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- New York Railroad - Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management
Section 50. Liability of corporation to employees of contractor. 51. Weight of rail. 51-a. Clearances. 52. Fences, farm crossings and cattle-guards. 52-a. Fences along road...
- New York Railroad - § 50 - Liability of Corporation to Employees of Contractor
An action may be maintained against any railroad corporation by any laborer for the amount due him from any contractor for the construction of any...
- New York Railroad - § 51 - Weight of Rail
The rail used in the construction or the relaying of the track of every railroad hereafter built or relaid in whole or in part shall...
- New York Railroad - § 51-A - Clearances
shall not be reduced.
- New York Railroad - § 52 - Fences, Farm Crossings and Cattle-guards
Every railroad corporation, and any lessee or other person in possession of its road, shall, before the lines of its road are opened for use,...
- New York Railroad - § 52-A - Fences Along Road Operated by Electric Third Rail
Notwithstanding the provisions of section fifty-two or of any other law, general or special, within a city containing a population of over one million inhabitants...
- New York Railroad - § 52-B - Fences Along Right of Way
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections fifty-two, fifty-two-a, or fifty-two-c or of any other law, general or special, every railroad corporation shall erect and thereafter maintain...
- New York Railroad - § 52-C - Fences in Queens County
Notwithstanding the provisions of section fifty-two or of any other law, general or special, within Queens county every railroad corporation operating a railroad shall erect...
- New York Railroad - § 52-D - Debris to Be Cleared
Every railroad shall maintain and keep clear of debris the margins alongside their yard tracks used for switching operations where railroad employees are required to...
- New York Railroad - § 52-E - Penalties for Littering
1. No person shall throw, dump, or cause to be thrown, dumped, deposited or placed upon any railroad or subway tracks, or within the limits...
- New York Railroad - § 53 - Sign Boards, Flagmen and Gates At Crossings
1. Every railroad corporation shall cause a sign board to be placed, well supported and constantly maintained, at every crossing where its road is crossed...
- New York Railroad - § 53-A - Warning Signs
may be prohibited by any such municipality, political subdivision or department of transportation in any highway between any such approach warning sign and any such...
- New York Railroad - § 53-B - Ringing Bells and Blowing Whistles At Crossings
A person acting as engineer, driving a locomotive on any railway in this state, who fails to ring the bell, or sound the whistle, upon...
- New York Railroad - § 53-C - Obstructing Farm and Highway Crossings
Any officer or employee of a railroad corporation who shall intentionally obstruct, and any owner, officer or employee of a railroad corporation who shall intentionally...
- New York Railroad - § 53-D - Unlawful Propulsion of a Missile At Railroad Trains
A person is guilty of unlawful propulsion of a missile at a railroad train where he willfully with intent to cause personal injury or property...
- New York Railroad - § 53-E - Unlawful Interference With a Railroad Train
is a class D felony; provided, however, that such classification shall not apply in any case in which an offense having a higher classification for...
- New York Railroad - § 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,...
- New York Railroad - § 54-A - 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
- New York Railroad - § 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,...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 57 - Rates of Fare
if the motive power is locomotives, furnished with cogs working into cogs on the railroad, and the length of road does not exceed four miles....
- New York Railroad - § 57-A - (Enacted Without Section Heading)
§ 57-a. A steam or electric railroad corporation having a franchise from this state, operating to and from stations within a city of over...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 68 - Unclaimed Freight and Baggage
Every railroad or other transportation corporation, doing business in this state, which shall have unclaimed freight or baggage, not live stock or perishable, in its...
- New York Railroad - § 69 - Minimum Standards for Track Inspection and Maintenance
In the case of all tracks over which there are regularly scheduled passenger movements, and all tracks currently being used for the movement of freight...
- New York Railroad - § 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,...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 72 - Inspection of Locomotives
It shall be the duty of every railroad corporation which operates a railroad not exceeding fifty miles in length by steam power or any other...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 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...
- New York Railroad - § 77-C - Sanitary Conditions
" shall mean a condition of good order and cleanliness. 3. The commissioner of transportation shall enforce the provisions of this section and may issue...
- New York Railroad - § 78 - Coal Jimmies and Caboose Cars
The use of cars known and designated as "coal jimmies" in any form and the use of any car as a caboose unless it shall...
- New York Railroad - § 78-A - Electric or Battery-powered Markers
1. Any railroad using a passenger, mail, work, or wreck train shall equip the last car of each such train with electric markers of sufficient...
- New York Railroad - § 79 - Air-brakes
that the engineer on the locomotive drawing such train can control its speed without requiring brakemen to use the common hand brake for that purpose.
- New York Railroad - § 80 - Couplers
of the master car builders' type, and coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled, except in cases of accident, without the necessity of...
- New York Railroad - § 81 - Violation of Sections Seventy-seven, Seventy-seven-c, Seventy-eight, Seventy-nine, and Eighty
Any railroad or other company hauling or permitting to be hauled on its line or lines any train in violation of any of the provisions...
- New York Railroad - § 82 - Canada Thistles to Be Cut
Every railroad corporation doing business within this state, shall cause all Canada thistles, white and yellow daisies and other noxious weeds growing on any lands...
- New York Railroad - § 83 - Riding on Platform; Walking Along Track
No railroad corporation shall be liable for any injury to any passenger while on the platform of a car, or in any baggage, wood or...
- New York Railroad - § 83-A - Operation of Motor Vehicles, Snowmobiles, Recreational Vehicles, and Riding of Animals on Railroad Property
Except in the case of a railroad employee, contractor of the railroad corporation or public official acting in the performance of his or her duties,...
- New York Railroad - § 83-B - Trespass Upon Railroad Premises
1. Any city with a population of one million or more and the counties of Monroe, Nassau, and Suffolk are authorized and empowered to adopt...
- New York Railroad - § 84 - Corporations May Establish Ferries
Any steam railroad corporation, incorporated under the laws of this state, with a terminus in the harbor of New York, may purchase or lease boats...
- New York Railroad - § 85 - Certain Railroads May Cease Operation in Winter
The directors of any railroad corporation operating a railroad, constructed and used principally for transporting lumber or ores, during the summer months, or for summer...
- New York Railroad - § 86 - Certain Railroads Need Not Be Operated Beyond June, July, August and September
Subject to the permission and approval of the commissioner of transportation, any corporation, whose railroad is or shall be not longer than sixteen miles and...
- New York Railroad - § 87 - Mails
in the regular passenger trains than the amount which such corporation would receive as freight on a like weight of merchandise transported in their merchandise...
- New York Railroad - § 88 - When Railroads May Designate Policemen
1. Upon the application of any corporation owning or operating a railroad, express company operating over a railroad, or of any steamboat company, the superintendent...
- New York Railroad - § 89 - New Railroads Across Streets
All steam surface railroads built after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, except additional switches and sidings, must be so constructed as...
- New York Railroad - § 90 - New Streets Across Railroads
When a new street, avenue, highway or road or new portion or additional lane of a street, avenue, highway or road shall hereafter be constructed...
- New York Railroad - § 91 - Alteration or Rehabilitation of Existing Crossing
The mayor or city manager and common council of any city, the president or mayor and trustees of any village, the town board of any...
- New York Railroad - § 92 - Acquisition of Land, Right or Easement in Crossing
The commissioner of transportation may acquire in the same manner that property and rights therein are acquired for state highway purposes pursuant to the highway...
- New York Railroad - § 93 - Repair of Bridges and Subways At Crossings
When a highway crosses a railroad by an overhead bridge, the framework of the bridge and its abutments shall be maintained and kept in repair...
- New York Railroad - § 93-A - Maintenance and Removal of Highway-railroad Crossing At Grade
The responsibility of a railroad corporation to maintain and keep in repair highway-railroad crossings at grade as provided by law shall not terminate upon the...
- New York Railroad - § 93-B - Maintenance and Removal of Highway-railroad Separation Structures
The responsibility of a railroad corporation to maintain and keep in repair highway-railroad separation structures as provided by law shall not terminate upon the abandonment...
- New York Railroad - § 94 - Performance of Work; Division of Expenses; Accounting; Claims for Damages; Valuation
1. Whenever under section eighty-nine a new railroad is constructed across an existing highway, the expense of crossing above or below the grade of the...
- New York Railroad - § 95 - Proceedings by Commissioner of Transportation for Alteration of Existing Crossings
The commissioner of transportation may, in the absence of any application therefor, when in his opinion public interest requires an alteration in an existing grade...
- New York Railroad - § 96 - Proceedings to Enforce Orders of Commissioner of Transportation
It shall be the duty of the corporation, municipality or person or persons to whom the decisions or orders of the commissioner of transportation are...
- New York Railroad - § 97 - Intercity Rail Passenger Service
corridor and is authorized to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations to accomplish this as shall be deemed necessary. 5. The commissioner shall have...
- New York Railroad - § 97-A - Commuter Rail Service
corridor and, in consultation with the metropolitan transportation authority, is authorized to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement...
- New York Railroad - § 98 - Intersection of Railroads
All steam railroads hereafter constructed across the tracks of any other railroad and any street surface railroad hereafter constructed across a steam railroad shall be...
- New York Railroad - § 99 - Application of Foregoing Section
The provisions of sections eighty-nine to ninety-eight, inclusive, of this chapter shall also apply to all steam surface railroads existing on the first day of...
- New York Railroad - § 100 - Temporary Leave Granted by Court to a Street Surface Railroad; Bond
Whenever the railroad or route of any street surface railroad corporation shall intersect and cross, or shall cross the tracks and roadbed of any railroad,...
- New York Railroad - § 101 - Consent of Commissioner of Transportation in Certain Cases
No street surface railroad shall be allowed to lay its tracks at grade across the tracks or roadbed of any railroad operated by locomotive steam...
- New York Railroad - § 102 - Ventilation of Tunnels
The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized, empowered and given full and complete authority to require and compel all tunnels used or to be used...
- New York Railroad - § 103 - Lighting of Tunnels
The commissioner of transportation is also hereby authorized, empowered and given full and complete authority to require and compel all tunnels used or to be...
- New York Railroad - § 104 - Compliance With Orders of Commissioner of Transportation
Whenever the commissioner of transportation shall cause to be personally served upon any railroad corporation controlling any tunnel or part of a tunnel in this...
- New York Railroad - § 105 - Enforcement
After the expiration of thirty days from the service of said order or notice specified in the preceding section, as therein directed, if said corporation...
- New York Railroad - § 106 - Penalty for Violation
Every corporation violating any of the provisions of the preceding four sections shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be indicted therefor, and may...
- New York Railroad - § 107 - Judgment-roll
shall be filed by said county clerk and said judgment shall be duly recorded in the book of judgments in said county and duly entered...
- New York Railroad - § 108 - Approval of Appliances in Cities Having a Population of One Million Inhabitants or Over
In cities in this state having a population of one million inhabitants or over, where tunnels are or may hereafter be operated or controlled by...
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