N.Y. Railroad Law § 77-b: Speedometers on certain locomotives

§ 77-b. Speedometers on certain locomotives. (a) No railroad

locomotive may be operated in excess of thirty miles per hour within the

state without a speedometer functioning correctly within four miles per

hour.

(b) A railroad shall be deemed to be in compliance with the above

provisions if within one year after the first day of October next

succeeding the date on which this statute shall have become a law, it

shall have at least one-third of its locomotives equipped with a

speedometer as hereinabove provided; and if within the following year an

additional one-third of said locomotives shall be so equipped and the

remainder of said locomotives so operated by a railroad shall be in

compliance with the provisions of this statute within one year

thereafter.

(c) Locomotives operated or used exclusively in switching or transfer

service and multiple unit cars shall be exempted from the above

provisions.

(d) Each such railroad shall notify the department of transportation

of the state of New York the date that each such locomotive shall be in

compliance with the provisions of this statute, stating the serial

number or other identification of each such locomotive.

(e) Each railroad affected or covered by the provisions of this

statute shall maintain at a designated location in this state a list or

schedule of the locomotives hereinabove referred to, setting forth,

among other information, the date that the speedometer hereinbefore

referred to shall have been calibrated and functioning in accordance

with the provisions of this statute.

(f) The commissioner of transportation of the state of New York shall

enforce the provisions of this statute and may issue such order or

orders as may be proper to require compliance with the provisions of

this statute.