New York Railroad Law Article 6 - RAPID TRANSIT ACT OF 1875

• 220 - Application for Railroad; Commissioners.
  Upon the application of at least fifty reputable householders and taxpayers of any county or city, verified upon oath before a justice of the supreme...
• 221 - Oath and Bond of Commissioners.
  Within ten days after his appointment, and before entering upon the discharge of any of the duties of his office, each commissioner shall take and...
• 222 - First Meeting of Commissioners.
  Within fifteen days after their appointment, the commissioners shall meet in some convenient place in the county or city and organize themselves as a board...
• 223 - Determination of Necessity of Railroad and Route.
  The commissioners shall, within thirty days after such organization, determine upon the necessity of such steam railroad, and if they find it to be necessary,...
• 224 - Adoption of Plans, and Terms Upon Which Road Shall Be Built.
  The commissioners by such public notice, and under such conditions, and with such inducements as they may prescribe, shall invite a submission of plans for...
• 225 - Appraisal of Damages and Deposit of Money As Security.
  The commissioners shall, within one hundred and ten days after their organization, ascertain and determine the aggregate pecuniary damage arising from the diminution in the...
• 226 - Shall Prepare Certificate of Incorporation; Proviso As to Forfeiture.
  The commissioners shall prepare an appropriate certificate of incorporation for the corporation in the last section mentioned in which shall be set forth and embodied,...
• 227 - Organization.
  Whenever the whole capital stock of such corporation or an amount of such capital stock proportioned to the part of such railroad directed by the...
• 228 - Commissioners to Deliver Certificate; Affidavit of Directors.
  Within ten days after the election of such directors the commissioners shall deliver to them a certificate in duplicate, verified by the oath of three...
• 229 - Powers.
  Subject to the provisions of the transportation law, every such corporation shall have power, in addition to the powers conferred by the business corporation law...
• 231 - Where Route Coincides With Another Route.
  Whenever the route or routes determined upon by the commissioners coincide with the route or routes covered by the charter of an existing corporation, formed...
• 232 - Commissioners to Transfer Plans.
  Within one month after such corporation shall have been formed and organized in the manner hereinbefore provided, the commissioners shall transfer and deliver to the...
• 233 - Commissioners to File Report; Confirmation Thereof.
  The commissioners shall within one hundred and forty days after their appointment, make a report to a special term of the supreme court of the...
• 234 - Pay of Commissioners.
  Each of the commissioners shall be paid for his services at the rate of ten dollars per day for each day of actual service as...
• 235 - Quorum; Term of Office; Removal; Vacancies in Board of Commissioners.
  A majority of the members of any board of commissioners appointed under this article shall be a quorum for the transaction of any business or...
• 236 - Abandonment or Change of Route; New Commissioners; Their Powers and Proceedings.
  Any corporation heretofore organized or hereafter to be organized under this article, its successor or assigns, which shall have constructed or put in operation a...
• 237 - Abandonment of Portion of Route by Elevated Railroad.
  Any company operating an elevated railroad or railroads in any city of this state for the transportation of passengers, mails or freight, and which, prior...
• 238 - Increased Deposit, When and How Required.
  In case any of the securities deposited in lieu of money as provided in section two hundred and twenty-five, shall in the opinion of the...
• 239 - Trains to Come to Full Stop.
  All trains upon elevated railroads shall come to a full stop before any passenger shall be permitted to leave such trains; and no train on...
• 240 - Gates or Vestibule Doors.
  Every car used for passengers upon elevated railroads shall have gates at the outer edge of its platforms so constructed that they shall, when opened,...
• 241 - Penalty for Violation of Two Preceding Sections.
  Any elevated railroad corporation that shall fail or neglect to comply with or enforce the provisions of the two preceding sections, shall upon the petition...
• 242 - Sections to Be Printed and Posted.
  The officers and board of directors of such railroad corporations shall cause copies of sections two hundred and thirty-nine, two hundred and forty and two...
• 243 - Extension of Time.
  The time within which any act is required to be done under the foregoing sections of this article may be extended by the supreme court...
• 244 - Lighting Cars on Elevated Railroads in Cities of Over Twelve Hundred Thousand Inhabitants.
  Every corporation operating an elevated railroad in any city of over twelve hundred thousand inhabitants in this state, computed according to the state enumeration had...

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