Sec. 13b-336. (Formerly Sec. 16-152). Lights on track motor cars.
Sec. 13b-336. (Formerly Sec. 16-152). Lights on track motor cars. Each person,
firm or corporation operating or controlling any railroad running through or within the
state shall equip each of its track motor cars, used during the period from thirty minutes
before sunset to thirty minutes after sunrise, with an electric headlight of such construction and with sufficient candlepower to render plainly visible, at a distance of not less
than three hundred feet in advance of such track motor car, any track obstruction, landmark, warning sign or grade crossing, and shall equip such track motor car with a red
rear electric light of such construction and with sufficient candlepower as to be plainly
visible at a distance of three hundred feet. Any person, firm or corporation operating or
controlling any railroad running through or within this state using or permitting to be
used on its lines in this state a track motor car in violation of the provisions of this section
shall be fined one hundred dollars for each violation.
(1951, S. 2612d.)
History: In 1981 Sec. 16-152 transferred to Sec. 13b-336.