N.Y. Transportation Law § 106: Discrimination prohibited; connecting lines

§ 106. Discrimination prohibited; connecting lines. Every common

carrier shall afford all reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the

interchange of passenger and property traffic between the lines owned,

operated, controlled or leased by it and the lines of every other common

carrier, and for the prompt transfer of passengers and for the prompt

receipt and forwarding of property to and from its said lines; and no

common carrier shall in any manner discriminate in respect to rates,

fares or charges or in respect to any service or in respect to any

charges or facilities for any such transfer in receiving or forwarding

between any two or more other common carriers or between passengers or

property destined to points upon the lines of any two or more other

common carriers or in any respect with reference to passengers or

property transferred or received from any two or more other common

carriers. This section shall not require a common carrier to permit or

allow any other common carrier to use its tracks or terminal facilities.

Every common carrier shall receive from every other common carrier, at a

connecting point, freight cars of proper standard, and haul the same

through to destination, if the destination be upon a line owned,

operated or controlled by such common carrier, and such service shall

not be construed as requiring a common carrier to permit or allow any

other common carrier to use its tracks or terminal facilities; or if the

destination be upon a line of some other common carrier, to haul any car

so delivered through to the connecting point upon the line owned,

operated, controlled or leased by it, by way of route over which such

car is billed, and there to deliver the same to the next connecting

carrier. Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting or

modifying the duty of a common carrier to establish joint rates, fares

and charges for the transportation of passengers and property over the

lines owned, operated, controlled and leased by it and the lines of

other common carriers, nor limiting or modifying the power of the

commissioner to require the establishment of such joint rates, fares and

charges. A railroad company and a street railroad company shall not be

required to interchange cars except on such terms and conditions as the

commissioner may direct.