2006 New York Code - Maintenance And Operation Of Telegraph And Telephone Lines, Etc.

 
    §  438.    Maintenance and operation of telegraph and telephone lines,
  etc.  The commissioner shall have power to erect,  operate,  supply  and
  maintain,  subject  to  the general laws of the state, all such lines of
  telegraph and telephones and other means of  communication  as  for  the
  purposes  and  business  of  the  police  the  commissioner  shall  deem
  necessary.   The commissioner may  provide  all  instruments,  fixtures,
  property  and  materials for the purpose above mentioned and control the
  same.