RRD - Railroad
- Article 1 - (1 - 2) SHORT TITLE
- Article 2 - (5 - 34) ORGANIZATION, GENERAL POWERS AND LOCATION
- 5 - Incorporation.
- 6 - Applicability of business corporation law to railroad corporations.
- 8 - Additional powers conferred.
- 9 - Certificate of convenience and necessity.
- 16 - Location of route.
- 17 - Acquisition of title to real property; additions, betterments and facilities.
- 18 - Railroads through public lands.
- 19 - Railroads through Indian lands.
- 20 - Railroads through Chautauqua assembly grounds.
- 21 - Railroads along highways.
- 22 - Proceedings to determine point at which a new railroad shall intersect one already established; compensation; duties of intersecting roads.
- 23 - Highway exempted.
- 24 - Change of route, grade or terminus; abandonment of line or portion thereof.
- 28 - Tunnel railroads.
- 32 - Individual, joint-stock association, or other corporation may lay down and maintain railroad tracks in certain cases.
- 34 - Substituted lines in certain cases.
- Article 3 - (50 - 108) CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT
- 50 - Liability of corporation to employees of contractor.
- 51 - Weight of rail.
- 51-A - Clearances.
- 52 - Fences, farm crossings and cattle-guards.
- 52-A - Fences along road operated by electric third rail.
- 52-B - Fences along right of way.
- 52-C - Fences in Queens county.
- 52-D - Debris to be cleared.
- 52-E - Penalties for littering.
- 53 - Sign boards, flagmen and gates at crossings.
- 53-A - Warning signs.
- 53-B - Ringing bells and blowing whistles at crossings.
- 53-C - Obstructing farm and highway crossings.
- 53-D - Unlawful propulsion of a missile at railroad trains.
- 53-E - Unlawful interference with a railroad train.
- 54 - Notice of starting trains; no preferences.
- 54-A - Communication.
- 55 - Accommodation of connecting roads.
- 56 - Locomotives must stop at grade crossings.
- 57 - Rates of fare.
- 57-A - (Enacted without section heading).
- 58 - Excess charge when fare paid on cars.
- 59 - Penalty for excessive fare.
- 60 - Issue and use of mileage books.
- 61 - Passenger refusing to pay fare may be ejected.
- 61-A - Sounding of certain signals on railroad cars by unauthorized persons.
- 62 - Sleeping and parlor cars.
- 63 - Persons employed as drivers, conductors, motormen or gripmen.
- 64 - Injuries to employees.
- 65 - Conductors and employees must wear badges.
- 66 - Checks for baggage.
- 67 - Penalties for injuries to baggage.
- 68 - Unclaimed freight and baggage.
- 69 - Minimum standards for track inspection and maintenance.
- 70 - Rights and liabilities as common carriers.
- 71 - Duties imposed.
- 71-A - Reflective whistle signs.
- 72 - Inspection of locomotives.
- 73 - Inspectors of locomotives.
- 74 - Care of steam locomotives; steam and water cocks; penalty.
- 75 - commissioner of transportation may approve other safeguards.
- 76 - Use of stoves or furnaces prohibited; exceptions.
- 76-A - Motor cars and equipment.
- 76-B - Equipment required on motor vehicles transporting railroad employees; penalty.
- 77 - Equipment of engines.
- 77-A - First-aid equipment on locomotives.
- 77-B - Speedometers on certain locomotives.
- 77-C - Sanitary conditions.
- 78 - Coal jimmies and caboose cars.
- 78-A - Electric or battery-powered markers.
- 79 - Air-brakes.
- 80 - Couplers.
- 81 - Violation of sections seventy-seven, seventy-seven-c, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, and eighty.
- 82 - Canada thistles to be cut.
- 83 - Riding on platform; walking along track.
- 83-A - Operation of snowmobiles on railroad property.
- 83-B - Trespass upon railroad premises.
- 84 - Corporations may establish ferries.
- 85 - Certain railroads may cease operation in winter.
- 86 - Certain railroads need not be operated beyond June, July, August and September.
- 87 - Mails.
- 88 - When railroads may designate policemen.
- 89 - New railroads across streets.
- 90 - New streets across railroads.
- 91 - Alteration or rehabilitation of existing crossing.
- 92 - Acquisition of land, right or easement in crossing.
- 93 - Repair of bridges and subways at crossings.
- 93-A - Maintenance and removal of highway-railroad crossing at grade.
- 93-B - Maintenance and removal of highway-railroad separation structures.
- 94 - Performance of work; division of expenses; accounting; claims for damages; valuation.
- 95 - Proceedings by commissioner of transportation for alteration of existing crossings.
- 96 - Proceedings to enforce orders of commissioner of transportation.
- 97 - Intercity rail passenger service.
- 97-A - Commuter rail service.
- 98 - Intersection of railroads.
- 99 - Application of foregoing section.
- 100 - Temporary leave granted by court to a street surface railroad; bond.
- 101 - Consent of commissioner of transportation in certain cases.
- 102 - Ventilation of tunnels.
- 103 - Lighting of tunnels.
- 104 - Compliance with orders of commissioner of transportation.
- 105 - Enforcement.
- 106 - Penalty for violation.
- 107 - Judgment-roll.
- 108 - Approval of appliances in cities having a population of one million inhabitants or over.
- Article 4 - (140 - 162) CONSOLIDATION, LEASE, SALE AND REORGANIZATION
- 140 - Consolidation or merger of corporations owning or leasing continuous lines; abandonment of parallel lines; merger of subsidiary corporations.
- 141 - Mergers and consolidations of certain railroad corporations.
- 144 - Assessment of property of new or surviving corporation.
- 145 - Stocks of municipal corporations, how represented.
- 146 - Foreclosure of mortgages made by consolidated railroads partly in the state.
- 147 - Powers of corporations organized to acquire and operate railroads partly in the state.
- 148 - Lease and conveyance of road.
- 151 - Mortgagee may purchase at foreclosure sale.
- 162 - Acquisition and maintenance of railroad built, owned or operated by a corporation not organized under this chapter.
- Article 5 - (170 - 210) STREET SURFACE RAILROADS
- 170 - Street surface railroads; general provisions.
- 171 - Consent of property owners and local authorities.
- 172 - Consent of local authorities; how procured.
- 173 - Condition upon which consent shall be given; sale of franchise at public auction.
- 173-A - (Enacted without section heading).
- 173-B - (Enacted without section heading).
- 173-C - (Enacted without section heading).
- 173-D - (Enacted without section heading).
- 173-E - (Enacted without section heading).
- 173-F - (Enacted without section heading).
- 173-G - Approval of permit or amendment by commissioner of transportation.
- 173-H - Existing license, grant, franchise, permit or consent reinstated on invalidity of amendment.
- 174 - Proceedings if property owners do not consent.
- 175 - Percentage of gross receipts to be paid in cities or villages; report of officers.
- 176 - Extension of route over rivers; terminus in other counties; when property owners withhold consent; supreme court may appoint commissioners.
- 177 - Use of tracks of other roads.
- 178 - Repair of streets; rate of speed; removal of ice and snow.
- 178-A - Headlights.
- 179 - Within what time road to be built.
- 180 - Motive power.
- 181 - Rate of fare.
- 182 - Collection of fare.
- 183 - Construction of road in street where other road is built.
- 184 - Abandonment of part of route.
- 185 - Effect of dissolution of charter as to consents.
- 186 - Corporate rights saved in case of failure to complete road; right to operate branches; conditions; former consents ratified; limitations.
- 187 - Extensions and franchises confirmed.
- 188 - Certain consents of local authorities confirmed.
- 189 - Time extended for payment of percentage based on gross receipts.
- 191 - Road not to be constructed upon ground occupied by public buildings or in public parks.
- 192 - Center-bearing rails prohibited.
- 192-A - Relocation of tracks.
- 193 - Right to cross bridge substituted for a bridge crossed for five years.
- 194 - Protection of employees.
- 195 - Platforms on new cars, how constructed.
- 196 - Protection to employees in the counties of Albany and Rensselaer.
- 197 - Protection of employees in the counties of Kings and Queens.
- 198 - Contracts for the adjustment of payments due certain cities.
- 201 - Construction of park railroads in cities having a population of one million five hundred thousand or upwards.
- 202 - Consents of property owners.
- 203 - Expense of construction and operation.
- 204 - Agreements for payment of cost of construction by instalments.
- 205 - Disposition of income.
- 206 - Motive power.
- 207 - Railroads in parks in New York city, by whom constructed.
- 209 - Change of motive power authorized.
- 210 - New streets across other than steam surface railroads.
- Article 6 - (220 - 244) RAPID TRANSIT ACT OF 1875
- 220 - Application for railroad; commissioners.
- 221 - Oath and bond of commissioners.
- 222 - First meeting of commissioners.
- 223 - Determination of necessity of railroad and route.
- 224 - Adoption of plans, and terms upon which road shall be built.
- 225 - Appraisal of damages and deposit of money as security.
- 226 - Shall prepare certificate of incorporation; proviso as to forfeiture.
- 227 - Organization.
- 228 - Commissioners to deliver certificate; affidavit of directors.
- 229 - Powers.
- 231 - Where route coincides with another route.
- 232 - Commissioners to transfer plans.
- 233 - Commissioners to file report; confirmation thereof.
- 234 - Pay of commissioners.
- 235 - Quorum; term of office; removal; vacancies in board of commissioners.
- 236 - Abandonment or change of route; new commissioners; their powers and proceedings.
- 237 - Abandonment of portion of route by elevated railroad.
- 238 - Increased deposit, when and how required.
- 239 - Trains to come to full stop.
- 240 - Gates or vestibule doors.
- 241 - Penalty for violation of two preceding sections.
- 242 - Sections to be printed and posted.
- 243 - Extension of time.
- 244 - Lighting cars on elevated railroads in cities of over twelve hundred thousand inhabitants.
- Article 7 - (300 - 313) RAILROAD REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS
- 300 - Legislative policy and purposes.
- 301 - Qualification.
- 302 - Certain directors to be local residents.
- 303 - Certificate of approval.
- 304 - Limitations upon payments on indebtedness and stock.
- 305 - Tax exemption.
- 306 - Rates, fares, and charges.
- 307 - Fare changes.
- 308 - Reductions in fares and charges.
- 309 - Reports to the commissioner of transportation.
- 310 - Accounting terms.
- 311 - Termination of qualification.
- 312 - Orders of the commissioner of transportation.
- 313 - Application of other laws.
- Article 8 - (450 - 451) LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT