New York Railroad Law Article 5 - STREET SURFACE RAILROADS
- 170 - Street Surface Railroads; General Provisions.
The provisions of this article shall apply to every corporation which, under the provisions thereof, or of any other law, has constructed or shall construct...
- 171 - Consent of Property Owners and Local Authorities.
A street surface railroad, or extensions or branches thereof, shall not be built, extended or operated unless the consent in writing acknowledged or proved as...
- 172 - Consent of Local Authorities; How Procured.
The application for the consent of the local authorities shall be in writing and before acting thereon such authorities shall give public notice thereof and...
- 173 - Condition Upon Which Consent Shall Be Given; Sale of Franchise At Public Auction.
The consent of the local authorities in any city having a population of three hundred thousand or more must contain the condition that the right,...
- 173-a - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
173-a. The term "terminable permit" as used in this article shall mean and embrace every grant from a city, town or village of power, right...
- 173-b - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
173-b. Every city, town and village of this state, in addition to such powers as it may have relating to the granting of rights, privileges,...
- 173-c - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
173-c. Every city, town and village of this state shall have power, subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and seventy-three-a to one hundred...
- 173-d - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
173-d. Whenever any street surface railroad is or may be operated along or upon any of the streets, roads, highways, avenues, parks or public places...
- 173-e - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
173-e. The acceptance of a terminable permit, or the acceptance of an amendment to any existing license, grant, franchise, permit or consent incorporating therein the...
- 173-f - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
173-f. Every terminable permit, and every amendment to any existing license, grant, franchise, permit or consent incorporating therein the terms of a terminable permit, shall...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 175 - Percentage of Gross Receipts to Be Paid in Cities or Villages; Report of Officers.
Every corporation building or operating a railroad or branch or extension thereof, under the provisions of this article, or of chapter two hundred and fifty-two...
- 176 - Extension of Route Over Rivers; Terminus in Other Counties; When Property Owners Withhold Consent; Supreme Court May Appoint Commissioners.
Any street railroad in operation in this state, which shall, by a two-thirds vote of its directors, decide to extend the route of its road,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 183 - Construction of Road in Street Where Other Road is Built.
No street surface railroad corporation shall construct, extend or operate its road or tracks in that portion of any street, avenue, road or highway, in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 186 - Corporate Rights Saved in Case of Failure to Complete Road; Right to Operate Branches; Conditions; Former Consents Ratified; Limitations.
The corporate existence and powers of every street surface railroad corporation, which has completed a railroad upon a substantial portion of the route designated in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 205 - Disposition of Income.
The compensation or income which shall be received by such cities from such railroad, except as the same may be otherwise applied pursuant to the...
- 206 - Motive Power.
Any portion of any railroad constructed, equipped and operated under section two hundred and one may be operated by cable.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Last modified: February 3, 2019