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2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 54 - Notice of Starting Trains; No Preferences.

§  54.  Notice  of  starting  trains;  no  preferences. Every railroad
  corporation shall start and run  its  cars  for  the  transportation  of
  passengers  and property at regular times, to be fixed by public notice,
  and shall furnish sufficient accommodations for  the  transportation  of
  all passengers and property which shall be offered for transportation at
  the  place of starting, within a reasonable time previously thereto, and
  at the junctions of other railroads, and at the  usual  stopping  places
  established for receiving and discharging way passengers and freight for
  that  train; and shall take, transport and discharge such passengers and
  property at, from and to such places, on the due payment of the fare  or
  freight  legally  authorized  therefor.    No station established by any
  railroad corporation for the reception  or  delivery  of  passengers  or
  property,  or  both,  shall  be  discontinued without the consent of the
  commissioner of transportation first had and obtained. No preference for
  the transaction of the business of a common carrier upon its cars, or in
  its depots or buildings, or upon its grounds, shall be  granted  by  any
  railroad  corporation to any one of two or more persons, associations or
  corporations competing in the same  business,  or  in  the  business  of
  transporting  property for themselves or others.  Any such station in an
  incorporated village shall have the same name as  the  village;  if  any
  road  shall  have  more  than  one  such station in any such village the
  station nearest the geographical center thereof shall  have  such  name.
  Names  of  stations  may  be  changed  on  the  petition  of  any person
  interested with the consent of the commissioner of transportation.    If
  the  name  of  any  station  has been heretofore changed by the railroad
  company, the commissioner of transportation may restore the name changed
  or make such change therein as the circumstances require.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 54-A - Communication.

§  54-a.  Communication.  1.  No  class  1  or class 2 railroad common
  carrier or rail passenger carrier shall perform or cause to be performed
  any transportation service  without  ensuring  that  there  is  operable
  communication  among  all  members  of the train crew, between the train
  crew and crews of other trains, and between the train crew  and  wayside
  personnel.
2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a train from
  continuing  to  its  destination  in  the  event  of  a  failure  of the
  communication equipment after departure from its point of origin.
3. The commissioner of transportation shall review the  state  of  the
  art of railroad transportation communication from time to time and shall
  conduct  periodic  inspections  of  the  rail  carriers  subject to this
  section to ensure compliance with the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 55 - Accommodation of Connecting Roads.

§  55.  Accommodation  of connecting roads. Every railroad corporation
  whose road, at or near the same place, connects with or  is  intersected
  by  two  or  more railroads competing for its business, shall fairly and
  impartially afford to each of  such  connecting  or  intersecting  roads
  equal   terms   of  accommodation,  privileges  and  facilities  in  the
  transportation of cars, passengers, baggage and freight  over  and  upon
  its  roads  and  over  and upon their roads, and equal facilities in the
  interchange and use  of  passenger,  baggage,  freight  and  other  cars
  required  to  accommodate  the  business of each road, and in furnishing
  passage tickets to passengers who may desire to make a  continuous  trip
  over  any  part  of  its  roads and either of such connecting roads. The
  commissioner of transportation may, upon application of the  corporation
  owning  or operating either of the connecting or intersecting roads, and
  upon fourteen days' notice to the corporation owning  or  operating  the
  other  road, prescribe such regulations as will secure, in its judgment,
  the enjoyment of equal privileges, accommodations and facilities to such
  connecting or intersecting roads as may be required to  accommodate  the
  business  of each road, and the terms and conditions upon which the same
  shall be afforded to each road. The  decision  of  the  commissioner  of
  transportation  shall  be  binding on the parties for two years, and the
  supreme court shall have power to compel the performance thereof  in  an
  action or special proceeding, by injunction or otherwise.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 56 - Locomotives Must Stop at Grade Crossings.

§  56.  Locomotives  must  stop  at  grade  crossings.  All trains and
  locomotives on railroads crossing each other at grade shall  come  to  a
  full stop before crossing, not less than two hundred nor more than eight
  hundred  feet  from the crossing, and shall then cross only when the way
  is clear and upon a signal from a watchman stationed at the crossing. If
  the corporations cannot agree as to the  expense  of  the  watchman,  it
  shall   be   determined  by  the  commissioner  of  transportation  upon
  application thereto by either of them. If the corporations  disagree  as
  to  the  precedence  of  trains  the commissioner of transportation may,
  after hearing, upon the application  of  either  corporation,  prescribe
  rules  in relation thereto.  The full stop and crossing on signal may be
  discontinued if the commissioner of transportation shall decide it to be
  impracticable,  or  if,  with  the  approval  of  the  commissioner   of
  transportation,  an  interlocking switch and signal apparatus is adopted
  and put in operation at such a crossing. The full stop and  crossing  on
  signal  shall not be required in depot yards, or the approaches thereto,
  if the crossing roads are under lease or subject to the same  management
  or  control  in  the use of tracks. An engineer, violating the foregoing
  provisions of this section, or any such  rule  of  the  commissioner  of
  transportation, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars; and
  any  corporation or person operating the railroad, violating any of such
  provisions or rules, shall be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  five  hundred
  dollars.  The  commissioner  of  transportation  may,  whenever  in  his
  judgment the public safety requires the erection of interlocking  switch
  and  signal  devices  at points where steam and street surface railroads
  intersect at grade, direct the erection of such  devices  and  apportion
  the  expense  of construction, operating and maintenance thereof between
  the  companies  affected  thereby.  No  railroad  corporation,  nor  any
  officer,  agent  or  employee  thereof,  shall stop its cars, horses, or
  locomotives upon a grade crossing of a railroad of another  corporation,
  for  the  purpose  of  receiving or delivering passengers or freight, or
  other purpose, and any person or corporation violating  this  provision,
  shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 57-A - .

§  57-a.   A steam or electric railroad corporation having a franchise
  from this state, operating to and from stations within a city of over  a
  million  inhabitants,  and  owned,  controlled or operated by a railroad
  corporation having a franchise from another state, shall  not  charge  a
  rate  per  mile  within  such  city  in  excess of the rates charged for
  similar service from such city to stations in an adjacent state, by such
  railroad corporation having a franchise from another state, whether over
  its own tracks or under an agreement with another railroad  corporation.
  The  penalty  and  remedy provided by section fifty-nine of this chapter
  shall be applicable to a failure to comply with the provisions  of  this
  section,  and  such  remedy  may  be  pursued  and  such  penalty may be
  recovered by a person who shall have paid any such excess rate of fare.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 63-A - Minimum Crew Size.

* §  63-a.  Minimum  crew  size.  1.  Except  as otherwise provided in
subdivision two of this section, no person operating or controlling  any
Class  I  or Class II railroad shall allow the operation of any railroad
train or locomotive for the movement of hazardous material in this state
unless such railroad train or locomotive has a crew of not less than two
individuals.
2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall  not  apply
to a railroad train or locomotive engaged in switching service.
3.  As  used  in  this  section,  the  following  terms shall have the
following meanings:
(a) "Class I railroad" means a railroad that has been classified as  a
Class  I  railroad  by  the  federal  surface  transportation  board  in
accordance with 49 C.F.R. part 1201 section 1-1.
(b) "Class II railroad" means a railroad that has been classified as a
Class II  railroad  by  the  federal  surface  transportation  board  in
accordance with 49 C.F.R. part 1201 section 1-1.
(c)  "Locomotive"  means  a self-propelled piece of on-track equipment
designed for moving or  propelling  cars  that  are  designed  to  carry
freight,  passengers,  or  other  equipment,  but  which  itself  is not
designed or intended to carry  freight,  passengers  (other  than  those
operating the locomotive) or other equipment.
(d)  "Railroad" means a commercial entity that operates locomotives to
transport passengers or freight.
(e)  "Switching  service"  means  the  classification  of  rail   cars
according  to  commodity or destination; assembly of rail cars for train
movements; changing the position of rail cars for purposes  of  loading,
unloading  or  weighing; placing of locomotives and rail cars for repair
or storage; or moving of rail equipment in connection with work  service
that does not constitute train movement.
(f)  "Train"  means  one  or more locomotives, coupled with or without
cars.
(g) "Hazardous material" means material designated as hazardous by the
United States secretary of transportation pursuant to subsection (a)  of
section fifty-one hundred three of title forty-nine of the United States
code.
4.  A  violation  of the provisions of subdivision one of this section
shall be punishable by a civil penalty in an amount of not less than two
hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand  dollars  for  a  first
violation;  for a second violation both of which were committed within a
period of three years by a civil penalty of not less than  one  thousand
dollars  nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars;  and  for  a third or
subsequent violation all of which were  committed  within  a  period  of
three  years,  by a civil penalty of not less than five thousand dollars
nor more than ten thousand dollars.
* NB Repealed upon certain provisions (see chapter 707 of 2023 § 3)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 76 - Use of Stoves or Furnaces Prohibited; Exceptions.

§  76.  Use of stoves or furnaces prohibited; exceptions. It shall not
  be lawful for any railroad corporation operating  a  steam  railroad  in
  this  state  of  the  length  of  fifty miles or more, excepting foreign
  railroad corporations  incorporated  without  the  jurisdiction  of  the
  United  States  running cars upon tracks in this state for a distance of
  less than thirty miles, to heat its passenger cars on other  than  mixed
  trains,  excepting  dining cars, by any stove or furnace kept inside the
  car or  suspended  therefrom,  unless  in  case  of  accident  or  other
  emergency,  when  it  may  temporarily  use  such  stove or furnace with
  necessary fuel; and in cars which have been equipped with  apparatus  to
  heat  by  steam,  hot  water  or  hot  air from the locomotive or from a
  special car, the present stove may be retained to be used only when  the
  car is standing still; and no stove or furnace shall be used in a dining
  car  except for cooking purposes, and of pattern and kind to be approved
  by the commissioner of  transportation;  provided  that  passenger  cars
  propelled  by means of gasoline or oil engines may be heated in a manner
  to be approved by the commissioner of transportation. This section shall
  not be held to affect or interfere with the use by public authorities of
  this or other states, or of the United States, of stoves for heating  or
  cooking  or  boilers  for hatching operations in their fish car or cars.
  Any person or corporation  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this
  section shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars, and to the
  further  penalty  of  one  hundred dollars for each and every day during
  which such violation shall continue.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 76-A - Motor Cars and Equipment.

§  76-a.  Motor  cars  and  equipment. 1. It shall be unlawful for any
  owner or operator of railroad running through or within  the  boundaries
  of  the state of New York, and engaged in the business of common carrier
  to operate for or transport its employees in a motor car  which  is  not
  equipped  with  a  reasonably substantial top for the protection of said
  employees from rain, snow, sleet, and hail  and  also  equipped  with  a
  transparent  windshield  sufficient  in  width  and height to reasonably
  protect said employees, and it shall be constructed of safety glass  and
  such  car  shall  also be equipped with an attached electric headlamp of
  sufficient candlepower as to render it visible at a  distance  of  three
  hundred   feet  in  advance  of  such  car  under  ordinary  atmospheric
  conditions, any obstruction, landmark, warning sign  or  grade  crossing
  along  such  railroad  right  of way and said car shall also be equipped
  with two electric lights on the rear thereof of  sufficient  candlepower
  as  to  be  visible  at  a distance of three hundred feet under ordinary
  atmospheric conditions, and the car  shall  also  be  equipped  with  an
  automatic  operated  windshield wiper so devised that the driver of said
  car can start or stop said windshield wiper while he is driving the car.
2. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be punishable  by
  a  fine  of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred
  dollars for each offense, and each day  or  part  of  a  day  a  car  is
  operated  or  furnished  not  so equipped as provided in subdivision one
  hereof, shall constitute a separate offense; provided, however, that any
  common carrier that has not been able to equip its rail track motor cars
  as required by the provisions of  subdivision  one,  on  or  before  the
  effective  date  of  this  act  can,  by applying to the commissioner of
  transportation which is hereby authorized to, and upon good cause shown,
  grant by order, additional time to any owner or  operator  of  a  common
  carrier by railroad, in which to equip such cars, not to exceed one year
  from the effective date of this section and, when such an order has been
  granted  by  said  commissioner  of  transportation to such carrier, the
  provisions of this act penalizing rail carriers  who  do  not  so  equip
  their  cars  shall  not be applicable to those carriers securing such an
  order for such additional time in which to so equip  their  cars  during
  the  period  granted  to  them  only  by  order  of  the commissioner of
  transportation.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 76-B - Equipment Required on Motor Vehicles Transporting Railroad Employees; Penalty.

§  76-b.  Equipment  required  on motor vehicles transporting railroad
  employees; penalty. 1. Every motor vehicle  provided  by  the  owner  or
  operator railroad and used to transport employees shall be equipped with
  adequate  seating  facilities,  heating  facilities  and  facilities for
  communication between occupants of the front seat of the vehicle and the
  occupants in the rear compartment of the vehicle. This requirement shall
  not apply to motor vehicles used to transport employees at distances  of
  less  than  five miles from their regular assembly point nor in cases of
  extreme emergency.
2. If any dispute arises as to the adequacy of the facilities provided
  for in this section, it  shall  be  submitted  to  the  commissioner  of
  transportation for a fair hearing. Notice of the hearing may be given by
  mailing  the  notice  of  hearing  to  the  owner  or operator railroad.
  Attendance  of  witnesses  may  be  compelled  by  subpoena.    If   the
  commissioner finds that a violation of this section has occurred, he may
  forward  his  findings  and recommendations to the commissioner of motor
  vehicles.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 77 - Equipment of Engines.

§  77.  Equipment  of  engines.  It shall be unlawful for any railroad
  company to use within the state on its  line  or  lines  any  locomotive
  engine  not equipped with a power driving wheel brake and appliances for
  operating the train brake  system,  or  to  use  any  locomotive  engine
  operated  by steam not equipped with a mechanically operated door to the
  fire box of such locomotive engine, or to use any locomotive engine  not
  equipped  with  a vestibuled cab.  Such mechanically operated door shall
  be so constructed and operated by steam, compressed air, electricity  or
  other  means,  and such vestibuled cab shall be so constructed as deemed
  best and most efficient by the officers of such railroad. The device for
  operating such door shall be so constructed that it may be  operated  by
  the  fireman on said engine by means of a push button or other appliance
  located in or near the floor of the deck or floor of  the  tender  at  a
  suitable distance from such door to enable the fireman while firing such
  engine,  by  pressure  with his foot to open such door for the firing of
  such engine, and such vestibuled cabs shall  be  so  constructed  as  to
  attach  to the sides of, and enclose all openings between the engine cab
  and the water tank or coal tender attached  to  such  engine;  provided,
  however,  that nothing in this section shall be construed to inhibit the
  passage of a locomotive engine not so equipped  with  such  mechanically
  operated  door or vestibuled cab, moving under its own steam either with
  or without a train, when such movement is  from  a  point  without  this
  state through and to a point beyond its borders, or from a point without
  this  state to a point within it, or from a point within this state to a
  point without it if such passage is for the purpose of moving it  to  or
  from a repair shop or shops for the purpose of repairing such locomotive
  engine, and when it is not intended for service within this state.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 77-A - First-Aid Equipment on Locomotives.

§  77-a.  First-aid  equipment on locomotives. It shall be unlawful to
  operate a locomotive outside the designated yard limits of any  railroad
  in the state of New York unless said locomotive shall be equipped with a
  first-aid  kit  containing  necessary  emergency  medical  equipment and
  supplies.
Said kit shall include as minimum supplies:
1 roll of 1-inch wide gauze bandage -- minimum of 10 yards.
1 roll of 1-inch wide adhesive tape -- minimum of 5 yards.
1 package of absorbent gauze compresses, at least 3 inches by 3 inches
  -- minimum of 6 in number.
At least 12 -- 1-inch individual sanitary band aids.
Bottle of iodine or mercurochrome or tincture  of  methyolate,  or  an
  equivalent antiseptic, minimum of 1 ounce bottle.
Minimum of 2 ounce bottle of smelling salts or six ampoules of spirits
  of ammonia.
Minimum  of  3  ounce  bottle of a standard eye wash preparation, with
  necessary eye wash glass.
Jar or tube of white petroleum jelly or unguentine for burns.
All above material  shall  be  packed  in  a  suitable  metal  box  or
  container and be sealed.
Items,  as  used,  should  be  replaced  within  twenty-four  hours by
  properly designated railroad personnel and such kit resealed for  future
  use.  It  shall  be unlawful to remove or use any such first-aid kit, or
  any supplies contained  in  any  such  kit,  for  other  than  first-aid
  purposes.  Violation of said provisions shall be punishable by a fine of
  not more than twenty-five dollars.
2023 New York Laws › RRD - Railroad › Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management › 77-B - Speedometers on Certain Locomotives.

§   77-b.   Speedometers  on  certain  locomotives.  (a)  No  railroad
locomotive may be operated in excess of thirty miles per hour within the
state without a speedometer functioning correctly within four miles  per
hour.
(b)  A  railroad  shall  be  deemed to be in compliance with the above
provisions if within one year  after  the  first  day  of  October  next
succeeding  the  date  on which this statute shall have become a law, it
shall have at  least  one-third  of  its  locomotives  equipped  with  a
speedometer as hereinabove provided; and if within the following year an
additional  one-third  of  said locomotives shall be so equipped and the
remainder of said locomotives so operated by  a  railroad  shall  be  in
compliance   with  the  provisions  of  this  statute  within  one  year
thereafter.
(c) Locomotives operated or used exclusively in switching or  transfer
service  and  multiple  unit  cars  shall  be  exempted  from  the above
provisions.
(d) Each such railroad shall notify the department  of  transportation
of  the state of New York the date that each such locomotive shall be in
compliance with the provisions  of  this  statute,  stating  the  serial
number or other identification of each such locomotive.
(e)  Each  railroad  affected  or  covered  by  the provisions of this
statute shall maintain at a designated location in this state a list  or
schedule  of  the  locomotives  hereinabove  referred to, setting forth,
among other information, the  date  that  the  speedometer  hereinbefore
referred  to  shall  have  been calibrated and functioning in accordance
with the provisions of this statute.
(f) The commissioner of transportation of the state of New York  shall
enforce  the  provisions  of  this  statute  and may issue such order or
orders as may be proper to require compliance  with  the  provisions  of
this statute.