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2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 1 - Short Title; Classification; Incorporation; Application. › 4 - Applicability of Business Corporation Law to Transportation Corporations.

§  4.  Applicability  of  business  corporation  law to transportation
corporations. (a) The business corporation law applies to a  corporation
heretofore  or  hereafter  formed under this chapter, or under any other
statute or special act of this state,  or  under  laws  other  than  the
statutes of this state, which has as its purpose or among its purposes a
purpose for which a corporation may be formed under this chapter, except
that in case of a conflict between the business corporation law and this
chapter the provisions of this chapter shall govern. If there is in this
chapter  a  provision  relating  to  a  matter  embraced in the business
corporation law and not in conflict  therewith,  both  provisions  shall
apply.  Any  corporation  to  which the business corporation law is made
applicable  by  this  section  shall  be  treated  as  a  "corporation",
"domestic corporation", or "foreign corporation", as such terms are used
in  the business corporation law, except that the purposes for which any
such corporation may be formed under section three of this chapter shall
not thereby be extended.
(b) For the purpose of this section and elsewhere in this chapter, the
effective date of the business corporation law  as  to  corporations  to
which  the  business  corporation law is made applicable by this section
shall be June first, nineteen hundred sixty-four.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 1 - Short Title; Classification; Incorporation; Application. › 5 - Application.

§  5.  Application. A corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated
  under a general law for a purpose or purposes for  which  a  corporation
  may  be  formed  under  this chapter shall in respect to such purpose or
  purposes have all the powers and privileges conferred, and be subject to
  all the duties, liabilities and limitations imposed,  on  a  corporation
  organized   for  such  purpose  or  purposes  under  this  chapter.  Any
  corporation heretofore incorporated under a general law for any  one  or
  more  of the purposes specified in this chapter, may exercise the powers
  now possessed by it to carry  on  any  business  in  which  it  now  may
  lawfully  engage.  A  corporation  heretofore  incorporated  under or by
  special law for such purpose  or  purposes  shall  in  respect  to  such
  purpose or purposes have all the powers and privileges conferred, and be
  subject  to  the  duties,  liabilities  and  limitations imposed by this
  chapter, in so far as such duties, liabilities and limitations  are  not
  inconsistent with such special law.
2023 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.
2023 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, a mixture of both artificial and natural
  gases or thermal energy 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 or thermal energy 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.  For  purposes  of  this
  article,  "thermal  energy"  shall  have  the same meaning as defined by
  subdivision twenty-eight of section two of the public service law.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. › 42 - Duty to Supply Water; Contracts With Municipalities.

§  42.  Duty  to  supply  water;  contracts  with municipalities. Such
  corporation shall supply each city, town or village  through  which  the
  conduits  or  mains  of  such  corporation  may  pass,  or  wherein such
  corporation may have organized, and the inhabitants thereof,  with  pure
  and  wholesome  water, at reasonable rates. The board of trustees of any
  incorporated village and the  water  commissioners  or  other  board  or
  officials performing the duties of water commissioners and having charge
  of the water supply of any city, shall have the power to contract in the
  name and behalf of the municipal corporation for the term of one year or
  more  for  the  delivery  by  such corporation to the village or city of
  water, through hydrants or otherwise, for the  extinguishment  of  fires
  and for sanitary and other public purposes. The amount agreed to be paid
  shall  be  annually  raised as a part of the expenses of such village or
  city, and shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner  as
  other expenses, and when collected shall be kept as a separate fund, and
  paid  according  to  the  terms and conditions of such contract. No such
  contract shall be made for a longer period than ten  years  nor  for  an
  annual  amount  exceeding  in  the  aggregate two and one-half mills for
  every dollar of the taxable property of such village or city, except (a)
  upon the petition of a majority of the taxable inhabitants of  any  such
  village or city, or of the portion thereof to be supplied, or (b) upon a
  proposition to authorize the same submitted to a vote of the electors of
  the  village  or city, in the manner provided by the village law or city
  charter, and approved by a majority of the voters entitled to  vote  and
  voting  thereon at an annual election or a special election duly called.
  Such contract shall be for a term not exceeding twenty years.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. › 43 - Powers.

§  43.  Powers.  Every  such  corporation  shall  have  the  following
  additional powers:
1. To lay and maintain its  pipes  and  hydrants  for  delivering  and
  distributing  water  in any street, highway or public place of any city,
  town or village in which it has obtained the consent required by section
  forty-one of this article.
2. To lay its water pipes in any streets or avenues or  public  places
  of  an  adjoining  city, town or village; provided that such right in an
  adjoining city or village  having  a  population  of  more  than  twelve
  thousand  inhabitants  shall  be  subject to the permission of the local
  authorities thereof and upon such conditions as they may prescribe.
3. To cause examinations and surveys  to  be  made  to  determine  the
  proper location of its waterworks, and for such purpose by its officers,
  agents  or  servants  to  enter  upon  any  lands  or waters, subject to
  liability for all damages done.
4.  To  enter  into  appropriate  agreements  with  the  secretary  of
  agriculture  of  the  United States department of agriculture to operate
  without profit for  the  term  specified  therein  for  the  purpose  of
  qualifying  to  receive  federal assistance pursuant to the consolidated
  farmers home administration act of nineteen hundred  sixty-one  and  any
  federal laws amendatory and supplementary thereto. Any such agreement to
  operate without profit shall be subject to the approval of a majority of
  the  stockholders  entitled  to  vote  thereat at any regular or special
  stockholders' meeting. Any stockholder so entitled to vote who does  not
  vote  for  or  consent  in  writing to the taking of this action, shall,
  subject to and by complying with the provisions of section  six  hundred
  twenty-three  of the business corporation law, have the right to receive
  payment of the fair value of his stock and the other rights and benefits
  provided by such section.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. › 44 - Survey and Map.

§  44.  Survey  and  map.  Before  taking  or  using any land, for its
  corporate purposes such corporation shall cause a survey and map  to  be
  made  of  the  lands  intended  to  be taken designating the land of the
  several owners or occupants thereof, which map shall be  signed  by  the
  president and its secretary, and filed in the office of the county clerk
  of the county in which such lands are situated.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. › 45 - Condemnation of Real Property.

§  45.  Condemnation of real property. Any such corporation shall have
  the right to acquire real estate, or any interest therein, necessary for
  the purposes of its incorporation, and the right to lay,  relay,  repair
  and maintain conduits and water pipes with connections and fixtures, in,
  through  or  over the lands of others, the right to intercept and divert
  the flow of waters from the lands of riparian owners, and  from  persons
  owning or interested in any waters, and the right to prevent the flow of
  drainage  of noxious or impure matters from the lands of others into its
  reservoirs or sources of supply. If any such corporation, which has made
  a contract with any city, town or village or with any of the inhabitants
  thereof for the supply of pure and  wholesome  water  as  authorized  by
  section  forty-two,  shall be unable to agree upon the terms of purchase
  of any such property or rights, it may acquire the same by condemnation.
  But no such corporation shall have power to take or use water  from  any
  of  the canals of this state, or any canal reservoirs as feeders, or any
  streams which have been taken by the state for the purpose of  supplying
  the canals with water.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. › 46 - Corporations May Contract With Other Cities, Towns or Villages; Certificate of Extension; Effect of Merger.

§  46. Corporations may contract with other cities, towns or villages;
  certificate of extension; effect of merger. When  any  such  corporation
  has  entered  into  a contract with the authorities of any city, town or
  village not mentioned in its certificate of incorporation, but  situated
  in  the  same county as the city, towns or villages mentioned therein or
  in an adjoining county, to supply it with pure and wholesome  water,  it
  may file a certificate which shall be entitled and endorsed "certificate
  of  extension  of  territory  of ........ .................. pursuant to
  section forty-six of the transportation  corporations  law"  (the  blank
  space  being filled in with the name of the corporation) and which shall
  state:
1. The name of the corporation, and, if it has been changed, the  name
  under which it was originally incorporated.
2. The name of such other city, town or village to be so supplied with
  water.
Such  certificate shall be signed and acknowledged by the president or
  a vice-president and the secretary or  an  assistant  secretary  of  the
  corporation,  who  shall make and annex an affidavit that they have been
  authorized to execute and file the same by the vote of a majority of the
  directors of the corporation.
Such certificate shall be filed in each public  office  in  which  the
  certificate  of  incorporation  is  filed.  Any  corporation  which  has
  heretofore filed  or  shall  file  such  certificate  as  aforesaid  may
  thereupon  supply  any such city, town or village with water in the same
  manner and with the same rights and subject to the same requirements  as
  if  it  had been named in the original certificate of incorporation, and
  as if such certificate  of  incorporation  had  had  annexed  thereto  a
  consent  to the formation of the corporation, signed and acknowledged by
  the local authorities of  such  municipal  corporation,  as  defined  in
  section forty-one of this chapter.
The right of merger of waterworks corporations shall not be limited to
  corporations  operating  in  the  same  or  adjoining counties, and if a
  waterworks corporation be merged pursuant to law with another waterworks
  corporation  operating  in  the  state,  any  municipal  corporation  or
  political  subdivision  of  the  state, and any public officer, board or
  body, authorized by statute to contract with such a merged  corporation,
  shall  have  power and authority to contract and deal with the possessor
  corporation in the same manner and with the same  effect  as  with  such
  merged corporation.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 4 - Water-Works Corporations. › 47 - Merger or Consolidation of Waterworks Corporations.

§  47.  Merger or consolidation of waterworks corporations. Any two or
  more domestic waterworks 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.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 6 - Ferry Corporations. › 71 - Powers.

§  71.  Powers. Any such corporation shall have power to take by grant
  or by assignment a franchise or right to establish and operate  a  ferry
  or ferries, as specified in the certificate of incorporation, subject to
  the rights of any person, or municipal or other corporation.
In any case when an application is made to the local governing body of
  a  county  without the city of New York for a grant such local governing
  body is authorized to make such grant if a public necessity therefor  is
  shown.  Whenever  it  is  shown  to  such  local  governing body upon an
  application  for  a  grant  that  the  tangible  property  of  a   ferry
  corporation,  employed  or  to  be  employed  in the exercise of a ferry
  franchise or right, is of the value of at least  ten  thousand  dollars,
  such local governing body may grant such franchise or right for a period
  not exceeding fifteen years.
A  ferry corporation, now enjoying a grant from a county court or such
  local governing body for a shorter  period,  shall  be  entitled  to  an
  extension thereof for a period not exceeding fifteen years from the time
  of  granting  such  extension, on application and due proof to the local
  governing body of a county that its tangible property, employed  in  the
  exercise  of  such ferry franchise or right, is of the value of at least
  ten thousand dollars.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 6 - Ferry Corporations. › 72 - Posting Schedule of Rates.

§  72.  Posting  schedule of rates. A corporation operating a ferry in
  this state, or between this state and any other state, shall post  in  a
  conspicuous  and  accessible place in each of its ferry houses, in plain
  view of the passengers,  a  schedule  plainly  printed  in  the  English
  language, of its rates.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 80 - Definitions.

§  80.  Definitions.  1.  A  pipe  line  corporation  is a corporation
  organized to construct and operate for  public  use,  wholly  within  or
  partly without this state, except in the city of New York, lines of pipe
  for  conveying  or  transporting  therein petroleum, gas, liquids or any
  products or property, or, except in such city, to maintain  and  operate
  for   public   use  for  which  such  purposes  lines  of  pipe  already
  constructed.
2.  For  the  purposes  of  this  article,  the  terms  "exploration",
  "development", "production", and "federal waters" shall be defined as in
  section 23-1105 of the environmental conservation law.
3.  "North  Atlantic planning area" means an area of federal waters in
  the outer continental shelf totaling ninety-two  million  three  hundred
  twenty  thousand  acres  adjacent  to  the  coastal waters of Maine, New
  Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,  and  New
  Jersey.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 81 - Additional Powers.

§ 81. Additional powers. Every such corporation shall have power:
1.  To make such examinations and surveys as it may deem necessary for
  the selection of the most advantageous route, and for  such  purpose  by
  its  officers,  agents  or servants to enter upon the lands or waters of
  any person, subject to liability for all damage done thereto.
2. To lay out its route not exceeding fifty feet in width, but at  the
  termini of such route and at all receiving and discharging points and at
  all  places  where machinery may properly be set up for the operation of
  such pipe line to take such additional land as may be necessary.
3. To convey through pipes any property, substance or product  capable
  of  transportation  therein  by  means of any force, power or mechanical
  agency,  and  to  erect  and  maintain  all  necessary  and   convenient
  buildings,  stations,  fixtures  and  machinery  for the purposes of its
  incorporation.
4. To regulate the time and manner in which property shall be conveyed
  through its pipe lines, and  the  compensation  to  be  paid,  but  such
  compensation  shall  not be at a rate in excess of twenty-five cents per
  one hundred miles for the transportation of  forty-two  gallons  of  any
  product  conveyed  through lines of one hundred miles in length or over,
  which shall be reckoned and adjusted upon  the  quantity  or  number  of
  gallons delivered by such corporation.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 81-A - Misconduct of Officers and Agents of Pipe-Line Corporations.

§  81-a.  Misconduct of officers and agents of pipe-line corporations.
  Any officer, agent or manager of a pipe-line corporation who:
1.  Neglects  or  refuses  to  transport  any  product  delivered  for
  transportation,  or  to accept and allow a delivery thereof in the order
  of application, according to the general rules of  the  corporation,  as
  provided by law; or,
2.   Charges,   accepts   or   agrees  to  accept  for  such  receipt,
  transportation and delivery, a sum different from the  amount  fixed  by
  such regulations; or,
3. Allows or pays, or agrees to allow or pay, or suffers to be allowed
  or  paid  or  repaid,  any  draw-back,  rebate or allowance, so that any
  person shall, by any advice,  have  or  procure  any  transportation  of
  products  over  such pipe-line at a less rate or charge than is fixed in
  such regulations,
Is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a  fine  not  exceeding  one
  thousand  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by
  both.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 82 - Location of Route.

§  82.  Location  of  route. Before commencing the construction of its
  pipe line in any county, and before commencing any  proceeding  for  the
  condemnation of real property, such a corporation shall plainly mark the
  route  adopted  and  located  by it by stakes consecutively numbered and
  placed not more than twenty rods apart, and shall make a map and  survey
  of  the  route so located indicating thereon the points where such route
  crosses each parcel of land not theretofore acquired,  and  shall  cause
  such  map  and survey to be certified by its president and engineer, and
  filed in the office of the clerk of each county into  or  through  which
  such  route  passes.   Such corporation shall give written notice of the
  filing of such map and survey to the owner or  occupant  of  every  such
  parcel  of land, if he is known or can be ascertained, stating that such
  route passes over or across his lands, as indicated thereon by such line
  of stakes. Within fifteen days after the service  of  such  notice,  any
  such  owner  or occupant feeling aggrieved by such location may give ten
  days' written notice to the corporation, by  service  thereof  upon  its
  president,  engineer,  or  any director, and like notice to the owner or
  occupant of any lands to be affected by the alteration of  route  to  be
  proposed,  of  the time and place of an application to a special term of
  the supreme court in the  judicial  district  in  which  the  lands  are
  situated for the appointment of commissioners to relocate such route. If
  the  court  shall  determine  that  sufficient cause exists therefor, it
  shall appoint three disinterested persons as  commissioners  to  examine
  the  route  located  and the proposed alteration thereof, and direct the
  mode of proceeding. The commissioners shall  report  to  the  court  the
  facts and their opinion as to the proposed alteration, and what, if any,
  alteration  should  be made in such route, and the court shall thereupon
  make an order finally determining the location of such  route  upon  the
  lands  embraced  therein,  and fixing and adjusting the costs, fees, and
  charges of  the  commissioners,  and  the  costs  and  expenses  of  the
  proceedings,  and  directing  by  which  party  the  same shall be paid.
  Payment thereof may be enforced by proceedings as for a  contempt.  Such
  corporation  shall  not  begin  to construct or lay its line of pipe, or
  commence proceedings for the  condemnation  of  real  property,  in  any
  county,  until  after the expiration of fifteen days from the service of
  the notice herein required, nor until all applications for a  relocation
  of  its  route  in  such  county,  if  any  are  made, have been finally
  determined.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 83 - Condemnation of Real Property.

§  83.  Condemnation  of  real  property.  In case such corporation is
  unable to agree for the purchase of any real property required  for  the
  purposes of its incorporation, and its route in the county in which such
  real  property  is  situated has been finally located, it shall have the
  right to acquire title thereto by  condemnation,  but  such  corporation
  shall  not  locate  its  route  or construct any line of pipe through or
  under any building, dooryard, lawn, garden or  orchard,  except  by  the
  consent  of  the owner thereof in writing duly acknowledged, nor through
  any cemetery or burial ground,  nor  within  one  hundred  feet  of  any
  building  except  where such line is authorized by public officers to be
  laid across or upon any public highway, and shall not construct any line
  of pipe that  supports  facilities  or  infrastructure  associated  with
  exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in federal
  waters  located in the north Atlantic planning area. No such corporation
  shall lay or construct its line of pipe through or under a street in any
  city, unless it shall first obtain the consent  of  a  majority  of  the
  owners  of  property abutting on that portion of the street in which its
  pipe line is to be laid. Such pipe line shall be  laid  with  reasonable
  care and prudence.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 84 - Railroad and Highway Crossings.

§  84.  Railroad and highway crossings. Whenever it shall be necessary
  for any line of pipe of any such corporation to cross  any  railroad  or
  highway, such line of pipe shall be laid under such railroad or highway,
  with  the least injury practicable, and unless such right to cross shall
  be acquired by agreement, compensation shall be  made  to  the  railroad
  corporation,  or  in  case  of  highways,  to  the public, in the manner
  prescribed in the eminent domain procedure law, but no exclusive  right,
  title  or  use  shall be so acquired against a railroad corporation, nor
  against the public in a highway. No such corporation shall take  or  use
  any  lands,  fixtures  or  structures  of  any  railroad corporation, or
  acquire pursuant to the provisions of the eminent domain procedure  law,
  any  right or title to the lands of any such corporation, except for the
  purpose of a direct crossing.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 85 - Construction Across and Along Canals, Rivers and Creeks.

§  85.  Construction  across  and along canals, rivers and creeks.  No
  pipe line shall be constructed upon or across any of the canals of  this
  state,  except  by  the  consent of and in the manner and upon the terms
  prescribed by the, commissioner of  transportation,  unless  constructed
  upon  a  fixed  bridge  across  such  canal, and with the consent of the
  person for whose benefit such bridge is constructed and  maintained,  or
  upon  such  a bridge over the canal, at the crossing of a public highway
  or  street,  with  the  consent  of  the  public  officers  having   the
  supervision  thereof,  or of the municipal authorities of any village or
  city within whose limits such bridge may be, nor shall the pipes of  any
  such corporation be laid through or along the banks of any of the canals
  of  this state, nor through or under any of its rivers or creeks, unless
  such pipes shall be encased, so as to prevent leakage, in such manner as
  shall be approved by the commissioner of transportation.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 86 - Consent of Local Authorities.

§ 86. Consent of local authorities. No pipe lines shall be constructed
  across  or  along  any  public highway without the consent of the public
  officer or body having supervision thereof, upon such terms  as  may  be
  agreed  upon  with him or it, and also in the case of any public highway
  in any city or village except as provided  in  section  eighty-seven  of
  this  chapter,  provided  that  if  the  highway  be  one under the sole
  supervision of a city or village  or  some  official  thereof  then  the
  authorization  of  the  municipal  authorities  as  required  by section
  eighty-seven  shall  be  sufficient  without  any  other  consent   made
  necessary  by  this  section. If such consent, except one required under
  section eighty-seven,  or  the  consent  of  the  municipal  authorities
  required by the preceding section cannot be obtained, application may be
  made to the supreme court in the judicial district in which such highway
  or  bridge  is  situated  for  an  order  permitting  the corporation to
  construct its line across or along such highway, or  upon  such  bridge.
  The  application  shall  be  by  duly verified petition and notice which
  shall be served upon the public officer or body  having  supervision  of
  the  highway,  or the municipal authorities of the village or city where
  such bridge is located in a case of consent required  by  the  preceding
  section,  and the court upon the hearing of the application may grant an
  order permitting the line to be constructed in such manner and upon such
  terms as it may direct.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 87 - Construction Through Villages and Cities.

§  87. Construction through villages and cities. No pipe line shall be
  constructed into or through any incorporated village  or  city  in  this
  state,  unless  authorized by a resolution prescribing the route, manner
  of construction and terms upon  which  granted,  adopted  at  a  regular
  meeting  of the board of trustees of the village or the legislative body
  of the city by a two-thirds vote thereof, but such resolution shall  not
  affect any private right. No pavement shall be removed in any city under
  the  provisions  of  this article, except as directed by the legislative
  body, nor until the corporation seeking to remove the same shall give  a
  bond in such sum as the legislative body may require for relaying of any
  pavements removed.  In case any pavement shall have been removed and not
  properly  relaid,  the  city  may  sue such corporation, for the cost of
  relaying such pavement.
2023 New York Laws › TCP - Transportation Corporations › Article 7 - Pipe Line Corporations. › 88 - Over Indian Reservations.

§  88.  Over  Indian reservations. Such corporations may contract with
  the chiefs of any nation of Indians over whose lands it may be necessary
  to construct its pipe line for the right to construct the same 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 pipe  line,  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.