New York Railroad Law Article 2 - ORGANIZATION, GENERAL POWERS AND LOCATION

• 5 - Incorporation.
  A railroad corporation may be formed under this chapter for the purpose of owning or operating a railroad for public use, in accordance with the...
• 6 - Applicability of Business Corporation Law to Railroad Corporations.
  (a) The business corporation law applies to a corporation heretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or under any other statute or special act of...
• 8 - Additional Powers Conferred.
  Subject to the limitations and requirements of this chapter and of the public service law every railroad corporation, without limitation of the powers given by...
• 9 - Certificate of Convenience and Necessity.
  No railroad corporation formed after May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, under the laws of this state shall exercise the powers conferred by law upon...
• 16 - Location of Route.
  Every railroad corporation, except a street surface railroad corporation and an elevated railroad corporation, before constructing any part of its road in any county of...
• 17 - Acquisition of Title to Real Property; Additions, Betterments and Facilities.
  All real property required by any railroad corporation for the construction, maintenance and accommodation of its railroad shall be deemed to be required for a...
• 18 - Railroads Through Public Lands.
  The commissioner of general services may grant to any domestic or foreign railroad corporation land belonging to the people of the state, except the reservation...
• 19 - Railroads Through Indian Lands.
  Any railroad corporation may contract with the chiefs of any nation of Indians, over whose lands it may be necessary to construct its railroad, for...
• 20 - Railroads Through Chautauqua Assembly Grounds.
  No railroad corporation shall build, construct or operate any railroad in, upon, over or through the grounds, lands or premises owned by the Chautauqua assembly...
• 21 - Railroads Along Highways.
  No railroad corporation shall erect any bridge or other obstruction across, in or over any stream or lake, navigated by steam or sail boats at...
• 22 - Proceedings to Determine Point At Which a New Railroad Shall Intersect One Already Established; Compensation; Duties of Intersecting Roads.
  Every railroad corporation, whose road is or shall be intersected by any new railroad, shall unite with the corporation owning such new railroad in forming...
• 23 - Highway Exempted.
  No railroad shall be constructed, maintained or operated and no railroad tracks shall be laid upon the state road known as the Buffalo and White's...
• 24 - Change of Route, Grade or Terminus; Abandonment of Line or Portion Thereof.
  Every railroad corporation, except elevated railroad corporations, may, by a vote of two-thirds of all its directors, alter or change the route or any part...
• 28 - Tunnel Railroads.
  When, according to the route and plan for the building of its road, adopted by any railroad corporation, including corporations organized under chapter one hundred...
• 32 - Individual, Joint-Stock Association, or Other Corporation May Lay Down and Maintain Railroad Tracks in Certain Cases.
  Any individual, joint-stock association or corporation, engaged in any lawful business in this state, may, except in any city of the state, lay down and...
• 34 - Substituted Lines in Certain Cases.
  Where a portion of a steam surface railroad or branch thereof, shall be specifically authorized by statute to be taken for any other public use,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019