§ 231 — Where route coincides with another route

§ 231. Where route coincides with another route. Whenever the route or\nroutes determined upon by the commissioners coincide with the route or\nroutes covered by the charter of an existing corporation, formed for the\npurpose of constructing and operating such a railroad, and it has not\nforfeited its charter or failed to comply with the provisions thereof,\nrequiring the construction of a road or roads within the time therein\nprescribed, such corporation shall have the like power to construct and\noperate such railroad upon the fulfillment of the like requirements and\nconditions imposed by the commissioners as a corporation specially\nformed under this article, and the commissioners may fix and determine\nthe route or routes by which any elevated steam railroad now in actual\noperation may connect with other steam railroads or the depots thereof,\nor with steam ferries, upon making compensation therefor, and in case\nsuch corporations can not agree with the owners of such steam railroads,\ndepots or ferries upon the amount of such compensation, and such owners\nmay be entitled to compensation therefor, the amount of such\ncompensation shall be ascertained and paid in the manner prescribed in\nthe condemnation law, and upon fulfillment by such elevated railroad\ncorporation, so far as it relates to such connection, of the\nrequirements and conditions imposed by this article, it shall possess\nall the powers conferred by section two hundred and twenty-nine of this\narticle, and when any connecting route or routes shall be so designated,\nsuch elevated railroad corporation may construct such connection with\nall the rights and with like effect as though the same had been part of\nthe original route of such railroad.\n