§ 99. Application of foregoing section. The provisions of sections
eighty-nine to ninety-eight, inclusive, of this chapter shall also apply
to all steam surface railroads existing on the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, or thereafter, on which, after said
date, electricity or some other agency than steam shall be substituted
as a motive power. None of the provisions of said sections shall apply
to crossings in the city of Syracuse under the jurisdiction of the
Syracuse grade crossing commission. The terms "municipality" and
"municipal corporation" as used in said sections shall include cities,
villages, towns and counties.