2016 New York Laws
RRD - Railroad
Article 3 - (Railroad) CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT
82 - Canada thistles to be cut.

  82.  Canada  thistles  to  be cut. Every railroad corporation doing
  business within this state, shall cause all Canada thistles,  white  and
  yellow  daisies  and  other  noxious weeds growing on any lands owned or
  occupied by it, to be cut down  twice  in  each  and  every  year,  once
  between  the  fifteenth day of June and the twenty-fifth day of June and
  once between the fifteenth day of August and  the  twenty-fifth  day  of
  August. If any such corporation shall neglect to cause the same to be so
  cut  down,  any person may cut the same, between the twenty-fifth day of
  June and the fifth day of July inclusive, and between  the  twenty-fifth
  day  of August and the fifth day of September inclusive in each year, at
  the expense of the corporation on whose lands the same shall be so  cut,
  at the rate of five dollars per day for the time occupied in cutting.