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