§ 22. Proceedings to determine point at which a new railroad shall intersect one already established; compensation; duties of intersecting roads. Every railroad corporation, whose road is or shall be intersected by any new railroad, shall unite with the corporation owning such new railroad in forming the necessary intersections and connections, and grant the requisite […]
§ 23. Highway exempted. No railroad shall be constructed, maintained or operated and no railroad tracks shall be laid upon the state road known as the Buffalo and White’s Corners plank-road in the county of Erie, where none now exists, excepting such as may be necessarily laid for the purpose only of crossing said highway. […]
§ 24. Change of route, grade or terminus; abandonment of line or portion thereof. Every railroad corporation, except elevated railroad corporations, may, by a vote of two-thirds of all its directors, alter or change the route or any part of the route of its road or its termini, or locate such route, or any part […]
§ 28. Tunnel railroads. When, according to the route and plan for the building of its road, adopted by any railroad corporation, including corporations organized under chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty, and the acts amendatory thereof, and supplementary thereto, it shall be necessary or proper to build […]
§ 32. Individual, joint-stock association, or other corporation may lay down and maintain railroad tracks in certain cases. Any individual, joint-stock association or corporation, engaged in any lawful business in this state, may, except in any city of the state, lay down and maintain such railroad tracks on or across any street or highway, not […]
§ 34. Substituted lines in certain cases. Where a portion of a steam surface railroad or branch thereof, shall be specifically authorized by statute to be taken for any other public use, and such portion lies wholly outside of any city, any corporation owning or operating such portion may locate, as provided in section sixteen […]
§ 5. Incorporation. A railroad corporation may be formed under this chapter for the purpose of owning or operating a railroad for public use, in accordance with the procedure for the formation of corporations set forth in article four of the business corporation law, by delivering to the department of state for filing a certificate […]
