§ 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, operated by locomotive, steam or other power, which are laid in, across or upon the surface of […]
§ 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 power at any point where there are three or more tracks of the steam road proposed to be crossed, which […]
§ 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 by railroads operated by any form of power in this state to be properly ventilated, in such manner and by such means and mechanical appliances […]
§ 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 used by railroads operated by any form of power in this state, to be properly lighted by electricity or otherwise, or by such means or […]
§ 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 state for the purpose of operating a railroad or moving, hauling or propelling cars therein by steam, by delivering a copy […]
§ 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 shall not have fully complied with said notice or order, the commissioner of transportation may commence an action or special proceeding hereunder, or under the transportation law, […]
§ 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 be compelled to appear and plead to an indictment therefor in the person of its president, secretary, treasurer or any director thereof, and a bench […]
§ 107. Judgment-roll. It shall be the duty of the district attorney prosecuting any corporation for a violation of any of the provisions of sections one hundred and three, one hundred and four and one hundred and five, that shall be convicted thereof and sentenced to pay a fine therefor, to cause a judgment-roll to […]
§ 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 any railroad corporation, such portions of any mechanical or other devices or appliances as […]
§ 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 part of its road, for ninety or any less number of days’ labor performed by him in constructing such road, if […]
§ 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 be of iron or steel, weighing not less than twenty-five pounds to the lineal yard on narrow-gauge roads, and on all other roads not less […]
§ 51-a. Clearances. Clearance distance between adjacent tracks and between tracks and adjacent structures or obstructions and between the top of the rail and any overhead wire, bridge, viaduct or obstruction. All tracks hereafter constructed or reconstructed by every railroad in this state shall be laid and maintained so as to provide the following minimum […]
§ 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, and so soon as it has acquired the right of way for its roadway, erect and thereafter maintain fences on the sides of […]
§ 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 according to the last preceding federal census or state enumeration, every railroad corporation operating a railroad deriving its motive power […]
§ 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 a fence or fences along the boundary line of its right of way whenever the commissioner of transportation after a hearing on notice […]
§ 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 and thereafter maintain a fence or fences along the boundary line of its right of way contiguous and adjacent to a public highway running […]
§ 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 walk in the course of their duties. Such margins constitute the area between the ends of the ties and a distance of nine feet […]
§ 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 of the right of way of any railroad or subway, any refuse, trash, garbage, rubbish, litter or any nauseous or offensive matter. For purposes of […]
§ 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 by a public highway at grade. Such sign board shall be of a shape and design to be approved by the […]
§ 53-a. Warning signs. Every municipality or political subdivision, or in case of state highways the department of transportation, which is charged with the duty of maintaining a highway at places where such highway crosses a railroad at grade, shall install and maintain an approach warning sign in each such highway on each side of […]
