Title LAB, Labor

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

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

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

§ 27-e. Prevention of retail workplace violence. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: a. "Employer" means any person, entity, business, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or an association employing at least ten retail employees. The term shall not…

* § 27-f. Requiring first aid materials in a workplace to include an opioid antagonist. 1. All employers that are federally mandated by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Public Law, 91-596) and safety and health standards promulgated thereunder to hav…

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

§ 271. Requirements for buildings erected before October first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. No factory shall be conducted in a building erected before October first, nineteen hundred thirteen, and not occupied or used as a factory building on July first, nineteen hundred fort…

§ 272. Additional requirements for all buildings. No factory shall be conducted in any building unless such building shall be so constructed, equipped and maintained in all respects as to afford adequate protection against fire to all persons employed therein, nor unless in addi…

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

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

§ 275. Special laws and local ordinances. The requirements of sections two hundred and seventy to two hundred and seventy-four, inclusive, are not in substitution for the requirements of any general or special law or local ordinance relating to the construction, equipment or mai…

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

§ 277. Notice of issue of local construction permit. The officer of any city, village or town having power to approve plans for the construction and alteration of buildings shall, immediately upon the issuance of a permit for the construction or alteration of a building to be us…

§ 278. Limitation of number of occupants. The number of persons who may be employed in a factory building or portion thereof shall be limited to such number as can safely escape from the building by the exits provided in the building and shall not exceed the following: 1. In a b…

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

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

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

§ 282. Gas jets and other lights. All gas jets and other lights in factories shall be properly enclosed by globes or wire cages or shall be otherwise properly protected in a manner approved in the city of New York by the fire commissioner of such city and elsewhere by the commis…

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

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

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

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

§ 293. Washrooms. 1. There shall be provided and maintained for employees in every factory suitable and convenient washrooms separate for each sex, adequately equipped with washing facilities. Every washroom shall be adequately ventilated and heated and shall be lighted by artif…

§ 294. Dressing rooms. There shall be provided in every factory where females are employed such dressing or emergency rooms as shall be specified in the rules of the board. All dressing rooms shall be separated from waterclosets by partitions, shall have adequate floor space in …

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

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

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

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

§ 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 unnecessary hardship in carrying out the provisions of this chapter relating to safety or health standards, or an order requiring compliance with such provisions of this chapter, or in carrying out an order of the …

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

§ 31. Duty to furnish information and facilitate inspections. The owner, operator, manager or lessee of any place affected by the provisions of this chapter or his agent, superintendent, subordinate or employee, and any person employing or directing any labor affected by such pr…

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

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

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

§ 32. Interference with officer or employee of department prohibited. No person shall interfere with, obstruct or otherwise hinder any officer or employee of the department in the performance of his duties.

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

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

§ 331. Establishment of a fair wages task force. The commissioner is authorized to establish a fair wages task force for the purpose of concentrating enforcement of the provisions of this chapter affecting employees in manufacturing, service and other industries where there may …

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

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

§ 334. Task force training; assistance of agencies. 1. The task force shall receive training to be provided by the state as is necessary to carry out the duties and powers of the task force. 2. The task force may request from any department, division, board, bureau, commission o…

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

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

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

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

§ 342. Establishment of a special task force. The commissioner is authorized to establish a special task force for the purpose of concentrating enforcement of the labor law affecting production employees in the apparel industry in New York state and otherwise exercising the duti…

§ 343. Duties. The special task force is charged with the following duties: 1. To inspect manufacturers and contractors, with respect to their respective production employees, for compliance with the registration requirements of section three hundred forty-one of this article; 2…

§ 344. Powers. Notwithstanding any other state or local law or regulation to the contrary, the special task force shall have the following powers: 1. To inspect books, records and premises of manufacturers and contractors, with respect to their respective production employees, t…

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