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NY Rapid Trans L § 17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 2 - Board of Transportation 17 - Advertising for Proposals.

§  17.  Advertising for proposals.  The board of transportation before   awarding any contract except where there is an  extraordinary  emergency   involving danger to life or property or where the estimated expense of a   contract  does  not  exceed twenty-five thousand dollars shall advertise   for proposals for such contract by a notice to be printed  once  a  week   for  two  successive  weeks  in no less than two of the daily newspapers   published in such city, and in such newspapers published elsewhere  than   in  such city as such board shall determine. Such notice shall set forth   and state the points within the city, between which such road is to run,   the general method of construction, the route to be followed,  the  term   of  years for which it is proposed to make such contract, and such other   details and specifications as the board shall deem to  be  proper.  Such   notice  shall  state  the time and place at which such proposals will be   opened. The board shall attend at the time and place so  specified,  and   shall publicly open all proposals that shall have been received, but the   board  shall  not  be bound to accept any proposals so received, but may   reject all such proposals and readvertise for proposals  in  the  manner   provided in this chapter, or may accept any of such proposals as, in the   judgment of such board, will best promote the public interest, and award   a  contract  accordingly.  All  such  contracts must before execution be   approved as to form by the corporation counsel and consented to  by  the   board of estimate and the mayor of such city.
NY Rapid Trans L § 21-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 3 - Determination of Necessity for Railroads and Approval of Routes 21-A - Construction and Equipment of a Rapid Transit Railroad Tunnel or Tunnels.

§  21-a. Construction and equipment of a rapid transit railroad tunnel   or tunnels.  a. The city of New York  and  the  New  York  city  transit   authority,  acting  under and pursuant to the provisions of this chapter   and of title nine of article five of the  public  authorities  law,  are   hereby  authorized  to  effect the construction and equipment of a rapid   transit railroad tunnel or tunnels between the boroughs of Manhattan and   Queens in the city of New York, along the following route:A route lying wholly within the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens which   shall begin at a point on East Sixty-third street at the  westerly  line   of  York  avenue  in  the  borough  of  Manhattan where a connection can   conveniently be made to other future  rapid  transit  railroads;  thence   extending  easterly  along East Sixty-third street under York avenue and   Franklin D. Roosevelt drive; thence continuing easterly under  the  West   channel  of  the  East river, Welfare island and the East channel of the   East river to the borough of Queens; thence  continuing  easterly  under   Queens bridge park and Vernon boulevard to a point on Forty-first avenue   at  the  easterly  line  of  Vernon  boulevard  where  a  connection can   conveniently be made with other future rapid transit railroads.b. For the purposes of  this  chapter,  such  rapid  transit  railroad   tunnel or tunnels shall be deemed to be a rapid transit railroad.
NY Rapid Trans L § 21-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 3 - Determination of Necessity for Railroads and Approval of Routes 21-B - Construction and Equipment of a Rapid Transit Railroad Line.

§  21-b.  Construction and equipment of a rapid transit railroad line.   1. The New York city transit authority, acting under and pursuant to the   provisions of this chapter and of title nine  of  article  five  of  the   public  authorities law, is hereby authorized to effect the construction   and equipment of a rapid transit line in the borough of  Queens  in  the   city of New York, along the following route:A route lying wholly within the borough of Queens beginning at a point   under  Forty-first  avenue  at  or  near  Twenty-ninth  street,  where a   connection can conveniently be made with the tracks at the easterly  end   of   the   Sixty-third   street   line;  thence  curving  and  extending   northeasterly to  a  point  under  Northern  boulevard  across  Fortieth   avenue,  Thirty-first  street,  Thirty-ninth  avenue,  Honeywell street,   Thirty-second  street,  and  Thirty-third  street  to  a   point   under   Thirty-fourth street and Northern boulevard.2.  Notwithstanding any defect, irregularity or omission of any lawful   requirement or lack of  statutory  authority  therefore,  the  acts  and   proceedings  heretofore  taken by the New York city transit authority in   adopting, approving or consenting to plans and conclusions, general plan   of construction, route or any other matters, with respect to  the  rapid   transit  line  provided  for  in  this  section,  are  hereby legalized,   ratified, validated and confirmed.3. Notwithstanding any other state or local law,  this  section  shall   constitute  the  sole state or local governmental authority required for   the construction and equipment of the route set forth in subdivision one   of this section.
NY Rapid Trans L § 30 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation 30 - General Powers of Board of Transportation.

§  30.  General  powers  of  board  of  transportation.   The board of   transportation is empowered to operate  any  railroad  acquired,  owned,   constructed,  or provided by such city in accordance with the provisions   of law. The board of transportation shall also be empowered to  purchase   all necessary materials and supplies for such operation and maintenance,   and,  generally,  to  exercise  all requisite and necessary authority to   manage and direct the operation and maintenance of  such  road  for  the   convenience and safety of the public, provided, however, that, except as   otherwise  provided  in  section seventeen of this chapter, any contract   for the purchase of such materials and supplies or work or labor  to  be   performed,  the  estimated  cost of which exceeds the sum of twenty-five   hundred dollars shall be made by the said board only upon public letting   founded on sealed bids, except in a case where the board, by resolution,   declares the existence  of  an  emergency  or  the  existence  of  other   circumstances  making  competitive  bidding impracticable. Notice of the   invitation for such bidding stating the date and place  of  the  receipt   and  opening  of  bids  shall  be  published  in the city record in five   successive issues immediately preceding  such  opening.  The  board  may   reject  all  such  bids and readvertise for new bids if it shall deem it   for the public interest so to do; if not, it shall award the contract to   the lowest responsible bidder unless the board, by unanimous vote, shall   determine that it is for the public interest that a bid other than  that   of the lowest responsible bidder shall be accepted.
NY Rapid Trans L § 33-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation 33-A - Lease by the City of Railroad.

§ 33-a. Lease by the city of railroad. 1. Such city may lease from any   railroad  corporation  any  railroad  or  steam surface railroad located   wholly within one county in such city, or may lease  from  any  railroad   corporation  any  part  of any railroad or steam surface railroad within   one county in such city substantially all of  the  lines  of  which  are   located  wholly within one county in such city, for a term not exceeding   ten years, with the right of renewal not to exceed ten additional years,   upon such terms and conditions as to annual compensation to be  paid  by   such  city  for  such  lease  and such other terms and conditions as the   board of estimate shall deem best suited in the public interest. Payment   for such lease may be made out of moneys raised by taxation  or  out  of   any  proceeds arising out of the sale or lease of real property acquired   by such city for rapid transit purposes.2. The board of estimate may by contract provide for  the  maintenance   and  operation  of  such leased railroad, steam surface railroad or part   thereof by any railroad corporation which in the opinion of  such  board   shall  be  best  qualified  to fulfill and carry out such contract. Such   contract shall contain  such  terms  and  conditions  as  the  board  of   estimate shall deem best suited in the public interest.3.   Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions  of  law,  such  railroad   corporation operating such leased railroad, steam  surface  railroad  or   part thereof shall be subject to the jurisdiction, regulatory powers and   supervision of the public service commission.
NY Rapid Trans L § 35 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation 35 - Vehicular Tunnels and Other Means of Transportation.

§  35.  Vehicular  tunnels  and  other  means  of transportation.   a.   Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary  contained  in  any  city   charter,  administrative  code, or in any general, special or local law,   the board of transportation may act as the agent of any  such  city,  at   the  request of the mayor thereof, to prepare and submit to such mayor a   plan for the building and construction of a tunnel under any  stream  or   waterway  within or adjoining the limits of such city and the approaches   thereto, or a  vehicular  tunnel  or  two  or  more  vehicular  tunnels,   together  with  the  necessary  approaches  thereto, between the several   boroughs of the city of New York, or between  two  points  in  the  same   borough, and as such agent of such city, with like request and approval,   may  proceed with the construction and equipment or enter into contracts   for the construction and equipment of such part or section of  any  such   tunnel as such mayor shall require. The advertising and award of any and   all  contracts entered into pursuant to this section shall be subject to   the provisions of section seventeen of this chapter. The city, from time   to time, on requisition duly made by the board  of  transportation,  may   appropriate such sums of money as it may deem requisite and necessary to   enable  the board of transportation to prepare such plans or to carry on   such construction and  equipment.  Such  sums  shall  be  paid  out  and   expended  for  such  purposes  upon  vouchers certified by such board of   transportation. If bonds are issued for such purposes, they may be  made   payable  at maturity out of a sinking fund to be established and created   out of the rates and charges fixed by the board of estimate for the  use   of  any  such  tunnel  by  pedestrians and vehicles. Upon the completion   thereof the commissioner of public works or other like officer  of  such   city  shall  have cognizance and control of the management, maintenance,   operation and repair of every such tunnel and the approaches thereto.b. The board of transportation, with like request and approval of  the   mayor,  may  conduct  such  hearings  and investigations with respect to   streets, tunnels or other ways, railroads, ferries or other  methods  or   means for the transportation of passengers or property within the limits   of  any  such  city  as  such  mayor shall require, and make reports and   recommendations with respect  thereto,  from  time  to  time,  as  shall   likewise be required.
NY Rapid Trans L § 36 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation 36 - Rates of Fare.

§ 36. Rates of fare. The board of transportation, with the approval of   the  mayor,  is hereby empowered to fix and adjust from time to time the   rate of fare that may be charged any passenger traveling on any railroad   publicly or municipally operated  pursuant  to  the  authority  of  this   chapter,  provided,  however, that any change in such rate of fare shall   become effective on the first day of the next ensuing fiscal year of the   city.
NY Rapid Trans L § 36-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation 36-A - Municipal Operation; Deficiencies.

§   36-a.   Municipal  operation;  deficiencies.    If  the  board  of   transportation  shall  undertake  or  engage  in  public  or   municipal   operation of any railroad pursuant to the authority of this chapter, the   city  shall  provide  for  the  payment  of  any  expenses of operation,   maintenance, interest, principal payments on indebtedness,  contribution   to sinking funds, and reserves on account of depreciation, to the extent   and  in  the  amount  not provided for by the revenues derived from such   operation. For such purposes such city shall, with respect to  any  such   expenses  heretofore  or  hereafter not provided for by revenues derived   from operation, use money raised by taxation.  Nothing in  this  section   contained  shall  be  construed  to imply that the powers herein defined   have not heretofore been vested in such city by law.
NY Rapid Trans L § 38 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation 38 - .

§  38.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  the board of   estimate or  other  analogous  local  authority  of  any  such  city  is   authorized  to  issue  evidences  of  indebtedness to be known as budget   notes in an aggregate amount not to exceed nineteen million dollars, for   the purpose of providing  funds  for  the  payment  of  any  deficit  of   revenues  derived  from  operation of any railroad owned and operated by   such  city,  arising  out  of  any  adjustments  in  the   salaries   or   compensation  of  officers and employees of any such railroad during the   fiscal year ending on  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  nineteen  hundred   forty-seven.  Such  budget  notes  shall  be  redeemed  in  three  equal   installments from appropriations to be included in  the  annual  expense   budgets   of   such   city   for   the  fiscal  years  nineteen  hundred   forty-seven--nineteen    hundred    forty-eight,    nineteen     hundred   forty-eight--nineteen    hundred   forty-nine   and   nineteen   hundred   forty-nine--nineteen hundred fifty.
NY Rapid Trans L § 43 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 5 - Private Construction, Equipment, Maintenance or Operation of Railroads 43 - Persons With Whom Contracts May Be Made.

§  43.  Persons with whom contracts may be made.  Nothing contained in   this chapter shall be deemed, or be construed as intending to limit,  or   as   limiting,   in   any   manner,  the  discretion  of  the  board  of   transportation, provided in the opinion of the board of estimate and the   mayor, it is expedient, practicable and in the public interest to do so,   to enter into contracts for  construction,  equipment,  maintenance  and   operation  with the same person, or for any one or more of such purposes   with the same person or with different persons either in one contract or   in separate contracts, and at any time or times.
NY Rapid Trans L § 51 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 51 - Right of Board of Transportation to Enter Upon Property.

§  51.  Right  of  board of transportation to enter upon property.  It   shall and may be lawful for the board of  transportation,  and  for  all   persons  acting  under  its authority, to enter in the day time into and   upon any and all property which it shall deem necessary to be  acquired,   or to which there may be appurtenant property rights which it shall deem   necessary to be acquired or extinguished by the city, for the purpose of   making  the  maps or surveys provided for by section fifty-two, and also   to enter in like manner and for  the  same  purpose  upon  any  property   adjacent  to  and  within  five  hundred  feet  of the property to be so   surveyed.
NY Rapid Trans L § 52 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 52 - Maps and Plans to Be Filed.

§  52.  Maps and plans to be filed.  The board of transportation shall   cause three similar maps or plans to be made of each parcel of  property   which  it may deem necessary so to be acquired, or to which there may be   appurtenant property rights necessary so to be acquired or extinguished,   designating each of such parcels by a number. Upon each map or  plan  so   made  or  in  a memorandum accompanying it and to be deemed part thereof   such board shall cause to be clearly indicated the  particular  property   rights  to be acquired or extinguished for the purposes of this chapter,   together with the assessed valuation of the fee on the tax rolls of  the   city  for each of the three years preceding the date of the approval and   adoption of such map or plan by such board,  in  relation  to  each  and   every  piece or parcel of property described upon such map or plan. Such   board shall have power to cause a triplicate set of maps  or  plans  and   memoranda  as  herein provided for to be made as often and at such times   as they shall determine, and each set of maps or plans and memoranda  so   made shall contain the particulars above enumerated within such district   as  such  board  shall  in  each  case  provide.  The  maps or plans and   memoranda provided for by this section, when  approved  and  adopted  by   such  board,  shall have written thereon a certificate of such approval,   signed by the members of the board adopting and approving  it,  and  one   copy  thereof  shall  be  filed  in  the  office of the president of the   borough, there to remain as a public record, and the other two  sets  of   maps  or  plans  and  memoranda  shall be transmitted to the corporation   counsel. Such board, from time to time, may make and file  further  maps   or  plans  and  memoranda amending those already filed, but not so as to   defeat or impair any property or interest which shall have been  already   acquired,  or  to  revive any property right which may have been already   extinguished by the city.
NY Rapid Trans L § 53 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 53 - Corporation Counsel to Acquire Property.

§  53.  Corporation  counsel to acquire property.   a. Whenever and as   often as the board of transportation shall deem it to be  necessary  and   proper  that  the  city  should acquire any such property and shall have   caused such maps or plans and  memoranda  specifying  and  defining  the   property to be acquired, or to which are appurtenant the property rights   to  be  acquired  or  extinguished, to be made and shall have certified,   filed and transmitted the several  copies  of  such  maps  or  plans  as   prescribed  in  section fifty-two of this chapter, such board may direct   the corporation counsel to take legal proceedings to  acquire  the  same   for  the  city,  and  the corporation counsel shall thereupon take legal   proceedings as provided in this chapter.b. The corporation counsel, either in person or by such counsel as  he   shall  designate  for  the  purpose,  shall  appear  for and protect the   interests of the city in all such  proceedings.  He  shall  furnish  the   court  with such necessary clerks and other employees as it may require.   All necessary expenses incurred by the corporation counsel in and  about   the proceedings provided for by this chapter for the proper presentation   and  defense  of  the  interests  of  the  city,  shall  be  paid by the   comptroller out of the funds referred to in section sixty-nine  of  this   chapter.  Property  owners  appearing  in proceedings under this chapter   shall not be entitled to recover counsel fees, costs,  disbursements  or   allowances.
NY Rapid Trans L § 54 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 54 - Disposition of Maps.

§ 54. Disposition of maps.  The corporation counsel shall cause one of   the  maps  or plans, so transmitted to him, to be filed in the office of   the register of the county, or if there be no such register, then in the   office of the county clerk of the county in which the  property  covered   by  the map is situated. The map, hereinafter denominated the third map,   being the second of the two  transmitted  to  the  corporation  counsel,   shall be disposed of as provided in section sixty-five of this chapter.
NY Rapid Trans L § 55 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 55 - Notice of Intention to Condemn Property.

§  55.  Notice  of  intention  to  condemn property.   The corporation   counsel shall give or cause to be given notice  by  publication  in  two   public  newspapers  published  in  the  city,  of  his intention to make   application to the such court that the compensation which should  justly   be  made  to  the  respective  owners  of  or  persons interested in the   property proposed to be taken or  extinguished  by  such  proceeding  be   ascertained  and  determined  by  the  court without a jury. Such notice   shall state the time and place of such application, shall briefly  state   the  object  of the application, and shall briefly describe the property   sought to be acquired or affected, and refer to a fuller statement to be   filed in the office of the board of transportation, in  which  shall  be   set  forth the location and boundaries of the several lots or parcels of   property, and the property rights sought to be taken or affected, and  a   brief  statement  as  to  each  of such lots or parcels, of the property   rights  therein  or  appurtenant  thereto  sought  to  be  acquired   or   extinguished,  with  a  reference to the dates and places of filing such   maps or plans and memoranda, shall be a sufficient  description  of  the   property  sought  to  be  so  taken  or  affected.  Such notice shall be   published in such newspaper twice  a  week  for  two  weeks  immediately   previous  to  the  time fixed in the notice for the presentation of each   petition.