New York Laws
Article 9-A - Passage Tickets
120 - Street Railroad or Omnibus Transfer Tickets Not to Be Given Away or Sold.

§ 120. Street railroad or omnibus transfer tickets not to be given
away or sold. No transfer ticket or written or printed instrument
giving, or purporting to give, the right of transfer to any person from
a public conveyance operated upon one line or route of a street surface,
elevated, underground railroad or omnibus line to a public conveyance
upon another line or route of a street surface, elevated, underground
railroad or omnibus line, or from one car or omnibus to another car or
omnibus upon the same line or route of street surface, elevated,
underground railroad or omnibus line shall be issued, sold or given
except to a passenger lawfully entitled thereto. Any person who shall
issue, sell or give away such a transfer ticket or instrument as
aforesaid to a person not lawfully entitled thereto, and any person not
lawfully entitled thereto who shall receive and use or offer for passage
any such transfer ticket or instrument, or shall sell or give away such
transfer ticket or instrument to another with intent to have such
transfer ticket used or offered for passage after the time limited for
its use shall have expired, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.