N.Y. Railroad Law § 76-a: Motor cars and equipment

§ 76-a. Motor cars and equipment. 1. It shall be unlawful for any

owner or operator of railroad running through or within the boundaries

of the state of New York, and engaged in the business of common carrier

to operate for or transport its employees in a motor car which is not

equipped with a reasonably substantial top for the protection of said

employees from rain, snow, sleet, and hail and also equipped with a

transparent windshield sufficient in width and height to reasonably

protect said employees, and it shall be constructed of safety glass and

such car shall also be equipped with an attached electric headlamp of

sufficient candlepower as to render it visible at a distance of three

hundred feet in advance of such car under ordinary atmospheric

conditions, any obstruction, landmark, warning sign or grade crossing

along such railroad right of way and said car shall also be equipped

with two electric lights on the rear thereof of sufficient candlepower

as to be visible at a distance of three hundred feet under ordinary

atmospheric conditions, and the car shall also be equipped with an

automatic operated windshield wiper so devised that the driver of said

car can start or stop said windshield wiper while he is driving the car.

2. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be punishable by

a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred

dollars for each offense, and each day or part of a day a car is

operated or furnished not so equipped as provided in subdivision one

hereof, shall constitute a separate offense; provided, however, that any

common carrier that has not been able to equip its rail track motor cars

as required by the provisions of subdivision one, on or before the

effective date of this act can, by applying to the commissioner of

transportation which is hereby authorized to, and upon good cause shown,

grant by order, additional time to any owner or operator of a common

carrier by railroad, in which to equip such cars, not to exceed one year

from the effective date of this section and, when such an order has been

granted by said commissioner of transportation to such carrier, the

provisions of this act penalizing rail carriers who do not so equip

their cars shall not be applicable to those carriers securing such an

order for such additional time in which to so equip their cars during

the period granted to them only by order of the commissioner of

transportation.