N.Y. Highway Law 253 – Use of toll bridge by public service corporations; conditions; powers of town board
§ 253. Use of toll bridge by public service corporations; conditions; powers of town board. After a bridge shall be acquired by the state under the provisions of this article, the same shall not be used by any railroad, telephone, gas, electric light, heat or power company or any other public service corporation, for any purpose except upon such terms and the payment of such rental as shall be determined by the town board of the town or towns and the common council of the city or cities within which it is situated. The money received therefor shall be divided equally between the localities. The provisions of this section, however, shall not affect any existing contract for the use of such bridge by any such corporation, except that the compensation provided for such use in such existing contract shall be paid to the localities as herein provided.
Terms Used In N.Y. Highway Law 253
- Bridge: means a structure including supports erected over a depression or an obstruction such as water, highway, or railway, having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads and having an opening measured along the center of the track or roadway of more than twenty feet between under croppings of abutments or spring lines or arches, or extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes and may include multiple pipes where the clear distance between openings is less than half of the smaller contiguous opening. See N.Y. Highway Law 230
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Railroad: means a private or public railroad operating in the state of New York carrying either freight, passengers or freight and passengers including, but not limited to, those operated by the metropolitan transportation authority and its subsidiaries, the Long Island Rail Road, the metro-north railroad, the Staten Island rapid transit operating authority, the New York city transit authority or any other public authority or local government and shall include tourist excursion operations and railrides on standard gauge tracks. See N.Y. Highway Law 230