N.Y. Railroad Law § 188: Certain consents of local authorities confirmed

§ 188. Certain consents of local authorities confirmed. All consents

given since December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and prior

to February first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, by the local

authorities of any city having a population of fifty thousand or more,

to the construction, operation and maintenance of a street surface

railroad in any such city by a railroad corporation which has not

complied with the provisions of section nine of this chapter, or has

failed to obtain the certificate therein provided for, are hereby

validated and confirmed, and any such corporation may construct, operate

and maintain a street surface railroad over, along and upon the streets,

avenues, highways and public places described in such consent, upon

obtaining the consent of the owners of property bounded on such streets,

avenues, highways or public places as provided by law.