Every person owning or operating any railroad track, switch, side track, or turnout on which any car may be operated or moved by steam power, is hereby required to establish and maintain substantial bumping posts or other suitable obstruction at the end of each such track, to prevent any such car from being hurled, driven or pushed from such track.
Each day after the first conviction that any track situated as aforesaid shall be permitted to remain without such bumping post shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
(Prior code § 188-45)