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New York Railroad Law Section 76-a - Motor Cars And Equipment.

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    § 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.

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