The Statute Railroad Laws of the State of New York: Codified and Arranged Under Appropriate Titles, with Notes of Judicial Decisions, Together with an Appendix of Forms and a Table of Existing Railroad Corporations and Local Enactments Affecting the Same

John H. Colby, New York (State)

W.C. Little & Company, 1882 - Railroad law - 718 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER PAGE: 1
• LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY FOR LABOR PERFORMED IN CONSTRUCT ING ITS ROAD: 15
• Narrow guage roads how organized: 19
• OF THE FORMATION OF RAILROAD CORPORATIONS WHEN RAILWAY: 24
• THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS THEIR POWERS AND LIABILITIES AND: 42
• JUDICIAL SUPERVISION OF THE CORPORATION AND OF THE OFFICERS: 43
• PAGE: 46
• Change in certain cases of the times for holding the elec tions: 50
• Directors how voted for by stockholders: 51
• Evidence of right to vote: 52
• Stock register to be opened thirty days previous to the elec tion of directors: 53
• Inspectors of election to be sworn: 54
• Married woman stockholder may vote at elections: 55
• Proceedings in case of failure to hold election: 57
• Directors prohibited from concealing notice of application for injunction and receiver: 61
• Certain transfers of property prohibited by directors: 62
• Directors liable for contracting excessive debts: 63
• Directors when liable for debts in excesss of capital stock: 64
• Directors prohibited in certain cases from making dividends or reducing capital stock: 65
• Officers of railroad company contracting excessive debts guilty of misdemeanor: 67
• Misconduct of directors of stock corporations: 68
• Officers of corporation publishing false reports of its condi tion: 69
• Foreign corporations: 70
• OF THE CAPITAL STOCK SECTION 82 Amount of the capital stock: 74
• Number of shares of the capital stock: 75
• Original subscriptions to the capital stock: 76
• Subscription to stock how made and when payable and of the forfeiture thereof for nonpayment: 80
• Maps and profiles to be filed in the office of the State engi: 83
• Capital stock how transferred: 85
• Increase of capital stock how made: 92
• Increase of capital stock to meet the conversion of bonds: 95
• 92a Notice of meeting to reduce stock: 96
• Reduction of capital stock in cases where the articles of asso ciation have been amended by one railroad intersecting with another road: 97
• Reduction of capital stock when part of line of road in an adjoining state: 98
• Fraudulent issue of stock etc a misdemeanor: 100
• Unauthorized issue of stock: 101
• President treasurer and secretary may issue certificates of stock in certain cases after foreclosure and sale of the prop erty and franchises of the corpor...: 102
• Sale of stock on time legalized: 103
• Frauds in procuring organization or increase of capital: 104
• OF THE STOCKHOLDERS SECTION 105 Liabilities of stockholders: 106
• the corporation: 122
• Stockholders liability when whole capital stock not paid in: 124
• Relief of stockholders where certificates of stock have been lost or destroyed: 125
• Action against stockholders who named as defendants 227: 127
• Stockholders admission not evidence against corporation: 128
• OF THE POWERS OF THE CORPORATION: 129
• Order confirming report to be filed and effect of the order: 170
• Renewing proceedings in case of abandonment by the com pany: 173
• Either party may appeal: 174
• Difference in amount of compensation on second report: 176
• Power of the court to amend defects and irregularities: 177
• Proceedings to acquire additional real estate and to correct defective title: 178
• Legislation prior to general railroad act to acquire title to lands upon change of route of road: 183
• How title to land acquired prior to the general railroad act in cases when company could not agree with the owner: 184
• Special estates in law title to how acquired: 185
• Trustee not authorized to sell proceedings to acquire title to land: 187
• United Statescertain landstitle to not affected by railroad privileges: 188
• OF THE PREMIMINARY SURVEYMAP AND PROFILE OF PROPOSED ROUTE AND OF OTHER MAPS AND PROFILES AND OF THE ALTER...: 189
• Map and profile of proposed route to be made and filed: 190
• Notice and petition by owner of land aggrieved by location of proposed route: 191
• When route shall be altered: 192
• Map and profile of the constructed road: 193
• RAIL WEIGHT OF 218: 197
• The liability of the company: 233
• Notice to be given by laborer: 234
• Limitation for bringing action: 235
• GENERAL LIEN LAW FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYEES SECTION 213 Lien upon track and appurtenances: 236
• Action to enforce lien: 237
• Personal liability of stockholders etc: 238
• OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ROAD SECTION 221 Formation of passenger trains: 239
• misdemeanor: 247
• Signals at railroad crossings bells to be rung and whistles sounded: 248
• PAGE: 256
• Failure to ring bell etc a misdemeanor: 257
• Canada thistles daisies and noxious weeds to cut down: 258
• Certain regulations concerning the management of narrow guage railroads: 259
• Action prosecuted for whose benefit: 260
• Prevention of accidents upon railroads: 262
• Riding on freight trains a misdemeanor: 263
• The same offender liable to company for damages: 264
• Injuries to railroads tracks etc how punished: 265
• Crimes committed on railway trains etc how punished: 266
• OF THE TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY AND OF THE COMPENSATION AND RATE OF FARE THEREFOR: 268
• Powers of the corporation to convey persons and property: 269
• Duty of corporation in respect to passengers and freight: 272
• Companies to receive from each other and forward freight: 273
• Duty of connecting roads prior to the passage of the general railroad act: 274
• United States mail transportation of: 275
• Regulations concerning the transportation of live stock: 276
• Transporting animals for more than twentyfour consecutive hours a misdemeanor: 277
• Carrying animals in a cruel manner: 278
• The same checks how to be made: 286
• Disposition of unclaimed and perishable freight: 287
• Description to be entered in a book: 288
• If not called for in sixty days to be opened and inventory made and sold at public auction: 289
• Penalty: 290
• Amount of railroad fare: 317
• Fare on rope or cable stationary power railroads: 318
• Ejection of passenger for nonpayment of fare: 319
• Ejection of passenger when declared not unlawful: 321
• Payment of canal tolls abolished: 322
• OF IMMIGRANTS TRANSPORTATION OF SALE OF TICKETS TO AND LAWS: 328
• Sale of railroad tickets by unauthorized persons: 336
• What deemed railroad tickets within the meaning of the foregoing provisions: 338
• Tickets for sleeping cars: 339
• Sale of passenger tickets forbidden except by agents: 340
• Sales by authorized agents restricted: 341
• Punishment for violation of preceding sections: 342
• Station masters conductors etc allowed to sell tickets: 343
• OF EMPLOYEES OF RAILROAD CORPORATIONS SECTION 318a Employee to wear badge: 344
• misdemeanor: 345
• Same and to go into service of another company a misde meanor: 346
• Person of intemperate habits to be refused employment: 347
• Intoxication of persons running trains and boats a misde meanor: 348
• CHAPTER TWENTY RAILROAD POLICE SECTION 331 Railroad corporation may apply for appointment of police: 353
• Police to wear shield etc: 354
• Compensation of the police: 355
• Restrictions contained in State constitution: 356
• Restrictions contained in general railroad: 373
• RAPID TRANSIT AND ELEVATED RAILROADS: 385
• General provisions for acquiring title to land and construc: 408
• OF RAILROADS HELD UNDER LEASE: 418
• Consolidation when perfected: 426
• RAILROAD BONDS AND MORTGAGES: 433
• OF THE RIGHTS ACQUIRED BY PURCHASERS AT MORTGAGE FORECLOS: 440
• companies lying partly within and partly without this State: 449
• When the president treasurer and secretary may issue cer tificates of stock after a foreclosure and sale: 450
• The increasing of the capital stock to facilitate the reorganiza tion of railroads: 451
• OF MUNICIPAL AID AND CREDIT GIVEN TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROADS: 453
• Information against a corporation: 479
• When and how served: 480
• Falsely indicating person as corporate officer is forgery: 481
• OF THE TAXATION OF RAILROAD CORPORATIONS SECTION 420 Railroads are subject to taxation: 483
• Real estate of the company when assessed: 484
• Property how to be estimated and assessed: 485
• Consolidated company how assessed: 486
• Capital stock how taxed: 487
• Duties of school collectors: 488
• Companies may pay collector: 489
• Alteration of valuation: 490
• Tax may be paid to county treasurer: 491
• President or treasurer to make report to comptroller: 492
• Comptroller when to add percentage: 493
• Annual tax etc: 494
• When payable: 495
• Tax on railroad companies: 496
• Tax when payable etc: 497
• Tax under repealed act to be enforced: 498
• To deliver statement to comptroller: 499
• Companies how assessed: 500
• Preceding section extended: 501
• Taxes to be stated and collected: 502
• Proceedings if taxes cannot be collected: 503
• ACTIONS BY THE CORPORATION AND AGAINST THE CORPORATION TO RECOVER DAMAGES OR PROPERTY SECTION 474 Complaint ...: 505
• Action against a corporation on a note etc: 506
• Actions against directors etc of a corporation for miscon: 508
• ACTION BY THE PEOPLE TO ANNUL THE CORPORATION: 516
• When attorney general must bring action: 520
• UNREPEALED PORTIONS OF THE REVISED STATUTES AND SUBSEQUENT: 528
• Money refunded: 534
• Previous notice thereof 53 5: 535
• Receiver to report to attorney general: 537
• Powers of receivers extended for protection against fraud: 538
• Officers of company punished for concealing notices for in junction on receiver: 539
• Definition of domestic and foreign corporation under the Code of Civil Procedure: 540
• upon a foreign corporation: 541
• Cases in which the service of a summons by publication etc may be ordered: 542
• Verification of pleading how and by whom made: 544
• Attachment of unpaid subscription to foreign corporation: 545
• Persons refusing certificate may be examined: 546
• Admission by member of corporation: 547
• When personal attendance not required by subpœna duces tecum: 548
• How copy to be verified: 549
• THE HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE COMPANY AT ALBANY: 551
• TABLE OF EXISTING RAILROAD CORPORATIONS IN THE STATE OF: 607
• completion of extended: 608

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Statute Railroad Laws of the State of New York: Codified and Arranged Under Appropriate Titles, with Notes of Judicial Decisions, Together with an Appendix of Forms and a Table of Existing Railroad Corporations and Local Enactments Affecting the Same
• Authors: John H. Colby, New York (State)
• Publisher: W.C. Little & Company, 1882
• Length: 718 pages