N.Y. Railroad Law § 66: Checks for baggage

§ 66. Checks for baggage. A check, made of some proper substance of

convenient size and form, plainly stamped with numbers, and furnished

with a convenient strap or other appendage for attaching to baggage,

shall be affixed to every piece or parcel of baggage when taken for

transportation for a passenger by the agent or employee of such

corporation, if there is a handle, loop or fixture therefor upon the

piece or parcel of baggage, and a duplicate thereof given to the

passenger or person delivering the same to him. If such check be

refused on demand the corporation shall pay to the passenger the sum of

ten dollars, and no fare shall be collected or received from him; and if

he shall have paid his fare it shall be refunded to him by the conductor

in charge of the train. Such baggage shall be delivered, without

unnecessary delay, to the passenger or any person acting in his behalf,

at the place to which it was to be transported, where the cars usually

stop, or at any other regular intermediate stopping place upon notice to

the baggage-master in charge of baggage on the train of not less than

thirty minutes, upon presentation of such duplicate check to the officer

or agent of the railroad corporation, or of any corporation, over any

portion of whose road it was transported. Bicycles are hereby declared

to be and be deemed baggage for the purposes of this article and shall

be transported as baggage for passengers by railroad corporations and

subject to the same liabilities, and no such passenger shall be required

to crate, cover or otherwise protect any such bicycle; provided,

however, that a railroad corporation shall not be required to transport,

under the provisions of this section, more than one bicycle for a single

person.