Title RRD, Railroad

* § 63-a. Minimum crew size. 1. Except as otherwise provided in\nsubdivision two of this section, no person operating or controlling any\nClass I or Class II railroad shall allow the operation of any railroad\ntrain or locomotive for the movement of hazardous material in this st…

§ 64. Injuries to employees. In all actions against a railroad\ncorporation, foreign or domestic, doing business in this state, or\nagainst a receiver thereof, for personal injury to, or death resulting\nfrom personal injury of any person, while in the employment of such\ncorpor…

§ 65. Conductors and employees must wear badges. Every conductor and\nemployee of a railroad corporation employed on a passenger train, or at\nstations for passengers, shall wear upon his hat or cap a badge, which\nshall indicate his office or employment, and the initial letters…

§ 66. Checks for baggage. A check, made of some proper substance of\nconvenient size and form, plainly stamped with numbers, and furnished\nwith a convenient strap or other appendage for attaching to baggage,\nshall be affixed to every piece or parcel of baggage when taken for\n…

§ 67. Penalties for injuries to baggage. Any person whose duty it is\nfor or on behalf of the common carrier to handle, remove, or care for\nthe baggage of passengers, who shall recklessly or wilfully injure or\ndestroy any trunk, valise, box, bag, package or parcel, while loadi…

§ 68. Unclaimed freight and baggage. Every railroad or other\ntransportation corporation, doing business in this state, which shall\nhave unclaimed freight or baggage, not live stock or perishable, in its\npossession for the period of sixty days, may deliver the same to any\nwar…

§ 69. Minimum standards for track inspection and maintenance. In the\ncase of all tracks over which there are regularly scheduled passenger\nmovements, and all tracks currently being used for the movement of\nfreight trains where the maximum authorized speed is in excess of\nthi…

§ 70. Rights and liabilities as common carriers. Every railroad\ncorporation doing business in this state shall be a common carrier. Any\none of two or more corporations owning or operating connecting roads,\nwithin this state, or partly within and partly without the state, shal…

§ 71. Duties imposed. It shall be the duty of every railroad\ncorporation operating its road by steam:\n 1. To lay, in the construction of new and in the renewal of existing\nswitches, upon freight or passenger main line tracks, switches on the\nprinciple of either the so-called…

§ 71-a. Reflective whistle signs. 1. It shall be the duty of every\nclass one railroad operating in the state of New York to install a\nretro-reflective whistle sign at the approach to each rail highway grade\ncrossing. Such whistle sign shall be sheeted with a retro-reflective\…

§ 72. Inspection of locomotives. It shall be the duty of every\nrailroad corporation which operates a railroad not exceeding fifty miles\nin length by steam power or any other form of energy, within this state,\nand of any other corporation (except a railroad corporation),\npart…

§ 73. Inspectors of locomotives. Inspectors shall be appointed by the\ncommissioner of transportation, who shall be familiar with the\nconstruction and operation of steam locomotives and their appurtenances,\nwhose salaries shall be fixed by the commissioner of transportation.\n…

§ 74. Care of steam locomotives; steam and water cocks; penalty. It\nshall be the duty of every corporation operating a steam railroad,\nwithin this state, and of its directors, managers or superintendents, to\ncause the boiler of every locomotive used on such railroad to be was…

§ 75. commissioner of transportation may approve other safeguards.\nThe commissioner of transportation may, on the application of any\nrailroad corporation, authorize it to use any other safeguard or device\napproved by the commissioner of transportation, in place of any\nsafegu…

§ 76. Use of stoves or furnaces prohibited; exceptions. It shall not\nbe lawful for any railroad corporation operating a steam railroad in\nthis state of the length of fifty miles or more, excepting foreign\nrailroad corporations incorporated without the jurisdiction of the\nUni…

§ 76-a. Motor cars and equipment. 1. It shall be unlawful for any\nowner or operator of railroad running through or within the boundaries\nof the state of New York, and engaged in the business of common carrier\nto operate for or transport its employees in a motor car which is n…

§ 76-b. Equipment required on motor vehicles transporting railroad\nemployees; penalty. 1. Every motor vehicle provided by the owner or\noperator railroad and used to transport employees shall be equipped with\nadequate seating facilities, heating facilities and facilities for\n…

§ 77. Equipment of engines. It shall be unlawful for any railroad\ncompany to use within the state on its line or lines any locomotive\nengine not equipped with a power driving wheel brake and appliances for\noperating the train brake system, or to use any locomotive engine\nope…

§ 77-a. First-aid equipment on locomotives. It shall be unlawful to\noperate a locomotive outside the designated yard limits of any railroad\nin the state of New York unless said locomotive shall be equipped with a\nfirst-aid kit containing necessary emergency medical equipment …

§ 77-b. Speedometers on certain locomotives. (a) No railroad\nlocomotive may be operated in excess of thirty miles per hour within the\nstate without a speedometer functioning correctly within four miles per\nhour.\n (b) A railroad shall be deemed to be in compliance with the ab…

§ 77-c. Sanitary conditions. 1. It shall be the duty of every railroad\ncorporation which operates a railroad within the state and whose annual\nrevenue derived exclusively from freight operations is ten million\ndollars or more after applying the railroad revenue deflator formu…

§ 78. Coal jimmies and caboose cars. The use of cars known and\ndesignated as "coal jimmies" in any form and the use of any car as a\ncaboose unless it shall have a suitable and safe platform at each end\nthereof, and the usual railing for the protection of persons using such\np…

§ 78-a. Electric or battery-powered markers. 1. Any railroad using a\npassenger, mail, work, or wreck train shall equip the last car of each\nsuch train with electric markers of sufficient candle power to be\nvisible for a distance of three thousand feet under normal weather\nco…

§ 79. Air-brakes. It shall be unlawful for any railroad or other\ncompany to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line or lines\nwithin this state any freight train that has not a sufficient number of\ncars in it so equipped with continuous power or air-brakes that the\nen…

§ 8. Additional powers conferred. Subject to the limitations and\nrequirements of this chapter and of the public service law every\nrailroad corporation, without limitation of the powers given by the\nbusiness corporation law, shall have power:\n 1. Entry upon lands for purposes…

§ 80. Couplers. It shall be unlawful for any railroad or other company\nto haul, or permit to be hauled or used, on its line or lines within the\nstate, any freight car not equipped with couplers of the master car\nbuilders' type, and coupling automatically by impact, and which …

§ 81. Violation of sections seventy-seven, seventy-seven-c,\nseventy-eight, seventy-nine, and eighty. Any railroad or other company\nhauling or permitting to be hauled on its line or lines any train in\nviolation of any of the provisions of sections seventy-seven,\nseventy-seven…

§ 82. Canada thistles to be cut. Every railroad corporation doing\nbusiness within this state, shall cause all Canada thistles, white and\nyellow daisies and other noxious weeds growing on any lands owned or\noccupied by it, to be cut down twice in each and every year, once\nbet…

§ 83. Riding on platform; walking along track. No railroad corporation\nshall be liable for any injury to any passenger while on the platform of\na car, or in any baggage, wood or freight car, in violation of the\nprinted regulations of the corporation, posted up at the time in …

§ 83-a. Operation of motor vehicles, snowmobiles, recreational\nvehicles, and riding of animals on railroad property. Except in the case\nof a railroad employee, contractor of the railroad corporation or public\nofficial acting in the performance of his or her duties, no person …

§ 83-b. Trespass upon railroad premises. 1. Any city with a population\nof one million or more and the counties of Monroe, Nassau, and Suffolk\nare authorized and empowered to adopt or amend a local law or ordinance\ndesignating any portion or portions of property consisting of …

§ 84. Corporations may establish ferries. Any steam railroad\ncorporation, incorporated under the laws of this state, with a terminus\nin the harbor of New York, may purchase or lease boats propelled by\nsteam or otherwise, and operate the same as a ferry or otherwise, over\nthe…

§ 85. Certain railroads may cease operation in winter. The directors\nof any railroad corporation operating a railroad, constructed and used\nprincipally for transporting lumber or ores, during the summer months,\nor for summer travel, may, by a resolution duly passed at a meeti…

§ 86. Certain railroads need not be operated beyond June, July, August\nand September. Subject to the permission and approval of the\ncommissioner of transportation, any corporation, whose railroad is or\nshall be not longer than sixteen miles and is or shall be in large part\ni…

§ 87. Mails. Any railroad corporation shall, when applied to by the\npostmaster-general, convey the mails of the United States on its road,\nand in case such corporation and the postmaster-general shall not agree\nas to the rate of transportation therefor, and as to the time, ra…

§ 88. When railroads may designate police officers. 1. Upon the\napplication of any corporation owning or operating a railroad, express\ncompany operating over a railroad, or of any steamboat company, the\nsuperintendent of state police may appoint any person as a police\noffice…

§ 89. New railroads across streets. All steam surface railroads built\nafter the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, except\nadditional switches and sidings, must be so constructed as to avoid all\npublic crossings at grade, whenever practicable so to do. Whene…

§ 9. Certificate of convenience and necessity. No railroad corporation\nformed after May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, under the\nlaws of this state shall exercise the powers conferred by law upon such\ncorporations or begin the construction of its road until the …

§ 90. New streets across railroads. When a new street, avenue, highway\nor road or new portion or additional lane of a street, avenue, highway\nor road shall hereafter be constructed across a steam surface railroad,\nother than pursuant to section ninety-one, such street, avenue…

§ 91. Alteration or rehabilitation of existing crossing. The mayor or\ncity manager and common council of any city, the president or mayor and\ntrustees of any village, the town board of any town, the board of\nsupervisors or county executive and the county legislature of any co…

§ 92. Acquisition of land, right or easement in crossing. The\ncommissioner of transportation may acquire in the same manner that\nproperty and rights therein are acquired for state highway purposes\npursuant to the highway law, or may direct the municipal corporation\nhaving ju…

§ 93. Repair of bridges and subways at crossings. When a highway\ncrosses a railroad by an overhead bridge, the framework of the bridge\nand its abutments shall be maintained and kept in repair by the railroad\ncorporation, and the roadway thereover and the approaches thereto sh…

§ 93-a. Maintenance and removal of highway-railroad crossing at grade.\nThe responsibility of a railroad corporation to maintain and keep in\nrepair highway-railroad crossings at grade as provided by law shall not\nterminate upon the abandonment of the railroad or a portion ther…

§ 93-b. Maintenance and removal of highway-railroad separation\nstructures. The responsibility of a railroad corporation to maintain\nand keep in repair highway-railroad separation structures as provided by\nlaw shall not terminate upon the abandonment of the railroad or a\nport…

§ 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…

§ 95. Proceedings by commissioner of transportation for alteration of\nexisting crossings. The commissioner of transportation may, in the\nabsence of any application therefor, when in his opinion public interest\nrequires an alteration in an existing grade crossing or a change i…

§ 96. Proceedings to enforce orders of commissioner of transportation.\nIt shall be the duty of the corporation, municipality or person or\npersons to whom the decisions or orders of the commissioner of\ntransportation are directed, as provided in sections eighty-nine,\nninety, …

§ 97. Intercity rail passenger service. 1. As used in this section,\nunless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the term:\n a. "Intercity rail passenger service" shall mean any intercity rail\npassenger transportation operation where rail passenger trains opera…

§ 97-a. Commuter rail service. 1. As used in this section, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context, the term:\n a. "Commuter rail service" shall mean any rail passenger\ntransportation operation where heavy rail passenger trains provide\nscheduled passenger …

§ 98. Intersection of railroads. All steam railroads hereafter\nconstructed across the tracks of any other railroad and any street\nsurface railroad hereafter constructed across a steam railroad shall be\nabove, below, or at grade of such existing railroad as the commissioner\no…