N.Y. Railroad Law § 57: Rates of fare

§ 57. Rates of fare. Subject to the provisions of the transportation

law, every railroad corporation may fix and collect the following rates

of fare as compensation to be paid for transporting any passenger and

his baggage, not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds in weight, for

each mile or fraction of a mile:

1. Where the motive power is rope or cable, propelled by stationary

power, five cents, with right to a minimum fare of ten cents; but if the

railroad is less than two miles in length, and overcomes an elevation of

five hundred feet or more to the mile, five cents for each one hundred

feet of elevation so overcome, and the same rates of fare if the motive

power is locomotives, furnished with cogs working into cogs on the

railroad, and the length of road does not exceed four miles.

2. If a road not incorporated prior to May fifteenth, eighteen hundred

and seventy-nine, and not located in the counties of New York and Kings,

or within the limits of any incorporated city, and not more than

twenty-five miles in length, five cents; if over twenty-five and not

more than forty miles, four cents; and if over forty miles, three cents.

Where by the laying down of a third rail upon a railroad of the ordinary

gauge, a narrow-gauge track is created and used for the transportation

of passengers, and the length of road does not exceed six miles,

including any connecting road of the same gauge, such railroad, for the

purpose of fare, shall be deemed a narrow-gauge road.

3. If its railroad overcomes an elevation of two hundred feet to the

mile, for at least two consecutive miles, and does not exceed twenty

miles in length, ten cents; if it overcomes an elevation exceeding three

hundred feet to the mile, within a distance of two miles, five cents for

each one hundred feet of elevation; and where it overcomes an elevation

of more than one thousand feet, within a distance of two miles, seven

cents for each one hundred feet of elevation in a mile.

4. If the line of its road does not exceed fifteen miles in length,

and does not enter or traverse the limits of any incorporated city, and

the distance traveled thereon by the passenger does not exceed one mile,

five cents.

5. In all other cases, three cents for every such mile or fraction

thereof, with a right to a minimum single fare of not less than five

cents.

This chapter shall not be construed to allow any rate of fare for way

passengers greater than two cents per mile to be charged or taken over

the track or tracks of the railroad known as the New York Central

Railroad Company, and the rate of fare for way passengers over the track

or tracks of such company shall continue to be two cents per mile and no

more, wherever it is restricted to that rate of fare, nor shall any

consolidated railroad corporation charge a higher rate of fare per

passenger per mile upon any part or portion of the consolidated line

than was allowed by law to be charged by each existing corporation

thereon previous to such consolidation.