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2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 88 - Certified Copies of Papers Filed to Be Evidence.

§ 88. Certified  copies  of papers filed to be evidence. Copies of all
  official documents and orders filed or deposited according to law in the
  department, or office of the commissioner, certified by the commissioner
  or by an authorized officer or employee of the  department  to  be  true
  copies  of  the  originals,  under  the official seal of the department,
  shall be evidence in like manner as the originals.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 89 - Rehearing Before Commissioner.

§ 89. Rehearing  before  commissioner. After an order has been made by
  the commissioner any corporation or person interested therein shall have
  the right to apply for a rehearing in respect to any  matter  determined
  therein,  but any such application must be made within thirty days after
  the service of such order, unless the commissioner for good cause  shown
  shall otherwise direct; and the commissioner shall grant and hold such a
  rehearing  if  in  his  judgment  sufficient  reason therefor be made to
  appear. The decision  of  the  commissioner  granting  or  refusing  the
  application  for  a rehearing shall be made within thirty days after the
  making of such application. If a rehearing shall be  granted,  the  same
  shall  be  determined  by  the commissioner within thirty days after the
  same shall be finally submitted.  An application for  such  a  rehearing
  shall  not  excuse  any  corporation  or  person  from complying with or
  obeying any order or any requirement of any order of  the  commissioner,
  or  operate  in  any  manner to stay or postpone the enforcement thereof
  except as the commissioner may by order direct. If, after such rehearing
  and a consideration of the facts,  including  those  arising  since  the
  making  of  the order, the commissioner shall be of the opinion that the
  original order  or  any  part  thereof  is  in  any  respect  unjust  or
  unwarranted,  or  should  be  changed,  the commissioner may abrogate or
  change the same. An order made after any such  rehearing  abrogating  or
  changing  the  original order shall have the same force and effect as an
  original order but shall not affect any right or the enforcement of  any
  right arising from or by virtue of the original order.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 90 - Action to Recover Penalties or Forfeitures.

§ 90. Action to recover penalties or forfeitures. An action to recover
  a penalty or a forfeiture under this chapter or to enforce the powers of
  the  commissioner  under the railroad law may be brought in any court of
  competent jurisdiction in this state in the name of the  people  of  the
  state  of  New  York.   In any such action all penalties and forfeitures
  incurred up to the time of commencing the  same  may  be  sued  for  and
  recovered  therein,  and  the  commencement  of  an  action to recover a
  penalty or forfeiture shall not be, or be held to be, a  waiver  of  the
  right  to  recover  any other penalty or forfeiture; if the defendant in
  such action shall prove that during any portion of the time for which it
  is sought to recover penalties or forfeitures  for  a  violation  of  an
  order  of  the commissioner the defendant was actually and in good faith
  prosecuting a suit, action or proceeding in the courts to set aside such
  order, the court shall  remit  the  penalties  or  forfeitures  incurred
  during  the  pendency  of  such  suit,  action or proceeding. All moneys
  recovered in any such action, together with the costs thereof, shall  be
  paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general fund. Any such
  action  may  be  compromised  or  discontinued  on  application  of  the
  commissioner upon such terms as the court shall approve and order.    An
  action  may  be maintained by the commissioner for the whole or any part
  of the penalties or forfeitures prescribed in this chapter, and judgment
  may be rendered for the amount demanded in the  complaint,  or  for  any
  less amount, as justice may require.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 91 - Court Proceedings; Preferences.

§ 91. Court  proceedings;  preferences.  All  actions  and proceedings
  under this  chapter,  and  all  actions  and  proceedings  commenced  or
  prosecuted by order of the commissioner, and all actions and proceedings
  to  which the commissioner or the people of the state of New York may be
  parties, and in which any question arises under this chapter,  or  under
  the  railroad  law,  or  under  or concerning any order or action of the
  commissioner, shall be preferred over  all  other  civil  causes  except
  election  causes  in  all  courts  of the state of New York and shall be
  heard and determined in preference to all other civil  business  pending
  therein  excepting  election  causes,  irrespective  of  position on the
  calendar. The same preference shall be granted upon application  in  any
  action or proceeding in which he may be allowed to intervene.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 92 - Registration.

§ 92. Registration.  It is unlawful for any motor carrier or any other
  person subject to the registration requirements of the  Unified  Carrier
  Registration  System  established  by  section  13908 of title 49 of the
  United States Code to use any of the public highways of this  state  for
  the  transportation  of passengers or property in interstate commerce or
  foreign commerce unless such motor carrier or person has registered with
  the United  States  Department  of  Transportation  under  such  Unified
  Carrier  Registration  System  in  accordance  with the provision of the
  federal "Unified Carrier  Registration  Act  of  2005",  as  amended  or
  supplemented,  and  the  regulations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
  Administration adopted thereunder and such  regulations  promulgated  by
  the commissioner regarding the same.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 93 - Registration of Motor Vehicles.

§ 93. Registration of motor vehicles. It is unlawful for any person or
  corporation  that  is  required  to  have  operating  authority from the
  Federal  Motor  Carrier  Safety  Administration  or  the  department  to
  transport  property or passengers by motor vehicle and to engage in such
  transportation over the streets and highways of this state,  whether  it
  be in intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce, unless each vehicle or
  vehicles  utilized  in such transportation are first registered with the
  department and such vehicle or vehicles carry appropriate identification
  evidencing such registration in accordance with  rules  and  regulations
  promulgated by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 94 - Assessment to Defray Operating Expenses of the Department.

§  94.  Assessment  to defray operating expenses of the department. 1.
  For  the  fiscal  year  commencing  on  April  first,  nineteen  hundred
  eighty-three  and  for  each fiscal year thereafter, the expenses of the
  department for administering and  enforcing  motor  carrier  safety  and
  economic  regulation  pursuant to articles six, seven, eight and nine of
  this  chapter,  exclusive  of  those  expenses  related  to  the  safety
  inspection  of  vehicles,  shall  be assessed by the commissioner in the
  form of a fee for the registration of interstate operation  pursuant  to
  section  ninety-two of this article and an annual vehicle regulatory fee
  imposed upon all motor vehicles required to be registered under  section
  ninety-three of this article.
2.  The annual vehicle registration fee referred to in subdivision one
  of this section shall be established  and  levied  by  the  commissioner
  subject to the approval of the director of the division of the budget in
  an  amount  that  is sufficient to raise funds to defray the expenses of
  the department in administering and enforcing motor carrier  safety  and
  economic  regulation  pursuant to articles six, seven, eight and nine of
  this  chapter  exclusive  of  those  expenses  related  to  the   safety
  inspection  of vehicles. Such expenses shall consist of the direct costs
  of personal service, the cost of maintenance and  operation,  retirement
  contributions,  workers'  compensation  premiums,  and health and dental
  premiums which are paid by the state for  or  on  account  of  personnel
  involved in motor carrier regulation and any other direct costs involved
  in  administering  and  enforcing  motor  carrier  regulations as deemed
  appropriate by the commissioner. The  commissioner  may  promulgate  any
  rules  and  regulations necessary to establish and administer the annual
  vehicle registration fee except that in case of interstate carriers  the
  annual  vehicle  registration fee shall not exceed the limit established
  by federal law or regulation for interstate carriers.
3. With respect to the annual vehicle registration fee imposed by this
  section, the  commissioner  is  authorized  to  enter  into  reciprocity
  agreements  or  compacts  with  other state and provincial jurisdictions
  exempting  vehicles  domiciled  in  such  other  state   or   provincial
  jurisdiction from the annual vehicle registration fee to the extent that
  such   state  or  provincial  jurisdiction  agrees  to  exempt  vehicles
  domiciled in this state from similar fees.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 96 - Safe and Adequate Service; Just and Reasonable Charges.

§ 96. Safe  and  adequate  service; just and reasonable charges. Every
  corporation, person or common carrier performing a service designated in
  the preceding section, shall furnish, with respect thereto, such service
  and facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in  all  respects  just
  and  reasonable.  All  charges made or demanded by any such corporation,
  person or  common  carrier  for  the  transportation  of  passengers  or
  property  or  for  any  service rendered or to be rendered in connection
  therewith shall be just and reasonable and not more than allowed by  law
  or  by order of the commissioner and made as authorized by this chapter.
  Every unjust or unreasonable  charge  made  or  demanded  for  any  such
  service  or  transportation  of  passengers or property or in connection
  therewith or in excess of that  allowed  by  law  or  by  order  of  the
  commissioner is prohibited.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 97 - Switch and Side-Track Connections; Powers of Commissioner.

§ 97. Switch and side-track connections; powers of commissioner.  1. A
  railroad  company  upon the application of any shipper tendering traffic
  for  transportation,  shall  construct,  maintain   and   operate   upon
  reasonable  terms a switch connection or connections with a lateral line
  of railroad or private side-track owned, operated or controlled by  such
  shipper,  and  shall,  upon the application of any shipper, provide upon
  its own property a side-track and switch connection  with  its  line  of
  railroad,  whenever  such side-track and switch connection is reasonably
  practicable, can be put in with safety  and  the  business  therefor  is
  sufficient to justify the same.
2.  If  any railroad company shall fail to install or operate any such
  switch connection with a lateral line of railroad or any such side-track
  and switch connection as aforesaid, after written  application  therefor
  has  been  made  to it, any corporation or person interested may present
  the facts to the commissioner by written petition, and the  commissioner
  shall  investigate  the  matter  stated  in such petition, and give such
  hearing thereon as he may deem necessary or proper. If the  commissioner
  finds   that   it   is  safe  and  practicable  to  have  a  connection,
  substantially as prayed for, established or  maintained,  and  that  the
  business  to  be done thereon justifies the construction and maintenance
  thereof,  he  shall  make  an  order  directing  the  construction   and
  establishment thereof, specifying the reasonable compensation to be paid
  for  the construction, establishment and maintenance thereof, and may in
  like manner upon the application  of  the  railroad  company  order  the
  discontinuance of such switch connection.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  have  power, where in his judgment it is
  reasonably necessary, to make delivery to, or  complete  delivery  by  a
  railroad  company  to  require such railroad company to operate upon the
  property of another a switch or side-track, and construct and maintain a
  proper connection thereto, with  its  line  of  railroad.  Whenever  the
  shipper  and  the  carrier  shall  be unable to agree as to the terms of
  agreements respecting such  switches  or  side-tracks,  whether  on  the
  property  of  the  railroad company or of another, and such connections,
  made between a railroad  company  and  the  owner  or  occupant  of  any
  premises  served  or  to  be  served  by  such switch, or side-track, or
  connection,  the  same  shall  be  subject  to  the  approval   of   the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 97-A - Rules and Instructions for Flag Protection for Stopped Railroad Trains.

§ 97-a. Rules   and  instructions  for  flag  protection  for  stopped
railroad trains. 1. Every railroad company  shall,  within  thirty  days
enactment  hereof,  promulgate  appropriate  operating rules and special
instructions for employees in conformity with the following:
(a) When a  train  stops  under  circumstances  in  which  it  may  be
overtaken  by  another train, a member of the crew must provide flagging
protection, that is, go back immediately with a red flag, torpedoes  and
fusees by day and with a red and/or white light, torpedoes and fusees by
night,  a  sufficient  distance  to  insure full protection, placing two
torpedoes on the rail and when necessary, in addition,  display  lighted
fusees.
(b) When recalled and safety to the train will permit, he may return.
(c) When conditions require, he will leave the torpedoes and a lighted
fusee.
(d)  The  front  of  the train must be protected in the same way, when
necessary, by a member of the crew.
(e) When a train is moving under circumstances  in  which  it  may  be
overtaken  by  another train, a member of the crew must take such action
as may be necessary to insure full protection. By night (or by day, when
the view is obscured) lighted fusees must  be  dropped  off  the  moving
train or displayed at proper intervals.
(f) When day signals cannot be plainly seen, owing to weather or other
conditions, night signals must also be used.
(g)  Conductors  and  enginemen  are responsible for the protection of
their trains.
(h) When a pusher engine is assisting  a  train,  coupled  behind  the
cabin  or  caboose  car,  and  the  member  of the crew who protects the
rear-end of the train is  riding  in  the  cabin  or  caboose  car,  the
requirements  as  to the fusees will be met by dropping them off between
the cabin or caboose car and pusher engine on the  track  the  train  is
using,  and  not  between  that  track  and an adjacent track. Provided,
however, that unless specific circumstances indicate to the contrary, it
will be presumed that trains stopping under the following  circumstances
will not be overtaken by another train:
(i) Passenger trains making normal station stops.
(ii)  All  trains  stopping  in  manual  block  territory protected by
absolute block.
(iii) All trains stopping so as to be completely within the limits  of
classication  or  storage  yards  at  the usual place to change crews or
remove power.
2. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require  the  employment
of  additional  employees  or  restrict  the  use of crew members in any
manner.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  have  full  authority  to  enforce   the
provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 100 - Concurrence in Joint Tariffs.

§ 100. Concurrence in joint tariffs. The names of the several carriers
  which  are  parties  to any joint tariff shall be specified therein, and
  each of the parties thereto, other than the one filing the  same,  shall
  file  with  the  commissioner  such  evidence  of concurrence therein or
  acceptance thereof as may be required or approved by  the  commissioner;
  and  where such evidence of concurrence or acceptance is filed, it shall
  not be necessary for the carriers filing the same also to file copies of
  the tariffs in which they are named as parties.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 101 - Unjust Discrimination.

§ 101. Unjust  discrimination.  No  common  carrier shall, directly or
  indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or  other  device  or
  method,   charge,   demand,  collect  or  receive  from  any  person  or
  corporation a greater or less compensation for any service  rendered  or
  to  be  rendered in the transportation of passengers or property, except
  as authorized in this chapter, than it  charges,  demands,  collects  or
  receives  from  any  other  person  or  corporation for doing a like and
  contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of  traffic
  under the same or substantially similar circumstances and conditions.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 102 - Unreasonable Preference.

§ 102. Unreasonable  preference.  No common carrier shall make or give
  any undue or unreasonable preference  or  advantage  to  any  person  or
  corporation  or  to  any  locality  or  to any particular description of
  traffic in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular  person  or
  corporation or locality or any particular description of traffic, to any
  undue   or   unreasonable  prejudice  or  disadvantage  in  any  respect
  whatsoever.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 104 - Free Transportation on Municipal Ferries of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in Uniform.

§ 104. Free  transportation  on municipal ferries of soldiers, sailors
  and marines in uniform. A ferry owned  or  operated  by  a  municipality
  between  points  wholly within the state of New York shall carry without
  charge or fee of any kind for transportation  between  such  points  any
  soldier,  sailor or marine in uniform during their term of enlistment in
  the service of the state or the United States.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 105 - False Billing by Carrier or Shipper.

§ 105. False  billing  by carrier or shipper. No common carrier or any
  officer or agent thereof or any person acting for  or  employed  by  it,
  shall  assist,  suffer  or  permit  any  person or corporation to obtain
  transportation for any passenger or property between points within  this
  state at less than the rates then established and in force in accordance
  with the schedules filed and published in accordance with the provisions
  of  this chapter, by means of false billing, false classification, false
  weight or weighing, or false report of weight, or by any other device or
  means. No person, corporation or any officer, agent  or  employee  of  a
  corporation,  who  shall  deliver property for transportation within the
  state to a common carrier, shall seek to obtain such transportation  for
  such  property  at  less  than  the  rates then established and in force
  therefor,  as  aforesaid,  by  false   billing,   false   or   incorrect
  classification,  false  weight  or weighing, false representation of the
  contents of a package, or false report or statement of weight, or by any
  other device or means, whether with or without the consent or connivance
  of the common carrier, or any of its officers, agents or  employees.  No
  person  shall obtain transportation for himself or others or shall avail
  himself or others of any means of transportation at rates other than  or
  different  from  those  prescribed  in  the schedules of rates filed and
  published, or in violation of the conditions  attached  to  any  reduced
  rate  ticket,  provided  such  conditions are contained in the filed and
  published schedules. Nothing in this  section  shall  limit,  modify  or
  change  the  provisions  of  section  one  hundred three and section one
  hundred four.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 105-A - Immunity From Civil Liability for Employees of Public Transportation Authorities Who Render Assistance to Victims of Crime.

§ 105-a. Immunity   from  civil  liability  for  employees  of  public
  transportation authorities who render assistance to  victims  of  crime.
  Notwithstanding  any provision of law to the contrary, any employee of a
  public transportation authority who renders assistance to a  person  who
  is a victim of a crime being committed on any facility of such authority
  shall  have  immunity  from  civil liability for damages for injuries or
  death arising out of such act of assistance, unless  it  is  established
  that  such injuries were or such death was caused by gross negligence on
  the part of such employee.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 106 - Discrimination Prohibited; Connecting Lines.

§ 106. Discrimination   prohibited;  connecting  lines.  Every  common
  carrier shall afford all reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the
  interchange of passenger and property traffic between the  lines  owned,
  operated, controlled or leased by it and the lines of every other common
  carrier,  and  for  the prompt transfer of passengers and for the prompt
  receipt and forwarding of property to and from its said  lines;  and  no
  common  carrier  shall  in  any manner discriminate in respect to rates,
  fares or charges or in respect to any  service  or  in  respect  to  any
  charges  or  facilities for any such transfer in receiving or forwarding
  between any two or more other common carriers or between  passengers  or
  property  destined  to  points  upon  the lines of any two or more other
  common carriers or in  any  respect  with  reference  to  passengers  or
  property  transferred  or  received  from  any  two or more other common
  carriers. This section shall not require a common carrier to  permit  or
  allow any other common carrier to use its tracks or terminal facilities.
  Every common carrier shall receive from every other common carrier, at a
  connecting  point,  freight  cars  of proper standard, and haul the same
  through to destination,  if  the  destination  be  upon  a  line  owned,
  operated  or  controlled  by such common carrier, and such service shall
  not be construed as requiring a common carrier to permit  or  allow  any
  other common carrier to use its tracks or terminal facilities; or if the
  destination be upon a line of some other common carrier, to haul any car
  so  delivered  through  to  the  connecting  point  upon the line owned,
  operated, controlled or leased by it, by way of route  over  which  such
  car  is  billed,  and  there  to deliver the same to the next connecting
  carrier. Nothing in this section  shall  be  construed  as  limiting  or
  modifying  the  duty of a common carrier to establish joint rates, fares
  and charges for the transportation of passengers and property  over  the
  lines  owned,  operated,  controlled  and  leased by it and the lines of
  other common carriers, nor  limiting  or  modifying  the  power  of  the
  commissioner to require the establishment of such joint rates, fares and
  charges.  A  railroad company and a street railroad company shall not be
  required to interchange cars except on such terms and conditions as  the
  commissioner may direct.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 107 - Long and Short Hauls.

§ 107. Long  and  short  hauls.  It  shall  be unlawful for any common
  carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter to charge  or  receive
  any  greater  compensation  in  the  aggregate for the transportation of
  passengers, or of like kind of property, for a shorter than for a longer
  distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the  shorter
  being  included  within  the  longer  distance, or to charge any greater
  compensation as a through rate than the aggregate  of  the  intermediate
  rates  subject  to the provisions of this chapter; but this shall not be
  construed as authorizing any common carrier  to  charge  or  receive  as
  great  compensation  for  a  shorter as for a longer distance; provided,
  however, that upon application to the commissioner such  common  carrier
  may  in  special  cases,  after  investigation,  be  authorized  by  the
  commissioner to charge less for longer than for  the  shorter  distances
  for  the  transportation of passengers or property; and the commissioner
  may from time to time prescribe the  extent  to  which  such  designated
  common  carrier  may  be  relieved  from  the operation of this section.
  Provided further, that any such carrier or  carriers  operating  over  a
  circuitous  line  or  route  may,  subject  only  to  the  standards  of
  lawfulness set forth in this chapter and without further  authorization,
  meet  the charges of such carrier or carriers of the same type operating
  over a more direct line or route, to or  from  the  competitive  points,
  provided  that  rates so established over circuitous routes shall not be
  evidence on the issue of the compensatory character of rates involved in
  other proceedings; and provided further, that  tariffs  proposing  rates
  subject  to  the provisions of this section requiring the commissioner's
  authorization may be filed when application is made to the  commissioner
  under  the  provisions  hereof,  and  in  the  event such application is
  approved, the commissioner shall permit such tariffs to become effective
  upon one day's notice.
Whenever a carrier by railroad in competition with a  water  route  or
  routes  shall reduce the rates on the carriage of any species of freight
  to or from competitive points, it shall not  be  permitted  to  increase
  such  rates  unless  after hearing by the commissioner it shall be found
  that such proposed increase rests upon changed conditions other than the
  elimination of water competition.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 108 - Distribution of Cars.

§ 108. Distribution  of  cars.  1. Every common carrier engaged in the
  transportation of property shall, upon reasonable notice, furnish to all
  persons and corporations who may apply therefor, and offer property  for
  transportation,  sufficient  and suitable cars for the transportation of
  such property in  car-load  lots.  Every  railroad  company  and  street
  railroad company shall have sufficient cars and motive power to meet all
  requirements for the transportation of passengers and property which may
  reasonably  be  anticipated,  unless  relieved therefrom by order of the
  commissioner. In case, at any particular time, a common carrier has  not
  sufficient  cars  to  meet  all  requirements  for the transportation of
  property in car-load lots, all cars available to it  for  such  purposes
  shall  be  distributed  among  the  several applicants therefor, without
  discrimination  between   shippers,   localities   or   competitive   or
  non-competitive points, but preference may always be given in the supply
  of cars for shipment of live-stock or perishable property.
2. The commissioner shall have power to make, and by order shall make,
  reasonable  regulations  for  the furnishing and distribution of freight
  cars to shippers, for the switching of the same,  for  the  loading  and
  unloading thereof, for demurrage charges in respect thereto, and for the
  weighing of cars and property offered for shipment or transported by any
  common carrier.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 109 - Liability for Damage to Property in Transit.

§ 109. Liability  for  damage  to  property  in  transit. Every common
  carrier shall, upon demand, issue either a receipt or bill of lading for
  all  property  delivered  to  it  for  transportation.    No   contract,
  stipulation  or  clause in any receipt or bill of lading shall exempt or
  be held to exempt any common carrier from any liability for loss, damage
  or injury caused by it to property from the time  of  its  delivery  for
  transportation   until   the  same  shall  have  been  received  at  its
  destination and a reasonable time shall have  elapsed  after  notice  to
  consignee  of such arrival to permit the removal of such property. Every
  common carrier shall be  liable  for  all  loss,  damage  or  injury  to
  property  caused by delay in transit due to negligence while the same is
  being carried by it, but in any action to recover for damages  sustained
  by  delay  in transit the burden of proof shall be upon the defendant to
  show that such delay was not due to  negligence.  Every  common  carrier
  shall  be  liable  for  loss,  damage  and injury to property carried as
  baggage whether in connection with the transportation of  the  owner  or
  not,  up  to the full value and regardless of the character thereof, but
  the value in excess of one hundred and fifty  dollars  shall  be  stated
  upon  delivery  to  the carrier, and a written receipt stating the value
  shall be issued by the carrier, who may make a reasonable charge for the
  assumption of such liability in excess of one hundred and fifty  dollars
  and  for  the carriage of baggage exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds
  in weight upon a single ticket or receipt. Nothing in this section shall
  deprive any holder of such receipt or bill of lading of  any  remedy  or
  right of action which he has under existing law.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 110 - Continuous Carriage.

§ 110. Continuous  carriage.  No  common  carrier  shall enter into or
  become a party to any combination, contract, agreement or understanding,
  written or oral, express or implied, to prevent by any arrangement or by
  change of arrangement of time schedule, by carriage in different cars or
  by any other means or device whatsoever the carriage  of  property  from
  being continuous from the place of shipment to the place of destination.
  No  breakage  of  bulk, stoppage or interruption of carriage made by any
  common carrier shall prevent the carriage of property from being treated
  as one continuous carriage from the place of shipment to  the  place  of
  destination.    Nor  shall  any  such  breakage  of  bulk,  stoppage  or
  interruption of carriage be made or  permitted  by  any  common  carrier
  except  it  be  done  in  good  faith  for  a  necessary purpose without
  intention to avoid or unnecessarily interrupt or  delay  the  continuous
  carriage  of such property or to evade any provision of law, or order of
  the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 111 - Liability for Damage.

§ 111. Liability  for damage. In case a common carrier shall do, cause
  to be done or permit to be done any act,  matter  or  thing  prohibited,
  forbidden  or  declared  to  be  unlawful,  or shall omit to do any act,
  matter or thing required to be done, either by law or by  order  of  the
  commissioner,  such  common  carrier  shall  be liable to the persons or
  corporations affected thereby for all  loss,  damage  or  injury  caused
  thereby  or  resulting  therefrom, and in case of recovery, if the court
  shall find that  such  act  or  omission  was  wilful,  it  may  in  its
  discretion  fix  a reasonable counsel or attorney's fee, which fee shall
  be taxed and collected as part of the costs in the case.  An  action  to
  recover  for  such loss, damage or injury may be brought in any court of
  competent jurisdiction by any such person or corporation.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Common Carriers › 112 - Routing of Shipments by Shipper of Goods.

§ 112. Routing of shipments by shipper of goods. In all cases where at
  the  time  of  the  delivery  of  property  to  a  common  carrier,  for
  transportation subject to the provisions of this chapter, to  any  point
  of  destination,  between  which  and  the  point  of  such delivery for
  shipment two or more through routes shall exist,  the  person,  firm  or
  corporation  making  such  shipment shall have the right to designate in
  writing by which of such routes such property shall  be  transported  to
  destination,  and  it shall thereupon be the duty of the initial carrier
  to route such property and issue a through bill of lading therefor as so
  directed, and to transport such property over its own line or lines  and
  deliver  the  same  to  the  connecting carrier by rail or water, and it
  shall be the duty of such connecting carrier to  receive  such  property
  and  transport  it  over  such line or lines and deliver the same to the
  next  succeeding  carrier  or  consignee  according   to   the   routing
  instructions  of  such  bill  of  lading,  provided that nothing in this
  section shall be construed to make a common carrier liable for injury to
  or loss of goods in transit on the line of another carrier. The  shipper
  shall in all instances have the right to determine where competing lines
  of  railroad  or  of  carriers by water constitute portions of a through
  line or route, over which of said  competing  lines  so  constituting  a
  portion  of such through line or route his freight shall be transported.
  The commissioner shall have the power to make such reasonable exceptions
  and regulations as he may determine and shall have power to enforce  the
  above  provisions. Where the route adopted by the shipper is by rail and
  water lines, some of which have no  physical  connection,  the  property
  carried  shall be delivered at the point on the route where the transfer
  is to take place by the initial or succeeding carrier to an agent of the
  connecting carrier.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 5 - The Powers of the Commissioner in Respect to Common Carriers › 117 - Investigation of Accidents.

§ 117. Investigation  of accidents. The commissioner shall investigate
  the cause of all accidents on any railroad or street railroad subject to
  his jurisdiction which result in loss of life or injury  to  persons  or
  property,  and  which in his judgment shall require investigation. Every
  common carrier shall give immediate notice to the commissioner of  every
  accident  happening  upon any line of railroad or street railroad owned,
  operated, controlled or leased by it, in such manner as the commissioner
  may direct.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 5 - The Powers of the Commissioner in Respect to Common Carriers › 118 - Investigations by Commissioner.

§ 118. Investigations by commissioner. 1. The commissioner may, of his
  own motion, investigate or make inquiry, in a manner to be determined by
  him  as  to  any  act  or thing done or omitted to be done by any common
  carrier, subject to his supervision, and the commissioner must make such
  inquiry in regard to any act or thing done or omitted to be done by  any
  such common carrier in violation of law or an order of the commissioner.
2.  Complaints  may  be  made  to  the  commissioner  by any person or
  corporation aggrieved, by petition or complaint in writing setting forth
  any thing or act done or omitted to be done by  any  common  carrier  in
  violation, or claimed to be in violation, or of the terms and conditions
  of  its  franchise  or charter or of any order of the commissioner. Upon
  the presentation of such a complaint the commissioner shall cause a copy
  thereof to be forwarded to the person or carrier  complained  of,  which
  may  be  accompanied  by  an  order, directed to such person or carrier,
  requiring that the matters complained  of  be  satisfied,  or  that  the
  charges  be  answered  in  writing  within a time to be specified by the
  commissioner.  If  the  person  or  carrier  complained  of  shall  make
  reparation  for  any  injury  alleged  and  shall cease to commit, or to
  permit, the  violation  of  law,  franchise  or  order  charged  in  the
  complaint,  and  shall  notify  the commissioner of that fact before the
  time allowed for answer, the commissioner need take  no  further  action
  upon the charges. If, however, the charges contained in such petition be
  not  thus  satisfied, and it shall appear to the commissioner that there
  are reasonable grounds therefor, he shall investigate  such  charges  in
  such  manner  and  by  such means as he shall deem proper, and take such
  action within his powers as the facts justify.
3. Whenever the commissioner shall investigate any  matter  complained
  of  by  any  person or corporation aggrieved by any act or omission of a
  common carrier under this section it shall be his duty to make and  file
  an  order  either  dismissing the petition or complaint or directing the
  common carrier complained of to satisfy the cause of complaint in  whole
  or to the extent which the commissioner may specify and require.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 5 - The Powers of the Commissioner in Respect to Common Carriers › 120 - Power of Commissioner to Order Repairs or Changes.

§ 120. Power  of  commissioner  to order repairs or changes. If in the
  judgment of the commissioner, additional tracks, switches, terminals  or
  terminal  facilities,  stations,  motive  power,  or any other property,
  construction, apparatus, equipment, facilities or device for use by  any
  common carrier in or in connection with the transportation of passengers
  or   property  ought  reasonably  to  be  provided  or  any  repairs  or
  improvements to or changes in any thereof in use ought reasonably to  be
  made,  or  any additions to changes in construction should reasonably be
  made thereto in order to promote the  security  or  convenience  of  the
  public  or  employees,  or  in  order  to  secure  adequate  service  or
  facilities for the transportation  of  passengers  or  property,  or  to
  overcome  or  to  minimize except by change of motive power nuisances of
  smoke,  soot,  or  cinders,  arising  from  the  operation  outside  the
  corporate  limits  of  a  city  of  such common carrier, such changes or
  additions in equipment not to be in conflict with any federal statute or
  regulation, the commissioner shall, after a hearing either  on  his  own
  motion  or  after  complaint,  make  and  serve  an order directing such
  repairs,  improvements,  changes  or  additions  to  be  made  within  a
  reasonable  time  and  in  a  manner  to be specified therein, and every
  common  carrier  shall  make  all  repairs,  improvements,  changes  and
  additions  required  of  it by any order of the commissioner served upon
  it. If  any  repairs,  improvements,  changes  or  additions  which  the
  commissioner has determined to order require joint action by two or more
  of  said  carriers,  the commissioner shall, before entry and service of
  order, notify the said carriers that such repairs, improvements, changes
  or additions will be required and that the same shall be made  at  their
  joint  cost,  and  thereupon the said carriers shall have thirty days or
  such longer time as the commissioner may grant  within  which  to  agree
  upon the part or division of cost of such repairs, improvements, changes
  or  additions  which  each shall bear. If at the expiration of such time
  such carriers shall fail to file with the commissioner a statement  that
  an  agreement  has  been  made  for  a division or apportionment of such
  repairs, improvements, changes or additions the commissioner shall  have
  authority,  after further hearing, to fix in his order the proportion of
  such cost or expense to be borne by each such company and the manner  in
  which  the same shall be paid and secured. But this section shall not be
  construed to authorize the commissioner to require two or more  railroad
  companies to unite in the erection of a union station.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 5 - The Powers of the Commissioner in Respect to Common Carriers › 122 - Contracts Between Railroad Companies and Bus Companies Owned by Former; Approval of Commissioner.

§ 122. Contracts between railroad companies and bus companies owned by
  former;  approval of commissioner. Whenever the commissioner has made an
  order authorizing any street railroad company  or  railroad  company  to
  substitute  the operation of stages, buses or motor vehicles in place of
  cars or trains upon tracks on any portion of the route of such railroad,
  and such company is the owner of all of  the  capital  stock  of  a  bus
  company,  such  street railroad company or railroad company and such bus
  company may, subject to the approval of the commissioner,  contract  for
  the  use  of  their  respective  routes, or any part thereof, upon which
  stages, buses or motor vehicles may be operated, and such  routes  shall
  thereafter be used in such manner and for such time as may be prescribed
  in such contract.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 5 - The Powers of the Commissioner in Respect to Common Carriers › 123 - Power of Commissioner to Order Changes in Time Schedules; Running of Additional Cars and Trains.

§ 123. Power  of  commissioner  to  order  changes  in time schedules;
  running of additional cars and  trains.  If,  in  the  judgment  of  the
  commissioner,  any  railroad company or street railroad company does not
  run trains enough or cars enough or  possess  or  operate  motive  power
  enough,  reasonably  to  accommodate the traffic, passenger and freight,
  transported by or offered for transportation to it, or does not run  its
  trains  or  cars  with sufficient frequency or at a reasonable or proper
  time having regard to safety, or does not run any train or  trains,  car
  or  cars,  upon a reasonable time schedule for the run, the commissioner
  shall, after a hearing either on his own motion or after complaint, have
  power to make an order directing any such  railroad  company  or  street
  railroad  company to increase the number of its trains or of its cars or
  its motive power or to change the time for starting its trains  or  cars
  or  to  change the time schedule for the run of any train or car or make
  any other suitable order that the commissioner may determine  reasonably
  necessary  to  accommodate  and  transport  the  traffic,  passenger  or
  freight, transported or offered for transportation.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 5 - The Powers of the Commissioner in Respect to Common Carriers › 125 - Power of Commissioner to Order Continuance of Train Service During Investigation.

§ 125. Power  of  commissioner  to  order continuance of train service
  during investigation. Unless otherwise  ordered  or  authorized  by  the
  commissioner, no railroad company shall discontinue any train engaged in
  the  transportation  of  passengers  in  intrastate  commerce within the
  state, except upon thirty days'  notice  to  the  commissioner  and  the
  posting  of  notice  of  such  proposed  discontinuance in every station
  directly affected thereby thirty days in advance  thereof;  nor,  unless
  otherwise  ordered or authorized by the commissioner, shall any railroad
  company discontinue any scheduled station stop by any such train, except
  upon fifteen days' notice and posting as herein prescribed. Upon receipt
  of such notice, the commissioner shall have power,  upon  complaint,  or
  upon  his own motion without complaint, to institute an investigation to
  determine whether the existing service provided by  any  such  train  is
  reasonably required to provide adequate transportation service. Upon the
  institution  of such an investigation, the commissioner is authorized by
  order to require the railroad  company  to  continue  existing  service,
  pending  the  holding  of public hearings and decision thereon, provided
  that such order shall not be effective for a longer period  than  ninety
  days.