2016 New York Laws
RRD - Railroad
Article 5 - (Railroad) STREET SURFACE RAILROADS
172 - Consent of local authorities; how procured.

  172.  Consent  of local authorities; how procured.  The application
  for the consent of the local authorities shall be in writing and  before
  acting  thereon such authorities shall give public notice thereof and of
  the time and place when it will first be considered, which notice  shall
  be  published daily in any city for at least fourteen days in two of its
  daily newspapers if there be two, if not, in one, to  be  designated  by
  the  mayor,  and  in any village or town for at least fourteen days in a
  newspaper published therein, if any there shall be, and  if  none,  then
  daily  in two daily newspapers if there be two, if not, one published in
  the city nearest  such  village  or  town.  Upon  application  for  such
  consent,  the  local  authorities  shall also give written notice of the
  filing of such application to all common carriers operating in the town,
  village or city to the local authorities of which  such  application  is
  made.  Such  consent  must  be  upon  the  expressed  condition that the
  provisions of this article pertinent thereto shall be complied with, and
  shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county  in  which  such
  railroad  is  located.  Whenever  the consent of the common council of a
  city is applied for, the first consideration, of which notice is  hereby
  required,  may  be by committee of such common council. Any such notice,
  publication or consideration heretofore or hereafter given, made or  had
  in  substantial conformity with the requirements of this section, is and
  shall be sufficient notice, publication and consideration  for  all  the
  purposes  hereof  notwithstanding any conflicting provision of any local
  or special act or charter.