§ 489-gg. Ratio. The commissioner shall compute to the nearest thousandth of one percent a ratio for each railroad company by dividing its average railway expenses by its average railway revenues; provided, however, that if a railroad company shall have operated for less than one full year prior to the first day of the year in which a tentative determination of a railroad ceiling for that railroad company is made, then the ratio for that ceiling of that railroad company shall be one.

Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Tax Law 489-GG

  • Railroad company: means a corporation , joint stock company, association, partnership, individual or other person operating a railroad system both within and without the State of New York as a common carrier by rail, including but not limited to a street, surface, underground or elevated railroad and any corporation created under or in compliance with the rail passenger service act of nineteen hundred seventy or the regional rail reorganization act of nineteen hundred seventy-three as those acts were amended to April first, nineteen hundred seventy-six, whether as owner, lessee, mortgagee, trustee, receiver or assignee of railroad real property. See N.Y. Real Property Tax Law 489-BB