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New York Transportation Corporations - Article 7 - § 81 Additional Powers

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    § 81. Additional powers. Every such corporation shall have power:
    1.  To make such examinations and surveys as it may deem necessary for
  the selection of the most advantageous route, and for  such  purpose  by
  its  officers,  agents  or servants to enter upon the lands or waters of
  any person, subject to liability for all damage done thereto.
    2. To lay out its route not exceeding fifty feet in width, but at  the
  termini of such route and at all receiving and discharging points and at
  all  places  where machinery may properly be set up for the operation of
  such pipe line to take such additional land as may be necessary.
    3. To convey through pipes any property, substance or product  capable
  of  transportation  therein  by  means of any force, power or mechanical
  agency,  and  to  erect  and  maintain  all  necessary  and   convenient
  buildings,  stations,  fixtures  and  machinery  for the purposes of its
  incorporation.
    4. To regulate the time and manner in which property shall be conveyed
  through its pipe lines, and  the  compensation  to  be  paid,  but  such
  compensation  shall  not be at a rate in excess of twenty-five cents per
  one hundred miles for the transportation of  forty-two  gallons  of  any
  product  conveyed  through lines of one hundred miles in length or over,
  which shall be reckoned and adjusted upon  the  quantity  or  number  of
  gallons delivered by such corporation.

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