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N.Y. TRA Law § 106

This is the official text of N.Y. TRA Law § 106, part of New York’s TRA Law — part of the compiled statutory law of New York, published by the state as "TRA Law." Browse the sections below, each linked to its official government source.

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Discrimination prohibited; connecting lines

Official statutory text

§ 106. Discrimination prohibited; connecting lines. Every common\ncarrier shall afford all reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the\ninterchange of passenger and property traffic between the lines owned,\noperated, controlled or leased by it and the lines of every other common\ncarrier, and for the prompt transfer of passengers and for the prompt\nreceipt and forwarding of property to and from its said lines; and no\ncommon carrier shall in any manner discriminate in respect to rates,\nfares or charges or in respect to any service or in respect to any\ncharges or facilities for any such transfer in receiving or forwarding\nbetween any two or more other common carriers or between passengers or\nproperty destined to points upon the lines of any two or more other\ncommon carriers or in any respect with reference to passengers or\nproperty transferred or received from any two or more other common\ncarriers. This section shall not require a common carrier to permit or\nallow any other common carrier to use its tracks or terminal facilities.\nEvery common carrier shall receive from every other common carrier, at a\nconnecting point, freight cars of proper standard, and haul the same\nthrough to destination, if the destination be upon a line owned,\noperated or controlled by such common carrier, and such service shall\nnot be construed as requiring a common carrier to permit or allow any\nother common carrier to use its tracks or terminal facilities; or if the\ndestination be upon a line of some other common carrier, to haul any car\nso delivered through to the connecting point upon the line owned,\noperated, controlled or leased by it, by way of route over which such\ncar is billed, and there to deliver the same to the next connecting\ncarrier. Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting or\nmodifying the duty of a common carrier to establish joint rates, fares\nand charges for the transportation of passengers and property over the\nlines owned, operated, controlled and leased by it and the lines of\nother common carriers, nor limiting or modifying the power of the\ncommissioner to require the establishment of such joint rates, fares and\ncharges. A railroad company and a street railroad company shall not be\nrequired to interchange cars except on such terms and conditions as the\ncommissioner may direct.\n

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