N.Y. Railroad Law § 6: Applicability of business corporation law to railroad corporations

§ 6. Applicability of business corporation law to railroad

corporations. (a) The business corporation law applies to a corporation

heretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or under any other

statute or special act of this state, or under laws other than the

statutes of this state, which has as its purpose or among its purposes a

purpose for which a corporation may be formed under this chapter, except

that in case of a conflict between the business corporation law and this

chapter the provisions of this chapter shall govern. If there is in this

chapter a provision relating to a matter embraced in the business

corporation law and not in conflict therewith, both provisions shall

apply. Any corporation to which the business corporation law is made

applicable by this section shall be treated as a "corporation",

"domestic corporation", or "foreign corporation", as such terms are used

in the business corporation law, except that the purposes for which any

such corporation may be formed under section five of this chapter shall

not thereby be extended.

(b) For the purpose of this section and elsewhere in this chapter, the

effective date of the business corporation law as to corporations to

which the business corporation law is made applicable by this section

shall be September first, nineteen hundred sixty-four.