KRS 277.245: Required equipment on cars for transportation of railroad employees.

It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within the

boundaries of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and engaged in the business of common

carrier to operate for or transport its employees in a motor car which is not equipp ed with

a reasonably substantial top for the protection of said employees from rain, snow, sleet

and hail and equipped with a transparent windshield sufficient in width and height to

reasonably protect said employees, which windshield shall be of safety glass and such car

shall also be equipped with a permanent electric headlamp of sufficient candle power as

to render visible at a distance of three hundred (300) feet in advance of such car under

ordinary atmospheric conditions, any obstruction, land mark, w arning sign or grade

crossing on such railroad and said car shall also be equipped with two (2) electric lights

on the rear end thereof with sufficient candle power as to be visible at a distance of three

hundred (300) feet under ordinary atmospheric condi tions, and such car shall also be

equipped with an electric windshield wiper that will remove rain, snow and sleet from the

windshield on such car while such car is moving, and said windshield wiper shall be so

devised that the driver of said car can start or stop said windshield wiper while he is

driving the car.