N.Y. Railroad Law § 187: Extensions and franchises confirmed

§ 187. Extensions and franchises confirmed. Any street surface

railroad corporation which had prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen

hundred and ninety-three, constructed and was on that date operating any

extension or branch of its railroad along any streets or highways or

portion thereof in a city having less than fifty thousand inhabitants,

or in any town adjoining such city, and which had prior to said date

obtained consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property

bounded on, and the consents also of the local authorities having

control of that portion of the streets, roads or highways upon which

such extension or branch was constructed and being operated to the

construction and operation of the same, is hereby authorized to operate

and maintain any such branch or extension, upon filing in the office of

the secretary of state a certificate, signed by its board of directors,

which certificate shall contain a statement of the names of the cities,

towns, villages and counties, and the names or description of the

streets, avenues and highways in which such extensions or branches have

been constructed, the places from and to which the same have been

constructed, and are to be maintained and operated and the length

thereof, as near as may be; thereupon said extensions and branches shall

be deemed and considered a part of the lines of said railroad from the

date of the filing thereof, and all corporate action relating to the

construction, maintenance and operation of such extensions or branches,

or creating liens upon the same by said corporation, are hereby

validated and confirmed. Nothing in this section contained shall affect

or impair any vested right or any litigation pending on said tenth day

of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, nor shall any corporation

which shall avail itself of the provisions of this section be deemed

thereby to have waived any rights which it therefore had to maintain and

operate any branches or extension named in any certificate filed by it

hereunder.