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2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 13 - Actions and Proceedings.

§ 13. Actions and proceedings.  a. The board of transportation may sue
  in  the name and behalf of the city. It may in the name of and in behalf
  of the city bring action of specific performance or may bring a  special
  proceeding  to  compel the performance within such city by any person of
  any duty  or  obligation  with  reference  to  or  arising  out  of  the
  construction  or  operation  of any railroad under, or by reason of, any
  grant made or right acquired under this chapter, or out of or by  reason
  of  any  contract  made  or  authorized  by it or any predecessor board,
  commission or commissioner within the city, or it may in behalf  of  and
  in  the  name  of  such  city  bring  actions to recover damages for any
  violation of contract or duty, or for any wrong committed  by  any  such
  person  by  reason  of any nonperformance or violation of duty under the
  provisions of this chapter or under any contract or stipulation made  in
  pursuance of any provisions of this chapter.
b.  Every action or proceeding brought by the board of transportation,
  and every action or proceeding in which an injunction is had  or  sought
  against the board or such city, or against any person who or which shall
  have  entered  into  a contract under the provisions of this chapter, by
  reason of any act or thing done, proposed  or  threatened  under  or  by
  virtue of any provision of this chapter, or is sought against any person
  claiming  or  claiming  to  act  under any grant or franchise under this
  chapter, and every action or proceeding in which  the  constitutionality
  of  any  part of this chapter shall or may be brought in question, shall
  have a preference above all causes not criminal on the calendar of every
  court, and may be brought on for trial or argument upon notice of  eight
  days for any day of any term on which the court shall be in session.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 14 - Offices, Assistants and Employees.

§   14.   Offices,   assistants  and  employees.    a.  The  board  of
  transportation may  rent  such  offices  for  a  period  not  to  exceed
  twenty-one  years  and  employ  such  deputy  commissioners,  engineers,
  attorneys and other persons, from time to time, as, in  its  discretion,
  it  may  deem necessary to the proper performance by it of its duties as
  prescribed in this chapter.
b. The board of transportation is empowered to organize  an  operating
  division  for  the  operation  and  maintenance  of a publicly owned and
  operated railroad, separate and distinct from the  organization  engaged
  in  planning and supervising the construction and equipment of railroads
  prior to operation, and is hereby authorized to  establish  and  specify
  the  duties  and the regulations which shall govern the work and conduct
  of employees in such division and the penalties which may be imposed for
  disobedience of or  violation  of  such  regulations.  Appointments  and
  promotion  to  any  position in any class of employment in such division
  shall be subject to the provisions of the civil service law.   Employees
  holding  positions  in  such  operating  division  shall  be notified in
  writing of any charge or accusation of dereliction of duty which  is  to
  be  considered  by  the board of transportation, and shall be allowed at
  least five days for answering such charge in writing and be entitled  to
  a  hearing thereon, at which he shall be entitled to be represented by a
  person of his own choosing. If in the judgment of the board such charges
  of delinquency  or  misconduct  are  sustained,  such  employee  may  be
  suspended  without pay for a period not to exceed thirty days, or may be
  dismissed from such employment as provided in section twenty-two of  the
  civil  service  law.  The  board may temporarily suspend without pay any
  such employee charged with dereliction of duty pending  hearing  on  any
  such charges, but if the board shall determine that such charges are not
  sustained  by  the evidence adduced at the hearing thereon, the employee
  so suspended shall be entitled to pay for the  time  of  such  temporary
  suspension.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 15 - Payment of Salaries and Expenses.

§  15.  Payment of salaries and expenses.  The salaries of the members
  of the board of transportation and the salaries  and  expenses  paid  or
  incurred  in the exercise of their powers and duties shall be chargeable
  to such city, and shall be audited and paid as  follows:  The  board  of
  estimate,  on  requisition  duly  made  by  the board of transportation,
  stating  the  purposes  for  which  such  moneys  are  required,   shall
  appropriate  such  sums  of  money  as  the  board  of estimate may deem
  necessary for the payment of such salaries and expenses.  The city shall
  not be liable for any indebtedness incurred by the board, or any  member
  thereof,  in  excess of such appropriations. It shall be the duty of the
  comptroller, after such appropriation shall  have  been  duly  made,  to
  audit  and  pay  the  salaries  and expenses of the board, upon vouchers
  therefor to be furnished by the board, which payment shall  be  made  in
  like  manner  as  payments are made by the comptroller of claims against
  and demands upon such city. In case of municipal operation all  salaries
  and  expenses  incurred  in  connection  with  such  operation  shall be
  included in the expense of operation.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 16 - Vacations.

§  16.  Vacations.    The board of transportation shall grant to every
  employee under its supervision, who shall have been in such  employ  for
  at  least  one  year, a vacation of not less than two weeks in each year
  and for employees  in  such  employ  less  than  one  year,  a  vacation
  pro-rated  on  the  basis of one day per month while in such employ, and
  for such further period of time as in the opinion and judgment  of  such
  board,  the  duties, position, length of service and other circumstances
  may warrant, at such time as such board may fix. During  such  vacations
  such  employees  shall  be  allowed the same compensation as if actually
  employed.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 2 - Board of Transportation › 17 - Advertising for Proposals.

§  17.  Advertising for proposals.  The board of transportation before
  awarding any contract except where there is an  extraordinary  emergency
  involving danger to life or property or where the estimated expense of a
  contract  does  not  exceed twenty-five thousand dollars shall advertise
  for proposals for such contract by a notice to be printed  once  a  week
  for  two  successive  weeks  in no less than two of the daily newspapers
  published in such city, and in such newspapers published elsewhere  than
  in  such city as such board shall determine. Such notice shall set forth
  and state the points within the city, between which such road is to run,
  the general method of construction, the route to be followed,  the  term
  of  years for which it is proposed to make such contract, and such other
  details and specifications as the board shall deem to  be  proper.  Such
  notice  shall  state  the time and place at which such proposals will be
  opened. The board shall attend at the time and place so  specified,  and
  shall publicly open all proposals that shall have been received, but the
  board  shall  not  be bound to accept any proposals so received, but may
  reject all such proposals and readvertise for proposals  in  the  manner
  provided in this chapter, or may accept any of such proposals as, in the
  judgment of such board, will best promote the public interest, and award
  a  contract  accordingly.  All  such  contracts must before execution be
  approved as to form by the corporation counsel and consented to  by  the
  board of estimate and the mayor of such city.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 3 - Determination of Necessity for Railroads and Approval of Routes › 21-A - Construction and Equipment of a Rapid Transit Railroad Tunnel or Tunnels.

§  21-a. Construction and equipment of a rapid transit railroad tunnel
  or tunnels.  a. The city of New York  and  the  New  York  city  transit
  authority,  acting  under and pursuant to the provisions of this chapter
  and of title nine of article five of the  public  authorities  law,  are
  hereby  authorized  to  effect the construction and equipment of a rapid
  transit railroad tunnel or tunnels between the boroughs of Manhattan and
  Queens in the city of New York, along the following route:
A route lying wholly within the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens which
  shall begin at a point on East Sixty-third street at the  westerly  line
  of  York  avenue  in  the  borough  of  Manhattan where a connection can
  conveniently be made to other future  rapid  transit  railroads;  thence
  extending  easterly  along East Sixty-third street under York avenue and
  Franklin D. Roosevelt drive; thence continuing easterly under  the  West
  channel  of  the  East river, Welfare island and the East channel of the
  East river to the borough of Queens; thence  continuing  easterly  under
  Queens bridge park and Vernon boulevard to a point on Forty-first avenue
  at  the  easterly  line  of  Vernon  boulevard  where  a  connection can
  conveniently be made with other future rapid transit railroads.
b. For the purposes of  this  chapter,  such  rapid  transit  railroad
  tunnel or tunnels shall be deemed to be a rapid transit railroad.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 3 - Determination of Necessity for Railroads and Approval of Routes › 21-B - Construction and Equipment of a Rapid Transit Railroad Line.

§  21-b.  Construction and equipment of a rapid transit railroad line.
  1. The New York city transit authority, acting under and pursuant to the
  provisions of this chapter and of title nine  of  article  five  of  the
  public  authorities law, is hereby authorized to effect the construction
  and equipment of a rapid transit line in the borough of  Queens  in  the
  city of New York, along the following route:
A route lying wholly within the borough of Queens beginning at a point
  under  Forty-first  avenue  at  or  near  Twenty-ninth  street,  where a
  connection can conveniently be made with the tracks at the easterly  end
  of   the   Sixty-third   street   line;  thence  curving  and  extending
  northeasterly to  a  point  under  Northern  boulevard  across  Fortieth
  avenue,  Thirty-first  street,  Thirty-ninth  avenue,  Honeywell street,
  Thirty-second  street,  and  Thirty-third  street  to  a   point   under
  Thirty-fourth street and Northern boulevard.
2.  Notwithstanding any defect, irregularity or omission of any lawful
  requirement or lack of  statutory  authority  therefore,  the  acts  and
  proceedings  heretofore  taken by the New York city transit authority in
  adopting, approving or consenting to plans and conclusions, general plan
  of construction, route or any other matters, with respect to  the  rapid
  transit  line  provided  for  in  this  section,  are  hereby legalized,
  ratified, validated and confirmed.
3. Notwithstanding any other state or local law,  this  section  shall
  constitute  the  sole state or local governmental authority required for
  the construction and equipment of the route set forth in subdivision one
  of this section.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation › 30 - General Powers of Board of Transportation.

§  30.  General  powers  of  board  of  transportation.   The board of
  transportation is empowered to operate  any  railroad  acquired,  owned,
  constructed,  or provided by such city in accordance with the provisions
  of law. The board of transportation shall also be empowered to  purchase
  all necessary materials and supplies for such operation and maintenance,
  and,  generally,  to  exercise  all requisite and necessary authority to
  manage and direct the operation and maintenance of  such  road  for  the
  convenience and safety of the public, provided, however, that, except as
  otherwise  provided  in  section seventeen of this chapter, any contract
  for the purchase of such materials and supplies or work or labor  to  be
  performed,  the  estimated  cost of which exceeds the sum of twenty-five
  hundred dollars shall be made by the said board only upon public letting
  founded on sealed bids, except in a case where the board, by resolution,
  declares the existence  of  an  emergency  or  the  existence  of  other
  circumstances  making  competitive  bidding impracticable. Notice of the
  invitation for such bidding stating the date and place  of  the  receipt
  and  opening  of  bids  shall  be  published  in the city record in five
  successive issues immediately preceding  such  opening.  The  board  may
  reject  all  such  bids and readvertise for new bids if it shall deem it
  for the public interest so to do; if not, it shall award the contract to
  the lowest responsible bidder unless the board, by unanimous vote, shall
  determine that it is for the public interest that a bid other than  that
  of the lowest responsible bidder shall be accepted.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation › 33-A - Lease by the City of Railroad.

§ 33-a. Lease by the city of railroad. 1. Such city may lease from any
  railroad  corporation  any  railroad  or  steam surface railroad located
  wholly within one county in such city, or may lease  from  any  railroad
  corporation  any  part  of any railroad or steam surface railroad within
  one county in such city substantially all of  the  lines  of  which  are
  located  wholly within one county in such city, for a term not exceeding
  ten years, with the right of renewal not to exceed ten additional years,
  upon such terms and conditions as to annual compensation to be  paid  by
  such  city  for  such  lease  and such other terms and conditions as the
  board of estimate shall deem best suited in the public interest. Payment
  for such lease may be made out of moneys raised by taxation  or  out  of
  any  proceeds arising out of the sale or lease of real property acquired
  by such city for rapid transit purposes.
2. The board of estimate may by contract provide for  the  maintenance
  and  operation  of  such leased railroad, steam surface railroad or part
  thereof by any railroad corporation which in the opinion of  such  board
  shall  be  best  qualified  to fulfill and carry out such contract. Such
  contract shall contain  such  terms  and  conditions  as  the  board  of
  estimate shall deem best suited in the public interest.
3.   Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions  of  law,  such  railroad
  corporation operating such leased railroad, steam  surface  railroad  or
  part thereof shall be subject to the jurisdiction, regulatory powers and
  supervision of the public service commission.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation › 35 - Vehicular Tunnels and Other Means of Transportation.

§  35.  Vehicular  tunnels  and  other  means  of transportation.   a.
  Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary  contained  in  any  city
  charter,  administrative  code, or in any general, special or local law,
  the board of transportation may act as the agent of any  such  city,  at
  the  request of the mayor thereof, to prepare and submit to such mayor a
  plan for the building and construction of a tunnel under any  stream  or
  waterway  within or adjoining the limits of such city and the approaches
  thereto, or a  vehicular  tunnel  or  two  or  more  vehicular  tunnels,
  together  with  the  necessary  approaches  thereto, between the several
  boroughs of the city of New York, or between  two  points  in  the  same
  borough, and as such agent of such city, with like request and approval,
  may  proceed with the construction and equipment or enter into contracts
  for the construction and equipment of such part or section of  any  such
  tunnel as such mayor shall require. The advertising and award of any and
  all  contracts entered into pursuant to this section shall be subject to
  the provisions of section seventeen of this chapter. The city, from time
  to time, on requisition duly made by the board  of  transportation,  may
  appropriate such sums of money as it may deem requisite and necessary to
  enable  the board of transportation to prepare such plans or to carry on
  such construction and  equipment.  Such  sums  shall  be  paid  out  and
  expended  for  such  purposes  upon  vouchers certified by such board of
  transportation. If bonds are issued for such purposes, they may be  made
  payable  at maturity out of a sinking fund to be established and created
  out of the rates and charges fixed by the board of estimate for the  use
  of  any  such  tunnel  by  pedestrians and vehicles. Upon the completion
  thereof the commissioner of public works or other like officer  of  such
  city  shall  have cognizance and control of the management, maintenance,
  operation and repair of every such tunnel and the approaches thereto.
b. The board of transportation, with like request and approval of  the
  mayor,  may  conduct  such  hearings  and investigations with respect to
  streets, tunnels or other ways, railroads, ferries or other  methods  or
  means for the transportation of passengers or property within the limits
  of  any  such  city  as  such  mayor shall require, and make reports and
  recommendations with respect  thereto,  from  time  to  time,  as  shall
  likewise be required.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation › 36 - Rates of Fare.

§ 36. Rates of fare. The board of transportation, with the approval of
  the  mayor,  is hereby empowered to fix and adjust from time to time the
  rate of fare that may be charged any passenger traveling on any railroad
  publicly or municipally operated  pursuant  to  the  authority  of  this
  chapter,  provided,  however, that any change in such rate of fare shall
  become effective on the first day of the next ensuing fiscal year of the
  city.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation › 36-A - Municipal Operation; Deficiencies.

§   36-a.   Municipal  operation;  deficiencies.    If  the  board  of
  transportation  shall  undertake  or  engage  in  public  or   municipal
  operation of any railroad pursuant to the authority of this chapter, the
  city  shall  provide  for  the  payment  of  any  expenses of operation,
  maintenance, interest, principal payments on indebtedness,  contribution
  to sinking funds, and reserves on account of depreciation, to the extent
  and  in  the  amount  not provided for by the revenues derived from such
  operation. For such purposes such city shall, with respect to  any  such
  expenses  heretofore  or  hereafter not provided for by revenues derived
  from operation, use money raised by taxation.  Nothing in  this  section
  contained  shall  be  construed  to imply that the powers herein defined
  have not heretofore been vested in such city by law.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 4 - Construction and Operation by the Board of Transportation › 38 - .

§  38.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  the board of
  estimate or  other  analogous  local  authority  of  any  such  city  is
  authorized  to  issue  evidences  of  indebtedness to be known as budget
  notes in an aggregate amount not to exceed nineteen million dollars, for
  the purpose of providing  funds  for  the  payment  of  any  deficit  of
  revenues  derived  from  operation of any railroad owned and operated by
  such  city,  arising  out  of  any  adjustments  in  the   salaries   or
  compensation  of  officers and employees of any such railroad during the
  fiscal year ending on  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  nineteen  hundred
  forty-seven.  Such  budget  notes  shall  be  redeemed  in  three  equal
  installments from appropriations to be included in  the  annual  expense
  budgets   of   such   city   for   the  fiscal  years  nineteen  hundred
  forty-seven--nineteen    hundred    forty-eight,    nineteen     hundred
  forty-eight--nineteen    hundred   forty-nine   and   nineteen   hundred
  forty-nine--nineteen hundred fifty.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 5 - Private Construction, Equipment, Maintenance or Operation of Railroads › 43 - Persons With Whom Contracts May Be Made.

§  43.  Persons with whom contracts may be made.  Nothing contained in
  this chapter shall be deemed, or be construed as intending to limit,  or
  as   limiting,   in   any   manner,  the  discretion  of  the  board  of
  transportation, provided in the opinion of the board of estimate and the
  mayor, it is expedient, practicable and in the public interest to do so,
  to enter into contracts for  construction,  equipment,  maintenance  and
  operation  with the same person, or for any one or more of such purposes
  with the same person or with different persons either in one contract or
  in separate contracts, and at any time or times.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 51 - Right of Board of Transportation to Enter Upon Property.

§  51.  Right  of  board of transportation to enter upon property.  It
  shall and may be lawful for the board of  transportation,  and  for  all
  persons  acting  under  its authority, to enter in the day time into and
  upon any and all property which it shall deem necessary to be  acquired,
  or to which there may be appurtenant property rights which it shall deem
  necessary to be acquired or extinguished by the city, for the purpose of
  making  the  maps or surveys provided for by section fifty-two, and also
  to enter in like manner and for  the  same  purpose  upon  any  property
  adjacent  to  and  within  five  hundred  feet  of the property to be so
  surveyed.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 52 - Maps and Plans to Be Filed.

§  52.  Maps and plans to be filed.  The board of transportation shall
  cause three similar maps or plans to be made of each parcel of  property
  which  it may deem necessary so to be acquired, or to which there may be
  appurtenant property rights necessary so to be acquired or extinguished,
  designating each of such parcels by a number. Upon each map or  plan  so
  made  or  in  a memorandum accompanying it and to be deemed part thereof
  such board shall cause to be clearly indicated the  particular  property
  rights  to be acquired or extinguished for the purposes of this chapter,
  together with the assessed valuation of the fee on the tax rolls of  the
  city  for each of the three years preceding the date of the approval and
  adoption of such map or plan by such board,  in  relation  to  each  and
  every  piece or parcel of property described upon such map or plan. Such
  board shall have power to cause a triplicate set of maps  or  plans  and
  memoranda  as  herein provided for to be made as often and at such times
  as they shall determine, and each set of maps or plans and memoranda  so
  made shall contain the particulars above enumerated within such district
  as  such  board  shall  in  each  case  provide.  The  maps or plans and
  memoranda provided for by this section, when  approved  and  adopted  by
  such  board,  shall have written thereon a certificate of such approval,
  signed by the members of the board adopting and approving  it,  and  one
  copy  thereof  shall  be  filed  in  the  office of the president of the
  borough, there to remain as a public record, and the other two  sets  of
  maps  or  plans  and  memoranda  shall be transmitted to the corporation
  counsel. Such board, from time to time, may make and file  further  maps
  or  plans  and  memoranda amending those already filed, but not so as to
  defeat or impair any property or interest which shall have been  already
  acquired,  or  to  revive any property right which may have been already
  extinguished by the city.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 53 - Corporation Counsel to Acquire Property.

§  53.  Corporation  counsel to acquire property.   a. Whenever and as
  often as the board of transportation shall deem it to be  necessary  and
  proper  that  the  city  should acquire any such property and shall have
  caused such maps or plans and  memoranda  specifying  and  defining  the
  property to be acquired, or to which are appurtenant the property rights
  to  be  acquired  or  extinguished, to be made and shall have certified,
  filed and transmitted the several  copies  of  such  maps  or  plans  as
  prescribed  in  section fifty-two of this chapter, such board may direct
  the corporation counsel to take legal proceedings to  acquire  the  same
  for  the  city,  and  the corporation counsel shall thereupon take legal
  proceedings as provided in this chapter.
b. The corporation counsel, either in person or by such counsel as  he
  shall  designate  for  the  purpose,  shall  appear  for and protect the
  interests of the city in all such  proceedings.  He  shall  furnish  the
  court  with such necessary clerks and other employees as it may require.
  All necessary expenses incurred by the corporation counsel in and  about
  the proceedings provided for by this chapter for the proper presentation
  and  defense  of  the  interests  of  the  city,  shall  be  paid by the
  comptroller out of the funds referred to in section sixty-nine  of  this
  chapter.  Property  owners  appearing  in proceedings under this chapter
  shall not be entitled to recover counsel fees, costs,  disbursements  or
  allowances.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 54 - Disposition of Maps.

§ 54. Disposition of maps.  The corporation counsel shall cause one of
  the  maps  or plans, so transmitted to him, to be filed in the office of
  the register of the county, or if there be no such register, then in the
  office of the county clerk of the county in which the  property  covered
  by  the map is situated. The map, hereinafter denominated the third map,
  being the second of the two  transmitted  to  the  corporation  counsel,
  shall be disposed of as provided in section sixty-five of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 55 - Notice of Intention to Condemn Property.

§  55.  Notice  of  intention  to  condemn property.   The corporation
  counsel shall give or cause to be given notice  by  publication  in  two
  public  newspapers  published  in  the  city,  of  his intention to make
  application to the such court that the compensation which should  justly
  be  made  to  the  respective  owners  of  or  persons interested in the
  property proposed to be taken or  extinguished  by  such  proceeding  be
  ascertained  and  determined  by  the  court without a jury. Such notice
  shall state the time and place of such application, shall briefly  state
  the  object  of the application, and shall briefly describe the property
  sought to be acquired or affected, and refer to a fuller statement to be
  filed in the office of the board of transportation, in  which  shall  be
  set  forth the location and boundaries of the several lots or parcels of
  property, and the property rights sought to be taken or affected, and  a
  brief  statement  as  to  each  of such lots or parcels, of the property
  rights  therein  or  appurtenant  thereto  sought  to  be  acquired   or
  extinguished,  with  a  reference to the dates and places of filing such
  maps or plans and memoranda, shall be a sufficient  description  of  the
  property  sought  to  be  so  taken  or  affected.  Such notice shall be
  published in such newspaper twice  a  week  for  two  weeks  immediately
  previous  to  the  time fixed in the notice for the presentation of each
  petition.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 56 - Application to Condemn Property.

§  56.  Application  to condemn property.   After such maps shall have
  been  filed  in  the  office  of  the  register  or  county  clerk,  the
  corporation  counsel,  for  and on behalf of the city, shall, and he may
  from time to time, upon first giving  the  notice  required  by  section
  fifty-five  of  this  chapter, apply to the supreme court at any special
  term thereof, to be held in the judicial district in which  such  county
  is situated, to have the compensation which should justly be made to the
  respective  owners  of or persons interested in the property proposed to
  be taken or extinguished by such proceedings ascertained and  determined
  by  such  court  without  a  jury.  Upon  each such application he shall
  present to the court a petition, signed by a majority of the members  of
  the board of transportation and verified in the manner prescribed by law
  for  the  verification  of  pleadings, according to the practice of such
  court, setting forth the action or determination  theretofore  taken  or
  had  by  such board with respect to the property to be acquired, and the
  filing of such maps or plans and memoranda, and stating  the  amount  or
  valuation  at  which each parcel of the property to be acquired has been
  assessed for purposes of taxation on the tax-rolls of the city for  each
  of  the three years preceding the date of the petition, and praying that
  the compensation which should justly be made to the respective owners of
  or  persons  interested  in  the  property  proposed  to  be  taken   or
  extinguished  by  such  proceeding be ascertained and determined by such
  court without a jury. Such petition shall contain a general  description
  of  all  the  property  to,  or  in  or over or appurtenant to which any
  property right is sought to be acquired, or extinguished, and  of  every
  property  right  sought  to be acquired by the city for public purposes,
  each lot or parcel being more particularly described by a  reference  to
  the number of such lot or parcel as given on such maps, and the property
  right  sought  to  be  acquired,  or  extinguished,  to or in or over or
  appurtenant to each of such lots or parcels, shall  be  stated  in  such
  petition.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 57 - Procedure in Case Property Is Situated in Two or More Counties.

§  57. Procedure in case property is situated in two or more counties.
  If the property to be acquired or  extinguished  in  any  proceeding  be
  situated  in  two  or  more  counties,  the  maps or plans and memoranda
  required to be filed by section fifty-four of this chapter shall  be  so
  filed in the respective offices therein provided in each county in which
  such  property  or  any part thereof is situated, and the application to
  condemn such property may be made to the supreme court  at  any  special
  term  thereof  held  in  any  judicial district in which any one of such
  counties is situated. If the property to be acquired or extinguished  in
  any  proceeding be situated in two judicial districts the application to
  condemn such property may be made in either judicial district. The order
  granting the application to condemn in  any  such  proceeding  shall  be
  entered,  and  the  final decree therein shall be filed in the office of
  the clerk of any one of the counties in which a part of the property  to
  be  thereby  acquired  or  extinguished  is situated, as directed by the
  court, and a certified copy of the order  granting  the  application  to
  condemn  and  a certified copy of the final decree shall be filed in the
  office in which instruments affecting real property are required  to  be
  recorded  in  each  county  in  which  any  part of the property thereby
  acquired  or  extinguished  is  situated.  In  all  other  respects  the
  proceeding  shall  be  conducted  in  the  same  manner  as a proceeding
  affecting property situated in only one county.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 59 - Examination Before Trial.

§  59.  Examination  before  trial.  A  proceeding  by  the  board  of
  transportation to acquire title to property or any right therein for the
  purposes of this chapter by  condemnation  shall  be  deemed  a  special
  proceeding,  in  which  testimony may be taken by deposition pursuant to
  the provisions of the civil practice law and rules and  subject  to  the
  provisions  of  this  section.  Such  deposition  may  be taken upon any
  question or issue in the proceeding and for  the  purpose  of  obtaining
  testimony  as to any sale or lease as described in section sixty of this
  chapter, at the instance of the corporation counsel or of any  owner  or
  at  the  direction  of the court at any time after the expiration of the
  date fixed for filing claims. Any owner desiring to obtain testimony  by
  deposition  shall give at least five days' notice or, if service is made
  through the post office, at least eight days' notice to the  corporation
  counsel  and  to all other owners or their attorneys who have duly filed
  their verified claims. If the corporation counsel shall desire to obtain
  testimony by deposition he shall give like notice to all owners or their
  attorneys who have duly filed and served on him their  verified  claims.
  For  the  purpose  of any such examination before trial brought on by an
  owner and noticed for and held at an office of the  corporation  counsel
  in  the  borough in which the real property is situated or at such other
  place as  the  corporation  counsel  shall  designate,  the  corporation
  counsel,  at  the expense of the city, shall provide proper stenographic
  service and shall furnish to the owner bringing on  such  examination  a
  copy  of  the typewritten transcript of such examination, duly certified
  by the officers before whom it was taken. In all other cases, the  party
  bringing  on  such examination shall at his own cost and expense provide
  proper stenographic service and shall furnish to the corporation counsel
  two copies of  the  typewritten  transcript  of  such  examination  duly
  certified  by  the officer before whom it was taken. The deposition of a
  witness need not be subscribed by him, if  such  subscription  shall  be
  waived  by  the  parties appearing upon his examination. The corporation
  counsel, at the office address subscribed by him upon the papers in  the
  proceeding,  from  and after the date of his receipt thereof, shall keep
  on file, available for inspection by all parties  to  the  proceeding  a
  certified copy of each deposition taken in the proceeding.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 61 - Order to Expedite Proceeding.

§  61.  Order  to expedite proceeding.   At any time after the date of
  entry of the order granting the application to condemn  the  corporation
  counsel  or  any owner may apply to the court for an order directing any
  owner or the corporation counsel, as the case may be, to show cause  why
  further  proceedings  under  this  article  on the part of such owner or
  owners or of the corporation counsel should not be expedited,  and  upon
  the  hearing  directed  by  such  order  to show cause the court, in its
  discretion, may  make  an  order  directing  that  such  proceedings  be
  expedited  in  the  manner  stated  therein and also making such further
  directions with respect to the particulars shown upon the application as
  shall be just and proper in the premises.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 62 - Time When City Becomes Seized.

§  62.  Time  when city becomes seized.  Upon the date of the entry of
  the order granting the application to condemn, the  city  shall  be  and
  become  seized  and  possessed in fee or absolute ownership of all those
  parcels of property and property rights which are in the maps  or  plans
  and  memoranda  referred  to  in  section  fifty-two  of  this  chapter,
  described as parcels of property or property  rights  which  are  to  be
  acquired, and also shall become seized and possessed of all the property
  rights  appurtenant to any lots or parcels of property indicated on such
  maps or plans as parcels in regard to which it is  deemed  necessary  to
  acquire  such  rights, or such rights shall be extinguished, as the case
  may be.  The  board  of  transportation,  immediately  or  at  any  time
  thereafter,  may  take  possession  or  enter into the enjoyment of such
  property or of any part thereof, without any suit or proceeding  at  law
  for  that purpose. Such board, or any person acting under its authority,
  may enter upon and use, occupy and enjoy all the parcels of property and
  all the property rights appurtenant to any of the  parcels  of  property
  and  all  property  rights  described  on  such maps or plans or in such
  memoranda, for any of the purposes authorized and provided for  by  this
  chapter.  But  on  the  entry  of such order granting the application to
  condemn, the city shall be and become forthwith liable to the respective
  owners or persons interested in the several parcels of property and  the
  several  property  rights  appertaining  thereto,  and  of such property
  rights acquired  as  aforesaid,  for  the  true  and  respective  values
  thereof,  together  with  interest thereon from the time of the entry of
  such order, provided, however, that no such interest shall be payable to
  any owner or person interested in any such property  or  property  right
  during  any  period  during  which  the  city  or  such board may by any
  resistance, whether by legal proceeding or otherwise, of such person  or
  with  his  authority,  be  prevented  from  taking possession thereof or
  enjoying the same.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 63 - Partial Payment of Awards.

§  63.  Partial  payment  of  awards.    In  any proceeding instituted
  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the acquisition of  title
  to property by the city, in which title thereto shall have become vested
  in  the  city  by  virtue  of  the  entry of an order in compliance with
  section sixty-two of this chapter, the city shall be authorized  to  pay
  to  the  person  entitled  to  an  award  for  property acquired in such
  proceeding, in advance of the final determination of his damages, a  sum
  equal  to  seventy-five  per  centum  of  the assessed valuation of such
  property less the liens and encumbrances of record thereon.  Before  any
  such  advance  payment  shall  be made the comptroller shall procure the
  certificate of the corporation counsel showing that the person  to  whom
  payment  is  to  be  made  is the person legally entitled to receive the
  same. If the city shall authorize a partial payment in  advance  to  any
  person  entitled  to  an  award, interest on the sum so authorized to be
  paid in advance shall cease to run five days  after  such  person  shall
  have been notified by mail or otherwise that the comptroller is ready to
  pay the same. In case the person entitled to an award at the date of the
  vesting  of  title to the property in the city shall have transferred or
  assigned his claim, such transfer or assignment made by him, or  by  his
  successor  in interest or legal representative, shall not become binding
  upon  the  city  unless  the  instrument  evidencing  such  transfer  or
  assignment  shall  have  been  executed  and  filed in the office of the
  comptroller as provided in this  chapter,  prior  to  any  such  advance
  payment.  When  any  such  advance  payment  shall  have  been made, the
  comptroller, on paying the awards made for the property acquired,  shall
  deduct  from  the  total amount allowed as compensation the sum advanced
  plus interest thereon from the date of the payment of  such  advance  to
  the date of payment of the final award, and the balance shall be paid as
  provided  by  this  article.  In case an advance payment shall have been
  authorized and the person entitled thereto shall have been  notified  by
  mail  or  otherwise  that  the comptroller is ready to make such advance
  payment, interest on the amount so authorized to be paid in advance from
  a date five days after notification by the comptroller that he is  ready
  to  make  such  advance  payment to the time the person entitled thereto
  shall accept such advance payment, shall be deducted by the  comptroller
  on  paying  the  awards  therefor  from  the  total  amount  allowed  as
  compensation to such person.   Such advance payment  shall  be  made  in
  accordance with the provisions of section sixty-nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 64 - Payment of Liens and Encumbrances.

§  64.  Payment of liens and encumbrances.  Whenever a person would be
  entitled to the payment of any advance under section sixty-three of this
  chapter and there shall exist mortgages or other  prior  liens  on  such
  property,  the  holder  of any such prior lien may apply to the city for
  payment of his mortgage or encumbrance.  If  after  five  days'  written
  notice given by the corporation counsel to the owner of such property to
  file  a  verified statement of his objections, if any, to the payment of
  such mortgage or lien, the corporation counsel shall be satisfied as  to
  the  amount  due  to such mortgagee or lienor, and shall so certify, the
  city shall, to the extent of the moneys  available  under  such  section
  sixty-three,  after  providing  for prior liens or encumbrances, if any,
  pay such mortgage or lien with the interest due thereon.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 65 - Tentative Decree; Objections Thereto.

§  65. Tentative decree; objections thereto.  The court, after hearing
  such testimony and considering such proofs  as  may  be  offered,  shall
  ascertain and estimate the compensation which ought justly to be made by
  the  city  to  the  respective  owners  of  or persons interested in the
  property  so  acquired  or  extinguished  by  such  proceeding  for  the
  improvement  and  shall  instruct  the  corporation counsel to prepare a
  transcript of its estimate of damage. Such transcript of estimate  shall
  be  accompanied by the third set of maps or plans and memoranda referred
  to in section fifty-four of this chapter  and  therein  denominated  the
  third set, or a copy thereof, and shall refer to the numbers thereon and
  shall  state  the  several  sums respectively estimated for each of such
  parcels with the names of the owners or persons  interested  therein  as
  far  as ascertained, together with all of the affidavits and proofs upon
  which the same are based. Such transcript shall be signed by the justice
  trying the proceeding and filed with the clerk of the  county  in  which
  the  property  affected  by the proceeding is situated and when so filed
  shall constitute the tentative decree of the court. Upon the  filing  of
  the  tentative  decree,  the  corporation  counsel  shall give notice by
  publication twice  a  week  for  two  weeks  in  two  public  newspapers
  published  in  such city of the filing of such tentative decree and that
  the city and any person whose rights may be affected thereby and who may
  object thereto, or any part thereof, may, on  or  before  a  day  to  be
  specified in such notice subsequent to the last publication thereof, set
  forth  his  objections  thereto  in writing, duly verified in the manner
  required by law for the verifiation of pleadings in an  action,  setting
  forth  the  property  owned by the objector and his post-office address,
  and file the same with such clerk. The notice shall also state that  the
  corporation  counsel  on  the  date  specified therein will apply to the
  justice who made the tentative decree to fix a time when  he  will  hear
  the  parties  so  objecting.  Every party so objecting, or his attorney,
  within the same time, shall serve on the corporation counsel a  copy  of
  such  verified  objections.  Upon such application the justice shall fix
  the time when he will hear the parties so objecting and desiring  to  be
  heard.  At  the time so fixed the justice shall hear each person who has
  objected to the tentative decree and who may then and there  appear  and
  shall  have the power to adjourn from time to time until all persons who
  have filed objections and desire to be heard shall be fully heard.
2023 New York Laws › RAT - Rapid Transit › Article 6 - Acquisition of Property by the City › 66 - Final Decree.

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