New York § 23 - 23Highway exempted

Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 23 — 23Highway exempted, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 23. 23Highway exempted

§ 23. Highway exempted. No railroad shall be constructed, maintained or operated and no railroad tracks shall be laid upon the state road known as the Buffalo and White's Corners plank-road in the county of Erie, where none now exists, excepting such as may be necessarily laid for the purpose only of crossing said highway. The provisions of this section shall not affect any consents granted prior to the eighteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and five, or any rights acquired for the construction of any such railroad.

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Section 23 ("23Highway exempted") is part of the New York Consolidated Laws, the codified statutory law of New York. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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