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N.Y. Railroad Law § 63-A Minimum crew size
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* § 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…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 64 Injuries to employees
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§ 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 corporatio…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 65 Conductors and employees must wear badges
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§ 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…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 66 Checks for baggage
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§ 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 tran…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 67 Penalties for injuries to baggage
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§ 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,…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 68 Unclaimed freight and baggage
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§ 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 possession for the period of sixty days, may deliver the same to any warehou…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 69 Minimum standards for track inspection and maintenance
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§ 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 trains where the maximum authorized speed is in excess of thirty-…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 70 Rights and liabilities as common carriers
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§ 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 b…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 71 Duties imposed
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§ 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 Tyle…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 71-A Reflective whistle signs
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§ 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 mat…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 72 Inspection of locomotives
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§ 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 form of energy, within this state, and of any other corporation (except a railroad corporation), partners…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 73 Inspectors of locomotives
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§ 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…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 74 Care of steam locomotives; steam and water cocks; penalty
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§ 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…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 75 commissioner of transportation may approve other safeguards
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§ 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 …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 76 Use of stoves or furnaces prohibited; exceptions
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§ 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 …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 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 …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 76-B Equipment required on motor vehicles transporting railroad employees; penalty
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§ 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 comm…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 77 Equipment of engines
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§ 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 operate…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 77-A First-aid equipment on locomotives
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§ 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…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 77-B Speedometers on certain locomotives
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§ 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 p…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 77-C Sanitary conditions
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§ 77-c. Sanitary conditions. 1. It shall be the duty of every railroad corporation which operates a railroad within the state and whose annual revenue derived exclusively from freight operations is ten million dollars or more after applying the railroad revenue deflator formula …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 78 Coal jimmies and caboose cars
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§ 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 have a suitable and safe platform at each end thereof, and the usual railing for the protection of persons using such platf…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 78-A Electric or battery-powered markers
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§ 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 candle power to be visible for a distance of three thousand feet under normal weather condit…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 79 Air-brakes
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§ 79. Air-brakes. It shall be unlawful for any railroad or other company to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line or lines within this state any freight train that has not a sufficient number of cars in it so equipped with continuous power or air-brakes that the engine…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 8 Additional powers conferred
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§ 8. Additional powers conferred. Subject to the limitations and requirements of this chapter and of the public service law every railroad corporation, without limitation of the powers given by the business corporation law, shall have power: 1. Entry upon lands for purposes of s…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 80 Couplers
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§ 80. Couplers. It shall be unlawful for any railroad or other company to haul, or permit to be hauled or used, on its line or lines within the state, any freight car not equipped with couplers of the master car builders' type, and coupling automatically by impact, and which can…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 81 Violation of sections seventy-seven, seventy-seven-c, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, and eighty
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§ 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 of sections seventy-seven, seventy-seven-c, …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 82 Canada thistles to be cut
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§ 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 owned or occupied by it, to be cut down twice in each and every year, once between…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 83 Riding on platform; walking along track
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§ 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 freight car, in violation of the printed regulations of the corporation, posted up at the time in a c…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 83-A Operation of motor vehicles, snowmobiles, recreational vehicles, and riding of animals on railroad property
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§ 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, no person sha…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 83-B Trespass upon railroad premises
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§ 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 or amend a local law or ordinance designating any portion or portions of property consisting of a r…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 84 Corporations may establish ferries
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§ 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 propelled by steam or otherwise, and operate the same as a ferry or otherwise, over the wat…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 85 Certain railroads may cease operation in winter
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§ 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 travel, may, by a resolution duly passed at a meeting …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 86 Certain railroads need not be operated beyond June, July, August and September
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§ 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 is or shall be in large part inten…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 87 Mails
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§ 87. Mails. Any railroad corporation shall, when applied to by the postmaster-general, convey the mails of the United States on its road, and in case such corporation and the postmaster-general shall not agree as to the rate of transportation therefor, and as to the time, rate …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 88 When railroads may designate police officers
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§ 88. When railroads may designate police officers. 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 of state police may appoint any person as a police officer, w…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 89 New railroads across streets
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§ 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 to avoid all public crossings at grade, whenever practicable so to do. Whenever…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 9 Certificate of convenience and necessity
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§ 9. Certificate of convenience and necessity. No railroad corporation formed after May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, under the laws of this state shall exercise the powers conferred by law upon such corporations or begin the construction of its road until the dir…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 90 New streets across railroads
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§ 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 across a steam surface railroad, other than pursuant to section ninety-one, such street, avenue, h…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 91 Alteration or rehabilitation of existing crossing
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§ 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 town, the board of supervisors or county executive and the county legislature of any count…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 92 Acquisition of land, right or easement in crossing
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§ 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 law, or may direct the municipal corporation having jurisd…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 93 Repair of bridges and subways at crossings
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§ 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 by the railroad corporation, and the roadway thereover and the approaches thereto shall…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 93-A Maintenance and removal of highway-railroad crossing at grade
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§ 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 abandonment of the railroad or a portion thereof…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 93-B Maintenance and removal of highway-railroad separation structures
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§ 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 of the railroad or a portion …
N.Y. Railroad Law § 94 Performance of work; division of expenses; accounting; claims for damages; valuation
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§ 94. Performance of work; division of expenses; accounting; claims\nfor damages; valuation. 1. Whenever under section eighty-nine a new\nrailroad is constructed across an existing highway, the expense of\ncrossing above or below the grade of the highway including any expense\ni…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 95 Proceedings by commissioner of transportation for alteration of existing crossings
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§ 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 crossing or a change in a…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 96 Proceedings to enforce orders of commissioner of transportation
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§ 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 directed, as provided in sections eighty-nine, ninety, nine…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 97 Intercity rail passenger service
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§ 97. Intercity rail passenger service. 1. As used in this section, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the term: a. "Intercity rail passenger service" shall mean any intercity rail passenger transportation operation where rail passenger trains operate o…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 97-A Commuter rail service
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§ 97-a. Commuter rail service. 1. As used in this section, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the term: a. "Commuter rail service" shall mean any rail passenger transportation operation where heavy rail passenger trains provide scheduled passenger servi…
N.Y. Railroad Law § 98 Intersection of railroads
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§ 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 above, below, or at grade of such existing railroad as the commissioner of tr…