69-14-562. Regulation of health and safety on railroads. Any railroad corporation within this state shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for the first offense in the sum of $1,000, for the second violation of the same provision, $2,000, and for every other and further violation of any provision of which it has been twice before found guilty, a sum not less than $5,000 or more than $10,000, if the corporation shall:
     (1) neglect to provide comfortable and convenient cars or coaches for the transportation of its passengers and their baggage or safe cars for the transportation of express matter and freight;
     (2) use any highly inflammable oils for lighting any car on its passenger trains;
     (3) transport within this state on any of its passenger cars any oil of vitriol, gunpowder, lucifer matches, nitroglycerine, glynon oil, nytroleum or blasting oil, nitrate oil, powder mixed with any such oil or fiber saturated therewith, duolin or giant powder, blasting powder, or other goods of a dangerous nature;
     (4) in any incorporated city or town in this state, run any train at a rate of speed forbidden by the laws of this state or the ordinances of such city or town;
     (5) run any train over any unsafe bridge, trestlework, or aqueduct in this state;
     (6) fail to have upon any locomotive in use by it in this state a bell and whistle in fit condition for use thereon;
     (7) permit any locomotive to approach any highway, road, or railroad crossing without causing the whistle to be sounded at a point between 50 and 80 rods from the crossing, the bell to be rung from said point until the crossing is reached;
     (8) willfully fail to make any report herein required or which may be hereafter required by any law of this state.

     History: En. Sec. 23, p. 104, Ex. L. 1873; re-en. Sec. 321, 5th Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 700, 5th Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 908, Civ. C. 1895; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 66, L. 1903; re-en. Sec. 4289, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6521, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 7, L. 1929; re-en. Sec. 6521, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 72-219(part).