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NY Transp Corps L § 6 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 1 - Short Title; Classification; Incorporation; Application. 6 - Merger of Subsidiary Corporations.

§   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 outstanding  shares  of  each  class  of  any  domestic  corporation  or corporations  authorized  to engage in business similar or incidental to the business which the possessor corporation is authorized to engage in, and any domestic transportation corporation owning at least  ninety-five percent  of  the  outstanding  shares  of  each  class  of  any  foreign corporation authorized to do in this state any  business  which  may  be done  in  this  state  by a domestic transportation corporation and also authorized to engage in business similar or incidental to  the  business which  the  possessor  corporation is authorized to engage in, may merge such corporation or corporations into itself without  the  authorization of  the  shareholders  of  any  such corporation, in accordance with the procedure and with the effect set forth in article nine of the  business corporation law for the merger of subsidiary corporations.  (b)  Any omnibus corporation may be merged under this section with any railroad corporation, provided  such  railroad  corporation  shall  have substituted  stages,  buses  or  motor  vehicles for cars or trains upon tracks on any portion of  its  route  in  accordance  with  section  one hundred twenty-one of the transportation law.
NY Transp Corps L § 7 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 1 - Short Title; Classification; Incorporation; Application. 7 - Agreement for Fiber Optic Utility Use and Occupancy of State Right of Way.

* §  7.  Agreement  for fiber optic utility use and occupancy of state   right of way. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized to   enter into an agreement  with  any  fiber  optic  utility  for  use  and   occupancy  of  the  state  right  of way for the purposes of installing,   modifying, relocating, repairing, operating, or maintaining fiber  optic   facilities.  Such  agreement  may include a fee for use and occupancy of   the right of way, provided, however, such fee shall not be greater  than   fair  market  value.  Any  provider using or occupying a right of way in   fulfillment of a state grant award through the New NY Broadband  Program   shall not be subject to a fee for such use or occupancy. Any fee for use   or  occupancy  charged  to  a  fiber  optic  utility shall not be passed   through in whole or in part as a fee, charge, increased service cost, or   by any other means by a fiber optic utility to any person or entity that   contracts with such fiber optic utility for  service.  Any  compensation   received  by  the state pursuant to such agreement shall be deposited by   the comptroller into the special obligation reserve and payment  account   of  the  dedicated highway and bridge trust fund established pursuant to   section eighty-nine-b of the state finance  law.  Nothing  herein  shall   impair,  inhibit, or otherwise affect the ability of any municipality to   regulate zoning, land use, or any other power or authority granted under   the law. For purposes of this section, "municipality"  shall  include  a   county, city, village, or town.* NB Repealed April 12, 2024
NY Transp Corps L § 10 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 2 - Gas and Electric Corporations. 10 - Definitions.

§  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 or a mixture of both gases for light, heat   or  power  and for lighting the streets and public and private buildings   of cities, villages and towns in this state. An electric corporation  is   a corporation organized to manufacture, to produce or otherwise acquire,   and  to  supply for public use electricity for light, heat or power, and   for lighting streets, avenues, public parks and places  and  public  and   private buildings of cities, villages and towns within this state. A gas   and electric corporation is a corporation organized for purposes of both   a gas corporation and an electric corporation.
NY Transp Corps L § 12 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 2 - Gas and Electric Corporations. 12 - Gas and Electricity Must Be Supplied on Application.

§  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 main of   a gas corporation or gas and electric  corporation,  or  a  line  of  an   electric corporation or gas and electric corporation, appropriate to the   service  requested,  and payment by him of all money due from him to the   corporation, it shall supply gas or electricity as may be  required  for   lighting such building, notwithstanding there be rent or compensation in   arrears  for  gas  or  electricity supplied, or for meter, wire, pipe or   fittings furnished, to a former occupant thereof, unless such  owner  or   occupant shall have undertaken or agreed with the former occupant to pay   or  to  exonerate him from the payment of such arrears, and shall refuse   or neglect to pay the same; and if for the space of ten days after  such   application, and the deposit of a reasonable sum as provided in the next   section,  if required, the corporation shall refuse or neglect to supply   gas or electric light as required, such corporation  shall  forfeit  and   pay to the applicant the sum of ten dollars, and the further sum of five   dollars  for  every  day thereafter during which such refusal or neglect   shall continue; provided that no such corporation shall be  required  to   lay  service pipes or wires for the purpose of supplying gas or electric   light to any applicant where the ground in which such pipe  or  wire  is   required  to be laid shall be frozen, or shall otherwise present serious   obstacles to laying the same; nor unless  the  applicant,  if  required,   shall  deposit in advance with the corporation a sum of money sufficient   to pay the cost of his proportion of the pipe,  conduit,  duct  or  wire   required  to  be  installed, and the expense of the installation of such   portion.
NY Transp Corps L § 15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 2 - Gas and Electric Corporations. 15 - Refusal or Neglect to Pay Rent.

§  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 for the   wires, pipes or fittings let by the corporation, for supplying or  using   such  gas or electric light or for ascertaining the quantity consumed or   used as required by his contract with the corporation, or  shall  refuse   or neglect, after being required so to do, to make the deposit required,   such  corporation may discontinue the supply of gas or electric light to   the premises of such person; and the officers, agents or workmen of such   corporation may enter into or upon such premises between  the  hours  of   eight  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  and six o'clock in the afternoon, and   separate and carry away  any  meter,  pipe,  fittings,  wires  or  other   property  of  such  corporation,  and  may  disconnect  any meter, pipe,   fittings, wires or other works whether the property of  the  corporation   or  not,  from  the  mains,  pipes  or wires of the corporation. But the   supply  of  gas  or  electric  light  shall  not  be  discontinued   for   non-payment  of  bills  rendered  for service until and after a five-day   written notice has been served upon such person either by delivering the   same to such person personally or  by  mailing  the  same  in  post-paid   wrapper addressed to such person at premises where service is rendered.
NY Transp Corps L § 16 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 2 - Gas and Electric Corporations. 16 - No Rent for Meters to Be Charged.

§  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  dollars   for  each offense, to be sued for and recovered in the corporate name of   the city, town or village where  the  violation  occurs,  in  any  court   having  jurisdiction, and when collected to be paid into the treasury of   such city, town or village and to constitute a part of the contingent or   general fund thereof.
NY Transp Corps L § 17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 2 - Gas and Electric Corporations. 17 - Construction Over Indian Reservation.

§  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  such   lines  upon  such  lands,  but  no  such  contract  shall  vest  in  the   corporation the fee of such lands nor the right to occupy the  same  for   any  purpose  other than for the construction, operation and maintenance   of such lines, nor shall such contract be valid or effectual  until  the   same  has  been  ratified by the county court of the county in which the   lands are  situated  and  approved  by  the  public  service  commission   pursuant to section sixty-eight of the public service commission law.
NY Transp Corps L § 25 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 25 - Definitions.

§  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  any  or  all  of  such  purposes.  A  telephone  corporation  is  a   corporation organized to construct, own, use  and  maintain  a  line  or   lines  of  electric telephone wholly within or partly without the state,   or to acquire and own any interest in any such line  or  lines,  or  any   grants  therefor  or  for  any or all of such purposes.  A telegraph and   telephone corporation is a corporation organized for both such telegraph   and telephone purposes.
NY Transp Corps L § 26 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 26 - Extension of Lines.

§  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,  whether  or  not  the  line and the territory in which it be   located was described in its original certificate of incorporation,  and   whether  wholly  within  or  wholly or partly without the state, and may   join with any other corporation in constructing, leasing, owning,  using   and  maintaining  such  line,  or  hold  or own any interest therein, or   become lessees thereof, upon delivering to the department of  state  for   filing  a  certificate of amendment. If the lines or territory are to be   extended the certificate shall  describe  the  territory  in  which  the   operations of the corporation are to be carried on.
NY Transp Corps L § 27 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 27 - Construction of Lines.

§ 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 erect,   construct and maintain its  necessary  stations,  plants,  equipment  or   lines  upon, through or over any other land, subject to the right of the   owners  thereof  to  full  compensation  for  the  same.  If  any   such   corporation   can   not  agree  with  such  owner  or  owners  upon  the   compensation to be paid therefor, such compensation shall be ascertained   in the manner provided in the eminent domain  procedure  law.  Any  such   corporation is authorized, from time to time, to construct and lay lines   of  electrical  conductors  under  ground  in  any city, village or town   within the limits of this state, subject to all the provisions of law in   reference to such companies not inconsistent with this section; provided   that such corporation shall, before laying any such line  in  any  city,   village  or  town of this state, first obtain from the common council of   cities, or other body having like jurisdiction therein, the trustees  of   villages,  or  the  town superintendents of towns, permission to use the   streets within such city, village or town for the  purposes  herein  set   forth.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  limit,  alter,  or affect the   provisions or powers  relating  or  granted  to  telegraph  corporations   heretofore  created  by  special  act  of the legislature of this state,   except in so far as to confer on any such corporation the right  to  lay   electrical conductors under ground.
NY Transp Corps L § 28 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 28 - Transmission of Dispatches.

§ 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   regulations of such corporation, transmit the same with impartiality and   good faith and in the order in  which  they  are  received,  and  if  it   neglects or refuses so to do, it shall pay one hundred dollars for every   such  refusal  or  neglect to the person sending or desiring to send any   such dispatch and entitled to have it so transmitted,  but  arrangements   may  be  made  with  the proprietors or publishers or newspapers for the   transmission for publication  of  intelligence  of  general  and  public   interest out of its regular order.
NY Transp Corps L § 29 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 29 - Transfer of Property to Other Corporations.

§ 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 created by the laws of this or any other state, and may acquire   by purchase, lease or conveyance the  property  rights,  privileges  and   franchises,  or  any  interest  therein  or  part  thereof  of  any such   corporation, and may make payments therefor in its own stock,  money  or   property, or receive payment therefor in the stock, money or property of   the corporation to which the same may be so sold, leased or conveyed.
NY Transp Corps L § 30 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 30 - Special Police Officers of Corporation Operating Signal Systems.

§ 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  corporation   operating a system of signaling by telegraph to  a  central  office  for   police  assistance,  to act as special patrol officer in connection with   such telegraph system. And the persons so appointed shall, in and  about   such  service,  have  all  the  powers  possessed  by the members of the   regular force, except as they may be  limited  by  and  subject  to  the   supervision  and  control of the police department or board of police of   such city. No person shall be appointed such special police officer  who   does  not  possess the qualifications required by such police department   or board of police for such special service; and  persons  so  appointed   shall  be  subject,  in  case  of  emergency,  to do duty as part of the   regular police force of the city. The  police  department  or  board  of   police  shall have power to revoke any such appointment at any time, and   every person appointed shall wear a badge and uniform, to  be  furnished   by  such  corporation  and approved by the police department or board of   police; such uniform shall be  designated  at  the  time  of  the  first   appointment  and  shall  be  the  permanent  uniform  to be worn by such   special police, and the pay of  such  special  patrol  officer  and  all   expenses  connected  with  their  service  shall  be wholly paid by such   corporation, and no expense or liability shall at any time  be  incurred   or  paid by the police department or board of police of any city, for or   by reason of the services of such persons so appointed.
NY Transp Corps L § 30-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 30-A - Merger or Consolidation of Telephone Corporations.

§  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.
NY Transp Corps L § 30-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 30-B - Merger or Consolidation of Telegraph Corporations.

§  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.
NY Transp Corps L § 31 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 3 - Telegraph and Telephone Corporations. 31 - Application of Article.

§  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   conjunction with, a station or stations engaged in or designed to engage   in  public  commercial  intercourse by wireless telegraphy or telephony,   and also corporations for  the  generation  and  distribution  of  music   electrically;  and  such  corporations  shall  possess the powers and be   subject to all the duties  granted  to  or  imposed  upon  telegraph  or   telephone  corporations  thereby except that such corporations organized   solely for the generation and distribution of music  electrically  shall   not have or exercise the right of condemnation.
NY Transp Corps L § 40 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. 40 - Definition.

§ 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.
NY Transp Corps L § 41 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TCP - Transportation Corporations Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. 41 - Municipal Consent to Incorporation.

§   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   such certificate. Such authorities shall be:  in a city, a  majority  of   the  members  of the board or body having charge of the water supply, or   if there be no such board or body, a majority  of  the  members  of  the   local  legislative  body; in a village, a majority of the members of the   board  of  trustees;  in  a  town  outside  of  a  village,   the   town   superintendent  of  highways  and  a majority of the members of the town   board. Such consent to the formation of the  corporation  shall  not  be   granted by said local authorities until ten days prior notice in writing   of  the  application  for such consent and until an engineering plan for   proposed water system specifying location and size and  type  of  wells,   pumps,  distribution  mains  and  other  facilities  of the water supply   and/or distribution system is furnished by the water  works  corporation   to  the  local authorities and to the county water authority, and to the   county water district if there be such authority or district  where  the   proposed  corporation  seeks  to  operate;  and  until said authority or   district has reported in  writing  to  the  municipality  named  in  the   certificate  of  incorporation  its recommendations as to whether or not   such consent should be granted,  setting  forth  the  reasons  for  such   recommendation  and  a  finding  as to whether the proposed water supply   and/or distribution system is reasonably comparable to  standards  of  a   county-wide water system and suitable for eventual integration with such   county-wide   water  system.  Said  report  shall  be  filed  with  such   municipality on or before the tenth day after the giving of  the  notice   aforesaid.