Title LAB, Labor

§ 27-b. Duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to\nprevent workplace violence. 1. Purpose. The purpose of this section is\nto ensure that the risk of workplace assaults and homicides is evaluated\nby affected public employers and their employees and that such…

§ 27-c. Preparation of public employers for state disaster emergencies\ninvolving public health. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this\nsection:\n a. "Personal protective equipment" shall mean all equipment worn to\nminimize exposure to hazards, including gloves, masks, face …

§ 27-d. Workplace safety committees. 1. For the purposes of this\nsection, the following terms shall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Employer" shall mean any person, entity, business, corporation,\npartnership, limited liability company, or an association employing at\nleast…

§ 27-e. Prevention of retail workplace violence. 1. Definitions. For\nthe purposes of this section:\n a. "Employer" means any person, entity, business, corporation,\npartnership, limited liability company, or an association employing at\nleast ten retail employees. The term shal…

* § 27-f. Requiring first aid materials in a workplace to include an\nopioid antagonist. 1. All employers that are federally mandated by the\nUnited States Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Public Law,\n91-596) and safety and health standards promulgated thereunder to …

§ 270. Construction of buildings erected after October first, nineteen\nhundred and thirteen. No factory shall be conducted in a building\nerected after October first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, unless such\nbuilding shall conform to the following requirements:\n 1. Fireproo…

§ 271. Requirements for buildings erected before October first,\nnineteen hundred and thirteen. No factory shall be conducted in a\nbuilding erected before October first, nineteen hundred thirteen, and\nnot occupied or used as a factory building on July first, nineteen\nhundred …

§ 272. Additional requirements for all buildings. No factory shall be\nconducted in any building unless such building shall be so constructed,\nequipped and maintained in all respects as to afford adequate protection\nagainst fire to all persons employed therein, nor unless in a…

§ 273. Fire-escapes erected after October first, nineteen hundred and\nthirteen, on buildings theretofore erected. All outside fire-escapes\nerected after October first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, on buildings\ntheretofore erected and serving as required exits shall conform …

§ 274. Fire-escapes erected before October first, nineteen hundred and\nthirteen. All outside fire-escapes erected before October first,\nnineteen hundred and thirteen, and serving as required exits under the\nprovisions of section two hundred and seventy-one shall conform to th…

§ 275. Special laws and local ordinances. The requirements of sections\ntwo hundred and seventy to two hundred and seventy-four, inclusive, are\nnot in substitution for the requirements of any general or special law\nor local ordinance relating to the construction, equipment or\…

§ 276. Inspection of buildings and approval of plans. 1. Inspection\nof buildings. The officer of any city, village or town having power to\ninspect buildings therein to determine their conformity to the\nrequirements of law or ordinance governing their construction shall,\nwhen…

§ 277. Notice of issue of local construction permit. The officer of\nany city, village or town having power to approve plans for the\nconstruction and alteration of buildings shall, immediately upon the\nissuance of a permit for the construction or alteration of a building to\nb…

§ 278. Limitation of number of occupants. The number of persons who\nmay be employed in a factory building or portion thereof shall be\nlimited to such number as can safely escape from the building by the\nexits provided in the building and shall not exceed the following:\n 1. I…

§ 279. Fire alarm signal systems and fire drills. 1. Fire alarm signal\nsystems. Except as may otherwise be provided by the board in its rules,\nevery factory building over two stories in height in which more than\ntwenty-five persons are employed above the ground floor shall be…

§ 280. Automatic fire extinguishing systems. Every factory building\nerected before October first, nineteen hundred thirteen, which is more\nthan one story in height and which has any occupancy specified by the\nboard in its rules as of medium or high hazard below its uppermost\…

§ 281. Fireproof receptacles. Every factory shall be provided with\nproperly covered fireproof receptacles, the number, style and location\nof which shall be approved in the city of New York by the fire\ncommissioner and elsewhere by the commissioner. There shall be deposited\ni…

§ 282. Gas jets and other lights. All gas jets and other lights in\nfactories shall be properly enclosed by globes or wire cages or shall be\notherwise properly protected in a manner approved in the city of New\nYork by the fire commissioner of such city and elsewhere by the\nco…

§ 283. Smoking. 1. No person shall smoke in a factory. A notice of\nsuch prohibition stating the penalty for violation thereof shall be kept\nposted in every entrance hall, elevator, stairhall and room of a factory\nin English, and in such other languages as the fire commissione…

§ 29. Procedure for issuing safety and health rules. Before any rule\nis adopted, amended or repealed there shall be a public hearing thereon,\nnotice of which shall be published at least once, not less than ten days\nprior thereto, in such newspaper or newspapers as the commiss…

§ 291. Cleanliness and safety of rooms. Every room in a factory and\nevery part thereof and all fixtures therein shall at all times be kept\nin a safe and sanitary condition and in proper repair. No person shall\nexpectorate upon the walls, floors or stairs of a factory or of th…

§ 292. Drinking water. There shall be provided in every factory at all\ntimes for the use of employees a sufficient supply of clean and pure\ndrinking water, and if placed in receptacles the same shall be properly\ncovered and kept clean.\n

§ 293. Washrooms. 1. There shall be provided and maintained for\nemployees in every factory suitable and convenient washrooms separate\nfor each sex, adequately equipped with washing facilities. Every\nwashroom shall be adequately ventilated and heated and shall be lighted\nby a…

§ 294. Dressing rooms. There shall be provided in every factory where\nfemales are employed such dressing or emergency rooms as shall be\nspecified in the rules of the board. All dressing rooms shall be\nseparated from waterclosets by partitions, shall have adequate floor\nspace…

§ 295. Waterclosets. 1. There shall be provided for every factory a\nsufficient number of suitable and convenient waterclosets. All\nwaterclosets shall be maintained inside the factory building, except\nwhere in the opinion of the commissioner it is impracticable.\n 2. There sha…

§ 296. Laundries. A shop, room or building where one or more persons\nare employed in doing public laundry work by way of trade or for\npurposes of gain is a factory within the meaning of this chapter and\nsubject to the provisions relating to factories. No such public laundry\n…

§ 297. Unclean factories. 1. If the commissioner finds evidence of\ncontagious disease in a factory, he shall affix to the articles therein\nexposed to contagion a label containing the word "unclean" and shall\nnotify the local department or board of health, which after disinfec…

§ 299. Ventilation, heating and humidity. 1. Every work room in a\nfactory shall be provided with proper and sufficient means of\nventilation, natural or mechanical or both, as may be necessary, and\nthere shall be maintained therein proper and sufficient ventilation and\nproper…

§ 3. Prohibited employment. Whenever the provisions of this chapter\nprohibit the employment of a person in certain work or under certain\nconditions the employer shall not permit such person to so work, with or\nwithout compensation, and in a prosecution or action therefor lack…

§ 30. Variations. 1. If there shall be practical difficulties or\nunnecessary hardship in carrying out the provisions of this chapter\nrelating to safety or health standards, or an order requiring compliance\nwith such provisions of this chapter, or in carrying out an order of t…

§ 300. Size of rooms; air space per person. No greater number of\npersons shall be employed in any room of a factory between six o'clock\nin the morning and six o'clock in the evening than will allow each\nperson so employed two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air space nor,\nun…

§ 31. Duty to furnish information and facilitate inspections. The\nowner, operator, manager or lessee of any place affected by the\nprovisions of this chapter or his agent, superintendent, subordinate or\nemployee, and any person employing or directing any labor affected by\nsuc…

§ 310. Foundries. Foundries shall conform to the provisions of this\nchapter relating to factories and also to the following requirements:\n 1. Entrances and windows shall be constructed and maintained so as to\nminimize drafts.\n 2. Gangways shall be constructed and maintained …

§ 315. Definitions. Whenever used in this article:\n 1. "Owner" means the owner of the premises, or the lessee of the whole\nthereof, or the agent in charge of the property.\n 2. "Tenant-factory building" means a building, separate parts of which\nare occupied and used by differ…

§ 316. Duties of owners and occupiers. 1. Except as in this article\notherwise provided, the person operating a factory, whether as owner or\nlessee of the whole or a part of the building in which the same is\nsituated or otherwise, shall be responsible for the observance of the…

§ 32. Interference with officer or employee of department prohibited.\nNo person shall interfere with, obstruct or otherwise hinder any officer\nor employee of the department in the performance of his duties.\n

§ 33. Service of notice. 1. Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or\nregulation, whenever the commissioner or board or any person affected by\nthe provisions of this chapter is required to give notice in writing to\nany person, such notice may be given by mailing it in a letter …

§ 330. Fair wages task force; definitions. As used in this article,\nthe following terms shall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of labor;\n (b) "Department" shall mean the department of labor; and\n (c) "Task force" shall mean the fai…

§ 331. Establishment of a fair wages task force. The commissioner is\nauthorized to establish a fair wages task force for the purpose of\nconcentrating enforcement of the provisions of this chapter affecting\nemployees in manufacturing, service and other industries where there m…

§ 332. Duties. The task force is charged with the following duties:\n 1. to inspect manufacturing, service and other industries with respect\nto their respective employees, for compliance with the provisions of\nthis chapter; and\n 2. to ensure, with respect to their respective …

§ 333. Powers. Notwithstanding any other state or local law or\nregulation to the contrary, the task force shall have the following\npowers:\n 1. to inspect books, records and premises of employers, with respect\nto their respective employees to determine compliance with this ch…

§ 334. Task force training; assistance of agencies. 1. The task force\nshall receive training to be provided by the state as is necessary to\ncarry out the duties and powers of the task force.\n 2. The task force may request from any department, division, board,\nbureau, commiss…

§ 34. Department to keep record and publish bulletin of licenses. The\ndepartment shall keep records of all licenses, permits or certificates\nissued, revoked or amended by it and publish lists thereof at such times\nand in such forms as it may determine.\n

§ 340. Special task force for the apparel industry. Definitions. As\nused in this article, the following terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n (a) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of labor;\n (b) "Department" shall mean the department of labor;\n (c) "Apparel ind…

§ 341. Registration. 1. No manufacturer or contractor shall engage in\nthe apparel industry unless he or she registers with the commissioner,\nin writing, on a form provided by the commissioner, which shall contain\nthe following information: whether it is a sole proprietorship,…

§ 341-a. Unlawfully manufactured apparel. The commissioner shall have\nthe power to affix to any article of apparel or component thereof, in\nthe manufacture or assembly of which any employee was employed in\nviolation of article six or nineteen of this chapter, a tag of no more…

§ 342. Establishment of a special task force. The commissioner is\nauthorized to establish a special task force for the purpose of\nconcentrating enforcement of the labor law affecting production\nemployees in the apparel industry in New York state and otherwise\nexercising the …

§ 343. Duties. The special task force is charged with the following\nduties: 1. To inspect manufacturers and contractors, with respect to\ntheir respective production employees, for compliance with the\nregistration requirements of section three hundred forty-one of this\narticl…

§ 344. Powers. Notwithstanding any other state or local law or\nregulation to the contrary, the special task force shall have the\nfollowing powers: 1. To inspect books, records and premises of\nmanufacturers and contractors, with respect to their respective\nproduction employee…

§ 345. Violations, penalties, procedures. 1. Any manufacturer or\ncontractor in the apparel industry who has failed to comply with the\nregistration requirements of section three hundred forty-one of this\narticle shall be deemed to have violated this article.\n 2. Any manufactu…