Section 77-B. Speedometers on certain locomotives  


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  • (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.