N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 28: Transmission of dispatches

§ 28. Transmission of dispatches. Every such corporation shall receive

dispatches from and for other telegraph or telephone lines or

corporations, and from and for any person, and on payment of the usual

charges for transmitting dispatches as established by the rules and

regulations of such corporation, transmit the same with impartiality and

good faith and in the order in which they are received, and if it

neglects or refuses so to do, it shall pay one hundred dollars for every

such refusal or neglect to the person sending or desiring to send any

such dispatch and entitled to have it so transmitted, but arrangements

may be made with the proprietors or publishers or newspapers for the

transmission for publication of intelligence of general and public

interest out of its regular order.