§ 53-b. Ringing bells and blowing whistles at crossings. A person acting as engineer, driving a locomotive on any railway in this state, who fails to ring the bell, or sound the whistle, upon such locomotive, or cause the same to be rung or sounded, at least eighty rods from any place where such railway […]
§ 53-c. Obstructing farm and highway crossings. Any officer or employee of a railroad corporation who shall intentionally obstruct, and any owner, officer or employee of a railroad corporation who shall intentionally cause to be obstructed any farm or highway crossing with any locomotive, train or car for a longer period than five consecutive minutes […]
53-d. Unlawful propulsion of a missile at railroad trains. A person is guilty of unlawful propulsion of a missile at a railroad train where he willfully with intent to cause personal injury or property damage throws, shoots or propels a rock, stone, brick, or piece of iron, steel or other metal or any deadly or […]
§ 53-e. Unlawful interference with a railroad train. A person is guilty of unlawful interference with a railroad train when he wilfully with intent to disrupt, delay, or disturb service, places, causes to be placed, drops, or positions an object or objects of any kind, on, under, or upon the tracks which does or could […]
§ 53-f. Joint inspection of traffic-control signals interconnected with highway-rail at-grade crossing warning systems. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the commissioner is authorized to establish, implement, and exercise oversight over a program to coordinate the inspection of traffic-control signals interconnected with highway-rail at-grade crossing warning systems. 2. Pursuant to […]
§ 54. Notice of starting trains; no preferences. Every railroad corporation shall start and run its cars for the transportation of passengers and property at regular times, to be fixed by public notice, and shall furnish sufficient accommodations for the transportation of all passengers and property which shall be offered for transportation at the place […]
§ 54-a. Communication. 1. No class 1 or class 2 railroad common carrier or rail passenger carrier shall perform or cause to be performed any transportation service without ensuring that there is operable communication among all members of the train crew, between the train crew and crews of other trains, and between the train crew […]
§ 55. Accommodation of connecting roads. Every railroad corporation whose road, at or near the same place, connects with or is intersected by two or more railroads competing for its business, shall fairly and impartially afford to each of such connecting or intersecting roads equal terms of accommodation, privileges and facilities in the transportation of […]
§ 56. Locomotives must stop at grade crossings. All trains and locomotives on railroads crossing each other at grade shall come to a full stop before crossing, not less than two hundred nor more than eight hundred feet from the crossing, and shall then cross only when the way is clear and upon a signal […]
§ 57. Rates of fare. Subject to the provisions of the transportation law, every railroad corporation may fix and collect the following rates of fare as compensation to be paid for transporting any passenger and his baggage, not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds in weight, for each mile or fraction of a mile: 1. […]
§ 57-a. A steam or electric railroad corporation having a franchise from this state, operating to and from stations within a city of over a million inhabitants, and owned, controlled or operated by a railroad corporation having a franchise from another state, shall not charge a rate per mile within such city in excess of […]
§ 58. Excess charge when fare paid on cars. It shall be lawful for any company owning or operating a steam railroad in this state, to demand and collect an excess charge of ten cents over the regular or established rate of fare, from any passenger who pays fare in the car in which he […]
§ 59. Penalty for excessive fare. Any railroad corporation, which shall ask or receive more than the lawful rate of fare, unless such overcharge was made through inadvertence or mistake, not amounting to gross negligence, shall forfeit fifty dollars, to be recovered with the excess so received by the party paying the same; but no […]
§ 60. Issue and use of mileage books. Every railroad corporation operating a railroad in this state, the line or lines of which are more than one hundred miles in length, and which is authorized by law to charge a maximum fare of more than two cents per mile, and not more than three cents […]
§ 61. Passenger refusing to pay fare may be ejected. If any passenger shall refuse to pay his fare the conductor of the train, and the servants of the corporation, may put him and his baggage out of the cars, using no unnecessary force, on stopping the train, at any usual stopping place, or near […]
§ 61-a. Sounding of certain signals on railroad cars by unauthorized persons. A person who shall ring or sound a signal bell or device for starting or stopping a passenger car, of a street or other surface railroad, or subway or elevated railroad, while such car is in use for the transportation of passengers, unless […]
§ 62. Sleeping and parlor cars. Any railroad corporation may contract with any person, association or corporation for the hauling by the special or regular trains of said railroad corporation, the parlor, drawing-room or sleeping car or cars of such person, association or corporation, in which extra accommodations shall be furnished, for which said person, […]
§ 63. Persons employed as drivers, conductors, motormen or gripmen. Any railroad corporation may employ any inhabitant of the state, of the age of twenty-one years, not addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors, as a car driver, conductor, motorman or gripman, or in any other capacity, if fit and competent therefor. All applicants for […]
§ 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 corporation, or receiver, arising from the negligence of such corporation or […]
§ 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 the corporation employing him. No conductor or collector […]
