SECTION 406. Concealing foreign matter in merchandise. 409. Making, selling, etc., dangerous weapons. 413. Negligently managing or refusing to extinguish fires. 418. Persons unable to read, not to act, or be employed as engineers. 419. Misconduct of officials employed on elevated railroads. 420. Intoxication or other misconduct of railroad or steamboat employes. 421. Failure to ring bell, etc. 422. Placing passenger in front of baggage car. 423. Platforms and heating apparatus of passenger cars. 424. Guard posts; automatic couplers. 425. Officers of railroad companies to be uniformed. 426. Riding on freight cars. 427. Dangerous exhibitions; bathing. 428. Fires and lights on vessels in New York, Kings and Queens counties. 429. Duty of guarding ice-cuttings; how long such guards must be maintained; violation of duty to maintain guards around ice-cuttings. 430. Articles in imitation of food. 431. Noisome or unwholesome substances, etc., in highway. 432. Ambulances. 433. Using net or weir unlawfully in Hudson river. 434. Exposing person affected with a contagious disease in a public place. 435. False rumors as to public funds, etc. 436. Eavesdropping. 437. Destroying invoice. 438. False labels. 439. Skimmed milk. SECTION 440. Master of vessel bringing foreign convict. 441. Non-resident taking or planting oysters. 442. Use of certain dredges. 1 443. Mock auctions. 444. Interfering with navigation. 445. Maintaining private insane asylums. 446. Entry into agricultural fair grounds. 447. Drugging person, etc. § 413. Negligently managing and refusing to extinguish 2 fires.-A person who: 3 1. Negligently sets fire to his own woods, by means 4 whereof the property of another is endangered; or, 5 2. Negligently suffers any fire upon his own land to 6 extend beyond the limits thereof; or, 7 3. Having been lawfully ordered to repair to a place 8 of a fire in the woods, and to assist in extinguishing it, 9 omits without lawful excuse to comply with the order, Is guilty of a misdemeanor. 10 1 Penal Code, §§ 413 and 414, without change. § 414. Obstructing attempts to extinguish fires.- A person 2 who at any burning of a building is guilty of any dis3 obedience to lawful orders of a public officer or fireman, 4 or of any resistance to, or interference with, the lawful 5 efforts of a fireman or company of firemen, to extinguish 6 the same, or of any disorderly conduct likely to prevent 7 the same from being extinguished, or who forbids, pre8 vents or dissuades others from assisting to extinguish 9 the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1 Penal Code, § 415, without change. § 415. Ferries.-A person who: 2 1. Maintains a ferry for profit or hire upon any of the 3 waters of this state without authority of law; or, 4 2. Having entered into a recognizance to keep or main5 tain a ferry, violates the condition of such recognizance ; 6 Is guilty of a misdemeanor. 7 Where such ferry is upon waters dividing two counties, 8 the offender may be prosecuted in either county. Penal Code, §§ 416 and 417, without substantial change. 1 8416. Unlawful offers to railroad commissioners or their 2 employes. Any officer, agent or attorney of a railroad 3 corporation who offers a place, appointment, position or 4 any other consideration to a railroad commissioner, or 5 to a secretary, clerk, agent, employe or expert 6 employed by the board of railroad commissioners, is 7 guilty of a misdemeanor. 1 R. S., 1844., L. 1882, ch. 353, § 14. $ 417. Misconduct of railroad commissioners and of their 2 employes. Any railroad commissioner, or any secretary, 3 clerk, agent, expert or other person employed by the 4 board of railroad commissioners, who: 5 1. Directly or indirectly solicits or requests from or 6 recommends to any railroad corporation, or to any 7 officer, attorney or agent thereof, the appointment of 8 any person to any place or position; or, 9 2. Accepts, receives or requests, either for himself or 10 for any other person, any pass, gift or gratuity from any 11 railroad corporation; or, 12 3. Secretly reveals to any railroad corporation, or to 13 any officer, member, or employe thereof, any informa14 tion gained by him from any other railroad corporation; 15 Is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1 R. S., 1844., L. 1882, ch. 353, § 14. § 418. Persons unable to read not to act or be employed as 2 engineers. Any person unable to read the time-tables 3 of a railroad and ordinary handwriting, who acts as an 4 engineer or runs a locomotive or train on any railroad 5 in this state; or any person who in his own behalf, or in 6 behalf of any other person or corporation, knowingly 7 employs a person so unable to read to act as such engi8 neer or to run any such locomotive, is guilty of a 9 misdemeanor. Penal Code, §§ 418, 419 combined, without substantial change. 1 $419. Misconduct of officials or employes on elevated 2 railroads. Any conductor, brakeman, or other agent or 3 employe of an elevated railroad, who: 4 1. Starts any train or car of such railroad, or gives any 5 signal or order to any engineer or other person to start 6 any such train or car, before every passenger therein 7 who manifests an intention to depart therefrom by 8 arising, or moving toward the exit thereof, has departed 9 therefrom; or before every passenger on the platform 10 or station at which the train has stopped, who manifests 11 a desire to enter the train, has actually boarded or 12 entered the same, unless due notice is given by an 13 authorized employe of such railroad that the train is full, 14 and that no more passengers can then be received; or, 15 2. Obstructs the lawful ingress or egress of a passenger 16 to or from any such car; or, 17 3. Opens a platform gate of any such car while the 18 train is in motion, or starts such train before such gate 19 is firmly closed; 20 1 Is guilty of a misdemeanor. R. S., 1803, ch. 399, §§ 1, 2. § 420. Intoxication or other misconduct of railroad or 2 steamboat employes.-1. Any person who, being employed 3 upon any railway as engineer, conductor, baggagemaster, 4 brakeman, switch-tender, fireman, bridge-tender, flag5 man, signal man, or having charge of stations, starting, 6 regulating or running trains upon a railroad, or, being 7 employed as captain, engineer or other officer of a 8 vessel propelled by steam, is intoxicated while engaged 9 in the discharge of any such duties; or 10 2. An engineer, conductor, brakeman, switch-tender, 11 or other officer, agent or employe of any railroad 12 corporation, who willfully violates or omits his duty as 13 such officer, agent or employe, by which human life or 14 safety is endangered, the punishment of which is not 15 otherwise prescribed; 16 Is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1 Penal Code, §§ 420 and 424 combined, without substantial change. $ 423. Platforms and heating apparatus of passenger cars. 2 A railroad corporation, or any officer or director thereof 3 having charge of its railroad, or any person managing a 4 railroad in this state, or any person or corporation run 5 ning passenger cars upon a railroad into or through this 6 state, who: 7 1. Fails to have the platforms or ends of the passenger 8 cars run upon such railroad constructed in such manner 9 as will prevent passengers falling between the cars when 10 in motion; or, 11 2. Except temporarily, in case of accident or emergency, 12 heats any passenger car, while in motion, on any such 13 railroad more than fifty miles in length, except a nar14 row-gauge railroad which runs only mixed trains, 15 between October fifteenth and May first, by any stove 16 or furnace inside of or suspended from such car, except 17 stoves of a pattern and kind approved by the board of 18 railroad commissioners for cooking purposes in dining19 room cars, and except within the extended time allowed 20 by the railroad commissioners in pursuance of law for 21 introducing other heating apparatus; 22 1 Is guilty of a misdemeanor. Penal Code, § 423. R. S., 1805, L. 1887, ch. 616, § 1. L. 1888, ch. 189,§ 1. L. 1890, ch. 421. $424. Guard posts; automatic couplers.- All corpora2 tions and persons other than employes, operating any 3 steam railroad in this state, 4 1. Failing to cause guard posts to be placed in the 5 prolongation of the line of bridge trusses upon such 6 railroad, so that in case of derailment, the posts and not 7 the trusses shall receive the blow of the derailed loco8 motive or car; or, 9 2. Failing after November 1st, 1892, to equip all of 10 their own engines and freight cars, run and used in 11 freight or other trains on such railroad, with automatic 12 self-couplers, or running or operating on such railroad 13 any freight car belonging to any such person or corpo14 ration, without having the same equipped, except in 15 case of accident or other emergency, with automatic 16 self-couplers, and except within the extended time 17 allowed by the board of railroad commissioners, in |