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N.Y. Railroad Law § 53-b: Ringing bells and blowing whistles at crossings

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  1. Railroad Law
  2. Article 3. Construction, Operation and Management

§ 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 crosses a traveled road or street on the same

level, except in cities, or to continue the ringing of such bell or

sounding such whistle at intervals, until such locomotive and the train

to which the locomotive is attached shall have completely crossed such

road or street is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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