New York · statute · N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law · 82 active provisions
CHAPTER 762 AN ACT to amend the transportation corporations law, generally. Became a law May 4, 1926, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All, after the title, of chapter two hundr…
ARTICLE 1. SHORT TITLE; CLASSIFICATION; INCORPORATION; APPLICATION. Section 1. Short title. 2. Classification of transportation corporations. 3. Incorporation. 4. Applicability of business corporation law to transportation corporations. 5. Application. 6. Merger of subsidiary corporations.
§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Transportation Corporations Law."
§ 2. Classification of transportation corporations. A transportation corporation shall be either, 1. A gas corporation, an electric corporation or a gas and electric corporation. 2. A telegraph corporation, a telephone corporation or a telegraph and telephone corporation. 3. A water-works corporation. 5. A ferry corpor…
§ 3. Incorporation. (a) A transportation corporation may be formed under this chapter, 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 of incorporation entitled "Certificate of…
§ 4. Applicability of business corporation law to transportation corporations. (a) The business corporation law applies to a corporation heretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or under any other statute or special act of this state, or under laws other than the statutes of this state, which has as its purpo…
§ 5. Application. A corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated under a general law for a purpose or purposes for which a corporation may be formed under this chapter shall in respect to such purpose or purposes have all the powers and privileges conferred, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and limitat…
§ 6. Merger of subsidiary corporations. (a) Any domestic transportation corporation or any foreign corporation authorized to do in this state any business which may be done in this state by a domestic transportation corporation, owning at least ninety-five percent of the outstanding shares of each class of any domestic…
ARTICLE 2. GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATIONS. Section 10. Definitions. 11. Powers. 12. Gas and electricity must be supplied on application. 15. Refusal or neglect to pay rent. 16. No rent for meters to be charged. 17. Construction over Indian reservation.
§ 10. Definitions. A gas corporation is a corporation organized to manufacture, to produce or otherwise acquire and to supply for public use artificial or natural gas, a mixture of both artificial and natural gases or thermal energy for light, heat or power and for lighting the streets and public and private buildings…
§ 11. Powers. Every such corporation shall have the following powers: 1. A gas corporation and a gas and electric corporation shall have power to manufacture gas, and to acquire thermal energy or natural or artificial gas and to mix the gases and to sell and furnish thermal energy for heating or cooling or gas for ligh…
§ 12. Gas and electricity must be supplied on application. Except in the case of an application for residential utility service pursuant to article two of the public service law, upon written application of the owner or occupant of any building within one hundred feet of any main of a gas corporation or gas and electri…
§ 15. Refusal or neglect to pay rent. If any person supplied with gas or electric light by any such corporation, except residential customers supplied pursuant to article two of the public service law shall neglect or refuse to pay the rent or remuneration due for the same or for the wires, pipes or fittings let by the…
§ 16. No rent for meters to be charged. No gas corporation, electric corporation or gas and electric corporation directly or indirectly shall charge or collect rent on its gas meters, and any person, or corporation violating this provision shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be sued for a…
§ 17. Construction over Indian reservation. A gas corporation, an electric corporation or a gas and electric corporation may contract with the chiefs of any nation of Indians over whose lands it may be necessary to construct its gas or electric lines for the right to construct such lines upon such lands, but no such co…
ARTICLE 3. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS. Section 25. Definitions. 26. Extension of lines. 27. Construction of lines. 28. Transmission of dispatches. 29. Transfer of property to other corporations. 30. Special police officers of corporation operating signal systems. 30-a. Merger or consolidation of telephone cor…
§ 25. Definitions. A telegraph corporation is a corporation organized to construct, own, use and maintain a line or lines of electric telegraph wholly within or partly without this state, or to acquire and own any interest in any such line or lines, or any grants therefor or for any or all of such purposes. A telephone…
§ 26. Extension of lines. A telegraph corporation, a telephone corporation or a telegraph and telephone corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated under or by any general or special law may construct, own, use and maintain any line of electric telegraph or telephone, whether or not the line and the territory in w…
§ 27. Construction of lines. Any such corporation may erect, construct and maintain the necessary fixtures for its lines upon, over or under any of the public roads, streets and highways; and through, across or under any of the waters within the limits of this state, and may erect, construct and maintain its necessary…
§ 28. Transmission of dispatches. Every such corporation shall receive dispatches from and for other telegraph or telephone lines or corporations, and from and for any person, and on payment of the usual charges for transmitting dispatches as established by the rules and regulations of such corporation, transmit the sa…
§ 29. Transfer of property to other corporations. Any such corporation may lease, sell or convey its property, rights, privileges and franchises, or any interest therein, or any part thereof to any telegraph, telephone or telegraph and telephone corporation organized under or created by the laws of this or any other st…
§ 30. Special police officers of corporation operating signal systems. The police department or board of police of any city may, in addition to the police force now authorized by law, appoint a number of persons, not exceeding two hundred, who may be designated by any corporation operating a system of signaling by tele…
§ 30-a. Merger or consolidation of telephone corporations. Any two or more domestic telephone corporations may merge or consolidate with each other, in accordance with the procedure and with the effect set forth in article nine of the business corporation law.
§ 30-b. Merger or consolidation of telegraph corporations. Any two or more domestic telegraph corporations may merge or consolidate with each other, in accordance with the procedure and with the effect set forth in article nine of the business corporation law.
§ 31. Application of article. The provisions of this article shall apply to corporations owning, leasing, maintaining or operating or organized for the purpose of owning, leasing, maintaining or operating, a radio or wireless plant, equipment or system as a part of, or in conjunction with, a station or stations engaged…