2016 New York Laws
RRD - Railroad
Article 5 - (Railroad) STREET SURFACE RAILROADS
173-D - (Enacted without section heading).

  173-d.   Whenever any street surface railroad is or may be operated
  along or upon any of the streets, roads,  highways,  avenues,  parks  or
  public  places  of any city, town or village, as to the construction and
  operation of which railroad the conditions  set  forth  in  section  one
  hundred  and  seventy-one of this article have been complied with, or as
  to which such conditions are inapplicable,  every  such  city,  town  or
  village shall have power to amend any existing license, grant, franchise
  or  permit,  or  any  of  the  terms,  provisions or conditions thereof,
  whether granted by municipal authority or directly or indirectly by  the
  state  or  otherwise, or any consent of local authorities, or any of the
  terms, provisions or conditions thereof, relating  to  the  construction
  and operation of such railroad; and every city, town and village of this
  state  shall have power by amendment to incorporate in any such license,
  grant, franchise, permit or consent all or any of the terms, agreements,
  stipulations and conditions of a terminable permit as herein  authorized
  and  defined; provided, however, that the amendment of any such license,
  grant, franchise, permit or consent shall only be made with the  consent
  and  agreement  of  the person, firm or corporation owning such license,
  grant, franchise, permit or consent  or  operating  the  street  surface
  railroad thereunder.