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    § 6-204 Grade crossings; gates and attendants. a. The Bronx.
    1.  Every  person operating or controlling any railroad in the borough
  of the Bronx, upon which cars are drawn  by  locomotive  engines,  other
  than  those  known  as  "dummies", shall erect and maintain suitable and
  substantial gates or doors on either side of  such  railroad,  at  every
  point  in  such  borough  at  which its roads or tracks cross any public
  street, at the grade thereof. Such gates or doors  shall  be  kept  well
  painted  and  in  good repair, and shall be attended at all times during
  the approach and passage  of  cars  or  trains  by  sober,  careful  and
  experienced  persons, whose duty it shall be to keep the tracks clear of
  all horses, cattle  and  vehicles,  to  warn  all  the  persons  against
  crossing the tracks during the approach of any train, locomotive or car,
  and  to  close the gates or doors at least one minute before the passage
  of any locomotive, engine or car over  such  public  street.  No  person
  operating or controlling any railroad in the borough of the Bronx, shall
  run  or allow to be run any locomotive or locomotive tender without cars
  across any public street in such borough, unless the gates or  doors  at
  such crossing are closed or down.
    2.  Any  railroad,  or  the  manager or agent or employee thereof, who
  shall violate any provision of this subdivision, or who shall permit the
  same to be violated, shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  one  hundred
  dollars.
    b.  Brooklyn.  1.  At  each street crossing between Linwood street and
  Flatbush avenue, in the borough of Brooklyn, persons shall be constantly
  stationed, at all hours of the night and day when trains are in  motion,
  and  all  crosswalks  between  such  street  crossings shall be properly
  guarded by strong, heavy gates at least twenty feet in  width,  at  each
  street  crossing, which shall be closed before the passage of any engine
  or train.
    2. Any railroad, or the manager or  agent  or  employee  thereof,  who
  shall violate any provision of this subdivision, or who shall permit the
  same  to  be  violated,  shall  be  liable  to  a penalty of one hundred
  dollars.
    c. Disregard of closed gates. 1. It shall be unlawful  to  attempt  to
  cross the tracks of any railroad at any street crossing, while the gates
  for the protection of such crossings are closed or being closed.
    2.  Any  railroad,  or  the  manager or agent or employee thereof, who
  shall violate any provision of this subdivision, or who shall permit the
  same to be violated, shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  one  hundred
  dollars.    Violation of the provisions of this subdivision by a person,
  other than a railroad, or the manager  or  agent  or  employee  thereof,
  shall  be  punishable  by  a  fine  of  not  exceeding ten dollars or by
  imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or by both.