§ 76-A — Motor cars and equipment

§ 76-a. Motor cars and equipment. 1. It shall be unlawful for any\nowner or operator of railroad running through or within the boundaries\nof the state of New York, and engaged in the business of common carrier\nto operate for or transport its employees in a motor car which is not\nequipped with a reasonably substantial top for the protection of said\nemployees from rain, snow, sleet, and hail and also equipped with a\ntransparent windshield sufficient in width and height to reasonably\nprotect said employees, and it shall be constructed of safety glass and\nsuch car shall also be equipped with an attached electric headlamp of\nsufficient candlepower as to render it visible at a distance of three\nhundred feet in advance of such car under ordinary atmospheric\nconditions, any obstruction, landmark, warning sign or grade crossing\nalong such railroad right of way and said car shall also be equipped\nwith two electric lights on the rear thereof of sufficient candlepower\nas to be visible at a distance of three hundred feet under ordinary\natmospheric conditions, and the car shall also be equipped with an\nautomatic operated windshield wiper so devised that the driver of said\ncar can start or stop said windshield wiper while he is driving the car.\n 2. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be punishable by\na fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred\ndollars for each offense, and each day or part of a day a car is\noperated or furnished not so equipped as provided in subdivision one\nhereof, shall constitute a separate offense; provided, however, that any\ncommon carrier that has not been able to equip its rail track motor cars\nas required by the provisions of subdivision one, on or before the\neffective date of this act can, by applying to the commissioner of\ntransportation which is hereby authorized to, and upon good cause shown,\ngrant by order, additional time to any owner or operator of a common\ncarrier by railroad, in which to equip such cars, not to exceed one year\nfrom the effective date of this section and, when such an order has been\ngranted by said commissioner of transportation to such carrier, the\nprovisions of this act penalizing rail carriers who do not so equip\ntheir cars shall not be applicable to those carriers securing such an\norder for such additional time in which to so equip their cars during\nthe period granted to them only by order of the commissioner of\ntransportation.\n