Public Service Interstate Transportation Co. v. Public Service Commission

The consent of the local authorities to the operation of buses along the highways, coupled with the certificates of convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission, constitutes a grant of a special franchise. (Matter of City of Long Beach v. P. S. Comm., 249 N. Y. 480, 492.) The consents and certificates were given and the order revoking the special fran*339chise thus granted was made before the enactment of article 3-A of the Public Service Law (as added by Laws of 1931, chap. 531), under the statute which was then known as the Public Service Commission Law. Petitioner was…