N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 26: Extension of lines

§ 26. Extension of lines. A telegraph corporation, a telephone

corporation or a telegraph and telephone corporation heretofore or

hereafter incorporated under or by any general or special law may

construct, own, use and maintain any line of electric telegraph or

telephone, whether or not the line and the territory in which it be

located was described in its original certificate of incorporation, and

whether wholly within or wholly or partly without the state, and may

join with any other corporation in constructing, leasing, owning, using

and maintaining such line, or hold or own any interest therein, or

become lessees thereof, upon delivering to the department of state for

filing a certificate of amendment. If the lines or territory are to be

extended the certificate shall describe the territory in which the

operations of the corporation are to be carried on.