Electric Franchises in New York CityColumbia University, 1919 - 184 pages |
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Page 33 - ... all mains, pipes and tanks laid or placed in, upon, above or under any public or private street or place for conducting steam, heat, water, oil, electricity or any property, substance or product capable of transportation or conveyance therein or that is protected thereby...
Page 19 - But no law shall ^ -authorize the construction or operation of a street railroad except upon the condition that the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on, and the consent also of the local authorities having the control of, that portion of a street or highway upon which it is proposed to construct or operate such railroad be first obtained...
Page 33 - A franchise, right, authority or permission specified in this subdivision shall for the purpose of taxation be known as a "special franchise." A special franchise shall be deemed to include the value of the tangible property of a person, copartnership, association or corporation situated in, upon, under L.
Page 107 - Any corporation formed under this act shall have full power to manufacture and sell and to furnish such quantities of gas as may be required in the city, town or village where the same shall be located for lighting the streets and public and private buildings, or for other purposes...
Page 123 - The provisions of this act, so far as they are substantially the same as those of laws existing on April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified or amended according to the language employed in this act, and not as new enactments.
Page 119 - gas corporation," when used in this chapter, includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, partnership, and person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, or managing any...
Page 120 - ... owning, operating or managing any electric plant except where electricity is generated or distributed by the producer solely on or through private property for railroad or street railroad purposes or for its own use or the use of its tenants and not for sale to others.
Page 139 - SEC. 75. iWhenever the commission shall be of the opinion that any public utility is failing or omitting or about to fail or omit, to do anything required of it by law, or by any order, decision, rule, direction or requirement of the commission, or is doing anything or about to do anything, or permitting anything or about to permit anything to be done, contrary to or in violation of law...
Page 107 - An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical and chemical purposes...
Page 162 - ... that one who asserts private rights in public property under grants of the character of those under consideration, must, if he would establish them, come prepared to show that they have been conferred in plain terms, for nothing passes by the grant except it be clearly stated or necessarily implied.