§ 20. Incorporation.- Five, or more persons, may become a corporation for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and operating any stage or omnibus route or routes for public use in the conveyance of persons and property elsewhere than in the city of New York, or any stage route or routes already established for a like public use, by making, signing, acknowledging and filing a certificate which shall state the name of the corporation, the number of years it is to continue, the route or routes upon which it is intended to run as near as practicable, the number of the directors thereof, not less than three nor more than five, the names of the directors for the first year, the amount of its capital stock, the place of residence of each subscriber thereto, and the number of shares of stock he agrees to take in such corporation. § 21. Alteration or extension of route.-The directors may, by a vote of two-thirds of their number, at any time alter or extend the route or routes designated in the certificate of incorporation, upon making, acknowledging, and filing a certificate to that effect, in the offices where the original certificates of incorporation were filed. § 22. Powers. In addition to the powers conferred by the general and stock corporation laws, every such corporation shall have power: I. To take and convey persons and property in stages and omnibuses, and to provide and run the necessary stages and omnibuses upon their route or routes for the public use and to receive compensation therefor. 2. To erect and maintain all necessary and convenient buildings, fixtures and machinery for the use and accommodation of their passengers and business. 823. Existing routes and extensions.-Any corporation incorporated under any law of this state heretofore enacted which owns and operates a lawfully established stage route which has been continuously operated by such company or its predecessors in title to such route for five years last past in any city of the first class, is hereby authorized and empowered to extend its existing routes at any time or times and to operate the same as extended with stages and omnibuses propelled by electricity or any other motive power, in and upon any streets and highways of such city, without further or other authority, proceeding, or consent required under any act, general, public, private or local; provided, however, that such extensions shall not become valid until they shall have been first approved by the state board of railroad commissioners, who, on giving their approval, shall make a certificate of such extension or extensions of route as approved, which certificate shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and in the office of the clerk of the county in which such extension is located. Such company, on filing in said offices an acceptance of the extensions specified in such certificate and on operating such extensions, shall have the right to charge a fare not exceeding ten cents per passenger for a continuous ride over the whole or any part of the routes owned or operated by it, and shall pay a license fee to the city in which it operates equal to the charge now in force for licensing similar stages and omnibuses, and shall also pay to the comptroller or other chief fiscal officer of said city five per centum per annum of its gross receipts from the operation of said routes. (Added by chap. 657 of 1900.) ARTICLE IV. TRAMWAY CORPORATIONS. SECTION 30. Incorporation. 31. Powers. 32. Condemnation of real property. 33. Crossings. 30. Incorporation.-Thirteen or more persons may become a corporation for constructing, maintaining and operating an elevated-tramway, constructed of poles, piers,wires, rods, ropes, bars or chains, for the transportation of freight in suspended buckets, cars or other receptacles, for hire, by making, signing, acknowledging and filing a certificate stating the name of the corporation, the number of years it is to continue, the places from and to which such tramway is to be constructed, maintained and operated, its length as near as may be, the name of each county through or in which it is made or intended to be made, the amount of its capital stock and the number of shares into which it is to be divided, the number of the directors thereof, not less than three, the names and places of residence of the directors for the first year, the place of residence of each subscriber thereto and the number of shares he agrees to take in such corporation. 831. Powers. Every such corporation, in addition to the powers conferred by the general and stock corporation laws, shall have power: 1. To cause such examination and surveys for its proposed tramway, to be made as may be necessary to the selection of the most advantageous route, and for such purpose by its officers and servants, to enter upon the lands or waters of any person, but subject to responsibility for all damages done thereto. 2. To lay out its tramway and to construct the same as hereby provided. 3. To erect and maintain all necessary and convenient buildings, stations, fixtures and machinery for the accommodation and transaction of its business. § 32. May acquire land by condemnation.-In case any such corporation is unable to agree for the purchase, use or lease of any real property required for the purposes of its incorporation, it shall have the right to acquire title to the same by condemnation. 33. Crossings.-Wherever any tramway, constructed by any such corporation, shall cross a railroad, highway, turnpike, plankroad or canal, such tramway shall be so constructed as not to interfere with the free use of such railroad, highway, turnpike, plank-road or canal for the purposes for which they were intended. ARTICLE V. PIPE LINE CORPORATIONS. SECTION 40. Incorporation. 41. Location of line. 42. Condemnation of real property. 43. Railroad, turnpike, plankroad and highway crossings. 44. Crossings of canals, rivers and creeks. 45. Consent of local authorities. 46. Construction through villages and cities. 47. Over Indian reservations. 48. Over state lands. 49. Additional powers. 50. Use of line to be public; storage; liable as common carriers; rates and charges. 51. Receipts for property; cancellation of vouchers. 52. Monthly statements. 53. Fences, farm crossings and use of line not inclosed. 8 40. Incorporation.-Twelve or more persons may become a corporation for constructing and operating for public use, except in the city of New York, lines of pipe for conveying or transporting therein petroleum, gas, liquids or any products or property, or for maintaining and operating any line of pipe already constructed and owned by any corporation, person or persons, except in such city, for the public use, by making, signing, acknowledging and filing a certificate stating the name of the corporation, the number of years it is to continue, the places from and to which it is to be constructed or maintained and operated, its length as near as may be, the name of each county through or into which it is to be constructed; the amount of its capital stock, which shall not be less than fifteen hundred dollars for every mile of pipe constructed or proposed to be constructed, and the number of shares of which it shall consist; the number of directors not less than seven, and the names and places of residence of the directors for the first year, and the place of residence of each subscriber and the number of shares he agrees to take in such corporation, which must in the aggregate equal ten hundred and fifty dollars for every mile of pipe constructed or proposed to be constructed, and twenty-five per cent of which must be paid in cash. Such certificate shall have indorsed thereon or appended thereto and as a part thereof, an affidavit made by at least three of the directors named therein that at least ten hundred and fifty dollars of stock for every mile of line proposed to be constructed or maintained and operated has been in good faith subscribed, and twenty-five per cent paid in money thereon, and that it is intended in good faith to construct or to maintain and operate the line of pipe mentioned in such certificate, and that such corporation was not projected or formed with the intent or for the purpose of injuring any person or corporation, nor for the purpose of selling or conveying its franchise to any person or corporation, nor for any fraudulent purpose. 8 41. Location of line. Every such corporation shall before commencing the construction of its pipe line in any county, or any proceeding for the condemnation of real property, plainly and distinctly mark and designate the line adopted and located by them by a line of stakes consecutively numbered and equally distant, and not more than twenty rods from each other, so that each line can be definitely known and ascertained in all places. and make a map and survey of the route so located and staked out, and shall indicate thereon plainly the points where such route crosses each parcel of land to which they have not acquired title by agreement, and shall cause such map and survey to be certified by the president and engineer, and filed in the office of the clerk of the county into or through which the line so located and mapped passes, and shall give to the owner or occupant, if he is known or can be ascertained, of every parcel of land through which such route passes, the title to which has not been acquired by purchase, written notice of the filing of such map and survey, stating that such route passes over or across such owner's or occupant's lands, and that the route thereof is indicated thereon by such line of stakes. Any occupant or owner of such lands feeling aggrieved by the proposed location, may, within fifteer Pipe Line Corporations. 8 42 days after the service of such notice, give ten days written notice to the corporation, by service upon the president, engineer, or any director thereof, and to the owner or occupant of any lands to be affected by the alteration to be proposed by him, of the time and place of an application to be made by him to a special term of the supreme court in the judicial district in which the lands are situated for the appointment of commissioners to relocate such line. If upon the hearing the court shall consider that sufficient cause exists therefor, it shall appoint three disinterested persons commissioners to examine the route located and the proposed alteration thereof, and direct the mode of proceeding, who shall report to the court the facts relating thereto and their opinion as to the proposed alteration, and what, if any, alteration should be made in such line, and the court shall thereupon make such order as it shall deem proper in relation to such alteration, and determine the location of such line, and fix and adjust the costs, fees and charges of the commissioners, and the costs and charges of the proceedings, and direct by which party the same shall be paid, and may enforce payment thereof by proceedings as for a contempt of court, for refusal to pay costs directed to be paid by an order of the court, and such order shall be final as to the location of the line upon the lands embraced therein. Such corporation shall not commence the work of constructing or laying its line of pipe, or institute proceedings for the condemnation of real property, in any county, until after the expiration of fifteen days from the service by it of the notice herein required, nor until all applications for a relocation of its line in such county if any are made, have been finally determined. § 42. Condemnation of real property.-In case such corporation is unable to agree for the purchase of any real estate required for the purposes of its incorporation, and its line of pipe in the county in which such real estate is situated has been finally located, it shall have the right to acquire title thereto by condemnation, but such corporation shall not locate or construct any line of pipe through or under any building, dooryard, lawn garden or orchard, except by the consent of the owner thereof in writing duly acknowledged, nor through any cemetery or burial ground, nor within one hundred feet of any building, except where such line is authorized by public officers to be laid across or upon any public highway, or where the same is laid |