N.Y. Transportation Law § 134: Duties of commissioner as to interstate traffic

§ 134. Duties of commissioner as to interstate traffic. The

commissioner may investigate interstate freight or passenger rates or

interstate freight or passenger service on railroads within the state,

and when such rates are, in the opinion of the commissioner, excessive

or discriminatory or are levied or laid in violation 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, or in conflict with the rulings,

orders or regulations of the United States department of transportation,

the commissioner may apply by petition to the United States department

of transportation for relief or may present to the United States

department of transportation all facts coming to his knowledge, as to

violations of the rulings, orders, or regulations of that commission or

as to violations of the said act to regulate commerce or acts amendatory

thereof or supplementary thereto.