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NY Rapid Trans L § 56 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 56 - Application to Condemn Property.

§  56.  Application  to condemn property.   After such maps shall have   been  filed  in  the  office  of  the  register  or  county  clerk,  the   corporation  counsel,  for  and on behalf of the city, shall, and he may   from time to time, upon first giving  the  notice  required  by  section   fifty-five  of  this  chapter, apply to the supreme court at any special   term thereof, to be held in the judicial district in which  such  county   is situated, to have 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 proceedings ascertained and  determined   by  such  court  without  a  jury.  Upon  each such application he shall   present to the court a petition, signed by a majority of the members  of   the board of transportation and verified in the manner prescribed by law   for  the  verification  of  pleadings, according to the practice of such   court, setting forth the action or determination  theretofore  taken  or   had  by  such board with respect to the property to be acquired, and the   filing of such maps or plans and memoranda, and stating  the  amount  or   valuation  at  which each parcel of the property to be acquired has been   assessed for purposes of taxation on the tax-rolls of the city for  each   of  the three years preceding the date of the petition, and praying 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 such   court without a jury. Such petition shall contain a general  description   of  all  the  property  to,  or  in  or over or appurtenant to which any   property right is sought to be acquired, or extinguished, and  of  every   property  right  sought  to be acquired by the city for public purposes,   each lot or parcel being more particularly described by a  reference  to   the number of such lot or parcel as given on such maps, and the property   right  sought  to  be  acquired,  or  extinguished,  to or in or over or   appurtenant to each of such lots or parcels, shall  be  stated  in  such   petition.
NY Rapid Trans L § 57 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 57 - Procedure in Case Property Is Situated in Two or More Counties.

§  57. Procedure in case property is situated in two or more counties.   If the property to be acquired or  extinguished  in  any  proceeding  be   situated  in  two  or  more  counties,  the  maps or plans and memoranda   required to be filed by section fifty-four of this chapter shall  be  so   filed in the respective offices therein provided in each county in which   such  property  or  any part thereof is situated, and the application to   condemn such property may be made to the supreme court  at  any  special   term  thereof  held  in  any  judicial district in which any one of such   counties is situated. If the property to be acquired or extinguished  in   any  proceeding be situated in two judicial districts the application to   condemn such property may be made in either judicial district. The order   granting the application to condemn in  any  such  proceeding  shall  be   entered,  and  the  final decree therein shall be filed in the office of   the clerk of any one of the counties in which a part of the property  to   be  thereby  acquired  or  extinguished  is situated, as directed by the   court, and a certified copy of the order  granting  the  application  to   condemn  and  a certified copy of the final decree shall be filed in the   office in which instruments affecting real property are required  to  be   recorded  in  each  county  in  which  any  part of the property thereby   acquired  or  extinguished  is  situated.  In  all  other  respects  the   proceeding  shall  be  conducted  in  the  same  manner  as a proceeding   affecting property situated in only one county.
NY Rapid Trans L § 59 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 59 - Examination Before Trial.

§  59.  Examination  before  trial.  A  proceeding  by  the  board  of   transportation to acquire title to property or any right therein for the   purposes of this chapter by  condemnation  shall  be  deemed  a  special   proceeding,  in  which  testimony may be taken by deposition pursuant to   the provisions of the civil practice law and rules and  subject  to  the   provisions  of  this  section..  Such  deposition  may be taken upon any   question or issue in the proceeding and for  the  purpose  of  obtaining   testimony  as to any sale or lease as described in section sixty of this   chapter, at the instance of the corporation counsel or of any  owner  or   at  the  direction  of the court at any time after the expiration of the   date fixed for filing claims. Any owner desiring to obtain testimony  by   deposition  shall give at least five days' notice or, if service is made   through the post office, at least eight days' notice to the  corporation   counsel  and  to all other owners or their attorneys who have duly filed   their verified claims. If the corporation counsel shall desire to obtain   testimony by deposition he shall give like notice to all owners or their   attorneys who have duly filed and served on him their  verified  claims.   For  the  purpose  of any such examination before trial brought on by an   owner and noticed for and held at an office of the  corporation  counsel   in  the  borough in which the real property is situated or at such other   place as  the  corporation  counsel  shall  designate,  the  corporation   counsel,  at  the expense of the city, shall provide proper stenographic   service and shall furnish to the owner bringing on  such  examination  a   copy  of  the typewritten transcript of such examination, duly certified   by the officers before whom it was taken. In all other cases, the  party   bringing  on  such examination shall at his own cost and expense provide   proper stenographic service and shall furnish to the corporation counsel   two copies of  the  typewritten  transcript  of  such  examination  duly   certified  by  the officer before whom it was taken. The deposition of a   witness need not be subscribed by him, if  such  subscription  shall  be   waived  by  the  parties appearing upon his examination. The corporation   counsel, at the office address subscribed by him upon the papers in  the   proceeding,  from  and after the date of his receipt thereof, shall keep   on file, available for inspection by all parties  to  the  proceeding  a   certified copy of each deposition taken in the proceeding.
NY Rapid Trans L § 61 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 61 - Order to Expedite Proceeding.

§  61.  Order  to expedite proceeding.   At any time after the date of   entry of the order granting the application to condemn  the  corporation   counsel  or  any owner may apply to the court for an order directing any   owner or the corporation counsel, as the case may be, to show cause  why   further  proceedings  under  this  article  on the part of such owner or   owners or of the corporation counsel should not be expedited,  and  upon   the  hearing  directed  by  such  order  to show cause the court, in its   discretion, may  make  an  order  directing  that  such  proceedings  be   expedited  in  the  manner  stated  therein and also making such further   directions with respect to the particulars shown upon the application as   shall be just and proper in the premises.
NY Rapid Trans L § 62 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 62 - Time When City Becomes Seized.

§  62.  Time  when city becomes seized.  Upon the date of the entry of   the order granting the application to condemn, the  city  shall  be  and   become  seized  and  possessed in fee or absolute ownership of all those   parcels of property and property rights which are in the maps  or  plans   and  memoranda  referred  to  in  section  fifty-two  of  this  chapter,   described as parcels of property or property  rights  which  are  to  be   acquired, and also shall become seized and possessed of all the property   rights  appurtenant to any lots or parcels of property indicated on such   maps or plans as parcels in regard to which it is  deemed  necessary  to   acquire  such  rights, or such rights shall be extinguished, as the case   may be.  The  board  of  transportation,  immediately  or  at  any  time   thereafter,  may  take  possession  or  enter into the enjoyment of such   property or of any part thereof, without any suit or proceeding  at  law   for  that purpose. Such board, or any person acting under its authority,   may enter upon and use, occupy and enjoy all the parcels of property and   all the property rights appurtenant to any of the  parcels  of  property   and  all  property  rights  described  on  such maps or plans or in such   memoranda, for any of the purposes authorized and provided for  by  this   chapter.  But  on  the  entry  of such order granting the application to   condemn, the city shall be and become forthwith liable to the respective   owners or persons interested in the several parcels of property and  the   several  property  rights  appertaining  thereto,  and  of such property   rights acquired  as  aforesaid,  for  the  true  and  respective  values   thereof,  together  with  interest thereon from the time of the entry of   such order, provided, however, that no such interest shall be payable to   any owner or person interested in any such property  or  property  right   during  any  period  during  which  the  city  or  such board may by any   resistance, whether by legal proceeding or otherwise, of such person  or   with  his  authority,  be  prevented  from  taking possession thereof or   enjoying the same.
NY Rapid Trans L § 63 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 63 - Partial Payment of Awards.

§  63.  Partial  payment  of  awards.    In  any proceeding instituted   pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the acquisition of  title   to property by the city, in which title thereto shall have become vested   in  the  city  by  virtue  of  the  entry of an order in compliance with   section sixty-two of this chapter, the city shall be authorized  to  pay   to  the  person  entitled  to  an  award  for  property acquired in such   proceeding, in advance of the final determination of his damages, a  sum   equal  to  seventy-five  per  centum  of  the assessed valuation of such   property less the liens and encumbrances of record thereon.  Before  any   such  advance  payment  shall  be made the comptroller shall procure the   certificate of the corporation counsel showing that the person  to  whom   payment  is  to  be  made  is the person legally entitled to receive the   same. If the city shall authorize a partial payment in  advance  to  any   person  entitled  to  an  award, interest on the sum so authorized to be   paid in advance shall cease to run five days  after  such  person  shall   have been notified by mail or otherwise that the comptroller is ready to   pay the same. In case the person entitled to an award at the date of the   vesting  of  title to the property in the city shall have transferred or   assigned his claim, such transfer or assignment made by him, or  by  his   successor  in interest or legal representative, shall not become binding   upon  the  city  unless  the  instrument  evidencing  such  transfer  or   assignment  shall  have  been  executed  and  filed in the office of the   comptroller as provided in this  chapter,  prior  to  any  such  advance   payment.  When  any  such  advance  payment  shall  have  been made, the   comptroller, on paying the awards made for the property acquired,  shall   deduct  from  the  total amount allowed as compensation the sum advanced   plus interest thereon from the date of the payment of  such  advance  to   the date of payment of the final award, and the balance shall be paid as   provided  by  this  article.  In case an advance payment shall have been   authorized and the person entitled thereto shall have been  notified  by   mail  or  otherwise  that  the comptroller is ready to make such advance   payment, interest on the amount so authorized to be paid in advance from   a date five days after notification by the comptroller that he is  ready   to  make  such  advance  payment to the time the person entitled thereto   shall accept such advance payment, shall be deducted by the  comptroller   on  paying  the  awards  therefor  from  the  total  amount  allowed  as   compensation to such person.   Such advance payment  shall  be  made  in   accordance with the provisions of section sixty-nine of this chapter.
NY Rapid Trans L § 64 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 64 - Payment of Liens and Encumbrances.

§  64.  Payment of liens and encumbrances.  Whenever a person would be   entitled to the payment of any advance under section sixty-three of this   chapter and there shall exist mortgages or other  prior  liens  on  such   property,  the  holder  of any such prior lien may apply to the city for   payment of his mortgage or encumbrance.  If  after  five  days'  written   notice given by the corporation counsel to the owner of such property to   file  a  verified statement of his objections, if any, to the payment of   such mortgage or lien, the corporation counsel shall be satisfied as  to   the  amount  due  to such mortgagee or lienor, and shall so certify, the   city shall, to the extent of the moneys  available  under  such  section   sixty-three,  after  providing  for prior liens or encumbrances, if any,   pay such mortgage or lien with the interest due thereon.
NY Rapid Trans L § 65 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 65 - Tentative Decree; Objections Thereto.

§  65. Tentative decree; objections thereto.  The court, after hearing   such testimony and considering such proofs  as  may  be  offered,  shall   ascertain and estimate the compensation which ought justly to be made by   the  city  to  the  respective  owners  of  or persons interested in the   property  so  acquired  or  extinguished  by  such  proceeding  for  the   improvement  and  shall  instruct  the  corporation counsel to prepare a   transcript of its estimate of damage. Such transcript of estimate  shall   be  accompanied by the third set of maps or plans and memoranda referred   to in section fifty-four of this chapter  and  therein  denominated  the   third set, or a copy thereof, and shall refer to the numbers thereon and   shall  state  the  several  sums respectively estimated for each of such   parcels with the names of the owners or persons  interested  therein  as   far  as ascertained, together with all of the affidavits and proofs upon   which the same are based. Such transcript shall be signed by the justice   trying the proceeding and filed with the clerk of the  county  in  which   the  property  affected  by the proceeding is situated and when so filed   shall constitute the tentative decree of the court. Upon the  filing  of   the  tentative  decree,  the  corporation  counsel  shall give notice by   publication twice  a  week  for  two  weeks  in  two  public  newspapers   published  in  such city of the filing of such tentative decree and that   the city and any person whose rights may be affected thereby and who may   object thereto, or any part thereof, may, on  or  before  a  day  to  be   specified in such notice subsequent to the last publication thereof, set   forth  his  objections  thereto  in writing, duly verified in the manner   required by law for the verifiation of pleadings in an  action,  setting   forth  the  property  owned by the objector and his post-office address,   and file the same with such clerk. The notice shall also state that  the   corporation  counsel  on  the  date  specified therein will apply to the   justice who made the tentative decree to fix a time when  he  will  hear   the  parties  so  objecting.  Every party so objecting, or his attorney,   within the same time, shall serve on the corporation counsel a  copy  of   such  verified  objections.  Upon such application the justice shall fix   the time when he will hear the parties so objecting and desiring  to  be   heard.  At  the time so fixed the justice shall hear each person who has   objected to the tentative decree and who may then and there  appear  and   shall  have the power to adjourn from time to time until all persons who   have filed objections and desire to be heard shall be fully heard.
NY Rapid Trans L § 66 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 66 - Final Decree.

§  66.  Final  decree.   After considering the objections, if any, and   making any corrections or alterations in the tentative decree which  the   court  shall consider just and proper, it shall give instructions to the   corporation counsel as to the preparation of  the  final  decree,  which   shall   consist  of  the  tentative  decree  altered  and  corrected  in   accordance with the instructions of the court, together with a statement   of the facts conferring on the court jurisdiction of the proceeding, and   that the amounts set opposite each parcel in the  column  headed  "final   awards" constitute the compensation to which the respective owners of or   persons  in  any way interested in the property taken or extinguished in   such proceeding are justly entitled to  receive  from  the  city  and  a   statement  of the respective owners and interested parties. In all cases   where the owners or persons interested are unknown, or not  fully  known   to  the  court, it shall be sufficient to set forth and state in general   terms the respective sums to be  allowed  and  paid  to  the  respective   owners  and  interested  parties without specifying their names or their   estates or interests. The final decree shall be filed in the  office  of   the clerk of the county where the property affected by the proceeding is   situated.
NY Rapid Trans L § 67 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 67 - Payment of Awards and Expenses.

§  67.  Payment  of awards and expenses.   Within four calendar months   after the date of the filing of the final decree of the court, the  city   shall  pay  to the parties entitled thereto the respective sums of money   determined in their favor as set forth in the final decree,  with  legal   interest  thereon  from  the date of the entry of the order granting the   application to condemn.  In case of neglect or default  in  the  payment   thereof within the time aforesaid, the respective persons in whose favor   the  same  shall  be so determined, after application to the comptroller   for payment thereof, may sue for  and  recover  the  same,  with  lawful   interest as aforesaid and costs of suit. No fees or expenses incurred by   the  city  or  the corporation counsel in connection with any proceeding   instituted under this chapter shall be paid until they shall  have  been   taxed by the court upon five days' notice to the corporation counsel and   upon  proof  of  the  nature  and  extent  of  the services rendered and   disbursements charged. No unnecessary costs or charges shall be allowed.   All costs, fees, expenses or disbursements to be taxed shall  be  stated   in detail in the bill of costs and shall be accompanied by such proof of   the  reasonableness  and necessity thereof as is required by law and the   practice of the court upon taxation of costs and disbursements in  other   special proceedings or actions.
NY Rapid Trans L § 68 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 68 - Moneys of Persons Under Disability; Moneys Paid to Wrong Persons.

§  68.  Moneys  of  persons  under  disability;  moneys  paid to wrong   persons.  Whenever the owner or any person interested  in  any  property   taken  or affected in such proceedings or in whose favor any such sum or   compensation shall be determined by the final decree  of  the  court  is   under  legal  disability  or absent from such city, and when the name of   the owner or person interested in the property shall not be set forth or   mentioned in the final decree, or when the owner or  person  interested,   although  named in the decree, cannot upon diligent inquiry be found, or   where there are adverse or conflicting claims to the  money  awarded  as   compensation,  the  city  shall pay such award into court to be secured,   disposed of, invested and paid out as the court shall direct,  and  such   payment  shall  be  as valid and effectual in all respects as if made to   the person entitled thereto. And in default of such payment into  court,   the  city shall be and remain liable for such award with lawful interest   thereon from the date of the entry of the order granting the application   to condemn. Where an award shall  be  paid  to  a  person  not  entitled   thereto,  the  person to whom it ought to have been paid may sue for and   recover the same, with lawful interest and costs of  suit,  as  so  much   money  had  and received to his use by the person to whom the same shall   have been so paid. Payment of an award to the person named in the  final   decree  of the court as the owner thereof or person entitled thereto, if   not under legal disability, in the absence of notice in writing  to  the   comptroller of adverse claims thereto, shall protect the city.
NY Rapid Trans L § 69 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 69 - Cost of Acquiring Property.

§ 69. Cost of acquiring property.  The moneys necessary and sufficient   to  be paid for any property acquired in any manner under the provisions   of this chapter, together with  all  expenses  necessarily  incurred  in   surveying,  locating  and  acquiring  title  to  such  property, and for   preparing the necessary maps and plans in connection therewith, shall be   raised by the city, and all such  expenses  so  incurred  in  surveying,   locating  and  acquiring  title,  and  for  preparing necessary maps and   plans, and also those incurred as provided in subdivision b  of  section   fifty-three  of  this chapter, shall be deemed a part of and included in   the cost of constructing the road, the construction of which rendered it   necessary to acquire the property, in the course of the  acquisition  of   which such expenses may be incurred.
NY Rapid Trans L § 70 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RAT - Rapid Transit Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City 70 - Amendments of Defects.

§  70.  Amendments of defects.  The special term of the supreme court,   in  the  judicial  district  in  which  the  property  affected  by  the   proceeding  is situated, at any time may amend any defect or informality   in any notice, petition, pleading,  order  or  decree  in  a  proceeding   instituted under this chapter or cause property affected by such defect,   informality  or  lack  of jurisdiction to be excluded therefrom or other   property affected by such defect, informality or lack of jurisdiction to   be included therein, by amendment, upon notice published  twice  a  week   for  two weeks in two public newspapers, published in such city, and may   direct such further notices to be given to any party in interest  as  it   shall deem proper.