244 – Lighting Cars on Elevated Railroads in Cities of Over Twelve Hundred Thousand Inhabitants.
§ 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 in eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall equip all cars used for the transportation of passengers […]
243 – Extension of Time.
§ 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 for good cause shown, for one year, and but one extension will be granted. Any company that has heretofore constructed or is now operating an […]
233 – Commissioners to File Report; Confirmation Thereof.
§ 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 department in which such railroad may be located, of the amount of the pecuniary damages arising from the diminution of value of […]
234 – Pay of Commissioners.
§ 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 such commissioner, and all expenses necessarily incurred by him in the discharge of his duties, to be paid by such corporation, but if a sufficient […]
235 – Quorum; Term of Office; Removal; Vacancies in Board of Commissioners.
§ 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 the performance of any duty or function, or the exercise of any power, conferred or enjoined upon them. […]
236 – Abandonment or Change of Route; New Commissioners; Their Powers and Proceedings.
§ 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 railroad upon a part and not upon the whole of the route fixed, determined and located for […]
237 – Abandonment of Portion of Route by Elevated Railroad.
§ 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 to the twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall have built and operated six-tenths of its route as […]
238 – Increased Deposit, When and How Required.
§ 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 county treasurer or trust company with whom they may be deposited, fall below their actual value at the time of deposit, the […]
239 – Trains to Come to Full Stop.
§ 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 such railroad shall be permitted to start until every passenger desiring to depart therefrom shall have left the train, provided such passenger […]
240 – Gates or Vestibule Doors.
§ 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, be caught and held open by such catch or spring as will prevent their swinging and obstructing passengers in their egress from or ingress […]