§ 57. Rates of fare. Subject to the provisions of the transportation\nlaw, every railroad corporation may fix and collect the following rates\nof fare as compensation to be paid for transporting any passenger and\nhis baggage, not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds in weight, for\neach mile or fraction of a mile:\n 1. Where the motive power is rope or cable, propelled by stationary\npower, five cents, with right to a minimum fare of ten cents; but if the\nrailroad is less than two miles in length, and overcomes an elevation of\nfive hundred feet or more to the mile, five cents for each one hundred\nfeet of elevation so overcome, and the same rates of fare if the motive\npower is locomotives, furnished with cogs working into cogs on the\nrailroad, and the length of road does not exce
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§ 57. Rates of fare. Subject to the provisions of the transportation\nlaw, every railroad corporation may fix and collect the following rates\nof fare as compensation to be paid for transporting any passenger and\nhis baggage, not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds in weight, for\neach mile or fraction of a mile:\n 1. Where the motive power is rope or cable, propelled by stationary\npower, five cents, with right to a minimum fare of ten cents; but if the\nrailroad is less than two miles in length, and overcomes an elevation of\nfive hundred feet or more to the mile, five cents for each one hundred\nfeet of elevation so overcome, and the same rates of fare if the motive\npower is locomotives, furnished with cogs working into cogs on the\nrailroad, and the length of road does not exceed four miles.\n 2. If a road not incorporated prior to May fifteenth, eighteen hundred\nand seventy-nine, and not located in the counties of New York and Kings,\nor within the limits of any incorporated city, and not more than\ntwenty-five miles in length, five cents; if over twenty-five and not\nmore than forty miles, four cents; and if over forty miles, three cents.\nWhere by the laying down of a third rail upon a railroad of the ordinary\ngauge, a narrow-gauge track is created and used for the transportation\nof passengers, and the length of road does not exceed six miles,\nincluding any connecting road of the same gauge, such railroad, for the\npurpose of fare, shall be deemed a narrow-gauge road.\n 3. If its railroad overcomes an elevation of two hundred feet to the\nmile, for at least two consecutive miles, and does not exceed twenty\nmiles in length, ten cents; if it overcomes an elevation exceeding three\nhundred feet to the mile, within a distance of two miles, five cents for\neach one hundred feet of elevation; and where it overcomes an elevation\nof more than one thousand feet, within a distance of two miles, seven\ncents for each one hundred feet of elevation in a mile.\n 4. If the line of its road does not exceed fifteen miles in length,\nand does not enter or traverse the limits of any incorporated city, and\nthe distance traveled thereon by the passenger does not exceed one mile,\nfive cents.\n 5. In all other cases, three cents for every such mile or fraction\nthereof, with a right to a minimum single fare of not less than five\ncents.\n This chapter shall not be construed to allow any rate of fare for way\npassengers greater than two cents per mile to be charged or taken over\nthe track or tracks of the railroad known as the New York Central\nRailroad Company, and the rate of fare for way passengers over the track\nor tracks of such company shall continue to be two cents per mile and no\nmore, wherever it is restricted to that rate of fare, nor shall any\nconsolidated railroad corporation charge a higher rate of fare per\npassenger per mile upon any part or portion of the consolidated line\nthan was allowed by law to be charged by each existing corporation\nthereon previous to such consolidation.\n