§ 220. Application for railroad; commissioners. Upon the application of at least fifty reputable householders and taxpayers of any county or city, verified upon oath before a justice of the supreme court, that there is need in said county or city of a steam railroad in the streets, avenues and public places thereof for the […]
§ 221. Oath and bond of commissioners. Within ten days after his appointment, and before entering upon the discharge of any of the duties of his office, each commissioner shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, which shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county and shall execute a […]
§ 222. First meeting of commissioners. Within fifteen days after their appointment, the commissioners shall meet in some convenient place in the county or city and organize themselves as a board with appropriate officers.
§ 223. Determination of necessity of railroad and route. The commissioners shall, within thirty days after such organization, determine upon the necessity of such steam railroad, and if they find it to be necessary, they shall, within sixty days after such organization, fix and determine the route therefor, and shall have the exclusive power to […]
§ 224. Adoption of plans, and terms upon which road shall be built. The commissioners by such public notice, and under such conditions, and with such inducements as they may prescribe, shall invite a submission of plans for the construction and operation of such railroad, and shall meet at a time and place in such […]
§ 225. Appraisal of damages and deposit of money as security. The commissioners shall, within one hundred and ten days after their organization, ascertain and determine the aggregate pecuniary damage arising from the diminution in the value of the property bounded on that portion of such street or streets, highway or highways, upon which it […]
§ 226. Shall prepare certificate of incorporation; proviso as to forfeiture. The commissioners shall prepare an appropriate certificate of incorporation for the corporation in the last section mentioned in which shall be set forth and embodied, as component parts thereof, the several conditions, requirements and particulars by such commissioners determined pursuant to the provisions of […]
§ 227. Organization. Whenever the whole capital stock of such corporation or an amount of such capital stock proportioned to the part of such railroad directed by the commissioners to be constructed, shall have been subscribed by not less than fifteen persons, and the fixed percentage of such subscriptions shall have been paid, in cash, […]
§ 228. Commissioners to deliver certificate; affidavit of directors. Within ten days after the election of such directors the commissioners shall deliver to them a certificate in duplicate, verified by the oath of three commissioners, before a justice of the supreme court, setting forth the certificate of incorporation and the organization of the corporation for […]
§ 229. Powers. Subject to the provisions of the transportation law, every such corporation shall have power, in addition to the powers conferred by the business corporation law and by subdivisions four and six of section eight of this chapter: 1. To take and convey persons and property on its railroad by the power or […]
§ 231. Where route coincides with another route. Whenever the route or routes determined upon by the commissioners coincide with the route or routes covered by the charter of an existing corporation, formed for the purpose of constructing and operating such a railroad, and it has not forfeited its charter or failed to comply with […]
§ 232. Commissioners to transfer plans. Within one month after such corporation shall have been formed and organized in the manner hereinbefore provided, the commissioners shall transfer and deliver to the corporation all plans, specifications, drawings, maps, books and papers in their possession, and they shall, within the like period of one month after the […]
§ 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 […]
