N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 81: Additional powers

§ 81. Additional powers. Every such corporation shall have power:

1. To make such examinations and surveys as it may deem necessary for

the selection of the most advantageous route, and for such purpose by

its officers, agents or servants to enter upon the lands or waters of

any person, subject to liability for all damage done thereto.

2. To lay out its route not exceeding fifty feet in width, but at the

termini of such route and at all receiving and discharging points and at

all places where machinery may properly be set up for the operation of

such pipe line to take such additional land as may be necessary.

3. To convey through pipes any property, substance or product capable

of transportation therein by means of any force, power or mechanical

agency, and to erect and maintain all necessary and convenient

buildings, stations, fixtures and machinery for the purposes of its

incorporation.

4. To regulate the time and manner in which property shall be conveyed

through its pipe lines, and the compensation to be paid, but such

compensation shall not be at a rate in excess of twenty-five cents per

one hundred miles for the transportation of forty-two gallons of any

product conveyed through lines of one hundred miles in length or over,

which shall be reckoned and adjusted upon the quantity or number of

gallons delivered by such corporation.