New York Rapid Transit Law Article 6 - ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY BY THE CITY

• 50 - Acquisition of Property.
  a. For the purpose of constructing or operating any road for the construction or operation of which a contract shall have been made by the...
• 51 - Right of Board of Transportation to Enter Upon Property.
  It shall and may be lawful for the board of transportation, and for all persons acting under its authority, to enter in the day time...
• 52 - Maps and Plans to Be Filed.
  The board of transportation shall cause three similar maps or plans to be made of each parcel of property which it may deem necessary so...
• 53 - Corporation Counsel to Acquire Property.
  a. Whenever and as often as the board of transportation shall deem it to be necessary and proper that the city should acquire any such...
• 54 - Disposition of Maps.
  The corporation counsel shall cause one of the maps or plans, so transmitted to him, to be filed in the office of the register of...
• 55 - Notice of Intention to Condemn Property.
  The corporation counsel shall give or cause to be given notice by publication in two public newspapers published in the city, of his intention to...
• 56 - Application to Condemn Property.
  After such maps shall have been filed in the office of the register or county clerk, the corporation counsel, for and on behalf of the...
• 57 - Procedure in Case Property is Situated in Two or More Counties.
  If the property to be acquired or extinguished in any proceeding be situated in two or more counties, the maps or plans and memoranda required...
• 58 - Order Granting Application to Condemn.
  At the time and place mentioned in such notice, unless the court shall adjourn such application to a subsequent date, and in that event at...
• 59 - Examination Before Trial.
  A proceeding by the board of transportation to acquire title to property or any right therein for the purposes of this chapter by condemnation shall...
• 60 - Trial; Evidence of Value.
  a. Upon the trial, evidence of the price and other terms upon any sale, or of the rent reserved and other terms upon any lease,...
• 61 - Order to Expedite Proceeding.
  At any time after the date of entry of the order granting the application to condemn the corporation counsel or any owner may apply to...
• 62 - Time When City Becomes Seized.
  Upon the date of the entry of the order granting the application to condemn, the city shall be and become seized and possessed in fee...
• 63 - Partial Payment of Awards.
  In any proceeding instituted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the acquisition of title to property by the city, in which title thereto...
• 64 - Payment of Liens and Encumbrances.
  Whenever a person would be entitled to the payment of any advance under section sixty-three of this chapter and there shall exist mortgages or other...
• 65 - Tentative Decree; Objections Thereto.
  The court, after hearing such testimony and considering such proofs as may be offered, shall ascertain and estimate the compensation which ought justly to be...
• 66 - Final Decree.
  After considering the objections, if any, and making any corrections or alterations in the tentative decree which the court shall consider just and proper, it...
• 67 - Payment of Awards and Expenses.
  Within four calendar months after the date of the filing of the final decree of the court, the city shall pay to the parties entitled...
• 68 - Moneys of Persons Under Disability; Moneys Paid to Wrong Persons.
  Whenever the owner or any person interested in any property taken or affected in such proceedings or in whose favor any such sum or compensation...
• 69 - Cost of Acquiring Property.
  The moneys necessary and sufficient to be paid for any property acquired in any manner under the provisions of this chapter, together with all expenses...
• 70 - Amendments of Defects.
  The special term of the supreme court, in the judicial district in which the property affected by the proceeding is situated, at any time may...
• 71 - Appeal to the Appellate Division.
  The city, or any party or person affected by the proceeding and aggrieved by the final decree of the court therein, may appeal to the...
• 72 - Appeal to Court of Appeals.
  An appeal to the court of appeals may be taken by the city or any person or party interested in the proceeding and aggrieved by...
• 73 - Property Deemed Acquired for Public Use.
  All property acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall be and shall be deemed to have been acquired for public uses and purposes, and...

Last modified: February 3, 2019