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2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 223 - Determination of Necessity of Railroad and Route.

§   223.  Determination  of  necessity  of  railroad  and  route.  The
  commissioners  shall,  within  thirty  days  after  such   organization,
  determine upon the necessity of such steam railroad, and if they find it
  to  be necessary, they shall, within sixty days after such organization,
  fix and determine the route therefor, and shall have the exclusive power
  to locate such route,  over,  under,  through  or  across  the  streets,
  avenues,  places or lands in such county or city, and to provide for the
  connection or junction with any other railroad or bridge, if the consent
  of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded  on  and  the
  consent  of  the  local  authorities having control of that portion of a
  street or highway upon which it is proposed to construct or operate such
  railroad have been first obtained.  If  the  consent  of  such  property
  owners  can  not  be  obtained, the determination of three commissioners
  appointed by  the  appellate  division  of  the  supreme  court  of  the
  department  where  the  railroad  is  to  be constructed, made after due
  hearing of all parties interested, and confirmed by the court, that such
  railroad ought to be constructed and operated, may be taken in  lieu  of
  the  consent  of such property owners. No such railroad shall be located
  in or upon such portion of any street, avenue, place or  lands  in  such
  county  as are now occupied by an elevated or underground railroad or in
  which such a railroad has already  been  authorized  by  law  to  be  so
  located  and  constructed,  or  which  are contained in public parks, or
  occupied by buildings belonging to the county or the state or the United
  States, or in or upon the following streets, avenues and public  places,
  viz.:   Broadway, Fifth avenue, Fourth avenue above Forty-second street,
  in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York; Debevoise  place,  Irving
  place,  Lefferts  place,  those  portions of Grand, Classon and Franklin
  avenues and Downing street lying between the southerly line of Lexington
  avenue and the northerly  line  of  Atlantic  avenue,  that  portion  of
  Classon  avenue lying between the northerly line of Lexington avenue and
  the southerly line of Park avenue, and that portion of Washington avenue
  lying between Park and Atlantic avenues in the borough of Brooklyn;  and
  that  portion  of  the  city  of Buffalo lying between Michigan and Main
  streets; but such railroad may be located and  constructed  across  such
  excepted  streets,  avenues  and  places only at their intersection with
  other streets, avenues and places.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 224 - Adoption of Plans, and Terms Upon Which Road Shall Be Built.

§  224.  Adoption  of plans, and terms upon which road shall be built.
  The commissioners by such public notice, and under such conditions,  and
  with  such  inducements as they may prescribe, shall invite a submission
  of plans for the construction and operation of such railroad, and  shall
  meet at a time and place in such notice named, not more than ninety days
  after their organization, and decide upon the plans for the construction
  thereof,  with  the  necessary  supports,  turnouts,  switches, sidings,
  connections, landing-places, stations, buildings, platforms,  stairways,
  elevators,  telegraph and signal devices, or other requisite appliances,
  upon the route or location determined upon by  them.  They  shall,  upon
  notice   to  the  local  authorities,  and  after  hearing  all  parties
  interested, fix and determine what compensation, if any, in a gross sum,
  or in a certain percentage of receipts, shall annually be  paid  to  the
  local   authorities  by  the  corporation  formed  for  the  purpose  of
  constructing, maintaining and operating such railroad for public use  in
  the  conveyance  of  persons and property, for the use and occupation by
  the corporation of the streets, avenues and highways in and  upon  which
  its railroad is to be constructed, and the time when such railroad, or a
  portion  thereof,  shall be constructed and ready for operation, and the
  maximum rates to be paid for transportation and conveyance thereon,  and
  the  hours  during  which special cars or trains shall be run at reduced
  rates of fare; and the amount of the capital stock of such  corporation,
  and  the  number  of  shares  into  which  it  shall be divided, and the
  percentage thereof to be paid in cash on subscribing for such shares.
The commissioners may select two or more routes,  upon  one  of  which
  such railroad may be constructed and operated; and the local authorities
  may  consent to the construction and operation of such railroad upon one
  or more of such routes, or parts thereof; and  the  commissioners  shall
  have  power to change and re-adopt routes and plans for the construction
  and operation of such railroad after they have  been  submitted  to  the
  local  authorities,  in  cases where such authorities may recommend such
  changes, or may not  be  willing  to  consent  to  the  construction  or
  operation of the railroad upon the routes and plans adopted, unless such
  changes are made therein.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 226 - Shall Prepare Certificate of Incorporation; Proviso as to Forfeiture.

§  226.  Shall  prepare  certificate  of  incorporation; proviso as to
  forfeiture. The commissioners shall prepare an  appropriate  certificate
  of  incorporation  for  the corporation in the last section mentioned in
  which shall be set forth and embodied, as component parts  thereof,  the
  several  conditions,  requirements and particulars by such commissioners
  determined pursuant to the provisions of this article, and  which  shall
  also  provide  for  the release and forfeiture to the supervisors of the
  county, or if the road is to be constructed wholly or  partly  within  a
  city,  to  such  city,  of  all  rights  and franchises acquired by such
  corporation in case such railroad or railroads shall  not  be  completed
  within  the  time  and  upon  the  conditions  therein provided; and the
  commissioners shall thereupon and within one  hundred  and  twenty  days
  after  their  organization  cause a suitable book of subscription to the
  capital stock of such corporation to be opened pursuant  to  due  public
  notice  at  a  banking  office  in such county or city. A failure by any
  corporation heretofore or hereafter  organized  under  this  article  to
  complete  its railroad within the time limited in and by its certificate
  of incorporation shall only work a forfeiture of the franchises of  such
  corporation  with  respect  to  that  portion  of  its  route which such
  corporation shall have failed to complete,  and  shall  not  affect  the
  rights  and franchises of such corporation to construct and operate such
  part of its railroad which it  shall  have  completed  within  the  term
  prescribed  by its certificate of incorporation, or as to which the time
  for completion shall not have expired, notwithstanding anything  to  the
  contrary in its certificate of incorporation.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 227 - Organization.

§  227.  Organization.  Whenever  the  whole  capital  stock  of  such
  corporation or an amount of such capital stock proportioned to the  part
  of  such railroad directed by the commissioners to be constructed, shall
  have been subscribed by not less than fifteen  persons,  and  the  fixed
  percentage  of  such  subscriptions  shall  have been paid, in cash, the
  commissioners shall, by written or printed notice of  ten  days,  served
  personally   or  by  mail,  call  a  meeting  of  such  subscribers  for
  organization, and appoint the inspectors of election to  serve  thereat.
  At  such  meeting,  or  at  any  subsequent one to which the same may be
  adjourned, a majority in number and amount of such subscribers may elect
  persons, of a number to be theretofore determined by  the  commissioners
  not  less  than  nine,  who  shall  be  directors  for  one  year of the
  corporation formed for the purposes of constructing and  operating  such
  railroad.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 228 - Commissioners to Deliver Certificate; Affidavit of Directors.

§  228.  Commissioners to deliver certificate; affidavit of directors.
  Within ten days after the election of such directors  the  commissioners
  shall  deliver  to them a certificate in duplicate, verified by the oath
  of three commissioners, before a justice of the supreme  court,  setting
  forth  the  certificate  of  incorporation  and  the organization of the
  corporation for the purposes therein mentioned,  and  within  five  days
  after the reception by them of such certificates, three of the directors
  so  elected  shall  make  affidavit in duplicate that the full amount of
  stock has been subscribed in  good  faith  to  construct,  maintain  and
  operate  the  railroad or railroads in such certificate of incorporation
  mentioned, and such directors shall file such affidavits and certificate
  in the office of the secretary of state, and a duplicate of the same  in
  the  office  of  the  clerk of the county wherein such railroad shall be
  located;  and  thereupon  the  persons  who  have  so  subscribed   such
  certificate   of   incorporation   and  all  persons  who  shall  become
  stockholders in such corporation shall be  a  corporation  by  the  name
  specified in such certificate, and be subject to the duties, liabilities
  and restrictions of such corporations.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 229 - Powers.

§  229.  Powers.  Subject to the provisions of the transportation law,
  every such corporation shall have  power,  in  addition  to  the  powers
  conferred  by  the business corporation law and by subdivisions four and
  six of section eight of this chapter:
1. To take and convey persons and property  on  its  railroad  by  the
  power  or force of steam or by any motor other than animal power, and to
  receive compensation therefor.
2. To enter upon and  underneath  the  several  streets,  avenues  and
  public  places and lands designated by the commissioners, and enter into
  and upon the soil of the same, to construct, maintain, operate  and  use
  in  accordance  with  the  plan adopted by the commissioners, a railroad
  upon the route or routes and to the points decided upon  and  to  secure
  the  necessary  foundations  and  erect  the  columns,  piers  and other
  structures which may be required to secure safety and stability  in  the
  construction  and maintenance of the railroad constructed upon such plan
  and for operating the same; and to make such  excavations  and  openings
  along  the  route  through  which  such railroad shall be constructed as
  shall be necessary from time to time. In all cases the  surface  of  the
  streets  around such foundations, piers and columns shall be restored to
  the condition in which they were before such excavations were  made,  as
  near  as may be, and any interference with or change in the water mains,
  or in the sewers or lamp posts, except such changes as may be made  with
  the concurrence of the proper department or authority, shall be avoided;
  and  the use of the streets, avenues, places and lands designated by the
  commissioners and the right of way through the same for the purpose of a
  railroad, as herein  authorized,  shall  be  considered  and  is  hereby
  declared  to  be  a  public  use, consistent with the uses for which the
  roads, streets, avenues and public places are  publicly  held.  No  such
  corporation  shall  have  the  right  to acquire the use or occupancy of
  public parks or squares in any such  city  or  county,  or  the  use  or
  occupancy of any of the streets or avenues, except such as may have been
  designated  for  the  route  or routes of such railroad, and except such
  temporary privileges  as  the  proper  authorities  may  grant  to  such
  corporations to facilitate such construction, and no such railroad shall
  be  constructed  across  the  track  of any steam railroad now in actual
  operation at the grade thereof, nor shall any piers or supports for  any
  elevated  railroad  be erected upon a railroad track now actually in use
  in any street or avenue; and  no  such  corporation  shall  construct  a
  street  surface  railroad to run in whole or in part upon the surface of
  any street or highway under the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 231 - Where Route Coincides With Another Route.

§ 231. Where route coincides with another route. Whenever the route or
  routes  determined  upon by the commissioners coincide with the route or
  routes covered by the charter of an existing corporation, formed for the
  purpose of constructing and operating such a railroad, and  it  has  not
  forfeited  its  charter or failed to comply with the provisions thereof,
  requiring the construction of a road or roads within  the  time  therein
  prescribed,  such corporation shall have the like power to construct and
  operate such railroad upon the fulfillment of the like requirements  and
  conditions  imposed  by  the  commissioners  as  a corporation specially
  formed under this article, and the commissioners may fix  and  determine
  the  route  or routes by which any elevated steam railroad now in actual
  operation may connect with other steam railroads or the depots  thereof,
  or  with  steam  ferries, upon making compensation therefor, and in case
  such corporations can not agree with the owners of such steam railroads,
  depots or ferries upon the amount of such compensation, and such  owners
  may   be   entitled   to  compensation  therefor,  the  amount  of  such
  compensation shall be ascertained and paid in the manner  prescribed  in
  the  condemnation  law,  and  upon fulfillment by such elevated railroad
  corporation,  so  far  as  it  relates  to  such  connection,   of   the
  requirements  and  conditions  imposed by this article, it shall possess
  all the powers conferred by section two hundred and twenty-nine of  this
  article, and when any connecting route or routes shall be so designated,
  such  elevated  railroad  corporation may construct such connection with
  all the rights and with like effect as though the same had been part  of
  the original route of such railroad.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 232 - Commissioners to Transfer Plans.

§  232.  Commissioners  to transfer plans. Within one month after such
  corporation  shall  have  been  formed  and  organized  in  the   manner
  hereinbefore  provided,  the commissioners shall transfer and deliver to
  the corporation all plans, specifications,  drawings,  maps,  books  and
  papers  in  their  possession, and they shall, within the like period of
  one month after the organization of such corporation, cause to  be  paid
  to  the  treasurer  thereof  all money collected under the provisions of
  this article, after deducting therefrom the necessary expenses  incurred
  by the commissioners and the amounts due to them for their salaries.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 233 - Commissioners to File Report; Confirmation Thereof.

§  233.  Commissioners  to  file  report;  confirmation  thereof.  The
  commissioners shall within  one  hundred  and  forty  days  after  their
  appointment, make a report to a special term of the supreme court of the
  department  in  which such railroad may be located, of the amount of the
  pecuniary damages arising from the diminution of value of each parcel of
  property bounded on that portion of the street or  streets,  highway  or
  highways,  upon  which  it  is  proposed  to  construct such railroad or
  railroads, which will be caused by  the  construction,  maintenance  and
  operation  thereof.  The  name  and  place  of residence of the owner or
  owners of each parcel shall be stated if the same are known, or  can  be
  ascertained,  and  if  not  known  the  name  of  the  person or persons
  appearing by the certificate of the clerk or register of the  county  to
  have  the  title  thereto from the records in his office, and a specific
  description of each parcel of property with  reasonable  certainty.  The
  testimony,  if  any, taken by the commissioners as to the amount of such
  damage, shall accompany their report. Within thirty  days  after  filing
  and   recording   its  certificate  of  incorporation,  the  corporation
  authorized to construct and operate such  railroad  or  railroads  shall
  move  to  confirm  such  report  by  giving notice of such motion to the
  property owners in the manner in which notice of the time and  place  of
  hearing  before the commissioners is required by section two hundred and
  twenty-five of this article to be given, and if the corporation fails to
  so move, any property owner may make  the  motion;  and  thereafter  the
  proceedings   shall  be  conducted  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  the
  condemnation law.
Before constructing and operating its railroad in front  of  any  real
  property  bounded  upon  any  street, avenue or public place wherein the
  corporation  is  authorized  by  the  certificate  and  report  of   the
  commissioners  to construct and operate its road, such corporation shall
  pay to the owner of the real property the  damages  sustained  or  which
  will  be  sustained  by him in consequence thereof, as finally fixed and
  ascertained, and the costs allowed him, if any, and the court may direct
  that such damages be paid out of the moneys deposited  pursuant  to  the
  provisions of section two hundred and twenty-five of this article, or in
  case  negotiable  securities shall have been deposited in lieu of money,
  that so much of such securities shall be sold as  may  be  necessary  to
  raise the amount required to be paid to such owner for damages and costs
  if  any. If a bond shall have been executed in lieu of such deposit, the
  court may order the sureties in such bond to pay the  damages  so  fixed
  and  ascertained,  and in default thereof may cause them to be proceeded
  against and punished as for a contempt of court.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 234 - Pay of Commissioners.

§  234.  Pay of commissioners. Each of the commissioners shall be paid
  for his services at the rate of ten dollars per  day  for  each  day  of
  actual  service  as  such  commissioner,  and  all  expenses necessarily
  incurred by him in the discharge of his  duties,  to  be  paid  by  such
  corporation,  but  if  a sufficient amount of capital stock shall not be
  subscribed within one year after the appointment of  such  commissioners
  to  authorize the formation of such corporation, the commissioners shall
  receive no salary, and shall cause to be returned to the subscribers for
  such stock the amounts paid in by them, after  deducting  therefrom  the
  necessary  expenses incurred by the commissioners, but the time, if any,
  unavoidably consumed by the pendency of legal proceedings shall  not  be
  deemed a part of any period of time limited by this article.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 235 - Quorum; Term of Office; Removal; Vacancies in Board of Commissioners.

§  235.  Quorum;  term  of  office;  removal;  vacancies  in  board of
  commissioners. A majority of the members of any board  of  commissioners
  appointed  under  this  article shall be a quorum for the transaction of
  any business or the performance of any duty or function, or the exercise
  of any power, conferred or enjoined upon them. Any commissioner  may  be
  removed  for  cause  at  any  time  by  the power appointing him, but no
  commissioner shall be removed without due notice and an  opportunity  to
  be  heard  in  defense;  and no commissioner thus removed is or shall be
  eligible to be again appointed to the office of commissioner. In case of
  the death, resignation or removal from office of  any  commissioner  the
  vacancy  shall be filled by the power appointing him, within thirty days
  after such removal, or within thirty days after  notice  in  writing  to
  such  appointing  power  given  by  some  member of the board, or by the
  corporation hereinafter mentioned, of such death or resignation,  and  a
  certificate  of  every  such  appointment shall be filed as hereinbefore
  required. Except as otherwise provided by law, the terms  of  office  of
  the  commissioners  shall  determine  and expire with the performance of
  their functions as hereinabove prescribed.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 238 - Increased Deposit, When and How Required.

§  238.  Increased  deposit, when and how required. In case any of the
  securities deposited in lieu of money as provided in section two hundred
  and twenty-five, shall in the opinion of the county treasurer  or  trust
  company  with  whom they may be deposited, fall below their actual value
  at the time of deposit, the county treasurer or trust company shall call
  upon such railroad corporation to substitute therefor  other  securities
  equivalent  at  their par or market value to the amount in lieu of which
  the securities for which they are to be substituted were deposited,  and
  in  case  such  other  securities  shall  not  be  furnished, the county
  treasurer or trust company shall call upon such corporation  to  furnish
  as a substitute, and it shall so furnish an amount of money equal to the
  amount  in  lieu  of  which  the securities first above referred to were
  deposited.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 239 - Trains to Come to Full Stop.

§ 239. Trains to come to full stop. All trains upon elevated railroads
  shall  come  to  a  full stop before any passenger shall be permitted to
  leave such trains; and no train on such railroad shall be  permitted  to
  start until every passenger desiring to depart therefrom shall have left
  the  train,  provided  such passenger has manifested his intention to so
  depart by moving toward or upon the platform of any car; nor until every
  passenger upon the platform or station at which such train has  stopped,
  and desiring to board or enter such cars, shall have actually boarded or
  entered the same, but no person shall be permitted to enter or board any
  train  after  due notice from an authorized employee of such corporation
  that such train is  full  and  that  no  more  passengers  can  be  then
  received.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 240 - Gates or Vestibule Doors.

§  240.  Gates  or vestibule doors. Every car used for passengers upon
  elevated railroads shall have gates at the outer edge of  its  platforms
  so  constructed that they shall, when opened, be caught and held open by
  such catch or spring as will  prevent  their  swinging  and  obstructing
  passengers  in  their  egress from or ingress to such cars, or vestibule
  doors so constructed as to slide into the body of  the  car;  and  every
  such  gate  or door shall be kept closed while the car is in motion; and
  when the car has stopped and a gate or door has  been  opened,  the  car
  shall not start until such gate or door is again firmly closed.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 241 - Penalty for Violation of Two Preceding Sections.

§  241.  Penalty for violation of two preceding sections. Any elevated
  railroad corporation that shall  fail  or  neglect  to  comply  with  or
  enforce  the  provisions  of  the two preceding sections, shall upon the
  petition of any citizen to any court of record, and upon due  notice  to
  such corporation, and proof of such failure or neglect, pay to the clerk
  of  the  court  wherein  such petition was made, a sum not less than two
  hundred and fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, as such court  may
  direct by its order. The sum so ordered to be paid shall be paid by such
  clerk  of the court to the county treasurer, and shall be distributed by
  such treasurer equally among the public hospitals of the county in which
  the proceeding is had, at such time as the board of supervisors or board
  of aldermen in any such county shall direct.   Nothing in  this  section
  shall  relieve  elevated  railroad corporations from any liability under
  which they may now be held by existing laws for damages  to  persons  or
  property.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 242 - Sections to Be Printed and Posted.

§  242.  Sections  to be printed and posted. The officers and board of
  directors of such railroad corporations shall cause copies  of  sections
  two  hundred  and thirty-nine, two hundred and forty and two hundred and
  forty-one to be printed  conspicuously  and  posted  in  the  depots  or
  stations and in each car belonging to them.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 243 - Extension of Time.

§ 243. Extension of time. The time within which any act is required to
  be  done under the foregoing sections of this article may be extended by
  the supreme court for good cause  shown,  for  one  year,  and  but  one
  extension  will  be granted. Any company that has heretofore constructed
  or is now operating an elevated railroad shall be deemed  to  have  been
  duly   incorporated   notwithstanding   any   failure  on  the  part  of
  commissioners to  insert  in  its  articles  of  association  provisions
  complying with statutory requirements relative to such articles.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 244 - Lighting Cars on Elevated Railroads in Cities of Over Twelve Hundred Thousand Inhabitants.

§  244.  Lighting  cars on elevated railroads in cities of over twelve
  hundred thousand inhabitants. Every corporation  operating  an  elevated
  railroad in any city of over twelve hundred thousand inhabitants in this
  state,  computed  according  to  the  state  enumeration had in eighteen
  hundred and ninety-two, shall equip all cars used for the transportation
  of passengers with the most approved system of lighting  passenger  cars
  now in use upon railroads, either by electricity or gas of not less than
  eighteen  candle  power,  and  every such corporation is prohibited from
  using kerosene or coal oils as a means of lighting any of its  passenger
  cars.  Any  violation of the provisions of this section shall render any
  such corporation liable to pay a fine or penalty of  fifty  dollars  for
  each  and  every  day,  for  each  and  every passenger car run over its
  railroad which is not equipped and lighted as provided herein; and  such
  fine  may  be  recovered  by  any passenger on such railroad who may sue
  therefor; and any violation of the provisions of  this  section  on  the
  part of any such railroad corporation shall also be a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 300 - Legislative Policy and Purposes.

§  300.  Legislative  policy and purposes. It is hereby declared to be
  the policy of the state to encourage and bring about the rehabilitation,
  improvement, and  continued  operation  by  private  enterprise  of  the
  facilities  of  any domestic railroad corporation which now or hereafter
  is a debtor in proceedings under  the  bankruptcy  laws  of  the  United
  States  and which in the calendar year preceding the institution of such
  proceedings had passenger miles within the state of five hundred million
  or more, and to encourage and bring about  the  rehabilitation  of  such
  corporations  in  order  to  enable them, with private capital and under
  private  management,  to   furnish   safe,   efficient,   and   adequate
  transportation  service  to  the  people  of the state; and it is hereby
  further  found  and  declared  that  the  rehabilitation  and  continued
  operation  of  such corporations by private enterprise and enabling such
  bankruptcy proceedings to be terminated are matters of  public  concern;
  that  it  is  necessary to create, with adequate safeguards, inducements
  and opportunities for the  employment  of  private  investment  in  such
  rehabilitation  and  continued  operation; that a railroad redevelopment
  corporation qualifying hereunder serves a public purpose; that provision
  must be  made  for  the  granting  of  partial  tax  exemption  to  such
  corporations;  that  the  commissioner  of  transportation and any other
  state agency empowered to act under  section  three  hundred  three  are
  hereby declared to be the agencies and instrumentalities of the state to
  carry  out  the policy and purposes herein recited; and the necessity in
  the public interest  for  the  provisions  of  this  article  is  hereby
  declared as a matter of legislative determination.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 301 - Qualification.

§   301.  Qualification.  The  certificate  of  incorporation  of  any
  corporation organized for the purpose  of  acquiring,  maintaining,  and
  operating the facilities of a railroad corporation of the kind described
  in section three hundred may provide that such new corporation elects to
  qualify  as  a  railroad redevelopment corporation under and pursuant to
  the provisions of this article; and any railroad corporation of the kind
  described in section three hundred may, by action  pursuant  to  article
  eight  of  the  business  corporation  law,  amend  its  certificate  of
  incorporation to include therein a like provision. The term "certificate
  of incorporation, " when used in this article, shall include any special
  law creating a railroad corporation and also the special  laws  and  the
  certificates  filed  pursuant  to law amendatory of and supplementary to
  such special law.
Upon the acceptance for filing of such certificate of incorporation or
  amendment, as the case may be, such corporation shall qualify as and  be
  a  railroad  redevelopment  corporation hereunder, and shall continue as
  such for twelve years thereafter or until the earlier termination of its
  qualification  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred  eleven;  provided,
  however,  that  the  secretary  of  state  shall  not  accept  any  such
  certificate of incorporation or amendment for filing unless it shall  be
  accompanied  by a certificate of approval of such qualification executed
  by the commissioner of transportation and by  a  certified  copy  of  an
  order  of  the  bankruptcy  court  dismissing the pending proceedings in
  which such corporation is a debtor, subject to such terms and conditions
  as the court may fix in connection with winding up the  proceedings.  In
  the  event  another state agency shall be authorized by law to execute a
  certificate of approval for any railroad corporation, the certificate of
  approval for any such corporation shall also be executed by such agency.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 302 - Certain Directors to Be Local Residents.

§  302.  Certain  directors  to be local residents. The certificate of
  incorporation of any  corporation  qualifying  hereunder  shall  provide
  that,  during  the  period  of its existence as a railroad redevelopment
  corporation, one-third of the members of its board of directors shall be
  residents of the counties  served  by  such  corporation  and  shall  be
  otherwise unaffiliated, directly or indirectly, with such corporation or
  any  stockholder  thereof;  and  that  the  individuals  who are elected
  initially as such directors shall  continue  to  serve  throughout  such
  period,  except  that,  in  the  event any of them shall die, resign, or
  become incapable of performing the duties of a director, a successor  or
  successors shall be named by the remaining such directors.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 304 - Limitations Upon Payments on Indebtedness and Stock.

§ 304. Limitations upon payments on indebtedness and stock. A railroad
  redevelopment  corporation shall not declare or pay any dividends on its
  capital stock or make any payments of interest  or  principal  upon  any
  bonds or other indebtedness of such corporation which its certificate of
  approval,  with  the  consent  of  any  bondholders  or  other creditors
  affected thereby, specifically provides shall not be made. In  no  event
  shall  any  such  corporation  pay  dividends  on its stock at a rate in
  excess of five per centum  per  annum.  No  bondholder  or  creditor  or
  stockholder  of  such  corporation  shall receive any payments which are
  prohibited hereunder.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 305 - Tax Exemption.

§  305.  Tax  exemption.  A railroad redevelopment corporation, during
  each year of its existence as such corporation, shall be exempt from the
  payment of any and all taxes (including, without limitation,  franchise,
  organization,   income,   mortgage   recording,   excise,   sales,   and
  compensating use taxes) to the state, or to  any  political  subdivision
  thereof, or to any officers of any thereof, except taxes and assessments
  levied or imposed upon the real property of such corporation; and, as to
  such  taxes  or assessments so levied or imposed, such corporation shall
  be  entitled  to  the  exemption  provided  in  section   four   hundred
  seventy-six of the real property tax law.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 306 - Rates, Fares, and Charges.

§ 306. Rates, fares, and charges. A railroad redevelopment corporation
shall  be  entitled  to  maintain such rates, fares, and charges as will
enable such corporation to have sufficient operating revenues and  other
income in any twelve months of its existence as a railroad redevelopment
corporation  to provide for the following items during that twelve-month
period:
(1)  Operating  expenses,  except  (a)  accruals   and   charges   for
depreciation,  amortization,  and retirements, and (b) expenses incurred
as  costs  of  the  improvement  and  rehabilitation  program  of   such
corporation specified in its certificate of approval;
(2) Railway tax accruals;
(3) Equipment and joint facility rents;
(4) Miscellaneous deductions from income;
(5) Rent for leased roads and equipment;
(6)   Interest   and   principal  payments  on  equipment  obligations
outstanding at the time of its qualification as a railroad redevelopment
corporation, and such other deductions and such other  payments  on  its
indebtedness  and  stock  as  are  not  prohibited by its certificate of
approval;
(7)  Expenditures  in  connection  with  grade  crossing   elimination
projects,  including  interest  and  principal  payments  on obligations
incurred for such purpose before or after the time of its  qualification
as a railroad redevelopment corporation;
(8)  Expenditures  for grade crossing protection; bridge construction,
reconstruction, and replacement; and similar projects;
(9) The amount, determined by proration  if  necessary,  specified  in
such   corporation's   certificate  of  approval  as  required  in  that
twelve-month  period  to  pay  the  costs  of   such   improvement   and
rehabilitation program; and
(10)  The amount of any net deficiency theretofore incurred during its
existence as a  railroad  redevelopment  corporation  in  the  aggregate
amount required to provide for items (1) through (9).
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 307 - Fare Changes.

§  307.  Fare  changes.  1.  In  the event it appears at any time to a
railroad redevelopment corporation that its operating revenues and other
income will not be sufficient during the forthcoming  twelve  months  to
provide  for  the  items  enumerated  in section three hundred six, such
corporation may make application to the commissioner  of  transportation
for   such   changes  in  its  passenger  fares  and  charges  (and  the
classifications, regulations, and practices pertaining thereto) as will,
in the  opinion  of  such  corporation,  produce  sufficient  additional
revenues to enable it to provide for such items.
2.  Such  application  shall  be  filed  and  determined in the manner
provided in the transportation  law,  and  shall  be  accompanied  by  a
certificate of such corporation setting out:
(a) the name of such railroad redevelopment corporation;
(b) the date upon which it qualified under this article;
(c)  that the qualification of such railroad redevelopment corporation
has not been terminated;
(d) the basis upon which such  corporation  has  determined  that  its
revenues and other income during said forthcoming twelve months will not
be  sufficient  to  provide  for  the  items enumerated in section three
hundred six; and
(e) the basis upon which such corporation  has  determined  that  such
changes  will  produce  the  additional revenues required to provide for
said items.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 308 - Reductions in Fares and Charges.

§  308.  Reductions  in  fares  and  charges.  In  the  event that the
  commissioner of transportation, after a hearing held in his  discretion,
  on  his  own motion and on reasonable notice, shall determine (1) that a
  railroad redevelopment corporation, during the most recent  twelve-month
  period  for which figures shall be available at the time of such notice,
  has obtained more operating revenues and other income than were required
  to provide for the items enumerated in section three  hundred  six,  and
  (2)  that  its  operating  revenues  and  other income during the twelve
  months next succeeding such period will be more than required to provide
  for the items enumerated in section three hundred six, the  commissioner
  of   transportation  may  order  such  corporation  to  eliminate  on  a
  twelve-month basis any such anticipated excess amount  of  revenues.  In
  that event, such corporation shall file new tariff schedules within such
  reasonable  time  as may be fixed by the commissioner of transportation,
  to be effective within ten days after such filing;  and  said  schedules
  shall  make  such  modifications in its passenger fares and charges (and
  the classifications, regulations, and practices pertaining  thereto)  as
  shall effect such elimination.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 309 - Reports to the Commissioner of Transportation.

§  309.  Reports to the commissioner of transportation. In addition to
  any reports which railroad corporations are required to  file  with  the
  commissioner  of  transportation  pursuant  to the transportation law, a
  railroad redevelopment corporation shall file monthly reports  with  the
  commissioner  of  transportation,  within  sixty days after the close of
  each month, setting  forth  a  detailed  statement  of  the  results  of
  operations  in  the  twelve-month  period  ending with the close of said
  month, including all items referred to in section three hundred six  and
  the  amounts actually expended during said period on its improvement and
  rehabilitation program.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 310 - Accounting Terms.

§  310.  Accounting terms. The meaning of all accounting terms used in
  this article, and the calculation of each amount to  be  computed  under
  any  provision  of  this article, shall be determined in accordance with
  the  uniform  system  of  accounts  for  railroad  companies  or   other
  applicable  rules,  regulations,  or  orders  of the interstate commerce
  commission, or other federal regulatory agency  having  jurisdiction  at
  the  time  over the accounts of the corporation or, to the extent not so
  governed, in accordance with sound accounting practice.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 311 - Termination of Qualification.

§   311.   Termination   of  qualification.  1.  The  commissioner  of
  transportation  shall  make  and   file   an   order   terminating   the
  qualification   of   a   railroad   redevelopment  corporation  if  such
  corporation or any affiliated corporation files an  application  for  an
  increase   in   the   passenger  fares  and  charges  of  such  railroad
  redevelopment corporation either with the commissioner of transportation
  under section one hundred nineteen of the transportation  law,  or  with
  the  interstate  commerce  commission  under  section  thirteen of title
  forty-nine of the United States code, and the acts amendatory thereof or
  supplementary thereto.
2. A railroad redevelopment corporation, at any  time  not  less  than
  three  years  after  the  date  upon  which  it  qualified  as such, may
  terminate   its   qualification   by   amending   its   certificate   of
  incorporation,  by  action  pursuant  to  article  eight of the business
  corporation law, without requiring  the  consent  and  approval  of  the
  commissioner  of transportation, so as to delete therefrom the provision
  that it elects to be qualified as a railroad redevelopment corporation.
3.  Upon  the  termination  of  its  qualification   as   a   railroad
  redevelopment  corporation,  such corporation shall cease to be entitled
  to  the  benefits  or  subject  to  the  obligations   of   a   railroad
  redevelopment corporation; but such corporation shall continue to comply
  with its agreement as to the setting aside and use of a separate fund in
  accordance  with subparagraph (2) of paragraph (H) of subdivision two of
  section three hundred three.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 312 - Orders of the Commissioner of Transportation.

§  312.  Orders  of the commissioner of transportation. In addition to
  its other powers under this article, the commissioner of  transportation
  shall  have  power,  after  a hearing held in his discretion, on his own
  motion and on reasonable notice, to make and file such orders as he  may
  deem  necessary  or  appropriate to direct a corporation which is or has
  been a railroad redevelopment corporation to  comply  with  any  of  the
  terms  and  conditions  contained in its certificate of approval or with
  any provisions of this article which the commissioner of  transportation
  finds are not being complied with by such corporation.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 7 - Railroad Redevelopment Corporations › 313 - Application of Other Laws.

§  313.  Application  of other laws. All provisions of law relating to
  railroad corporations, as hereafter from time  to  time  amended,  shall
  apply   to   railroad   redevelopment  corporations  except  where  such
  provisions are in conflict with the provisions of this article.  Nothing
  in  this  article  shall  be  construed  to  limit  the  powers  of  the
  commissioner of tranportation under any other provisions of law  not  in
  conflict with the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 10 - Board of Transportation Established; Appointment; Term; Removal.

§ 10. Board of transportation established; appointment; term; removal.
  a.  There  shall  be  a  board of transportation in the city. Such board
  shall possess the powers and duties  hereinafter  specified.  The  board
  shall  consist  of  three  members, to be appointed by the mayor of such
  city.  The term of office of a member of the board shall  be  six  years
  from  the  first  day  of July of the calendar year in which he shall be
  appointed. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the mayor of such
  city for the unexpired terms. A member of the board  designated  by  the
  mayor shall be the chairman during his term of office. Each member shall
  be  a  resident  of  such  city. He shall receive an annual salary to be
  fixed by the board of estimate.  Such  salary  shall  not  be  decreased
  during the term of office of such commissioner. He shall take, subscribe
  and file in the office of the city clerk of such city the constitutional
  oath of office before entering upon the duties of such office.
b.  The  mayor  of  such  city  may remove any member of the board for
  inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving him a copy
  of the charges against him and an opportunity of being publicly heard in
  person, or by counsel, in his own defense, upon not less than ten  days'
  notice.  If  such  member  shall be removed, the mayor shall file in the
  office of the city clerk  a  complete  statement  of  the  charges  made
  against  such member, and his findings thereon, together with a complete
  record of the proceedings.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 11 - Meeting of Board; Official Seal.

§  11.  Meeting  of board; official seal.  The board of transportation
  shall hold stated meetings at least once a month during the year at  its
  principal  office.  The board shall have an official seal, the design of
  which shall be adopted by the board and filed with  the  city  clerk.  A
  majority  of the members of the board may transact any business, perform
  any duty or exercise any power of the board. Any member or commissioner,
  or deputy commissioner, may hold any hearings authorized or required  to
  be held by or before the board or superintend the opening of any bids or
  proposals,  but  a record shall be made of all hearings upon charges and
  together with any recommendations, shall be referred to  the  board  for
  decision.  All proceedings of the board and all documents and records in
  its possession shall be public records, and open to  public  inspection,
  except  such  documents  and  records as shall be prepared by or for the
  counsel for use in actions or proceedings to which the city or the board
  of transportation is a party.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 12 - Record of Proceedings.

§  12.  Record  of  proceedings.    The  secretary  of  the  board  of
  transportation, or other officer or employee  designated  by  it,  shall
  keep  a  full  and  true  record  of  all its proceedings. The record of
  proceedings shall be printed as the minutes of the transactions  of  the
  board.