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New York Railroad Law Section 52-c - Fences In Queens County.

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    § 52-c.  Fences  in  Queens county. Notwithstanding the provisions of
  section fifty-two or of any other law, general or special, within Queens
  county every railroad corporation operating a railroad shall  erect  and
  thereafter  maintain  a  fence  or fences along the boundary line of its
  right of way  contiguous  and  adjacent  to  a  public  highway  running
  generally  parallel to or terminating at such boundary line whenever the
  commissioner of  transportation  after  a  hearing  on  notice  to  such
  railroad  corporation  shall determine it to be necessary for the public
  welfare and shall by order so direct. The order of the  commissioner  of
  transportation may prescribe the height, length, materials and design of
  such fence or fences.

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