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New York Railroad Law Section 55 - Accommodation Of Connecting Roads.

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    § 55.  Accommodation  of connecting roads. Every railroad corporation
  whose road, at or near the same place, connects with or  is  intersected
  by  two  or  more railroads competing for its business, shall fairly and
  impartially afford to each of  such  connecting  or  intersecting  roads
  equal   terms   of  accommodation,  privileges  and  facilities  in  the
  transportation of cars, passengers, baggage and freight  over  and  upon
  its  roads  and  over  and upon their roads, and equal facilities in the
  interchange and use  of  passenger,  baggage,  freight  and  other  cars
  required  to  accommodate  the  business of each road, and in furnishing
  passage tickets to passengers who may desire to make a  continuous  trip
  over  any  part  of  its  roads and either of such connecting roads. The
  commissioner of transportation may, upon application of the  corporation
  owning  or operating either of the connecting or intersecting roads, and
  upon fourteen days' notice to the corporation owning  or  operating  the
  other  road, prescribe such regulations as will secure, in its judgment,
  the enjoyment of equal privileges, accommodations and facilities to such
  connecting or intersecting roads as may be required to  accommodate  the
  business  of each road, and the terms and conditions upon which the same
  shall be afforded to each road. The  decision  of  the  commissioner  of
  transportation  shall  be  binding on the parties for two years, and the
  supreme court shall have power to compel the performance thereof  in  an
  action or special proceeding, by injunction or otherwise.

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