ยง  162.  Acquisition  and  maintenance  of  railroad  built,  owned or
  operated by a corporation not organized under this chapter.  No railroad
  corporation organized under subdivision three of section  five  of  this
  chapter  shall  acquire,  purchase  or  lease  or maintain and operate a
  railroad already built, owned and operated  by  a  corporation  of  this
  state  not  organized under the railroad law, unless the commissioner of
  transportation shall consent thereto.
Structure New York Laws
Article 4 - Consolidation, Lease, Sale and Reorganization
141 - Mergers and Consolidations of Certain Railroad Corporations.
144 - Assessment of Property of New or Surviving Corporation.
145 - Stocks of Municipal Corporations, How Represented.
146 - Foreclosure of Mortgages Made by Consolidated Railroads Partly in the State.
147 - Powers of Corporations Organized to Acquire and Operate Railroads Partly in the State.
148 - Lease and Conveyance of Road.