in  such   manner  and by such means and mechanical appliances as said commissioner   of transportation may direct.
NY RR L § 103 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 103 - Lighting of Tunnels.

§ 103. Lighting of tunnels. The commissioner of transportation is also   hereby  authorized,  empowered  and given full and complete authority to   require and compel all tunnels used or to be used by railroads  operated   by  any  form  of  power  in  this  state,  to  be  properly  lighted by   electricity or otherwise, or by such means or in  such  manner  as  said   commissioner of transportation may direct.
NY RR L § 104 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 104 - Compliance With Orders of Commissioner of Transportation.

§  104.  Compliance  with  orders  of  commissioner of transportation.   Whenever the commissioner of transportation shall cause to be personally   served upon any railroad corporation controlling any tunnel or part of a   tunnel in this state for the purpose of operating a railroad or  moving,   hauling  or  propelling  cars  therein  by  steam,  by delivering a copy   personally to the president, general manager or  any  director  of  said   corporation of a notice or order of said commissioner of transportation,   stating  and specifying the structures to be erected, the manner, means,   mechanical  appliances  and  apparatus  to  be  used  in   lighting   or   ventilating  any  tunnel  or  tunnels  used  by said corporation for the   purpose of moving, hauling  or  propelling  cars  by  steam  therein  as   aforesaid, said corporation shall, within thirty days from and after the   service  of  said  notice  or  order  as aforesaid, cause said tunnel or   tunnels so used by it as aforesaid to be lighted or ventilated, or both,   in the manner and by the means and use of the mechanical  apparatus  and   appliances specified and pointed out in said notice or order.
NY RR L § 105 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 105 - Enforcement.

§  105.  Enforcement.  After  the  expiration  of thirty days from the   service of said order or notice specified in the preceding  section,  as   therein directed, if said corporation shall not have fully complied with   said notice or order, the commissioner of transportation may commence an   action or special proceeding hereunder, or under the transportation law,   in  the  supreme  court  for  a  judgment  to compel said corporation or   corporations so neglecting or refusing to  obey  and  comply  with  said   order  or  notice to comply with and obey said notice or order, and said   court shall have full power and authority to  hear  and  determine  said   matter,  and  after  giving  the  corporation  or corporations proceeded   against an opportunity to be heard in its or their  defense,  to  compel   said corporation or corporations so proceeded against to obey said order   or  notice,  and  forthwith comply with and carry out the provisions and   requirements therein contained.
NY RR L § 106 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 106 - Penalty for Violation.

§  106.  Penalty for violation. Every corporation violating any of the   provisions  of  the  preceding  four  sections  shall  be  guilty  of  a   misdemeanor and may be indicted therefor, and may be compelled to appear   and  plead  to  an  indictment  therefor in the person of its president,   secretary, treasurer or any director thereof, and a  bench  warrant  may   issue out of any competent court to compel such attendance and pleading,   and,  upon  conviction thereof, such corporations shall be punished by a   fine of one thousand dollars, and an additional  fine  of  five  hundred   dollars  a day for each and every day or part of a day after thirty days   from the due service of said notice or order that said corporation shall   refuse or neglect to obey and carry out the requirements and  provisions   of the same, and duly sentenced to pay the same.
NY RR L § 107 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 107 - Judgment-Roll.

§  107.  Judgment-roll.  It shall be the duty of the district attorney   prosecuting any corporation for a violation of any of the provisions  of   sections one hundred and three, one hundred and four and one hundred and   five,  that  shall  be  convicted  thereof  and  sentenced to pay a fine   therefor, to cause a judgment-roll to be  made  up,  consisting  of  the   indictment,  orders  and sentence of the court and a formal judgment, to   be prepared by him, which judgment shall be duly signed by the clerk  of   the  county  in which said trial took place; said judgment-roll shall be   filed by said county clerk and said judgment shall be duly  recorded  in   the  book  of  judgments in said county and duly entered and docketed by   said county clerk in said county the same as if said judgment  had  been   obtained  in  a  civil  action,  and  said  judgment so duly entered and   docketed shall become and be a lien upon all of the real estate of  said   corporation  against  which  the  same  is  obtained, and the collection   thereof may be enforced by execution to be  issued  and  signed  by  the   district  attorney of the county where the trial of said indictment took   place, in the same manner and to  the  same  extent  as  executions  are   collected in civil actions.
NY RR L § 108 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 108 - Approval of Appliances in Cities Having a Population of One Million Inhabitants or Over.

§  108.  Approval  of  appliances in cities having a population of one   million inhabitants or over. In cities in this state having a population   of one million inhabitants or over, where tunnels are or  may  hereafter   be  operated or controlled by any railroad corporation, such portions of   any mechanical or other devices or appliances as may be  required  under   the  provisions  of  the  preceding six sections to be constructed on or   above the surface of any streets, avenues or other  places  under  which   such  tunnels  may  be  built, shall be subject as to form, material and   construction, to the approval of the local authorities of  such  cities,   except that in the city of New York such approval shall be by a majority   vote  of  the  mayor,  the  comptroller,  the  commissioner of parks and   recreation of said city and the president of the borough of said city in   which such mechanical or other device or appliance is to be constructed.
NY RR L § 141 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 4 - Consolidation, Lease, Sale and Reorganization 141 - Mergers and Consolidations of Certain Railroad Corporations.

§  141.  Mergers  and consolidations of certain railroad corporations.   With the consent and approval  of  the  commissioner  of  transportation   pursuant  to section one hundred eighty-eight of the transportation law,   a railroad corporation all of whose outstanding shares of each class are   owned by a corporation, domestic or foreign, which has as its purpose or   among its purposes a purpose for which a corporation may be formed under   the business corporation law, may merge into or  consolidate  with  such   owning  corporation, following the procedure and with the effect set out   in article nine of the business corporation law; provided, however, that   upon  such  merger  or  consolidation  the  surviving  or   consolidated   corporation,  if  a  domestic  corporation, shall not possess any of the   rights, privileges, immunities, powers and  purposes  of  such  railroad   corporation  which  could  not  be  lawfully  possessed by a corporation   formed under the business corporation law.
NY RR L § 144 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 4 - Consolidation, Lease, Sale and Reorganization 144 - Assessment of Property of New or Surviving Corporation.

§  144.  Assessment  of property of new or surviving corporation.  The   real estate of such new or surviving corporation,  situate  within  this   state, shall be assessed and taxed in the several towns and cities where   the  same  shall  be situated in like manner as the real estate of other   railroad corporations  is  or  may  be  taxed  and  assessed,  and  such   proportion  of  the  capital  stock and personal property of such new or   surviving corporation shall in like manner be assessed and taxed in this   state, as the number of miles of its  railroad  situate  in  this  state   bears to the total number of miles of its railroad.
NY RR L § 145 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 4 - Consolidation, Lease, Sale and Reorganization 145 - Stocks of Municipal Corporations, How Represented.

§  145.  Stocks  of  municipal corporations, how represented.   At any   meeting of the stockholders of any railroad corporation to consider  any   agreement  or proposition of consolidation, merger, lease or conveyance,   or other matter, the commissioners or other officers  of  any  municipal   corporation holding or having charge of any of the capital stock of such   railroad corporation shall represent such municipal corporation, and may   act  and  vote  in  person  or  by proxy on all matters relating to such   consolidation or lease in the same manner as individual stockholders.
NY RR L § 146 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 4 - Consolidation, Lease, Sale and Reorganization 146 - Foreclosure of Mortgages Made by Consolidated Railroads Partly in the State.

§  146. Foreclosure of mortgages made by consolidated railroads partly   in the state.  Whenever a railroad corporation of this or of  any  other   state  or states whose line of road lies partly in this state and partly   in another state or states, shall have  executed  a  mortgage  upon  its   entire  line  of  railroad,  and a sale of the entire line of road under   such mortgage shall have been or may hereafter be ordered, adjudged  and   decreed  by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state or states, or   by a court of the United States sitting within the state  or  states  in   which  the  greater  part of such line of railroad may be situated, upon   the confirmation of such judgment  or  decree,  and  of  the  sale  made   thereunder,  by  the supreme court of this state or by the circuit court   of the United States in the judicial district in which some part of such   line of road is situated, such sale shall operate to pass title  to  the   purchaser,  of  that  part  of the line of railroad lying in this state,   together with its appurtenances and franchises, with the same force  and   effect  as  if  the judgment or decree under which such sale is had, had   been made by a court of  competent  jurisdiction  of  this  state.  Such   judgment  or  decree  and  sale  may be so ordered, adjudged, decreed or   confirmed in any action or proceeding heretofore or hereafter brought in   the supreme court, or in a court of the United States  sitting  in  this   state,  for the foreclosure of such mortgage, or in aid of an action for   that purpose in such other state or states, if it shall appear that such   confirmation is for the interest of the public and of the  parties,  due   and  lawful  provision  being  made for and in respect of any liens upon   that part of the line of road or other property  sold  situate  in  this   state, and for such costs, expenses and charges as may appear to be just   and lawful. If a receiver of the entire line of such railroad shall have   been,  or  may  hereafter  be  appointed  by  such  court  of  competent   jurisdiction of the state in which the  greater  part  of  the  line  of   railroad is situated, or by a court of the United States sitting in such   other state, such receiver may perform, within this state, the duties of   his office not inconsistent with the laws of this state, and may sue and   be sued in the courts of this state.