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2005 Rhode Island Code - § 39-7-5 — Method of illuminating passenger cars – Fire equipment.
No passenger car on any railroad shall be lighted by naphtha or by any
illuminating oil or fluid made in part of naphtha, or wholly or in part from
coal or petroleum, or other substance or material which will ignite at a
temperature of less than three hundred degrees (300°) fahrenheit. Every
railroad corporation shall provide and keep in every car used by it for the
transportation of passengers one pail, one axe, and one iron bar, which shall
at all times be kept in order for use. Every railroad corporation violating the
provisions of this section shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100) for each
offense, one half (1/2) thereof to the use of the complainant and one half
(1/2) thereof to the use of the state.
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