New York Laws
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.

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