Section 194. Protection of employees

Every corporation operating a street
  surface railroad in this state, except such as  operate  a  railroad  or
  railroads either in the borough of Manhattan or Brooklyn, in the city of
  New  York,  shall  cause the front and rear platforms of every passenger
  car propelled by electricity, cable or compressed air, operated  on  any
  division  of  such railroad which extends in or between towns or outside
  of city limits, during the months of  December,  January,  February  and
  March,  except  cars  attached to the rear of other cars, to be inclosed
  from the fronts of the platforms to the fronts of the hoods,  so  as  to
  afford  protection  to  any person stationed by such corporation on such
  platforms to perform duties in connection with  the  operation  of  such
  cars. Every corporation or person using and operating a car in violation
  of  this section shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars per
  day for each car so used and operated, to  be  collected  in  an  action
  brought  by the commission or commissioner having jurisdiction and to be
  paid into the treasury of the state of New York, or in  a  suit  by  the
  attorney of the municipality in which the violation of the provisions of
  this section occurs, to be paid into the treasury of such municipality.