N.Y. Transportation Law § 116: Reports of common carriers

§ 116. Reports of common carriers. Every common carrier shall file an

annual report with the commissioner verified by the oath of the

president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, general manager or

receiver, if any, of such carrier or by the person required to file the

same. The verification shall be made by said official holding office at

the time of the filing of the said report, and if not made upon the

knowledge of the person verifying the same shall set forth the sources

of his information and the grounds of his belief as to any matters not

stated to be verified upon his knowledge. The commissioner shall

prescribe the form of such reports and the character of the information

to be contained therein, and may from time to time make such changes and

such additions in regard to form and contents thereof as he may deem

proper, and on or before June thirtieth in each year shall furnish a

blank form for such annual reports to every such carrier and person. The

contents of such report and the form thereof shall conform in the case

of railroad companies as nearly as may be to that required of common

carriers under the provisions of the act of congress, entitled "An act

to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and

eighty-seven, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

The commissioner may require such report to contain information in

relation to rates or regulations concerning fares or freights,

agreements or contracts affecting the same, so far as such rates or

regulations pertain to transportation within the state. When the report

of any such carrier or person is defective, or believed to be erroneous,

the commissioner shall notify the carrier or person to amend the same

within a time prescribed by the commissioner. The originals of the

reports, subscribed and sworn to as prescribed by law, shall be

preserved in the office of the commissioner. The commissioner may also

require such carriers and persons to file periodic reports in the form,

covering the period and at the time prescribed by the commissioner. The

commissioner may require of any such carrier or person specific answers

to questions upon which the commissioner may need information. The

annual report required to be filed by a common carrier shall be so filed

at the time prescribed by the commissioner or within such extended time

as the commissioner shall allow. If such carrier or person shall fail to

make and file the annual report within the time above specified or

within the time as extended by the commissioner, or shall fail to amend

such report within such reasonable time as may be prescribed by the

commissioner, or shall fail to make specific answer to any question, or

shall fail to make the periodic reports when required by the

commissioner as herein provided, within the time and in the form

prescribed by the commissioner for the making and filing of any such

report or answer, such carrier or person shall forfeit to the state the

sum of one hundred dollars for each and every day it shall continue to

be in default with respect to such annual report, amendment, answer or

periodic report. Such forfeiture shall be recovered in an action brought

by the commissioner in the name of the people of the state of New York.

The amount recovered in any such action shall be paid into the state

treasury and credited to the general fund.