New York § 81 - 81Additional powers

Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 81 — 81Additional powers, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 81. 81Additional powers

§ 81. Additional powers. Every such corporation shall have power: 1. To make such examinations and surveys as it may deem necessary for the selection of the most advantageous route, and for such purpose by its officers, agents or servants to enter upon the lands or waters of any person, subject to liability for all damage done thereto. 2. To lay out its route not exceeding fifty feet in width, but at the termini of such route and at all receiving and discharging points and at all places where machinery may properly be set up for the operation of such pipe line to take such additional land as may be necessary. 3. To convey through pipes any property, substance or product capable of transportation therein by means of any force, power or mechanical agency, and to erect and maintain all necessary and convenient buildings, stations, fixtures and machinery for the purposes of its incorporation. 4. To regulate the time and manner in which property shall be conveyed through its pipe lines, and the compensation to be paid, but such compensation shall not be at a rate in excess of twenty-five cents per one hundred miles for the transportation of forty-two gallons of any product conveyed through lines of one hundred miles in length or over, which shall be reckoned and adjusted upon the quantity or number of gallons delivered by such corporation.

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Section 81 ("81Additional powers") 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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