§ 220. Short title. This article shall be known as the “grade crossing elimination act of nineteen hundred seventy.” However, sections of the transportation law falling within this article may be cited either as sections of the transportation law or as sections of the “grade crossing elimination act of nineteen hundred seventy.”
§ 221. Purpose. This article shall continue the implementation of section fourteen of article seven of the constitution and shall supersede chapter six hundred seventy-seven and chapter six hundred seventy-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-eight, and all acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, known as the “grade crossing elimination act,” and chapter two […]
§ 222. Applicability; general provisions of grade crossing elimination. 1. This article shall apply to all highway-railroad grade crossing eliminations the construction work for which is commenced on or after March first, nineteen hundred seventy-one, except that any such projects authorized pursuant to the provisions of the highway law may be constructed in accordance therewith. […]
§ 223. Expenses of elimination; approval and payment; costs of railroad improvements. The expense of every highway-railroad grade crossing elimination project constructed pursuant to the provisions of this article, including incidental improvements connected therewith, as determined by the commissioner to be necessary or desirable because of the elimination and reasonably included in the plans for […]
§ 224. Statement of expenses; filing; reimbursement of state for railroad improvements. Upon the determination of the commissioner of (1) the cost of such elimination including incidental improvements connected therewith; (2) the cost of such elimination exclusive of such incidental improvements; (3) the cost of the railroad improvements not an essential part of the elimination; […]
§ 225. Performance of work. 1. Except for work on the railroad tracks or other railroad facilities performed by railroad company forces at the direction of the commissioner and elimination work which the commissioner determines shall be accomplished by use of departmental forces, equipment and materials purchased therefor, all highway-railroad grade crossing elimination work shall […]
§ 226. Persons aggrieved; right to hearing; rehearing; appeals. Any person aggrieved by any order or decision provided for in this article, or made pursuant thereto, and who was a party to such proceeding, may within thirty days after the service of such order or decision, apply for a hearing on the subject matter thereof […]
§ 227. Federal aid; receipt and expenditure. The comptroller is hereby authorized to accept from the federal government or any department or agency thereof any moneys in any way granted, allocated or apportioned for the purpose of highway-railroad grade crossing eliminations or the reconstruction or repair of existing grade crossing separation structures and deposit them […]
§ 228. Acquisition of property required for grade crossing elimination projects. 1. The commissioner shall cause to be prepared an accurate acquisition map of any and all property which he may deem necessary for purposes connected with the elimination of any grade crossing, or of any property in and to which he may deem the […]
§ 229. Pending grade crossing elimination proceedings. In connection with any proceedings for the elimination of a grade crossing in which all business and matters have not been completed on March first, nineteen hundred seventy-one, the commissioner may make any determinations; redeterminations; findings; amended, supplemental or revised findings; orders; or amended, supplemental or revised orders […]
