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2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 173-G - Approval of Permit or Amendment by Commissioner of Transportation.

§   173-g.   Approval  of  permit  or  amendment  by  commissioner  of
  transportation.  No terminable permit and no amendment to  any  existing
  license,  grant,  franchise, permit or consent incorporating therein the
  provisions of a terminable permit, shall become operative  or  effective
  until it shall have been approved by the commissioner of transportation.
  The  commissioner of transportation shall have power to approve any such
  terminable permit or amendment, and, upon approval by  him,  every  such
  terminable permit or amendment shall be valid and binding as between the
  parties  thereto as of, from and on the day of the date of the execution
  thereof, in all respects and for all purposes therein expressed.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 173-H - Existing License, Grant, Franchise, Permit or Consent Reinstated on Invalidity of Amendment.

§  173-h.  Existing  license,  grant,  franchise,  permit  or  consent
  reinstated on invalidity of amendment.  In the event that  an  amendment
  to  any  existing  license,  grant,  franchise,  permit or consent shall
  subsequently be declared invalid for any reason, or in the event of  the
  failure  of  the  approval thereof by the commissioner of transportation
  under the transportation law, the existing  license,  grant,  franchise,
  permit  or  consent  amended  thereby  shall,  by  operation  of  law be
  reinstated in full force and with like effect as though the same had not
  been amended.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 174 - Proceedings if Property Owners Do Not Consent.

§  174. Proceedings if property owners do not consent.  If the consent
  of property owners required by any provision of this article can not  be
  obtained,  the  corporation failing to obtain such consents may apply to
  the appellate division of the supreme court held in  the  department  in
  which  it is proposed to construct its road for the appointment of three
  commissioners to determine whether such railroad ought to be constructed
  and operated. Notice of such application must, at least ten  days  prior
  thereto,  be  served, personally, upon each nonconsenting property owner
  by delivering the same to the person to whom such property  is  assessed
  upon  such  assessment-roll or by duly mailing the same, properly folded
  and directed, to such property owner at his post-office address with the
  postage prepaid thereon. If the person upon whom service is to  be  made
  is unknown, or his residence and post-office address are unknown and can
  not  by  reasonable diligence be ascertained, service of such notice may
  be made by publishing the same in such newspaper of the  county  as  the
  court  may  direct,  at least once a week for two successive weeks. Upon
  due proof of service of such notice the court to which  the  application
  is  made  shall  appoint  three  disinterested persons, who shall act as
  commissioners, and who shall, within ten days after  their  appointment,
  cause  public  notice  to  be given of their first meeting in the manner
  directed by the court, and may adjourn from  time  to  time,  until  all
  their business is completed.  Vacancies may be filled by the court after
  such notice to parties interested as it may deem proper to be given; and
  the  evidence taken before as well as after the happening of the vacancy
  shall be deemed to be properly before such commissioners. After a public
  hearing of all parties interested,  the  commissioners  shall  determine
  whether  such  railroad  ought to be constructed and operated, and shall
  make a  report  thereon,  together  with  the  evidence  taken,  to  the
  appellate  division,  within  sixty  days  after appointment, unless the
  court, or a judge thereof, for good cause shown, shall extend such time;
  and their determination that such  road  ought  to  be  constructed  and
  operated, confirmed by such court, shall be taken in lieu of the consent
  of  the  property  owners hereinbefore required. The commissioners shall
  each receive ten dollars for each day spent in the performance of  their
  duties  and  their  necessary expenses and disbursements, which shall be
  paid by the corporation applying for their appointment.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 177 - Use of Tracks of Other Roads.

§ 177. Use of tracks of other roads.  Any railroad corporation in this
  state,  whose cars are run and operated by horses or other motive power,
  authorized by this article, upon the surface of the street, excepting in
  the county of New York, may, for the purpose of enabling it  to  connect
  with  and  run  and  operate its cars between its tracks, and a depot or
  car-house owned by it, run upon, intersect, and use, for  not  exceeding
  five  hundred  feet,  the  tracks of any other railroad corporation, the
  cars of which are run and operated in like  manner  with  the  necessary
  connections and switches for the proper working and accommodation of the
  cars  upon  such tracks, and in connection with such depot or car-house,
  upon paying therefor such compensation as it may  agree  upon  with  the
  corporation  owning the tracks to be so run upon, intersected, and used;
  and in case such corporations can not agree  upon  the  amount  of  such
  compensation, the same shall be ascertained and determined in the manner
  prescribed in the eminent domain procedure law.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 178 - Repair of Streets; Rate of Speed; Removal of Ice and Snow.

§  178.  Repair  of  streets;  rate of speed; removal of ice and snow.
  Every street surface railroad corporation, so long as it shall  continue
  to  use  or  maintain  any of its tracks in any street, avenue or public
  place in any city or village, shall have and keep  in  permanent  repair
  that  portion of such street, avenue or public place between its tracks,
  the rails of its tracks, and two feet in width outside  of  its  tracks,
  under  the  supervision  of  the  proper local authorities, and whenever
  required by them to do so, and in such manner as they may prescribe; but
  nothing contained in this section  shall  require  any  street  railroad
  corporation  to  make  pavements  or  repairs  over openings made in the
  streets by any person,  municipality  or  corporation  other  than  such
  street  railroad corporation, for any purpose other than the pavement or
  repavement of the street. In case of the neglect of any  corporation  to
  make pavements or repairs after the expiration of twenty days' notice to
  do  so,  the  local authorities may make the same at the expense of such
  corporation, and such authorities may make such  reasonable  regulations
  and  ordinances  as  to  the  rate of speed, mode and use of tracks, and
  removal of ice and snow, as the interest or convenience  of  the  public
  may  require.  A  corporation  whose  agents  or  servants  wilfully  or
  negligently violate such an ordinance or regulation shall be  liable  to
  such  city  or village for a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars,
  to be specified in such ordinance or regulation.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 178-A - Headlights.

§ 178-a. Headlights. Whenever the tracks of any street surface railway
  shall  be  laid  upon  the  side of the roadway of any public highway or
  street, the headlights of  such  street  surface  railway  shall  be  so
  arranged,  adjusted  and operated that no dazzling or dangerous beams of
  light shall be thrown  upon  the  traveling  portion  of  such  highway.
  Whenever  the  rails  of  such  street surface railway are laid upon any
  portion of the improved roadway, such headlights shall be  so  arranged,
  adjusted and operated that no dangerous or dazzling light, when measured
  seventy-five  feet  or  more  ahead of the lamp or car, shall rise above
  forty-two inches on the level surface upon which  the  car  stands.  Any
  person  or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be
  liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each day  such  violation
  continues.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 179 - Within What Time Road to Be Built.

§  179. Within what time road to be built.  In case any street surface
  railroad corporation shall not commence the construction of its road, or
  of any extension or branch thereof, within one year after the consent of
  the local authorities and property owners or the  determination  of  the
  appellate  division  of the supreme court as herein required, shall have
  been given or renewed, and shall not  complete  the  same  within  three
  years after such consents or determination shall have been obtained, its
  rights,  privileges  and  franchises  in  respect  of  such  railroad or
  extension or branch, as the case  may  be,  may  be  forfeited.  If  the
  performance of any act required by this chapter or any prior acts within
  the times therein prescribed, is hindered, delayed or prevented by legal
  proceedings  in any court, such court may also extend such time for such
  period as the court shall deem proper or if the performance of  any  act
  required  by  said  statutes  within  the  times  therein  prescribed is
  hindered, delayed or prevented by works of public improvement,  or  from
  any  other or different cause, not within the control of the corporation
  upon which such requirement is imposed, the time for the performance  of
  such  act  is  hereby  and shall be deemed to be extended for the period
  covered by such hindrance, delay or prevention. The time for  compliance
  with  any  requirement  in  this  or any former act, by a street surface
  railroad corporation incorporated for  the  purpose  of  constructing  a
  street  surface  railroad  and  which  has  prior to March twenty-fifth,
  nineteen hundred and two, obtained or shall  prior  to  June  thirtieth,
  nineteen  hundred  and  three,  obtain such consents or determination is
  hereby extended until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 180 - Motive Power.

§  180.  Motive  power.    Any street surface railroad may operate any
  portion of its road by cable,  electricity,  or  any  power  other  than
  locomotive  steam  power, which said locomotive steam power is primarily
  generated by the locomotive propelling the cars, and in the use of which
  either escaping steam or smoke is visible, which may be approved by  the
  commissioner  of  transportation  and  consented  to  by  the  owners of
  one-half of the property bounded on that portion of the  railroad,  with
  respect  to  which  a  change  of  motive  power is proposed; and if the
  consent of such property owners can not be obtained,  the  determination
  of   three  disinterested  commissioners,  appointed  by  the  appellate
  division of the supreme court of the department in which  such  railroad
  is located, in favor of such motive power, confirmed by the court, shall
  be  taken  in lieu of the consent of the property owners. The consent of
  the property owners shall  be  obtained  and  the  proceedings  for  the
  appointment   and   the  determination  of  the  commissioners  and  the
  confirmation of their report shall be conducted in the manner prescribed
  in sections one hundred and seventy-one and one hundred and seventy-four
  of this article, so far as the same  can  properly  be  made  applicable
  thereto.  Any  railroad  corporation making a change in its motive power
  under this section, may make any changes in the construction of its road
  or roadbed or other property rendered necessary by  the  change  in  its
  motive  power.  Where  a  street  surface  railroad  in  the counties of
  Herkimer and Hamilton  is  located  wholly  outside  the  limits  of  an
  incorporated  city  or  village, such railroad may, with the approval of
  the commissioner of transportation,  be  operated  by  locomotive  steam
  power,  provided  that  such  steam  power  is generated by oil from and
  including April fifteenth to and including November  thirtieth,  and  by
  either  oil  or  coal from and including December first to and including
  April fourteenth.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 181 - Rate of Fare.

§  181.  Rate  of  fare.   No corporation constructing and operating a
  railroad under the provisions of this article, or of chapter two hundred
  and fifty-two of the laws of eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-four,  shall
  charge  any  passenger more than five cents for one continuous ride from
  any point on its road, or on any road, line or branch operated by it, or
  under its control, to any other point thereof, or any connecting  branch
  thereof, within the limits of any incorporated city or village. Not more
  than  one  fare  shall  be charged within the limits of any such city or
  village, for passage over the main  line  of  road  and  any  branch  or
  extention  thereof  if  the  right to construct such branch or extension
  shall have been acquired under the provisions of such chapter or of this
  article; except that in any city having a population of less than  fifty
  thousand,  or  in  any incorporated village, it shall be lawful for such
  corporation to charge and collect as a maximum rate  of  fare  for  each
  passenger,  ten  cents,  where  such passenger is carried in a car which
  overcomes an elevation of at least four hundred and fifty feet within  a
  distance  of  one  and a half miles. This section shall not apply to any
  part of any road constructed prior to May sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and
  eighty-four,  and  then  in operation, unless the corporation owning the
  same shall have acquired the right to extend such road, or to  construct
  branches  thereof  under such chapter, or shall acquire such right under
  the provisions of this article, in which event its rate  of  fare  shall
  not exceed its authorized rate prior to such extension.  The legislature
  expressly  reserves the right to regulate and reduce the rate of fare on
  any railroad constructed and operated  wholly  or  in  part  under  such
  chapter or under the provisions of this article; and the commissioner of
  transportation  shall  possess  the  same  power,  to  be  exercised  as
  prescribed in the transportation law.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 182 - Collection of Fare.

§  182. Collection of fare.  It shall be unlawful for any corporation,
  or an employee thereof, operating a street surface railroad, or a branch
  thereof, on which the motive power is electricity, which road or  branch
  is  operated  wholly  or  in  part in a city having at least one million
  inhabitants and which crosses the boundaries of such  city,  to  collect
  fare of a passenger more than once for and during one continuous ride on
  a  single  car  or  train;  excepting  that  fare  may be once collected
  separately outside the city limits for passenger service to or from such
  limits, and once separately within the city for the service  therein.  A
  person  or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be
  liable  to  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each   violation,
  recoverable by the passenger aggrieved thereby.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 184 - Abandonment of Part of Route.

§  184.  Abandonment  of  part of route.   Any street surface railroad
  corporation may declare any portion of its route which it  may  deem  no
  longer   necessary   for  the  successful  operation  of  its  road  and
  convenience  of  the  public  to  be  relinquished  or  abandoned.  Such
  declaration  of abandonment must be adopted by the board of directors of
  the corporation  under  its  seal,  which  shall  be  submitted  to  the
  stockholders  thereof  at  a  meeting  called  and conducted in the same
  manner as required by law for meetings of stockholders for the  approval
  of  leases  by  railroad  corporations  for  the use of their respective
  roads. If the stockholders shall, at such meeting, ratify and adopt such
  declaration of abandonment,  the  secretary  of  the  company  shall  so
  certify  under  the seal of the corporation, upon such declaration. Such
  declaration  shall  then   be   submitted   to   the   commissioner   of
  transportation  for his approval, and if approved by the commissioner of
  transportation, such approval  shall  be  indorsed  thereon  or  annexed
  thereto  and the declaration so certified and indorsed shall be filed in
  the office of the department of state, and from the time of such filing,
  such portion of the route designated in the declaration shall be  deemed
  to be abandoned.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 185 - Effect of Dissolution of Charter as to Consents.

§  185. Effect of dissolution of charter as to consents.  Whenever any
  street  surface  railroad  corporation  shall  have  been  dissolved  or
  annulled,  or  its  charter  repealed  by an act of the legislature, the
  consent of owners of property bounded on, and the consent of  the  local
  authorities  having  the  control of that portion of a street or highway
  upon which the railroad of such corporation shall have been  theretofore
  constructed  and  operated,  and  the  order  of  the appellate division
  confirming the report of any commissioner that such railroad ought to be
  constructed or operated, shall not, nor shall either thereof, be  deemed
  to  be in any way impaired, revoked, terminated or otherwise affected by
  such act of dissolution, annulment or repeal,  but  the  same  and  each
  thereof  shall continue in full force, efficacy and being.  The right to
  the further enjoyment and to the use thereof, subsequent to such act  of
  dissolution,  annulment or repeal, and of all the powers, privileges and
  benefits therein or thereby created, shall be sold at public auction  by
  the  local authorities within whose jurisdiction such railroad shall be,
  in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  in  section  one  hundred   and
  seventy-three  of  this article. When such sale shall have been so made,
  the purchaser thereat shall have the right to the further enjoyment  and
  use  of  such  consents  and orders, and of each thereof, and of all the
  powers, privileges and benefits therein  or  thereby  created,  in  like
  manner  as if such purchaser had been originally named in such consents,
  reports and orders; if such purchaser shall be otherwise  authorized  by
  law  to construct, maintain and operate a street surface railroad within
  the municipality within which such railroad shall be.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 187 - Extensions and Franchises Confirmed.

§  187.  Extensions  and  franchises  confirmed.    Any street surface
  railroad corporation which had prior to the tenth day of  May,  eighteen
  hundred and ninety-three, constructed and was on that date operating any
  extension  or  branch  of  its railroad along any streets or highways or
  portion thereof in a city having less than fifty  thousand  inhabitants,
  or  in  any  town  adjoining such city, and which had prior to said date
  obtained consent of the owners of one-half  in  value  of  the  property
  bounded  on,  and  the  consents  also  of  the local authorities having
  control of that portion of the streets, roads  or  highways  upon  which
  such  extension  or  branch  was  constructed  and being operated to the
  construction and operation of the same, is hereby authorized to  operate
  and  maintain any such branch or extension, upon filing in the office of
  the secretary of state a certificate, signed by its board of  directors,
  which  certificate shall contain a statement of the names of the cities,
  towns, villages and counties,  and  the  names  or  description  of  the
  streets,  avenues and highways in which such extensions or branches have
  been constructed, the places from  and  to  which  the  same  have  been
  constructed,  and  are  to  be  maintained  and  operated and the length
  thereof, as near as may be; thereupon said extensions and branches shall
  be deemed and considered a part of the lines of said railroad  from  the
  date  of  the  filing  thereof, and all corporate action relating to the
  construction, maintenance and operation of such extensions or  branches,
  or  creating  liens  upon  the  same  by  said  corporation,  are hereby
  validated and confirmed. Nothing in this section contained shall  affect
  or  impair  any vested right or any litigation pending on said tenth day
  of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,  nor  shall  any  corporation
  which  shall  avail  itself  of the provisions of this section be deemed
  thereby to have waived any rights which it therefore had to maintain and
  operate any branches or extension named in any certificate filed  by  it
  hereunder.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 188 - Certain Consents of Local Authorities Confirmed.

§  188. Certain consents of local authorities confirmed.  All consents
  given since December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and  prior
  to  February  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-six,  by  the local
  authorities of any city having a population of fifty thousand  or  more,
  to  the  construction,  operation  and  maintenance  of a street surface
  railroad in any such city  by  a  railroad  corporation  which  has  not
  complied  with  the  provisions  of section nine of this chapter, or has
  failed to obtain  the  certificate  therein  provided  for,  are  hereby
  validated and confirmed, and any such corporation may construct, operate
  and maintain a street surface railroad over, along and upon the streets,
  avenues,  highways  and  public  places  described in such consent, upon
  obtaining the consent of the owners of property bounded on such streets,
  avenues, highways or public places as provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 189 - Time Extended for Payment of Percentage Based on Gross Receipts.

§  189.  Time  extended  for  payment  of  percentage  based  on gross
  receipts.   Every corporation building or  operating  a  street  surface
  railroad, or a branch or extension thereof, under the provisions of this
  article,  or  chapter  two hundred and fifty-two of the laws of eighteen
  hundred and eighty-four, which, at any time during  the  period  of  six
  years prior to January first, nineteen hundred and one, became liable to
  pay  any  percentage  based upon the gross receipts of said corporation,
  under the provisions of section one hundred  and  seventy-five  of  this
  article,   and  which  heretofore  has  paid  or  hereafter  shall  pay,
  separately or together, the amount of such percentage and,  in  addition
  thereto,  interest  thereon  at  the rate of seven per centum per annum,
  computed from the time such percentage became due by  said  section  one
  hundred  and seventy-five up to the time such percentage was or shall be
  paid, by virtue of such payment or  payments,  shall  be  discharged  of
  liability  with  the  same  force  and  effect  as if the amount of such
  percentage had been paid upon the date when it first  became  due  under
  the provisions of the said section of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 191 - Road Not to Be Constructed Upon Ground Occupied by Public Buildings or in Public Parks.

§  191.  Road  not  to  be  constructed upon ground occupied by public
  buildings or in public parks.   No  street  surface  railroad  shall  be
  constructed  or  extended upon ground occupied by buildings belonging to
  any town, city, county or to the state, or to the United States,  or  in
  public  parks, except in tunnels to be approved by the local authorities
  having control of such parks. Provided, however, that the  commissioners
  of  the  state  reservation  at  Niagara, by and with the consent of the
  commissioners of the land office, may construct, without expense to  the
  state,  street railroad tracks upon and along that part of the riverway,
  so called, between Falls and Niagara streets, in  the  city  of  Niagara
  Falls,  and  in  their discretion may grant revocable licenses to street
  surface railroad companies to use such tracks upon such  terms  as  said
  commissioners  may  prescribe.  And  provided,  further,  that  a street
  railroad may be constructed or extended upon a route or  routes  with  a
  right of way not exceeding fifty feet in width in the Pelham Bay park in
  the city of New York, said route or routes to be designated and fixed by
  the  board of estimate and apportionment of said city, with the approval
  of the park board of said city, and shall constitute  the  most  direct,
  appropriate route or routes in the opinion of said board of estimate and
  apportionment  and  said park board, but no such street surface railroad
  shall be constructed or extended until a  franchise  or  right  therefor
  shall  have  been  granted  by said board of estimate and apportionment,
  pursuant to the statutes relating to the granting of such franchises  or
  rights,  and requiring adequate compensation therefor, and no company or
  corporation shall be given the  exclusive  right  to  operate  a  street
  surface  railroad  upon such route or routes, and no such street surface
  railroad shall be constructed at grade upon, along or across any of  the
  existing  or  proposed  streets,  highways,  driveways, parkways or park
  walks within the limits of said park.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 192 - Center-Bearing Rails Prohibited.

§  192.  Center-bearing rails prohibited.   No street surface railroad
  corporation shall hereafter lay down in the streets of any  incorporated
  city  or village of this state what are known as "center-bearing" rails;
  but in all cases, whether in laying new track or in replacing old rails,
  shall lay down "grooved" or some other kind of rail not "center-bearing"
  approved by the local authorities. Such grooved or other rail  shall  be
  of  such  shape  and  so  laid as to permit the paving-stones to come in
  close contact with the projection which serves to guide  the  flange  to
  the  car  wheel.  Where  in any city, the duty of repairing and repaving
  streets,  as  distinguished  from  the  authorization  of  such  paving,
  repairing  and  repaving,  is by law vested in any local authority other
  than the common council of such city, such other local  authority  shall
  be the local authority referred to in this section.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 192-A - Relocation of Tracks.

§ 192-a. Relocation of tracks.  In any city having a population of one
  million  or  more, the board of estimate of such city, or if there be no
  board of estimate, the local authorities of such city having control  of
  the  streets  shall  have  the  power  to  apply  to the commissioner of
  transportation for an order directing any street railroad corporation to
  change the location of its tracks within any street or highway forming a
  part of its route in a borough of such city  containing  not  less  than
  three  hundred  thousand  or more than six hundred thousand inhabitants,
  where in  the  judgment  of  such  commissioner  of  transportation  the
  relocation   of   such  tracks  is  necessary  in  connection  with  the
  maintenance, widening, change of grade, setting back of  curb  lines  or
  other  proper improvement of such street or highway. Any street railroad
  corporation  operating  as  aforesaid,  shall,  at  such  time  as   the
  commissioner  of transportation shall direct, start work upon the change
  of the location of its tracks to the place and in the manner directed by
  the commissioner of transportation and shall complete such change within
  a reasonable time thereafter. The relocation of any track in  accordance
  with  the  provisions  of this section shall not limit, change or in any
  wise affect or prejudice the existing rights or franchises of any street
  railroad corporation, and such corporation shall have the same right  to
  operate  its  railroad  on the relocated route in the same manner and to
  the same extent as it had the right so to do on the original route.
The cost and expense of the relocation of such railroad  tracks  shall
  be   imposed   and   borne   in  such  manner  as  the  commissioner  of
  transportation may  determine  before,  during  or  subsequent  to  such
  relocation.  In  determining such cost and expense, such commissioner of
  transportation may take into consideration the fact that such  road  was
  located before such street was laid out.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 193 - Right to Cross Bridge Substituted for a Bridge Crossed for Five Years.

§ 193. Right to cross bridge substituted for a bridge crossed for five
  years.    Should  any  street  surface railroad company have crossed any
  bridge as a part of its route for a period of more than five  years  and
  should  any  other  bridge  be  substituted  therefor  at any time, such
  company shall have the right to cross such substituted bridge and to lay
  and use tracks thereon for the transit of  its  cars  and  to  make  all
  changes  and  extensions  of  its route subject to all the provisions of
  this chapter, as  the  convenient  operation  of  its  cars  and  public
  convenience may require.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 194 - Protection of Employees.

§  194. Protection of employees.  Every corporation operating a street
  surface railroad in this state, except such as  operate  a  railroad  or
  railroads either in the borough of Manhattan or Brooklyn, in the city of
  New  York,  shall  cause the front and rear platforms of every passenger
  car propelled by electricity, cable or compressed air, operated  on  any
  division  of  such railroad which extends in or between towns or outside
  of city limits, during the months of  December,  January,  February  and
  March,  except  cars  attached to the rear of other cars, to be inclosed
  from the fronts of the platforms to the fronts of the hoods,  so  as  to
  afford  protection  to  any person stationed by such corporation on such
  platforms to perform duties in connection with  the  operation  of  such
  cars. Every corporation or person using and operating a car in violation
  of  this section shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars per
  day for each car so used and operated, to  be  collected  in  an  action
  brought  by the commission or commissioner having jurisdiction and to be
  paid into the treasury of the state of New York, or in  a  suit  by  the
  attorney of the municipality in which the violation of the provisions of
  this section occurs, to be paid into the treasury of such municipality.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 195 - Platforms on New Cars, How Constructed.

§  195.  Platforms  on  new cars, how constructed.  All street surface
  railroad passenger cars purchased, built or rebuilt after the first  day
  of December, nineteen hundred and four, and operated in the state of New
  York on and after said date, except those owned by any company operating
  either in the borough of Manhattan or Brooklyn, in the city of New York,
  shall  be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
  section.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 196 - Protection to Employees in the Counties of Albany and Rensselaer.

§  196.  Protection  to  employees  in  the  counties  of  Albany  and
  Rensselaer.  Every corporation operating a street  surface  railroad  in
  the  counties  of  Albany  and Rensselaer shall cause the front and rear
  platforms of every car propelled by  electricity,  cable  or  compressed
  air,  during the months of December, January, February and March, except
  cars attached to the rear of other cars, to be inclosed from  the  front
  and  at  least  one  side  of  the platform to the hood, so as to afford
  protection to any person stationed by such corporation on such platforms
  to perform duties  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  such  cars.
  Platforms  on  cars  on such street surface railroads used more than one
  mile outside the limits of a city  shall  be  completely  inclosed  from
  platform  to  hood.  Every  corporation  using  and  operating  a car in
  violation of this section shall be liable to a  penalty  of  twenty-five
  dollars  per  day  for each car so used and operated, to be collected by
  the people to  the  use  of  the  poor  of  the  county  in  which  such
  corporation  has  its  principal  office,  in  an  action brought by the
  commission or commissioner having jurisdiction or the district  attorney
  of  such county. The supreme court may, on the application of a citizen,
  direct the district attorney to bring such action.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 197 - Protection of Employees in the Counties of Kings and Queens.

§  197.  Protection  of employees in the counties of Kings and Queens.
  Every corporation operating a street surface railroad in the counties of
  Kings or Queens, shall cause the  front  and  rear  platforms  of  every
  passenger  car  propelled  by  electricity,  cable  or  compressed  air,
  operated on any division of such railroad during the months of December,
  January, February and March, except cars attached to the rear  of  other
  cars,  to  be inclosed from the fronts of the platforms to the fronts of
  the hoods so as to afford protection to any  person  stationed  by  such
  corporation  on  such  platforms  to  perform  duties connected with the
  operation of such cars. Every corporation or person using and  operating
  a  car  in  violation  of  this  section shall be liable to a penalty of
  twenty-five dollars per day for  each  car  used  and  operated,  to  be
  collected  in an action brought by the transit commission and to be paid
  to the treasurer of the city of New York, or in a suit by  the  district
  attorney of the counties of Kings or Queens to be paid into the treasury
  of the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 198 - Contracts for the Adjustment of Payments Due Certain Cities.

§  198.  Contracts  for the adjustment of payments due certain cities.
  The board of estimate and apportionment, or if such board do not  exist,
  the  local  authorities which have power to make appropriation of moneys
  to be raised by taxation, in any  city  having  a  population  of  three
  hundred  thousand  or more, shall have the power in their discretion, to
  enter into a contract or contracts  on  behalf  of  the  city  with  any
  railroad  corporation or corporations owning or operating street surface
  railroads or other railroads in such city, for the purpose of  adjusting
  any  or  all  differences  now  existing  between  such  corporation  or
  corporations and such city with respect to car license fees, percentages
  upon gross earnings, rentals and any other payments,  other  than  taxes
  upon  real  and personal property, and capital stock, payable or claimed
  to be payable to the  city  under  existing  acts  of  the  legislature,
  municipal  ordinances,  grants  by,  or  contracts  with,  the municipal
  authorities or otherwise; and any such  contract  may  provide  for  the
  payment  of  an  annual  amount  to  be  ascertained as in such contract
  provided in  lieu  of  any  or  all  payments  of  any  of  the  classes
  hereinbefore  mentioned, other than taxes. Any such contract which shall
  be with a corporation operating lines of railroad by lease  may  provide
  for  an  annual payment, to be ascertained as in such contract provided,
  which shall be in lieu of any or all of the payments of any  or  all  of
  said  classes,  other  than  taxes  upon  real and personal property and
  capital stock, which would otherwise be payable in respect of the leased
  lines so long as the lease or leases thereof shall continue. The  annual
  payments  provided  for in any contract made under the authority of this
  section shall, so long as such  contract  is  in  force,  supersede  the
  payments  which  would  otherwise  be  payable  by  the  corporation  or
  corporations making such contract  and  in  lieu  of  which  the  annual
  payments  provided  for  in  such contract are substituted. Any contract
  made hereunder may, with the approval of the  municipal  authorities  by
  whom  the  contract  was made or their successors in office, be modified
  from time to time by the parties thereto  for  the  purpose  of  meeting
  changed  conditions.  No  contract  shall  be made or modified hereunder
  without the written consent  and  approval  of  the  mayor  and  of  the
  comptroller or other chief financial officer of the city.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 201 - Construction of Park Railroads in Cities Having a Population of One Million Five Hundred Thousand or Upwards.

§ 201. Construction of park railroads in cities having a population of
  one  million  five  hundred  thousand  or  upwards.  For  the purpose of
  providing for the more speedy transportation of  persons  across  public
  parks  in the cities within the state of New York having a population of
  one million five hundred thousand or upwards it shall be lawful for  the
  municipal  authorities,  officers, departments, or boards having control
  of such parks to construct railroads in and upon  tunnels  or  roads  or
  ways  depressed  below  the surface of said parks in such cities in this
  state, and to extend the same east or west to connect with  any  surface
  railroads  in  such  cities,  now in existence, and with railroads which
  hereafter may be built by companies now chartered and existing,  and  to
  contract in the name of such cities, with any person or corporations for
  the  construction thereof, and for the equipment and running of the same
  either  with  or  without  public  advertisement  upon  such  terms  and
  conditions,  including  the rates of fare to be charged to persons using
  such railroads, for such compensation to be paid  to  such  cities,  and
  subject to such rules, regulations and requirements as may be determined
  upon in said contract, and as the department or board, or officer having
  charge  of  said  parks  may, from time to time, thereafter establish or
  impose.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 202 - Consents of Property Owners.

§   202.   Consents  of  property  owners.    No  railroads  shall  be
  constructed, equipped or operated by virtue  of  the  preceding  section
  except  upon the condition that the consent of the owners of one-half in
  value of the property outside of said public parks bounded  on  and  the
  consent also of the local authorities having the control of that portion
  of  a  street or highway upon which it is proposed to construct, operate
  or extend the said railroads to connect with any  surface  railroads  in
  such  cities  be first obtained, or in case the consent of such property
  owners cannot be obtained, the appellate division of the  supreme  court
  in  the  department  in which it is proposed to be constructed may, upon
  application, appoint three commissioners,  who  shall  determine,  after
  hearing  of all parties interested, whether the portion of such railroad
  outside of said public parks ought to be constructed  or  operated,  and
  their  determination  confirmed by the court may be taken in lieu of the
  consent of the property owners.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 203 - Expense of Construction and Operation.

§  203.  Expense of construction and operation.  Whenever any railroad
  shall be constructed, equipped or operated under section two hundred and
  one, the expense of such construction, and in case said  railroad  shall
  be equipped and operated by such city, the expense of such equipment and
  operation  shall  be paid by the municipal corporation within which such
  railroad is situate, in the same manner as the other  expenses  of  such
  municipal corporation are paid and provided for.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 204 - Agreements for Payment of Cost of Construction by Instalments.

§  204. Agreements for payment of cost of construction by instalments.
  The department, board or officer having control of such public parks may
  agree with the person or corporation with whom any contract may be  made
  for  the construction, equipment and operation of said railroad that the
  cost of such construction shall be paid by such  cities  in  instalments
  out  of the compensation which such person or corporation shall agree to
  pay to such cities under any such contract from time  to  time  as  such
  compensation shall be received.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 207 - Railroads in Parks in New York City, by Whom Constructed.

§  207.  Railroads  in  parks  in  New York city, by whom constructed.
  Whenever any railroads shall be constructed in the  city  of  New  York,
  under the provisions of the preceding six sections, such railroads shall
  be  constructed  by the department of public parks of said city with the
  concurrence of the sinking fund commissioners of said city.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 209 - Change of Motive Power Authorized.

§ 209. Change of motive power authorized.  Any railroad company having
  the right to use any railroad now constructed in any public tunnel, road
  or  way depressed below the surface of and wholly within any public park
  in any city within the state of New York  having  a  population  of  one
  million  five  hundred  thousand or upwards, may change the motive power
  and operate any such railroad by cable  power,  underground  current  of
  electricity,  compressed  air,  or  any  other  motive  power other than
  locomotive steam power that may  be  consented  to  by  the  authorities
  having  control  of  such  park  or  parks,  and  by the commissioner of
  transportation, and may make changes in the construction of the road  or
  roadbed  or other property made necessary by the change of motive power.
  Such reconstruction shall be  at  the  sole  cost  and  expense  of  the
  railroad  company  making  such change, and when completed such improved
  railroad shall be the  property  of  the  municipal  corporation  having
  control of such public tunnel, road or depressed way.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 5 - Street Surface Railroads › 210 - New Streets Across Other Than Steam Surface Railroads.

§ 210. New streets across other than steam surface railroads.  1. When
  a new street, avenue, highway or road or new portion or additional width
  of  a  street,  avenue, highway or road, or a state or county highway or
  county road deviating from the line of  an  existing  highway  or  road,
  shall  hereafter  be  constructed  across any railroad, other than steam
  surface railroads, such street, avenue, highway or road, or new  portion
  or  additional width shall pass over or under such railroad or at grade,
  as the commissioner of transportation shall determine.  The  proceedings
  for  the opening of the same shall be in all things the same as provided
  by section ninety of this  chapter  for  the  opening  of  new  streets,
  avenues  or roads across steam surface railroads and the commissioner of
  transportation shall have the same powers and duties in determining  the
  application,  with like effect, as though the application were for a new
  street across a steam surface  railroad,  and  the  provisions  of  such
  section, so far as applicable, shall apply to applications made pursuant
  to the provisions of this section.
2.  Performance  of  work;  division of expense; accountings. Whenever
  under the provisions of this chapter a determination is made,  the  work
  shall  be  done,  the expense shall be divided, and accountings shall be
  had in accordance with the provisions of  section  ninety-four  of  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 220 - Application for Railroad; Commissioners.

§  220.  Application for railroad; commissioners. Upon the application
  of at least fifty reputable householders and taxpayers of any county  or
  city,  verified  upon  oath  before a justice of the supreme court, that
  there is need in said county or city of a steam railroad in the streets,
  avenues and public places thereof for the transportation of  passengers,
  mails  or  freight,  the board of supervisors of such county may, within
  thirty days thereafter by resolution, approve of  the  application,  and
  authorize  its presentation to the supreme court, and if the railroad is
  to be built wholly within the limits of a city, upon the application  of
  a  like  number  of  householders and taxpayers of the city to the mayor
  thereof, such mayor may, within thirty days thereafter, indorse upon the
  application his approval and direction that it may be presented  to  the
  supreme  court,  and  if  the  railroad is to be built partly within the
  limits of a city and partly without, such application shall be approved,
  both by the mayor of the city  and  the  board  of  supervisors  of  the
  county,  and  its  presentation to the supreme court authorized by them,
  and upon the presentation of such application so approved and authorized
  to a special term of the supreme court, held in the district where  such
  railroad  is  to  be  built, or some part thereof, the court may appoint
  five commissioners, residents of the city if the railroad is to be built
  wholly within the city, and of the county, if it is to be  built  wholly
  or partly outside of the limits of a city, to determine the necessity of
  such  railroad,  the  route  thereof,  the  time  within  which  and the
  conditions upon which it  shall  be  constructed,  the  damages  to  the
  property  owners  along  the  line  thereof and all the matters lawfully
  submitted to them, and discharge the duties imposed upon them by law.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 6 - Rapid Transit Act of 1875 › 221 - Oath and Bond of Commissioners.

§  221.  Oath  and  bond  of  commissioners. Within ten days after his
  appointment, and before entering upon the discharge of any of the duties
  of  his  office,  each  commissioner  shall  take  and   subscribe   the
  constitutional oath of office, which shall be filed in the office of the
  clerk  of the county and shall execute a bond to the people of the state
  in the penal sum of twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  with  two  or  more
  sureties,  to  be  approved  by  a  justice  of the supreme court of the
  department in which the railroad is to be built and conditioned for  the
  faithful  performance  of  the duties of the office, which bond shall be
  filed in the office of the clerk of the county.