2016 New York Laws
RRD - Railroad
Article 3 - (Railroad) CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT
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.