N.Y. Railroad Law § 76: Use of stoves or furnaces prohibited; exceptions

§ 76. Use of stoves or furnaces prohibited; exceptions. It shall not

be lawful for any railroad corporation operating a steam railroad in

this state of the length of fifty miles or more, excepting foreign

railroad corporations incorporated without the jurisdiction of the

United States running cars upon tracks in this state for a distance of

less than thirty miles, to heat its passenger cars on other than mixed

trains, excepting dining cars, by any stove or furnace kept inside the

car or suspended therefrom, unless in case of accident or other

emergency, when it may temporarily use such stove or furnace with

necessary fuel; and in cars which have been equipped with apparatus to

heat by steam, hot water or hot air from the locomotive or from a

special car, the present stove may be retained to be used only when the

car is standing still; and no stove or furnace shall be used in a dining

car except for cooking purposes, and of pattern and kind to be approved

by the commissioner of transportation; provided that passenger cars

propelled by means of gasoline or oil engines may be heated in a manner

to be approved by the commissioner of transportation. This section shall

not be held to affect or interfere with the use by public authorities of

this or other states, or of the United States, of stoves for heating or

cooking or boilers for hatching operations in their fish car or cars.

Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this

section shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars, and to the

further penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every day during

which such violation shall continue.