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NY RR L § 58 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 58 - Excess Charge When Fare Paid on Cars.

§ 58. Excess charge when fare paid on cars. It shall be lawful for any   company  owning  or  operating a steam railroad in this state, to demand   and  collect  an  excess  charge  of  ten  cents  over  the  regular  or   established rate of fare, from any passenger who pays fare in the car in   which  he  may  have  taken passage, except where such passage is wholly   within the limits of any incorporated  city  in  this  state,  provided,   however,  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of such company to give to any   passenger paying such  excess  a  receipt  or  other  evidence  of  such   payment,  which  shall legibly state that it entitles the holder thereof   to have such excess charge refunded, upon the delivery of  the  same  at   any  ticket office of said company, upon the line of their railroad, and   said company shall refund the same upon demand; provided, however,  that   it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any company owning or operating a railroad   whether operated by steam, electricity or other motor power to demand or   collect any excess charge from  any  passenger  taking  passage  from  a   station or stopping place where tickets can not be purchased during half   an  hour  previous to the schedule time for the departure of said train,   or car on which such passengers take passage.
NY RR L § 59 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 59 - Penalty for Excessive Fare.

§  59.  Penalty  for  excessive  fare. Any railroad corporation, which   shall ask or receive more than the lawful  rate  of  fare,  unless  such   overcharge  was  made  through inadvertence or mistake, not amounting to   gross negligence, shall forfeit fifty dollars, to be recovered with  the   excess  so  received  by the party paying the same; but no action can be   maintained therefor, unless commenced within one year after the cause of   action accrued.
NY RR L § 60 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 60 - Issue and Use of Mileage Books.

§  60.  Issue  and  use  of  mileage books. Every railroad corporation   operating a railroad in this state, the line or lines of which are  more   than  one  hundred  miles  in  length, and which is authorized by law to   charge a maximum fare of more than two cents per mile, and not more than   three cents per mile, and which does charge a maximum fare of more  than   two cents per mile, shall issue mileage books having either five hundred   or  one thousand coupons attached thereto, entitling the holder thereof,   upon complying with the conditions hereof, to travel either five hundred   or one thousand miles on the line or lines of such railroad,  for  which   the  corporation may charge a sum not to exceed two cents per mile. Such   mileage books shall be kept for sale by such corporation at every ticket   office of such corporation in an incorporated village or city,  and  any   of  such  books  shall  be issued immediately upon application therefor.   Upon presentation of such mileage book to a conductor on any  train,  on   any line of railroad owned or operated by said railroad corporation, the   holder  thereof, or any member of his family or firm, or any salesman of   his firm, shall be entitled to travel for a number of miles equal to the   number of coupons detached by such conductor. Such  mileage  book  shall   entitle  the holder thereof to the same rights and privileges in respect   to the transportation of person and property to which the highest  class   ticket  issued by such corporation would entitle him. Such mileage books   shall be good until all coupons attached thereto  have  been  used.  Any   railroad  corporation  which  shall  refuse  to issue a mileage book, as   provided by this section, or in violation hereof, to accept such mileage   book for transportation, shall forfeit fifty dollars, to be recovered by   the party to whom such refusal is made; but no action can be  maintained   therefor  unless  commenced  within  one  year after the cause of action   accrues.
NY RR L § 61 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 61 - Passenger Refusing to Pay Fare May Be Ejected.

§  61. Passenger refusing to pay fare may be ejected. If any passenger   shall refuse to pay his  fare  the  conductor  of  the  train,  and  the   servants  of  the  corporation,  may  put him and his baggage out of the   cars, using no unnecessary force, on stopping the train,  at  any  usual   stopping place, or near any dwelling house, as the conductor may elect.
NY RR L § 61-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 61-A - Sounding of Certain Signals on Railroad Cars by Unauthorized Persons.

§  61-a.  Sounding of certain signals on railroad cars by unauthorized   persons. A person who shall ring or sound a signal bell  or  device  for   starting  or  stopping  a  passenger  car,  of a street or other surface   railroad, or subway or elevated railroad, while such car is in  use  for   the transportation of passengers, unless such person be the conductor of   the  car  or a person employed to operate the car, or unless the bell or   device so rung or sounded be one expressly provided for  direct  use  by   passengers  in  stopping  the  car,  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and   punishable by a fine of not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
NY RR L § 62 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 62 - Sleeping and Parlor Cars.

§  62. Sleeping and parlor cars. Any railroad corporation may contract   with any person, association or  corporation  for  the  hauling  by  the   special  or  regular  trains  of  said railroad corporation, the parlor,   drawing-room or sleeping car or cars  of  such  person,  association  or   corporation, in which extra accommodations shall be furnished, for which   said   person,   association  or  corporation  furnishing  such  parlor,   drawing-room or sleeping car or cars, may charge for  the  carriage  and   transportation   of   persons   and   property   therein,  a  reasonable   compensation for such extra accommodation, in addition to the  fare  and   charges  now  allowed  by  law  for  the  carriage and transportation of   passengers  and  property  in  the  ordinary  cars  of   said   railroad   corporation.  But  said  railroad  corporation  so  contracting shall be   liable in the same way and to the same extent as if the said car or cars   were owned by it, and shall furnish sufficient  ordinary  cars  for  the   reasonable accommodation of the traveling public.
NY RR L § 63 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 63 - Persons Employed as Drivers, Conductors, Motormen or Gripmen.

§  63.  Persons  employed as drivers, conductors, motormen or gripmen.   Any railroad corporation may employ any inhabitant of the state, of  the   age  of  twenty-one  years,  not  addicted  to  the  use of intoxicating   liquors, as a car driver, conductor, motorman  or  gripman,  or  in  any   other  capacity,  if  fit  and  competent  therefor.  All applicants for   positions as motormen or gripmen on any street surface railroad in  this   state  shall  be  subjected to a thorough examination by the officers of   the corporation as to their habits, physical ability  and  intelligence.   If  this  examination  is satisfactory, the applicant shall be placed in   the shop or power house where he can be made familiar with the power and   machinery he is about to control. He shall then be placed on a car  with   an  instructor,  and  when the latter is satisfied as to the applicant's   capability for the position of motorman or gripman, he shall so  certify   to  the  officers of the company, and, if appointed, the applicant shall   first serve  on  the  lines  of  least  travel.  Any  violation  of  the   provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor.
NY RR L § 64 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 64 - Injuries to Employees.

§  64.  Injuries  to  employees.  In  all  actions  against a railroad   corporation, foreign or domestic,  doing  business  in  this  state,  or   against  a  receiver thereof, for personal injury to, or death resulting   from personal injury of any person, while  in  the  employment  of  such   corporation,   or   receiver,   arising  from  the  negligence  of  such   corporation or receiver or of any of its or his officers  or  employees,   every employee, or his legal representatives, shall have the same rights   and  remedies for an injury, or for death, suffered by him, from the act   or omission of such corporation or receiver or of its or his officers or   employees, as are now allowed by law, and, in addition to the  liability   now  existing  by  law,  it  shall  be held in such actions that persons   engaged in the service of any railroad corporation, foreign or domestic,   doing business in this state, or in the service of a  receiver  thereof,   who are intrusted by such corporation or receiver, with the authority of   superintendence,  control  or command of other persons in the employment   of such corporation or receiver, or with  the  authority  to  direct  or   control  any  other  employee  in  the  performance  of the duty of such   employee, or who have, as a part of their  duty,  for  the  time  being,   physical  control  or  direction  of  the  movement of a signal, switch,   locomotive engine, car, train or telegraph office,  are  vice-principals   of  such  corporation  or  receiver, and are not fellow-servants of such   injured or deceased employee.  If an employee, engaged in the service of   any such railroad corporation, or of a receiver thereof,  shall  receive   any  injury by reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works,   machinery, plant, tools or implements, or of any car, train,  locomotive   or  attachment  thereto  belonging,  owned or operated, or being run and   operated by such corporation or receiver, when such  defect  could  have   been  discovered  by  such  corporation  or  receiver, by reasonable and   proper care, tests or inspection, such corporation or receiver shall  be   deemed  to have had knowledge of such defect before and at the time such   injury is sustained; and when the fact of such defect  shall  be  proved   upon  the  trial  of  any action in the courts of this state, brought by   such employee or his legal representatives, against  any  such  railroad   corporation  or  receiver,  on account of such injuries so received, the   same shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on  the  part  of  such   corporation or receiver. This section shall not affect actions or causes   of action existing on May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six; and no   contract,  receipt,  rule  or  regulation,  between  an  employee  and a   railroad corporation or receiver, shall exempt or limit the liability of   such corporation or receiver from the provisions of this section.
NY RR L § 65 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 65 - Conductors and Employees Must Wear Badges.

§  65.  Conductors and employees must wear badges. Every conductor and   employee of a railroad corporation employed on a passenger train, or  at   stations  for  passengers, shall wear upon his hat or cap a badge, which   shall indicate his office or employment, and the initial letters of  the   corporation  employing him. No conductor or collector without such badge   shall demand or receive  from  any  passenger  any  fare  or  ticket  or   exercise  any  of  the powers of his employment.  No officer or employee   without such badge shall meddle or interfere  with  any  passenger,  his   baggage or property.
NY RR L § 66 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 66 - Checks for Baggage.

§  66.  Checks  for baggage. A check, made of some proper substance of   convenient size and form, plainly stamped with  numbers,  and  furnished   with  a  convenient  strap  or other appendage for attaching to baggage,   shall be affixed to every piece or parcel  of  baggage  when  taken  for   transportation  for  a  passenger  by  the  agent  or  employee  of such   corporation, if there is a handle, loop or  fixture  therefor  upon  the   piece  or  parcel  of  baggage,  and  a  duplicate  thereof given to the   passenger or person delivering the same  to  him.    If  such  check  be   refused  on demand the corporation shall pay to the passenger the sum of   ten dollars, and no fare shall be collected or received from him; and if   he shall have paid his fare it shall be refunded to him by the conductor   in charge of  the  train.  Such  baggage  shall  be  delivered,  without   unnecessary  delay, to the passenger or any person acting in his behalf,   at the place to which it was to be transported, where the  cars  usually   stop, or at any other regular intermediate stopping place upon notice to   the  baggage-master  in  charge of baggage on the train of not less than   thirty minutes, upon presentation of such duplicate check to the officer   or agent of the railroad corporation, or of any  corporation,  over  any   portion  of  whose road it was transported. Bicycles are hereby declared   to be and be deemed baggage for the purposes of this article  and  shall   be  transported  as  baggage for passengers by railroad corporations and   subject to the same liabilities, and no such passenger shall be required   to crate,  cover  or  otherwise  protect  any  such  bicycle;  provided,   however, that a railroad corporation shall not be required to transport,   under the provisions of this section, more than one bicycle for a single   person.
NY RR L § 67 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 67 - Penalties for Injuries to Baggage.

§  67.  Penalties for injuries to baggage. Any person whose duty it is   for or on behalf of the common carrier to handle, remove,  or  care  for   the  baggage  of  passengers, who shall recklessly or wilfully injure or   destroy any trunk, valise, box, bag, package or parcel,  while  loading,   unloading, transporting, delivering or storing the same, or any railroad   corporation,  which  shall  knowingly  keep  in  its employment any such   wilful  or  reckless  person,  or  which  shall  permit  any  injury  or   destruction of such property, through failure to provide sufficient help   and  facilities for the handling thereof, shall pay to the party injured   thereby the sum of fifty dollars, in addition to such damages.
NY RR L § 70 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 70 - Rights and Liabilities as Common Carriers.

§  70.  Rights  and  liabilities  as  common  carriers. Every railroad   corporation doing business in this state shall be a common carrier.  Any   one  of  two  or more corporations owning or operating connecting roads,   within this state, or partly within and partly without the state,  shall   be  liable  as a common carrier, for the transportation of passengers or   delivery of freight received by it to be transported by it to any  place   on  the  line of a connecting road; and if it shall become liable to pay   any sum by reason of neglect or misconduct of any other  corporation  it   may  collect  the  same of the corporation by reason of whose neglect or   misconduct it became liable.
NY RR L § 71 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 71 - Duties Imposed.

§  71.  Duties  imposed.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every railroad   corporation operating its road by steam:1. To lay, in the construction of new and in the renewal  of  existing   switches,  upon  freight  or passenger main line tracks, switches on the   principle of either the so-called Tyler, Wharton, Lorenz, or split-point   switch, or some other kind of safety switch,  which  shall  prevent  the   derailment  of  a  train,  when  such  switch  is  misplaced or a switch   interlocked with distant signals.2. To erect and thereafter maintain such suitable warning  signals  at   every  road,  bridge,  or structure which crosses the railroad above the   tracks, where such warning signals may be necessary, for the  protection   of employees on top of cars from injury.3.  To  use  upon  every  new freight car, built or purchased for use,   couplers which can be coupled and uncoupled automatically,  without  the   necessity of having a person guide the link, lift the pin by hand, or go   between the ends of the cars.4.  To  attach  to  every  car  used  for  passenger transportation an   automatic air-brake or other form of safety-power  brake,  applied  from   the  locomotive, excepting cars attached to freight trains, the schedule   rate of speed of which does not exceed twenty miles an hour.5. To provide each closed car in use in every passenger train owned or   regularly used upon a railroad, with such tools as the  commissioner  of   transportation   may  require,  to  be  placed  where  directed  by  the   commissioner.6. To provide, in each passenger car, where the  line  of  road  shall   exceed  forty  continuous  miles  in  length,  a suitable receptacle for   water, with a cup  or  drinking  utensil  attached  upon  or  near  such   receptacle,  and  to  keep  such  receptacle,  while  the car is in use,   constantly supplied with cool  water.    Every  corporation,  person  or   persons, operating such railroad, and violating any of the provisions of   this  section,  except  subdivision six, shall be liable to a penalty of   one hundred dollars for each offense, and the  further  penalty  of  ten   dollars for each day that it shall omit or neglect to comply with any of   such  provisions.  For  every  violation  of the provisions of the sixth   subdivision of this section every such corporation shall be liable to  a   penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense.
NY RR L § 71-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 71-A - Reflective Whistle Signs.

§  71-a.  Reflective  whistle  signs. 1. It shall be the duty of every   class one railroad operating in the state  of  New  York  to  install  a   retro-reflective whistle sign at the approach to each rail highway grade   crossing.  Such  whistle  sign  shall be sheeted with a retro-reflective   material as specified by the commissioner of transportation.2. Defacing, damaging or unauthorized removal of a reflective  whistle   sign is prohibited and each separate violation of the provisions of this   section  shall  be  punishable  by  a  fine of not less than one hundred   dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
NY RR L § 73 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 73 - Inspectors of Locomotives.

§  73. Inspectors of locomotives. Inspectors shall be appointed by the   commissioner  of  transportation,  who  shall  be  familiar   with   the   construction and operation of steam locomotives and their appurtenances,   whose  salaries  shall  be  fixed by the commissioner of transportation.   They shall, under the direction of the commissioner  of  transportation,   inspect  locomotives  used  by  corporations  operating  steam railroads   within the state, or locomotives  owned  or  operated  by  corporations,   partnerships  or  persons  on  or over any track adjacent to or parallel   with any track of any railroad corporation within  the  state,  and  may   cause  the same to be tested by hydrostatic tests and shall perform such   other duties in connection with the inspection and test  of  locomotives   as  the  commissioner  of  transportation shall direct. But this section   shall not relieve any corporation, partnership or person from the duties   imposed by the preceding section.
NY RR L § 74 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 74 - Care of Steam Locomotives; Steam and Water Cocks; Penalty.

§  74.  Care of steam locomotives; steam and water cocks; penalty.  It   shall be the duty of  every  corporation  operating  a  steam  railroad,   within this state, and of its directors, managers or superintendents, to   cause  the boiler of every locomotive used on such railroad to be washed   out as often as once every thirty days, and to equip  each  boiler  with   and  maintain thereon at all times, a water glass, showing the height of   water in the boiler, having two valves or shut-off cocks,  one  at  each   end  of  such  glass,  which  valves  or  shut-off  cocks  shall  be  so   constructed that they can be easily opened and closed by hand;  also  to   cause  such  valves  or  shut-off cocks and all gauge cocks or try-cocks   attached to the boiler to be removed and cleaned whenever the boiler  is   washed  out pursuant to the foregoing requirements of this section, also   to keep all steam valves, cocks and joints, studs, bolts  and  seams  in   such  repair  that  they will not at any time emit steam in front of the   engineer, so as to obscure his vision. No locomotive shall hereafter  be   driven  in  this  state  unless  the  same  is equipped and cared for in   conformity with the provisions  of  this  section;  but  nothing  herein   contained  shall  be  construed  to  excuse  the observance of any other   requirement imposed by this chapter upon  railroad  corporations,  their   directors,  officers,  managers  and superintendents. Every corporation,   person or persons operating a steam railroad and violating  any  of  the   provisions  of this section, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred   dollars for each offense, and the further penalty  of  ten  dollars  for   each  day  that  such  violation  shall  continue.  The  commissioner of   transportation shall enforce the provisions of this section.
NY RR L § 75 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 75 - Commissioner of Transportation May Approve Other Safeguards.

§  75.  commissioner  of  transportation may approve other safeguards.   The commissioner of  transportation  may,  on  the  application  of  any   railroad  corporation, authorize it to use any other safeguard or device   approved  by  the  commissioner  of  transportation,  in  place  of  any   safeguard  or  device hereinbefore required by this article, which shall   thereafter be used in lieu thereof, and the same penalties  for  neglect   or  refusal  to  use  the  same  shall  be incurred and imposed as for a   failure to use the safeguard or device hereinbefore required, in lieu of   which the same is to be used.