§ 76. Use of stoves or furnaces prohibited; exceptions. It shall not
be lawful for any railroad corporation operating a steam railroad in
this state of the length of fifty miles or more, excepting foreign
railroad corporations incorporated without the jurisdiction of the
United States running cars upon tracks in this state for a distance of
less than thirty miles, to heat its passenger cars on other than mixed
trains, excepting dining cars, by any stove or furnace kept inside the
car or suspended therefrom, unless in case of accident or other
emergency, when it may temporarily use such stove or furnace with
necessary fuel; and in cars which have been equipped with apparatus to
heat by steam, hot water or hot air from the locomotive or from a
special car, the present stove may be retained to be used only when the
car is standing still; and no stove or furnace shall be used in a dining
car except for cooking purposes, and of pattern and kind to be approved
by the commissioner of transportation; provided that passenger cars
propelled by means of gasoline or oil engines may be heated in a manner
to be approved by the commissioner of transportation. This section shall
not be held to affect or interfere with the use by public authorities of
this or other states, or of the United States, of stoves for heating or
cooking or boilers for hatching operations in their fish car or cars.
Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars, and to the
further penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every day during
which such violation shall continue.